Black-type Mare back in winning form

26 February 2016

Black-type mare Miss Alice (Pins) bounced back to impressive best at Southland last weekend, beating all in the GJ Gardner Homes Southland Stakes over 1400m.

Trained by John and Karen Parsons, Miss Alice is the winner of seven races, with her leading win coming in this season’s Gr.3 Canterbury Breeders Stakes.

Oilman’s stud stake could change course of NZ breeding

Eighteen months ago, Texas oilman Nelson Bunker Hunt walked through the lush Waikato pasture of Matamata’s Balcarres Stud and announced he wanted some just like it for his own.

Today he has-360 acres about a mile down the road which has been transformed from a dairy farm to one of New Zealand’s leading horse and cattle breeding establishments.

9 July 2026

WS graduate Honour Roll out to add stakes success at Otaki

Waikato Stud will be cheering on one of its promising graduates on Friday when Honour Roll contests the Listed John Turkington Forestry Castletown Stakes (1200m) at Otaki. The WS-bred son of the late Champion sire …