Racing Team News

Well-related filly on the board

Our Tavistock three-year-old Tavi L’Amour relished the step up to a mile at Hawkesbury where it was so pleasing to see her score with such ...

Sword of State Retired

Last season’s New Zealand Champion Two-Year-Old Sword of State has been retired from racing. A fortnight ago, the Group 1-winning son of Snitzel ...

Smiles all round as happy filly scores

Lightly raced filly Funny Girl bounced back to her best with a dominant performance to down her older Rating 74 rivals at Matamata.Our daughter of ...

Pike’s Queensland Raid begins in earnest at Eagle Farm

Tony Pike will have an imposing line-up at Eagle Farm this weekend with several of his Kiwi raiders stepping out for the first time in the Sunshine ...

Well-bred Tuahine stars on return

A rich pedigree was to the fore for us at Pakenham where Tuahine produced a dazzling display to score over 1200 metres in her Australian debut.The ...

Zendora strikes again

Well-bred mare Zendora has continued her fine run of southern form with further success at Riverton.It was especially pleasing to see our home-bred ...

Pinarello shows his championship qualities

Lady Luck finally rode with Pinarello and our exciting son of Tavistock showed his true colours with a powerful staying display to triumph in the G2 ...

Sword of State to Queensland

Quality three-year-old colt Sword Of State pleased connections when winning an 1100m trial at Matamata on Wednesday and will now take his place ...

Game Familia adds to winning record

Familia broke a lengthy winless streak when she finished resolutely to win the open handicap over 1200 metres at Avondale.While our daughter of Makfi ...

Rebel with a winning cause

Rebel’s Choice had no trouble doubling her winning tally with a commanding performance at Sandown.Our well-related daughter of Pierro was ...

Gelding right option for Hareeba winner

The new look Not An Option impressively put away a competitive field of sprinters in the Listed Hareeba Stakes at Mornington.In his second appearance ...

Snitzel mare impresses top jockey

We were delighted to see Versilia win again at Pakenham with a performance that had rider Craig Williams confident she can make her mark in stronger ...

Sherrif back in starring role

We took a tremendous amount of satisfaction out of Sherrif’s return to winning ways at Tauranga.He is a son of our favourite Danehill mare ...

Another milestone for Almanzor

Almanzor has sired his first elite level performer after the Jamie Richards-trained Dynastic finished the closest of seconds in the G1 Sistema ...

Snitzel colt not to be denied

Sword Of State gallantly overcame an awkward gate against older opposition at Ellerslie to further boost his stallion profile before he takes his ...

Patience key to Savasilk’s recent successes

Patient handling has been key to the development of Savasilk and that approach reaped a further winning reward at Awapuni.The Jamie Richards-prepared ...

Snitzel mare opens winning account

Versilia crowned the bright start she has made to her career with a runaway breakthrough victory at Pakenham.Trained for us by Danny O’Brien, the ...

Choice debut from well-bred filly

We were delighted to see our well-related filly Rebel’s Choice make a perfect start to her Australian career.The Peter Moody-trained three-year-old ...

International double for Almanzor

Almanzor has flexed his muscles in France where a pair of lightly tried sons of our well-credentialled shuttle stallion delivered a winning ...

Derby-bound duo firmly in classic contention

Our G1 New Zealand Derby contenders Pinarello and Marchand have taken contrasting paths to the classic and both delivered confidence-boosting dress ...