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With a career record of ten wins and 15 minor placings from 63 starts the LA and Sue Harty bred Acquit ( Towkay -Out On Bail) epitomises many of the...

Few horses have been more deserving of stakes success than the LA bred and raced mare Aspinal (Pins- Clermont Rose ). In her swansong campaign the six-year-old mare, who is safely in foal to Zabeel, won the Listed Lion Red Plate over 1400m at Rotorua on Saturday. A half sister to group three winner Grand Dancer, Aspinal is from the same family as star three-year-old and stablemate Sacred Falls. Stakeswinning Nadeem gelding Specter ( Nadeem - Woman in White) hinted at a return to something like...

Displaying his trademark home straight acceleration, Sterling City ( Nadeem -So Gorgeous) beat a strong Class 3 field over 1200m at Sha Tin on Sunday and in doing so registered his third win from just seven career starts. Included amongst the beaten brigade were the short priced favourite The Peak, a horse widely regarded as one of the most promising gallopers in Hong Kong, and former New Zealand Derby runner-up Corporal Jones. She may have only finished midfield but there was a lot to like...

Mujaarib ( Nadeem -Mihnah) who won over 1800m at Turffontein in South Africa on Saturday remained unbeaten after three starts. His assistant trainer Mathew De Kock commented to journalists post race: “He wasn’t fully wound up today which makes this win really impressive. He’s a little dumb still too, the penny hasn’t dropped, but he showed his class when he was headed and came again, this after being caught wide early. He’s one to watch.” Mujaarib was bred by Shadwell Stud who own Nadeem and...

The weekend of racing once again highlighted to breeders the wonderful versatility of Towkay. Firstly, diminutive Surf Patrol ( Towkay -Out on Bail) defied her record of not having won on a firm track when she scored over 1600m at New Plymouth on Saturday . The Sue Harty bred mare has been a most consistent performer with Saturday’s success her sixth from 42 career starts which have also seen the six-year-old mare register ten minor placings. Sunday’s meeting at Te Rapa saw How True ( Towkay...

Xanadu (Elusive City- Forest Dream ) firmed to favourite for the Group One Spring Classic at Hastings in a fortnight following her third placing in...

All the signs were that Per Incanto would leave great foals but you are always a little nervous awaiting their arrival. The big wet has meant the mares are running over, actually the foaling paddocks are like an Auckland Supermarket at dinner time, but his first foals have finally arrived and they are everything we could have hoped for and more. The first foal on the farm belonged to the Canny Lad mare One Keen Lass. He is a striking brown colt with all his dad’s quality features; a striking...

Xanadu (Elusive City- Forest Dream ) showed with her fast finishing third in Saturday’s Listed Foxbridge Plate that she will be a force for New Zealand’s best WFA gallopers at the upcoming Hawkes Bay Spring Carnival. Having her first start since running third in the Group One New Zealand Breeders Stakes at Te Aroha back in April, the LA bred mare made very good ground late in the Te Rapa feature and will undoubtedly derive significant benefit for her immediate target the Group One Makfi...

The LA bred Excellent Beauty (No Excuse Needed- Chatto Creek ) took her stake earnings in excess of AUS $150,000 with her latest Singaporean success. Purchased from our 2008 Karaka Premier Sale draft the mare’s grand dam Rivertaine is due to foal to Per Incanto this spring. Za Brute ( Towkay -Lady of The Lake) franked some very consistent lead-up from to win over 1650m at Waverley last week. Towkay also had a winner overseas last week in the form of Secret Gathering ( Towkay -Germardi) who won...

Winning Run for Nadeem Continues Since June 13 2012 Nadeem has sired 12 individual winners including a Group 2 South African Oaks winner. His latest...

Returning to the track where he had won his penultimate start by over five lengths, Towkay’s impressive sprinting son Splitzer ( Towkay -Ulmer) took out a 1200m event on the card of last Thursday’s Grafton Cup. A $150,000 purchase from the 2010 Karaka Premier Sale, Splitzer is yet another promising type from his sire’s three-year-old crop which where conceived when his stud fee lifted to $10,000 in 2008 and which co-incided with a significant lift in the quality of the broodmare he served. As...

Nadeem had a dual success with two-year-olds when the youngsters Volcanic Sky ( Nadeem -Fleur De L’Orient) and Vavavic ( Nadeem -Special Sequence) won in Australia on Sunday. Interestingly Volcanic Sky’s pedigree features a duplication of Sound Reason. The juvenile double follows the win of his three-year-old filly Diamonds Are Blue ( Nadeem -True Jewels) over 1400m at Te Rapa last Wednesday. Nadeem , whose oldest crop are three-year-olds, stands his inaugural LA season for the value fee of...