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Promising filly Sweet Talkin Gal got Hollie Wynyard’s week off on the right foot as she readies proven mare Archaic Smile for a stakes assignment at Riccarton on Saturday. The Cambridge trainer ventured to New Plymouth on Wednesday with high hopes for Sweet Talkin Gal, a daughter of Anders
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Expat Kiwi jockey James McDonald will once again represent his homeland in next month’s LONGINES International Jockeys’ Championship (IJC), which will take place at Happy Valley Racecourse in Hong Kong on Wednesday, December 10. The LONGINES IJC is the most prestigious jockey challenge in the world and the most
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A team of four will defend Te Akau’s crown in the Gr.1 New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m), claimed 12 months ago by Captured By Love, who will bid to return to winning form on the Riccarton undercard. Mark Waker and Sam Bergerson’s Classic hopes in the Barneswood
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Matamata trainer Graham Richardson views Saturday’s Gr.1 Barneswood Farm New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m) as a wide-open contest and is hoping Lollapalooza can be right in the thick of the $600,000 prize. The El Roca filly announced herself as a key contender for the Riccarton showpiece when
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Robbie Patterson unveiled a star three-year-old at Wednesday’s New Plymouth meeting last year, and 12 months down the track, another daughter of Derryn made a sparkling debut on his home track. That filly was Leica Lucy, who won six of her seven starts, five of those at Group level,
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Tony Pike couldn’t have wished for a smoother lead-up with Cream Tart ahead of the filly’s sternest challenge at Riccarton. The Cambridge trainer can’t fault the daughter of Hello Youmzain’s condition or form going into Saturday’s Gr.1 Barneswood Farm New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m)
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Group One performer Jaarffi will be seeking a breakthrough stakes victory at Pukekohe on Saturday when she contests the Listed Legacy Lodge Sprint (1200m). The six-year-old daughter of Iffraaj was in fine form earlier this year when runner-up in the Gr.2 Rich Hill Mile (1600m) at Ellerslie on New
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Steely Man scored the second victory and the biggest cheque of his career when he took out the $75,000 NZB Ready To Run Sale Trainers Series 1600 (1600m) at Ellerslie on Tuesday. Owned by harness racing trainer John Dickie, the five-year-old races in his familiar silks and is trained
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Sestina and Tralee Bay delivered a special milestone for their trainer Jo-Anne Dalton last month at Wingatui and will return to the venue on Tuesday in pursuit of back-to-back victories across the Melbourne Cup Day card. Dalton, who trains out of Ascot Park, had been eyeing the 100-win mark for
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Almanzor made another memorable impact at the highest international level over the weekend when his daughter Gezora doubled her Group One tally with victory in the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Turf (2200m) at Del Mar. She was bred in France where Cambridge Stud’s stallion son of the ill-fated Wootton
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The Odyssey’s performance at Ellerslie on Melbourne Cup Day may result in a change to his immediate program. The in-form son of Zacinto will step out of handicap company to run in the Gr.3 Elsdon Park Bonecrusher Stakes (2000m) at Ellerslie on Tuesday. The weight-for-age feature wasn’t
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Katrina and Simon Alexander have handled their Show By SkyCity (1400m) contender Aksil with patience and hope to reap the rewards of that later in the season. The Te Awamutu-based trainers purchased Aksil as a yearling and the son of Ace High showed an abundance of promise through the trials