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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Gulfstream Park's Sunshine Meet concluded Nov. 23 with Saffie Joseph Jr. earning his 14th consecutive track title as leading trainer while Edgard Zayas secured his 10th riding title.View the full article -
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Flavien Prat swept both stakes on the day when he guided favored Fast Market to victory in the rescheduled $175,000 Pebbles Stakes (G3T) Nov. 23 at Aqueduct Racetrack. View the full article -
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Shaun and Emma Clotworthy are looking forward to heading to Ellerslie on Boxing Day with a pair of their runners following their winning double at Pukekohe on Saturday. Progressive mare Sista Sugar opened the stable’s account on Saturday when taking out the Stella Artois Championship Qualifier (1400m) in the hands of jockey Masa Hashizume, improving on her first-up runner-up effort over 1200m at Ellerslie last month. “She got a beautiful trip. She is only small but she tries hard,” Shaun Clotworthy said. “She has matured a bit more as a four-year-old and she seems to be coming along nicely and racing with better manners.” The victory sealed her berth into the $110,000 Stella Artois 1500 Championship Final (1500m) on Boxing Day, and Clotworthy is keen to pursue the riches on offer. “She will probably head towards that Stella Artois Final on Boxing Day,” he said. “She may have one run in-between, we are just working it out.” Stablemate Billy Blinx is also destined to head to the same meeting to contest the $125,000 Dunstan Horsefeeds Stayers’ Championship Final (2400m) following his victory in the Dunstan Horsefeeds Stayers’ Championship Qualifier (1600m) on Saturday. “He looks like quite a progressive horse. He has always shown us a lot, but he just hasn’t been mature enough,” Clotworthy said. The Byerley Park trainer rated the son of Shocking alongside his subsequent Gr.1 New Zealand Derby (2400m) winner Willydoit in their formative years, and he is pleased the now four-year-old is starting to show that ability on raceday. “He was alongside Willydoit as a younger horse and I rated him with that horse in his work, so it’s nice to see him do it on the track,” he said. “We think that (Stayers’ Final) is where we will head with him. We will just see how he comes through the next couple of days and then make a plan.” Clotworthy was also pleased with Aftermath’s placing in the Gr.3 Counties Cup (2100m) on Saturday behind Final Return, which continued his solid run of form. The six-year-old gelding ran fourth in both the Gr.1 Livamol Classic (2040m) and Gr.3 Balmerino Stakes (2000m) prior to Saturday’s run, and Clotworthy was rapt to finally attain black-type with the son of Rock ‘N’ Pop. “It was a good run,” he said. “He didn’t get the most economical trip, he jumped and got caught wide a bit but still hit the line nicely, so I was pleased with him.” Further Group targets await Aftermath over summer and Clotworthy is weighing up between a couple of options in the coming weeks. “We might look at the Waikato Cup (Gr.3, 2400m), we will decide on what to do in the next couple of days,” he said. “He might even have a bit of a freshen-up and look at something like the Rich Hill Mile (Gr.2, 1600m). We will play it by ear.” View the full article -
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“Champions Day” was a fitting moniker for a day that celebrated everything great about New Zealand racing – and the first meeting of New Zealand’s richest-ever raceday takes the spotlight in the 2025 New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing Annual. Headlined by New Zealand’s richest-ever race, the $3.5 million NZB Kiwi (1500m), Champions Day featured a line-up of New Zealand’s most iconic races, the Gr.1 New Zealand Derby (2400m), the Gr.1 Bonecrusher New Zealand Stakes (2000m), the Gr.1 New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1600m), the Gr.1. Sistema Stakes (1200m) and the Gr.2 Auckland Cup (3200m). Like every major carnival through the racing calendar, Champions Day gets an in-depth review in the 2025 Racing Annual, the 52nd installment of this beloved almanac. Champions in every field are honoured along with fallen heroes from past days, among those a moving tribute to New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame trainer Michael Moroney, written by Dennis Ryan. A thoughtful, comprehensive commentary of the state of New Zealand racing and the changes that took place through the season leads into celebrating New Zealand’s latest Racing Hall of Fame inductees, reviews of the sales and breeding seasons, the jumps racing season and a broad statistical overview of the Group races. Edited for the fifth straight year by respected turf writer Aidan Rodley for Gold Plated Publishing, the 2025 Racing Annual features stunning photography, chiefly from Peter Rubery’s team at Race Images, superbly brought to life through the skill of design expert Ken Emery of Eye Design Creative Solutions. The 2025 Annual owes much to the support of Te Akau Racing, Cambridge Stud, New Zealand Bloodstock, New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing and New Zealand Thoroughbred Marketing and to the journalistic work of the team at LOVERACING.NZ News Desk. “We’re delighted with the way the 2025 Annual has come together,” Rodley said. “Champions Day was such a colourful, vibrant occasion, an amazing success story for New Zealand racing, so it’s fabulous to celebrate that as a focal point of this year’s Annual. “The beauty of the Annual is we’re able to honour racing’s highest achievers as a reference for future years – and this year we’re able to honour champion trainers Mark Walker and Sam Bergerson, champion jockey Craig Grylls, celebrate the life of Michael Moroney among other notable identities who died through the season, as well as lauding some of the greats of our sport with the Hall of Fame inductions of the likes of David Ellis, Imperatriz and Savabeel.” The 2025 New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing Annual retails for $50 and is available for purchase at supporting bookstores or online at racingannual.co.nz. View the full article
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