Queen Zou earned top honours on New Year’s Day in the Gr.2 Rich Hill Mile (1600m) at Ellerslie with 53kg and the Zoustar mare will carry the same weight again with Matt Cartwright retaining the mount.

Father-and-son training partners Peter and Shaun McKay are taking a realistic approach to their prospects of further success when they return to their favourite track on the middle day of the ...

A fresh face has joined the Central Districts riding ranks this week, with Hong Kong national Alan Lai commencing a six-month stint in New Zealand.

Trainers Shaune Ritchie and Colm Murray had originally intended Saturday’s Gr.3 New Zealand Bloodstock Desert Gold Stakes (1600m) to be Tajana’s first step on the path to next month’s Gr.1 Al Basti ...

Bozo races in the colours of the Australian-based Hill family who also owned the talented sprinter-miler Scapolo who won 20 races from the Myers stable including the Gr.2, Coupland’s Bakeries Mile ...

Out of dual Group One winner English, King’s English was purchased by Te Akau Racing principal David Ellis out of Newhaven Park’s 2024 Inglis Australasian Easter Yearling Sale draft for A$700,000. He ...

The Chequers Stud-bred gelding is out of the Encosta De Lago mare Lilies who is a half-sister to Soriano, dual Group One winner of the Zabeel Classic (2000m) and Herbie Dyke Stakes (2000m), and the ...

Combining with Sydney-based bloodstock agent Andrew Williams, Forsman went to $450,000 to secure Stromlinien from the Elsdon Park draft at Karaka 2025. The Matamata nursery will offer a half-brother ...

Super-consistent mare Chica Mojito broke through for her first Australian victory with an outstanding performance in the A$500,000 Limitless Lodge The Lakes (1600m) at Wyong on Saturday.

Trainer John Sadler has the Gr.2 Adelaide Cup (3200m) in mind as a potential target for Tarvue after her tenacious victory in the A$130,000 Off The Track Trophy (1800m) at Flemington on Saturday.

Riccarton trainers Michael and Matthew Pitman are prospecting gold in Kumara this weekend. The father-and-son duo are targeting Saturday’s Vernon & Vazey 0800 Truck Parts Kumara Gold Nuggets (1810m) ...

Impressive debut winner Waka has returned home to Surrey Farm near Bulls ahead of his second-up assignment at Wanganui on Saturday.