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In what is becoming a familiar sight this season it was the tangerine and blue colours of Te Akau Racing at the head of affairs once again as the Matamata operation made it consecutive Group One victories at Ellerslie on Saturday. Quality mare Avantage gave punters another taste of her
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New Zealand-trained horses have continued their early dominance of Sydney's Group One autumn races with The Bostonian (NZ) (Jimmy Choux) scoring a bulldog-like win in the Canterbury Stakes at Randwick. The Kiwis have now won the first three elite races of the carnival after trainer Jamie
Australia
Paint The Town Two has relished the soft ground in recording a career-high victory at Flemington. The New Zealand mare scored her sixth victory when successful in the Group Three Schweppervescence Trophy (1600m), her first in stakes company. Ridden by Jamie Kah, Paint The Town Two scored by a
New Zealand
Outstanding juvenile Cool Aza Beel kept the Group One winning roll of Te Akau Racing going as he dominated his rivals when taking out the Gr.1 Sistema Stakes (1200m) at Ellerslie. A stylish winner of the Karaka Million 2YO (1200m) at the venue in late January, the Savabeel colt
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Eagle Farm trainer Desleigh Forster will be testing promising mare Twilighter (NZ) (Reliable Man) as a genuine staying prospect in the Benchmark 75 Handicap (2200m) at her home track on Saturday. Twilighter won an Eagle Farm race over 1840m two starts ago and was fifth in an 1800m-race last
New Zealand
Former champion jockey Lance O’Sullivan will never forget his first ride in the Gr.1 W.S. Cox Plate (2040m) and neither will racing fans throughout New Zealand and Australia. As this year’s Cox Plate trophy begins a week-long New Zealand tour (starting on Auckland Cup day
New Zealand
Ultra-consistent Cambridge galloper True Enough (NZ) (Nom du Jeu) returns to the scene and conditions of his first Group One win when he contests Saturday's Gr.1 Bonecrusher New Zealand Stakes (2000m) at Ellerslie. A winner of nine of his 21 starts and only unplaced in three
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Trackside's Aidan Rodley caught up with trainer and part-owner Mark Lupton ahead of Etah James' tilt at the Gr.1 Barfoot & Thompson Auckland Cup (3200m).
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Trackside's Aidan Rodley caught up with connections of the key contenders in Saturday's Gr.1 Bonecrusher New Zealand Stakes (2000m) at Ellerslie, featuring Avantage, Prise de Fer, Tiptronic, True Enough, Supera, On The Rocks and Rondinella.
New Zealand
Group One-winning Kiwi apprentice Sam Weatherley will make a fleeting visit to Australia this month to ride in an apprentice series race. Weatherley, 20, has accepted an invitation to ride in the National Apprentice Series race at Doomben on March 18 and is relishing the opportunity to again ride
New Zealand
Experienced racing administrator Darin Balcombe has been announced as the new chief executive officer of Hawke’s Bay Racing. Balcombe will replace Andrew (Butch) Castles, who leaves Hawke’s Bay to take up the position of chief executive for the Waikato Racing Club. Balcombe will commence his position with Hawke’
New Zealand
Lisa Latta is hoping this is her year in the Gr.1 Barfoot & Thompson Auckland Cup (3200m). The Palmerston North trainer has finished runner-up in New Zealand’s feature staying race and she is hoping in-form galloper Platinum Invador (NZ) (Redwood) is the horse that can finally