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Last season's Champion New Zealand Two-Year-Old Anabandana has made a stunning return as a three-year-old, winning the Group 3 Hawke's Bay Breeders' Gold Trail Stakes (1200m) at Hastings on Saturday.

The 2010 Group 1 VRC Derby winner Lion Tamer (NZ) added Group 1 victory number two to his impressive record for the kiwis when winning Saturday's Group 1 $350,000 Hyland Race Colours Underwood...

New Zealand's three-year-old fillies will be competing in black-type races on both sides of the Cook Straight on Saturday with the Listed $45,000 Canterbury Belle Stakes (1200m) at Riccarton...

The third leg of New Zealand Bloodstock's Weight for Age Championship - the Group 1 $350,000 Hyland Race Colours Underwood Stakes (1800m) at Caulfield - is the first Group 1 race in Victoria this...

Saturday's $70,000 Group 3 Hawke's Bay Breeders Gold Trail Stakes (1200m) at Hastings sees the beginning of the 39th running of New Zealand Bloodstock's prestigious Filly of the Year Series.

One of the most anticipated maiden races of the spring, The Battle Paint 3YO Maiden (1200m) at Taupo this afternoon, saw a brilliant debut performance from the blue-blood colt Burgundy.

The race for the 2012 Karaka Million has begun with Silver City winning the second two-year-old race of the season on Saturday, the $11,000 Cowleys Party Hire 880 at Ruakaka.

New Zealand has launched into the new Hong Kong season in fine fashion, with kiwi gallopers and Karaka graduates together winning seven of ten races on the card at the first meeting of the new...

Entries for New Zealand Bloodstock's inaugural $50,000 Southern Bonus Race for graduates of the South Island Sale's two-year-old session, close today at 5pm.

The Peter McKay trained Antonio Lombardo made a stunning return to the track on Saturday with a dominating victory in the $45,000 Listed Westbury Stud Challenge Stakes (1200m).

The five-year-old gelding Ourforeignminister took a big step up in class on Saturday with the biggest victory of his career in the $70,000 Group 3 Merial/Ancare Metric Mile (1600m) at Awapuni.

New Zealand Bloodstock graduate Parklane Hawk has shown his immense talent in transitioning from thoroughbred racing to top level eventing with a win at the Burghley Horse Trials in England last...

It has been a long time between drinks but Karaka graduate Trusting showed that he is back in winning form with a tough win in the $150,000 Group 2 Tattersalls Chelmsford Stakes (1600m) at Warwick...

Racing at Wanganui on Saturday saw a number of three-year-olds make their anticipated return to the track with the Listed Fordell O'Leary's Stakes for the fillies and the Listed Wanganui Guineas...

The kiwi bred So You Think (NZ) added another thrilling chapter to his growing list of international achievements on Sunday morning with a stunning win in the Group 1 Irish Champion Stakes (2000m)...

After eight weeks away from the track since his scintillating battle in the Group 1 Eclipse Stakes with Workforce, the kiwi-bred So You Think (NZ) is set to resume his campaign in the Group 1...

New Zealand Bloodstock enjoyed a successful evening at New Zealand's Thoroughbred Racing Awards on Friday night, with Mufhasa (NZ), Wall Street (NZ) and King's Rose (NZ) earning three of the...

Melbourne's leading trainer Peter Moody celebrated a stakes-winning hat-trick on Saturday including in the Group 2 feature at Caulfield with his kiwi import King's Rose (NZ) producing an...

Friday night's newly crowned 2010/11 Champion New Zealand Sprinter Mufhasa showed that he was the deserved winner of the award by opening the new season with a brilliant performance in the Group 1...

Saturday's Group 2 New Zealand Bloodstock Memsie Stakes (1400m) has attracted a superb field of runners with no less than six Group 1 winners looking to capture the second leg of NZB's Caulfield...

Entries for one of the country's most prestigious fillies' events - the Group 1 New Zealand Bloodstock One Thousand Guineas - close in just eight days' time on Tuesday 30 August 2011.

It's first blood to Whobegotyou in the inaugural NZB Caulfield Spring WFA Championship with a big finish in the Group 2 P.B. Lawrence Stakes (1400m) on Saturday.

Curraghmore Stud's handsome Pentire colt fetched the top price at today's South Island Sale held at Canterbury Agricultural Park in what was a spirited day of selling.

The globetrotting New Zealand bred galloper So You Think has claimed his first major award for the 2010/11 season last night when crowned the New Zealand Bloodstock NSW Middle Distance Horse of...

New Zealand Bloodstock has stepped up its involvement across the Tasman, becoming the sponsor of the Melbourne Racing Club's inaugural '2011 Caulfield Spring Weight-for-Age Championship'.

Entries for New Zealand Bloodstock's 2011 Ready to Run Sale of Two-Year-Olds - the most successful Sale of its kind in Australasia - close this Friday 12 August.

Reflecting the growing strength of New Zealand Bloodstock's sales incentive races, the Karaka 3YO Mile has this season been upgraded to Restricted Listed status by New Zealand's Graded Stakes...

Last year New Zealand Bloodstock's South Island Sale saw a new record price paid for a two-year-old in the Canterbury Agricultural Park ring and, after winning both of his trials, he is ready for...

Last year New Zealand Bloodstock's South Island Sale saw a new record price paid for a two-year-old in the Canterbury Agricultural Park ring and, after winning both of his trials, he is ready for...

The Michael Freedman trained Super Easy made a brilliant Singapore debut last night in the $55,000 Class 4 (1000m) race on the polytrack, winning by the easiest of five lengths.

The Group 3 Aussie Browne's Pharmacies 114th Winter Cup (1600m) saw the Greg Lambert trained Superturf put in a big finish to take his first black-type race at Riccarton on Saturday.

New Zealand Bloodstock's Winter Mixed Bloodstock Sale saw the stakes winning mare Naturo top the Sale, being knocked down for $200,000.

New Zealand Bloodstock's Winter Mixed Bloodstock Sale is set to begin at the Karaka sales complex at 1pm this afternoon.

For those astute buyers looking to purchase two-year-olds from New Zealand Bloodstock's South Island Sale to sell at the Ready to Run Sale in November, history shows the results can be highly...

New Zealand Bloodstock's Winter Mixed Bloodstock Sale is set to begin this Friday 5 August, and the 26 promising supplementary entries for the Sale are now available to be viewed online.

New Zealand Bloodstock Insurance, a committed sponsor of thoroughbred racing in New Zealand, is pleased to announce that they are the sponsor of the Group 1 New Zealand Bloodstock Insurance Spring...

The final two-year-old stakes race of the 2010/11 season, the Listed Brancott Estate Ryder Stakes (1200m) at Otaki, has seen Snow Excuse put in a big performance to win his first black-type race.

New Zealand Bloodstock's Winter Mixed Bloodstock Sale boasts a promising line up of breeding prospects with a number of stakes winning and stakes producing mares including Diamond Babe, the dam of...

With the largest draft in New Zealand Bloodstock's South Island Sale of Two-Year-Olds & Mixed Bloodstock, Berkley Stud is set to offer another exciting selection of horses in 2011.

New Zealand Bloodstock graduates had a successful meeting in Singapore last night with six individual winners at Singapore's Derby meeting at Kranji.

In 2009 the South Island stallion ranks received an untimely blow with the sad passing of Yamanin Vital, and the 2011 South Island sale will see some of the last of his two-year-old progeny pass...

The completion of the 2010/11 Hong Kong racing season has seen New Zealand Bloodstock claim the title of the world's leading auction house for stakes wins with a total of nine black-type races won...

Timeform's expert Australian representative Gary Crispe has declared So You Think's (NZ) victory in the Group 1 Eclipse Stakes as the most outstanding international performance by any...

It was a case of second time lucky for the Mike Moroney trained Tinseltown in Saturday's Listed Queensland Cup (3200m) as he romped home by two lengths over Smoking Chimneys to create a NZ...

New Zealand Bloodstock graduates dominated the Hong Kong Racing Awards on the weekend taking home five of the eleven awards, with Ambitious Dragon (NZ) crowned the Hong Kong Horse of the Year.

The Mike Moroney trained Shenzhou Steeds has continued his impressive track record with his first black-type win in the Listed Sunshine Coast Guineas (1600m).

New Zealand bred So You Think has confirmed that he is one of the very best thoroughbreds in the world after putting in a brilliant performance in the Group 1 Coral-Eclipse Stakes (2000m) at...

New Zealand Bloodstock's South Island Sale of Two-Year-Olds and Mixed Bloodstock is now online and presents a line up of 151 entries, with a predominant focus on New Zealand based sires.

New Zealand Bloodstock's Winter Mixed Bloodstock Sale is now online and, with 72 entries, it is very much a case of quality, not quantity, with the Sale offering some very attractive thoroughbreds.

It is a battle that has been touted as one of the contests of the English racing season, the NZ bred Australasian star So You Think versus last season's leading English three-year-old Workforce,...