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New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2025 Ready to Run Sale is just days away, set to take place on 12 & 13 November at the iconic Karaka Sales Centre. Inspections and parades are set to get underway...

The unreserved dispersal of highly respected horseman Hec Anderton’s estate has led to five members of an enormously successful South Island family being up for sale on gavelhouse.com. All five...

Some of the best fillies seen on New Zealand racetracks so far this season will meet in Saturday’s $600,000 Group One Barneswood Farm 53rd New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m) at Riccarton – a...

A successful defence of his title in Tuesday’s A$3m The Big Dance (1600m) at Randwick took Ready to Run Sale flagbearer Gringotts (NZ) (Per Incanto) past A$5.5m in stakes, with A$4.6m of that...

There are many great events and coveted prizes on the Australian racing calendar, but no others capture attention quite like the Melbourne Cup (3200m). The Cup has been run every year since 1861...

Within the space of a single preparation, Swiss Prince (NZ) (El Roca) has gone from a winter maiden at Avondale to be a key Group One contender after taking out the $150,000 Group Two James and...

More than ever before, horses bought from the NZB Ready to Run Sale at Karaka will be eligible to compete for significant prize-money within 18 months of their purchase. The catalogue for the...

Due to the Taupo trials being pushed back till Thursday, the on-farm parades for NZB’s 2025 Ready to Run Sale have been rescheduled to take place Friday 31 October, Monday 3 and Wednesday 5...

Karaka graduate She’s A Hustler (NZ) (Ace High) has barely put a foot wrong in her short career, and she took it to the next level when her first start in Group company produced a win in...

Saturday’s $50,000 NZB Airfreight Road to Jericho (3000m) at Riccarton has put The Oaks Stud and Cambridge trainers Shaune Ritchie and Colm Murray on target for a familiar Australian...

The highly anticipated Breeze Up videos for NZB’s 2025 Ready to Run Sale are now available to view online at nzb.co.nz. On Monday 20 and Tuesday 21 October, over 380 talented juveniles galloped...

The on-farm parades for NZB’s 2025 Ready to Run Sale are scheduled to take place from Thursday 30 October through to Monday 3 November. All prospective buyers are welcome to attend, with the...

Karaka graduate Torranzino (NZ) (Tarzino) booked his ticket to the A$10m Group One Lexus Melbourne Cup (3200m) on November 4 with an impressive victory in Thursday’s A$500,000 Group Three...

The A$2m Group One Victoria Derby (2500m) will be run less than two weeks before next month’s NZB Ready to Run Sale, and a graduate of last year’s sale is set to line up as one of the...

Moonee Valley’s A$6m Group One WS Cox Plate (2040m) is known as the weight-for-age championship of Australasia and has been won by many of Australia and New Zealand’s greatest thoroughbreds....

Six weeks after the North Island’s qualifying race for the A$300,000 Jericho Cup (4600m) was run at New Plymouth, the South Islanders get their opportunity in Saturday’s $50,000 NZB Airfreight...

Fillies are featuring more and more prominently in NZB’s Ready to Run Sale, showing up in greater quantity and quality with every passing year – and the filly talent the sale can produce is...

The final day of NZB’s 2025 Ready to Run Sale Breeze Ups saw a further 202 two-year-olds gallop down the home straight at Te Rapa Racecourse. Held over two consecutive days on the same turf...

After the rescheduling of dates for NZB’s anticipated 2025 Ready to Run Sale Breeze Ups, Day One kicked off on Monday at Te Rapa Racecourse with consistent times, weather and track...

A pair of impressive debut performances over the last few days have caused some movement at the top of the order of entry for the $1m TAB Karaka Millions 2YO (1200m). Until Wednesday of last...

The A$5m Group One King Charles III Stakes (1600m) wasn’t the only seven-figure race at Randwick on Saturday that was dominated by NZB graduates. Less than an hour before the Ceolwulf (NZ)...

Less than a month out from the NZB Ready to Run Sale at Karaka, graduates Ceolwulf (NZ) (Tavistock) and Mr Brightside (NZ) (Bullbars) put the sale up in lights with a superb quinella in the A$5m...

Saturday’s Group Two Windsor Park Stud Soliloquy Stakes (1400m) at Ellerslie may have been a changing of the guard in the NZB Filly of the Year Series, with the standouts from the first two legs...

A career-best campaign for Karaka graduate Agera (NZ) (Complacent) hit new heights on Friday with a black-type success in the $80,000 Listed Team Wealleans Matamata Cup (1600m). Agera was a...

Breeze Ups for the world’s best sale of two-year-olds are set to take place next week on Monday 20 and Tuesday 21 October at Te Rapa Racecourse. All two-year-olds entered in NZB’s Ready to...

The Group One Caulfield Cup has a rich history and a well-earned reputation as one of the world’s toughest handicaps. It requires a special blend of stamina and class to win it, and horses...

The eyes of the racing world will be on Sydney on Saturday for the running of the richest race on turf, the A$20m Group One The Everest (1200m) at Randwick. And this year the New Zealand breeding...

Saturday’s $175,000 Group Two Windsor Park Stud Soliloquy Stakes (1400m) at Ellerslie is the third leg of the NZB Filly of the Year Series and continues the rivalry between table-topping fillies...

Well-related filly Torture (NZ) (Sword Of State) made a perfect start to her own career and that of her young sire in Wednesday’s A$200,000 Listed Debutant Stakes (1000m) at Caulfield. It was...

The horsemen and women who prepare two-year-olds for the NZB Ready to Run Sale at Karaka every November are internationally renowned as some of the very best in the world at what they do, and a...

Barry Donoghue has savoured his first top level success as a breeder and one that has boosted prospects of another major celebration. The Waikato-based horseman bred and sold Gr.1 Might And Power...

After a couple of unlucky runs in big races this season, Antipodean (NZ) (Derryn) turned his fortunes around at Selangor on Sunday with a deserved victory in the RM300,000 NZB Ready to Run Sale...

For the second year in a row, superstar NZB Ready to Run Sale graduate Antino (NZ) (Redwood) has been named Queensland’s Horse of the Year. Antino was bought for just $27,000 from the 2020...

Twain (NZ) (Per Incanto) delivered a timely result ahead of next month’s NZB Ready to Run Sale with his first black-type victory in the $140,000 Group Three Sweynesse Stakes (1215m) at Rotorua...

NZB had more than one reason to celebrate the front-running triumph by Globe (NZ) (Charm Spirit) in the A$1m Group One Might And Power Stakes (2000m) at Caulfield on Saturday. Globe himself is a...

A lucrative race at Selangor on Sunday will shine a spotlight on next month’s NZB Ready to Run Sale at Karaka as well as showcasing the high-quality graduates of the Sale that are currently...

NZB has made the decision to postpone the Breeze Ups for the 2025 Ready to Run Sale due to unfavourable weather conditions with heavy rain and wind predicted through to Tuesday.

The Breeze Ups will...

Competition was fierce for the NZB Mega Maiden bonus at Avondale on Wednesday, with all of the first four finishers in the $18,500 NZB Mega Maiden Series (1200m) being Karaka Millions eligible....

Some of the biggest names among stallion ranks in Australia and further afield compliment the strong New Zealand stallion representation in the catalogue for next month’s NZB Ready to Run Sale...

The NZB Ready to Run Sale is never short of graduates flying the flag on Group One stages in Australia. With the 2025 edition at Karaka now less than six weeks away, War Machine (NZ) (Harry Angel)...

Much of the NZB Ready to Run Sale’s extraordinary success has been underpinned by the stallions that have stood in New Zealand in recent decades. Past and present Kiwi-based sires dominate the...

Wednesday’s HK$4.2m Group Three National Day Cup (1000m) at Sha Tin shone a spotlight on an emerging talent who was bought for just $30,000 from Book 2 of Karaka 2022. The sprint feature was...

The first two-year-old races of the New Zealand season were run and won over the weekend, and both of the exciting winners have the $1m TAB Karaka Millions 2YO (1200m) in their sights. De Armas...

The second season of the NZB Mega Maiden Series paid out its first bonus on Sunday when promising filly Shameless Star (NZ) (Shamexpress) took out the $18,500 NZB Mega Maiden Series (1200m) at...

Progeny of Satono Aladdin bought from the Karaka Sales Centre are putting together an imposing recent record in the $175,000 Group Two Timberspan Hawke’s Bay Guineas (1400m). The 2025 edition...

The 2025-26 NZB Filly of the Year Series has quickly set a high bar for the season ahead, with a pair of quality fillies locking horns in a thrilling second leg at Ellerslie on Saturday. The...

The prestigious NZB Filly of the Year Series heads in a new direction on Saturday with the running of the second leg, the $150,000 Group Three Al Basti Equiworld Dubai Sunline Vase (1400m) at...

As the NZB Ready to Run Sale goes from strength to strength with its stunning results in the sale ring and on the racetrack, the catalogue for the world’s leading sale of two-year-olds continues...

The NZB Mega Maiden Series was a popular new addition to New Zealand racing last season, and the second edition gets underway with the running of the $18,500 NZB Mega Maiden Series (1200m) at...

A dominant victory by Lucky Magic (NZ) (Mendelssohn) in the RM300,000 Selangor Gold Cup (1600m) on Sunday was the fourth consecutive win in the race for graduates of NZB’s Ready to Run...