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Te Akau’s big guns to step out at Ellerslie barrier trials
New Zealand thoroughbred empire Te Akau Racing is fresh off another dominant season in which the all-powerful tangerine won a quarter of all stakes races run in the country and more than ten per cent of all prize-money on offer in 2020-21. And the sheer depth of talent of the Matamata stable, which has 100... Read More
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Bruggemann making most of NT trip with Darwin Cup fancy Highly Decorated
Well-travelled gelding shooting for seven on the bounce in $200,000 Top End feature The Northern Territory might be an Australian racing outpost but its Top End carnival reaches its crescendo this weekend, culminating in the $200,000 Darwin Cup (2050m) on Monday. For South Australian trainer Nicole Bruggemann, the Darwin Cup will be the forerunner for... Read More
Bowness-bred Zoustar colt makes stunning late-season impression
Coolmore-owned Starman has bigger things in store after eye-catching Kensington victory In a season in which the fertile grounds of Bowness Stud has already produced Group 1-winning filly Media Award (Shamus Award) and $2.7 million mare Funstar (Adelaide), James Daly hopes the southern NSW farm has unearthed another budding high-class horse who can fly the... Read More
Spendthrift unearthing stakes-winning fillies to add to yearling-buy stallions
Spendthrift Farm have achieved notable success with sourcing yearling colts that go on to make subsequent stallions for their Werribee roster, and through the likes of yesterday’s Oaklands Stakes (Listed, 1400m) winner Mac ‘N’ Cheese (Sebring), they are unearthing the high-class fillies to mate them to. Overshare (I Am Invincible), Swear (Redoute’s Choice) and latest... Read More
‘We didn’t think he’d make it back to the races’
Trainer Kylie Gavenlock is hoping Go For Gold (Medaglia D’Oro) can make a splash in the city as the new Midway race series, the latest innovative concept brought in by Racing NSW amid a raft of prize-money increases announced in February, gets underway on Saturday at Rosehill Gardens with a Benchmark 72 event over 1100... Read More
O’Shea has last laugh with Lillemor in Gai Waterhouse Classic
John O’Shea wilfully handed over stakes-performed mare Intrepidacious (Shooting To Win) into the care of Hall Of Famer Lee Freedman, but the Randwick horseman was more than happy to deny his rival the perfect start to his Queensland training tenure yesterday. Lillemor (4 m Hallowed Crown – Polar Success by Success Express), trained by O’Shea,... Read More