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NZB Ready to Run Sale graduate Linton made it back-to-back stakes wins and consecutive A$150,000 Group 3 R.A. Lee Stakes (1600m) victories on Saturday at Morphettville.

Group 1 Queensland Oaks winner Quintessential (NZ) made a successful return to winning form and confirmed her Group 2 Brisbane Cup target with victory in Saturday’s A$115,000 Group 3...

The Broodmare Session of NZB�s 2013 National Weanling, Broodmare & Mixed Bloodstock Sale concluded proceedings today at Karaka, with 162 of the 232 broodmares offered through the ring selling...

With the Weanling session of New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Weanling, Broodmare & Mixed Bloodstock Sale completed earlier today, attention turned to the mixed sessions on offer, with...

The Weaning session of New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2013 National Weanling, Broodmare & Mixed Bloodstock Sale has wrapped up today at Karaka, with solid trade across the 355 lots on offer.

New Zealand Bloodstock’s three-day National Weanling & Broodmare Sale got underway at Karaka today with local sire Darci Brahma providing the highlight of the 220 weanlings on offer.

The prowess of Zabeel as a broodmare sire is well-established given his achievements last season having won both the New Zealand and Australian Broodmare Sire Premierships.With Zabeel mares...

For those who want to experience the thrill of owning a horse running in a stakes race this weekend, Thursday’s Horses-in-Training session at NZB’s National Weanling, Broodmare & Mixed...

The Horses-in-Training session, now in its third year, is set to offer a unique opportunity among its 22 entries on Thursday, with the chance to purchase a mare who is nominated to run in a Listed...

Tough mare Kekova (NZ) (Elusive City x Racing Waters) raced to her second stakes win on Saturday in the $50,000 Listed Reynolds Electrical Great Easter Stakes (1400m) at Riccarton, the first leg...

The Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap is now on the cards for Famous Seamus (NZ) who won Saturday’s A$175,000 Listed Prime Minister's Cup (1300m) on the Gold Coast, completing a stakes double for his...

A timely stakes victory by Salamanca (NZ) in Saturday’s $50,000 Listed Berkley Stud Champagne Stakes (1250m) has provided significant updates for a number of horses in NZB’s National Weanling,...

With a host of profitable pinhooking results, and some stellar Group 1 victories on tracks around the world over the past 12 months, the Weanling Session of New Zealand Bloodstock’s National...

Exciting colt Little Wonder (Volksraad x Shortblackmini) has finished his season on a high note after beating a good field of three-year-olds in Saturday’s $70,000 Group 3 Windsor Park Stud...

Pins mare Pimms Time (ex Brampton Legs, by Zabeel) was given a tough task on Saturday when making her stakes debut against a hot field in the $100,000 Group 2 Travis Stakes (2000m) at Te Rapa and...

Singapore’s reigning Horse of the Year Super Easy (NZ) (Darci Brahma x Parfore) made a stylish return to winning form last night at Kranji taking the S$500,000 Sgp-1 Lion City Cup (1200m), the...

Kiwi bred three-year-olds are enjoying a brilliant run of success in Australia this year and that success continued yesterday with Hippopus (NZ) winning the A$150,000 Listed VRC St Leger...

Payments for New Zealand Bloodstock�s $1 million Karaka Million (Res.L) � New Zealand�s richest race � are due next Tuesday 30 April.

Former shuttle sire Elusive City is enjoying one of his best seasons at stud in New Zealand and has had another good weekend with Famous Seamus (NZ) and Luck of Smiling (NZ) winning stakes races...

With seven group and stakes victories between them, Karaka graduates Shuka and Linton enjoyed further black-type success on Saturday taking group and listed wins at Riccarton and Morphettville.

With five fillies racing for the NZB Southern Filly of the Year title in Saturday’s $50,000 Listed NZB Warstep Stakes (2000m) at Riccarton, it was If I Can I Can who raced to the Series victory,...

Kiwi bred three-year-old colt Sacred Falls (NZ) has continued New Zealand’s outstanding run of success in Sydney’s Autumn Carnival with a scintillating victory in one of the world’s most...

In form three-year-old filly Kisses will be one of five fillies looking to secure NZB’s Southern Filly of the Year Series on Saturday in the final leg of the four race Series, the $50,000 Listed...

In form sire Fastnet Rock notched up stakes winner number 43 on Saturday at Ellerslie with Karaka graduate Fast Dragon winning the $50,000 Listed Windsor Park Stud Champagne Stakes (1600m).

It was a kiwi bred quinella in Saturday’s A$175,000 Group 2 Chairman’s Quality (2600m) at Randwick with Zabeel four-year-old Tremec and Blood Brotha putting in good performances in the lead up...

Progressive mare Viadana saved her best performance for New Zealand�s last Group 1 race of the season at Ellerslie on Saturday when winning the $200,000 Group 1 Manco Easter Handicap (1600m).

For trainers looking to take their horses to Australia to compete in the 2013 Brisbane Winter Carnival, New Zealand Bloodstock Airfreight has confirmed two flights leaving Auckland in early and...

Three-year-old filly Kisses has given her sire Iffraaj a chance of taking a rare piece of history with a dominant win in Saturday’s $50,000 Listed NZB Airfreight Stakes (1600m), the third leg of...

Kiwi bred filly Norzita (NZ) made it266 Group 1 wins for her trainer Bart Cummings and five Australian Group 1 victories in six weeks for New Zealand bred three-year-olds when taking Saturday’s...

Valuable points are up for grabs in the third leg of NZB’s Southern Filly of the Year Series at Riccarton on Saturday, the $50,000 Listed NZB Airfreight Stakes (1600m).

Catalogues for New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Weanling, Broodmare & Mixed Bloodstock Sale (8 – 10 May) are now in the post and can be viewed online.

Former Singapore star Better Than Ever (French Deputy x Songfest) took his first New Zealand victory at Saturday’s Awapuni meeting with a commanding win in the $85,000 Group 2 Lawnmaster Awapuni...

The $1.3 million entire Burgundy (NZ) (Redoute�s Choice x Grand Echezeaux) took his fifth stakes win, and capped off a great day for his trainer Jason Bridgman and Te Akau Racing, with victory...

Speedy two-year-old filly Recite (Darci Brahma) took her unbeaten record to four on Saturday when winning the $225,000 Group 1 The Oaks Stud Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m) at Awapuni.

New Zealand star Ocean Park (NZ) will be out to make history on Sunday morning when he lines up in the US$5 million Group 1 Dubai Duty Free Stakes (1800m), one of the feature races of the US$27.5...

New Zealand horses won seven of the 10 races at Sha Tin in Hong Kong last night with a number of promising young horses making their way through the grades, including the unbeaten Sea Dragon (NZ).

Singapore’s 2012 Champion Polytrack Horse Flying Fulton (Flying Spur x Fulton) continued his love affair with the polytrack surface when taking his sixth stakes victory in last night’s...

Smart kiwi bred filly You’re So Good (NZ) has booked her ticket to the Sydney Carnival with a comfortable win in Friday night’s A$120,000 Schweppes Alexandra Stakes (1600m) at Moonee Valley.

Sir Tristram’s success with the Japan Cup winner Horlicks is well documented and that performing nick struck again on Saturday with Tremec winning the A$100,000 Listed Randwick City Stakes...

With the spotlight firmly on Karaka graduates Super Easy and Huka Falls in Friday night’s S$200,000 Sgp-3 Merlion Trophy (1200m), it was another graduate, Speedy Cat, that raced away with the...

Karaka celebrated a stakes double at Trentham on Saturday with the exciting Serpent taking his first stakes win and Southern visitor Natuzzi upstaging a handy group of horses in the sprint feature.

Progeny of New Zealand’s Champion sire O’Reilly are running hot on both sides of the Tasman with racing in Sydney on Saturday seeing the Peter Moody trained Thy head a Karaka quinella in the...

The staunch rivalry between Karaka graduates Ambitious Dragon and Glorious Days continued last night at Sha Tin in the HK-1 Queen’s Silver Jubilee Cup (1400m) and it was Ambitious Dragon (NZ)...

The highly successful Raffles Dancers operation claimed its second Group 1 race of the season with More Than Sacred winning the last leg of NZB’s Filly of the Year Series, Saturday’s $300,000...

The wait is over for the connections of Fix (Iffraaj) who had to see out Saturday’s $300,000 Group 1 New Zealand Oaks (2400m) before they could celebrate her NZB Filly of the Year Series victory.

The final showdown in NZB’s 40th Filly of the Year Series, Saturday’s $300,000 Group 1 Wellfield NZ Oaks (2400m) at Trentham, has attracted a star field of fillies who are all in search of...

A stellar six days on the turf have seen Karaka graduates win eight stakes races – four at Group 1 level – with Gold Sand the latest black-type victor in yesterday’s A$80,000 Listed C S...

Pins filly Annabel Rose raced her way to a share of the lead in NZB’s Southern Filly of the Year Series and made it 50 stakes winners for her sire with victory in Saturday’s $50,000 Listed NZB...

Savabeel capped off a big week in style on Friday night with his son Nandowra putting in a determined effort to win Friday’s S$200,000 Sgp-3 Polytrack Mile Championship (1600m) at Kranji.

A great front running performance has seen the Iffraaj three-year-old So Wotif hold off a hot field of three-year-olds to win his first stakes race in Saturday’s $70,000 Group 3 NZB Insurance...