Auckland Horse Racing

Auckland City — On Tuesday 2 November, SKYCITY Auckland will be in full celebration for the world famous Melbourne Cup! To get festivities started early, SKYCITY is bringing a real live horse to the central city which will be parading around the CBD from midday until 2pm accompanied by a SKYCITY Showgirl and two jockeys.

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Auckland City — On Saturday 6 March, thousands of New Zealanders from around the country will converge on Ellerslie Racecourse to celebrate first day of New Zealand’s richest sporting event, Auckland Cup Week.

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Auckland City — Thanks to the Auckland Racing Club, the Ellerslie track was made available to all Karaka Million entrants this morning and the connections of Irish Jewel and Nacho Man both took up the opportunity to give their runners their first look at the home of New Zealand's richest juvenile race.

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Auckland City — Karaka graduate Vosne Romanee delivered at the highest level on Boxing Day when he ran away with the Group 1 Zabeel Classic (2000m) at Ellerslie.

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Auckland City — Melbourne Cup enthusiasts are on the countdown to tomorrow’s (Tuesday 3 November) Spring Racing Celebration at SKYCITY Convention Centre.

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Auckland City — Diminutive two-year-old Poetic Music put in a classy performance to win the New Zealand Bloodstock Carnival Bonus 2YO (1200m) at her very first start yesterday in front of the Derby Day crowd at Ellerslie.

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Auckland City — Countdown begins for the $2.2million Telecom New Zealand Derby and Mercedes Prix de Fashion   The country’s richest race kicks off the biggest week in New Zealand sport this Saturday, with jockeys riding for $15,000 a second in the Telecom New Zealand Derby on the first day of Auckland Cup Week.

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Auckland City — Auckland Cup Week kicks off at Ellerslie on February 28, as Auckland Racing Club hosts New Zealand’s richest sporting event, with a number of internationally owned horses looking to plunder the riches.

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Auckland City — Racegoers at last night's final Lindauer Twilight Summer Series racemeeting at Ellerslie were excused a double-take when the field lined up for a mid-meet race.

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Auckland City — A field of fifteen has been assembled to contest the NZ$55,000 purse in the second race of the New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series at Ellerslie on Saturday, the Listed Cambridge Stud Soliloquy Stakes (1400m).

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Auckland City — The list of horses eligible to nominate for the 2008 Karaka Million has now been finalised with 336 two-year-olds set to battle for a chance to line-up in New Zealand's richest juvenile race.

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Auckland City — Karaka Festival Sale graduate, Floydeboy (Mellifont x Fleche D'or) took out the final Group 1 event on New Zealand's domestic racing calendar this season, the NZ$200,000 First Sovereign Trust Champions Mile (1600m) at Ellerslie on Saturday.

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Auckland City — It’s all on at SKYCITY with less than a month to go until the beginning of Auckland Cup Week and New Zealand’s biggest horse racing event of the year - the SKYCITY Auckland Cup on 7 March! The 328m high Sky Tower will be glowing green and purple from Thursday 1 to Wednesday 7 March to match the official colours of Ellerslie Racing, home of the SKYCITY Auckland Cup race, and there will be plenty of activities at SKYCITY prior to and during Auckland Cup Week. Big screens throughout SKYCITY will be showing all events during Cup Week for racing fans that can’t make it to Ellerslie and the magnificent silver Auckland Cup trophy will be onsite from 25 February to 1 March.

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