Pins Gelding Ambitious Dragon Rated Top NZ Bred

5 February 2013

Ambitious Dragon

Pins superstar Ambitious Dragon has been named the highest rated NZ-bred galloper on the final Asian Racing Federation (ARF) Thoroughbred Rankings for 2012.

On 124, he sits foremost ahead of such outstanding NZ-bred’s as Ocean Park (122), More Joyous (122) and Mufhasa (120).

Overall, Ambitious Dragon’s 124 puts him in 5th spot behind the magnificent Black Caviar, who enjoys number one spot with 130 points.

Savabeel, from furthering a legacy to creating his own – The Straight

A true Australasian success story on the track and in the breeding shed, the influence of Savabeel, who died last week aged 24, will be felt for years to come on both sides of the …

23 June 2026

Sav’s final resting place

“I’ve got a couple of very special bottles of wine that I’ve had for a number of years, and usually they would have been opened on a celebration, but I thought it was very pertinent, and well, it was a celebration, it was a celebration of his life,” Mark Chittick told The Straight.