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Savabeel underpins another special season
The 2022-23 racing season has delivered another long line of triumphs for Waikato Stud, whose continued success has come on the back of two of its iconic stallions. Current kingpin Savabeel keeps churning out a …
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Savabeel’s son impresses at Geelong
A new-look Poison Chalice produced a dashing performance to successfully resume over 1400metres at Geelong on Sunday afternoon. The three-year-old son of Savabeel was making his third appearance for trainer Paul Preusker and first since …
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THE CORNER WITH GARRY CHITTICK
This week deserves a report on the annual awards night for our thoroughbred breeders. Our industry supports two awards nights which, at times, causes some confusion. However, the night we have just been part of …
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Waikato Stud’s achievements honoured
The New Zealand thoroughbred breeding fraternity came together on Saturday night to celebrate astellar season of elite-level achievements at the National Breeding Awards at Karapiro. New Zealand breeders produced 35 individual Group 1 winners across …
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Ocean Park 3YO makes instant impact
Elemental made a gem of a start to his career on Wednesday afternoon at Avondale where the son of Ocean Park made a winning debut over 1400 metres. An encouraging trial at Te Rapa earned …
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Heroic performance at Wyong
Hollywood Hero showed the benefit of his first-up run when he finished strongly to win over 1350metres at Wyong on Saturday afternoon. The Bjorn Baker-trained three-year-old had been unplaced when resuming at Randwick last month …
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Savabeel 3YO gets her reward
Savabeel filly Booboo Boogie posted a deserved and overdue maiden victory at Geelong on Friday afternoon when she powered home to win over 1400 metres. The Danny O’Brien-trained three-year-old had been placed in four of …
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First winning strike for Okay Cupid
Tivaci three-year-old Okay Cupid was excellent when resuming and he turned in a rousing follow-up performance on Friday afternoon to go one better at Geelong. He had finished runner-up in his Bendigo return last month …
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Savabeel 4YO earns top rating
Savabeel’s son I Wish I Win has been rated the top performer in Australia, according to the latest edition of the Longines World’s Best Racehorse Rankings for 2023. Raced by breeder Waikato Stud with trainer …
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THE CORNER WITH GARRY CHITTICK
I awoke in time to catch the the last 50 runs required by England to win the test at Headingly. I am not really a cricket watcher but any sporting contest where there was so much …
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THE CORNER WITH GARRY CHITTICK
Well, lo and behold, one of my ten has seen fit to critique a previous corner. Not that he was able to dispute the content; his point was that there are years when the TJ …
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THE CORNER WITH GARRY CHITTICK
I awoke in time to catch the the last 50 runs required by England to win the test at Headingly. I am not really a cricket watcher but any sporting contest where there was so much …
Read More