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Towkay’s three-year-old crop continues to shine with Michael ( Towkay -La Grandezza by Flying Spur) the latest winner, over 1600m in Singapore on Saturday evening. Bred by John, John and Mark Carter along with T Cheetham, the gelding was sold from our 2010 Karaka Select Draft. Three year-old filly Chicharita’s ( Towkay -Trisynd) win in the Group Two Royal Stakes on New Year’s Day has lifted Towkay inside the top 20 stallions on the Sires Premiership. LA has an outstanding draft of Towkay...

Happy New Year everyone! The champagne corks popped a little earlier at the farm thanks to Zed’s first winner on 10 December. To add to the Xmas...

Following on from the recent upgrades for Lot No’s 105 and 392 in our Karaka Premier draft comes more good news with the latest performances from Tiger Stripe in Australia and domestically, the highly promising Darci Brahma colt Nashville. Tiger Stripe who recorded his third consecutive success in Victoria earlier this month is from a half sister to our first lot through the Premier Sale, an Alamosa filly from the multiple stakes producing mare Vedodara, which sells as Lot 5 . Opportunities to...

The LA bred Kina Win (Zed-Maggs ) became Zed's inaugural winner when scoring over 1400m at the Southland meeting at Ascot Park on Saturday. Trained by Michael Pitman for local identity Siobhan Kirkland, Kina Win is from the Towkay mare Maggs and was purchased for his current owners from our 2009 National Weanling Sale draft by Phil Cataldo. Towkay filly Chicharita ( Towkay- Trisynd) vindicated her owner's confidence for the major age-group staying races in the New Year with an outstanding...

Last Wednesday in Hong Kong saw a well deserved win for the Lorraine Jameson bred Great Reknown ( Towkay -Cantante) who had raced in New Zealand as Tsonga. Later in the programme saw the debut of the LA bred Gamekeepers (Pins- Eloa ), and the three-year-old gelding who sold at last year's Ready to Run Sale to John Foote Bloodstock, franked a recent trial success to win over 1200m. The LA and Pip McCarroll bred Fun Heroes ( Towkay-Ashley Downs ), who won over 1800m at Sha Tin on Sunday has a...

We secured a share in the record figures posted at this weeks Ready To Run Sale at Karaka with our four lots selling well under the quality banner of Lyndhurst Farm. It is never easy to get a 30 November foal to the Karaka Yearling Sales, especially when the mother is by Zabeel. The Ready To Run option allowed us the opportunity to grow the youngster out naturally and top the colts sold at this strong sale. The Pins colt from Laebeel went to Hong Kong trainer David Hall and it was great to...

LA Ready to Run Sale Draft It's never easy to get the total mix right for a horse sale; sires go in and out of fashion and horses develop physically at different rates however we feel our draft for this weeks Ready To Run Sale at Karaka is as close to perfection as we have achieved in a number of years. Our draft which this year sell under the quality banner of Lyndhurst Farm, kicks off on Tuesday with Hip 74 the Darci Brahma colt from the stakes producing Sound Reason mare Clermont Rose....

Warmer days have seen the mares blossom with 111 foals now on the farm. With the World Cup hangover, sleep has certainly been at a premium but with the euphoria of the All Blacks victory and so many impressive foals about, the days are made easier. Zabeel mare Kurabeel, whose highly promising racing career was nipped in the bud after just eight starts, delivered her first foal, a lovely Pins recently, while Generous Nature , whose first foal Sir Ferrari by Testa Rossa won on debut at Trentham...

It may only have been a midweek maiden but the win on debut of the LA bred Xanadu (Elusive City- Forest Dream ) at Matamata last Friday had a touch of class about it and confirmed the private reputation the three-year-old filly has had for some time. Purchased privately from the farm by our valued client John Gilbert, and trained by Ken Kelso, Xanadu can be competitive in the pattern company fillies races over the summer. Forest Dream was represented by another winner last week when her...

Team Williams, who have made an art out of setting their horses for the Cups and Derbies, were delighted by the effort of their VRC Derby hope Collar (O'Reilly-Laebeel) to run second in the important lead-up, theGroup Two €“ Mitchelton Wines Vase (2040m) on Saturday The stakeswinning LA bred three-year-old gelding had to do considerably more work in the running than the winner and current Derby favourite Manawanui, yet was still finding the line strongly at the end of the 2000m event. History...

LA's proud record in the Group One Caulfield Cup continued on Saturday when the Christopher Grace bred Tullamore ( Savabeel-Trocair) finished third in the time honoured race. Tullamore who was prepared by LA for the 2008 Karaka Select Yearling Sale where he was passed in for $55,000, joins other Te Parae and LA bred or reared luminaries, Ilumquh, Straight Draw, Laebeel and Roman Emperor to run a run a dividend bearing position in the great staying handicap. The dream start to the new season...

LA October 2011 Apart from a couple of day trips to Hastings where we sponsored races on the first and second days of the Rush Munro Spring Carnival, it's been all hands on a lead rope at the farm the last month. Sam's even passed up a couple of tickets to the rugby in Wellington! We have had 63 foals to date on the farm and 30 of our own mares served, not to mention over 80 outside mares. Per Incanto (Street Cry-Papa Reale) who must have been about as busy as Martin Snedden €“ but in a...