Jess Greenfield awarded 2026 Mary-Lynne Ryan Young Achiever Award
On Saturday night, Jess Greenfield was awarded the loveracing.nz Mary-Lynne Ryan Young Achiever Award at the Property Brokers National Breeding Awards at Karapiro attended by the Waikato Stud team including Garry and Mary Chittick, and Mike Rennie.
Jess joined Waikato Stud in 2018, just 17 years old, as part of the yearling preparation team and quickly progressed through all areas of the business to today being a part of the senior leadership team at Waikato Stud.
When asked by Steve Davis what the future looked like for Jess, Greenfield humbly replied: “Just keep working away at Waikato Stud and see where we end up.”
Jess heads into a second season as Waikato Stud’s foaling manager, having successfully completed 2025 and saving broodmare Coldplay following post-foaling complications with a collon torsion click to read here.
Another WS star was Ohope Wins (Ocean Park) who was awarded the NZB Filly of the Year for 2026, following winning two Group 1s within seven weeks in the 2025/26 season: Gr.1 WRC NZ Oaks and Gr.1 ATC Australian Oaks.
Ohope Wins is bred by Gartshore Bloodstock and was bought by Yulong after a quiet trial for spring on 20 July at Royal Randwick for Chris Waller.
Ocean Park stands the 2026 breeding season for $15,000 plust GST – incredible value coming off of the back of an incredible season with Group 1 winner Ohope Wins, Group 2-winning and twice Group 1-placed filly Autumn Glory – who Yulong purchased privately, too and making up Ocean Park’s five stakes winners for the seaon.
The Corner with Garry Chittick
The two of you will be aware of my ongoing concern as to the future of our sport. You could argue I have a vested interest; well, I did have, but my interest now is to give the future generations the opportunity my generation had. Now I can tell you, hand on heart, there were many financial thin times. 1975 was my fledgling start with five mares on 130 acres that occasionally flooded with the well-bred, non-race-winning Super Gray.
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Classy Debut Victory For Major Beel’s Brother Savagram
From a pedigree known all too well by the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott stable, 3yo Savabeel colt Savagram (NZ) kicked off his race career in the best possible way, highlighting himself as a potential black-type performer.
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