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Local trainer Lance Robinson admitted he wasn’t quite sure where to look halfway down the straight in Saturday’s Listed Daphne Bannan Memorial Great Easter Stakes (1400m) at Riccarton. Robinson had saddled up stable duo Live Drama (NZ) (Ghibellines) and Khimar War (NZ) (Sweet Orange) in the day’s
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Promising two-year-old Lord Cosmos (Pierro) went one better than last week when he produced a powerful home straight surge to capture the Listed Waikato Equine Veterinary Centre 2YO Stakes (1200m) at Te Rapa. The Mark Walker-trained runner had run home strongly to finish runner-up behind Charmario (NZ) (Charm Spirit) at
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Awapuni visitor Diss Is Dramatic (NZ) (Dissident) showed all her fighting qualities when she downed a handy line-up of two-year-olds in Saturday’s Listed Berkley Stud Champagne Stakes (1200m) at Riccarton. The Lisa Latta-trained daughter of Dissident had finished runner-up behind race favourite Defiant last start without much luck after
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Andrew Forsman will be represented by his first runners in his own right on Saturday following a long and successful training partnership with Murray Baker. The Cambridge horseman enjoyed multiple Group One successes with the now retired Baker and will mark the next phase in his career with black-type runners
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Jim Pender is on a fact-finding mission as he prepares to saddle his first Australian runner in more than a decade. The Tauranga trainer has crossed the Tasman with six-race winner and last-start Listed placegetter Gospodin, who will make his Australian debut in Saturday’s Listed Takeover Target Stakes (1200m)
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Fresh off celebrating the success of their former stable runner Heberite’s success in the Grand Annual Steeplechase (5500m) on Thursday, Wingatui trainers Brian and Shane Anderton have turned their attention to Riccarton’s Saturday meeting. The father and son duo will line-up just the one runner at the Christchurch
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Multiple stakes winner Germanicus is in the right condition to turn his fortunes around with a return to top form at Te Rapa on Saturday in what may be his final appearance of the season. The six-year-old will be aided in his quest to add the Wig (Noel) Wilson Memorial
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Canterbury horsewoman Centaine Spittles can now add training the first winner on Riccarton’s polytrack to her CV. The former jockey lined up Eulogy Show in the Vast Billboards & Wai Design Maiden (2200m) and the four-year-old mare showed her liking of the new surface with a dominant win. The
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Lisa Latta once operated a Riccarton stable but that hasn't stopped the Palmerston North trainer from getting visitor’s draws with her promising two-year-olds Diss Is Dramatic (NZ) (Dissident) and Cheveux (NZ) (Belardo). The pair started from barriers 13 and 15 respectively in last month's Ladies
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Te Rapa has proved to be the happiest of hunting grounds for Tevere (NZ) (Contributer) and a return to the Waikato course on Saturday may again bring out the best in the gifted mare. The Contributer four-year-old has made five appearances on the course for three wins and a runner-up
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Wednesday’s Ruakaka meeting will live long in the memory of local trainer Darren Smith and jockey Kelsey Hannan, with the pair picking up their respective first wins courtesy of Tazimoto (NZ) (Tarzino) in the Lion Red Punters Challenge (1200m). Tazimoto was only fair out of the gates, but at
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Christchurch trainer Anna Furlong is a strong advocate of the Riccarton all-weather track and she'd love nothing more than to snare a winner on opening day on Thursday. Furlong and training partner Shane Kennedy will have three runners at the Riccarton polytrack's inaugural meeting, Petty'