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Racing: Prestigious race canned
The Forbury Park Trotting Club's most prestigious race of the season will not be run at tomorrow's Easter Thursday meeting.

Racing: Banned Oz trainer to scale down
Aussie trainer Peter Moody has vowed to never again have a large string of horses should he make a return to training.

Racing: Slipper win is perfect fit at last for Shinn
A Golden Slipper win has been a long time coming for Blake Shinn who has savoured every moment of his win on Capitalist.

Racing: Sanders big fan of Fanatic
Co-trainer confident of success in the New Zealand Oaks despite being a $63 outsider.

Fanatic wins Oaks on protest
Graeme Sanders is usually calm and collected before a big race, but he admitted to being on edge before the feature event at Trentham yesterday.

Only bad luck can beat Sofia Rosa
It can beat anything, but Sofia Rosa might need her fair share of it to get beaten in Saturday's $300,000 Wellfield NZ Oaks at Trentham.

Racing: Bold showing tipped at Matamata
Progressive stayer Trojan Warrior will have at least one more opportunity to further his record before he goes for a deserved break.

Racing: Stern Slipper task for McDonald
James McDonald will have to produce a "10 out of 10" ride to help Astern overcome a horror draw for Saturday's A$3.5 million Golden Slipper.

Racing: Classy mare sticks to formula
Lance O'Sullivan and Andrew Scott will continue to stick to a proven winning formula with the well-bred mare Mary Quant.

Racing: Auckland Cup victory a 'dream come true'
Asked what El Soldado's $500,000 upset win in Saturday's Barfoot & Thompson Auckland Cup meant to him, owner and trainer Phillip Devcich said: "No more bills".

$125 outsider wins Auckland Cup
Veteran El Soldado won the $500,000 Barfoot & Thompson Auckland Cup while paying $125 to win.

Star rowers bring horse power to Cup day
Rowing heroes Eric Murray and Hamish Bond will experience a rare sporting emotion today -- hope.

Lazarus the star of the show in All Stars
The champion trainer and partner Natalie Rasmussen pulled off another group race domination job, winning all four feature races they had runners in, with Lazarus.

Racing: Sacred Master marches toward Cup
Memories of outstanding sprinter Sacred Star's horror season until last Saturday will be obliterated with victory in the same colours for Sacred Master in today's Auckland Cup.

Same aim, different game for two champs
What do a 130kg, 1.84m rugby player and a 51.5kg, 1.57m jockey have in common? Actually, quite a lot. For one, both are champions.

Lazarus back - not quite from the dead
It is extremely tempting to write Lazarus is back from the dead for Friday's $250,000 Woodlands Northern Derby.

Racing: Xtravagant fails to fire in A$750k Guineas
Glamour colt Xtravagant will return to New Zealand to spell after his eighth in Saturday's A$750,000 Australian Guineas at Flemington.

Racing: Sacred Star finally gets track to suit
There was an element of gamble about Sacred Star being allowed to start in Saturday's $100,000 Darley Plate, and it paid off handsomely.

Racing: Get real - you can't beat Zabeel
It's impossible to overstate the Zabeel influence in the Rangipo-What's The Story-Raghu $750,000 BMW Derby trifecta.