Category: Thoroughbred Breeding

Highview Stud stallion Wrote will be represented by his first crop of yearlings at Karaka next month. The Irish-bred Wrote won three of his nine starts for Aidan O’Brien including the Gr.1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (1609m). The only Group One-winning two-year-old son of High Chaparral was also placed at Group Two level in the Royal Lodge Stakes (1609m), the UAE Derby (1900m) at Meydan and in the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial (2012m) at Leopardstown in Ireland. BOOK 1 Yearlings 624 A53 Wrote (IRE) – Glitter Woman (AUS), Bay Colt Highview BOOK 2 Yearlings 767 A47…

Jason Coutts and Charlotte Young made their first foray into the stallion business in 2017 when they began standing Prince of Brooklyn at their Otago property for a fee of $3,000+gst, and he will be represented by his first crop of yearlings at Karaka later this month. He is out of the Zabeel mare Tristabeel, whose seven foals all have been winners, including Princess Of Queens, a Group Three winner for Mick Price, and Duke of Brunswick, the stakes-placed winner of seven races. Unbeaten at two, Prince of Brooklyn won…

Rageese joined Vanbrugh and Turn Me Loose as new comers to Windsor Park Stud for the 2017 breeding season, and his first yearlings will be offered at Karaka next month. Owned in partnership with Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al Maktoum the imposing son of Street Cry is a direct descendant of champion race mare Emancipation and is closely related to Group One winners Virage De Fortune and Stratum Star. He showed his quality early on as a two-year-old when runner-up in the Gr.1 Sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m) at Randwick behind…

Arrowfield stallion Not A Single Doubt has been retired from active duty and is under veterinary care for pulmonary disease. The stud said the 18-year-old had shown no improvement despite ongoing treatment. “He suffers respiratory compromise at rest and even short periods of hand walking exacerbate this,” Arrowfield boss John Messara said. “Our head vet has advised that Not A Single Doubt is incapable of performing his breeding duties and accordingly he has been retired from active service. “Not A Single Doubt is a wonderful story for Arrowfield and for…

Lot 86 – the Belardo ex Anaween colt Photo: Supplied With big numbers heading to Karaka later this month for the New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sale, three fresh faces from the New Zealand stallion line-up have made strong debuts in this week’s Magic Millions Yearling Sale on the Gold Coast. Westbury Stud’s Tarzino, Waikato Stud’s Tivaci and Haunui Farm’s shuttle stallion Belardo all achieved strong results in the sale, which set new records for its aggregate and average. Westbury put three Tarzino yearlings through the ring on the Gold…

Karaka 2020 looms as a bumper week for Wairarapa’s Little Avondale Stud and their high-flying stallion Per Incanto. The son of Street Cry is third on the New Zealand sires’ premiership in terms of prize-money, and his 37 winners put him in equal top spot alongside Waikato Stud champion Savabeel. Per Incanto has sired a total of 182 winners from 297 runners, with 14 individual stakes winners including Shadows Cast, Santa Monica and Dal Cielo at Group One level. Per Incanto has 14 yearlings in the catalogue for Book 1…

Street Cry’s well-performed son Telperion, a half-brother to Group One winner Kementari, will be represented by his first crop of yearlings at Karaka next month. He is out of the Redoute’s Choice mare Yavanna, herself a daughter of the Group Three winner Wild Queen, who is a half-sister to the Gr.2 Ascot Vale Stakes (1200m) winner So Gorgeous and the family of the great matriarch Denise’s Joy. Telperion was third on debut as a two-year-old for trainer John O’Shea. He then won the Listed Lonhro Plate (1100m) at the expense…

A champion New Zealand three-year-old, Puccini will be represented by his first crop of yearlings at Karaka later this month. A son of champion stallion Encosta de Lago, Puccini is out of stakes-winning Paris Opera mare Miss Opera. The quality broodmare is also the dam of six-time Group One winner Sir Slick. Puccini was the star performer in New Zealand in his classic season when, under the guidance of Peter and Jacob McKay, he triumphed in the Gr.1 New Zealand Derby (2400m) off the back of Group Two wins in…

Verdi will be represented by his first crop of yearlings at Karaka at the end of this month. He began his stallion career at Long Acres Stud, the Canterbury operation of Myles Gordon and Deborah Clark, in association with Monovale Farm, for an initial fee of $3,000+gst in 2017. The son of Zabeel won three of his eight starts before a tendon injury prematurely ended his career. Trained by Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman, Verdi is a half-brother to dual Group One winner Puccini and multiple Group One-winning people’s champion,…

With Charm Spirit in stellar form and a new wave of stallions approaching their yearling debuts, the festiveperiod has some extra shine this year for the team at Windsor Park Stud. Multiple Group One winner Charm Spirit has been shuttling to Windsor Park since 2015, and his oldest southern hemisphere progeny are now three years old. The son of Invincible Spirit has already sired 20 individual winners from just 50 runners in the southernhemisphere, with a flurry of black-type successes through the spring. Charm Spirit sired a winning double at…