Vibrato strikes right chord
New Zealand’s champion trainers look to have unearthed yet another promising type in Vibrato.
Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman produced the Sacred Falls juvenile to win at today’s Cambridge trials.
Racing close to the pace, he rounded off strongly to claim his 935 metre heat in the fastest time of the day.
Vibrato was bred by Waikato Stud and sold at Karaka last year for $45,000.
He is a son of Music, a Pins mare from a half-sister to the Group Two winner Society Beau.
It is also the family of the Group 1 winners Final Destination and Irish Fling.
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.
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