Te Akau Racing, Blake Shinn and fantastic filly Damask Rose created a piece of New Zealand racing history when they took out the inaugural running of the richest race in the land, the newly minted $3.5 million Listed The NZB Kiwi (1500m) at Ellerslie.

Gilgai Farm have been basking in the glory of selling a million dollar yearling at Inglis Premier last week and also featured at Randwick on Saturday having bred and sold All Too Hard mare Little Baia, who scored a valuable first stakes win in the Group III ATC Aspiration Quality (1600m).