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Progressive mare Mi Bella will have to overcome an unfavourable barrier draw if she is to repeat the efforts of her stablemate Lovearoadie at Te Aroha on Wednesday. The pair are prepared by Graham Richardson and Rogan Norvall, with Lovearoadie earning a deserved success in the opener at Pukekohe Park
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Prima Park has accrued an enviable record with their New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale graduates, and farm principal Kelly Van Dyk is hoping they can add another to that list from their 2024 draft. 2019 Hong Kong Champion Sprinter Beat The Clock, 2016 Singapore Horse of the Year
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Hot on the heels of a record-breaking Ready to Run Sale, the cream of New Zealand’s yearling crop has been revealed for Karaka 2025. The world-renowned week of selling in late January is the shop window for the thoroughbred talent that New Zealand produces, and that trend
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Vendor Barry Donoghue enjoyed a lucrative two days at New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run Sale last week and he’s now celebrated a significant result in another role. Under his BMD Bloodstock banner, his draft was highlighted by a Toronado colt who was knocked down for $625,000
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Exciting southern mare The Grey Goose (NZ) (Reliable Man) continued her faultless preparation with an impressive performance to win Sunday’s Hyde Landscaping and Wash Rite Winton Cup (1400m) at Ascot Park. Prepared at the course by Jo-Ann Gordon, The Grey Goose rose through the grades last term culminating
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The Karaka Millions 2YO (1200m) has been the goal for Sierra Leone (NZ) (Sun City) from the moment she was purchased at the Yearling Sales, and she took an important step towards the $1 million feature with a game second in Saturday’s Listed Counties Challenge Stakes (1100m). A filly
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Tight photo finishes were the story of Saturday’s meeting at Pukekohe Park, and in the Dunstan Horsefeeds Stayers Championship Qualifier (1600m), there was no exception with a four-way go topped by Aladdin Sane (NZ) (Satono Aladdin). The four-year-old gelding had finished runner-up in each of
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La Crique (NZ) (Vadamos) sprouted wings in the Pukekohe straight on Saturday to come from a near-hopeless position and win the Gr.2 Dunstan Horsefeeds Auckland Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1400m) in a photo finish. The Vadamos mare went into the fillies and mares’ feature as the class act of
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Promising stayer Nereus (NZ) (Savabeel) put his current campaign back on track when he captured an action packed Gr.3 TAB Counties Cup (2100m) on Saturday. The field of fourteen runners was thrown into chaos after 500m when Arby (NZ) (Proisir) dropped rider Matt Cartwright after making contact with the
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Luberon’s (NZ) (Embellish) heroics in the Gr.3 Haunui Farm Counties Bowl (1100m) gave trainer Lance Noble reason to expect something special from her trackwork companion Frostfair (NZ) (Written Tycoon) in the very next race on the card at Pukekohe on Saturday, and so it proved. Lightly raced mare
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Quality mare Luberon (NZ) (Embellish) put a classy field of sprinters to the sword at Pukekohe on Saturday when she dashed away in the closing stages to score a handsome victory in the Gr.3 Haunui Farm Counties Bowl (1100m). The Lance Noble-trained daughter of Cambridge Stud stallion Embellish