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A brilliant return to racing in Saturday’s Listed El Roca-Sir Colin Meads Trophy (1200m) at Hastings sent a clear message that Poetic Champion (NZ) (Super Seth) will be a force to be reckoned with in three-year-old ranks this season. The Super Seth gelding showed bright promise
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Venerable galloper Lion’s Roar (NZ) (Contributer) has added the Listed Wyong Cup (2100m) to his trophy cabinet for trainers John O'Shea and Tom Charlton. Ridden by Jason Collett, the son of Contributer sat off the leader Camaguey throughout before getting the better of his rivals in the
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Everyone enjoys a winter holiday in the sun and racehorses appear to be no different. A case in point is the Peter Moody and Katherine Coleman-trained I Wish I Win (NZ) (Savabeel) who runs first-up in the Gr.1 Moir Stakes (1000m) at Moonee Valley on Saturday. The
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Grant Cooksley won the Gr.1 Westbury Stud Tarzino Trophy (1400m) as a jockey seven years ago aboard the Shelley Hale-trained Close Up, and on Saturday he will vie to capture the Hastings feature as a trainer. His win aboard Close Up was the last of Cooksley’s 66
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TAB New Zealand is once again showing their support for Daffodil Day at the Tarzino Trophy meeting at Hastings on Saturday. In what has become an annual tradition on the opening day of the Hawke’s Bay Spring Carnival, the Daffodil Day silks will be assigned to a leading runner
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Ken and Bev Kelso are no strangers to big-race success during the Hawke’s Bay Spring Carnival, and the Matamata trainers will attempt to add another Hastings trophy to their collection when Alabama Lass steps out as favourite in Saturday’s Gr.3 HBPB Thoroughbred Breeders' Gold Trail
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Cody Cole made a winning start to his season earlier this week at Matamata, a trend he hopes to continue with a strong team heading down to Hastings on Saturday. Evelyn Rush (NZ) (Derryn) was the local stable’s first runner for the new term, and on debut, was a
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Saturday is shaping up to be an exciting afternoon for Waikato Stud, whose colours will be carried by key Group One contenders on both sides of the Tasman. Skew Wiff (NZ) (Savabeel) returns to Hastings to defend her title in the Gr.1 Westbury Stud Tarzino Trophy (1400m), and she
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It’s been a long and wet winter for Southland trainer Robert Dennis, and he is glad to be through the other side with spring racing on the doorstep. “It is toiling work in the rain, the cold, the dark, and having to travel for a handful of races that
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Flamin’ Romans (NZ) (Ghibellines) was scratched from a race at Cranbourne for a contest in Adelaide.The younger brother of Group 1 winner Smokin' Romans (NZ) (Ghibellines) is bound for Adelaide in search of his first city victory. Flamin' Romans runs in the Sportsbet Handicap (1950m) on the
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Newly turned four-year-olds have a proud record of making early spring statements in the Gr.1 Westbury Stud Tarzino Trophy (1400m) in recent years, and one of New Zealand’s most exciting racehorses is poised to follow suit at Hastings on Saturday. Crocetti (NZ) (Zacinto) heads into the
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Nearly two decades following his first success in the Tarzino Trophy (1400m), Andrew Scott will be hunting for his third scalp in the Group One feature. Back in 2005, Scott was training in partnership with Michael Moroney when the pair produced one of the race’s most iconic wins with