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NZ Racing and Breeding News – 22 October 2023
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Impressive Diss Is Dramatic gives Latta another Thompson
Awapuni trainer Lisa Latta celebrated her fifth win in the Gr.3 Gee & Hickton Funeral Directors Thompson Handicap (1600m) when Diss Is Dramatic (NZ) (Dissident) scored an emphatic victory in Saturday’s $100,000 feature at Trentham. Latta had previously won the race with Resonare (NZ) (Centaine) (2000), Fercertain
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Crocetti continues winning run
Saturday’s Gr.2 James and Annie Sarten Memorial (1400m) at Te Rapa was an eagerly anticipated clash between a number of up-and-coming talents, but it turned into a tour de force by New Zealand’s most exciting three-year-old. Crocetti (NZ) (Zacinto) extended his unblemished record to five out of
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Johny Johny delivers in Sweynesse Stakes
A wide draw and an energy-sapping fast pace were not enough to stop Johny Johny (NZ) (Charm Spirit) in Saturday’s Gr.3 Sweynesse Stakes (1200m) at Te Rapa. The speedy son of Charm Spirit had some factors in his favour leading into the $100,000 weight-for-age feature – including the
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Take Two for Skew Wiff
Two weeks after a forgettable trip to Flemington, Group One-winning New Zealand mare Skew Wiff will have a second attempt at an Australian debut in Saturday’s Gr.2 Sharp EIT Tristarc Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield. A brilliant winner of the Gr.1 Tarzino Trophy (1400m) at Hastings on September
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Sarten springboard to Guineas for Crocetti
Te Rapa’s Gr.2 James and Annie Sarten Memorial (1400m) has been a springboard to Group One glory for five recent winners of the New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m), and the connections of the undefeated Crocetti are hoping for more of the same. Crocetti takes a perfect four-from-four record
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Breeze Up Footage Now Available to View Online
New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2023 Ready to Run Sale Breeze Up clips and Mounting Yard parade videos are now available to view online at nzb.co.nz. On Monday 16 and Tuesday 17 October, 338 talented juveniles galloped down the home straight of Te Rapa Racecourse, with all two-year-olds having
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NZB Announces New RM100k Graduate Races at Selangor
New Zealand Bloodstock has announced the sponsorship of two large prizemoney races in Malaysia with graduates of NZB’s sales set to be able to compete for stakes of RM100,000. The first of two RM100,000 races set to run in 2024 will be open to graduates of NZB’
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Wexford colt on song for Sarten
Promising colt Monday Melody (Snitzel) has pleased trainers Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott in his build-up to the stiffest challenge of his brief career at Te Rapa on Saturday. The son of Snitzel will front up against a small but select line-up in the Gr.2 James & Annie
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Rule of Law continues Te Akau's winning run
The progeny of Justify have shone this week in the tangerine silks of Te Akau Racing, and the good form continued with three-year-old Rule of Law (NZ) producing his maiden victory at Tauranga on Wednesday. A winner of the US Triple Crown, Justify’s three-year-old crop includes Star of Justice
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Johny Johny primed for Group Three
The rescheduling of the Gr.3 Sweynesse Stakes (1200m) to Te Rapa on Saturday has worked in favour of Johny Johny (NZ) (Charm Spirit) on two fronts. Originally to have been contested at Rotorua last weekend, that meeting was abandoned after four races due to the unsafe nature of the
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Patterson team Trentham bound
One Bold Cat (NZ) (The Bold One) is expected to be a far more competitive force when he takes aim at the feature event on Saturday’s Trentham card. The talented and lightly tried five-year-old will make the second appearance of his spring campaign in the Gr.3 Gee &