An autumn trip to Canterbury has turned out to be career-defining for Matamata mare Sassy Merlot, who added a valuable black-type win to her record in Saturday’s Listed Daphne Bannan Memorial Great Easter Stakes (1400m) at Riccarton.

Kintyre Gets a Well Deserved Stakes Win

A half-brother to Golden Slipper winner and Champion 2YO Fireburn, Hallowed Crown gelding Kintyre has been threatening to win a stakes race for some time and got the job done at Randwick on Saturday taking out the $250,000 Group III ATC Frank Packer Plate (2000m), but probably not in the way connections might have liked.

Almanzor Filly Wins G3 Trelawney Stud Championship Stakes

Broadsiding Toughs it Out in Champagne Stakes - First Australian Group 1 Winner for Too Darn Hot

Ace juvenile Wins Starway Stakes

9YO Green Luck Wins G3 Canterbury Gold Cup

No Nay Never Filly Wins Listed Warstep Stakes

Mazu Turns Back the Clock

Second G1 Victory for Hellbent Mare Magic Time

Huetor Back to His Best in JRA Plate