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Return To Conquer (Snitzel) headed into his raceday debut in Saturday’s Listed Counties Challenge Stakes (1100m) with a big price tag, big reputation and big expectations, and the million-dollar colt produced a Pukekohe performance worthy of the hype. Te Akau Racing principal David Ellis paid A$1.3 million
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Royally bred filly Sesimbra (NZ) (U S Navy Flag) made it back to back victories to open her three-year-old campaign when she took out the opening event at Wanganui, the Wanganui Function Centre 3YO (1200m) in dramatic fashion. The daughter of US Navy Flag, who was lining up for her
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Pukekohe Park will host four feature races as part of its biggest meeting of the year on Saturday, and Cambridge trainers Ben and Ryan Foote will have well-credentialled runners in three of them. The father-son duo’s big black-type day kicks off with Vega For Luck in the Listed Counties
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Counties Cup Day has become a very familiar fixture for Sacred Satono, who will make his fourth appearance at the meeting when he defends his title in the Gr.3 Haunui Farm Counties Bowl (1100m) at Pukekohe on Saturday. The son of Satono Aladdin made his Counties Cup Day debut
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Lance Noble will attempt to add to a strong run of spring form for Cambridge Stud when he sends out five well-credentialled runners in Brendan and Jo Lindsay’s black and gold colours at Pukekohe on Saturday. Noble trains privately for Cambridge Stud at Karaka and has collected six wins
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The Grey Goose continued to belie her purchase price last start when recording her fifth win at Wingatui, bringing her career earnings to more than $225,000. The five-year-old daughter of Reliable Man was bought as a weanling by owner Morrie Paskell for $2,000 off gavelhouse.com, and she
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Mark Walker and Sam Bergerson are confident they have the young firepower to make an early impression in the first of the black type features at Pukekohe Park on Saturday. The Te Akau trainers will have five contenders in the main events on the card with Snitzel colts To Bravery
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A well-related son of Harry Angel provided a late highlight in the final hour of the 2024 NZB Ready to Run Sale at Karaka on Thursday when he was knocked down to a $520,000 bid from bloodstock agent Morgan Carter. The colt was catalogued as Lot 372 and was
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Foxton mare Marotiri Molly(NZ) (Per Incanto) will make her long-awaited stakes-level debut on Saturday at Pukekohe Park, taking her place in the Gr.2 Dunstan Horsefeeds Auckland Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1400m). The daughter of Per Incanto caught plenty of early attention when winning her first trial in dashing style
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Warrnambool hoop Harry Grace has quickly become a trans-Tasman jockey and is set to continue that role when he rides at New Plymouth and Wanganui later this week. Grace first arrived in New Zealand in September to partner Australian raider Rolls in what was meant to be a Group One
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Chad Ormsby has enjoyed plenty of racetrack success this year with pinhooks that he has been unable to sell at the Ready to Run Sale, but the multi-talented horseman had a very different outcome with the standout member of his 2024 Riverrock Farm draft at Karaka on Thursday. Ormsby trained
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Hong Kong bloodstock agent Willie Leung had a big hour at Karaka early on Thursday afternoon, spending more than $1 million to secure two well-credentialled colts at the NZB Ready to Run Sale. Leung paid $400,000 under his Magus Equine banner to buy Lot 271, a Russian Revolution colt