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A number of talented two-year-olds have already left the starting blocks in their race for a shot at New Zealand’s richest race, the $1 million Karaka Million at Ellerslie Racecourse on January...

Rip Van Winkle mare Euro Angel (NZ) continued a strong week for Karaka graduates when she won the A$150,000 Group 3 Nick Johnstone Real Estate Ladies’ Day Vase (1600m) at Caulfield on...

With the 2016 Ready to Run Sale just over a month away, there could be no better advertisement for the quality of horses on offer than the result of Sunday’s S$700,000 Sgp-1 Panasonic Kranji...

A broodmare that could have been purchased for $60,000 at Karaka became a Group 1 producer when He’s Our Rokkii (NZ) (Roc de Cambes) took out the A$500,000 IG Markets Toorak Handicap (1600m) at...

I Am A Star (NZ) (I Am Invincible) cost just $12,000 as a weanling at Karaka, but her value soared massively when she ran a close second in the prestigious A$500,000 Group 1 Schweppes Thousand...

The New Zealand Bloodstock Caulfield Spring WFA Championship is a showcase of some of Australasia’s finest thoroughbreds, so it was fitting that the 2016 Series was brought to a close by this...

Next month’s New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale at Karaka will showcase the first two-year-old crops of 21 exciting new sires.Sires with their eldest Australasian crop in the Sale include...

Black Heart Bart (Blackfriars) is already guaranteed the New Zealand Bloodstock Caulfield WFA Championship title, but he faces his toughest test yet in the small field for Saturday’s final leg...

This year’s New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale features two-year-olds by 123 high-quality sires, including those whose progeny have shone brightly on Australasian racetracks so far this...

Inside Agent (NZ) (Stravinsky) is the most expensive yearling Nigel Blackiston has ever bought, but his purchase paid off when the three-year-old won Sunday’s A$120,000 Listed Poseidon Stakes...

Well-bred Karaka graduate Ringo (NZ) (Fastnet Rock) picked up the biggest win of his career when he claimed the $70,000 Group 3 Red Badge Spring Sprint (1400m) at Hastings on Saturday.

New Zealanders shone brightly at the 2015-16 Australian Racehorse of the Year awards in Sydney on Thursday night as Karaka graduates claimed two prestigious awards and expat Kiwi trainer Chris...

A dominant victory by Black Heart Bart (Blackfriars) in Saturday’s A$500,000 Group 1 Hyland Race Colours Underwood Stakes (1800m) at Caulfield was his second win in this year’s New Zealand...

Iffraaj colt The Soultaker (NZ) dug deep to get up and win Saturday’s $70,000 Group 3 Manuka Doctor Bonecrusher Stakes (1400m) at Ellerslie despite heavy track conditions.Ridden by Mark Du...

High-class gelding Sacred Elixir (NZ) (Pour Moi) capped a great day for New Zealand-bred three-year-olds at Caulfield on Saturday when he scored an outstanding win in the A$175,000 Caulfield...

The New Zealand flag flew high at Caulfield on Saturday as Karaka graduate Legless Veuve (NZ) (Pins) edged out the Cambridge-trained Luna Rossa (NZ) (Written Tycoon) in an all-Kiwi finish to the...

New Zealand Bloodstock, Auckland Racing Club and Kylin 500 Club – a global horse racing investment and management corporation headquartered in Sydney – have partnered together to sign a...

New Zealand Bloodstock’s Spring Weight-For-Age Championship at Caulfield Racecourse continues on Saturday with the running of the third leg, the A$500,000 Group 1 Hyland Race Colours Underwood...

The prestigious New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series kicked off for the 2016-17 season with the $70,000 Group 3 Hawke’s Bay Breeders Gold Trail Stakes (1200m) at Hastings today, and...

The local fillies stood tall in the face of a strong North Island invasion in today’s $50,000 Listed New Zealand Bloodstock Canterbury Belle Stakes (1200m) at Riccarton, the opening race of the...

On the same day as the catalogue was released online for the upcoming Ready to Run Sale at Karaka, high-class stayer Sacred Master (NZ) (Mastercraftsman) provided a timely demonstration of the...

 The catalogue for New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run Sale of Two-Year-Olds is now available online and on the free iPad application, with catalogues due to arrive in letterboxes from...

New Zealand Bloodstock’s Southern Filly of the Year Series begins this Saturday with the running of the $50,000 Listed New Zealand Bloodstock Canterbury Belle Stakes (1200m) at Riccarton...

The New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series gets underway at Hastings on Saturday with the running of the $70,000 Group 3 Hawke’s Bay Breeders Gold Trail Stakes (1200m).Now in its 44th...

$11,000 Karaka weanling purchase Mackintosh (NZ) (Pins) scored his sixth win from nine career starts on Saturday and earned himself a shot at an upcoming Group 1 feature.Ridden by international...

Valuable colt Heroic Valour (NZ) (Fastnet Rock) is already on the honour roll of Group 1-winning Karaka graduates, but another stakes victory at Ruakaka in his first start of the new season on...

Throughout his outstanding three-year-old campaign, Debt Collector (NZ) (Thorn Park) was a great advertisement for the opportunities available at Karaka. On Sunday he began his four-year-old...

An astute weanling purchase was rewarded with a valuable black-type win at Wanganui on Saturday as Its Time For Magic (NZ) (Per Incanto) claimed the $50,000 Listed O’Leary’s Fillies’ Stakes...

Exciting filly Volpe Veloce (Foxwedge) scored a spectacular win in Saturday’s $50,000 Listed John Turkington Forestry Castletown Stakes (1200m) at Wanganui, extending her unbeaten career record...

Proven galloper Black Heart Bart (Blackfriars) made a triumphant start to his new campaign, winning a high-class renewal of the Group 1 A$500,000 New Zealand Bloodstock Memsie Stakes (1400m) at...

The first Group 1 race in Australia for the new season has attracted a phenomenal field, with seven Group 1 winners among the 14-horse line-up for the Group 1 A$500,000 New Zealand Bloodstock...

En Lauder (NZ) (Zabeel), a graduate of the Premier Yearling Sale at Karaka, picked up a feature win in yesterday’s Listed Rgt. 320,000 Piala Emas Sultan Selangor (2000m) in Malaysia.The...

A smart fresh-up win by Miss Rose de Lago (Encosta De Lago) in Saturday’s Group 2 A$200,000 Back To Caulfield PB Lawrence Stakes (1400m) earned her an early lead in the New Zealand Bloodstock...

A filly purchased as a weanling at Karaka for just $12,000 scored an outstanding win in the Group 3 A$150,000 Winslow Group Quezette Stakes (1100m) at Caulfield on Saturday and is now a leading...

A yearling sibling to the history-making three-year-old Saracino (NZ) (Per Incanto) will go under the hammer at Karaka 2017.Saracino led all the way for a brilliant win in the Group 2 $100,000...

A season of extraordinary racetrack success for Karaka graduates was recognised with a flurry of trophies at the New Zealand Thoroughbred Horse of the Year Awards at Auckland’s Langham Hotel on...

Jochen Rindt (NZ) (Ishiguru) scored a runaway win in Saturday’s $50,000 Listed Woods Contracting Taumarunui Gold Cup (2200m) at Rotorua, providing an outstanding return for his breeder and...

Two alumni of the Karaka sale ring played a starring role as champion expat New Zealand trainer Chris Waller enjoyed a record-breaking treble at Rosehill today.Waller went into the meeting with...

An impressive win in today’s $65,000 Listed Powerworx Opunake Cup (1400m) at New Plymouth may have earned a Group One opportunity for Karaka graduate Longchamp (NZ) (Tavistock).A stakes...

When she impressively won a New Zealand Bloodstock-sponsored race at New Plymouth today, Ladies First (NZ) (Dylan Thomas) also provided a wonderful example of an astute purchase in the Karaka sale...

Impel (NZ) (Gonski), who fetched a combined total of only $25,000 in two trips through the Karaka sale ring, lifted his prize-money earnings to almost 10 times that mark with a dominant win in...

New Zealand Bloodstock graduates achieved an incredible one-two-three-four finish in the S$1.15 million Sgp-1 Emirates Singapore Derby headed by Well Done (NZ) (Falkirk), but their dominance of...

Star four-year-old Well Done (NZ) (Falkirk) scored his second elite win in a row in Sunday’s S$1.15 million Sgp-1 Emirates Singapore Derby (2000m) at Kranji, heading a grand slam for Karaka...

The New Zealand and Chinese racing industries broke new ground today with the inaugural running of the RMB500,000 New Zealand Bloodstock Cup (1800m) at Korchin in Inner Mongolia, a race that lived...

Tune in to Trackside at 6:40pm (NZ time) to catch the inaugural New Zealand Bloodstock Cup for three-year-olds live from Korchin in Inner Mongolia, China.The 1800m race has attracted a 10 strong...

Ruettiger (NZ) (Duporth), a three-time visitor to the Karaka sale ring, scored the biggest win of his career to date when he took out Saturday’s A$150,000 Listed All Victorian Series Final...