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LA looks like having two graduates from its 2021 Karaka Book 1 draft line up in the Group 1 New Zealand Derby following Desert Lightning’s (Pride of...

Stakes winning 2YO Little Brose (Per Incanto – by Mohegan Sky by Straight Man) produced the perfect dress rehearsal for the Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes when he finished strongly for 2 nd in the Group 3 Blue Diamond Prelude at Sandown on Saturday. Runner-up on debut in a Group 3 event and a Listed winner at his only subsequent start, the David Wallace bred Per Incanto colt made ground stylishly from back in the field on a day when most horses struggled to come from off the pace. Little Brose...

The excellent results enjoyed by LA in Book 1 carried over into Book 2 and the final three days of the 2023 NZB National Yearling Sale. Only one of...

Even the wild Auckland weather couldn't put a damper on an outstanding NZB Karaka Book 1 Sale for Little Avondale and Per Incanto which concluded on...

For the second year in a row LA has supplied a place getter in the 1600m $1 Million dollar Karaka 3YO Classic and yesterday's result was especially significant as it delivered a pedigree upgrade for the Per Incanto colt catalogued for sale next week as LOT 258 in LA’s Karaka book 1 draft. Purchased by Peter and Dawn Williams for $160,000 from LA’s 2021 Karaka Book 1 draft, Desert Lightning (Pride of Dubai –Isstora by High Chaparral), produced an outstanding performance to run home from well...

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Per Incanto has made a strong start to the yearling sales series with his first three yearlings through the ring at the Gold Coast Magic Millions...

LA’s incredible black type strike rate with the progeny of Savabeel was again in evidence at Pukekohe on Sunday when the 3YO Savabeel gelding Cruz...

Two plus two doesn't equal four when breeding thoroughbreds so although Per Incanto has all the credentials to make an outstanding broodmare sire,...

Te Parae’s Angela Williams had good reason to take more than a passing interest in a couple of races from Australia last week. Angela, who is Sam's...

Per Incanto's streak in black type events continued at Te Rapa on Saturday when the Peter Lock trained Faithful Feat overcame 58.5kgs and the widest...

Slip slop slap and get yourselves along to LA’s annual parade of it’s Karaka yearlings to take place at LA on Thursday 19 January for a 2pm start. LA has 38 yearlings catalogued for Karaka with 15 stallions represented including first season sires Exceedance, Microphone, Strasbourg, Too Darn Hot and the Everest winner Yes Yes Yes. There are thirteen yearlings by Per Incanto including a half brother to last month’s 2000 Guineas runner-up Desert Lightning, twelve by the exciting Time Test and...