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Te Akau apprentice jockey Joe Kamaruddin recorded his 100th career win on Wednesday when victorious aboard the Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott-trained Remington Lad (NZ) (Rich Enuff) in the Mike Alton Mobile Engineering 1300 at Cambridge. Kamaruddin was duly pleased with bringing up the milestone. “I had to
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Paul Harris has described himself as "a kid in a candy store" as he prepares 11 runners for Friday's polytrack meeting at Riccarton, among them Green Luck (Street Cry) in his final lead-up to next month's Gr.3 Winning Edge Presentations Winter Cup
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Chrissy Bambry has put all her eggs in one basket at Trentham on Saturday, although it’s not by design with few other opportunities to split her runners. The Foxton trainer has been forced to pit her Group One-performed pair of Spring Tide (NZ) (Darci Brahma) and Deerfield (NZ)
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Troy Harris made a winning return at Cambridge on Wednesday when guiding the Clinton Isdale-trained Is That So (NZ) (Sufficient) to a 1-1/4 length victory in the Kingsclere Stables 970. The 34-year-old jockey took a break from riding on raceday late last spring to give
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Melbourne jockey Mick Dee made a winning return to his homeland on Wednesday when he rode Calvaria (NZ) (Tavistock) to victory in the Cambridge Equine Hospital 1550 at Cambridge for his parents Richard and Jo Dee. The filly is trained by Shaune Ritchie and Colm Murray, who recorded a winning
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Kenny Rae and Krystal Williams-Tuhoro will be looking to make the most of their home track advantage with half a-dozen live chances to present at Ruakaka’s feature meeting on Saturday. The father and daughter training partnership will be represented by multiple in-form prospects in four of
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He may have just turned 85, but leading Central Districts horseman Kevin Gray isn’t going away from the thoroughbred industry any time soon. At an age when many people are living a quieter life, Gray continues to train at his 56 hectare property just out of Palmerston North, breed
Australia
Shaune Ritchie will be more than happy if he returns home from the Queensland winter carnival without his final representative on Thursday. The Cambridge trainer, who operates in partnership with Colm Murray, has trade horse Badgers Nuts (NZ) (Rageese) in a Benchmark 65 Handicap (1350m) at Ipswich, with victory to
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Shankar Muniandy is hoping his ankle mends in time for Sunday week's Oamaru Cup day. The Otago jockey was worst affected by a three-horse fall at Ashburton last Thursday, needing assistance to get into an ambulance with his ankle heavily strapped after he was dislodged from Devil
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The Woodville meeting scheduled for Thursday has been abandoned. The decision was made after club representatives, a jockey representative and the Racing Integrity Board inspected the track on Tuesday morning. A large amount of rain has been received over the last couple of days on an already particularly wet track.
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Local trainers Shaune Ritchie and Colm Murray will have multiple runners at Cambridge on Wednesday with Loftys Gift (NZ) (Ghibellines), Samina Bibi (NZ) (Reliable Man) and La Rapide (NZ) (Shamexpress) to all contest the Waipa Earthworks Handicap (1550m). “Loftys Gift is going well and we were going to run her
Australia
Trainer John O’Shea has set his sights once again on the A$15 million The Everest (1200m) at Randwick this spring with his star sprinter Lost And Running (NZ) (Per Incanto). The son of Per Incanto finished fourth in the race last year and O’Shea is confident of