Towkay Filly Captures Group Two Placing Trying for an all the way win in her stakes debut the three-year-old Towkay filly Blonde Bombshell produced a brave effort for third in Boxing Day's Group Two Eight Carat Classic at Ellerslie. Her fast early sectional's enabled the winner, the exceptional filly Katie Lee to post a time of 1.33.69, a clocking rarely bettered by New Zealand three-year-olds. Part of our 2008 Karaka Premier draft for her breeders Herb Renall, B. Payn and Mark Oulaghan,...
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High Octane ( Towkay- Trendy and True) showed the inherent Towkay toughness in spades with an outstanding win in Saturday's Group Three L.J Hooker Manawatu Cup at Awapuni. The Cup was the gelding's ninth career win and took his stake earnings to $230,000. She may have just gone under but there was a lot to admire about the debut second of Kallisan (Stratum- Eloa ) at Awapuni on Manawatu Cup day. A $220,000 purchase from our 2009 Karaka Premier draft by Stephen Gray. Two fillies offered by LA...
THE GR.3 LJ HOOKER MANAWATU CUP (2300M)(courtesy of NZTM) High Octane adds 2nd Gr.3 The game Towkay gelding High Octane (NZ) added a second Gr.3 accolade to the resume on Saturday. Previously successful in the 2007 Gr.3 Tauranga Stakes (1600m), High Octane (NZ) made his welcome return to the stakes spotlight in Awapuni's Gr.3 LJ Hooker Manawatu Cup (2300m). Pressed forward by Lisa Allpress after a tardy start, High Octane (NZ) sat parked outside the leader for much of the race and when set...
LAXON CLAIMS 6TH CONSECUTIVE PREMIERSHIP TITLE (courtesy of NZTM) NZ-bred galloper Pacino (NZ) takes Laxon's tally to 95 for 2009. Champion trainer Laurie Laxon lifted his sixth consecutive Singapore Trainers' Premiership title on Sunday, with a 2009 season tally of 95 wins. Appropriately it was the NZ-bred galloper Pacino (NZ) (Shinko King) who brought Laxon's prolific season to an end, with the former Melbourne Cup trainer having saddled the Class 4 winner in Big Minako (NZ) (Black...
Our Karaka Premier draft of 19 yearlings has an overall physical quality and evenness that we feel is unsurpassed in our 17 years of taking horses to Karaka. There's also great variety with ten sires represented in our Premier draft alone including Lohnro, Flying Spur, Hussonett, O'Reilly, Testa Rosa, Darci Brahma, Towkay and Pins. The breeding season finished on a high last week when Laebeel (2nd in the Caulfield Cup and dam of Larry's Never Late ) delivered a Pins colt, our last foaling for...
Marquardt (Shamardal-Centrefold Angel) (pictured here as a yearling) was rewarded for her consistency in stakes and group company with success in...
Ace Aliado ( Towkay -Waikawa) became Towkay's tenth individual stakeswinner taking Sunday's Group Two EW Barker Trophy in Singapore at 1400m. Unbeaten now in seven career starts the Christopher Grace bred four-year-old has once again earned generous praise from his regular pilot, Champion Singaporean jockey Saimee Jumaat. "The sky is the limit for this horse," Jumaat said. "He doesn't win by much but he clearly knows how to win." "He is such a fighter and the way he is racing he can go onto...
ACE ALIADO SHINES IN SINGAPORE Highlights for October have been Roman Emperor's brave second in the Caulfield Cup and Ace Aliado ( Towkay -Waikawa)...
Te Parae and LA have bred and/or sold the winners of a number of Australia's biggest races and for a moment there on Saturday afternoon we thought...
A GREAT KICK-OFF AT THE KELT Congratulations to Hawkes Bay Racing Inc for another memorable Kelt Day. We were thrilled to take the spoils from...
Xpectation ( Towkay- Wooden Doll by Woodborough) has won again in the USA, this time taking a US$30,000 1600m Allowance race at Arlington Park in Washington DC last week. Formerly trained down under by Lisa Latta, the now four-year-old mare finished midfield in the Group 3 Eulogy Stakes at her second to last NZ start before her sale stateside earlier this year. Leica Conquistador (Encosta De Lago-Wee Leica) a winner over 1400m in Victoria on 28 September has a 2YO half sister by Bradburys Luck...
Zeds are foaling everywhere and this little beauty is shown here with her proud Mum at The Oaks. Out of Pinpoint, she arrived on the 19th September...
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Buzz’s crazy ads, but on a slightly more serious note, how the family have continued to produce sound, genuine and class performers is testimony to the family and their staffs dedication and horsemanship.
Stephen Marsh -
Cambridge Trainer
