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Breeding
A highly successful season for Redwood continued at the weekend with another pair of significant home-bred winners for the Westbury Stud resident. The Group One-winning son of High Chaparral added to his stakes haul for 2022/23 at Sha Tin on Sunday evening when Tuchel triumphed in the
International
Hong Kong Derby (2000m) runner-up Tuchel won Sunday’s HK$3.9 million Gr.3 Premier Plate Handicap (1800m) at Sha Tin. Trainer John Size and jockey Zac Purton combined to win the final Group race of the Hong Kong season with the gelded son of Redwood on an
New Zealand
Having ridden bareback on the East Coast since he was a child, Ngakau Hailey has always felt at home on the back of a horse, and he is enjoying turning that passion into a career. The 16-year-old apprentice jockey is in his first season of riding and he
New Zealand
A change in venue proved fruitful for Cleese (NZ) (Sweet Orange) on Saturday, with the local galloper taking out the Seeka Kiwifruit Cup (2000m) at Cambridge. Originally set to take place at Tauranga, the meeting was transferred to Cambridge’s synthetic surface earlier in the week due to track conditions
Australia
South Australian trainers Richard and Chantelle Jolly launched a successful interstate raid at Caulfield on Saturday, landing a determined front-running victory with their New Zealand-bred mare Wild Imagination. The five-year-old went into the A$80,000 Quayclean Handicap (1600m) in promising form in the early stages
Australia
After two unlucky runs during the Queensland Winter Carnival, accomplished Kiwi-bred gelding Ucalledit has returned to New South Wales and turned his form around in Saturday’s Listed Drinkwise Civic Stakes (1400m) at Randwick. Queensland was a happy hunting ground for the son of Zacinto earlier in the season,
Australia
Super Strike delivered a special and particularly satisfying win at Randwick on Saturday for the expat New Zealand father-son duo of Richard and Jason Collett. Saturday’s A$150,000 Hitotsu New to Arrowfield Handicap (1800m) was the first win in 17 months for Super Strike, whose last victory
Australia
Kicking off a new campaign at Caulfield on Saturday after four months off the scene, highly promising New Zealand-bred gelding St Lawrence wasted no time in making his mark. The four-year-old dug deep to prevail in a three-way photo finish to the A$130,000 City
New Zealand
Topweight Zelenski made light of his 58kg impost when he led all the way to take out the feature race at Riccarton on Saturday, the Greenwood Amberley Cup (1600m). The consistent six-year-old son of Shocking had taken out the Waimate Cup (1600m) at Timaru on a Good4 surface
New Zealand
A superb front-running ride by Warren Kennedy paved the way for progressive three-year-old Caledonie to secure her third career victory, when she took out the Kiwi Bus Builders 3YO (1300m) at Cambridge on Saturday. Kennedy bounced the daughter of Ghibellines straight to the front from barrier two,
New Zealand
Promising staying prospect Arctic Glow showed she is a mare with a big future ahead of her when she took out the first event on the card at Riccarton on Saturday. The Terry Kennedy-trained galloper was having just her fourth race day start and her first in Rating 75
Breeding
Whanganui-based stallion Unusual Suspect has proved a more than useful sire. Standing at the Auret family’s Letham Stud, the now 19-year-old stallion has produced a host of well-credentialed horses, including the stakes winner Unusual Countess and multiple Melbourne metropolitan winners So Unusual and Unusual Culture.