Hollywood Shows Her Style

4 November 2012

Outstanding racemare Glamour Puss is now making her mark as a broodmare for WS.

The dual Gr 1 Salinger Stakes and Goodwood Handicap winner’s first foal Heritage has been a winner from limited starts and her second Hollywood has made a flying satrt to her career.

The Pins mare added another winning strike to her record on Friday night when she was successful over 1600 metres at Moonee Valley for trainer Danny O’Brien. The four-year-old now has three wins and three placings from her six starts for owner Garry Chittick.

The winner of nine races, Glamour Puss is a half-sister to Vision And Power (Gr 1 Doncaster Handicap, Gr 1 George Ryder Stakes) and Rare Insight (Gr 2 Stan Fox 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 …