Kia Ora Stud’s first-season stallion Farnan (Not A Single Doubt) enjoyed a great result in Sunday’s Black Opal Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m) with the Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexiou-trained King Of Pop leading home a quinella for the sire when he defeated the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained Farcited in Canberra’s juvenile Group 3. King... Read More

Te Akau Racing, Blake Shinn and fantastic filly Damask Rose created a slice of New Zealand racing history when they took out the inaugural running of the richest race in the land, the $3.5 million slot race, The NZB Kiwi at Ellerslie on Saturday, writes the NZ Racing Desk. It was a big day for... Read More

A week after Feroce became the first elite-level winner for Waikato Stud’s young gun stallion Super Seth (Dundeel), another of his sons Linebacker doubled the sire’s top-flight tally when he got the better of crack colt Broadsiding (Too Darn Hot) to claim the Randwick Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) and in the process became the first... Read More

The ultra–talented Return To Conquer (Snitzel) entered Golden Slipper Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) calculations as he extended his unbeaten record to four and in the process delivered Te Akau its 100th Group 1 winner when he landed Saturday’s Sistema Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) at Ellerslie. In the lead up to New Zealand’s newly minted ‘Champions... Read More

The famous royal blue silks of Godolphin were highly prominent at both Randwick and Flemington on Saturday as His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s near 60-year operation scooped an across-the-cards feature-race four-timer. In what proved to be a red-letter day for Godolphin, the quartet of winners began with Tempted’s (Street Boss) success in... Read More