'The Black Demon' Advance won up to a mile and a half but it was as a weight carrying sprinter that he was supreme. In 13 oh his 19 wins he carried nine stone or more, between 1900 and 1909.

Bonecrusher (September 17, 1982) is a retired champion New Zealand Thoroughbred racehorse who was widely admired in both Australia and New Zealand. Bred by Bill Punch, his damsire was a son of a French champion, Tantieme.[1] Bonecrusher was purchased by Peter Mitchell for just $3,250 at the Waikato Yearling Sales, and was trained by Frank Ritchie. A chestnut, Bonecrusher was nicknamed Big Red - the same name as the immortal champions Man o' War, Secretariat and Phar Lap.

High –class horses and riders, taken before the 1945 ARC Clifford Plate, from left Neenah, Coronaire, Lord Chancellor and Te Hinemoa. Lord Chancellor got there by a neck from Te Hinemoa.

St Leger, Martian and Absurd were dominant sires of their time but no stallion before had exercised the complete dominance Foxbridge, the monarch of the 1940's. Nor did any stallion approach his level of prepotence until Sir Tristram in the 1980's

At the height of his career, Takanini trainer Fred Smith was not averse to rolling up his sleeves, donning his battered old hat and hitching his braces to work with the horses in the winter mud. Why would he be? A horseman, and a masterly horseman, is what he was. 1930's

Goldleaf won the 1897 New Zealand Oaks, CJC Great Autumn Handicap and Wellington Stakes, At stud she produced Autumnus, the best seven furlong galloper of his day and later a successful site.

Phar Lap Born: 1927 Died: 1932 The monstrous New Zealand-bred Phar Lap (“lightning” in Thai) raced mainly in Australia, winning 37 times in 51 races and setting 8 track records. Phar Lap was a staggering 17.1 hands and his heart weighed 13.7 lbs, compared to the average weight of 9 lbs. Phar Lap was invited to the $50 000 Agua Caliente Handicap in Mexico. Racing on dirt for the first time against some of America’s best horses, Phar Lap set a new record winning time. Phar Lap died suddenly after becoming ill. A plot to kill him was suspected, but never proven.

Phar Lap Born: 1927 Died: 1932 The monstrous New Zealand-bred Phar Lap (“lightning” in Thai) raced mainly in Australia, winning 37 times in 51 races and setting 8 track records. Phar Lap was a staggering 17.1 hands and his heart weighed 13.7 lbs, compared to the average weight of 9 lbs. Phar Lap was invited to the $50 000 Agua Caliente Handicap in Mexico. Racing on dirt for the first time against some of America’s best horses, Phar Lap set a new record winning time. Phar Lap died suddenly after becoming ill. A plot to kill him was suspected, but never proven.

Sunline (1995–2009) was a New Zealand bred Thoroughbred racehorse who was the world's highest earning racemare of her time, competing on 48 occasions for 32 wins, 9 seconds and 3 thirds to earn AUD$11,351,607. She won races in three different countries, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. She won successive W.S. Cox Plates (2,040m), the richest Weight for Age (WFA) race in Australia. She also twice won the toughest mile race in Australia, the Doncaster Handicap, once as a three-year-old and then again as a six-year-old. She was named New Zealand Horse of the Year four times and is also the only horse ever to win the Australian Horse of the Year championship three times.She recorded a remarkable 13 wins from her 25 starts in Group One races (a winning strike-rate of 52%), while Makybe Diva, with whom she is often compared, won seven of her 14 (a winning strike-rate of 50%). Greg Childs, the jockey who rode Sunline in 33 of her races, said she deserved to bracketed with the Diva as the best racemares of the modern era. Makybe Diva was an outstanding stayer and Sunline was a champion middle distance horse. Sunline led in most of her races, and sometimes settled just behind the leader. She was renowned for her tremendous constitution, and for being difficult to get past. Sunline was an inaugural inductee into the New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame, along with the other turf immortals Carbine, Gloaming, Kindergarten and Phar Lap.

Yahabeebe is among the fastest horses bred in New Zealand as she was a winner of 14 races up to a 1600m, including seven in record time.