Early bird pricing for the NZB Insurance Pearl Series bonus closes on 31st May. It is only fitting that today, Imprevu lead home an NZB Insurance Pearl Series trifecta at the Cambridge Jockey Club with $14,000 going back to the connections of the first, second and third placegetters. The NZB Insurance Pearl Series is a bonus scheme for Southern Hemisphere bred fillies and mares, offering bonuses of $2.8 million. The scheme includes up to 200 individual races for fillies and mares over four seasons’ racing, with bonuses for each race…
Month: June 2023
Angels Wings breaks through at Cambridge
Deserving of victory, three-year-old filly Angels Wings (Heroic Valour) took out the NZB Insurance Pearl Series Maiden Fillies & Mares (1300m) at Cambridge of Wednesday for trainer Mark Walker. Angel Wings had placed in four of her eight starts and showed her appreciation for the firmer surface of the polytrack when bouncing back from a last-start failure on a heavy turf surface. Angels Wings parked just behind the leaders and responded well to the urgings of jockey Opie Bosson to get the better of her rivals over the concluding stages.…
NZB Best Newcomers Announced for TiES Series
New Zealand Bloodstock is proud to be at the forefront of a new sponsorship incentive known as the NZB Best Newcomer Award, forming part of the NZTR Thoroughbreds in Equestrian Sports (TiES) Series. Working in partnership with Equestrian Sports New Zealand and NZTR, NZB have sponsored the inaugural award introduced for the 2022-23 season, recognising the success and versatility of thoroughbreds in equestrian sports. The eligible disciplines within the Series included dressage, eventing, show jumping and show hunter for thoroughbreds newly registered with ESNZ, and following the close of the…