Vegas Queen heads to the $1 million Elsdon Park Aotearoa Classic for four-year-olds at the Karaka Millions meeting, with Rae buzzing about having a genuine contender in a seven-figure race. Also heading to the Karaka Millions after impressive come-from-behind race wins yesterday will be the Andrew Forsman-trained pair of Stromlinien and Chilling Out. “She has a real touch of class and I think she could be competitive off a good tempo in the Karaka Millions Three-Year-Old,” says Forsman, who has moved up to fourth on the premiership with a win every six starters. Michael Guerin wrote his first nationally published racing articles while still in school and started writing about horse racing and the gambling industry for the Herald as a 20-year-old in 1990. He became the Herald’s Racing Editor in 1995 and covers the world’s biggest horse racing carnivals.

Source: New Zealand Herald January 11, 2026 21:32 UTC