NZ Racing and Breeding News – 1 January 2024
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Ready To Shine all the way at Rosehill
New Zealand-bred gelding Ready To Shine (NZ) (Better Than Ready) carried on his consistent run of form this season with an all-the-way victory in the A$160,000 Schweppes Handicap (1200m) at Rosehill on Saturday. The Benchmark 78 handicap was the eighth start of the season for
Back-to-back wins for Coeur Volante
Coeur Volante (NZ) (Proisir) continued her late-career resurgence with a second consecutive win on Saturday, albeit not in the race her connections might have been hoping for. An impressive last-start success at Sandown on June 13 raised the possibility of a tilt at Saturday’s Gr.1 Tattersall’
Stop The Rock lands Caulfield upset
For the second year in a row, winter racing has brought the best out of talented New Zealand-bred gelding Stop The Rock (NZ) (El Roca), who scored an 80-to-one shock win in Saturday’s A$130,000 Sportsbet Feed Handicap (1700m) at Caulfield. At around this time
Tattersall’s Cup continues strong campaign for Asterix
Four years on from his Gr.1 New Zealand Derby (2400m) triumph, Asterix (NZ) (Tavistock) is enjoying a second wind as a seven-year-old and collected his fourth feature win of the season in Saturday’s A$200,000 Gr.3 Tattersall’s Cup (2400m) at Eagle Farm. The