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Unfortunately luck once again deserted Nadeem’s exciting sprinting son Sterling City as he bid to atone for his unlucky fifth in the Group 1...

Long regarded as consistently one of the most competitive Gr.1 events on our calendar, this season’s renewal of the Gr.1 NRM Sprint at Te Rapa was...

Momentum which commenced from his first parade at LA in the autumn of 2011, then spiked at the Sydney Classic Sale a fortnight ago, has now literally jumped off the Richter scale with Per Incanto’s (Street Cry-Pappa Reale by Indian Ridge) outstanding Karaka debut this week. The sprinting son of Street Cry had 13 yearlings sell at Karaka for an average of just over $54,000, including 12 in Select for $50,500, stunning value for his first season service fee of $4,000 plus GST. This week’s...

LA had a Top 10 finish by aggregate ($1,620,000) with an average of of $147,275 for 11 lots sold. a fantastic result and we head into the Select Sale buoyed by the last two days and full of optimism for the week ahead. Once again it was pleasing to see the familiar names of proven buyers returning to buy with confidence from LA . Names like Lisa Latta, Paul Moroney, Kris Lees, David Ellis, Dean Hawthorne and the Hong Kong Jockey Club. Congratulations to Brendan and Jo Lindsay on their purchase...

Not sure what caused more shaking at the farm; the big earthquake just a few km away or Per Incanto’s (Street Cry-Pappa Reale) results at the Sydney Inglis Classic Yearling Sale. Some of the most astute yearling buyers in Australia voted with their chequebooks, securing the Per Incanto yearlings we took to Sydney for an average of $60,875, including the second top priced filly on the first day, and in the process landing Per Incanto the title of leading first season stallion by average and...

If the healthy crowd who turned out on a warm if somewhat blustery Masterton Sunday morning to view our Karaka Yearling Sale draft were left with one thought it was undoubtedly about the buzz around the parade ring whenever one of the eleven Per Incanto (Street Cry – Pappa Reale) yearlings was led out of the stable block. The feedback from agents and trainers about the Per Incanto yearlings has been overwhelmingly positive but it was really encouraging to let the cat out of the bag so to speak...

What a black-type record Sterling City ( Nadeem -So Gorgeous by Brief Truce) is compiling in Hong Kong. His latest victory in the Gr.3 Chinese...

Our yearling sale preparation has started in earnest. Our consignment of 4 Per Incanto yearlings leaves on 13th January for the Inglis Classic Sale in Sydney on 19 and 20 January where Sledmere Stud will present the yearlings on our behalf. All four yearlings have been selected specifically to appeal to the local market. The colt from Silk Spur hails from the family of recent VRC Derby winner Polanski, while Da Vinci Code the dam of LOT 111 is a half sister to the dam of recent impressive...

Class Towkay mare Viadana ( Towkay -Yeah Nah), who is already a Group 1 winner, took her performance to a new level with a courageous 2 nd in one of...

As a daughter of Sound Lover , the young mare Rites of Spring (Stravinsky- Sound Lover by Sound Reason) had a lot going for her when retired to the LA paddocks in 2005. Injury sadly cut short the promising career of her second foal Bare Bear (Zabeel), but her two most recent progeny of racing age both look horses of considerable talent going by their respective maiden wins recently. The strongly built 4YO Fyodor (Darci Brahma- Rites of Spring ) won his debut by three and a half lengths over...

Our leading lot at last week’s Ready To Run Sale has been bought for clients of the Chris Waller stable. Despite selling in the first half hour of the Sale the Pentire – Foxtrot gelding was the medium of spirited bidding with Guy Mulcaster Bloodstock eventually signing for the gelding at $150,000. Riyadh (Darci Brahma-Tempestra by O’Reilly) who won over 1650m in Hong Kong last week was bought from our 2011 Karaka Premier draft by Beamish Bloodstock. The Group 1 Captain Cook Stakes at Trentham...

There were divided loyalties on the farm when Survived (Zed-Liberal by Generous) and Viadana ( Towkay- Yeah Nah by Kinjite) both pictured right,...