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Last month has seen a changing of the guard with the farms racing team as horses such as Aspinal head for winter spells and early spring horses like...

View Towkay and Zed at Stallion Parade this Sunday This Sunday the 13th June is the annual Central Districts stallion parade and Towkay and Zed will be floated through to Wellfield Lodge in Palmerston North at 311/29 Kairanga Bunnythorpe Road where they will be paraded at approximately 2.30pm. The CD branch of the NZTBA have done a fine job in revigorating the event and with the support of New Zealand Bloodstock Insurance, Totally Vets, Wenham Grain and Feed and Gavelhouse it's a not to be...

One type of yearling that we target as suitable for the Sydney Easter Sale each year is the yearling who is not sufficiently physically developed by the Karaka Sale three months prior and in 2008 our Zabeel-Dancing Daze filly bred in partnership with Hastings Don Gordon was exactly that type of candidate. Unfortunately she didn't travel too well to Sydney that year and leading Melbourne trainer Peter Moody was able to buy the filly for $150,000. Commencing her career proper as a late...

When you are a good-looking weanling half brother to two stakeswinners by popular stallion Elusive City you are going to attract a deal of interest at the National Weanling and Broodmare Sale. That's the case with LA's LOT 335 whose profile got even better when close relation Grand Dancer (No Excuse Needed- Clermont Rose ) took out a 1400m event on last week's Hong Kong Mile and International Card at Sha Tin. The recent run of success by Savabeel's progeny on the racecourses of Australasia...

Bart Cummings who purchased Derby winner Roman Emperor from our 2007 Karaka Premier draft looks to have another serious candidate for major Australian three-year-old honours judging by the impressive win of Kudakulari (Savabeel-Oenotria) in Saturdays Listed Fernhill Handicap at Randwick. Bred by JML Bloodstock and Brown Thoroughbreds, Kudakulari was part of our 2009 Karaka Premier draft selling to the master trainer for $140,000. Despite racing wide throughout the two-year-old colt came away...

Factors such as the extremely high Australian dollar may have kept a lot of international buyers away from the Inglis Australian Yearling Sale which concluded last Thursday in Sydney but we were still pleased with our gross of Australian $370,000 (NZ $480,000) for our three yearlings. Once again it was very satisfying to see our draft catch the eye of some of the most astute yearling selectors in the business. Grahame Rogerson bought the O'Reilly half brother to group winner Larry's Never Late...

Sam's in Sydney for the Australian Yearling Sales which start on Tuesday 6 April. We are straight into action with lot 9 and the O Reilly half brother to the recent Australian group winner Larry's Never Late. Back home the farm is gearing up for our largest representation in a number of years at the National Weanling Broodmare and Mixed Sale at Karaka which gets underway on Monday 3 May. Read on for more about the LA draft including the broodmare in foal to the sire of Saturdays Golden Slipper...

Exciting Towkay galloper Ace Aliado ( Towkay -Waikawa) put his unbeaten 7 win career on the line when he resumed from a four month break in Fridays...

Wins Highlight Weanling Sale Entry and Sydney Bound Yearlings . The win of the LA bred filly Kallisan (Stratum- Eloa ) in the two-year-old event at Waverley on Sunday has raised the profile of LA's Savabeel - Cent From Heaven weanling colt in the National Broodmare and Weanling Sale at Karaka starting on May 3. Cent From Heaven is also the mother of group winner Eloa . A $230,000 purchase by Stephen Gray from our 2009 Karaka Premier draft, Kallisan's victory was well deserved after successive...

The highlight for the farm last month was the win in the Group Three Launceston Cup of Larry's Never Late (Pentire- Laebeel ) His dam Laebeel is now...

The win of Larry's Never Late ( Pentire- Laebeel) in Wednesday's Group Three AAMI Launceston Cup was perfect timing with the farm set to offer his half brother by O'Reilly in the upcoming Australian Yearling Sale in Sydney. Laebeel herself a stakeswinner and runner up in the 1999 Caulfield Cup to Sky Heights, has a two-year-old Pins filly that we have leased out to race from the Leon Corstens stable in Melbourne and a Pins weanling colt which we will likely take to Karaka next year. Bred by...

So the dust has settled on one of the more extraordinary National Yearling Sale Series in years. Not even the most optimistic could have predicted...