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| Chief Secretary Breaks Maiden Status in Singapore |
14 Jul 2010 |
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Pencarrow Stud bred Chief Secretary broke maiden ranks with a convincing win in the $65,000 Emirates Prague Stakes (1600m) in Singapore on Sunday.
Leading from the outset Chief Secretary (Johar x Anakela Bay) dominated the race to score by three quarters of a length over Fatkid (Handsome Ransom x Grace Jones), with Vedere (More Than Ready x Sidestar) three lengths away third.
Trained by Laurie Laxon and ridden by Saimee Jumaat, this was the sixth start for the four-year-old who made his race career debut earlier this season in January.
Raced by Perfectum Stable, Chief Secretary was purchased by Wallace Thoroughbreds Ltd for $80,000 from the 2008 Karaka Premier Sale.
Chief Secretary is out of Anakela Bay (Fairy King x Natuschka) who is a blood sister to Surrealist and half-sister to Blues Traveller and Nanarch.
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| Zealous jumps to victory |
14 Jun 2010 |
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Pencarrow Stud bred Zealous broke his maiden status with a very impressive win in the Hamilton RC Maiden Hurdle on Tuesday 8 June.
Clearing out to win by seven lengths, Zealous (Zabeel x Hameeda by Hector Protector) looks to have a natural talent for jumping having had three starts for a win, second and a fourth. Trained by jumping maestro Eric Musgrove, the four year old looks to have a bright jumping future ahead of him.
Purchased through the Karaka Premier Sale, Zealous was snapped up by Mr J Shannon from Victoria for $130,000.
Hameeda, who hails from the Eight Carat family, is currently in foal to Darci Brahma and has a Holy Roman Emperor yearling filly which will be retained by the stud.
Zealous is one of four Pencarrow-bred winners to date this month with Certain Grace (Centaine x Grace and Power by Brief Truce), Happy Drumming (Tiger Hill x Ajfan by Woodman) and Affirmation (Fastnet Rock x Affirmed Lane by Affirmed) also notching up victories. |
| Miss Sivivatu's sister wins Italian Oaks |
2 Jun 2010 |
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Adding to her already impressive pedigree page Miss Sivivatu’s full sister Contredanse has taken out the Group Two Italian Oaks at Milan on Saturday, for Luca Camani and Kieren Fallon.
Miss Sivivatu (Danehill Dancer x Ahdaab by Rahy) boasts some impressive siblings, Callwood Dancer (Danehill Dancer) a champion group winning mare in Canada, Set Sail (Danehill Dancer) group placed behind champion three-year-old Sea the Stars, and Walklikeanegyptian (Danehill) also group placed, to name a few. Miss Sivivatu is also a close relative to sires Marrof, Desert King and Maroof.
Imported by Pencarrow Stud, Miss Sivivatu placed twice from three starts in Ireland before coming to New Zealand where she notched up two victories in the spring last year.
She is now in foal to glamour sire High Chaparral.
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| Keeping up his Tally |
24 May 2010 |
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Capping off his consistent form Keeper’s Tally made light work of his opposition yesterday at Hawera in the Eltham Veterinary Services Rating 80 & Jumpers High Weight.
Bouncing quickly from his handy draw, Keeper’s Tally (Zabeel – Paint Me a Dream, by Deputy Minister) had no problem leading the field out of the home straight for the first time where he prefers to be in front. Partnered by experienced South Island hoop Chris Johnson, Keeper’s Tally kept up nice sectionals and kicked away in the straight to win convincingly by four and half lengths over Mickey and Shacuse.
Raced by the partnership of Peter and Philip Vela, Mark Wyborn and Trevor Farmer and trained by Mark Walker, Keeper’s Tally will more than likely head to the paddock for a brief let up before looking ahead to the New Zealand Cup in November.
Keepers Tally is out of Paint Me A Dream, a half-sister to Group 1 racehorse and sire Honour and Glory (Relaunch), and shares a pedigree page with sires Fappiano, Ogygian, Quiet American and Torrential.
Paint Me a Dream has a bay colt at foot by Darci Brahma and will return to Darci Brahma this season.
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| Gordon Roberts trumps consistent form |
14 May 2010 |
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Showing his preference for easing in the ground, the lightly tried Gordon Roberts trumped his consistent form to secure a well deserved win yesterday at Wanganui in the rating 70 Konami 1600.
Jumping from the number one barrier Gordon Roberts(Encosta De Lago x Gordon’s, by Kaapstad) was a given a gun ride by Opie Bosson, ending up in the box seat.
Peeling off the rail before turning for home the gap opened up for the big chestnut gelding and he held off all challanges winning by three quarters of a length
to The Music.
Trained by Mark Walker for Peter and Philip Vela, Trevor Farmer and Mark Wyborn, Gordon Roberts now takes his winning tally to two.
Gordon Roberts was purchased from the 2008 Premier yearling sale from the Phoenix Park draft by David Ellis for $260,000.
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| Pencarrow Broodmare Results. |
7 May 2010 |
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| Pencarrow Top NZB Broodmare Sale |
7 May 2010 |
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Buyers and breeders at New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Weanling, Broodmare & Mixed Bloodstock Sale showed just how keen they were to be able to buy into the bloodlines of Pencarrow’s broodmare band, with the Stud the leading broodmare vendor of the Sale.
Every single mare offered in the 30 strong draft was snapped up over the three day sale, with the top price of $95,000 paid for lot 760, Forpierre (Stravinsky x Forlorna), by Trent Busuttin of Cambridge. Forpierre was bought carrying a positive test to Darci Brahma.
Prolific breeder Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Maktoum, represented by Tim Stakemire, was also delighted to be able to acquire some Pencarrow bloodlines purchasing Lots 505 Millers Pride (Lammtarra x Canadian Mill) and Lot 773 Hameeda (Hector Protector),
“We were delighted to be able to purchase two nice mares with fabulous pedigrees at this sale, commented Tim Stakemire. “These were the two we had picked out of the catalogue and as of yet we are not sure where they will be heading.
“We are extremely happy to be able to support the New Zealand breeding industry and would like to continue to do so.”
At the end of the broodmare session that saw 236 of the 342 catalogued lots find new homes, Pencarrow Stud was the leading vendor of the session with its 30 entries sold for $843,500.
Pencarrow Stud manager, Leon Casey, said the results were very pleasing for the team.
“It was extremely satisfying to see all of our draft sold - we were quite prepared to bring some of them home. The market though obviously valued them at a level where they are all sellable.
“We are looking forward to seeing results for the new owners and seeing them exposed to different bloodlines they might not have been exposed to. The level of interest exceeded our expectations and to see the mares go to such a range of homes and astute breeders is great.”
Pencarrow Stud expects another 40 to 50 foals to be born at the farm this coming breeding season. |
| Star 2YO filly in ownership change |
5 May 2010 |
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The season’s outstanding two-year-old filly Banchee has been sold by Sam Kelt to Peter and Philip Vela of Pencarrow Stud.
The winner of both the Ford Diamond Stakes-Gr.1 and Matamata Breeders’ Stakes-Gr.2 this season, Banchee will be wearing the Vela brothers’ famous blue and white colours when next seen on the racetrack.
Sam Kelt made this significant announcement exclusively to New Zealand Thoroughbred Marketing this morning.
“Peter Vela told me that if I ever wanted to sell the filly, could I give him the opportunity to buy her,” said Sam Kelt.
“We’ve had a fantastic time racing the filly and John Sargent has done a superb job,” added Kelt.
“She couldn’t be going to a better home,” Kelt concluded.
By Oratorio from Miss Jessie Jay, Banchee is not only a Group One winner in her own right, but a half-sister to Katie Lee, Sir Patrick Hogan’s Pins filly who created history when winning the NZ 2000/NZ 1000 Guineas double at Riccarton Park this season.
“She’s a filly I’ve liked ever since I saw her as a yearling when sold by Hallmark Stud through our Karaka Premier Sale,” Peter Vela told NZTM today.
“It’s now a fantastically-commercial family, so she’s going to make a wonderful addition to our broodmare band at Pencarrow Stud at the end of her racing career.”
Banchee changes hands with a record of 6 starts for 3 wins and her placings include a second in the ARC Eclipse Stakes-Gr.3 and a third – when coming from last – in the $1m Karaka Million-RL.
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| Pencarrow colours to the fore in Ireland |
4 May 2010 |
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Flying the colours of Pencarrow stud in Ireland Barbadine broke through the maiden ranks at her third start.
Racing over the 1800m journey Barbadine (Giant’s Causeway x Damson) jumped nicely and settled into fourth place, enjoying the trip of the race. After straightening jockey WM Lordam asked the filly to let down and she quickly took over galloping to the line under no pressure to win by three lengths.
Trained by David Wachma, Barbadine was having her first start back this preparation and she looks a lot stronger and has certainly improved during her break. Out of the Group One winner Damson who is a winner of four races Barbarine is the only foal to races from the young mare. She is owned by Peter and Phillip Vela and long time friends the Nagles of Barronstown Stud.
Another highlight over the weekend for the Pencarrow team was the first black type placing for Via Vento (Cape Cross x Shopping Spree) in the Windsor Park Stud Breeders Stakes over 1200m. Flying home for fourth the three year old filly was only a neck away from the winner Riomoral.
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| Amaryllis continues on her winning way. |
26 Apr 2010 |
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The combination of Mark Walker, Alvin Ng and Pencarrow Stud’s Amaryllis once again proved too strong in taking out the Pollock & Sons Crane Hire 1200 rating 90 at Tauranga on Saturday.
Soon after leaving the barriers Ng positioned Amaryllis (Red Ransom x Lafleur, by Zabeel) beautifully just behind the leaders. Turning into the straight he balanced the mare before pulling her three off the rail to overtake the two leaders comfortably going to the post hands and heels in another slick time of 1.09:61.
Mark Walker stated this morning that there were a few contributing factors to Amaryllis’s great form this campaign.
Blinkers, a change in shoeing and the fact she is now stronger and therefore able to handle more racing.
Her main aim will be the Fillies and Mares race at Rotorua on May the 8th a course which she has already had success at.
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| Opportunity Aplenty from Pencarrow at NZB May Sale |
16 Apr 2010 |
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Pencarrow Stud will be offering a choice selection of well bred mares at New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Weanling, Broodmare & Mixed Bloodstock Sale at Karaka from the 3-5 May.
With 34 lots set to go under the hammer, Stud Manager Leon Casey said the dispersal is a strategic decision by the Stud to stem the huge expansion of its broodmare band.
“The fact is the Stud retains and races so many fillies that we now have to try and put a ceiling on the numbers we have on our books.
“The line-up includes some very attractive breeding prospects. It includes some young mares fresh off the track, mares by some of the best sires in the world such as Danehill, Zabeel, Rock of Gibraltar, Sadler’s Wells and Cape Cross, with some in foal to some of the most commercial sires at stud today including Darci Brahma, Fast ’n’ Famous, No Excuse Needed, Savabeel, Keeper and Towkay.”
With some of the mares hailing from the family of Romanee Conti, Ethereal and Darci Brahma this is an opportunity for breeders to invest in a family that Peter and Philip Vela have enjoyed a lot of success with over the years. The family’s growing list of accolades boasts the likes of the Melbourne Cup, Caulfield Cup, Hong Kong International Cup, NZ Two Thousand Guineas, and The BMW Stakes with plenty more Group 1 glory dotted throughout their pages.
Highlight lots include:
• Lot 610 Star Charm (Cape Cross x Sarwatch by Jetball): Out of the champion NZB Filly of the Year Sarwatch, Star Charm is also a direct descendent from one of the Stud’s foundation mares, Riverina Charm.
• Lot 702 Cheerful (Starway x La Fleur Petrus x Sir Tristram): A seven-win mare, Cheerful’s list of achievements includes the Group 3 Cuddle Stakes. Her last foal sold at Karaka 2010 for $250,000 and she has left the promising filly Ensoleille (Van Nistlerooy). Last served by Fast’n’Famous.
• Lot 747 Encens (Common Grounds x Idyllic by Foolish Pleasure): Encens is a half sister to the champion sire Scenic. Only two foals have been through the sale ring, a Danehill filly fetching $1.3 million and a Redoute’s Choice colt which brought $450,000. She has had three foals to the races all winners and was last served by Darci Brahma.
• Lot 773 Hameeda (Hector Protector x Habibti by Habitat): Bred in the purple she is out of the Group One winning champion mare Habibti. Also a close relation to the wonderful Eight Carat. Last served by Darci Brahma.
• Lot 801 Kwan (Sadlers Wells x Commanche Belle by Shirley Heights): With two of the best broodmare sires in history and a half sister to a Group One winner Fairy Heights in her pedigree there will be a great deal of interest in this blue blood mare. She has had three foals to the races including the promising Martial Art who was purchased by David Ellis for $250,000. Last served by Keeper.
For a complete list of entries in the National Weanling, Broodmare & Mixed Bloodstock Sale visit www.nzb.co.nz.
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| Madeline Noblet fights fresh. |
16 Apr 2010 |
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The John Symons and Shelia Laxon trained Pencarrow mare Madeline Noblet has dug deep to record her second win from 14 starts at Echuca over 1200m in the Rising Stars C1 Handicap.
Ridden by A Thompson, Madeline Noblet (No Excuse Needed x Romanee Conti, by Sir Tristram) bounced out of the barriers nicely and quickly took up position in the trail. After enjoying a beautiful trip Madeline Noblet found herself in front soon after straightening as the leader tired after over racing. Left a sitting duck the Pencarrow mare had to fight off a late challenge, knuckling down to score a well deserved win.
The ninth foal from the wonderful Hong Kong International Cup winner Romanee Conti, Madeline Noblet is a half-sister to Ethereal (Rhythm) the famous Cups double queen.
Now retired from stud duties, Romanee Conti has three daughters to carry on in her footsteps with Ethereal in foal to Pins with a Encosta De Lago filly at foot, Romanee St. Vivant(Jetball) in foal to Henrythenavigator and Velvet and Satin (Carnegie) also in foal to Pins and an O’Reilly filly at foot.
Represented in the National Weanling, Broodmare & Mixed Bloodstock Sale at Karaka from the 3-5 May Lot 600 Soixante (Rock of Gilbraltor) is out of a three-quarter sister to Romanee Conti, in Our Echezeaux.
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| Win number five for Amaryllis |
16 Apr 2010 |
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Pencarrow’s star four-year-old, Amaryllis, notched up another win to add to her impressive tally today at Arawa Park in the Platinum Homes Rotorua 1200 Rating 80 taking her record to five wins from 16 starts.
Adding to her impressive record Amaryllis set a new track record that had been held for 30 years in an extremely slick time of 1.08:97.
Partnered by Alvin Ng who claimed three kilos, Amaryllis (Red Ransom x Lafleur, by Zabeel) raced strongly midfield on the bit. Waiting for the gaps to open Alvin patiently held the mare together before bursting though midfield and holding off a late finish from Dane Fantasy.
Speaking to Trackside after the impressive win trainer Mark Walker stated that Amaryllis has come better with age and will come back to Arawa Park looking for Black Type that race being the Rotorua Stakes for Fillies and Mares over 1400m on 8 may.
A daughter of a dual Group II winning grand-daughter of the wonderful Group I winning race mare Habibti (by Habitat), Lafleur is from the famous Eight Carat family. Amaryllis is following the hoof prints of some very famous family members.
Lafleur’s 2006 colt by Johar sold for $240,000 to Mr Hajime Kaneko in Japan at the Karaka Yearling Sales. She has a two year old filly and a filly foal at foot, both by Redoute's Choice, who will be retained by the stud.
Lafleur is currently in foal to O’Reilly. A half sister to Lafleur is being presented at the National Weanling, Broodmare & Mixed Bloodstock Sale in May Hameeda (Hector Protector x Habibti) at Lot 773.
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| Bon Genie breaks through |
6 Apr 2010 |
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Bon Genie Breaks Through
The lightly-tried Pencarrow filly Bon Genie broke through for her first win at New Plymouth on Thursday. Partnered by James McDonald the strongly made filly quickly hit the front to withstand a late challenge from Victoria Montana, with an eventual winning margin of a neck.
By Cape Cross she is the eleventh, and last, foal of the Secretariat mare Department who passed away after Bon Genie was born, and is the only filly retained by Pencarrow Stud from the mare. Trained by Mark Walker, she has now delivered three cheques from three starts.
Department was imported in-foal to Danehill with the resulting filly going on to race as Division to win three races. The half-sister to two Group 1 winners in America (Slew o' Gold and Coastal), she also left a No Excuse Needed colt called Victory Speed that is placed in Hong Kong.
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| Ensoleille wins with ease |
22 Mar 2010 |
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Pencarrow Stud bred and owned Ensoleille (Van Nistlerooy x Cheerful by Starway) eased away to an easy victory at Te Rapa on Saturday.
Partnered by Alan Peard, who has ridden the five-year-old twice before including her first start, Ensoleille showed early speed before being asked to settle midfield.
Turning for home Ensoleille quickly raced to the leaders and eased away hitting the line strongly.
The second win for the mare, her previous coming over 2000 metres, and only her second start in this campaign, she is looking like she is at her strongest and will be stepping up over ground very soon.
Ensoleille is the fifth foal to race from Cheerful and the fourth individual winner, Cheerful herself a seven-time winner including the Group 3 Cuddle Stakes when trained by Sheila Laxon.
At present Cheerful is in foal to Fast’n’ Famous with a Lucky Unicorn colt at foot. Cheerful was represented at Karaka this year with a Fastnet Rock colt which was snapped up for $250,000 by John McArdle’s Redgum Racing, Victoria.
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| Eighth Winner for Romanee Conti |
19 Mar 2010 |
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Latinus (Johar x Romanee Conti, by Sir Tristram) became the eighth individual winner for Pencarrow matron Romanee Conti when he won the Amberly RC Chevalier Farm Maiden at Riccarton just last week.
Latinus was having just his second career start in the 1400m maiden and was settled to the tail of the field by New Zealand’s leading jockey James McDonald.
As the field galloped into the home straight McDonald angled Latinus to the outside of the 11 competitors he would soon pass and Latinus began to lengthen in stride.
In the straight Latinus worked to the line like a promising stayer and stuck his nose down when it counted to score by half a head over Micashera (D’Cash).
Just a three-year-old Latinus’ effort suggested plenty of improvement and his trainer Mark Walker will no doubt be looking forward to stepping the half-brother to Ethereal up in distance this preparation.
Romanee Conti, winner of the 1993 Hong Kong International Cup, has proved a marvel at stud having left nine foals to race, eight of these winning, the other being recent place-getter Orquidea (Montjeu).
Group 1 Melbourne Cup and Group 1 Caulfield Cup winner Ethereal is the obvious highlight of her progeny but Romanee Conti also produced Group 1NZ 1000 Guineas and Group 2 Royal Stakes place-getter Velvet and Satin who now resides at Pencarrow.
Latinus was purchased by the keen eye of David Ellis at the 2008 Karaka Premier Yearling Sale. Ellis paid $180,000 for the colt from the Pencarrow Stud draft, only the third foal of Romanee Conti to be offered at auction. Latinus is raced and owned by Mrs C and D Cairns, MWH Fleming, WG Grime, PJ and PM Vela, SP Singh, and G Thomas.
Romanee Conti was retired from breeding in 2008 after producing her last foal, a two-year-old colt by Stravinsky who has been retained by Pencarrow.
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| Yours Wins Waverly Cup |
15 Mar 2010 |
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Pencarrow Stud-bred Yours (Van Nistelrooy x Pavan, by Centaine) returned to his very best form on Sunday when he produced a strong late effort to land the Steelform Roofing Group Waverly Cup (2200m) yesterday.
The $25,000 event drew eight competitors and the result was fitting for trainer Bill Thurlow who is an active member of the Waverly Racing Club which races on their home track on just the one occasion annually.
The Cup is the Club’s feature race with the whole event strongly supported by the wider Waverly community.
Yours was deemed the outsider by punters and he played to those predicitions in running when sitting last two lengths off the main pack.
Robert Hannam sat patiently on the five-year-old gelding with race favourite Aintree (Kaapstad) bowling along in front and it was not until the home straight that Hannam really asked Yours to extend.
Extend he did to loud cheers from the crowd and Yours flashed home to beat Aintree by half a head on the line in 2.14.85.
Yours was purchased by Thurlow for $11,000 at the 2006 Select Yearling Sale from Pencarrow Stud and he has now amassed over $40,000 in prize-money with five victories in 21 starts.
Yours is a son of Pavan who placed in both the Group 1 NZ Oaks and Group 1 Australasian Oaks for Pencarrow. At stud she has produced well-performed Melbourne sprinter-miler Let Loushe (Black Minnaloushe) who has won on seven occasions for Lee Freedman and placed in the Listed Century Stakes.
Pavan, now a 15 year old, still resides at Pencarrow where she produced a Darci Brahma colt in 2009 and returned to the same leading Karaka 2010 first crop sire, the result of which is due this coming spring.
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| Posavina Potent in G3 Lowland |
8 Mar 2010 |
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A positively ridden Posavina proved too potent for her opposition in the Group 3 Homebush Partnership Masterton Lowland Stakes (2100m) at Hawke’s Bay on Saturday.
The $70,000 Group 3 event was the penultimate race in the New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series and Posavina (Tiger Hill x Dance My Dance, by Sadler’s Wells) picked up her first 6 points with a dominant front-running display for jockey David Walsh and trainer Mark Walker.
Posavina and Walsh took the initiative from the outset, leading the 15 horse field at a solid tempo to ensure anything that got near her was truly running out the 2100m journey.
Rounding for home Posavina had many of her opposition off their bits as she pulled five lengths in front and looked home and hosed.
As it proved, Posavina stuck on as her pedigree suggested while race favourite Keep The Peace (Keeper) battled home strongly to get second and add three points to her already accrued 13, while Miss Sharapova (Ustinov) picked up 1.5 points for finishing third.
Posavina’s winning margin was one and a quarter lengths to Keep the Peace, with three and three-quarter lengths to Miss Sharapova in a race winning time of 2.08.70.
The victory was just reward for her owner/breeders Pencarrow Stud who in the same role have produced Our Ella Belle (Encosta De Lago), Pezzaglia (High Chaparral), Guiseppina (Johar), and Via Veneto (Cape Cross) to contest NZB Filly of the Year events this year.
By successful sire Tiger Hill, also the sire of Pencarrow-bred Martial Art who finished sixth in the Group 1 Telecom New Zealand Derby (2400) on the same day, Posavina is bred to get an Oaks trip with her dam by supreme classic producer Sadler’s Wells.
Posavina’s dam, Dance My Dance, who is expecting to Darci Brahma this spring, produced a bay filly by Holy Roman Emperor this season and she looks set to join Posavina and their two-year-old half-sister by Stravinsky in the Pencarrow racing academy in the coming years.
Posavina will now be set for the final leg of the NZ Filly of the Year Series, the Group 1 New Zealand Oaks (2400m), along with fellow Pencarrow racing fillies Pezzaglia, Pomellato, Miraflores.
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| Miranda Doesn't Miss |
22 Feb 2010 |
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It was a day for the Pencarrow four-year-olds on Sunday at Wairoa, with Miranda Miss joining her stable mate, Amaryllis, in the winners’ circle.
Just her second win from eight career starts, Miranda Miss (Reset x Marie Claire) headed into $8,000 Oslers Bakery & Cafe Gold Cup (1850m) following a second and third at her last two outings. This time she managed one better when she nosed out second placegetter Mr Thorpedo (Thorn Park) on the line.
Ridden by James McDonald for trainer Mark Walker, Miranda Miss is the first foal of Group 1 placed O’Reilly mare, Marie Claire. It’s been a good month for Marie Claire, with Miranda Miss’s three-year-old half-sister by Johar a maiden winner last time out, with her victory over 2000m on 12 February the first of just four career starts.
A daughter of stakes-winner Trotanoy, and a half-sister to Group winner Arrabeea (Zabeel), Marie Claire foaled a black colt by Pentire in 2009 and is back in foal to the Group 1 producing sire.
Marie Claire was represented by a Darci Brahma colt at the Karaka Premier Sale in February, which was knocked down to Frank Ritchie for $90,000.
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| Amaryllis Adds Fourth Win |
22 Feb 2010 |
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Pencarrow four-year-old, Amaryllis (Red Ransom x Lafleur, by Zabeel), kept up her amazing consistency when winning the Vetent Gold Cup (1300m) at Wairoa yesterday.
The Rating 90 event was her fourth career win from just 13 starts with her consistency clear in the fact that she has only finished further back than fifth on two occasions.
Pencarrow stable jockey James McDonald piloted the mare and asked her to sit off the fence, half a length from the race leader Mr Shanghai (Bianconi). Into the Wairoa straight Amaryllis immediately applied pressure on the race leader and the two tussled before the daughter of Red Ransom drew away to score comfortably enough by a short neck.
The Mark Walker trained mare has won her past two starts, both with blinkers on, and has now taken her earnings over the $30,000 mark.
Bred in the purple, being a daughter of dual Group 2 winning Lafleur from the family of Eight Carat, Amaryllis clearly sees herself in the top 5% of the thoroughbred racing population as a four-time winner which will hold her in good stead once she retires to the breeding paddock.
Lafleur, already the dam of two winners, is represented by a two-year-old Redoute’s Choice filly in the Mark Walker Stable, and foaled a filly by the same leading sire this past season.
In 2010 Pencarrow Stud are expecting Lafleur to produce a foal by O’Reilly early in the spring.
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| Pomellato Judges Maiden to Perfection |
19 Feb 2010 |
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Pomellato (Zabeel x Diamond Habit, by Green Desert) became the twelvth Pencarrow Racing team-member to break their maiden this season when she judged her finish to perfection in the Support Rotorua SPCA Maiden (2200m) at Rotorua.
The three-year-old filly stepped up beyond 2000m for the first time and duly showed her true colours with James McDonald aboard.
Settled off the pace in the seven horse field, Pomellato sat and watched as Mons Calpe (Rock of Gibraltar) took off at the 700m mark and drew three lengths in front of the field heading into the home straight.
Flattening out in the home straight, Pomellato always had the runaway leader in sight and was gaining ground with every stride.
Levelling up with 50m to go Mons Calpe fought back but James McDonald pushed Pomellato for a little more and she delivered right on the line.
Trained by Mark Walker, Pomellato is a full-sister in blood to Pencarrow’s successful race filly , and now broodmare, La Fleur (Zabeel x Desert Lily, by Green Desert), who scored in both the Group 2 Royal Stakes and Group 2 Sir Tristram Fillies Stud Classic in her classic year.
Pencarrow secured the filly from the 2008 Karaka Premier Sale where she was knocked down for $220,000 from the draft of her breeders, Cambridge Stud.
A grand-daughter of champion race filly Habibti, this is the famed Eight Carat family, Pomellato possesses plenty of residual value, but before then looks an exciting racing prospect over the middle distance as she furnishes into a priceless Zabeel mare.
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| Pencarrow Produce Double in Malaysia |
17 Feb 2010 |
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Pencarrow-breds claimed a double in Selangor, Malaysia, on Monday with Brilliant Glory (Kaapstad x La Tache, by Danzatore) and True Paradise (Generous x Love Connection, by Sunday Silence) winning on the anniversary of selling from the same draft at Karaka.
Brilliant Glory was purchased by Jerry Sung of Singapore from the Pencarrow draft at the 2004 Karaka Premier Sale for $130,000.
After racing in Singapore for a season, Brilliant Glory moved to the Malaysian circuit where he has won on five occasions including his last start Class 3 victory over 2200m.
Displaying the soundness and durability renowned in the Pencarrow breed, Brilliant Glory has raced over five seasons with his earnings totalling 180,000Rgt.
Brilliant Glory’s dam La Tache is a half-sister to Grand Echezeaux and Romanee Conti being a daughter of Richebourg. La Tache herself is the dam of four winners and the grand-dam of 2008/09 Melbourne Group 2 winning mare, Bellini Rose.
Interestingly True Paradise was a barn-mate of Brilliant Glory and sold for $120,000 to the bid of Bart Cummings at the same sale and on the same day, and in a unique coincidence six years later won on the same day thousands of kilometres away.
True Paradise raced and won in Australia before being sold to Malaysia in 2008. His Class 5 1400m win on Monday was his first win in his new racing environment.
His dam, Sunday Silence mare Love Connection, has had progeny sell up to $700,000 in the Karaka sales ring, her top price for a Redoute’s Choice colt purchased last year by David Ellis.
At Karaka 2010 her Darci Brahma colt fetched $100,000 to the bid of Johnstone Associates, and later this year Love Connection is expected to foal to Fastnet Rock.
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| First Win for Miraflores |
15 Feb 2010 |
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Three-year-old filly Miraflores (Johar x Marie Claire, by O’Reilly) broke her maiden on Friday in promising style for the Pencarrow Stud racing string.
Having just missed a start in the Group 2 Sir Tristram Fillies Classic on Saturday, trainer Mark Walker made the decision to travel the Pencarrow bred and raced filly to New Plymouth on Friday to contest the Magnum Industries Maiden (2000m).
Only six contested the event but Miraflores found herself last approaching the home-turn and five wide coming into the Pukekura Raceway straight with James McDonald aboard.
Quickly assuming the lead McDonald sat up on Miraflores as she eased down to win by half a length over Frills (Bertolini), her win clearly indicating that she has the ability to have been racing the next day at Te Rapa.
Likely to target the Listed Sunline Vase (2100m) on 10 March, Miraflores has now raced four times and never finished out of the money.
With two runners for two winners, Pencarrow’s stakes-winning broodmare Marie Claire has started her stud career with a bang and looks to have left a considerable amount of her ability in Miraflores.
A daughter of stakes-winner Trotanoy, and a half-sister to Group winner Arrabeea (Zabeel), Marie Claire foaled a black colt by Pentire in 2009 and is back in foal to the Group 1 producing sire.
Marie Claire was represented by a Darci Brahma colt at Karaka Premier 2010 through the Pencarrow Stud draft which, after spirited bidding, was knocked down to Frank Ritchie for $90,000.
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| Karaka 2010: Pencarrow Stud Amongst Leading Vendors |
12 Feb 2010 |
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 The quality of thoroughbred being bred and raised at Pencarrow Stud was again rewarded in the Karaka Sale ring last week with 15 yearlings aggregating $4,145,000 over the two-day Premier Sale.
A special highlight came at Lot 431, the Redoute’s Choice colt out of Grand Echezeaux, who became the seventh million dollar yearling for Pencarrow when he fetched $1,300,000 to the bid of David Ellis.
The result was fitting as Ellis had secured the colt’s half-brother Darci Brahma at the very same session for over a million dollars and, under the care of leading NZ trainer Mark Walker, he went on to win five Group 1 contests through Australasia.
Overall Pencarrow Stud was the leading vendor by average ($276,333) for the sixth time in the past seven years, a remarkable achievement for the boutique operation on a buoyant market.
Pencarrow Stud manager Leon Casey was delighted with the sale, especially happy with the diverse range of buyers keen to source a yearling carrying the ‘v in a box’ on his/her left shoulder.
“We had a diverse range of yearlings that suited a number of different markets and that showed in the buyers sheet”.
“Having a million dollar yearling was a special highlight and he was a special colt who sold to a great judge”.
As Leon alluded to the buying bench in 2010 was again diverse with Pencarrow yearlings destined for Australia (5), Hong Kong (1), Ireland (1), and New Zealand (8).
David Ellis was again the biggest supporter of Pencarrow yearlings with three purchases at an aggregate of $1,925,000. His lots took his Pencarrow yearling purchases to a total of 18 in the past four years.
Rogerson Bloodstock too purchased three yearlings from the 2010 draft for an aggregate of $800,000 with a top price of $380,000 paid for the colt by Pins out of Perrine (Zabeel).
Other notable return customers included The Hong Kong Jockey Club who purchased the O’Reilly x Paolino colt for $230,000, while Starspangledbanner’s syndicator Brad Spicer purchased his first Pencarrow-bred when securing the Fast n Famous x Eminent Walk colt for $80,000.
The first crop of Pencarrow-bred Darci Brahma were well received throughout Karaka 2010 with his progeny selling up to $480,000. Pencarrow sold the third top-priced Darci Brahma colt at $310,000 with the three-quarter sibling of NZB Filly of the Year Insouciant knocked down to the BBA-Ireland.
The focus of Pencarrow stud staff now turns to the weaning and handling of the 2009 crop of young Pencarrow-bred thoroughbreds, some of which will be present in the Karaka 2011 Yearling Draft.
A special thanks to all Pencarrow Stud staff for maintaining such a level of excellence year in and year out, and to all buyers, thank you for your support and we wish you all the best on the racetrack in the coming years.
For full details of Pencarrow Stud’s Karaka 2010 result visit the Yearlings section of this website.
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| Quinta Doubles Up |
11 Feb 2010 |
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The Pencarrow racing team chalked up another winner yesterday when Quinta De Lago (Encosta De Lago x Slip Sliding, by Thunder Gulch) made it two wins in a row at Te Awamutu.
The Rating 80 Te Awamutu Club 1580 (1580m) drew a field of 10 competitors with Quinta De Lago favoured by punters after his two length romp last time out at Rotorua.
The punters clearly had it spot on as James McDonald steered the four-year-old son of Encosta De Lago to a three length victory over Downloaded (Catcher in the Rye) and Viduka (Cape Cross).
Having not finished further back than fourth this season, Quinta De Lago has developed into a very progressive galloper moving through the grades and his three length victory after stepping up in grade must be very encouraging for his owners Peter and Philip Vela, Trevor Farmer, and Mark Wyborn.
With three wins from 1580m – 2100m now on good to fast surfaces, Quinta De Lago should be easily placed for races carrying serious stake-money over the Auckland Cup Carnival period.
Quinta De Lago is out of Slip Sliding, herself a half-sister to Group 1 winning racehorse and sire Dehere.
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| Amaryllis All the Way at Avondale |
5 Feb 2010 |
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Pencarrow Stud bred and owned Amaryllis recorded her third career win today, taking out the Clive and Barbara Thomson 1200 at Avondale.
Good enough to run a close fifth behind Group 1 performed fillies Juice and Daffodil in her classic year, Amaryllis proved superior in a tight finish to win by a nose ahead of Rough Odds for her jockey Leith Innes.
Her return to winning form this season came at her pet distance of 1200m, a journey she has raced over seven times and never finished further back than fifth.
The four-year-old daughter of Red Ransom is the first foal of Lafleur, a dual stakes winning daughter of Zabeel and from the famous Eight Carat family.
Lafleur’s second foal, a colt by Johar, sold for $240,000 at Karaka in 2008 and is now placed in Japan. Following this colt are two fillies by Redoute’s Choice that are to be retained by the Stud, a two-year-old called Papilio and a foal. Lafleur is in foal to O’Reilly in 2010.
A sister in blood to Amaryllis was born at the Stud this spring with Zygadene, a sister to Lafleur, foaling to Red Ransom.
Amaryllis has always shown class and will be given a chance to pick up black-type later in her preparation.
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| Quinta Quite Something |
4 Nov 2008 |
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Three year old colt Quinta de Lago (Encosta De Lago – Slip Sliding (Thunder Gulch)) may be out of a half-sister to Champion American two-year-old speed machine and successful sire Dehere (Deputy Minister), but he is showing a real aptitude for the longer journeys.
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