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In a move to consolidate numbers, prime Waikato-based nursery Valachi Downs is represented by 52 Lots in a stand-alone unreserved reduction auction launched today on Gavelhouse Plus. Buyers must pre-register to bid in this auction with the sale running through until the final countdown from 7pm (NZ)
Breeding
A service nomination to Proisir is on offer to all New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association members attending the NZTBA Breeders’ Stakes meeting at Te Aroha on Saturday, April 10. Any NZTBA member at Te Aroha will be eligible to enter the prize draw for the nomination and the winner will
Breeding
Matamata thoroughbred nursery Valachi Downs is set to return to a boutique breeding and racing operation following a number of years of growth and business diversification. “Kevin and Jo Hickman are refocusing Valachi Downs as a more private and smaller nursery and racing stable with the same goal of producing,
Breeding
The unreserved auction of recently retired, multiple stakes winner Miss Federer (NZ) (Swiss Ace) has launched on Gavelhouse Plus today and will run through until 7pm (NZ) on Monday 15 March. Bred by Greg Tomlinson’s Nearco Stud, Miss Federer raced as an early two-year-old finishing third on
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After 22 years Kevin ‘Millie’ Walls will be stepping down from his role as Stud Manager at Trelawney Stud. Walls joined the Trelawney team in 1998 and has been an integral part of the farm during that time, seeing 25 individual Group One winners bred, raised or sold from the
Breeding
When Tracey Schroeder bought herself an ‘old plodder’ to ride and potter around with, she got a lot more than she bargained for. She bought Pretty Woman as a re-educated thoroughbred to ride under saddle but has ended up with a valuable broodmare whose first foal is the Listed
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Within one special hour on Saturday, Waikato Stud graduates Probabeel (NZ) (Savabeel) and Aegon (NZ) (Sacred Falls) flew the New Zealand flag high across the Tasman with a superb stakes-winning double. Probabeel was up first, adding a third Australian Group One victory to her collection in Caulfield’s Futurity
Breeding
The latest of gavelhouse.com’s fortnightly New Zealand mixed bloodstock sales is a bumper offering with 71 Lots including a young I Am Invincible mare in foal to Almanzor, well-related racing propositions from Valachi Downs and the Bella Vinci dispersal among other quality Lots. I Am Invincible daughter
Breeding
Rubira was the headline act of the Goffs February Online Sale on Wednesday with Alex Elliott going to €100,000 to secure the daughter of Lope De Vega. A winner of the 2018 Listed Champagne Stakes (1600m) in New Zealand for Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman, Rubira was offered in
Breeding
Entries for New Zealand Bloodstock’s South Island Sale are now open, with the Sale set to be held on NZB’s online subsidiary Gavelhouse Plus for the second year in a row. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, NZB made the decision to develop a premium online
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A true gentleman with a leadership style that was hard to beat, best describes NZTBA Life Member and former President Arthur Ormond who passed away this week. He was a foundation member of the NZTBA Wellington branch and then of the Hawke's Bay branch. He was elected to
Breeding
Following the first dedicated weanling only sale held last year, New Zealand Bloodstock has announced the decision to hold a physical sale at the Karaka Sales Centre for the 2021 edition of the National Weanling Sale on Friday 14 May. While the National Weanling Sale is relatively new, weanling graduates