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Waikato bloodstock agent Stuart Hale’s annual Auckland/Waikato yearling inspection tour will return in 2020. The week-long tour will commence on Sunday, January 5, and include visits to 30 farms, with inspections of more than 750 yearlings. The tour will depart daily from BP Cambridge, 98 Victoria St Upper,
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With Charm Spirit in stellar form and a new wave of stallions approaching their yearling debuts, the festive period has some extra shine this year for the team at Windsor Park Stud. Multiple Group One winner Charm Spirit has been shuttling to Windsor Park since 2015, and his oldest southern
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Eminent Australian owner Francis Cook has returned to New Zealand this week, the source of one of his standout racetrack performers. Cook and his wife Christine have enjoyed sensational success over the last few seasons. Their tally of Group One victories has soared into double digits thanks to the likes
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Right from the time he was a foal Riodini (NZ) (Proisir), the winner of the recent Gr.3 Bonecrusher Stakes (1400m), was a horse with charisma. “He was one of those foals with a personality a bit different from the rest, he always looked for you when you went in
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Group One-winning mare Consensus (NZ) (Postponed) set an Australasian online auction record on Monday night when she sold on gavelhouse.com to Yulong Investments for $622,500. The daughter of Postponed raced across six seasons for 11 wins, six of those at stakes level, including the Gr.1 Zabeel Classic
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Wyndspelle’s (NZ) breakthrough Group One win topped off a big day at Trentham on Saturday for Haunui Farm. In winning the Gr.1 Captain Cook Stakes (1600m), Wyndspelle became the 10thindividual Group One winner for the Haunui Farm-based sire Iffraaj. Three races earlier on the programme Haunui Farm, as
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Cambridge Stud stallion Burgundy was put down at the Waikato farm on Friday, having contracted acute laminitis in his front feet. His condition had deteriorated over the past 72 hours and the decision was made between the major partners that he should not suffer further. Burgundy was a $1.3
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Okawa Stud, once one of the famous thoroughbred nurseries in Hawke's Bay, is undergoing a revival with the property now standing the well-bred stallion Rock 'N' Pop. The son of champion Australian sire Fastnet Rock took up residence at Okawa last month, having transferred from Waikato
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A colt who failed to meet his reserve at Karaka in 2018 is rewarding his breeders Jomara Bloodstock. The colt, Scorpz (NZ) (Charm Spirit), is the latest stakes winner bred by Jomara after winning the Gr.3 Wellington Stakes (1600m), and now they are glad he didn’t reach his
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Recently retired Gr.1 Zabeel Classic (2000m) winner Consensus (NZ) (Postponed) has been put on the market, with the daughter of Postponed offered in-foal to Group One sire Iffraaj on online auction site gavelhouse.com. Trained by South Auckland horseman Stephen McKee, Consenus’ racing career spanned six seasons and included
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Sunday’s A$300,000 Jericho Cup (4600m) delivered a dream result for White Robe Lodge, but the iconic farm’s proprietor Brian Anderton was left lamenting the one that got away. In an entirely Kiwi-bred finish to the ANZAC-themed Warrnambool feature for Australian and New Zealand-bred stayers, Ablaze (NZ)
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The Chittick family and the team at Waikato Stud are in mourning after the shock loss of their best mate and emerging young stallion, Sacred Falls. The Waikato Stud veterinary team identified an issue with the stallion’s liver just on a fortnight ago and despite receiving world-class treatment at