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Trainer Stephen Marsh is hoping lightning can strike twice when he lines up Lincoln King and Starrybeel in Sunday’s Gr.2 Barfoot & Thompson Auckland Cup (3200m) at Ellerslie. The pair quinellaed the Gr.3 Wellington Cup (3200m) at Trentham in January and after impressing Marsh with their final
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Group One winner Levante (NZ) (Proisir) has touched down in Melbourne ahead of her debut run on Australian soil this Saturday in the Gr.1 Newmarket Handicap (1200m) at Flemington. Fresh off wins in the Gr.1 Telegraph (1200m) and Gr.1 BCD Group Sprint (1400m), trainers Ken and Bev
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Punters on both sides of the Tasman will benefit from a change being made to the New Zealand Track Ratings early next month. From Monday, 4 April the New Zealand Track Ratings will once again align with those introduced to Australia in 2014. While this move is part of NZTR’
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Trainer Peter Williams is pleased with the success he and wife Dawn have had with their Byerley Park stable in recent weeks and is looking to his five runners at Ellerslie on Sunday to carry on their good work of late. Their challenge will be headed by progressive mares Saint
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A New Zealand racing dynasty has come to an end with the death last Sunday of popular Te Awamutu identity Des Riordan just weeks short of his 90th birthday. At age 15, Des and his younger brothers Noel (13) and John (11) left their New Plymouth home to take up
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Trainer Robert Dennis has only one concern with The Gift (NZ) (Power) ahead of the MLT/Three Rivers Hotel/Pioneer Tavern Fireside Cup (1335mm) at Gore on Friday – weight. The four-year-old mare has been lumbered with 60kg in her final lead-up race to the Gr.3 Valachi
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Tony Pike feels the time is right to take on older horses at weight-for-age with his top three-year-old Field Of Gold (Starspangledbanner). The Cambridge trainer bypassed the Gr.1 New Zealand Derby (2400m) last week in favour of Sunday’s Gr.1 Bonecrusher New Zealand Stakes
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Although busy on day three of the New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling sale, trainer Andrew Forsman was keeping a wary eye on the final fields for the prestigious Auckland Cup raceday at Ellerslie on Sunday. Forsman and training partner Murray Baker will have three of their Cambridge stable members in
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The connections of Mohaka (NZ) (Nadeem) are hoping she can repay their faith on Sunday after they made the late nomination payment for the Gr.2 Barfoot & Thompson Auckland Cup (3200m) at Ellerslie this weekend. The six-year-old mare has been in good form of late, placing behind
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Te Akau has been the all-conquering force in New Zealand juvenile racing for some time and they have another Group One two-year-old title firmly in their sights at Ellerslie this weekend. The Matamata operation has claimed the last six editions of the Karaka Million 2YO Classic and
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Trainers Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott are eyeing a tilt at the Gr.1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) in spring with Asterix (NZ) (Tavistock) after his victory in the Gr.1 New Zealand Derby (2400m) at Ellerslie on Saturday. The son of Tavistock took out the $1 million feature after
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