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Southland breeders celebrate win

A friendship developed at the racetrack reaped the rewards at Riverton on Wednesday. Peter Forde and John and Barbara Racz met when in the ownership of five-time winner Ginty’s Choice (Coats Choice x Ginty’s Gold) and bought out the syndicate to secure the well-related mare as a breeding prospect. This week her only live foal to date, Gintys Girl (by Ghibellines) cleared maiden ranks when winning her mile contest at her fourth career start. Barbara Racz has a special place in her heart for G...

Cambridge Stud Gavelhouse Plus Sale Live

Cambridge Stud have a select draft of 10 mares plus a share in Ocean Park now live on Gavelhouse Plus with bidding running through until 7pm (NZT) on Friday 20 May. “At Cambridge Stud we have a business plan to breed off 150 mares. With a large racing team, we have mares retiring to stud every year, so we have to make room for them. This creates great opportunity for breeders to tap into commercial bloodlines,” Sales and Nominations representative Cameron Ring said. “The majority of the ma...

Group One performer new to Mapperley Stud

Mapperley Stud is excited to announce they have secured the high-class racehorse Armory who will commence stallion duties at their Matamata property in 2022. Mapperley Stud has joined forces with Windsor Park Stud to acquire the Group One-performed and multiple Group-winning son of champion sire Galileo.  Armory retires to stud a winner of five races from his 16 starts, amassing more than A$1.7 million in stakes and accumulating a number of champion accolades.   A precocious two-y...

Ghibellines heads White Robe roster

Brian and Lorraine Anderton’s White Robe Lodge will again present a strong roster of four stallions featuring the proven trio of Ghibellines, Raise The Flag and Gallant Guru, while the impeccably credentialed Ancient Spirit will cover his second book of mares. On the back of a successful season that has featured five individual stakes winners, Ghibellines will stand for $8,000+GST. The son of Shamardal operates at 5.9 percent stakes winners to runners, with his progeny winning over a variety o...

Windsor Park Stud Yearling Sale and Sports Luncheon

When: Friday 13 May, 12 noon to 3pmWhere: Show Gate, Riccarton ParkSales Catalogue: https://issuu.com/windsorparkstud/docs/windsor_park_rugby_racing_and_beer_catalogue Following the success of their ‘Rugby, Racing and Beer’ auction last year, Windsor Park Stud have decided to make it an annual event and will return to Riccarton this coming Friday. This year the Cambridge farm will offer nine yearlings to the public. Yearlings are by current leading second crop sire of stakes winners Turn M...

Connections Cast by TDN - Rodney Schick

Windsor Park, which was purchased by Schick’s parents Nelson and Sue more than three decades ago, has cemented itself as one of Australasia’s leading thoroughbred nurseries and stallion operations, with a host of Group 1 winners including Might And Power (NZ) (Zabeel {NZ}) coming off the famed Cambridge nursery....

Heberite scores Grand Annual victory

Heberite (Raise The Flag (GB) x Arurite (NZ)) continued the New Zealand-bred dominance of the Grand Annual Steeplechase (5500m) at Warrnambool with his all the way victory in the jumping feature on Thursday.It was the fifth consecutive win in the race by a Kiwi-bred, with Gold Medals taking out the race in 2018 and 2021, while Zed Em and Ablaze won the 2019 and 2020 editions respectively.Heberite carried the same colours as Ablaze to victory for trainers Ciaron Maher and David Eustace, with...

Bonecrusher - My Story

Last month Owen Larson contacted the NZTBA, wanting to share his story of his role in the breeding of the legendary Bonecrusher. This is the story of how the great horse Bonecrusher came to be on this planet, as told by Owen Larsen, who for many years during the 1960s and 1970s was a small-time breeder on a property at Newstead, Hamilton and was on the Committee of the Waikato Branch of the NZTBA almost until he moved to live in NSW, Australia, in 1979. In the mid Seventies I decided that the NZ...

Windsor Park 2022 Service Fees

Windsor Park Stud, whose stallions have enjoyed a super season on the racetrack, have announced their service fees for the 2022 breeding season. View their full 2022 roster here Heading Windsor Park’s stallion roster will be ‘boom’ young sire Turn Me Loose whose two and three-year-old progeny have enjoyed an exceptional run of success this season in Australia, New Zealand and Asia.Turn Me Loose currently leads the table for NZ based second season sires by both...

Bonny filly strikes again

Sandy Moore has had his fair share of winners but admits there is something special about seeing a horse he has bred cross the finish line first. Three-year-old filly Bonny Lass (Super Easy x Posh Bec) has been providing plenty of thrills since she made her winning debut at Matamata in January last year. Her fifth win on Saturday was her second at group level and Moore said though unexpected, her victory in the Gr.3 Cambridge Breeders’ Stakes (1200m) at Te Rapa was a welcome surprise. “It wa...

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...