Fire King ready to go at Rockhampton
Mackay-based trainer Olivia Cairns says her consistent galloper Fire King is ready to fire first-up at Rockhampton on Thursday.
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Tony Cruz limbers up for the Hong Kong Classic Mile with Happy Valley treble
Building impressive mid-season momentum, Tony Cruz posted a treble at Happy Valley on Wednesday night (26 January) in an ominous foretaste to the HKD$12 million Hong Kong Classic Mile (1600m) at Sha Tin on Sunday (30 January). Cruz will saddle California Spangle and Ima Single Man in Sunday's feature armed with vital impetus after revelling[...]
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Australia beckons the Brownes
Australian punters are set to become better acquainted with trainers David and Emma-Lee Browne as they get set to move across the Tasman from their New Zealand base. The husband-and-wife team secured plenty of success in Victoria in the spring, headlined by their uniquely named duo of Elephant and Rhinoceros. Elephant won two of his[...]
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Cunneen has her sights set on feature race spoils
Meg Cunneen has developed a taste for black-type racing less than a month since the first stakes win of her fledgling training career. The Riccarton trainer produced William Wallace to win last month's Listed Timaru Cup (1600m), her first black-type win bringing up just her third training success. On Saturday, Cunneen will produce Group 2[...]
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Cruz double-handed in Hong Kong Classic Mile with California Spangle and Ima Single Man
Bidding to seal California Spangle's meteoric rise with success in the HKD$12 million Hong Kong Classic Mile (1600m) at Sha Tin on Sunday (30 January), Tony Cruz believes the explosive gelding has the attributes to overcome distance queries in his most serious assignment so far. With five victories and a second from six starts from[...]
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Verry Elleegant on top of the world
Verry Elleegant has been rated the world's best racemare according to the Longines World's Best Racehorse Rankings (WBRR) released by the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities (IFHA) on Tuesday. The New Zealand-bred mare was given a rating of 123 for her win in the Group 1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) at Flemington in November, putting her[...]
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Trainers hoping good times continue to roll
Cambridge trainers Roger James and Robert Wellwood are well on their way toward their most successful season since forming a training partnership at the beginning of the 2018-19 term. Their top tally to date was 30 winners in that initial season and they are currently sitting on 20 with a best ever mark of six[...]
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Golden Sixty rated joint-top miler in 2021 LONGINES World’s Best Racehorse Rankings
Golden Sixty has advanced further to the top of racing's global elite based on the 2021 LONGINES World's Best Racehorse Rankings (WBRR), released by the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities (IFHA) on Tuesday, 25 January, as eight of Hong Kong's elite races featured in the LONGINES World's Top 100 Group 1 Races last year. Golden[...]
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Waisake primed for Wellington Cup defence
A stirring gallop at New Plymouth has given Allan Sharrock all the reassurance he needs about Waisake's readiness for back-to-back victories in one of New Zealand's premier staying tests. Waisake is a clear favourite for the Group 3 New Zealand Campus of Innovation and Sport Wellington Cup (3200m) following his stirring victory in the Group[...]
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Weatherley hoping his luck holds at Trentham
Sam Weatherley enjoyed his biggest pay day as a jockey at Ellerslie on Saturday and is now looking forward to another potentially rewarding meeting at the other end of the island this weekend. He combined with the Jamie Richards-trained Pin Me Up to land the thick end of the stake in the Karaka Million 3YO[...]
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Forte for Hayes at Happy Valley, Purton reunites with Maldives
David Hayes is counting on improvement and versatility when Forte steps out second-up for the stable in Wednesday's (26 January) Class 4 Hatton Handicap (1000m) at Happy Valley – optimistic of a return to the level of form that saw him dazzle on debut in 2020. A graduate of the 2020 Hong Kong International Sale[...]
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Teetan not about to rest on laurels, eyes next 500
Fresh off banking his 500th win in Hong Kong, Karis Teetan is not about to sit back on his success so far – hungry for more as he prepares to partner the unbeaten Romantic Warrior in Sunday's (January 30) HKD$12 million Hong Kong Classic Mile (1600m). “It's been a good few years – I've just[...]
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Smith looking for back-to-back wins with I Am Clever
Tom Smith is hoping his lightly raced four-year-old I Am Clever can make it back-to-back wins at Rockhampton on Thursday, after a dominant victory at the Central Queensland track on January 20.
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The Archer organisers aiming for $1m prize fund by 2027
Although The Archer may still be three months away from its first instalment, the Rocky Amateurs Club is hoping to see the race's prizemoney rise to AU$1 million in less than five years.
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Options aplenty for Babylon Berlin
Speedy New Zealand mare Babylon Berlin may be given a chance to extend her distance range in next month's Group 1 BCD Sprint (1400m) at Te Rapa. Babylon Berlin showed her customary speed and determination when winning the Group 3 Concorde Handicap (1200m) at Ellerslie on Saturday, leading all the way and holding out Festivity[...]
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Classy filly transfers to Moroney’s Flemington barn
Trans-Tasman trainer Michael Moroney has welcomed the arrival of promising Kiwi filly Let's Say Grace to his Australian base. The three-year-old daughter of Charm Spirit won impressively at Tauranga over 1400m in December under the care of Moroney's Matamata training partner Pam Gerard, with that form subsequently franked by placegetters Pinarello and Princess Lowry, who[...]
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Breeders celebrate Karaka Million 2YO victory
A purchase made while on a stint working overseas over twenty-five years ago paid off in spades for Windsor Park Stud's Rodney Schick, when stylish colt Dynastic took out the NZD$1 million Doubletree by Hilton Karaka Million 2YO (1200m) at Ellerslie on Saturday night. The Jamie Richards-trained son of Cambridge Stud stallion Almanzor is out[...]
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