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Kelvin Tyler has plenty of travel ahead of him in the coming weeks and he was pleased to pick up a success closer to home at Wingatui on Sunday with Albatross. A daughter of Sacred Falls, Albatross has a tidy record on Heavy track conditions and returned to her favourite
New Zealand
Girl power reigned supreme at the 2024 New Zealand Thoroughbred Horse of the Year awards in Hamilton on Sunday. Champion Matamata mare Imperatriz, as expected, was named Horse of the Year and all five flat racing categories were won by female gallopers. Imperatriz also took the sprinter-miler category, top filly
Australia
Victoria’s highest-earning maiden is winless no longer, as Tony and Calvin McEvoy’s Rue De Royale (NZ) (Per Incanto) posted an impressive all-the-way victory over 1300 metres at Bendigo on Sunday. By Per Incanto, Rue De Royale cost $180,000 at last year’s Inglis Classic Sale, and made
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Trainer Symon Wilde says the move of The Archer to this Saturday at Flemington, and the golden ticket into the Melbourne Cup for the winner, couldn’t have been timed better for Dashing Duchess (NZ) (Tavistock). “She’s in form and up and running. She deserves a shot in a
New Zealand
Top jumps jockey Shaun Fannin hasn’t ridden in many races this season, but when he does, the result is often similar to what panned out at Woodville on Sunday. A four-time winner of the Jumps Jockey of the Year title, Fannin has won over 160 races in the saddle
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Capable flat galloper Billy Boy (So You Think) made the perfect start to his jumping career at Woodville on Sunday, putting on a polished display to claim the Pat & The Late John Shannon (3000m). The son of So You Think had previously recorded three wins on the flat and
Australia
Jockey Michael Dee will partner Warmonger (NZ) (War Decree) when the four-year-old makes his reappearance in at Flemington this Saturday. The Queensland Derby winner is set to resume in the Gr.1 Makybe Diva Stakes (1600m) having had a trial and jump-out at Cranbourne in recent weeks. Warmonger is being
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The Hawke’s Bay Spring Carnival has been a happy hunting ground for Peter and Shaun McKay, who returned to Hastings on Saturday and pulled off a training masterstroke with the resuming Wolfgang (NZ) (Puccini) in the Livamol International Health Products Premier (1600m). The blue and gold colours of the
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While top honours did not go the way of Savaglee (NZ) (Savabeel) in Saturday’s Listed El Roca – Sir Colin Meads Trophy (1200m), Pam Gerard took plenty of positives from the performance of her colt as he heads towards loftier targets. The impressive colt was a Group Three-winning juvenile and
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Progressive sprinter Navigator (NZ) (El Roca) produced one of the standout performances of the meeting at Hastings on Saturday, continuing his formidable fresh-up record in the Vet Services Equine Hawke’s Bay Premier (1200m). Navigator has been carefully placed throughout his light racing career by trainer Cody Cole and his
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Locally trained three-year-old filly Simsala (NZ) (Almanzor) dominated proceedings in the first race on the card at Ruakaka as she captured her first career victory at just her third start. Prepared by Ken Rae, the daughter of Cambridge Stud stallion Almanzor had indicated a victory was close at hand when
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