From paddock to podium, No Limits rewards Osment

From the racetrack to the show ring, No Limits (Savabeel ex Make A Wish) once again lived up to his name on Sunday, 2 November, stepping out at the Cambridge A&P Show and dazzling the crowd with his natural presence. The eight-year-old full brother to I Wish I Win proved there really are no limits to the talent flowing through the ‘Make A Wish’ family.

As a racehorse, the sixth foal of Pins mare Make A Wish showed flashes of promise, notching a win at Wanganui from seven starts. Bought for $1.4 million from Waikato Stud’s 2019 NZB Karaka draft by David Ellis and trained by Jamie Richards, he ultimately earned just $6,800 in prizemoney – a reminder that not all stars shine on the track.

But fate had a sense of humour. Make A Wish’s seventh foal arrived with a limb deformity so severe he was deemed commercially unviable, meaning Waikato Stud retained him to race – and, as the story now goes, that foal became none other than I Wish I Win, affectionately known as ‘Wishy’.

Click to read the story of Wishy as a foal

Now, in a fitting twist, both brothers have found their way home to Waikato Stud, sharing a paddock and a bond – one a racing hero who took New Zealand on the greatest trek up Everest – twice, the other an emerging star of the show circuit.

“No Limits was an absolute champ today, coming straight out of the paddock having not done anything for the last two years and looked amazing,” said Waikato Stud’s Hazel Osment, who has been with the farm for just over nine years and is the proud custodian of No Limits.

In his first competitive outing in years, No Limits impressed the judges with a string of results:
Suitable for Dressage (1st), Suitable for Showing (1st), Best Presented (2nd), Led Thoroughbred (2nd), Led Adult Gelding class (4th).

A story of two brothers, both home again – one writing racing history, the other finding a new spotlight, proving that true class never fades, it simply finds a new stage.