Check out Pencarrow’s recent stakes winners and promising racetrack athletes that form part of the current racing team.
For a full list of champions, past and present, view our Roll of Honour.
Trained by Ken and Bev Kelso for owner-breeder Sir Peter Vela, Supera (NZ) (Savabeel) has now had 17 starts for eight wins, four placings and $287,425 in stakes. This includes multiple Group 2 wins and a Group 1 placing.
Supera is out of Sopra Tutto (NZ) (Van Nistelrooy), who is the dam of five winners from six foals to race including Eleonora (NZ) (Makfi), who won two Group 3 races and placed in the Group 1 VRC Oaks (2500m).
Vichy (NZ) (Cape Blanco) is trained by Graham Richardson and has now won three of her 13 starts and more than $55,000 in stakes. She is out of the stakes-winning Catbird mare Vercors (NZ) (Catbird), a half-sister to the Group 1 performer Hasselhoof (NZ) (Tavistock).
Charm Spirit filly Lilikoi (NZ) is trained by Jamie Richards and has racked up two wins and two placings from just six starts. This includes the recent Group 3 Eulogy Stakes to her name and a total of $54,375 in prize-money.
Lilikoi is out of the Giant’s Causeway mare Barbadine (Giant's Causeway), which makes her a half-sister to fellow Pencarrow winners Granadilla (NZ) (Encosta de Lago) and Badea (NZ) (Darci Brahma).
Zacouver (NZ) is by Vancouver out of Fair Isle (NZ) (Fastnet Rock) and trained by Leon and Troy Corstens. Co-bred by Coolmore Australia and Pencarrow Stud, the filly won at Sandown in July 2020 over 1200m.
She is a promising two-year-old who has won on a metropolitan track in Australia and has now earned A$29,245 in stakes. Zacouver is the first foal out of Fair Isle who resides at the farm.
Winning on debut as a two-year-old, Birdsong (NZ) is by Snitzel out of Scintillula (Galileo) and trained by Matamata-based Michael Moroney and Pam Gerard. She has now had five starts for three wins.
Birdsong was bred by Pencarrow and sold through their Karaka 2018 Book 1 draft. Sunlight Thoroughbreds purchased the filly for $400,000.
Winning her first start in March 2020 since late November in 2019, Pierro filly Palamedes (NZ) (Pierro) has now had 22 starts for three wins and eight placings. Trained by Steven Ramsay and Julia Ritchie and raced by Sir Peter Vela, she is in career best form at the moment and is completive in any race she contests.
Palamedes is out of Papilio (NZ) (Redoute’s Choice), who herself won four races including the Listed South Island Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1600m). She is the dam of two named foals, both of them winners, with Irish Butterfly (NZ) (O’Reilly) winning twice in Australia.
Well-bred Pencarrow filly Aloft (NZ) (Atlante) is trained by Steven Ramsay and Julia Ritchie and now has three starts for two wins. She won a Rating 65 race on her second start, after winning a 1250m maiden race at Rotorua on debut in November 2019. She also ran credibly in a black type race, which was her third start.
Aloft’s half-sisters include rising star and Group 2 winner Supera (NZ) (Savabeel) and multiple Group 3 winner Eleanora (NZ) (Makfi). Aloft’s dam is Sopra Tutto (NZ) (Van Nistelrooy), who is the dam of five winners from six foals to race and is out of Champion mare Ethereal (NZ) (Rhythm).
Trained by Peter and Dawn Williams, promising Pencarrow filly Couturiere (NZ) (Pins) has now had three starts for two consecutive wins.
Her dam is Velvet and Satin (NZ) (Carnegie), a half-sister to the champion staying mare Ethereal (NZ) (Rhythm) and she is owned by Sir Peter Vela.
Pencarrow filly Megeve (NZ) (Wandjina) began her career on the perfect note winning on debut over 1200m at Avondale. Trained by Peter and Dawn Williams, Megeve was bred by Pencarrow and is raced by Sir Peter Vela.
Her dam is Vercors (NZ) (Catbird), who won four races including the Listed Wairarapa Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1600m) and placed in the Group 2 Travis Stakes (2000m). Vercors has a perfect record at stud, with all of her five named foals now winners.
Pencarrow mare Wild Seas (NZ) (Ocean Park) has a number of stylish victories on her CV and has now claimed $40,935 in prize-money. Trained by Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott in Matamata, Wild Seas won two races as a three-year-old and one as a four-year-old in November 2019.
Bred by Pencarrow and raced by Sir Peter Vela, Wild Seas is out of the Lonhro mare Santangelo (NZ), who won six races and was Group 3-placed.
