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Carpe Diem is a 11 year old bay gelding. Carpe Diem is trained by B C McDermott, at Waitarere Beach and owned by B McDermott, C Dodds & B Judd.
Carpe Diem’s last race event was at 17/07/2025 and it has not been nominated for any upcoming race.
Career form is 6 wins, 3 seconds, 6 thirds from 81 starts with a lifetime career prize money of $171,179.
With a 7% Win Percentage and 19% Place Percentage. Carpe Diem's last race event was at Awapuni Synthetic.
Exposed form for its last starts is 7-4-4-9-0.
Last Updated: 17/07/2025
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