Pins Outstanding Australasian Value

1 August 2011

If you were wondering how Pins stacks up against his Australian peers for global earnings last season, check out Arion’s homepage www.arion.co.nz (see image left).

With international progeny earnings of over NZ$11million, Pins is New Zealand’s leading stallion in 2010/2011 for global earnings.

Such a haul sees him more than foot it with the big boys in Australia. At season end, this is how they fared:

1	Encosta de Lago	A$11,575,262
2	Redoute’s Choice	$10.589,475
3	Lonhro	$9,993,362
4	More Than Ready	$8,924,362

Tivaci’s Movie Night steals the show at Newcastle

A sister to the Gr.1 ATC Flight Stakes (1600m) winner Never Been Kissed, the Waikato Stud-bred and raced Movie Night (NZ) was rewarded for her consistency, breaking her maiden with an all-the-way win over 1400m at Newcastle for trainer Tom Charlton.

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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.