Where only perfection will do.

Pencarrow Stud has bred and sold the winners of two Group One classics for three-year-olds in Australia this season – Feroce (NZ) (Super Seth) in the A$1m Australian Guineas (1600m) at Flemington in March, and now Maison Louis (NZ) (Super Seth) in the A$1m Queensland Derby (2400m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday.

Maison Louis was offered by Pencarrow in Book 1 of Karaka 2023, where syndicators Go Racing bought him for $250,000. He has had seven starts for four wins, a placing and A$679,750 in stakes.

“He came off Pencarrow Stud in New Zealand. We always rush to New Zealand each year to participate in their sales, and we've been well-rewarded, because the second horse comes out of one of their sales as well.”

Pencarrow reached a century of winners for the 2024-25 season when Dresse’ Par Joli (NZ) (Tavistock) took out the $35,000 Wanganui Insurance Brokers (2040m) at Wanganui on Saturday.

The 100 wins by Pencarrow-bred horses this season include no fewer than 10 at Group or Listed level.

Two of those stakes successes have come with homebreds racing in the Pencarrow colours – three-year-old filly Island Life (NZ) (Vadamos) in the $250,000 Group Three Sunline Vase (2100m) at Ellerslie in March and four-year-old mare Tomodachi (NZ) (Tarzino) in the $100,000 Group Three Rotorua Stakes (1400m) in May.

The Pencarrow-bred Tavi Time (NZ) (Tavistock) doubled his black-type tally with an impressive performance in Friday’s A$200,000 Listed Darley Scone Cup (1600m).

Previously the winner of the Group Three Summer Cup (2000m) at Randwick on Boxing Day, Tavi Time has now had 21 starts for nine wins, five placings and A$823,625 in stakes. He was offered in Pencarrow’s Book 1 draft at Karaka 2021, where Kiltannon Stables bought him for $60,000.

There has been a changing of the guard in Pencarrow’s racing team this autumn, with Group One performer Pearl Of Alsace (NZ) (Tavistock) retiring to stud while exciting new talent Tomodachi (NZ) (Tarzino) announced her arrival on the big stage.

Tomodachi claimed the first black-type win of her career with a brilliant performance in Saturday’s $100,000 Group Three Rotorua ITM Stakes (1400m) at Arawa Park. The super-talented Pencarrow homebred has now had nine starts for six wins, two placings and $179,016 in stakes.

Tomodachi is out of Quintessentially (NZ) (High Chaparral), who is a daughter of the Group One-placed Uberalles (NZ) (Giant’s Causeway) and a granddaughter of the champion Ethereal (NZ) (Rhythm).