Smart sprinter-miler Seize The Moment returning to CD

21 March 2016

Group performer Seize The Moment will make his next appearance at Awapuni on Saturday week.

“He just can’t go right-handed so he’ll go down there for the Listed Flying Handicap,” trainer Stephen Marsh said.

The winner of six races and runner-up in the Gr.3 Anniversary Handicap at Trentham, Seize The Moment hasn’t raced since his front-running victory at Hastings earlier this month.

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.

9 July 2026

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.