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High priced Karaka yearling graduate Addictive Nature (Savabeel- Generous Nature by Carnegie) lived-up to the hype and some when making an impressive winning debut in the two-year-old event over 1100m at Warwick Farm on Wednesday, an effort further substantiated by breaking a thirteen year old class record set by the triple Group 1 winner Eeremin. "Did it look as good as it felt?" winning jockey Tim Clark said. "He's a pretty impressive horse." "He's trialled well and bounced on the bridle and...

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Dead 4 or Heavy 11, it seems to make little difference to exciting galloper Docletto ( Per Incanto -Our Shiraz by Nediym) whose career took another...

Multiple G2 winning three-year-old Saracino ( Per Incanto -Bella Daniela by O’Reilly) was confirmed this week s as one of four finalists in the category of NZ Sprinter of the Year. Joining the Lib Petagna bred and owned Per Incanto 3YO are the older sprinters Kawi, Start Wondering and Signify, who between them were successful in six G1 contests across the season under review. Saracino’s G2 treble comprised his defeat of the older horses in the 1400m Lisa Chittick Foxbridge Plate at Te Rapa in...

Per Incanto’s seasonal progeny earnings in NZ went past the million dollar mark with Kate The Great’s ( Per Incanto – Princess Chapel by Kings Chapel) success at Waverley on Thursday while Nadeem’s stakesplaced son Perfect Harmonee ( Nadeem -Harmony by Zabeel) rounded out a successful day for LA when he took out the final event. Kate The Great is the 57 th individual winner from 88 runners from Per Incanto’s first crop giving the Street Cry stallion an exceptional 64.5% winners to runners...

New York Minute (Iffraaj-Zeno Queen by Zeno Rob Roy)continued the good recent Pattern form of horses bought from LA’s Karaka drafts with her second placing in the 1400m Listed Seeka Classic at Tauranga on Saturday. The Christopher Grace bred Hard Merchandize, winner of the Listed John Turkington Forestry Castletown Stakes earlier this month, was purchased from LA’s 2016 Karaka Select Sale draft. Bred by the Spyglass Hill Syndicate, owners of the dual G1 winner Xanadu, New York Minute was...

Three more winners the past week have showcased Nadeem’s outstanding winners to runners ratio of 65%, but it’s his ability to also generate a high...

Dual group placed mare New York Minute’s (Iffraaj- Zenno Queen by Zeno Roby Roy) comprehensive win in the Jennian Homes Handicap, the feature event...

Consistent 2YO gelding Hard Merchandize (Burgundy- Pride and Passion by Encosta De Lago) was a deserved winner of the Listed John Turkington...

Dolcetto ( Per Incanto -Our Shiraz by Nediym) again displayed his unquestionable talent with a quite staggering performance to land the $50,000 Hanley Formula Autumn Sprint Championship at Trentham on Saturday. Drawing the widest in the 13 horse field looked to have cost the Sylvia Kay trained four-year-old any chance of success as those inside him blocked his momentum down the outside fence early in the run home. Forced to shift ground appreciably, the attractive brown Per Incanto gelding...

Nadeem two-year-old Yaya Papaya ( Nadeem -Cassini by Reset) defeated a number of highly regarded three-year-olds to win the 1100m $90,000 Magic Millions Yearling Sales Stakes at Kranji on Sunday. Sunday’s success has qualified the Gail Drought bred gelding for the last leg of The Singapore Golden Horseshoe series on July 7. Meanwhile in South Africa over the weekend, Nadeem’s stakes performing four-year-old Fareeq ( Nadeem -Azwa by Haafhd) ran second in a feature event over 1600m at...

A lift in the quality of weanlings on offer saw some strong trading at the National Weanling and Broodmare Sale at Karaka. Per Incanto joined the action with Lady Tavistock’s weanling colt from the Danasinga mare Inertia selling for $90,000 to Waikato’s Woburn Farm. Take The Trick’s (Per Incanto-Gizakis by Stark South) win at Wanganui on Sunday and Pakapunch’s (Per Incanto-Cancun by Flying Spur) success at Hastings on Thursday continued the excellent run of winning form by progeny of Per...