No Tricks on the board in Australia

23 June 2015

Former New Zealand-based filly No Tricks landed her first Australian win in the Listed Daybreak Lover Stakes (1800m) at the Gold Coast on Saturday.

Formerly in the care of Jason Bridgman, the consistent galloper won two races in New Zealand including the Listed New Zealand Bloodstock Warstep Stakes (2000m).

Now trained at Mt Gambier by Wayne Walters, the Paul Smithies-owned three-year-old was having her fifth start in Queensland having finished sixth in the Gr.1 Queensland Oaks (2200m) and fourth in the Listed Ipswich Cup (2150m) at her two previous starts.

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.

9 July 2026

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 …