Nom Du Jeu is a

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racehorse. He won the 2008 AJC Australian Derby, beating Red Ruler in a rare New Zealand quinella in an Australian Group One race. The win made him the first New Zealand male three-year-old to win an Australian Group One since Our Maizcay in the 1995

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, and the first New Zealander to win a Group One in Sydney since Honor Babe in the 2003

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. Nom Du Jeu continued this form as a four-year-old. A first-up win (which was later taken off him after a positive swab) was followed by placings in the Stoney Bridge Stakes and Kelt Capital Stakes. He then travelled to Australia, where he finished second in the

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and eighth in the

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. He was retired after competing in the 2009 W. S. Cox Plate. As of 2017, Nom Du Jeu stands at Raheen Stud in

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, where he has sired 43 winners from 105 runners

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