NZ trainers can continue to operate
New Zealand trainers can continue to work their horses while racing is shut down under government guidelines. From midnight Wednesday, New Zealand will move to COVID-19 alert level 4 with only essential services permitted to operate. NZ Thoroughbred Racing has issued a statement outlining conditions. "Our advice from the Ministry for Primary Industries confirms that training centres, training stables, agistment properties and stud farms where horses are in containment are considered essential se...
March 25, 2020Exercise imperative to welfare claims Pike
Cambridge trainer Tony Pike is adamant that training tracks need to remain open throughout the Covid-19 alert level 4 lockdown on animal welfare grounds. The respected horseman, who is also the President of the New Zealand Trainers’ Association, usually has around 80 horses in work and is keen to see tracks remain open to keep horses ticking over, albeit on a reduced scale. “I have been working really closely with New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing and also have a couple of vets on board as we...
March 24, 2020Perfectly Ready succumbs to colic
Brighthill Farm have announced the loss of consistent stallion Perfectly Ready. The rising 18-year-old son of More Than Ready returned to the farm from the vet clinic this morning where he was euthanized after a short battle with inoperable colic. “Perfectly Ready was a wonderful stallion for us here at Brighthill Farm,” general manager Nick King said. “He was not only a Group One winner himself but left Group One winner Signify and as a broodmare sire has left Group One winner Aloisia....
March 24, 2020BLOG: News from the Irish National Stud
Hannah Airey and Laura McNab are currently in Ireland at the Irish National Stud on the Keith and Faith Taylor Equine Scholarship. They fill us in on how the Irish National Stud is dealing with the Covid-19 situation and how management have taken practical measures to ensure the farm can operate in a safe way while still providing a top level of care to horses on site.LAURAHere at the stud, all tourism has stopped completely. We have no members of the public entering the premises which makes the...
March 23, 2020New Zealand Racing open for business
Racing is undeniably a small cog in this global crisis but to all its fans and those, the world over, who rely on it for their livelihoods, it is a vital one. The NZ Thoroughbred Breeders Association will be regularly reviewing the information provided and will endeavour to update you frequently. We are currently looking at the business support package, along with other information and the implications Covid-19 could have on our livelihoods . Please see the Government Coronavirus informatio...
March 20, 2020Date Change for 2020 South Island Sale
Due to today’s announcement made by the Government regarding further restrictions with large public gatherings, New Zealand Bloodstock has made the decision to postpone the 2020 South Island Sale that was due to be held on 17 April. After consultation with various New Zealand and Australian stakeholders, the Sale will be moved to Friday 7 August 2020. The Sale will effectively become an unbroken two-year-old Sale, the same format that was previously held up until 2013. The public gathering a...
March 19, 2020Early bird entries set to close
The early bird entries for the NZB Insurance Pearl Series will close on March 31. The bonus scheme is for southern hemisphere bred fillies and mares and offers bonuses of almost $2.6 million and prizemoney of nearly $2.8 million over 200 races around New Zealand across three seasons of racing. Bonuses are awarded to the winning owners, trainers and breeders. Early bird entries are $920 while those nominated after March 31 will cost $1,380. Fillies purchased out of the New Zealand Bloodstock Sou...
March 18, 2020NZB monitoring COVID-19 situation ahead of sales
A decision on whether New Zealand Bloodstock’s upcoming sales at Karaka and Christchurch will take place will be decided on April 1, the company said in a statement. “This is the date that the government will announce if the recently imposed travel restrictions will remain in force,” the statement read. “We will also need to be mindful of the travel restrictions announced by the Australian government. “Given public gatherings must number no more than 500 people, this is also an i...
March 17, 2020NZB monitoring COVID-19 situation ahead of sales
A decision on whether New Zealand Bloodstock’s upcoming sales at Karaka and Christchurch will take place will be decided on April 1, the company said in a statement. “This is the date that the government will announce if the recently imposed travel restrictions will remain in force,” the statement read. “We will also need to be mindful of the travel restrictions announced by the Australian government. “Given public gatherings must number no more than 500 people, this is also an i...
March 17, 2020Racing Industry initiates COVID-19 measures
The racing industry is taking steps to reduce the potential for the spread of the COVID-19 virus among participants and public by closing its meetings to all but essential personnel. Race meetings will be conducted as “closed door” events commencing on Wednesday, March 18. The only people permitted to attend meetings will be those jockeys competing at the meeting, trainers with runners engaged at the meeting, stable staff of those trainers as advised to the club, and essential race day perso...
March 17, 2020Scholarship Blog Post- Hannah Airey March 2020
Keith and Faith Taylor Equine Scholarship Recipient Hannah Airey gives us an update on her time at the Irish National Stud. Eight weeks in and things are chipping away nicely on the Irish National Stud apart from someone’s lasting decision to not wash their hands in China. Luckily nothing on the stud has come to a grinding halt, and work continues as usual, with some precautions in place. Mind you, the closing of the local watering hole hit us all where it hurt. Picking up from where I left o...
March 17, 2020Broodmare buys a success
The next time Sue Westend asks her husband for some money to buy a mare the reply from Peter should be “How much do you want?” The couple own and manage the Cambridge-based Norwegian Park and Sue has proven she can spot a good mare and a good buy. In 2016 Sue purchased Platinum Elle (Elanidim [USA]-Lady Tee), the dam of the Gr.1 New Zealand Oaks (2400m) and New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year winner Jennifer Eccles (by Rip Van Winkle [IRE]). A year later she purchased Eleesha (AUS) (E...
March 17, 2020BLOG POST: Kyla Robb
Sunline Trust International Management Scholarship recipient Kyla Robb updates us on her travels: Hello from England! The plane trip over here is a bit of a mission but I was lucky enough to get a whole row to myself and sleep for the first plane ride! Leaving a particularly hot dry summer to come to an English winter wasn’t something I was looking forward to but it has been relatively mild (or so they say). To be fair (yes I’ve adopted this constantly used phrase) the first few days here we...
March 14, 2020LA service fees on hold
Little Avondale Stud will hold the services fees of its three stallions for the next breeding season. Per Incanto will stand at NZ$17,500 + GST, Time Test will remain at NZ$10,000 + GST and Nadeem at NZ$5000 + GST. “Per Incanto has produced 22 stakes winners in the last 19 months highlighted by Thorndon Mile (Gr.1, 1600m) winner Shadow’s Cast and the Railway Stakes (Gr.1, 1200m) winner Santa Monica,” Little Avondale’s Sam Williams said. “We received really positive feedback on the firs...
March 11, 2020Hard-working Richards reaping rewards
Jamie Richards was persuaded to take some very rare time out to celebrate his Ellerslie Group One double last Saturday night, but it wasn’t long until his constant lengthy routine kicked in the following day. After Cool Aza Beel won the Gr.1 Sistema Stakes (1200m) and Avantage took the Gr.1 Bonecrusher New Zealand Stakes (2000m), as well as two other stable winners on Saturday, Richards joined his Te Akau Racing Stables boss David Ellis and wife Karyn, along with owners and friends, to celebra...
March 10, 2020Staying family to the fore in Auckland Cup
One of New Zealand’s richest horse races, the $500,000 Gr.1 Barfoot and Thompson Auckland Cup (3200m), was won by a horse that cost its owners $4,000. Roger That, a seven-year-old gelding by Shinko King (IRE) out of the Yamanin Vital mare Heather Lyn, took out the event for a small group of owners who describe themselves as battlers. He is trained on a farm outside Tauranga by Antony Fuller, a 59-year-old who gave up shearing to train racehorses and now has around 12 in work. His big ran...
March 10, 2020NZB’s 2020 South Island Sale Catalogue Now Online
New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sales Series is heading South, showcasing 76 lots of the best Southern-bred product available, with the catalogue online now and arriving in letterboxes from mid-March. Held at Canterbury Agricultural Park in Christchurch, the one-day session features a selection of yearlings offered on Friday 17 April from the later selling time of 12pm. All yearlings purchased at this year’s South Island Sale are eligible to be...
March 9, 2020Mates over the moon with Melbourne result
Two young breeders pulled off a dream result when their yearling went under the hammer in Australia earlier this month. David Morris and Jason Thomasen headed to the Inglis Melbourne Yearling Sale knowing they had a nice filly on their hands but were not expecting her to be so hotly pursued in the sales ring. The 24-year-olds bred Lot 208, a filly from the first crop of Windsor Park Stud’s Turn Me Loose out of Elusive City mare Herculaneum. After a fierce bidding duel she was knocked down to V...
March 9, 2020Stallion Service Sweepstake prize announced
On April 4 Racing Te Aroha will host the 49th running of the Gr.1 New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1600m).The Fiber Fresh-sponsored feature attracts a strong field of quality sprinter/miler female racehorses each year and 2020 promises to be no different. The meeting also provides an opportunity for members of the New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders Association to get together at the annual event hosted by the Waikato Branch. A major drawcard for those financial members ...
March 6, 2020Breeders Bulletin Late Summer Edition
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March 5, 2020The negatives on nitrogen
Environmental consultant Sally Linton takes a deeper look at the issue of nitrogen run-off and seepage into our waterways, and what horse owners need to know about it - “But I don’t have any waterways on my property…” That’s a comment I get frequently when talking to owners of horse properties about reducing environmental impacts that affect water quality. It’s a common misconception that to have a negative effect on water quality you need to be close to a body of water. There ...
March 4, 2020Danny Rolston- February 2020 Update
Firstly, I think it’s only appropriate to acknowledge the success of the Karaka Million concept. We can all be proud of the show that our industry puts on at Ellerslie to such a wide local and international audience. The impact it has on sales results can’t be understated. An amazing achievement by Jamie Richards and when the thick end of the spoils goes the way of people like the Lindsay’s and Te Akau’s owners, you can be fairly confident of an immediate return in the sales ring. From a...
March 4, 2020Good fortune brings geat sale result
Good fortune, good luck, a good cross, and the right yearling preparation is what Tom Lane puts his success at the Karaka National yearling sales down too. The retired horse breaker, now rural real estate agent in Gisborne, and his mate Campbell Crisp were the proud owners of Lot 28 the Showcasing(GB) colt out of Khales that Haunui Farm sold to Ciaron Maher Bloodstock/Astute Bloodstock for $500,000. “The best thing is the magic of this breeding industry we knew we had a good cross, and a mare ...
March 4, 2020Celebrating 21 years in partnership with Dunstan
This year the NZTBA are celebrating a 21-year partnership with our good friends at Dunstan Feeds. Dave Smith and his team have been wonderful partners continuing their support of our Association and working with us along the way. About the same time Dunstan also began sponsoring the Dunstan Stayers Championship for up and coming young stayers. On New Year’s Day this year the final of the highly contested series was won by Paisley Park (Azamour[IRE]- Musical Magic[GB]), raced and bred by Garr...
March 4, 2020Breeder spoilt for good horses - the Shark the best yet
Waikato Branch member Darrell Hollinshead is the first to admit that his family have been spoilt with good horses over the years, but even he now agrees that the family’s latest star Te Akau Shark (Rip Van Winkle[IRE]-Bak da Chief) is pretty special. “Over the years we have had some good horses starting with Dad having Judena, then Bak da Chief, and more recently Pondarosa Miss and Ecuador,” Hollinshead said after Te Akau Shark claimed his first group one in Australia in the Chipping Norto...
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