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4 November 2011

Trainer Heaps Praise On Son Of Pins

Gary Portelli may bypass next month’s Villiers Stakes and look at a bigger prize during the autumn carnival after watching his stable star Somepin Anypin yesterday race to another dominant win in the Gr 3 …

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31 October 2011

Smart Giant Continues March To The Top

Smart Giant’s half-sister was a triple Gr 1 winner and the Hong Kong-based four-year-old is moving stylishly closer to earning his stripes at the top level. At Sha Tin last night he was a runaway …

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28 October 2011

Stylish Sequin Dazzles At Matamata

Sequin deservedly posted the first victory of her career at Matamata today and she is confidently expected to develop into a future black type contender. The WS-bred and raced daughter of Pins had finished runner-up …

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27 October 2011

Boost For Karaka-Bound O’Reilly Colt

An impressive young O’Reilly colt to be offered by WS during the Premier Sale at Karaka next year received a significant pedigree update in Australia yesterday. He is a son of the Zabeel mare Hooked …

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26 October 2011

Fast ‘N’ Famous Filly Flies At Te Teko

Quintessential looked a filly with a bright future with further development when she was on the board early in her career at Te Teko this afternoon. The chestnut daughter of WS sire Fast ‘N’ Famous …

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25 October 2011

Nolen on O’Reilly Cup Hopeful

Champion Victorian hoop Luke Nolen has been booked to ride one of the few Australian-trained horses left in the Gr I Melbourne Cup (3200m). Australian Derby and Guineas winner Shamrocker was unplaced in Saturday’s Cox …

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25 October 2011

Pins Colt Earns Glowing Praise

Peter McKay won a swag of Gr 1 titles with a son of O’Reilly and he now fancies his chances of eclipsing those achievements with a Pins colt. The Matamata trainer paid his current star …

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23 October 2011

O’Reilly 3YO Tops In Gr 2 Guineas

O’Reilly’s progressive son President Lincoln made the impressive jump out of maiden company to claim today’s Gr 2 New Zealand Bloodstock Wellington Guineas and might be aimed even higher next month. Awapuni trainer Lisa Latta …

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23 October 2011

Results this Weekend

  HORSE BREEDING RESULT Antonio Lombardo (NZ) 2008 (C. by Pins-Petit Verdot) 1st Waikato RC James & Annie Sarten Memorial S. Gr.3, NZ$70000 1400m earning NZ$43750 President Lincoln (NZ) 2008 (G. by O’Reilly-Pinot Gris) 1st …

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23 October 2011

Super Hoop’s Rating Spot On

Leading Sydney jockey Jim Cassidy has formed a strong opinion of Somepin Anypin and his judgement was again on the mark at Rosehill this afternoon. The WS-bred and sold son of Pins galloped his rivals …

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18 October 2011

Cup Start in the Offing for I’m Jake

A possible G1 Melbourne Cup start is in the offing for the WS bred-and-raced Pins gelding I’m Jake tomorrow. The David Brideoake & David Feek-prepared 6YO chestnut gelding makes his Cup bid in the G3 …

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17 October 2011

Pins Filly Rated a Gr 1 Prospect

Promising Patinack Farm-owned filly Pretty Pins might have earned a long-range Queensland Oaks campaign next winter following her grinding Eagle Farm win yesterday. She was perfectly ridden by the in-form Jim Byrne who is a …

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