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Savabeel gelding Gustavo wins Anzac Mile
Gustavo added to a growing list of stakes winners trainers Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman have had by champion sire Savabeel when taking the Listed Manawatu ITM Anzac Mile at Awapuni on Monday. It was …
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Savabeel Gelding Sound Proposition off the ballot to win Gr.1 Easter
History repeated itself for Wexford Stables when Savabeel gelding Sound Proposition came off the ballot to win the Gr.1 Manco Easter Stakes at Ellerslie on Saturday. The win came 31 years after Eastern Joy, trained …
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All In Vogue (Pins) adds name to NZB Southern Filly of the Year Series four way
All In Vogue (NZ) (Pins) raced to an 18-to-one upset win in Saturday’s $50,000 New Zealand Bloodstock Warstep Stakes (2000m) at Riccarton, ending the NZB Southern Filly of the Year Series with a four-way tie. …
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Savabeel gelding Victory Magic among nine for Queen Mother Memorial Cup
Today’s headline race is the G1 Audemars Piguet QEII Cup but there are some class acts on the 10-race Sha Tin undercard, too, not least the HKG3 Queen Mother Memorial Cup (Handicap), which features a …
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High Hopes for Blueblood
Tony Pike has particularly high hopes for the beautifully-bred WS four-year-old Snowdrop. The Cambridge trainer produced her for a first-up victory at Ellerslie on Saturday and is expecting her to continue on a path to …
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All In Vogue scores timely Warstep Stakes victory
A touch of divine intervention could well have been at play on Saturday when Central Districts raider All In Vogue proved her recent form all wrong with a powerful performance to take out the Listed …
Read MoreWS Sired Pair fight out NZB Southern Filly Title
In a desperately close finish to the 2015-16 New Zealand Bloodstock Southern Filly of the Year Series, the winner of Saturday’s $50,000 Listed NZB Warstep Stakes (2000m) at Riccarton will claim at least a share …
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Relaxed Aerovelocity “a good sign” for Purton
Aerovelocity missed out on last month’s G1 Takamatsunomiya Kinen – a race the gelding won in 2015 – after suffering an untimely bout of colic whilst in Japan. But this week, Hong Kong’s Champion Sprinter …
Read MoreStable attacking another Group One
The Group One attack is on again for Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young this weekend and that might not be the end of it this season. The Cambridge trainers will be represented in the Gr.1 …
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Pins oh so close to feature race double
Pins was denied a stakes double at Riccarton on Saturday afternoon by the barest of margins. The WS stallion’s daughter No Pushover was a dominant winner of the Listed NZB Insurance Stakes and in the …
Read MorePins Filly Takes a Share of the Lead in Southern Filly Series
A dominant win in Saturday’s $50,000 Listed New Zealand Bloodstock Insurance Stakes (1600m) at Riccarton has earned No Pushover (NZ) (Pins) a share of the lead in the NZB Southern Filly of the Year Series. …
Read MoreSavabeel mare the queen of randwick
Lucia Valentina stamped herself as Savabeel’s premier daughter with a dazzling display in Saturday’s Gr 1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Randwick. The five-year-old routed her rivals in The Championships’ showcase event for her third victory …
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