Australia
Recently crowned champion New Zealand two-year-old Yourdeel is set to make his debut for Lindsay Park at Flemington. Yourbeel runs in Saturday's Group Two Danehill Stakes, a race which Lindsay Park co-trainer Tom Dabernig said could determine his spring path. Dabernig said Yourdeel was heading towards the Group
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The Australasian racing community will get its first look at Te Akau’s newly acquired European stayer Caliburn this weekend when he lines-up in the Very Special Kids Pin and Win Plate (2500m) at Flemington. The son of Camelot won two of his nine races before he was purchased by
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Group One winner Volpe Veloce will have the opportunity to continue an impressive streak when she lines-up in the Gr.2 Theo Marks Stakes (1300m) at Rosehill on Saturday. “She has won a stakes race at the age of two, three, four, and five, I hope she can do it
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Glory Days will step out onto Flemington for the first time on Saturday and her connections are hoping she can return to the Melbourne track on the first Tuesday of November. The recently crowned New Zealand Champion Stayer is on a Gr.1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) path with her first
Breeding
Former New Zealand Champion Sprinter Bounding has had an outstanding start to her broodmare career with her first foal selling for US$4.1 million at Keeneland’s September Yearling Sale in Lexington, Kentucky, on Tuesday. The son of dual US Horse of the Year Curlin was the subject of
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Leading Australian jockey Hugh Bowman has suffered a broken finger after a trackwork fall at Randwick on Tuesday. The Sydney hoop, who rode the Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman-trained Quick Thinker to victory in the Gr.3 Ming Dynasty Quality (1400m), was treated immediately at Prince of Wales Hospital for
International
Australian Hall of Fame trainer David Hayes will return to the Hong Kong ranks for the start of the 2020-21 racing season. The senior trainer for Lindsay Park in Australia, Hayes spent a decade in Hong Kong from 1996, winning two premierships. His nephew Tom Dabernig and son Ben Hayes
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Despite not managing to put a win on the board, members of the New Zealand contingent that launched their assault on the riches of the Australian spring racing carnivals in Sydney and Melbourne were happy with their showings on Saturday. Te Akau Racing mentor Jamie Richards produced Te Akau Shark
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Warwick Farm trainer Gary Portelli has predicted more Sydney horses will be heading to Brisbane in coming weeks after Picaro won at Eagle Farm. Picaro won a battle with favourite Miss Shanti to score by a half head in the Madison Cleaning Plate (1825m). The four-year-old son of Pierro was
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Surprise Baby, a $NZ5,500 purchase off gavelhouse.com, will kick-off his Melbourne Cup campaign at Moonee Valley on Saturday when he contests the Gr.2 John F. Feehan Stakes (1600m). The surprise package has now won four of his eight starts since being purchased off the online auction website,
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New Zealand-bred stayer Makdanife had his connections scratching their heads after he went from a dismal last seven days ago on the Gold Coast, to a tough win at Eagle Farm on Saturday. The Chris Waller trained Makdanife won a slogging battle with fellow kiwi-bred Ocean Addict to score by
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Nine years after combining to win the Gr.3 Ming Dynasty Quality (1400m) with Lion Tamer (NZ) (Storming Home), jockey Hugh Bowman and master Kiwi trainer Murray Baker were at it again with Quick Thinker, who has surprised the stable to win his Australian debut. Andrew Forsman, who now trains