Karaka 2024
The best is still ahead for Sweynesse
New Zealand’s Sweynesse (Lonhro-Swansea, by Singspiel) is no one hit wonder. Yes, he has the absolutely brilliant triple Gr1 winner Lucky Sweynesse.
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Karaka 2024
Nick Johnson
After 10 years in the United Kingdom, Nick Johnson returned to New Zealand to become the CEO of the New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association (NZTBA)
Karaka 2024
First Crop Sires
Karaka 2024
Pencarrow Stud a spectacular source of racetrack success
Throughout the more than three decades since Sir Peter Vela founded Pencarrow Stud in partnership with his late brother Philip, the stud’s name and its recognisable ‘V in a box’ brand have become renowned as an outstanding nursery of thoroughbred talent.
Karaka 2024
Ardrossan
Ardrossan (Redoute’s Choice) is a simple case of “you can’t argue with results.” With his first crop, Ardrossan sired three individual stakes winners, and to put that into perspective, New Zealand only has seventeen stakes races for two year-olds in their annual calendar.
Karaka 2024
Chris Rutten
It is an interesting and varied history of involvement with horses that has seen Chris Rutten earn great respect as one of New Zealand’s best horsemen.
Karaka 2024
A golden year for Karaka graduates
New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sales Series is internationally renowned as a rich source of racetrack talent, with graduates racking up over 600 black-type wins in the last five seasons alone. But even by Karaka’s own high standards, the last 18 months have been something very special.
Karaka 2024
Welcome to Karaka 2024
There was no resting on laurels for New Zealand Bloodstock after November’s record-shattering Ready to Run Sale. Instead, the release of the catalogues for Karaka 2024 has launched the countdown to the pinnacle event on the sales calendar.
Winged Beauty
Winged Beauty
While the structure of racing in Australia in the mid-19th Century was still in its formative stages, there was one event that took place in England in June 1860 which would impact upon the scene here for decades upon decades to come…
Fierce Impact
Talent a mile long sure to make an impact
Milers make the best stallions. The oft-used phrase echoes through time because it continues to be true across the world.
RF
RF Reflections
In which we examine the statistics for percentages of the Rasmussen Factor in various thoroughbred populations.
Stud News
Hitotsu
To win one Classic race makes a horse among the best of his generation.