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An action-packed weekend of high quality racing saw six Group 1 races take place in Australasia with half of these falling to graduates of the Karaka sales ring.

New Zealand Bloodstock's 2009 Ready to Run Sale (17 November) catalogue can now be viewed online.

Group racing returned to Hong Kong in the new season last night in the form of the Group 3 National Day Cup (1400m) named after the public holiday it falls on.

All six lots offered for tender from the Spring Mixed Bloodstock have successfully found new homes with Lot 2 La Luciole selling for a top price of $20,000 to the bid of Auckland-based Killarney...

Three-year-old filly Masquerade proved she's no pretender when she displayed an impressive turn of foot in the Listed Soliloquy Lodge Stakes (1400m) at Ellerslie on Saturday to grab victory in the...

New Zealand Bloodstock would like to remind all prospective buyers that tenders close today for the six Twin Pines mares (see below) withdrawn from Friday's Spring Bloodstock Sale due to the...

Nine New Zealand Bloodstock graduates won on racetracks across Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia over the weekend.

Less than 12 months after being sold through the Karaka Ready to Run Sale, graduates Jungle Juice and Military Move quinellaed the Listed Bonecrusher Stakes (1400m) at Ellerslie.

A keen crowd gathered at Karaka for the Spring Bloodstock Sale today for an action-packed three hours selling which saw 80 horses change hands for an aggregate of NZ$533,300.

PLEASE NOTE that the following six broodmares catalogued at the 2009 Karaka Spring Bloodstock Sale will not be transported to Karaka due to being so close to foaling. They are however available...

New Zealand's leading three-year-old fillies step up to 1400m in the Listed Soliloquy Lodge Stakes on Saturday, on the path to the New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series crown.

New Zealand Bloodstock's Spring Mixed Bloodstock Sale is all set to start at 1pm�tomorrow (Friday, 25 September).

Supplementary entries for New Zealand Bloodstock's Spring Mixed Bloodstock Sale set for Friday can now be viewed here.

The team at New Zealand Bloodstock is deeply saddened by the loss of their friend and colleague, Lindsay Best. Lindsay passed away suddenly on Tuesday morning (22 September) at the age of 50.

Amongst the potential on offer at NZB's Spring Bloodstock Sale on Friday will be a four-year-old Al Akbar gelding at Lot 65 who yesterday remained unbeaten at the trials when winning his second...

The southern fillies had their first crack at the prestigious New Zealand Bloodstock Southern Filly of the Year Series title on Saturday, with Brown Eyed Grace capturing the Listed Canterbury...

Singapore's champion trainer Laurie Laxon last night quinellaed the Group 1 Panasonic Kranji Mile (1600m), with New Zealand Bloodstock graduates Waikato and Big Maverick.

The hotly contested New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series got off to a flying start on Saturday, with St Germaine's tidy win in the Group 2 Windsor Park Stud Gold Trail Stakes (1200m)...

The New Zealand Bloodstock Southern Filly of the Year Series begins tomorrow at Riccarton with the Listed Canterbury Belle Stakes (1200m).

The first race in the prestigious New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series, the Group 3 Windsor Park Stud & Hawkes Bay Breeders Gold Trail Stakes (1200m), is set to run at Hawkes Bay on...

After an outstanding 2008-09 in Hong Kong, New Zealand-bred horses got off to a great start for 2009-10 with the first meeting of the season seeing them win six of the ten-race card, including a...

Super tough Karaka Premier Sale graduate Zarita got up to snare victory by a nose in the Group 2 MVRC Cleanevent WH Stock Stakes (1600m)at Moonee Valley on Saturday after a rough run saw her...

On the first big day of spring racing, Karaka graduates produced some impressive performances in Melbourne and Sydney on Saturday to hint at an exciting season of racing to come.

The first juvenile race of the season, The Danfive @ Grangewilliam Stud 2YO at Wanganui on Saturday, saw Karaka Million eligible youngsters completing the trifecta with Big River taking top honours.

The race towards New Zealand Bloodstock's $1,000,000 Karaka Million, to be held at Ellerslie on 31 January 2010, begins this weekend with the first two-year-old race of the season set to be staged...

New Zealand Bloodstock's decision to stage the Spring Mixed Bloodstock Sale at Karaka on Friday 25 September has been well rewarded with a quality catalogue of seventy-five assembled.

New Zealand Bloodstock South Island Sale graduate Pentiffic was last night crowned Champion Jumper at Australia's Horse of the Year Awards held at the Palladium in Melbourne.

Over a weekend which saw New Zealand-breds clean-up eleven of twenty-one �races in Singapore the most exciting outcomes came from three exciting three-year-olds, two who remain unbeaten on the...

New Zealand Bloodstock graduates performed with distinction across the Tasman over the weekend with many performances promising further success this spring.

The weekend's racing was highly anticipated with the return of Group 1 racing in the new season and New Zealand Bloodstock could not have kicked 2009/10 off any better as Karaka graduate Tavistock...

New Zealand Bloodstock graduate Trusting, a spring three year old,�showed brilliance�in defeating Group 2 weight-for-age company at just his third start at Randwick on Saturday.

Friday evening in Singapore saw New Zealand-breds stake claim on four of nine races with two nice wins by graduates of Karaka's Ready to Run Sale.

Christchurch turned on a cracker with spirited bidding the order of the day for New Zealand Bloodstock's annual South Island Sale of Two Year Olds and Mixed Bloodstock.

New Zealand Bloodstock's South Island Sale and the New Zealand Racing Awards will both be staged this Friday (7 August) in Christchurch, New Zealand's garden city.

Sunday's Singapore meeting was packed full of impressive achievements, none more so than the seven winners ridden by Saimee Jumaat and the six winners trained by Kiwi expat Laurie Laxon, achieved...

Sunday's Singapore meeting was packed full of impressive achievements, none more so than the seven winners ridden by Saimee Jumaat and the six winners trained by Kiwi expat Laurie Laxon, achieved...

New Zealand Bloodstock's Winter Mixed Bloodstock Sale concluded today with 169 lots sold for total takings of NZ$994,900 and a clearance rate of 88%.

Team Rogerson's Queen Sabeel powered home in the Listed Northland Breeders' Stakes today in Whangarei providing Karaka graduates with a final feature victory on the last day of the 2008/09 racing...

New Zealand Bloodstock will conduct the Winter Mixed Bloodstock Sale (2 August) and South Island Sale (7 August) over the next week with both sales offering a number of high class fillies for...

Waikato-based Twin Pines will offer 71 of their 79 lots for unreserved sale at New Zealand Bloodstock's Winter Mixed Bloodstock Sale this Sunday (2 August).

Haunui Farm will offer Group One-winning mare Honor Lap (NZ) (Honor Grades) at New Zealand Bloodstock's Winter Mixed Bloodstock Sale to be held this Sunday, 2nd August commencing 10am. In foal...

Waikato-based Twin Pines will offer 71 of their 79 lots for unreserved sale at New Zealand Bloodstock's Winter Mixed Bloodstock Sale this Sunday (2 August).

Karaka graduate Mexican Rose claimed a second feature race victory for Jupiter Stable when she toughed out her opposition in the S$200,000 Group 3 Singapore Juvenile Championship (1200m) at Kranji...

With next season almost upon us, the weekend saw high quality performances from Karaka graduates on both sides of the Tasman, all late two-year-olds with big three-year-old ambitions.

Karaka graduate Eishin Da Vinci (NZ) provided a landmark victory for leading Japanese owner-breeders Eishin Farm at the weekend, by becoming their 1000th winner.

At the end of any season the performance of a particular sire's progeny always features foremost in the season review. Featuring less prominently, however, is often the performance of broodmares...

Karaka yearling graduate Given Vision made it consecutive Singapore Three-Year-Old Challenge victories when he took the final leg of the lucrative Series at Kranji on Friday night.

Karaka graduates filled the first three places in yesterday's $150,000 Listed Grafton Cup (2350m), headed by the New Zealand owned, bred and trained Castle Heights.

Attackum claimed black-type status yesterday when running a slashing third in the Listed Ramornie Handicap yesterday at Grafton, a coup for his family members set for next month's New Zealand...

Victories in the Waimate Cup and Australasia's leading hurdle events over the weekend ensured the upcoming South Island Sale remained prominent in the minds of buyers.