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Llanacord wins nail-biting Lowland Stakes

The Stephen Nickalls-trained Llanacord landed the Group 2 Little Avondale Stud Lowland Stakes (2100m) at Hastings on Wednesday to provide the Rangiotu trainer, who part-owns the three-year-old filly, with his biggest moment in racing. The daughter of Contributer had run out a dominant eight-length winner in maiden grade over 2040m at Whanganui last month and[...]
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Montre Moi ready to capitalise in Derby

Otaki trainer Johno Benner believes it's far from a vintage running of this year's Group 1 Vodafone New Zealand Derby (2400m), but he's hardly complaining. Benner and his partner Hollie Wynyard will produce two-win Showcasing gelding Montre Moi in Sunday's Classic, which will either be run at Ellerslie if the Government drops Auckland from its[...]
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O’Shea not scared of unbeaten Kiwi raider

New Zealand raider Aegon dominated at his Australian debut but rival trainer John O'Shea believes the locals won't be such easy pickings in the first leg of Sydney's three-year-old triple crown. Prepared by master horseman Murray Baker and training partner Andrew Forsman, Aegon showed sparkling acceleration to stretch his unbeaten record to five when he[...]
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Levante slick from gates

High-class mare Levante ran out a ready winner of her 1230m heat at the Rotorua trials on Tuesday and most importantly jumped away cleanly from the starting gates and will be seen back at the races on Saturday week. The Ken and Bev Kelso-trained four-year-old missed a place for the first time in her nine-start[...]
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Guineas tilt for Mo’unga

Warwick Farm trainer Annabel Neesham is looking forward to lining up New Zealand-bred colt Mo'unga in the Group 1 Randwick Guineas (1600m) on Saturday. The Savabeel three-year-old has just had the one start for Neesham, running third behind Tagaloa and Aysar in the Group 3 CS Hayes Stakes (1400m) at Flemington last month. Mo'unga was[...]
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Fleetwood Maca on song ahead of Lowland

Punters should disregard Fleetwood Maca's last two runs when assessing her chances in the Group 2 Little Avondale Stud Lowland Stakes (2100m) at Hastings on Wednesday according to co-trainer Pam Gerard. Fleetwood Maca has shown plenty of ability to date, most notably when pushing boom filly Amarelinha to 1-1/4 lengths in the Group 2 Eight[...]
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