In Style to Australia

8 October 2015

Group One-winning mare In Style is booked on a midweek flight to Australia.

The reigning Railway Stakes winner will be flown on Wednesday to Melbourne where she will join Michael Moroney’s Flemington stable.

She will run in Saturday’s Gr.3 Cape Grim Beef Steaks, a 1200 metre event for fillies and mares at Caulfield. Opie Bosson has been booked for the mount.

The winner of seven of her 15 starts from Danica Guy’s Matamata stable, In Style was a trial winner at Avondale last week.

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.

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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.