Month: February 2020

Catalyst primed for bold Australian debut

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Rick Williams is predicting a career-best performance from star New Zealand three-year-old Catalyst (NZ) (Darci Brahma) in Saturday’s Gr.3 CS Hayes Stakes (1400m) at Flemington. Williams has guided the racing stock of Cambridge’s The Oaks Stud for Queensland owner Dick Karreman for the past 18 years, overseeing the career of champion mare Seachange among a host of Group One winners. Karreman was also a part-owner of five-time Group One winner Darci Brahma, who has forged a successful stallion career at The Oaks Stud, among his stock is November’s Gr.1 New…

Racing industry comes together to protest legislation

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by Brian de Lore Published 24th January 2020 The broadening and noisy furore coming from the racing industry, after getting its head around the implications of Racing Reform Bill No.2, is symptomatic of the current parlous state of racing and breeding in New Zealand. Racing Minister Winston Peters has been in the job for two-and-a-half years but today, as you read this blog, racing is in the worst state it has been in its 175-year history. No tangible benefits have accrued back to the stakeholders in this Minister’s term of…

Racing Minister Peters reassures racing he’s staying true to his word

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At Karaka 2020: the industry’s ex-jockeys now trainers who would love to see a rise in NZ prizemoney: From top left Stephen McKee (one trial ride), Graham Richardson (one race win), Lance O’Sullivan (Champion Jockey), Bob Vance (Outstanding Jockey) and at right Grant Cooksley (outstanding Jockey) by Brian de Lore Published 31 January 2020 When Racing Minister Winston Peters made his speech to open the Karaka Yearling Sales last Sunday at 10.50 AM, it was a typically hot and humid Auckland summer’s morning in rising temperatures. But within seconds of…