Masterful display at Sha Tin
Master Hero has doubled his winning tally in Hong Kong with his latest success for trainer Tony Cruz.
The patiently-handled 5-year-old son of Savabeel resumed over 1400 metres at Sha Tin on Sunday evening and overcame a tough run for the second win of his 12-start career, that also features a further six placings.
“The horse didn’t have everything his own way, he had to face the breeze and didn’t let us down,” jockey Joao Moreira told the Hong Kong Jockey Club.
“I’ve had faith in this horse for a long time and the trainer and his team have done a fantastic job to get this horse back to resume in this way.”
Master Hero was bred by Waikato Stud and sold to the Hong Kong Jockey Club at New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale at Karaka for $500,000.
He is a brother to the two-time Group 1 winner Savvy Coup, who at the end of her career was purchased by Coolmore’s Tom Magnier for AU$1 million at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale.
Their dam is the unraced Pins mare Eudora, a sister to the Group winners Legless Veuve and Tootsie and the family of the three-time Group 1 winner Probabeel and the recent G3 Gold Trail S. winner Bellacontte.
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.
Read More
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 …
Read More