Lady Of Honour is SW36 for No Nay Never winning the Twilight Glow Stakes (1400m) for 3yo fillies at Caulfield. Lady Of Honour led into the home straight then stayed on strongly to hold the challenge of Decent Raine (Dissident) to score well. It is the third win from four starts for Lady Of Honour,
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Harpo Marx is SW343 for Galileo winning Saturday’s Gr3 Premier’s Cup (2000m) at Kembla Grange. Fourth into the home straight, Harpo Marx found plenty under Rachel King and struck the front inside the final 100m to defeat fellow import Spirit Ridge (Nathaniel) by a short-neck with Inverloch (Fastnet Rock) three-quarters of a length away third.
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Rocket Spade is the 41st Gr1 winner for Fastnet Rock winning Sunday’s New Zealand Derby at Ellerslie. Overnight rain made for testing conditions at Ellerslie but it did not deter Rocket Spade who stayed on strongly after coming with his challenge up the centre of the straight to edge Milford and Frontman in a driving
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In what most pundits deemed a match race between Avantage and Levante, it was marvellous mare Avantage who triumphed as she made it seven career Group One wins when taking out a superb victory in the Gr.1 BCD Group Sprint (1400m) at Te Rapa. The opportunity to see two of the best mares racing in
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Class prevailed at Trentham on Saturday when versatile mare Avantage was at her very best in taking out the Gr1 Telegraph Stakes (1200m) for the second year in succession. The Jamie Richards-trained five-year-old had scored fresh-up in the Gr1 Railway (1200m) at Ellerslie on New Year’s Day to take her Group One winning tally to
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Rocket Spade is SW167 for Fastnet Rock winning the Gr2 Auckland Guineas (1600m) at Ellerslie. Rocket Spade was settled just behind the early speed set by Screaming Eagle before coming out three wide to challenge into the home straight, striking the front 250m out then staying on well to defeat Jason Belltree (Ferlax) and On
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Fastnet Rock was represented by two new stakes winners on Saturday with Gino Severini (SW163) in New Zealand and The Harrovian (SW164) in Australia. Irish-bred Gino Severini (pictured) left it late but got there in the final strides to defeat The Mitgator (Master Of Design), winner of the race last year, in the Gr3 Great
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Personal proved a worthy winner of the VRC Oaks at Flemington and during Cup week is an appropriate winner for her immediate Australian pedigree and highlights what is becoming a dynamic cross. In winning the Tom Dabernig and Ben Hayes-trained filly becomes the 40th Gr1 winner for Fastnet Rock, his 142nd stakes winner and his
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Personal gave Coolmore some much needed good luck after a devastating past few weeks in Australia with victory in Thursday’s $1 million VRC Oaks at Flemington. Having lost Wichita to a hind-leg fracture, the forced retirement of Magic Wand and then Tuesday’s tragic loss of The Derby winner Anthony Van Dyck, the global racing and
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Glenfiddich is SW160 for Fastnet Rock winning the Gr2 Stutt Stakes (1600m) at Moonee Valley. Settled on the lead by Luke Nolen, Glenfiddich was at full stretch into the home straight and was always holding a game Holyfield (I Am Invincible) with Cherry Tortoni (Night Of Thunder) staying on for third. (Racing Pictures: Natasha Morello)
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