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Breeding
Shaune Ritchie & Colm Murray continued an outstanding season with their stayers when up-and-coming star Nereus (NZ) (Savabeel) powered home to win the Gr.2 City Of Palmerston North Awapuni Gold Cup (2100m) at Trentham on Saturday. The Cambridge-based training partnership completed a rare double in March with two-mile specialist
New Zealand
Te Akau Racing produced the goods once again in a major two-year-old event when the highly touted Move To Strike (I Am Invincible) came with a powerful late burst to capture the Gr.1 Courtesy Ford Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m) at Trentham. The son of I Am Invincible, who
New Zealand
Jockey Wiremu Pinn put the icing on the cake of his most successful day in the saddle when he guided Bradman (NZ) (Pins) to an upset victory in the Listed Bramco Granite & Marble Flying Handicap (1400m) at Trentham on Saturday. The win came 35 minutes after Pinn won the
New Zealand
Waikato horseman Chad Ormsby is making a habit of landing major prizes at Trentham with three-year-olds that he was unable to sell at the Ready to Run Sale. Ormsby scored an $18 upset victory in Saturday’s Gr.3 Higgins Concrete Manawatu Classic (2100m) with Outovstock (NZ) (Tavistock), who he
New Zealand
Fresh from an incredible interstate double in Australia last weekend with Orchestral (NZ) (Savabeel) and Mark Twain (NZ) (Shocking), the Roger James and Robert Wellwood stable picked up another black-type feature in New Zealand this time when race favourite Apostrophe (NZ) (Tavistock) ($3.50) claimed victory in the Gr.3
Australia
With a hard-fought victory in Saturday’s Gr.3 TAB Adrian Knox Stakes (2000m) at Randwick, Good Banter (NZ) (Tavistock) completed a trans-Tasman feature double for three-year-old progeny of former Cambridge Stud stallion Tavistock. Good Banter became Tavistock’s 50th individual stakes winner – a tally that had reached 48 less
Australia
Former Kiwi galloper Desperado (NZ) (Ghibellines) lived up to his name when he produced a desperate finish to take out the Robert Taranto Handicap (2000m) at Caulfield on Saturday. Initially prepared in New Zealand by Brian and Shane Anderton where he was successful in his fourth of five starts, the
Australia
An outstanding few weeks for Waikato Stud’s freshman sire Super Seth continued at Caulfield on Saturday with the unbeaten Feroce (NZ) winning the A$150,000 Vale John Russell (1200m). Feroce now boasts a two-from-two record and is one of two first-crop winners in Australia so far this season
International
Hugh Bowman is optimistic Lucky Sweynesse can atone for a pair of recent Group One defeats when the world’s top-rated sprinter contests the HK$5.35 million Gr.2 Sprint Cup (1200m) at Sha Tin on Sunday (7 April). Bowman will have his first ride on Manfred Man’s
Breeding
Mapperley Stud has announced their stallion service fees for the 2024 season with their proven son of High Chaparral – Contributer spearheading their roster at a fee of $18,000 +GST. Adding further firepower to their lineup is exciting young sire Armory, a son of leading international sire Galileo, who stands
Australia
A year ago, I Wish I Win scored his first elite-level scalp in the Gr.1 TJ Smith Stakes (1200m), and on Saturday his connections are hoping for a repeat dose. After his heroics at Randwick last year, he went on to place in the Gr.1 Memsie Stakes (1400m)
New Zealand
Ascot Park trainer Robert Dennis is set to line-up eight horses at his home meeting on Sunday and is hopeful of taking home several winning cheques. Six-year-old mare Hasstobeyou will drop back in class when she contests the Editor’s Cut Sports Bar Handicap (1200m), having finished last in the