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Kozzi Asano is aiming to add another first to his breakout season this weekend. The Canterbury-based Japanese apprentice had only ridden eight winners in his career to the start of this season but since August 1, he has saluted the judge 30 times to sit in joint second place on
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Lance O'Sullivan has gone close to winning the Gr.1 Vodafone New Zealand Derby (2400m) in his time training, five-times producing three-year-olds to finish in the top five. The Matamata trainer reels off a list of high-class performers to have run well recently for the stable in the
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The Steven Ramsay and Julia Ritchie-trained Aloft (NZ) (Atlante) showed plenty of her potential when winning on debut at Arawa Park on Wednesday. The three-year-old daughter of Atlante settled to the rear of the field for jockey Danielle Johnson after jumping away from her outside barrier in the eight horse
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Team Rogerson will have a host of winning chances at feature meetings at both ends of the north island this week. Smart sprinter Ferrando (NZ) (Fast 'n' Famous) will head to Otaki on Friday where the Group One performer has a 60kg impost in the Listed Fasttrack Insurance
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Cambridge trainer Andrew Campbell will head south to Otaki on Friday to line-up two Derby prospects in the Gr.3 Lucia Valentina Wellington Stakes (1600m). Peloton (NZ) heads into the race off the back of a runner-up performance at Te Rapa last month and Campbell said the son of Charm
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Cambridge trainer Tony Pike has a few races in consideration for smart two-year-old Not An Option (Not A Single Doubt). The winner of his only raceday start at Counties, Not An Option won a trial at Cambridge on Tuesday over 800m and looks one of the early lamplighters amongst the
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Talented three-year-old Equinox (NZ) (Exceed and Excel) is likely to contest the Rating 82 Benchmark Withers & Co Chartered Accountants 1100m at Ellerslie as the Jamie Richards-trained colt looks to work his way through the grades to sprinting features. The winner of three races and stakes-placed behind Catalyst (NZ) (Darci
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Leading jockey Matt Cameron is nervously waiting to hear how much of the lucrative summer racing period he will be forced to spend watching from the sidelines. Cameron was injured after riding Visenya to a fifth-placed finish at New Plymouth last Friday. “I came back, dismounted and started taking the
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There are plenty of options available to Shaune Ritchie with in-form galloper Swords Drawn (Camelot), but the Cambridge trainer is leaning towards a tilt at the Dunstan Feeds Stayers Championship (2400m) at Ellerslie on New Year’s Day. The four-year-old son of Camelot is in a purple patch of form
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The Lauren Brennan-trained Magnum (NZ) (Per Incanto) booked his ticket for the Gr.2 Kamada Park Manawatu Challenge Stakes (1400m) at Awapuni next month with his victory at Pukekohe on Saturday. The seven-year-old gelding was able to gather in pacemaker Contessa Vanessa (NZ) (Bullbars) in the final strides of the
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Toby Edmonds has confirmed multiple stakes winner Winter Bride (Not A Single Doubt) for New Zealand’s major sprints and his Gold Coast stable could also have contenders in both Karaka Million events. It will be the first foray onto the New Zealand racing scene for Edmonds, who has taken
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