Frozone Earns Just Reward

7 March 2011

Double Celebration For O’Reilly

O’Reilly played the starring stallion role at Flemington yesterday when his daughter Shamrocker won the Gr 1 Australian Guineas and he also made his presence felt in South Australia. The champion WS resident’s durable son Guyno continued his good form with victory in the Gr 3 Lord Reims Stakes.

Bred and by the Matamata farm, Guyno has returned to his best form this year and at his previous start the millionaire galloper had travelled to Melbourne to land the Listed Mornington Cup for his Ascot-based trainer Lou Luciani. That victory came off the back of a runner-up finish in the Gr 2 Perth Cup – a race he had taken out in 2009.

Guyno, the Gr 1 winner Western Australian Derby as a three-year-old, is a son of the winning Centaine mare River Century and a half-brother to the outstanding performer Legs. By Pins, she won the Gr 1 Kelt Capital Stakes and New Zealand Oaks and the Eulogy Stakes at Gr 3 level. The family also boasts Gr 1 winner Sixty Seconds (Arrowfield Stud Stakes) and the dual Gr 2 winner Arletty (Villiers Stakes, Queen of the Turf Stakes).

Tivaci’s Movie Night steals the show at Newcastle

A sister to the Gr.1 ATC Flight Stakes (1600m) winner Never Been Kissed, the Waikato Stud-bred and raced Movie Night (NZ) was rewarded for her consistency, breaking her maiden with an all-the-way win over 1400m at Newcastle for trainer Tom Charlton.

9 July 2026

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.