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2022 Sunline Education Trust Scholarship - Research update

The 2022 Sunline Education Trust Scholarship was awarded to Hannah Airey, supporting her to participate in research to improve the accuracy around potential nitrogen leaching and nutrient loss on Equine properties. On Thursday morning Dr Chris Rogers Massey University, Windsor Park principal Rodney Schick and NZTBA CEO Justine Sclater met Hannah at Windsor Park, the main Waikato research farm, to discuss Hannah’s initial research project on a commercial thoroughbred breeding farm. This looks a...

Increased fee for Ocean Emperor

Multiple Group Two winner Ocean Emperor will once again stand at Gary and Jenny Hennessy’s Weowna Park this coming breeding season for a fee of $10,000+GST, an increase of $3,000 from last season’s fee. A son of Zabeel, Ocean Emperor was a $450,000 yearling purchase at Karaka from the draft of Waikato Stud and went on to win nine of his 28 starts for Hennessy, including the Gr.2 Japan-NZ International Trophy (1600m) and back-to-back editions of the Gr.2 Tauranga Stakes (1600m). Ocean Emperor...

Fee Rise for Exciting Tarzino

Tarzino’s emergence as a serious source of quality staying performers has earned the Westbury Stud resident a service fee increase for the 2022 season. The dual Group One-winning son of Tavistock’s flagship representatives have been the current Gr.1 Queensland Oaks (2200m) favourite Gypsy Goddess, while his son Jungle Magnate is second favourite for the upcoming Gr.1 South Australian Derby (2500m). The former was successful in the Gr.3 Grand Prix Stakes (2100m) before recording Group One pla...

Two Illicit signs off on a high for Trelawney

By Dennis Ryan, RaceformNobody knows better than Brent and Cherry Taylor the roller-coaster ride that racing can deliver. Two Illicit’s farewell victory in last Saturday’s Gr. 2 Travis Stakes at Te Rapa was the best possible finale to a domestic season that has contained the highest of highs and lowest of lows for the Trelawney Stud couple. The Jimmy Choux mare’s Gr. 1 Captain Cook Stakes win was the headline act for the Taylors on a special December day completed by a Waikato Cup win by ...

Mapperley Stud announce 2022 service fees

Mapperley Stud has announced their service fees for the 2022 season, headlined by Group One producing sire Contributer who will stand for a fee of $20,000+GST. The exciting son of High Chaparral was crowned Champion second season sire after his first crop performed brilliantly on the race track, highlighted by Lion’s Roar’s Gr.1 Randwick Guineas (1600m) heroics and Llanacord’s win in the Gr.2 Lowland Stakes (2100m). Contributer is already the sire of six individual stakes performers f...

Haunui Farm Announce Fees for 2022

Off the back of RIBCHESTER (IRE) (Iffraaj) finishing April with his first southern hemisphere stakes performer as well as being Europe’s Leading Second Season Sire by winners, and BELARDO (IRE) (Lope De Vega) siring his first stakes winner in Australia, Haunui Farm is pleased to announce the return of both exciting young sires to New Zealand in 2022. BELARDO finished the 2020/2021 season as New Zealand’s Champion 2YO and First Season Sire.  AVONALLO lead the way as a stakes winner and K...

Novara Park announce 2022 service fees

Novara Park are looking forward to the upcoming breeding season where What’s The Story will join the farm’s established stallion roster that includes, Sweynesse, Staphanos, and King Of Comedy. “Novara are always looking at offering upside and value for money to breeders. Our stallion line-up offers breeders the best bloodlines in the world, while our fees give our clients affordability,” Novara Park principal Luigi Muollo said.  Sweynesse, a New Zealand leading first seaso...

Winning double for Newman at Wanganui

Trainer Bryce Newman enjoyed a stellar day out at Wanganui on Saturday where he bagged a winning double that included a quinella with two of the promising three-year-olds he currently has in his Bulls stable. Fablue (Fabulous (NZ) x Ruby Woo (NZ)), who was having just her second raceday start, got the better of debutant Kronenbourg (Vadamos (FR) x Angel Child (AUS)) in a tight finish to the Wanganui Insurance Brokers Maiden (1360m) where Newman thought the result may have gone the other way. “...

Two Illicit signs off in style at Te Rapa

If Saturday’s Gr.2 Travis Stakes (2000m) at Te Rapa is to be the last race for class mare Two Illicit (Jimmy Choux (NZ) x Gemini (NZ)) then she has signed off a stellar career in the best possible fashion with a dominant victory. Trainer Roger James, who prepares the five-year-old daughter of Jimmy Choux with Robert Wellwood, had spoken of her retirement leading into Saturday’s Group Two contest and she delighted her legion of fans with a performance that left no doubt about her un...

Luptons toast 2020 Sydney Cup

It may be two years since Etah James (Raise The Flag x Etah) posted her upset victory in the Gr.1 Sydney Cup (3200m) but Mark Lupton still hasn’t tired of watching the race replay. The 2020 edition of the Randwick feature got another viewing over Easter when Lupton and his wife Cath, who bred and own Etah James with Terry Reid and Garry Howes, received a special delivery courtesy of Sydney-based Reid. “We couldn’t travel (because of COVID restrictions) at the time so we have to watch the r...

Pearl Series continues to shine

The lucrative NZB Insurance Pearl Series has continued to reward eligible participants with the bonus being struck four times this month. The New Zealand Breeders’ Association administered scheme rewards the owners, trainer and nominator of winning Pearl Series eligible fillies and mares with a cash bonus. Radiant Rosie (Toronado x Rochie Rosie) picked up her first Pearl Series win at Riverton on April 18, with another South Island bonus being struck by Defiant (Tavistock x Valee) at Riccarton...

Cambridge Stud announce fees

Cambridge Stud has announced an increase in the service fee of Almanzor, who is guaranteed to be crowned champion first season sire at the end of the term, while Sword Of State will join the farm’s all-star Group 1 stallion roster in 2022. Almanzor’s 2022 fee will rise to $50,000 + GST in line with the accomplishments of his first Southern Hemisphere two-year-olds in 2021-22 with his flagship representative Dynastic successful in the Karaka Million at his second start and a subsequent Group ...

Valachi Downs’ annual broodmare reduction online

Valachi Downs’ annual broodmare reduction sale is now live on Gavelhouse Plus with 30 entries including empty mares, in-foal mares and mares with foals at foot. Following last year’s successful approach, all lots are unreserved with bidding running through until 7pm (NZT) on Wednesday 4 May. “We’ve continued to work to Kevin Hickman’s ethos of very carefully mapping out the stud’s matings to ensure physical compatibility while pedigree design also plays a key role,” Valachi Downs G...

Rich Hill announces 2022 service fees

Rich Hill Stud has celebrated major racetrack and sale ring success with its quality stallion line-up and results that have the Waikato nursery looking toward the 2022-23 season with great optimism. “Rich Hill is in a unique position with our stallion roster. We offer three proven international stallions and two young stallions with world class credentials,” Rich Hill Stud Managing Director John Thompson said. “Our stallion line-up reflects the global success of the New Zealand-bred produc...

Rionach too strong on debut at Avondale

Debutant two-year-old filly Rionach (Darci Brahma x Gracehill) showed she had inherited the family ability when she produced a powerful home straight surge to claim victory at Avondale on Monday. The Darci Brahma juvenile is the granddaughter of well-performed racemare Irish Colleen who has also left the multiple winners Killarney, Neeson and Australian Group Three winner Crosshaven and was bred by part owner Daniel Nakhle along with his father Elias. Carrying the familiar teal colours of the Na...

Emerging Sires Shine in Online Yearling Sale

Buyer demand for freshman and emerging talent was evident throughout New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2022 National Online Yearling Sale on Wednesday night, with the highlight lots secured all by exciting young New Zealand sires. For the second year, the digital postscript to NZB’s National Yearling Sales Series took place on premium online subsidiary Gavelhouse Plus. The sale topper was Lot 49, a colt by popular young sire Turn Me Loose purchased for $34,000 by NZB Agent Alex Teng on behalf of an i...

Fee rise for Little Avondale’s Per Incanto

Little Avondale Stud stallion Per Incanto has enjoyed a spectacular 2021/22 season with 14 stakes performers headed by the Group One winning exploits of memorable Newmarket Handicap (1200m) winner Roch ‘N’ Horse. Per Incanto’s son Justacanta was another to take big race spoils when winning down the Flemington straight in the Gr.2 Linlithgow Stakes (1200m). A son of Street Cry, Per Incanto added four new Australian Group winners for the season, which also included Lost And Running, the thi...

Ambitious development promises to safeguard future of racing at Trentham

A proposed development of the Trentham racecourse that promises to revitalise the venue and futureproof racing at the track has been described as "a development of a kind that the city has never seen before". RACE Inc, which administers several Central Districts racing clubs racing at Awapuni and Trentham, has unveiled ambitious plans to redevelop Trentham into a "world-class racing facility" offering stake money "unheard of in this part of the country". The project has been shortlisted for Kāi...

Star filly too good for older rivals in Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes

Outstanding three-year-old filly Imperatriz blew her older rivals off the track at Te Rapa on Saturday when she bolted clear to win the Gr.1 Fiber Fresh New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1600m). The Mark Walker-trained daughter of I Am Invincible (AUS) was given a gun ride by Opie Bosson as he made use of her inside barrier to trail leader One Dream One Soul before moving off the rail to issue a challenge three wide on the home corner. Allowed to balance up and find her feet, the fill...

Gr.1 Fiber Fresh New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders' Stakes Preview

New Zealand bred mares have had a sensational season, both here and in Australia. In November Verry Elleegant (Zed – Opulent) took out the ultimate Australasian Group One - the Melbourne Cup bringing her elite win total to 10.  Sierra Sue (Darci Brahma – Centree), Tofane (Ocean Park – Baggy Green [AUS]), Roch’N’Horse (Per Incanto [USA]-Rochfort), Probabeel (Savabeel [AUS]-Far Fetched), and Never Been Kissed (Tivaci [AUS]-Movie) also achieved Group One success in Australia while Ic...

Waikato Stud announces 2022 stallion roster

Waikato Stud have announced their stallion roster for the 2022 breeding season. The roster is headed by the seven-time New Zealand Champion and leading Australasian sire of stakes winners, Savabeel, and he is now joined by his abundantly talented Group One-winning son, Noverre. Continuing on from last year’s extremely successful racing season where Waikato Stud was crowned top breeder and leading vendor at Karaka, the current season has been one of the very best in the farm’s history. The W...

First winner for U S Navy Flag

Shuttle stallion U S Navy Flag has registered his first winner in the northern hemisphere when Ocean Vision won the Irish EBF median sires series maiden (1000m) at Dundalk on debut yesterday. Prepared by Kieran Cotter and ridden by Jake Coen, Ocean Vision raced greenly throughout but defeated favourite Lady Tilbury by three-quarters of a length. “He actually needs six furlongs (1200m), he was all over the place early on in the race but came home strong,” Cotter said. “There was a lot of t...

Pearl Series revamped

There have been exciting changes made to the NZB Insurance Pearl Series for the 2022/23 season. From August 2022 bonuses will now be paid out to fillies and mares that finish first, second or third in a Pearl eligible race (previously only paid to winners) and the series will now be extended to cover previously registered mares up to and including their five-year-old season of racing. A single bonus level will be offered for all Pearl races with the winning owner receiving $10,000, and the trai...

Thoroughbreds show Ex-Factor

Thoroughbreds were at their versatile best last weekend when competing in the Dunstan Ex-Factor competition at Papatoetoe Pony Club. Run by Beyond the Barriers’ Gina Schick and Nicky Wallace, the two-day competition saw the entrants compete over a range of classes from Best Presented to Working Equation, with the thoroughbreds displaying their aptitude for a variety of tasks For the first year there were two sections, the original Dunstan Ex-Factor class for those horses who began their sporth...

Mr Brightside puts a smile on Ray’s face

Ray Johnson may well have lost count of the number of racing and breeding stock that have passed through his hands over the years, but on Saturday the Bay of Plenty real estate agent celebrated one to top them all. The Johnson-bred Mr Brightside staked his place amongst Australia’s best when he led home a Kiwi-bred trifecta in last Saturday’s Gr. 1 Doncaster Mile on the opening day of The Championships at Randwick. Completing something of a rags to riches story, the four-year-old son of Bull...