Melody Belle suffered a rare loss last time out but bounced back in brilliant style to win Saturday’s Bonecrusher Stakes (2000m) at Ellerslie. Anchored towards the rear, she copped some buffeting around the home turn before coming widest of all and powering home to defeat stablemate Avantage and land her 14th Gr.1 win, surpassing Sunline
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Dual New Zealand Horse of the Year Melody Belle has equalled the record of the mighty mare Sunline after completing her 13th Group One win when taking out the Thorndon Mile (1600m) at Trentham. The Jamie Richards-trained mare was having her first start since finishing a game third in the Gr.1 McKinnon Stakes (2000m) during
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Meleka Belle has been named the 2020 Arion Pedigrees Eight Carat Broodmare of the Year in New Zealand. The award criteria states that the winner shall be the mare whose New Zealand-bred and/or New Zealand conceived progeny, anywhere in the world, in the season under review, most clearly reflect true breeding merit in quality of
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