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Time has been called on the racing career of former top juvenile On The Bubbles (Brazen Beau). Purchased out of Leanach Lodge’s 2020 New Zealand Bloodstock Book 1 Yearling Sale draft by Te Akau Racing principal David Ellis for $90,000, On The Bubbles went on to become a
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Promising colt Savaglee (NZ) (Savabeel) wasn’t purchased with New Zealand’s richest two-year-old event in mind, but it’s emerged as a serious target. The youngster was an effortless winner at his only appearance and another bold showing in Saturday’s Listed Counties Challenge Stakes (1100m) will
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Our Alley Cat (NZ) (Atlante) will be out to keep her stakes-winning momentum going when she heads to Pukekohe on Saturday for the Gr.2 Dunstan Horsefeeds Auckland Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1400m). The daughter of Atlante was an impressive last start victor in the Gr.3 Spring Sprint (1400m)
Breeding
New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2023 Ready to Run Sale saw an incredible Day One of selling that defied market conditions and expectations, with a record-breaking aggregate and not one, but two lots making history. At the close of selling, the aggregate reached a record $16.1 million, up by
Breeding
A respected vendor at the New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale throughout the last two decades, Kilgravin Lodge broke new ground at Karaka on Wednesday with the two highest prices in their history. Coming into the 2023 edition of the Ready to Run Sale, the Matamata operation’s all-
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Champion trainer Peter Moody has confirmed that stable star I Wish I Win (NZ) (Savabeel) will be targeted towards the 2024 Everest. After a somewhat luckless runners-up run in the race in October, Moody and his co-trainer Kath Coleman will be chasing redemption in the spring of next
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Luck has never seemed be on the side of talented mare Bonny Lass (NZ) (Super Easy), but co-trainer Graham Richardson is hoping her time in the spotlight nears after a standout performance at the Taupo trials on Wednesday. The lightly-raced five-year-old showed promise early in claiming
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Lance Noble’s Karaka stable has made a fast start to the season and the momentum promises to roll on to Pukekohe on Saturday with an in-form team of five to do battle. The private trainer for Cambridge Stud has sent out eight winners this term with 19 in
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Christmas at the Races will head to Wanganui on Saturday and Awapuni trainer Mark Oulaghan is hoping some of the festive spirit comes his way when his in-form gelding Semper Magico (NZ) (Per Incanto) lines-up in the John Turkington Forestry/Waipine Logging Bulls Country Cup 2040. The son
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Ayrton (NZ) (Iffraaj) is one of 10 horses who have touched down in Western Australia on Tuesday, with the raiders met with scorching conditions ahead of The Pinnacles heating up and temperatures not expected to drop below 36 degrees until Saturday. An unlucky runner in last Saturday's Gr.
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Jockey Daniel Moor has answered the call to head to Perth to ride Forgot You (NZ) (Savabeel) in the opening Group One race of The Pinnacles. Moor partnered the Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young-trained Forgot You to his three wins as a three-year-old before Blake Shinn registered
Breeding
It was a timely win for Lucky Sweynesse (NZ) (Sweynesse) in Sunday’s Gr.2 BOCHK Private Banking Jockey Club Sprint (1200m) at Sha Tin, with his half-brother set to go under the hammer this week at Karaka. A New Zealand Bloodstock Ready To Run Sale graduate himself, Lucky