WS Graduate Sets Record Price
The stud enjoyed a wonderful result on Gavelhouse last night with Hasahalo (Savabeel) setting a record high price of $670,000 for owners Go Racing’s Go Racing Fright Night Breeding Partnership, thanks to the astute bid of The China Horse Club.
Hasahalo was a $110,000 graduate of Waikato Stud’s 2016 NZB Premier Yearling Sale draft, who went on to cement her status as a superb broodmare prospect with Gr.1 success in the NZ 1000 Guineas and in the Gr.3 Eclipse Stakes.
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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