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 first foals of Time Test and we believe as…
Month: March 2020
NZB 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 issue we will need to address. “We will continue to…
Date 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 and travel restrictions should be well and truly over by August,…
Messara makes impressive oral submission to complete four weeks of hearings
by Brian de Lore Published 6th March 2020 After 900 written submissions and around 90 oral submissions, the Transport and Infrastructure Select Committee will now deliberate and adjudicate the changes required to panel beat the proposed Racing Bill legislation into a more acceptable shape. Some hefty blows with a sledgehammer in this instance will be more appropriate than a few taps with the rubber mallet. An impeccable source of information tells me the alterations will be substantial and far more acceptable to the codes than the diatribe put to parliament…
Racing sends a strong message to Select Committee
by Brian de Lore Published 21 February 2020 The oral submission hearings held on each of the past two Thursdays have sent a strong and impassioned message to the Transport and Infrastructure Select Committee, and that is: that the racing industry is far from happy with the Racing Bill legislation in its current form. And the process is far from complete with further submissions taking place in Auckland this coming Thursday before the Select Committee. Following that, and no doubt in consultation with Racing Minister Peters, the next phase of…
Codes present strongly at Racing Bill hearings
by Brian de Lore Published 15 February 2020 The first day of the hearings of evidence from RITA and the codes in Bowen House Wellington this past Thursday, before the Transport and Infrastructure Select Committee, was a game of two halves – the first a very shakey and at times indecipherable presentation and Q and A from RITA Executive Chair Dean McKenzie, and the second a well-orchestrated presentation from all three codes on a united front. It was a well-produced Facebook live stream and the Select Committee had very obviously…