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NZ Racing and Breeding News – 14 August 2023
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Heavenly start for Highview’s new recruit
The 2023-24 season is off to a perfect start for new Highview stallion Divine Prophet, whose daughter See You In Heaven scored a dominant win in Saturday’s Gr.3 Behemoth Stakes (1200m) in Adelaide. The high-class four-year-old was sent out as a $2.15 favourite
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Te Rapa specialist continues winning roll
Turn The Ace extended a glittering run of form on the heavy conditions at Te Rapa on Saturday, producing a fifth career victory for trainer Andrew Forsman. The five-year-old son of Turn Me Loose was confidently sent forward to be pacemaker under apprentice Elen Nicholas, and when challengers
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Dancing Dream carrying home hopes for Rae
Kenny Rae had hoped to have multiple representation in Saturday’s three-year-old feature on his home track at Ruakaka but the stable is now down to a sole contender. The talented Whiskey Lies is currently under offer to Hong Kong interests and stakes winning stablemate Illicit Dreams will
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Polly Grey returning home
Kiwi mare Polly Grey is returning home, but this time it is for good. The nine-year-old mare has a date with leading New Zealand sire Proisir but her connections are hoping she can snare some further elite-level success before she retires to the broodmare paddock. Initially trained
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Vale Lorraine Anderton
The racing community is mourning the death on Saturday morning of Lorraine Anderton, the matriarch of one of New Zealand’s most celebrated racing families. The wife for 63 years of Racing Hall of Fame horseman Brian Anderton, she had suffered poor health over the past 18 months, but that
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Te Akau pleased with exhibition gallops
Trainers Mark Walker and Sam Bergerson were pleased with what they saw from their quartet of exhibition gallopers at Te Rapa on Saturday. Galloping in pairs over 1000m, Brando and Trobriand were followed at an interval by Skew Wiff and Maven Belle. “Both pairings ran home in 35.5 (600m)
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Hill guesses correctly with Guessing Game
Malcolm Hill rolled the dice when lining up Guessing Game (NZ) (Derryn) at Awapuni’s synthetic meeting on Friday and it proved a fruitful decision for the Wanganui trainer. It was the first time the homebred gelding had been on the surface and it proved to his liking, scoring a
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Diamond Jak wins at Te Rapa
Diamond Jak (NZ) (Jakkalberry) continued his purple patch of form at Te Rapa on Saturday when taking out the Dunstan Horsefeeds 2100. The victory brings the five-year-old gelding’s record to two wins and four placings from seven starts this preparation, although trainer Mark Brosnan said it hasn’
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Lord Spencer gets deserved win
Wanganui hurdler Lord Spencer (NZ) (Zed) was rewarded for his consistency at Riccarton on Saturday when breaking through for his maiden hurdle victory in the Speight’s Summit Ultra On Tap 0-1 Win Hurdles (3100m). The son of Zed had placed in his four previous hurdle outings, including at
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NZ Racing and Breeding News – 13 August 2023
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Change of scene works well for Jodelin Gal
A change of stable environment seems to have worked the oracle for talented mare Jodelin Gal as she made her way back into the winners’ enclosure at Te Rapa on Saturday when successful in the Waikato Stud Foxbridge Plate Day 26 August (1200m). Having her third start for the Stephen