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Stable Stars

Each season Pencarrow fields a huge team of runners throughout New Zealand and Australia to race in the famed blue and white hoops. Many are trained by the partnership of Steven Ramsay & Julia Ritchie at our private training facility at Maungatautari, and many others are spread throughout stables around the country and further afield. This team is aimed at generating value for Pencarrow's prestigious broodmare band, for the benefit of our own future racing and breeding prospects and also for those who purchase horses from us each year at Karaka.

Throughout the season our recent stars, most promising performers and high achieving graduates feature here so keep an eye out for the ones to watch.

You can view the full list of Pencarrrow winners on our Race Results page or a list of Pencarrow Graduates results here.

For our full list of champions, past and present, view our Roll of Honour.

Pearl Of Alsace (NZ)

Pearl Of Alsace is a Tavistock mare out of Irion who has had a promising season as a four-year-old in the hands of trainers Shaune Ritchie and Colm Murray. Since winning on debut at New Plymouth she progressed quickly to win her next four starts, including the Group Three Cuddle Stakes. Her latest run in the Group One New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes saw her place an encouraging fourth. Having amassed $143,590 in career earnings thus far, she is an exciting mare for the future.

Her dam Irion has had a hugely successful start as a broodmare, producing three winners from three foals of racing age, including the hugely talented black-type filly Zourion (NZ) who is unbeaten so far.

Mehzebeen (NZ)

Karaka 2021 Book 1 graduate Mehzebeen is a three-year-old filly by Almanzor out of Salkantay who has had a progressive start to her career for trainer Mark Walker. Purchased by Sarai Stud for just $50,000, she was a decisive winner at just her fourth career start.

She later went on to place second in the Group One New Zealand Oaks finishing just three lengths behind Pennyweka who subsequently went on to win the Australian Oaks. Mehzebeen has amassed $92,210 in prize money so far and looks an exciting prospect for the future.

Her dam Salkantay (NZ) (Zabeel) has produced three foals to race including Smiling Touch (NZ) who has been stakes-placed in New Zealand, and on transfer to Hong Kong the O’Reilly gelding has already won two races.

Les Crayeres (NZ)

Les Crayeres is a talented mare by Redoute’s Choice, out of Our Echezeaux who has accumulated five wins so far in her career for trainers Ken and Bev Kelso. She has earnt $125,606 in prize money and with her notable pedigree she looks to be a great future breeding prospect.

Our Echezeaux (NZ) is by Zabeel and is a full sister to Pencarrow’s very own Grand Echezeaux (NZ) who won the Group One Australian Oaks and is the dam of both Darci Brahma (NZ) – multiple Group One winner and top sire as well as Burgundy (NZ) – multiple stakes winner and successful sire.

Our Echezeaux (NZ) has produced six foals, all of which have been winners, including stakes winners Dolmabache (NZ), Pure Elegance (NZ) and Cote D’Or (NZ) with the former two being by Redoute’s Choice and hence, full sisters to Les Crayeres (NZ).

Zourion (NZ)

Zourion was purchased from Pencarrow’s Karaka 2022 Book 1 draft for $475,000 by Te Akau Racing’s David Ellis for Brendan & Jo Lindsay’s Cambridge Stud. The filly by Zoustar out of Irion has made an impressive start to her racing career being unbeaten in her first two starts. She has the pedigree and talent in order to become a top class filly for trainer Mark Walker.

Having won on debut at Taupo, she took a big step forward, impressively winning the Group Two Matamata Breeders’ Stakes beating Pignan (subsequent winner of the Group One Manawatu Sires Produce Stakes), by 6.1 lengths. These successes have seen her accumulate $76,840 in prize money in just two career starts.

Irion (NZ) is an exciting mare that has produced three winners from three foals of racing age, including the very talented mare Pearl of Alsace (NZ).

Golden Link (NZ)

Karaka 2018 Book 1 graduate Golden Link was purchased for $40,000 by Donna Logan and has been a highly promising individual for trainer Ricky Yiu in Hong Kong, earning a total of HK$1,399,174 in his career so far with five wins to his name.

Golden Link is by Per Incanto and out of Reset mare Kendoka, a four time winner from the family of Group One winner and successful sire Turn Me Loose who was last season’s leading second season sire of stakes winners in Australasia. Kendoka (NZ) has also produced the two-time winner, Sacred Kenshi (NZ) who was a Pencarrow graduate of the Karaka 2020 Book 1 sale.

Blushing Beauty (NZ)

Blushing Beauty is a Sacred Falls mare out of Pink Bubbles, who has progressed well in her 2022-23 campaign with two wins and three placings for Pencarrow trainers Steven Ramsay and Julia Ritchie. She has earnt $26,380 in prize money so far in her career with plenty more to come.

Blushing Beauty’s half-sister Fat Fingers (NZ) (Sweynesse) has had two wins alongside placings from her six starts in Australia.

Aloft (NZ)

Aloft is a well bred filly by Atlante, out of the mare Sopra Tutto who has shown her ability by winning three from ten starts and amassing a total of $30,150 in prize money whilst in training with Pencarrow’s Steven Ramsay and Julia Ritchie. She won on debut at Rotorua and followed this up with a consecutive win at New Plymouth before running credibly in the Listed Oaks Prelude at just her third career start.