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Leading trainer Stephen Marsh is getting the best of both worlds with talented mare Belle Fascino (NZ) (Per Incanto). Marsh will produce last month's Gr.3 White Robe Lodge WFA (1600m) winner and her stablemate Bronte Beach (NZ) (Reliable Man) in Saturday's Gr.3 Valachi Downs
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Clinton Isdale has put plenty of work into improving Tina Again’s (NZ) (El Roca) barrier manners, and the Te Awamutu trainer is starting to reap the rewards for his efforts. Tina Again initially proved to be a handful at the barriers and Isdale took her on as a project
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Hall of Fame trainer John Wheeler will be back in Australia in a serious way this autumn, targeting the Sydney autumn carnival as well as making his regular raid on the Oakbank jumping carnival in South Australia. Three of the New Plymouth trainer’s horses – Cleaver (NZ) (Guillotine), Macklemore (NZ)
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Group One winner Travelling Light (NZ) (El Roca) will be on trial for an Australian assignment at Tauranga this weekend. The Ben Foote-trained mare will contest the Gr.2 Ultimate Mazda Japan Trophy (1600m) and her performance on Saturday will dictate whether she travels to Sydney to target the Gr.
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Group Two-winning filly Needle And Thread (Makfi) will undergo minor surgery later this week to remove a bone chip. The Stephen Autridge and Kris Shailer-trained filly was one of the favoured runners for last Saturday’s Gr.1 New Zealand Oaks (2400m) but tailed the field home. “She got a
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Trainer Stephen Nickalls is still coming down off the high of Llanacord’s (NZ) (Contributer) effort to run third in Saturday’s Gr.1 New Zealand Oaks (2400m). “It was a wonderful run, absolutely amazing,” he said of the filly he co-owns with his mother and stepfather, Dianne and Kevin
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Pukekohe trainer Nigel Tiley will downsize his team at the end of May to concentrate on training just those horses he has an ownership interest in. The former topline jockey said the change in focus is coming largely so he and his wife Lee can spend their winters in Queensland.
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The Roger James and Robert Wellwood-trained Cheaperthandivorce (NZ) (Savabeel) will head to the spelling paddock and won’t be seen again this season despite finding the line well for fourth in the Gr.1 New Zealand Oaks (2400m) last Saturday. “She is a little frail filly that is still getting
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A Queensland campaign could be on the cards for Charms Star (NZ) (Per Incanto) after her runner-up effort in the Gr.1 New Zealand Oaks (2400m) at Trentham on Saturday. The Per Incanto filly finished a length in arrears of race victor Amarelinha and trainer Lisa Latta was pleased with
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New Zealand Derby (2400m) winner Rocket Spade (Fastnet Rock) is likely to be seen in action at Tauranga this weekend, where the Group One winner will step out over a mile for trainers Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott. The three-year-old colt is being readied for a tilt at the
Breeding
Highden Park principals Libby and Sam Bleakley were still left pinching themselves on Monday morning as they were coming to grips with yet another farm graduate winning the Hong Kong Derby (2000m). As they looked across their 60-acre Manawatu property they could see former Hong Kong Derby winners Werther (NZ)
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