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NZ Racing and Breeding News – 09 June 2024
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Dan Vegas makes impressive debut
Ruakaka trainers Kenny Rae and Krystal Williams unveiled a promising young talent in the Marsden Metals Group 3YO (1400m) on their home track on Saturday afternoon. First-starter Dan Vegas went into the race with eye-catching pedigree credentials, being by Per Incanto out of the Savabeel mare Miss Bluebell – dam of
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Quality Time stylish opening New Zealand
The well-travelled Quality Time recorded his first New Zealand victory with a bold front-running performance in Saturday’s Daltons Bream Bay Cup (2100m) at Ruakaka. The six-year-old made an eye-catching New Zealand debut at Te Rapa in early May with a strong-finishing second behind Turn The Ace over 1200m, but
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All-the-way win for Chase at Otaki
An inch perfect front running ride by Kate Hercock paved the way for former Group One performer Chase to return to the winners’ enclosure at Otaki. The seven-year-old son of Zed, who has twice run third at the highest level over the 1600m distance of Saturday’s contest, hadn’t
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Malt Time all class in Ruakaka feature
Quality mare Malt Time showed her undoubted class when she blitzed her rivals in the closing stages of the feature event at Ruakaka on Saturday, the Porthouse Bar Eatery Bream Bay Sprint (1400m). The Shaun and Emma Clotworthy-trained mare was having her second run in a new campaign and stripped
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Stewart heads to local meeting with big team
Veteran Timaru trainer Leonard Stewart is set to feature prominently at his local meeting on Sunday, with 11 runners entered across the nine-race programme at Phar Lap Raceway. Stewart, who will celebrate his 92nd birthday later this month, has just over 20 horses in work and almost half of them
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Five for Moodley at New Plymouth
Local trainer Allan Sharrock and apprentice jockey Triston Moodley proved to be an unstoppable force at New Plymouth on Thursday, with the pair combining to win the first five races at the Taranaki meeting. They opened the card in impressive style, with Moodley guiding race favourite Dresse’ Par Joli to
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Moonlight Magic ready to shine at Eagle Farm
Moonlight Magic beat all but one of the boys in the Gr.1 Queensland Derby (2400m) at Eagle Farm last weekend, and trainer Andrew Forsman is hoping she can go one better against her own sex when she returns to the Brisbane venue on Saturday. The daughter of Almanzor will
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Vale Garry Edge
Garry Edge never won a jockeys’ premiership, but he will be remembered as one of the very best during an era of great New Zealand jockeys. Edge, who passed away last week in his hometown of Cambridge aged 84, rode 740 New Zealand winners during a career that began in
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$175k Bonus Challenge and Public Slot Auction Headline New NZB Kiwi Initiatives
New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing (NZTR) is thrilled to announce a raft of new initiatives aimed at further enhancing the country’s first-ever Thoroughbred slot race, The NZB Kiwi, set to be run on 8 March 2025 at Ellerslie Racecourse. $175k NZB Kiwi Bonus Challenge In a move to further reward
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Malt on target for Ruakaka feature
It may have been something of a 'coming-of-age' season for Malt Time (Adelaide), but her South Auckland-based trainer Shaun Clotworthy concedes her racing career is still coming to an end. The seven-year-old Adelaide mare goes into Saturday's Porthouse Bar & Eatery Bream Bay Sprint (1400m) at
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Murdochs targeting Ruakaka series
The appeal of better track conditions at Ruakaka has Moira and Keiran Murdoch eyeing a series of races for their team in the coming months, including talented five-year-old Shamus (NZ) (Shamexpress). A winner of six races, including the Gr.2 Wellington Guineas (1400m) under the care of Allan Sharrock, Shamus