Breeding
Lady Maroal’s (NZ) (Power) brave Listed Champagne Stakes (1600m) win at Ellerslie on Saturday added further black type to her half-sister Lady Fenuala’s pedigree with her set to sell on Sunday night on gavelhouse.com. Currently for sale in the 135 Lot Rider Horse NZ Dispersal Sale,
Breeding
Haunui Farm shuttle stallion Ribchester scored his first win as a sire when his daughter Ruthin won over 1100m at Keeneland on Thursday. Trained by Wesley Ward, Ruthin broke sharply and took an early lead, and despite running a little greenly, she won convincingly. The filly is one of 117
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The value of a highlight auction item at the upcoming New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame induction evening has increased after a timely win at Hastings last weekend. Sporting the colours of Little Avondale Stud, Roch ’N’ Horse became the 19th individual stakes winner for her sire Per Incanto when
Breeding
Hardy stayer Big Mike, the winner of the Listed Hawke’s Bay Cup (2200m) last Saturday, has taken his breeders Sally and Geoffrey Fausett on a ride of a lifetime. The retired couple race the gallant gelding with members of the extended Phelan family, and were thrilled when he recorded
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Entries are now open for a high caliber broodmare sale set to be hosted on leading online auction platform Gavelhouse Plus. Bidding on the dedicated broodmare sale catalogue is scheduled to launch next Wednesday 28 April and will run for a week, with the first lot closing on Wednesday 5
Breeding
Group One-producing stallion Contributer will headline Mapperley Stud’s stallion roster for the upcoming breeding season where he will stand at their Matamata property for a fee of $22,000 +GST. His first crop of three-year-olds have experienced a strong season on the track, headlined by the
Breeding
A dispersal of 135 lots for the Inner Mongolia Rider Horse Industry (NZ) Ltd group is now live online on gavelhouse.com. The 135 listings include mares and foals, weanlings, yearlings, two-year-olds and unraced stock. There are 45 in-foal mares set for auction, while a number of
Breeding
New Zealand Bloodstock’s annual South Island Sale, its second in an online format, concluded on plus.gavelhouse.com on Wednesday. Astute kiwi judges were in the thick of the bidding action, with bloodstock agent Phill Cataldo, Te Akau Racing Principal David Ellis, and Roger James and Robert Wellwood’s
Breeding
A third member of New Zealand thoroughbred breeding’s elite broodmare ranks will be honoured when Sunbride joins iconic producers Eulogy and Eight Carat in the New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame. The name Sunbride will forever be connected to the Williams family’s Te Parae and Little Avondale Studs,
Breeding
The success of New Zealand-bred horses in the Gr.1 Australian Derby (2400m) continued last Saturday with Explosive Jack taking out the Sydney Classic. The son of the ill-fated stallion Jakkalberry got up to win in the last stride of the 2400m feature, closing from the rear of
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Thoroughbred breeders often make the annual pilgrimage to the yearling sales at Karaka hoping for the result to be life changing. For Willow Glen Stud’s Barbara Cooney, Karaka 2021 was exactly that, life changing, but not for the financial reasons so often associated with the cream of the thoroughbred
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Graham and Helen-Gaye Bax added another Group winner to their honour board on Monday after Amazing Star (NZ) (Darci Brahma) won the Gr.2 Sprint Cup (1200m) at Sha Tin. Their home-bred gelding is the third foal out of Bright Abyss (Royal Academy), a nine-time winner in