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A win in the Dunstan Feeds Stayers Championship Final (2400m) at Te Rapa on New Year’s Day could provide the key to a tilt at the Gr.2 Barfoot & Thompson Auckland Cup (3200m) for progressive staying mare Aquacade. The Lance Noble-trained four-year-old provided her trainer and owners Brendan
Australia
Smart four-year-old Wrote To Arataki (NZ) (Wrote) proved too strong at Flemington in the Henry Byron Moore Handicap (1400m) on New Year’s Day under an inspired front-running ride by Jamie Kah. The Matthew Williams-trained daughter of Wrote has now won three of her nine career starts and added another
New Zealand
The superlatives being used about the riding of ex-pat South African Warren Kennedy went to a new level at Te Rapa on Sunday when he picked up a winning treble that included taking the Gr.3 Windsor Park Stud Queen Elizabeth II Cup (2400m) aboard Dionysus (NZ) (Ocean Park). Kennedy
New Zealand
Just like in so many other showpiece racedays in New Zealand in the last few seasons, Te Akau Racing ran rampant through the black-type features on New Year’s Day at Te Rapa. Campionessa (NZ) (Contributer) and Belle En Rouge (NZ) (Burgundy) capped the gold rush with a quinella in
New Zealand
New Zealand’s syndication powerhouse Te Akau Racing landed their third consecutive victory in the iconic Gr.1 Sistema Railway (1200m) on New Year’s Day, but this one was a little different. While the tangerine army had won the sprint feature at Ellerslie in each of the last two
New Zealand
A powerful late sprint carried progressive filly Polygon (NZ) (Highly Recommended) to an impressive victory at Te Rapa on Sunday when she destroyed her rivals in to take the Gr.2 Elsdon Park Royal Stakes (2000m). Fresh off another comprehensive win in the Gr.3 Eulogy Stakes (1600m) at the
New Zealand
After losing her undefeated record to the superstar Legarto in the spring, quality filly Prowess (NZ) (Proisir) has set the stage for a high-stakes rematch with a superb win in Sunday’s Gr.2 Jamieson Park Auckland Guineas (1600m) at Te Rapa. Prowess was a nine-length winner of her only
New Zealand
A convincing victory in the first stakes race on the card at Te Rapa has provided rider Opie Bosson with a tough decision leading into the Doubletree By Hilton Karaka Million 2YO (1200m) later this month. Bosson stuck with the unbeaten Trobriand (Kermadec) in Sunday’s Gr.2 Carlaw Park
Australia
Handy stayer Highland Jakk snared a metropolitan victory at The Valley on New Year’s Eve, when coming with a perfectly timed run under Craig Williams to narrowly get the better of the fast-finishing Fighting Arrow in the Ladbrokes Same Race Multi Handicap (2040m). It was the fifth career victory
New Zealand
Enigmatic galloper Hail Damage brought the pain to her six rivals when she out-toughed them all in a rugged staying display to run out the winner of the feature race at Hastings on Saturday. The Shaune Ritchie and Colm Murray-trained six-year-old daughter of Westbury Stud resident sire Reliable Man was
New Zealand
Cambridge trainer Ben Foote finished off the 2022 calendar year in fine style as he picked up a winning double at Hastings on Saturday with a pair of promising three-year-olds. The victories couldn’t have come in more contrasting fashion as Wrote filly Nancy She Wrote came from a clear
New Zealand
A solid hit out by classy three-year-old filly Best Seller (NZ) (Wrote) during an exhibition gallop on her home track at Hastings on Saturday has trainer John Bary more than satisfied ahead of her racetrack return at Trentham next week. The Gr.1 New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m) runner-up covered