O’Reilly completes remarkable season

4 August 2013

O’Reilly has completed a stunning 2012-13 season with total domination in all three stallion divisions. The WS resident won the Grosvenor Award (champion New Zealand sire), the Dewar Award (champion New Zealand sire for Australasian earnings) and the Centaine Award (champion New Zealand sire for global earnings).

The sire of two Group One winners in the home-bred Sacred Falls (Doncaster Handicap, NZ 2000 Guineas) and Shamexpress (Newmarket Handicap), O’Reilly was the leading New Zealand sire by winners (154), wins, stakes winners (15) and earnings ($11,551,479 internationally).

To complete a remarkable season for O’Reilly, his son and former champion three-year-old Alamosa was crowned New Zealand’s champion first season sire.

Porcia Catonis powers home as Super Seth’s rise continues

Super Seth’s strong run continues with Porcia Catonis, who delivered a dominant win at Riccarton for Fortuna Racing. The lightly raced filly is now a two-time winner and adds to a stellar season for her sire, who boasts three Group 1 winners and a 4.34% G1 winners-to-runners strike rate.

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Gutsy bebut win for Ardrossan’s Macallan

Ardrossan’s son Macallan impressed on debut in Thursday’s opener at Tauranga, overcoming Heavy10 conditions to win the Tierra Maiden 3YO (1200m) by 1.3 lengths. Trained by Wexford Stables and racing for JML Bloodstock, the gelding showed toughness and class to finish strongly before the meeting was abandoned due to weather.