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Precocious two-year-old Velocious is proving a gem of a filly on two fronts for Inglewood Stud. The unbeaten daughter of Written Tycoon was bred by Gus and Bianca Wigley’s North Canterbury nursery, who will also be offering her half-sister at next year’s New Zealand Bloodstock
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Josh Shaw tasted Group glory with Hinepara last year and he has got a craving for more. The Horowhenua horseman came close to tasting it again last Saturday when Faraglioni was runner-up behind Campionessa in the Gr.2 Dunstan Horsefeeds Auckland Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1400m) and Shaw was duly
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Cambridge trainer Tony Pike spent Sunday morning contemplating some mixed results from the racing action at Pukekohe twenty-four hours earlier where his stable picked up an impressive victory with Rudyard in the last race on the day after some frustrating placings earlier. A sensational ride from Ryan Elliot secured
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Unbeaten three-year-old December (NZ) (Shamexpress) stamped himself as a galloper to watch over the next few months after taking the next step in his development at Wanganui on Saturday. The strapping son of Shamexpress had won both of his trials for trainers Roger James and Robert Wellwood before
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Rejuvenated galloper Semper Magico (NZ) (Per Incanto) continued a sparkling run of form when he strode clear for a decisive victory in Saturday’s John Turkington Forestry/Waipine Logging Bulls Country Cup (2040m) at Wanganui. In the hands of apprentice Jessica Allen, who made good use of her 3kg allowance
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With a rail-skimming ride aboard Campionessa in the Gr.2 Dunstan Horsefeeds Auckland Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1400m), comeback jockey Matt Cameron completed a feature double at Pukekohe on Saturday that marked his best day back in the saddle. Cameron is a two-time winner of the New Zealand jockeys’
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One Bold Cat took his promising career to a new level in Saturday’s Gr.3 Counties Cup (2100m) at Pukekohe, delivering a third feature prize of the month for Robbie Patterson. The in-form New Plymouth trainer had previously saddled One Bold Cat to win the $80,000 Feilding
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In a contest largely focussed on glamour mare Babylon Berlin, talented entire Sacred Satono made the most of his six-kilogram weight advantage to storm home in the Gr.3 Haunui Farm Counties Bowl (1100m) on Saturday at Pukekohe. Prepared by the Byerley Park-based partnership of Bruce Wallace and
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Almost all of the spring’s brightest two-year-old talent gathered at Pukekohe on Saturday for New Zealand’s first black-type juvenile race of the season, but it was the unbeaten filly Velocious who soared above her contemporaries and dominated the Listed Counties Challenge Stakes (1100m). The $65,
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It is often a case of catch me if you can with Johny Johny, and trainers Tim and Margaret Carter are hoping their pacemaking sprinter can outrun his rivals again in Saturday’s Gr.3 Haunui Farm Counties Bowl (1100m). Johny Johny’s distinctive front-running style has seen him
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Classy grey mare Aromatic will attempt to follow in the footsteps of a former stablemate when she returns to Pukekohe on Saturday to defend her title in the Gr.3 Counties Cup (2100m). Te Akau Racing previously celebrated back-to-back Counties Cup victories with In A Twinkling, who won