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Former French galloper One Foot In Heaven, who was once a contender for Europe's richest race, will … View the full article

A suspension has cut short leading jockey Hugh Bowman's riding stint in Japan. View the full article

Brilliant mare Piccadilly Princess has run her last race and retires a five-time Group 1 winner. View the full article

The Harness Jewels have been thrown in to chaos less than three days out with a shipment of nine hor… View the full article

Education, support and a proper wage. I bet you these kids love horses and are good with them. Not their fault they are low on the food chain. Education!!!

Harness Jewels markets suspended as nine runners to undergo drug testing Betting on five races on Harness Jewels day at Cambridge on Saturday has been suspended by the TAB pending drug tests on nine leading contenders trained by Mark Purdon and Natalie Rasmussen. The Jewels is one of harness racing's showcase events. The leading trainers advised stewards on Wednesday afternoon the horses may have been exposed to drug contamination during a float trip from Auckland to Cambridge. Stewards have ordered the nine horses be swabbed, but the results will not be known until Friday afternoon, the eve of harness racing's biggest event. READ MORE: * Unconscious and dragged to safety * Winston racing money helps supporters * Riverton races called off early * NZ First picking winners * On course for the future It is believed the driver of the truck transporting the horses became concerned about activities of two workers travelling with the horses and reported their possible drug smoking to the Racing Integrity Unit. Torpedo7 outdoor adventure gear sale promoted offers Huge savings on bike, snow, clothing and outdoor gear. Boost up to maximum speed promoted Maximum speed for $79pm for the first 3 months. Click for T&C's. Purdon and Rasmussen have addressed the issue on their All-Stars Racing Stables website. The statement confirmed there was a remote possibility that contamination on the float trip could lead to irregular results in testing procedures during the Harness Jewels, so stewards were notified. "We have advised the appropriate bodies of the possibility and all our horses will be urine tested on Thursday. We are not expecting any adverse outcome from those but we just want to be sure and keep everything out in the open," Rasmussen said. "The incident goes back several days but we want to be absolutely sure there is no possibility of our horses being compromised as a result. We are not expecting withdrawals from any of the races. We are just taking every precaution," she said. The horses affected include some of the hottest favourites on Jewels day, including Princess Tiffany, Winterfell, Sicario, Kayla Marie, Funatthebeach, Stress Factor, Cheerful, War Dan Delight and Bubbled Up. If the runners return positive swabs when the lab results are returned on Friday, the nine horses will be scratched from their Group I races at Cambridge. The Purdon-Rasmussen stable has dominated harness racing in New Zealand for the last five seasons, winning nearly $20 million in stakes. MORE TO COME Stuff

Harness Jewels markets suspended as nine runners to undergo drug testing Betting on five races on Harness Jewels day at Cambridge on Saturday has been suspended by the TAB pending drug tests on nine leading contenders trained by Mark Purdon and Natalie Rasmussen. The Jewels is one of harness racing's showcase events. The leading trainers advised stewards on Wednesday afternoon the horses may have been exposed to drug contamination during a float trip from Auckland to Cambridge. Stewards have ordered the nine horses be swabbed, but the results will not be known until Friday afternoon, the eve of harness racing's biggest event. READ MORE: * Unconscious and dragged to safety * Winston racing money helps supporters * Riverton races called off early * NZ First picking winners * On course for the future It is believed the driver of the truck transporting the horses became concerned about activities of two workers travelling with the horses and reported their possible drug smoking to the Racing Integrity Unit. Torpedo7 outdoor adventure gear sale promoted offers Huge savings on bike, snow, clothing and outdoor gear. Boost up to maximum speed promoted Maximum speed for $79pm for the first 3 months. Click for T&C's. Purdon and Rasmussen have addressed the issue on their All-Stars Racing Stables website. The statement confirmed there was a remote possibility that contamination on the float trip could lead to irregular results in testing procedures during the Harness Jewels, so stewards were notified. "We have advised the appropriate bodies of the possibility and all our horses will be urine tested on Thursday. We are not expecting any adverse outcome from those but we just want to be sure and keep everything out in the open," Rasmussen said. "The incident goes back several days but we want to be absolutely sure there is no possibility of our horses being compromised as a result. We are not expecting withdrawals from any of the races. We are just taking every precaution," she said. The horses affected include some of the hottest favourites on Jewels day, including Princess Tiffany, Winterfell, Sicario, Kayla Marie, Funatthebeach, Stress Factor, Cheerful, War Dan Delight and Bubbled Up. If the runners return positive swabs when the lab results are returned on Friday, the nine horses will be scratched from their Group I races at Cambridge. The Purdon-Rasmussen stable has dominated harness racing in New Zealand for the last five seasons, winning nearly $20 million in stakes. MORE TO COME Stuff

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Hard Merchandize will head north to Te Rapa early in the new season in a bid to double his Group Two… View the full article

Nigel Tiley is hoping the Sunshine Coast doesn’t live up to its name this weekend. View the full article

A likely soft track rating is expected to help former New Zealand mare Aide Memoire return to her be… View the full article

Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott are following a path with Giovanni Canaletto that has previously e… View the full article

Well-performed New Zealand mares have been in demand on the Gold Coast this week. View the full article

It was actually 5 furlongs. First breeze up since the Preakness. He was galloped over a mile and half last Friday.

Le Romain is the latest high-profile defection from Brisbane's premier sprint, the Gr. 1 Stradbroke … View the full article

Frankie Dettori has travelled to Ireland to give his Epsom Derby mount, the Dermot Weld-trained Haza… View the full article

Check this out Curious! https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/227781/justify-effortless-in-sizzling-half-mile-workout

Perhaps however we got close to $250k at that sale for a mare by Shinko King out of a Ligiero mare over 10 years ago! She sold herself on type and race performance.

Yes I thought the price for O'Rachel, a 3 win mare at $550,00 AUD was a good price. Maybe Reefton should aim Consensu at a Brisbane campaign next year to end at the broodmare sales. Going by the O'Rachel result you would think she would sell for north of $1.5m AUD.

Horses trump cows after record Waikato dairy farm sale of $11.1m Horses bred on the Milan Park stud may end up on the race card at the famed Happy Valley Racecourse in Hong Kong. Cows can't foot it with horses when it comes to property prices, as a record sale of $11.1 million for a Cambridge dairy farm has proven. The 92.5 hectare dairy farm has been sold at auction to two horse breeders, Tony Rider of Milan Park Stud, and the Hawkins family who own Wentwood Grange stud. They will split the property in two. PGG Wrightson Real Estate agent Martin Lee said the $11.1 million equated to just short of $120,000 per hectare. "Previously the highest price paid on land and buildings for a Waikato dairy farm was a May 2016 transaction, when a 107-ha Clevedon property changed hands, also for $11.1 million. That equates to around $104,000 per ha, making this sale a clear record for a Waikato dairy farm." Horses trump cows after record Waikato dairy farm sale of $11.1m Horses bred on the Milan Park stud may end up on the race card at the famed Happy Valley Racecourse in Hong Kong. Cows can't foot it with horses when it comes to property prices, as a record sale of $11.1 million for a Cambridge dairy farm has proven. The 92.5 hectare dairy farm has been sold at auction to two horse breeders, Tony Rider of Milan Park Stud, and the Hawkins family who own Wentwood Grange stud. They will split the property in two. PGG Wrightson Real Estate agent Martin Lee said the $11.1 million equated to just short of $120,000 per hectare. "Previously the highest price paid on land and buildings for a Waikato dairy farm was a May 2016 transaction, when a 107-ha Clevedon property changed hands, also for $11.1 million. That equates to around $104,000 per ha, making this sale a clear record for a Waikato dairy farm." The Cambridge area is one of the country's premier horse breeding regions. Lee said there had been a trend of horse breeding steadily pushing out dairying from the Matamata and Cambridge areas over the last 20 years. The farm, situated between Maungatautari Road and the Waikato River, had been in the same family for the past 120 years. Dairy farmers had shown initial interest at the auction, but were not able to match the price paid by the winning bidders. The underbidder was a nursery which grows fruit trees. PGG general manager Peter Newbold said the sale reflected the underlying strength of the rural property market despite challenges currently facing the dairy sector. "Mycoplasma bovis, and changes to overseas ownership regulations, are making decisions around investment in dairy more complex, which is holding that part of the rural property market back as farmers work their way around those issues," Newbold said. Lee downplayed the impact of M.bovis on dairy farm sales, saying the Fonterra $7 per kilogram of milksolids price for farmers this coming season showed dairying was still a healthy sector. - Stuff

Col McKenna has paid A$2.6 million for his favourite horse, buying his partners out of Jameka at the… View the full article

Mick Burles, best known for preparing popular Tasmanian galloper The Cleaner, has called time on his… View the full article

Everest hopeful English has joined slot-holder In Her Time as a non-starter in the Stradbroke Handic… View the full article

Don't worry any Taxinda discussion will be moved to the appropriate forum.

Depends on the outcome. It can be a positive experience.