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Last Saturday’s stakes win at New Plymouth was a fitting outcome from a mare who held the shining light at the end of New Zealand’s COVID-19 racing lockdown tunnel for Matamata trainer Mark Brosnan. When winning the Gr.3 New Zealand Bloodstock Ready To Rule Sale Trainers Series
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Stakes winning three-year-old filly Only Words (NZ) (Sweynesse) has been purchased by Chris Waller Racing in conjunction with Star Thoroughbreds and will join the Sydney stable of the champion trainer in early October. Only Words provided her Te Awamutu trainer Clint Isdale with the biggest victory of his fledgling training
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Quality mare Jennifer Eccles (NZ) (Rip Van Winkle) has pleased her trainers Shaune Ritchie and Colm Murray ahead of Saturday’s Gr.1 Windsor Park Plate (1600m) at Hastings. The popular galloper has never finished worse than fourth in her 12 career starts and caught the eye when finishing into
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Peter and Dawn Williams are looking to their promising filly Helsinki (NZ) (Savabeel) to spearhead their hopes of a trip to their old stomping ground for the New Zealand Cup meeting at Riccarton in November. Helsinki, a runner-up in two of her three starts and an unlucky eighth in the
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Progressive galloper Super Strike (NZ) (Super Easy) reminded racing pundits of his undoubted ability when he produced a powerful finish to score first up over 1200m at Ellerslie on Saturday. The Super Easy gelding had been off the scene since sustaining a muscle injury when running second at the venue
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Jockey Shaun McKay will undergo further tests at Waikato Hospital to determine whether he needs a plate inserted in his shoulder to assist the healing process for the collarbone he broke in a nasty fall at Ellerslie on Saturday. McKay was riding the well-favoured Blood Warrior (NZ) (Makfi) in the
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Cambridge conditioner Roger James got what he was looking for at Ellerslie on Saturday when progressive stayers Concert Hall (NZ) (Savabeel) and London Banker (NZ) (Tavistock) performed with distinction in their first-up assignments. Gr.3 Manawatu Cup (2300m) winner Concert Hall stormed home late to push eventual winner Dawn Patrol
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A pipe opener over 500m on Friday worked the oracle for classy sprinter Dawn Patrol (NZ) (Dawn Approach) as he downed a quality field over 1400m at Ellerslie on Saturday. The five-year-old Dawn Approach gelding was having his second start in a new campaign after finishing well back in the
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Unfancied Awapuni galloper Master Fin (NZ) (Nom Du Jeu) caused a massive boilover in one of the special features at New Plymouth on Saturday when he outstayed his rivals to take out the NZB Airfreight Road To The Jericho (3210m). It was the second running of the race that serves
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Underrated galloper Supreme Heights (NZ) (Jimmy Choux) produced a gritty performance to lead all the way when taking out Saturday’s Gr.3 NZB Ready To Run Sale Trainers Series (1400m) at New Plymouth. The lightly raced Jimmy Choux five-year-old relished the testing Heavy10 underfoot conditions as she repelled the