Tajana on target for Soliloquy after Taupo gallop
October 13, 2025
Gr.1 New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m) favourite Tajana warmed up for her next feature assignment with an exhibition gallop between races at Taupo on Friday.The Darci Brahma filly has had two starts as a three-year-old this season for two Group Three victories, capturing the ...
War Princess outclasses Hawera rivals
October 6, 2025
War Princess was the hottest favourite on the card at Hawera on Saturday, and she lived up to her $1.40 odds with an effortless and confidence-boosting victory in the NZB RTR 3YO (1400m).The daughter of U S Navy Flag showed enormous promise as a two-year-old last season, win...
Tajana latest star for The Oaks Stud
September 23, 2025
It’s clear that Sunline Vase (Gr 3, 1400m) winner Tajana (Darci Brahma) is for real. Her form at two was more than promising but in her two starts this season she has proved best of the fillies and maybe the best three-year-old at this point of the season. Although s...
Spring campaigns taking shape for The Oaks Stud pair
September 22, 2025
Cambridge trainers Shaune Ritchie and Colm Murray are hoping to spend plenty of time on the road this spring with a pair of The Oaks Stud’s representatives.The training partnership earned a winning treble across the weekend, with two of those carrying the familiar Oaks sil...
Tajana takes out Sunline Vase in thrilling finish
September 22, 2025
Many pre-race pundits had labelled Saturday’s Ellerslie’s feature, the Gr.3 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai Sunline Vase (1400m) as a two-horse contest between Lollapalooza and Tajana, the two hottest three-year-old fillies of spring racing to date.While that ignored the legiti...
Tajana ready to further press Classic claims
September 18, 2025
Fresh is best for top quality three-year-old Tajana who has thrived since her impressive return to competition last month.The Oaks Stud-bred and raced daughter of Darci Brahma was a resuming winner of the Gr.3 Northland Breeders’ Stakes (1200m) ahead of a second-up tilt at...
Weekend double for U S Navy Flag
September 15, 2025
Faraglioni’s retirement has left a big hole in Josh Shaw’s stable this season, but the Group One performer’s half-sister Chart The Stars has started to do her bit to continue the family legacy.Chart The Stars opened her winning account in the second start of her career...
Savaglee crowned Champion Three-Year-Old
September 9, 2025
The Oaks Studs' Savabeel colt Savaglee was crowned Champion Three-Year-Old on Sunday night, at the New Zealand Thoroughbred Horse Of The Year Awards in Hamilton.Savaglee headed off the hotly contested three year old section to take the title from an age group that included t...
War Princess seeking crowning glory
August 28, 2025
Awapuni filly War Princess will head up State Highway Three on Saturday to Wanganui in search of all-important black-type in the Listed HS Dyke Wanganui Guineas (1200m).The daughter of U S Navy Flag won two of her three starts as a juvenile, and was unplaced in the Gr.1 Mana...
Navy King sails to victory at the Valley
August 25, 2025
A well-judged front-running ride by Daniel Stackhouse has aided five-year-old gelding Navy King to claim the lion’s share of the prize in the MSC Signs Handicap (2040m) at The Valley on Saturday.The Symon Wilde-trained son of US Navy Flag was able to take the role of pacem...
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