New Zealand Bloodstock

Anabaa's Legacy Goes Back to Back Today's Geelong meeting has seen another Ready to Run graduate salute the judge with Annaba's Legacy thrashing his rivals in the $20,000 Lamby's Restaurant & Bar Class 1 Handicap (1203m).

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The Breeze Ups for New Zealand Bloodstock's Ready to Run Sale of Two-Year-Olds were concluded today, with a total of 448 well educated youngsters filmed and timed over the final 200 metres of Te Rapa racecourse.

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Mark Todd and Team Win two Bronze Medals New Zealand has won two bronze medals in the three-day event at the World Equestrian Games in Kentucky overnight.

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Singapore star Better Than Ever showed his true colours last night with an astonishing victory in the Group 1 S$500,000 Kranji Mile (1600m), the first leg of the Singapore Triple Crown Series.

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HAWKE'S BAY — NZB Insurance Hawke's Bay Guineas Looks a Cracker Saturday's $85,000 Group 2 New Zealand Bloodstock Insurance Hawke's Bay Guineas has attracted a cracking field for the 1400 metre three-year-old feature.

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Resilient mare Marquardt put in an outstanding performance at Randwick on Saturday to claim her second black type victory in the Listed Starstable.com.au Nivison (1200m).

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Five-year-old Zabeel gelding Precedence (ex Kowtow) put on an impressive display on Friday night winning the $200,000 Group 3 JRA Cup at Mooney Valley.

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New Zealand Bloodstock graduate Singapore Sling won her first race of the season with an exceptional performance in the second leg of New Zealand Bloodstock's Filly of the Year Series, the $45,000 Listed Soliloquy Lodge Stakes (1400m).

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2008 Karaka Premier Yearling Sale graduate Ottimo notched up his fourth consecutive career win in Hong Kong on Thursday.

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New Zealand has delivered up the latest superstar of the Australian turf with Karaka graduate So You Think stealing the show at Caulfield and highlighting a stellar weekend for the Kiwis across the Tasman.

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Saturday saw the launch of the New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year and the Southern Filly of the Year Series with the Group 3 Hawke's Bay Breeders Gold Trail Stakes (1200m) in Hastings and the Listed New Zealand Bloodstock Canterbury Belle Stakes (1200m) at Riccarton.

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HAWKE'S BAY — G1 Glory for Wall Street in the Hawke's BayNew Zealand Bloodstock graduate Wall Street galloped to his second Group 1 victory with a stellar performance in the $200,000 Windsor Park Plate (1600m) at Hastings on Saturday.

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New Zealand Equestrian Mark Todd has showcased his remarkable talent yet again with a win on NZB Campino at the Hartpury Horse Trials in Gloucestershire which took place 12 - 15 August.

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Talented Zabeel mare, Jessicabeel continued John O'Shea's stellar run with Karaka graduates on Saturday winning the Group 2 AJC Chairman's Handicap (2600m) and shone the spotlight on opportunities to invest in her outstanding sire's progeny.

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Following in the hoof-prints of Vengeance of Rain, Joy And Fun became the second Karaka graduate to record a stakes victory on the prestigious Dubai World Cup night, winning the Group 3 Al Quoz Sprint (1200m) on Saturday.

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Karaka Premier Sale graduate Zabrasive looks set to continue the New Zealand-bred tradition of dominating the Group 1 AJC David Jones Australian Derby with a fantastic win in the race's traditional lead-up, the Group 1 STC Darley Rosehill Guineas (2400m) on Saturday.

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CHRISTCHURCH — Australasian buyers can now look forward to the winter months with the announcement today that New Zealand Bloodstock will bring the 2010 South Island Sale of 2YO's forward by a week (Friday, 6 August) to coincide it with the All Blacks - Wallabies rugby test set for AMI Stadium, Christchurch, on the same weekend.

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New Zealand Bloodstock's one million dollar Karaka Million has proven the launch pad of many top performers already in just three years, and this continued when the 2010 race produced its first Group winner on Saturday with Icepin proving valiant in the Group 3 Waikato Stud Taranaki 2YO Classic (1200m).

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AUCKLAND — Continuing on from the outstanding results recorded by the Premier and Select sessions last week, spirited bidding continued at Karaka today with key indicators up on last year's Festival Sale including a new record price.

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AUCKLAND — The staggering results of Day One at New Zealand Bloodstock's Premier Sale flowed into Day Two today at Karaka, with a $2 million colt by New Zealand's own champion sire Zabeel eclipsing yesterday's millionaire lot.

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AUCKLAND — New Zealand Bloodstock's Karaka Premier Sale (1 & 2 February) will be broadcast live on Sky Sports 3 - and for the first time also on TVN, Australia's dedicated thoroughbred channel.

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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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New Zealand Bloodstock's one million dollar graduates race - the 2010 Karaka Million - is set to be beamed live into Australia, Singapore and Malaysia on Sunday 31 January, courtesy of Trackside, Sky Racing and TVN.

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AUCKLAND — The $200,000 New Zealand Bloodstock Insurance Karaka 3YO Mile field is rapidly taking shape, with less than two weeks to the inaugural running at Ellerslie on 31 January.

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Fillies following the New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series pathway are set to step up to 2000m on Friday in the Group 2 New Zealand Bloodstock Royal Stakes.

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CAMBRIDGE — In a fitting result, Katie Lee's courage saw Sir Patrick and Lady Hogan's emerald green colours pass the post first in the Group 2 Cambridge Stud Eight Carat Classic (1600m) at Ellerslie on Saturday.

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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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Two extra smart New Zealand Bloodstock graduates signalled their intentions for next season with terrific victories at Sha Tin on the last day of Hong Kong's racing season.

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Today sees the conclusion of a remarkable season in Hong Kong for New Zealand thoroughbreds, having out-performed all other nations represented in terms of number of winners, strike rate of winners to runners and prizemoney won.

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Karaka graduate Black Mamba won her second consecutive Grade 2 US$150,000 Beverly Hills Handicap (2000m) at Hollywood Park today.

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The wonderful run in Hong Kong of NZ-based sire, O'Reilly, continued last night at Happy Valley, with three races on the eight-race card falling to sons of Hong Kong's leading sire, and a further four going to Kiwi-breds.

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New Zealand-bred gallopers marched on to further success in Australian Cups races when Hume humbled a field of seventeen runners in the Group 3 Carlton Draught Tattersall's Cup (2200m) in Brisbane on Saturday.

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Karaka graduates came up trumps at Eagle Farm on Saturday with New Zealand bred Linky Dink and Court Ruler taking out two of the day's Group 1 races.

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The Te Akau team of David Ellis, Mark Walker and James McDonald, along with prominent syndicator Fortuna, combined with exciting young prospect Rio Fortune to capture the $50,000 New Zealand Bloodstock Castletown Stakes (1200) at Foxton yesterday.

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Saint Minerva headed a Karaka quadrella in Queensland on Saturday to win the Group 3 QTC Grand Prix Stakes (2200m), a lead up race to the Group 1 Queensland Derby, by an explosive six lengths.

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New Zealand breeders will be feeling good about having the services of Stravinsky back on offer at Cambridge Stud this season after a week that saw plenty of promising types in action by the Group 1 July Cup winner.

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Karaka Ready to Run graduate Rockdale returned to top form in downing Australia's best Autumn three-year-olds at Doomben on Saturday, just a couple of hours after fellow Ready To Run graduate Flying Fulton defeated New Zealand's best Autumn two-year-olds at Ellerslie.

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New Zealand Bloodstock graduates continued to make their presence felt at Queensland's Winter carnival over the weekend with a stunning quinella in the Group 3 Doomben Roses (2020m), the major lead-up to the Group 1 Queensland Oaks on 30 May.

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Entries for the 2009 New Zealand Bloodstock South Island Sale are now being accepted, with entries closing on Wednesday 27 May.

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New Zealand Bloodstock and Kiwi vendors had plenty to be proud of at Sha Tin last night with horses sold through Karaka winning half of the elite ten-race card, including the Group 1 Champions Mile with Sight Winner.

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New Zealand Bloodstock's National Weanling, Broodmare, and Mixed Bloodstock Sale at Karaka on May 4, 5, and 6 is set to offer an abundance of broodmare opportunities, 323 in total, by sires who have proven themselves on the racetrack to be outstanding dam-sires.

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Daffodil's Group 1 AJC Oaks success in Sydney capped a memorable day for New Zealand across Australia with Karaka graduates scoring at stakes level in South Australia and Brisbane.

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Bird's victory in the Listed New Zealand Bloodstock Warstep Stakes (2000m) on Saturday earned her the title of New Zealand Bloodstock Southern Filly of the Year, and started a phenomenal day for the Chittick family's Waikato Stud who also bred and race New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Daffodil.

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In what can only be described as an epic weekend's racing for New Zealand bred thoroughbreds, graduates of the Karaka Sales ring won three Group 1 races in Australasia plus the Group 2 AJC Chairman's Handicap and the Listed ARC Champagne Stakes.

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AUCKLAND — In what can only be described as an epic weekend's racing for New Zealand bred thoroughbreds, graduates of the Karaka Sales ring won three Group 1 races in Australasia plus the Group 2 AJC Chairman's Handicap and the Listed ARC Champagne Stakes.

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Horses sourced in New Zealand (either NZ bred or offered through NZB) dominated proceedings at Happy Valley last night, winning every one of the eight races on the card.

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Karaka Select Sale graduate Scarlet Vanhara produced a gutsy run in the hands of David Walsh to win the Listed New Zealand Bloodstock Airfreight Stakes (1600m) at Riccarton on Saturday.

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A full field including two Trans-Tasman raiders is set to contest the Group 1 New Zealand Bloodstock Breeders Stakes at Te Aroha on Saturday, set to jump at 3:57pm.

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New Zealand Bloodstock's National Weanling, Broodmare & Mixed Bloodstock catalogue goes online today, with this year's selection boasting the inclusion of champion race mare, Princess Coup.

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The Heckler franked his Karaka Million form in becoming New Zealand Bloodstock's fourteenth Group 1 winner for the season when running his rivals ragged in the Group 1 Ford Manawatu Sires Produce Stakes.

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The bargain $3,000 Karaka Weanling Sale graduate, My Astron, took his New Zealand earnings to $242,225 in dispatching six-time Group 1 winner Sir Slick in the Group 2 BOP RC Japan - New Zealand International Trophy (1600m) on Saturday.

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Karaka graduate Egyptian Ra beat Hong Kong Horse of the Year Good Ba Ba and last season's world's highest rated turf sprinter Sacred Kingdom on Sunday evening when leading all the way in the Group 1 HKJC Queen's Silver Jubilee Cup (1400m).

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A warm autumn day at Ellerslie on Saturday featured the running of the Group 1 Diamond Stakes with New Zealand Bloodstock graduates proving the stars of the show to take out the trifecta in the $200,000 race.

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Ekraar filly, Ekstreme, showed grit to get her first points on the board in the New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series on Saturday, winning the Group 3 First Sovereign Trust Lowland Stakes (2100m) at Masterton Racing Club's meeting at Trentham.

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New Zealand Bloodstock graduates provided the highlight in Singapore over the weekend, filling the first four placings in the Group 3 2009 SingaporeTC Singapore Guineas (1600m).

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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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HAMILTON — Leading Hamilton-based thoroughbred farm Highview Stud will stage a Deplenishing Sale at its Hamilton property on Sunday 29 March.

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AUCKLAND — Karaka graduates are poised to continue their derby success with Group 2 victories by Pre-Eminence and Down the Road on either side of the Tasman being used as springboards to the Group 1 AJC Derby and the Group 1 Telecom New Zealand Derby respectively.

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Due Diligence delivered on her outstanding looks to shoot away with victory in Saturday's $150,000 Group 2 Cambridge Stud Sir Tristram 3YO Fillies Classic (2000m), the eighth event in the ten-race New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series.

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The Waikato Racing Club's Premier Race Meeting on Saturday provided New Zealand Bloodstock with its tenth individual Group 1 winner when MacO'Reilly led all the way in the $200,000 Group 1 Whakanui Stud International Stakes.

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AUCKLAND — Amid worldwide economic uncertainty the New Zealand Bloodstock Yearling Sales Series has delivered solid results over the course of the past week at Karaka, with decreases across key statistics belying the level of activity seen in the ring throughout the week.

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AUCKLAND — Karaka Premier Sale graduate, Marquardt, franked her impressive trial form on Saturday with her debut win in the STC Theslipper.com.au 2YO Handicap (1100m) at Rosehill.

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AUCKLAND — New Zealand Bloodstock's National Yearling Sales Series concluded at Karaka today, with the pace picking up over the final 260 lots of the Festival Sale to conclude the sales week on a positive note.

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AUCKLAND — New Zealand Bloodstock's 2009 Festival Sale got underway at Karaka today with a strong clearance rate the highlight on Day One of the two-day sale.

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AUCKLAND — It was a big Saturday for Karaka graduates on both sides of the Tasman with a Group 3 Tasmanian Derby win to Betwixt, a Group 3 HS Dyke Waikato Guineas win to Easy Ryder, and two stakes wins on White Robe Lodge Stakes Day at Wingatui.

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AUCKLAND — Today saw the third and final day of New Zealand Bloodstock's 2009 Select Sale completed at Karaka, with session results holding firm but buyers selective in their purchasing.

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AUCKLAND — It was another solid day's trade on day two of New Zealand Bloodstock's three-day Select Sale at Karaka, with good competition still witnessed on many of the yearlings catalogued for sale today.

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 With the Premier Sale wrapping up yesterday (Tuesday), the focus at Karaka today turned to the opening session of New Zealand Bloodstock's three-day Select Sale.

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AUCKLAND — The pace picked up steadily throughout the second day of New Zealand Bloodstock's 2009 Premier Sale at Karaka, to conclude with some good results for the industry.

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AUCKLAND — It's been a solid start to the 83rd National Yearling Sales Series at Karaka today, with the first of the 503 horses catalogued at the Premier Sale going under the hammer.

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AUCKLAND — The sixth Group 1 victory by Sir Slick yesterday at Trentham proved timely for Monovale Farm who will offer his Zabeel half-brother tomorrow on day one of the Karaka Premier Sale at Lot 131.

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Current New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series leader Daffodil lines up in the Group 3 Stella Artois Desert Gold Stakes (1600m) at Trentham on Saturday in a bid to retain her lead in the prestigious contest.

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Smart young Kiwi galloper Big Red Point won the New Zealand Bloodstock Trophy (1200m) in Malaysia on December 21, a race that was postponed after the Penang Turf Club's Group 1 Sprint Trophy meeting was rained out earlier in the year.

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Alagant Satin swooped down the Awapuni strait on Saturday to claim the Group 3 Ezibuy Eulogy Stakes (1600m) and in doing so secured six points in the New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series.

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Cambridge Stud's Karaka Premier Sale entrant Lot 77 received an exciting update over the weekend with the filly's half-brother Oracy steeling the Group 2 Unitrans Dingaans (1600m) at Turffontein.

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Counties Cup Day at Pukekohe Park proved to be a sterling one for New Zealand Bloodstock graduates when Gallions Reach, and three other graduates, occupied the first four placings in the feature Group 2 Counties Cup (2100m).

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The emphatic performance by both Tell a Tale and Il Quello Veloce in the $1,000,000 NZ 2000 Guineas (1600m) provided an early spotlight on the yearlings to be presented at the 2009 National Yearling Sales Series at Karaka.

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Karaka Premier Sale graduate Waikato (Pins - Skywalker Wilkes, by Skywalker) won the 1200m Open Stakes in Singapore on Friday night, a victory that has cemented plans for a tilt at the prestigious Hong Kong Sprint on December 14.

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CHRISTCHURCH — New Zealand Bloodstock sales graduates made their mark yesterday at Riccarton Park by winning the three features, with Mufhasa breaking the course record for the mile.

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Emirates Stakes Day at Flemington on Saturday saw three Karaka graduates salute the judge for stakes wins with Group 1 Patinack Farm VRC Classic (1200m) winner Swick leading the charge.

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One of the jewels in the crown of the prestigious New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series, the Group 1 New Zealand Bloodstock 1000 Guineas (1600m), is set to be run on Saturday at Riccarton.

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Fasig-Tipton's Kentucky November Selected Fall Mixed Sale in Lexington on Sunday provided an exciting result for Pencarrow Stud's Pins x Silver and Roses filly entered in the 2009 National Yearling Sale Series.

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Bart Cumming's Karaka Premier Sale purchase Moatize earned a berth in tomorrow's Melbourne Cup with his win in the Group 3 Saab Quality (2500m) on what's touted as Australasia's greatest day of racing, the VRC's Derby Day at Flemington on Saturday.

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The trials at Cambridge last Friday produced another winner for New Zealand Bloodstock's Ready to Run Sale of 2YOs set to be held on 18 & 19 November at Karaka.

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The Breeze Up clips for two-year-olds entered in New Zealand Bloodstock's 2008 Ready to Run Sale are now available for viewing online at www.nzb.co.nz  .

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Cox Plate day at Moonee Valley and weekend racing provided plenty of exciting updates for some of the yearlings entered for New Zealand Bloodstock's 2009 National Yearling Sales Series (26 January - 3 February).

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On a day when New Zealand bred galloper Maldivian took highest honours in the Tatts Cox Plate (2040m) at Moonee Valley, fellow Kiwis Gallopin and Millbank also impressed in Melbourne.

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Three-year-old filly Skirmish became the first stakes winner for her young sire Le Bec Fin when she took out the Group 2 $100,000 New Zealand Bloodstock Wellington Guineas (1500m) at Trentham on Saturday.

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With two successful days of Breeze Ups concluded earlier this week at Te Rapa, sights now turn to the 2008 Ready to Run Sale set to be held at Karaka on 18 & 19 November.

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Trackside Television has launched a new weekly thoroughbred breeding show - Born to Run - sponsored by New Zealand Bloodstock.

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Providing the Karaka sale ring with its third Group 1 winning graduate this season, New Zealand's reigning champion three-year-old, Alamosa, charged home for a win in the Group 1 Toorak Handicap (1600m) at Caulfield on Saturday.

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The unbeaten three-year-old Éclair Fantastic made it three from three on Saturday with a win in the opening race on the Caulfield Guineas Day card, the $70,000 Harrolds Fashion Plate (1200m).

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Aquanita Racing's 2005 Karaka Select Sale purchase Enthused provided the highlight at Sha Tin on Sunday night, dashing up the 1000 metre straight to win the feature HK$2.3m Group 3 Sha Tin Sprint Trophy.

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Karaka Weanling Sale graduate Sousa showed utter contempt for his 11 rivals at Randwick on Saturday, winning the Group 1 AJC Spring Champion Stakes (2000m) by a staggering six lengths.

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The 424 strong catalogue for New Zealand Bloodstock's upcoming Ready to Run Sale of 2YOs (18 & 19 November) is now available online.

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Singapore and Hong Kong were the stages for yet more winning New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale graduates at the weekend, with victories by Special Dragon at Sha Tin and Big Honour at Kranji.

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Talented three-year-old Kildonan became the fourth stakes-winner from last year's New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale by winning the Listed Geon Bonecrusher Stakes (1400m) at Ellerslie on Saturday.

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Three-year-old filly Awesome Planet recorded her first stakes success on Saturday, winning the Listed Soliloquy Lodge Stakes (1400m) and notched up four valuable NZB Filly of the Year Series points.

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Karaka graduate Black Mamba is tipped as the one to beat when she lines up in the Group 1 Yellow Ribbon Stakes at Santa Anita Park on Saturday.

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A field of 11 will contest the second race in the New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series, the NZ$60,500 Listed Soliloquy Lodge Stakes (1400m), at Ellerslie on Saturday.

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