New Zealand jockey Mark Du Plessis chalked up his first winner in Japan on Sunday.

The Brendon Hawtin trained Money Trail with Sam Spratt aboard, broke through maiden ranks with authority taking out the $10,000 Race Images 1200 at Ellerslie on Saturday.

Ichiban used the entire Ellerslie track to capture the Listed $50,000 Graeme Thomson Jewellers Great Northern Foal Stakes (1400m) at Ellerslie on Saturday.

Magic Millions National Broodmare sale on the Gold Coast has a select group of New Zealand-bred and owned mares on offer going under the hammer next week.

No one is riding better in Macau then ex-pat kiwi Andrew Calder who has booted home seven winners in six race days.

Sea King defied his top-weight to successfully defend his Waikato Steeplechase crown, winning by three and half lengths at Te Rapa on Saturday.

On Saturday we had fiasco of a situation of a late scratching of a horse at the barrier, because of an un-well jockey. While it is not good to see any jockey un-well, especially around at the barriers, lessons should be learnt.

Unbeaten three-year-old filly Let Me Roar displayed qualities that has her earmarked for black-type races next season.

Matamata trainer Graham Richardson produced two winners with his only two runners at Te Rapa on Saturday.

Top-weight Sea King will try to win back-to-back Waikato Steeplechases - here at Te Rapa on Saturday although his task has been made tougher with the weight of 70kgs he's been asked to carry.

The Oysterman will get an opportunity for his break-through maiden win in the $10,000 Members Raceday 11 June at Te Rapa Steeples (4000m) for maiden steeplechasers on Saturday.

Highly regarded three-year-old Okanagan has been sold by his co-breeder and owner Sir Peter Vela and will do his future racing in Hong Kong.

Cambridge trainer Tony Pike's small team campaigning in Brisbane got off to a great start with two-year-old Sacred Elixir winning on the Sunshine Coast last week.

Unbeaten three-year-old He Kin Fly followed up with his impressive debut start last month, with another impressive victory at Rotorua on Saturday.

Storming The Tower, dug deep the most to be victorious in the Group 3 $75,000 Campbell Infrastructure Rotorua Cup on Saturday at Arawa Park.

Last start Te Rapa winner Silhouette Noire will try to win black type, in the Listed $50,000 Classic Cuisine Rotorua Stakes (1400m) (WFA) for fillies and mares at Rotorua on Saturday.

The five-year-old was a shock winner of the Rating 85, 1400-metre contest (Harness Jewels @ Cambridge Premier) beating Bonniegirl by a head, a fortnight ago at odds of 41/1.

Sent north to Lee Somerville's stable to get black type success, the Australian-bred mare was having her third start for Somerville when winning here at Te Rapa. Her first two starts for Somerville were at Ellerslie but the mare wasn't suited to the right-handed track, having done all her racing left-handed in the South Island.

The Dane Shadow mare won on her debut as a three-year-old at Ashburton. She was three times placed at Listed level when prepared by Terri Rae at Riccarton. She finished third in the Listed NZB Canterbury Belle Stakes and finished second twice to Madam Victoria in the Listed NZB Airfreight Stakes and the Listed NZB Insurance Stakes

Silhouette Noir won five and was placed on eight occasions in 22 starts for Rae. Her owners then transferred her to Somervell in January to chase more stakes form.

Raced by Charles Hall and his wife Anne-Marie de Spa, principal of the de Spa Cosmestics, Silhouette Noir best form is on rain effected footing but her Te Rapa success on good going shows she can win on top of the ground too.

On Saturday she will face last start winner Fascination Street from the Lance O'Sullivan and Andrew Scott stable and in the in-form stable Tony Pike runner Miss Dennie. Bonniegirl will again be one of her rivals.

Exciting Cambridge two-year-old Sacred Elixir kicked off his Queensland campaign the right way when the Pour Moi gelding won on the Sunshine Coast today.

Last weekend's Travis Stakes here at Te Rapa provided a quality field for fillies and mares, and a series for females including older mares should be considered in the near future.

Lanciato was an impressive winner of the $20,000 Clubhouse Café and Sportsbar Cambridge (1600m) for three-year-olds at Te Rapa on Saturday.

Xtravagant produced a quality performance taking out the Group 3 $70,000 Inglis Sales Cambridge Breeders' Stakes (1200m) at Te Rapa on Saturday.

Consistent mare Rasa Lila was a brilliant winner in the Group 2 $100,000 Travis Stakes (2000m) for fillies and mares at Te Rapa on Saturday.