SPECIAL UPDATE: Metal Bender casts Gr.1 Spotlight on Sydney Easter draft

10 April 2012

Metal Bender’s gutsy win in the Gr.1 George Ryder Stakes on Saturday has cast a Gr.1 spotlight on WS’s draft being sold at the Australian Easter Yearling Sale today.

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Metal Bender casts Gr.1 spotlight on Sydney Easter draft

Jess Greenfield awarded 2026 Mary-Lynne Ryan Young Achiever Award

On Saturday night, Jess Greenfield was awarded the loveracing.nz Mary-Lynne Ryan Young Achiever Award at the Property Brokers National Breeding Awards at Karapiro. When asked by Steve Davis what the future looked like for Jess, Greenfield humbly replied: “Just keep working away at Waikato Stud and see where we end up.”

22 July 2026

Ocean Park Trans-Tasman Double

With Andrew Forsman’s 3yo Ocean Park filly Pine Leaf breaking her maiden by a widening four and a quarter-lengths in the last at Cambridge on Wednesday, celebrations continued as just ten minutes later it was the Chirs Waller trained Velaris who saluted at Canterbury with fellow Ocean Park runner I Park finishing a gallant third.