NZB confident of renewed middle market on back of Entain, Ready to Run investment The next six days is why New Zealand Bloodstock exists and the auction house’s managing director Andrew Seabrook is for the first time in many years not feeling the pressure. On the eve of Sunday’s opening session of the 98th NZB... Read More

$1.05 million buy High Octane heads the betting for intriguing Blue Diamond Preview Newgate Farm will be hoping money talks when two of the highest-priced yearlings by their stallions Deep Field (Northern Meteor) and Capitalist (Written Tycoon) go on show in the Blue Diamond Preview (C&G) (Listed, 1000m) at Caulfield today. Bred and sold by... Read More

The reputation of New Zealand’s South Island is for breeding stout stayers more attuned to Derbies and cups, but tomorrow’s Karaka 2YO Million (RL, 1200m) can prove that’s not the case. South Island breeder Gus Wigley has two runners in the NZ$1 million two-year-old feature at Ellerslie’s twilight card – a meeting already sold out... Read More

Veight (Moonee Valley Race 9 #8) TRAINER: Tony and Calvin McEvoy RACE: Australia Stakes (Group 2, 1200m) One of the boom youngsters of the spring, the Tony and Calvin McEvoy–trained three-year-old Veight (Grunt) will attract plenty of attention at Moonee Valley. He hasn’t been seen since his respectable fifth in the Coolmore Stud Stakes (Gr... Read More

Fully Lit (AUS) 2 c Hellbent – Sunlit by Snitzel O: Mrs T Rook, Slice Syndicate, Beau River Racing, Redfox Racing Hellbent Sunlit, Redfox Racing, Mrs R Pajor, Mrs S Vousty, Mrs K-A Crameri, N J Weir, Mrs E K Weir, M L Carrington, Mrs D M Perri, D Perri, Mrs T S Smith, Mrs... Read More

There’s plenty of optimism in the Kiwi racing industry, buoyed by this week’s injection of new money, via the NZ$4.5 million The NZB Kiwi (1500m) and a reshaped summer-autumn carnival, but New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing chief executive Bruce Sharrock isn’t resting on his laurels. Among the 2018-tabled Messara Report’s recommendations was the outsourcing of the... Read More