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Val Di Zoldo winning the Group 2 Travis Stakes (2000m) at Te Rapa on Saturday. (Kenton Wright – Race Images) Val Di Zoldo’s victory in the Group 2 Travis Stakes (2000m) at Te Rapa on Saturday showed what a difference a year can make. The $150,000 fillies and mares’ feature capped an autumn black-type double for the War Decree mare, who was a last-start winner of the Group 3 Manawatu Breeders’ Stakes (2050m) at Wanganui on April 5. It could hardly be a more different story to what happened in…

Riviera Rebel winning Saturday’s Gr.3 Coca-Cola Canterbury Gold Cup (2000m) at Riccarton. (Photo: Ajay Berry – Race Images South) Riviera Rebel has been a special horse for rookie trainer Brooke Kincaid, who had her first taste of black-type success in Saturday’s Group 3 Canterbury Gold Cup (2000m) at Riccarton. Kincaid went into partnership with Riverton trainer Graham Eade at the beginning of this season. Riviera Rebel quickly became her first winner with a Rating 75 victory at Riccarton on August 10, and on Saturday the talented gelding was in the…

Loose Sally victorious in Saturday’s Listed Warstep Stakes (2000m) at Riccarton. (Photo: Ajay Berry – Race Images South) Statuesque three-year-old filly Loose Sally once again showed her liking for tracks with plenty of give in them as she monstered her rivals in the home straight to claim victory in Saturday’s Listed Warstep Stakes (2000m) at Riccarton. Trainer Shankar Muniandy brought her north from his Wingatui base for her second crack at a Riccarton three-year-old fillies feature after she finished an unlucky fifth in the Listed NZB Airfreight Stakes (1600m) a…

Ardalio winning the Group 3 Cambridge Breeders’ Stakes (1200m) at Te Rapa. Photo: Kenton Wright (Race Images) While trainer Stephen Marsh may be away in Hong Kong putting the finishing touches on El Vencedor in his bid to win the Group 1 QE II Cup (2000m) on Sunday, he enjoyed a red-letter day at Te Rapa on Saturday as promising filly Ardalio claimed the Group 3 Cambridge Breeders’ Stakes (1200m) to bring up a winning treble for the stable. The three-year-old daughter of Waikato Stud stallion Ardrossan had demonstrated her…

Lubeck winning Saturday’s Cambridge Raceway 2YO (1200m) at Te Rapa. (Photo: Kenton Wright – Race Images) The Stephen Marsh stable continued their white hot form of late with two-year-old filly Lubeck giving her rivals a galloping lesson as she dominated proceedings from the front when winning at Te Rapa. The filly by former smart Australian juvenile Hanseatic jumped well from a mid-field barrier for apprentice Rihaan Goyaram after being a little hesitant to load away and worked to the front after 300m. Goyaram set up a steady pace on the…

Sunrise was successful in the Midway Handicap at Royal Randwick for jockey Rachel King. (Photo: Bradley Photos) Trainer Mitchell Beer will look to raise the bar with Sunrise after the New Zealand-bred filly blew her rivals off the track at Randwick on Saturday. The Midway was the second start of a new preparation for the Charm Spirit filly, who resumed with a front-running romp by seven lengths over 1000m at Kembla Grange on March 22. Sunrise was sent out as a $1.80 favourite on Saturday and delivered more of the…

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Eye Candy will contest the Listed Warstep Stakes (2000m) at Riccarton on Saturday. (Photo: Therese Davis – Race Images) Eye Candy caught her connections a little by surprise with a string of stakes performances this term and she’ll aim to take the top spot for the first time in Saturday’s Listed Warstep Stakes (2000m). A daughter of Darci Brahma, Eye Candy is trained at Cambridge by Shaune Ritchie and Colm Murray, who admitted that at first glance, her compact frame didn’t create a huge impression. “She’s as genuine as the…

Awapuni’s ANZAC Day meeting was abandoned following a slip in the first race. (Photo: Peter Rubery – Race Images Palmerston North) The long-awaited return to racing at Awapuni on its newly renovated grass track has ended in disappointment, with their ANZAC Day meeting abandoned following a slip in the opening race. “A horse slipped on the outside,” RACE’s General Manager of Racing Brad Taylor said. “Walking the track, there is no visual slip, but we have got to have jockeys’ safety first. They are the ones going out there and…