Dream Win For Filly

18 July 2011

Centaine mare Pyjamas has a perfect record at stud and her promising daughter Shandream added to the family roll of honour at Ruakaka.

The Pins three-year-old was a runaway winner over 1400 metres to take her career statistics to two wins and five placings from nine starts.

Shandream is a sister to the multiple winner Marahau and half-sister to Doubly Sure (O’Reilly), Dashing Saveel (Savabeel) and Silk Negligee (No Excuse Needed).

A $280,000 Karaka buy for trainer Richard Collett, her dam is a sister to the multiple Listed Zeditave Stakes winner Catainer.

It is also the international family of the Gr 1 Yorkshire Oaks winner Catchascatchcan and Gr 2 Railway Stakes winner and sire Antonious Pius.

The Corner with Garry Chittick

It would appear I now have to continue my weekly Corner with the amount of rumblings at the start of our new racing season. I have been around long enough to know we can never please all; my tenure as Chairman of the Racing Board was subjected to as much vitriol as subsequent Boards have had to bear, so what’s different this time, or is it different.

5 August 2026

First foal for Waikato’s Group 1 winner Skew Wiff

Group 1-winning Savabeel mare Skew Wiff (ex Starvoia), known affectionately as ‘Wiffy’, foaled a filly by Super Seth in the early hours of Wednesday, 5 August.