Passiflora has emerged this spring as one of the more promising young members of Ramsay and Ritchie’s Matamata stable. She was a front-running debut winner over 970m on the Cambridge synthetic track ...

Foxton owner-trainer-breeder Gail Temperton was delighted with Saturday’s performance and now plans to take Royal Flower back to Wanganui seven days later for the $80,000 Listed Steelform Roofing ...

New Zealand-bred mare Grid Girl boasts a perfect two-from-two record so far as a five-year-old, having added Saturday’s A$150,000 Rosemont Stud Fillies & Mares Pendant (1400m) at Cranbourne to her ...

The Per Incanto gelding’s back-to-back victories in The Gong sit alongside his dual triumphs in the A$3 million The Big Dance (1600m) at Randwick, plus the most prestigious victory of his career in ...

When local trainer Jo-Anne Dalton put a saddle on Sestina for Sunday’s Gladvale Farms Winton Cup (1400m) at Ascot Park, she expected the $35,000 race to be little more than a pipe-opener ahead of the ...

Originally from Japan, Asano arrived in New Zealand in 2017 and became champion apprentice two years later. He racked up a total of 336 wins, 20 of them at stakes level, before departing during the ...

The race McKay was alluding to is the Gr.3 Spring Sprint (1400m), which Spencer claimed in 2024 when held at Te Rapa. Bred and part-owned by Taranaki horseman Aidan Schumacher, Spencer has now won ...

Marotiri Molly was ridden by apprentice Toni Davies to her latest success under 60kg. It was a fine effort as she gave placegetters Blissful Belle and Kopua four and five kilos respectively. “She had ...

Not even a wide draw can dent Bruce Wallbank’s enthusiasm at the prospects of his talented sprinter Midnight Edition in the Gr. 3 Haunui Farm Counties Bowl (1100m) at Pukekohe on Saturday. Midnight ...

Secret Beau made the perfect start to Waldron’s return when winning at Riccarton in August, and he is looking forward to the gelding returning to the races over summer. “We should have Secret Beau ...

Miller has a strong record preparing his parents’ horses for stakes races, having trained Sheezallmine to victory in the Gr.3 Stewards’ Stakes (1200m) and Listed Hazelett Stakes (1200m), and La ...

Apprentice jockey Bailey Rogerson remains in the intensive care unit at Waikato Hospital but her condition has taken a significant turn for the better, having regained consciousness and is now ...