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With a dominant performance at Trentham on Saturday, promising two-year-old filly Pignan (NZ) (Staphanos) became a fitting first winner for Novara Park stallion Staphanos. A placegetter in both of her two previous appearances, the Lisa Latta-trained filly was a class above her four rivals in Saturday’s
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Sunday – January 8 7.30am Cambridge BP 9.00am Cambria Park 8 - 137 Ostrich Farm Rd, Pukekohe (Breakfast) 11am Westbury Stud 50 – 700 Linwood Rd, Karaka (Lunch) 2pm Haunui Farm 60 – 113 Kidd Rd, Karaka 4.30pm Hallmark Stud 21 – 97 Summertime Ln, Te Kauwhata (BBQ and drinks) Monday – January
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Below are some of the public parades leading into the Karaka 2023 Yearling Sales Series. Central Districts & South Island Parade Schedule (Organised by NZB) Please note the following vendors have chosen to parade at Karaka and welcome buyer inspections on-site prior to the Sale. * Beckam Equine * Nala Park
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After initially being passed in, a share in Melbourne Cup winner Verry Elleegant (NZ) (Zed) has been snapped up by one of the existing owners. A 12-1/2-percent share 11-time Group 1 was offered online via Gavelhouse for almost a week but was passed in after the
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The New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders Association will hold its Annual General Meeting on: Tuesday 22nd November at 1pm. In the meeting room upstairs at Onyx Restaurant, 70 Alpha Street, Cambridge If you would like to join via zoom you can Register Here, we will send you the link. It is
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Were it not for a badly-timed injury, Alan Galbraith believes Proisir (Choisir) would probably never have found his way to Rich Hill Stud. But the accident which halted Proisir’s racing career reaching its full potential gave the farm near Matamata a chance to secure him, and the success
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Morgan Carter is a familiar face around the Karaka sales complex and is most commonly seen with a gavel in his hand, but he made his mark in a different capacity on Thursday’s second day of the 2022 New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale. Carter operates a bloodstock
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Tremendous results were achieved at the conclusion of New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2022 Ready to Run Sale, confirming the confidence buyers have in kiwi educated and prepared two-year-olds. The momentum increased off the back of Day One’s results, which saw a buoyant market strengthened throughout the second
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Sydney-based bloodstock agent Andrew Williams continued a productive few days at the New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale when he went to $550,000 to secure Lot 307, a colt by Hellbent presented by Kilgravin Lodge deep into the final session of the two-day sale. “I thought
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Hong Kong’s strong presence continued to be felt on the second day of New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run sale on Thursday. Lot 258, the Capitalist colt out of Group Three performer Sebrina, has joined the list of purchases destined for the Asian racing jurisdiction after he was
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Bloodstock agent Andrew Williams has been searching Australasia’s two-year-old sales for a Deep Field colt and found his pick at Karaka on Thursday. Lot 231, the colt out of Ra Ra Epic, a half-sister to multiple Group One winner Incentivise and three-quarter sister to Waikato