Stud News

Ocean Park on the rise as Champion Savabeel spearheads Waikato roster 

Ocean Park (Thorn Park) has sired three Group 1 winners since April last year – high-class sprinting mare Tofane, two-time Group 1-winner Kolding and New Zealand Auckland Cup (Gr 1, 3200m) winner Ocean Billy – and is that versatility that Waikato Stud principal Mark Chittick believes is making him into the proven stallion worthy of... Read More

Tagaloa retired to take place on Yulong roster

Blue Diamond Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) winner Tagaloa (Lord Kanaloa) has been retired by Yulong to stand and will take up his place on their stallion roster for the 2021 breeding season as the first son of Japanese stallion Lord Kanaloa (King Kamehameha) to stand at stud in Australia. A high-class two-year-old, Tagaloa raced six... Read More

Hunter Valley Thoroughbred Cutting Challenge a huge hit

You could have cut the air with a rowel spur, the tension was that high at White Park arena in Scone last night. Men and women who usually have nerves of steel on Thoroughbred racetracks and in sales rings paced anxiously around the equine stadium, nervously waiting their turn to perform in the inaugural Wingman... Read More

Contributer’s fee increased on back of success of Lion’s Roar

Contributer (High Chaparral), the sire of Randwick Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) winner Lion’s Roar, will headline New Zealand farm Mapperley Stud’s stallion roster for the upcoming breeding season where he will stand for an increased fee of NZ$22,000 (plus GST). His first crop of three-year-olds have experienced a strong season on the track led, of... Read More

Extreme Choice to stand for private fee in 2021

Newgate Farm announced yesterday that this season’s leading first season and Golden Slipper- (Gr 1, 1200m) winning sire Extreme Choice (Not A Single Doubt) will stand for a private fee in 2021.  Extreme Choice, who has five winners to his name and leads both the first season and two-year-old sire standings this term, stood for... Read More

Cool Aza Beel has first-season fee set by Newhaven Park

Newhaven Park has announced that Cool Aza Beel, their Group 1-winning son of Savabeel (Zabeel), will stand his first season at their Boorowa property for a fee of $16,500 (inc GST) in 2021.  The winner of the Sistema Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) and Karaka Million (RL, 1200m) during an outstanding two-year-old season for trainer Jamie... Read More