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Matamata trainer Daniel Miller has a small team of horses campaigning in the south island, including lightly-tried four-year-old Sheezallmine (NZ) (Super Easy), the winner of four of her six starts. A last start winner at Riccarton, Sheezallmine will contest the Coupland's Bakeries Mile Trial (1400m) back at the
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Trainer Lance Noble is confident classy filly Bavella (Snitzel) will give Saturday’s Gr.3 Barneswood Farm Soliloquy Stakes (1400m) a decent shake, as she looks to book her passage to the Gr.1 gavelhouse.com New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m) at Riccarton on November 16. A stakes winning juvenile,
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Matamata trainer Kylie Fawcett is pleased with last start Listed Matamata Cup (1600m) winner Polly Grey (NZ) (Azamour) and believes the five-year-old can take the next step up in Saturday’s Gr.3 Gee & Hickton Funeral Directors Thompson Handicap (1600m) at Trentham. The daughter of Azamour, who is adept
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Go Racing and Marsh Racing have joined forces to purchase the property formerly known as Monovale Farm, near Lake Karapiro just outside of Cambridge. The 58-acre property will be used as a spelling and pre-training facility for both parties, enhancing their current service offerings. “We had been looking for a
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Danielle Johnson will again be missing from the riding ranks for a while after suffering a further injury. The Cambridge-based jockey has suffered a slight crack to her collarbone. ‘’She’ll be off for a month,’’ her partner, trainer Stephen Marsh, said. ‘’It’s minor, but the doctors are airing
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Ross McCarroll may have retired his two most proven gallopers, but he showed at Rotorua last Saturday he has another round of ammunition to ensure he maintains a good strike-rate. The Cambridge trainer operates a boutique stable of no more than a dozen horses and maintains an impressive strike-rate. Four
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Awapuni trainer Mark Oulaghan will once again return to New Zealand Cup week at Riccarton next month with Group One winner Shadows Cast (NZ) (Per Incanto). The son of Per Incanto will have his third tilt at the Gr.2 Coupland’s Bakeries Mile (1600m), a race that has held
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Group One winner Nicoletta (NZ) (Savabeel) has been retired to stud following her unplaced run in the Gr.3 Taranaki Breeders’ Stakes (1400m) at Hawera earlier this month. The daughter of Savabeel, who is owned by Lib Petagna’s JML Bloodstock, won five of her 32 career starts, including the
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Levin galloper High Quality (NZ) (Handsome Ransom) will likely head on a cups path over the summer after his win in the Raukawa Cup (2100m) at Otaki on Sunday. The Geoff Haigh-bred, owned and trained gelding impressed his connections with the three-quarter of a length victory and they are now
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Last season’s New Zealand champion stayer, Glory Days (NZ) (Red Giant) will use the Gr.2 Moonee Valley Gold Cup (2500m) this Saturday as her final chance to make the field for the Gr.1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) on November 5. Trainer Bill Thurlow has been over the seven-year-old
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Unheralded apprentice Joshua Kam was straight back to his normal Sunday morning routine less than 24 hours after achieving his biggest racetrack triumph when guiding outsider Sweet Treat (NZ) (Ekraar) to victory in the Listed Staphanos Classic (1950m) at Rotorua. It is that work ethic that has his boss Graeme
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Cambridge trainer Tony Pike has confirmed high-class three-year-old filly Kali (NZ) (Darci Brahma) will head straight to the Gr.1 gavelhouse.com New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m) at Riccarton next month after her impressive winning performance at Ashburton on Saturday. Pike spent time with the Darci Brahma filly on Sunday