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The Racing Industry Transition Agency (RITA) today advised New Zealand racing codes of forecasted funding in 2020/21 of $139.6m which is the same level as was budgeted for the 2019/2020 season before the impacts of COVID-19. This is despite fewer thoroughbred and harness races planned for
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A return to racing in the South Island isn’t the only thing filly and mare owners will be excited about this weekend. Canterbury Jockey Club’s NZB Insurance Pearl Series race (1200m) on Saturday will give Pearl Series registered fillies and mares their first opportunity since the COVID-19
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The Bjorn Baker-trained Crack Me Up (NZ) (Mossman) will be looking to rebound from his subpar performance in the Gr.1 Stradbroke Handicap (1400m) when he contests the Listed Civic Stakes (1350m) at Rosehill on Saturday. The Stradbroke was the New Zealand-bred gelding’s sole run in Queensland
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Central Districts trainer Chrissy Bambry wasted no time putting wins on the board at the first Lower North Island thoroughbred meeting following a COVID-19 enforced hiatus. Recent stable addition Spring Tide was an emphatic maiden winner in the opening event over 800m, while two-races later Speed Call made
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Group One-winning jockey Racha Cuneen has returned to New Zealand to boost the Canterbury riding ranks and he couldn't be any happier about it. Cuneen, best known for his Group One wins in the 2016-17 season on La Diosa in the New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m)
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Racing Minister Winston Peters has welcomed the Racing Industry Bill passing its third reading, creating the legislative framework for revitalising the racing industry while limiting the need for future government intervention. “For too long our domestic racing industry has been left to fade into obscurity at the expense of jobs
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It hasn't been the smoothest road to racing for Redwood four-year-old Hooter (NZ), but Foxton trainer Matt Dixon believes his charge possesses the ability to make it all worthwhile. Dixon described Hooter, who makes his debut at Wanganui on Thursday, as quirky and revealed he had
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It’s been more than nine months since Isaac Lupton last rode at a race meeting and he is looking forward to breaking that dry spell at Wanganui on Thursday. The jumps jockey has been kept busy on his South Taranaki dairy farm but he said it will be great
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New Zealand Bloodstock sales topping colt No Limits (NZ) (Savabeel) continued his strong trials record at Te Rapa on Tuesday when taking out his 900m heat. The son of Savabeel has now posted two trial wins and a placing from just the three attempts and could have a lucrative spring
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Tallyho Twinkletoe (NZ) (St Reims) summitted the peak of Australasian jumps racing last year when taking out the Grand National Hurdle (4200m) and Steeplechase (4500m) double. The New Zealand jumper became the first horse to win the races in the same year since Mosstrooper in 1930 and his connections are
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Southland trainer Robert Dennis is bullish on the prospects of his growing team of horses despite the relocation of his best performer to Australia. The 28-year-old confirmed Out Of The Park (NZ) (Ocean Park), the winner of the Gr.3 South Island Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1600m) for good
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South Auckland trainer Rudy Liefting added another string to his bow when Fast Mover (NZ) (Move Faster) recorded his maiden victory over 1100m at Pukekohe Park on Saturday. The four-year-old gelding is a homebred product of Liefting’s Kakapo Lodge, being by his homebred stallion Move Faster. Liefting