Marina adds to tally
The well-related Marina has taken another winning trick for trainer and part-owner John Hickmott.
The Ocean Park mare’s latest success, the fourth of her career, came this week over 1100 metres at Gawler.
Marina is a half-sister to four winners with their dam Homeland Sheila.
She is a half-sister to the Gr.3 Blue Diamond Preview winner Northeast Sheila and the stakes winner Dashing Granada.
It’s also the family of the Gr.3 Star Kingdom Stakes winner and Group One performer Generalife.
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.
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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 …
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