A cold and damp morning failed to deter the hardy clients and public from coming out to the farm for last Sundays open day. Congratulations to our former head groom Helen Phinney who won a $1,000 discount off a service to Towkay and Tania Skinner the recipient of a 50% saving on a Zed service.
Helen will use the prize to send her Testa Rosa mare Eutrophy to Towkay while Tania intends to send her 5 race winner and stakes placed mare Tuscany Dancer/Heritage to Zed. Last weekend was a particularly satisfying one for Helen with Happy Man (Mossman-Eutrophy) a horse she bred winning on debut at Rotorua last Friday.
Happy Man was purchased from our 2008 National Weanling Sale draft by Craig Lees for $38,000 and is now trained by Tony Pike in Cambridge.
Surf Patrol (Towkay-Out on Bail) continued her run of form with another win this time in the three-year-old event at Awapuni on Saturday 10 July. The Mike Breslin trained filly now heads to a $45,000 race at New Plymouth this Saturday.
The LA bred National Treasure (Pins-Trigon Lass) pictured left, made it four wins from just eight starts and undefeated in his last three outings with his latest Hong Kong success on 14 July. The three-year-old gelding was another astute buy by John Foote Bloodstock who purchased him for $180,000 from the Anzac Lodge draft at the 2008 Karaka Ready To Run Sale.
Our draft for the South Island Two-Year-Old Sale heads south early August to have the final touches put on them by our consignor Ranganui Farm and our record of having sold the likes of Hong Kong group 2 winner More Bountiful along with a host of individual winners at this sale should see our three lots (130, 169 and 173) under close scrutiny from buyers in particular lot 173 who is the only entry by leading stallion Fastnet Rock.
