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NEWS
| 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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