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It's the Little Avondale G3 Lowland Stakes Twilight meeting at Hawkes Bay this Thursday 2nd March. Gates open at 2.30pm. General Admission is FREE....

Shared Secrets ( Nadeem -Eva Kelly by O’Reilly) win in The Dominion Post NZ St Leger Trial at Otaki on Saturday continues an excellent run of form by the progeny of her sire Nadeem. Coming off a fast finishing 4 th in the 1600m Group 3 Desert Gold Stakes at her most recent start, the Mark Oulaghan trained filly was entitled to be the modicum of good support at Otaki. However stepping to 2100m for the first time and competing against four-year-old company is never easy yet the Nadeem filly...

Consistent 4YO Lanciato (Per Incanto -Surreptitious by O’Reilly) gained a well deserved first Australian success when finishing strongly to win over 1400m at Rosehill on Wednesday. A dual winner when trained by Graham Richardson, the LA and JML Bloodstock bred gelding had placed in four of his last five starts, all in Sydney, prior to Wednesday’s success. Lanciato’s win follows Cantare’s ( Per Incanto -Nanneri by Le Bec Fin) 12 length demolition of his R65 opponents at Gisborne on Sunday.

Leading trainer Gai Waterhouse has her first Per Incanto. In conjunction with First Light Racing and Paul Willetts, Gai and co-trainer Adrian Bott signed for the Per Incanto-Fast Quickstep filly on the final day of the Inglis Classic Sale earlier this week. LA’s two other yearlings in the Classic Sale were also well sought after. Christopher Grace’s Darci Brahma colt was purchased by O’Gorman Racing for $65,000 while the other Per Incanto yearling in the Sale, our filly from Tinkermia, went to...

Group 2 Danehill Stakes winner Saracino ( Per Incanto -Bella Daniela by O’Reilly) tackled the best older sprinters in the country in Saturday’s 1400m Group 1 NRM Sprint, fighting on courageously to finish a close third behind the winner Start Wondering and runner-up Natuzzi. Meanwhile at the other two domestic Saturday meetings, Don Carlo ( Per Incanto -Turf Fire by O’Reilly) registered his third win at just his sixth start when successful over 1200m at Riccarton, while at Woodville, fellow...

After a successful Karaka sale series, LA’s focus shifts across the Tasman this week to the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale which gets underway on Saturday 11 February in Sydney. The Inglis Classic has been one of the big movers of Australasian thoroughbred sales with the likes of last year’s G1 Blue Diamond Stakes victor Extreme Choice and dual G1 winning filly Yankee Rose ensuring its popularity with yearling buyers worldwide. LA are once again delighted to offer a select Classic draft of four...

Our week at Karaka concluded with Little Avondale topping the vendor averages and Per Incanto the sire averages at the Festival Sale. On the back of...

G1 winner Dal Cielo (Per Incanto-Cent From Heaven by Centaine) remained unbeaten in Sydney this preparation after defeating last start G1 Myer...

Strong buyer interest in a couple of his fillies on the final day completed a very successful Select Sale for Per Incanto . Richardson Racing,...

Per Incanto comfortably leads the sire averages at the end of day two of the Select Sale after Victorian trainers John McArdle and Matt Cumani...

The momentum generated on day one continued for LA with the farm consolidating its position as the sixth leading vendor on aggregate overall, thanks...

LA finished the first day’s trading at Karaka Premier with a healthy aggregate and average. Lisa Latta’s purchase of the Snitzel-Just Dancing filly for $300,000 gave the Arrowfield owned filly the distinction of the farm’s top price for the day. Once again it was very satisfying to see a number of the industries mostly highly regarded judges purchasing yearlings from LA . China Horse Club returned to acquire the Stratum- Bellabachi filly for $220,000; Guy Mulcaster the Written Tycoon colt for...