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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,...

The Reset gelding Frozone raced his way to his seventh win and first black-type success at Eagle Farm on Saturday in the Listed Tattersalls Racing Club Mile (1600m).

The Chris Gangemi trained The Underworld made it stakes winner number 27 for his sire High Chaparral in the Listed WATC Belmont Guineas (1600m) in Western Australia on Saturday.

Racing in Macau on Saturday night saw the game New Zealand bred galloper St Peter's Gift notch up his second stakes win for the season in the Listed Macau Director's Cup (1500m).

The Mike Moroney trained Born to Rock showed her class at Ipswich on Saturday as she produced a tough performance to take her first black-type race in the Listed Gai Waterhouse Classic (1350m).

New Zealand bred So You Think will be looking to write another page of New Zealand's rich thoroughbred history as he heads to the Group 1 Prince of Wales's Stakes (2000m) at Royal Ascot on...

New Zealand continued its assault on leading Australian three-year-old races on the weekend with the Graeme Rogerson trained Shootoff proving too strong in the Group 1 Channel Seven Queensland...

Few would deny the courage Tullamore has shown on the track in his last few outings, and that was greatly rewarded on Saturday with a brilliant performance in the Group 2 Australian Special Metals...

The Richard Joostens trained Bragato notched up his first black-type victory over the weekend with a good win in the Listed AG Challenge Stakes (1600m) at Wanganui on Saturday.

The John O'Shea trained Legsman made light work of his rivals in the Listed Little Bottler Winter Cup (2400m) as he led all the way to record his first black-type win at Rosehill on Saturday.