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Proven Families To Fore Tau Tona ( Towkay- My Wild Irish Rose) a winner over 1200m at Otaki last Friday for breeders NJ & WM Cavanagh hails from the...

The LA bred Dress Suit (Pins- Flight Queen ) won again in Perth on Saturday. His mother Flight Queen has been a wonderful producing broodmare for the stud leaving seven individual winners including Group 1 winner Dress Circle . Retired from breeding duties now, Flight Queen looks after some of the younger broodmares here on the farm. LA is breeding from two of her daughters, Kelly Flinn (Centaine) and Loose Lil (Towkay). Kelly Flinn has an O Reilly filly at foot while Loose Lil foaled a Pins...

LITTLE AVONDALE will offer a half-brother to Hussonet colt Rios at the National Yearling Sales at Karaka in 2008. Rios starred at the Captain Cook...

Cent from Heaven (Centaine-Logical Miss) and Rivertaine (Centaine-River Century) have fashioned excellent records as broodmares and their progeny...

Yearling preparation has begun in earnest and we have a magic team of staff attending to their every whim. Buzz and Susie have gone up to Hong Kong...

Rios (Hussonet-Gussy Godiva) chases group one success in this Thursdays First Sovereign Trust Levin Classic at Otaki over 1600m for three year olds....

The good track at Tauranga on Saturday made all the difference to High Octane ( Towkay -Trendy and True) when he dead heated for first in the WFA Group Three Platinum Homes Tauranga Stakes over 1600m at Gate Pa . A great result for trainer Gregor Robson who has always maintained his charge only needed a decent track to confirm the reputation gained last season through wins in such races as the Duoro Cup. Results this last week by progeny of Zabeel stallions I Conquer and Colombia give...

LA MONTHLY NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 2007 What with mares delivering foals left right and centre, gearing up for the yearlings about to come inside to...

Riders of the very good horses often say how those horses have a radar for the finish line – they know exactly where it is! Rios (Hussonet - Gussy Godiva) is just that kind of horse. Laid back and professional the colt was a last stride winner of Saturday’s Group 2 Wellington Thoroughbred Breeders Guineas 1500m. The result was a quinella of sorts for LA, having sold Rios at the Karaka sales on behalf of Arthur and Mick Ormond and also breeding the dam of runner-up Alamosa (O’Reilly- Lodore...

We are still on a high after Pachanga's (Redoubts Choice- Foxtrot ) wonderful debut effort for second in the Listed Debutants Stakes at Caulfield. Lee Freedman, trainer of the winner Sugar Babe - herself an expensive yearling purchase at $500,000 - when interviewed post race, commented, It was quite a good effort. I know David (Hayes) has a rap on the second one. I know it's one of his best two-year-olds. I think the form will be valuable out of it. That's encouraging feedback for the top...

The pedigrees of two LA based broodmares were enhanced following racing at Caulfield on Saturday. Pinnacles (Fuji Kiseki-Galroof) franked his Sandown Open Handicap win of a fortnight ago with success in the Perri Cutten Classic 1400m. Galroof, a group winner and one of the early favourites for the 2002 Caulfield Cup before suffering a career ending injury, is a half sister to Ricky Savoury's mare Steluta. LA sold last seasons Group One VRC Derby runner-up Gorky Park (Montjeu- Steluta ) on...

Delbrae Delivers Again Like a good red wine Delbrae (Thunder Gulch- We Leica ) just gets better with age. Saturdays win in the Listed Christchurch Casino Spring Classic over 2000m was the seven-year-olds 10th win and his third stakes success, pushing his prizemoney total to just shy of $400,000. This class performer heads to Trentham on the 27th October for the Group One WFA Captain Cook Stakes at 1600m. Bruce Perry Bloodstock on behalf of LA, purchased We Leica in foal to Bradburys Luck at...