Melody Belle made it back-to-back wins in Saturday’s Windsor Park Plate (1600m) at Hastings – but only just. Melody Belle made her challenge in the home straight along with stablemate Avantage (Fastnet Rock) with the pair chasing down last start Gr1 winner Callsign Mav, getting there in the final strides with Melody Belle gaining a
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Hastings trainer John Bary has saddled plenty of big-race winners on home soil, but none with the shock factor of Callsign Mav’s $82 boilover in Saturday’s Gr1 Tarzino Trophy (1400m). Bary had previously won the season-opening Group One feature in 2013 with Survived, who also won the Gr.3 Hawke’s Bay Gold Cup (2200m), while quality
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Miss Aotearoa is SW16 for Per Incanto winning Saturday’s Gr3 Gold Trail Stakes at Hastings. Wide and in sixth place into the home straight, Miss Aotearoa finished determinedly to run down Sweet Anna (Tavistock) and Babylon Berlin (All Too Hard) to score by a neck. Miss Aotearoa is the third stakes winner out of Gr2
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Shezzacatch is SW102 for Savabeel following her winning debut in Saturday’s El Roca Trophy (1200m) for 3yos at Hastings. Shezzacatch was behind the leaders on the inside rail until being able to switch off heels inside the final 200m and rush home to defeat Suffused (Choisir) by three-quarters of a length with Alchemia (Per Incanto)
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