Line Seeker strikes again

30 December 2014

Buyers will be rueing a missed opportunity following Line Seeker’s latest victory at Sha Tin.

Unwanted as a yearling when he failed to meet his $50,000 reserve at Karaka in 2013, the son of O’Reilly has now won two of his three starts in Hong Kong for trainer Paul O’Sullivan.

Line Seeker’s latest success on Sunday night came over 1400 metres in the skilled hands of Zac Purton and provided O’Sullivan with the opening leg of a New Zealand-bred double.

He later produced the High Chaparral gelding Racing Hero to win for the seventh time in his career.

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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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.