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Trainer Mike Moroney knows Group One winner Tofane (NZ) (Ocean Park) has her work cut out for her in Saturday’s Gr.1 Darley Sprint Classic (1200m) at Flemington on Saturday, but believes she will be more than competitive. “She’ll need some luck in the run, but she is
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Mornington trainer Brett Scott was delighted to pick up a winner at Flemington on Oaks Day with handy middle distance galloper Irish Flame (NZ) (Zed) in the Twitter Trophy (1800m). The son of Zed transferred from Scott’s old boss John Wheeler after a Waverley trial in late June and
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Four-year-old mare Tralee Rose (NZ) (Tavistock) made it back-to-back wins for trainer Symon Wilde when successful at Flemington in the TCL TV Stakes (1700m) in the opening event on Oaks Day. The Warrnambool-trained daughter of Tavistock was perfectly ridden by Kerrin McEvoy to score by a length, advancing her record
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Matamata trainer Jamie Richards is well used to marking off new benchmarks in career highlights. Winning the New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m) with Xtravagant at Riccarton in 2015 to bring up the first Group One win of his career has begun a sequence of highlights, which have come to a
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Former Kiwi Mongolian Marshal (NZ) (High Chaparral) took out Wednesday’s Kyneton Cup (2000m), with a hard-fought victory over Bartholomeu Dias (Mount Nelson) and connections now have eyes for an even more lucrative country cup. The Stuart Gower-trained gelding entered a battle with $2.90 chance Bartholomeu Dias and Double
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The colours of the late Dato Tan Chin Nam were fittingly to the fore on Melbourne Cup Day when Purple Sector (NZ) (Pins) took out the Listed Furphy Plate (1800m). The Malaysian Businessman owned Bart Cummings-trained Cup winners Think Big (1974 & 1975), Saintly (1996) and Viewed (2008). Purple Sector,
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New Zealand-trained stayer The Chosen One (NZ) (Savabeel) finished a gallant fourth in Tuesday’s Gr.1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) won by the Joseph O’Brien-trained Twilight Payment (Teofilo). O’Brien’s father Aidan again played second fiddle to his son, with Tiger Moth (Galileo) finishing runner-up, reminiscent of the
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Former New Zealand-trained galloper Sin To Win (NZ) (Sir Percy) was back in the winner’s circle for the first time in 900 days, when successful in The Macca’s Run (2800m) at Flemington on Melbourne Cup Day. Prepared by Tom Dabernig and Ben Hayes, the eight-year-old son of Sir
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TVNZ 1 will lure eyeballs across the country to watch the world’s most vibrant racing event, the Gr.1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) on Tuesday afternoon. A top-class TVNZ team of Toni Street, Matt Heath, Guy Heveldt, Jesse Tuke and Sonny Ngatai will host an hour of coverage from 4.
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For the past 12 months Horsham trainer Paul Preusker has meticulously focused on one race for his star stayer Surprise Baby (NZ) (Shocking) and the fruits of that planning will be revealed on Tuesday when the lightly tried Kiwi-bred contests the Gr.1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) for the second time.
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AFL Great-turned trainer Denis Pagan provided one of the feel-good stories of 2020 when preparing Johnny Get Angry (NZ) (Tavistock) to win the Gr.1 Victoria Derby (2500m) on Saturday, but he was quick to deflect much of the credit to good friend and fellow Flemington trainer Troy Corstens. Pagan,
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There won’t be many people hoping for a dead-heat in this year’s Melbourne Cup, but Tony Rider will be one. The principal of Cambridge thoroughbred nursery Milan Park has a connection with two horses in the great race – Oceanex and The Chosen One. Rider bred the former and