O’Reilly completes remarkable season

4 August 2013

O’Reilly has completed a stunning 2012-13 season with total domination in all three stallion divisions. The WS resident won the Grosvenor Award (champion New Zealand sire), the Dewar Award (champion New Zealand sire for Australasian earnings) and the Centaine Award (champion New Zealand sire for global earnings).

The sire of two Group One winners in the home-bred Sacred Falls (Doncaster Handicap, NZ 2000 Guineas) and Shamexpress (Newmarket Handicap), O’Reilly was the leading New Zealand sire by winners (154), wins, stakes winners (15) and earnings ($11,551,479 internationally).

To complete a remarkable season for O’Reilly, his son and former champion three-year-old Alamosa was crowned New Zealand’s champion first season sire.

The Corner with Garry Chittick

Well, I got a bit behind last week, with Friday slipping by without realising it; hence no Corner. I have said on too many occasions that negative messages are of no help to anyone, and yet there seems so often a reason to be concerned. Clearly, this week the well-constructed Guerin Report on the threatened downgrade of our Group 1 races demands our attention.

21 October 2026

Vale Ohope Wins, Ocean Park’s tough, kind and courageous daughter

Long before her Oaks double, Ohope Wins’ greatest victory belonged to the Waikato Stud staff and Matamata Veterinary Services vets who saved her as a desperately sick foal. Taken far too soon at Caulfield, her remarkable story is theirs too.