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Shinko King sires first New Zealand winner

Well credentialled son of Fairy King, Shinko King has sired his first New Zealand winner. Original Sin (out of the Balios mare Hope Chest), a 2YO half sister to the high class Shinnecock (by Woodborough) scored an impressive 2 1/2 length victory at Matamata last week.

Roger James, trainer of Original Sin has a high opinion of the filly and is now aiming her for a black type race on Anzac Day at Avondale.

Shinko King was a top notch racehorse in his own right winning eight races in Japan including the Japanese G1 Takamatsunomiya Cup (1,200 metres). His pedigree is also impressive as he is by Fairy King (sire of Encosta de Lago) out of the superb broodmare Rose of Jericho. Rose of Jericho is also the dam of Derby winner Dr Devious, and Grand Archway's sire Archway.

Shinko King's oldest New Zealand bred progeny are juveniles, although he did shuttle to Japan briefly. He stands at Ray Knight's Ashwell Farm property in the Waikato (NZ) and his 2001 fee was $NZ5,500 plus gst.

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American Group Two winner to Fayette Park

American Group Two winner Postponed joins the stallion line up at Fayette Park in Matamata, the home of the late, great Grosvenor.
With many breeders signalling disatisfaction with studs who stand shuttle horses for only one season before disappearing, it will be a relief to know that Postponed is wholly owned in New Zealand. He was purchased by a partnership of Chatham Lodge Thoroughbreds (Gary Hackett and Mike Tololi) and the Karaka Group Ltd (an offshoot of Tololi's bloodstock interests) with the Pukekohe based agent Peter Jenkins securing the horse on their behalf.

An attractive son of Summer Squall, Postponed was a US$835,000 yearling at the Saratoga Sales, the second highest priced colt of the sale. Purchased by Jeanne Vance, Postponed then entered the barn of prominent trainer Scotty Schulhofer.

Postponed showed juvenile form winning his debut over 7 furlongs at Belmont. However it was as a three year old he really hit his straps. Postponed competed against the best of his generation on the Triple Crown trail finishing 5th behind Hal's Hope in the Florida Derby before winning the G2 Peter Pan Stakes at Belmont. Behind him in his impressive Peter Pan victory were subsequent G1 winner Unshaded and G2 winner Globalize.

Summer Squall the sire of Postponed has sired Kentucky Derby winner Charismatic, brilliant filly Storm Song along with recent G2 winner Summer Colony.

His female line is one of the best in the American stud book with Postponed's second dam Chapel of Dreams a 3/4 sister to sire phenomenon Storm Cat and is the immediate family of Royal Academy (sire of Bel Esprit).

Pedigree enthusiasts wil find a lot to like in the pedigree of Postponed. Double lines of both Northern Dancer and Secretariat, a complimentary line of Mr Prospector coupled with linebreeding to super broodmare Somthingroyal. The cross with Sir Tristram line mares is superb and with the number of Grosvenor mares at Fayette Park it seems Postponed will have every opportunity to shine.

Postponed will stand for a 2002 service fee of $NZ8,500 plus gst. His associate sires are Prized, Germano and Stark South.

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Although his oldest Australian progeny are only halfway through their three-year old season the 1998 English 2000 Guineas winner King Of Kings was still searching for his first southern hemisphere stakes winner. He needed a headline horse and he may just have it in the undefeated New Zealand-trained two-year old colt King’s Chapel.


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A handsome, well gown chestnut colt, King’s Chapel became the first southern hemisphere stakes winner for King Of Kings when winning his third successive race in the Listed $500,000 Mercedes Super Bonus Classique (1200m) at Te Rapa yesterday.
Although several runners could have been described as unlucky in the race restricted to two-year olds sold at the New Zealand Bloodstock Premier sale last year, nothing can be taken away from King’s Chapel who was brave in his all the way win.

Ridden Opie Bosson for trainer Mark Walker and owned by a syndicate headed by David Ellis, King’s Chapel defeated a pair of Volkraad filly’s, Shadowfax Babe and Eftee One, in the richest juvenile race run in New Zealand.

A $35,000 purchase Lower Chapel is the second foal of the imported Sharpo mare Lower Chapel (GB). Although she never saw a racetrack Lower Chapel (GB) has an appealing pedigree being a sister to dual Group 3 winner Leap For Joy and a three-quarter sister to the flying College Chapel winner of 5 races between 6-7 furlongs including the Prix Maurice de Gheest (Gr2), Tetrarch S. (G3), Greenlands S. (G3) (twice), Cork and Orrery S. (G3) and also second in July Cup (G1), and third in the Nunthorpe Stakes (G1).

College Chapel stood for four seasons at stud in New Zealand as well as spending time in Ireland, Italy and England.

Although King’s Chapel is the first southern hemisphere stakes winner for King Of Kings he is not the first stakes winner for the son of Sadler’s Wells. That honour belongs to his first northern hemisphere crop two-year old filly Geminiani (King Of Kings-Tadkiyra by Darshaan), which scored a 1 ¼-lengths win in the Group 3 Prestige Stakes at Goodwood last year.

Coincidently, Geminiani defeated Mail The Desert who went on to become the first northern hemisphere Group 1 winner for Woodlands Stud’s Desert Prince, which also sired his first southern hemisphere stakes winner when Syrinx took out the Group 2 Breeders’ Stakes at Morphetville yesterday.


By: Mark Smith - Sunday, 2 February 2003

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When Eliza Park Stud purchased Sunline’s sire Desert Sun after he stood for five seasons at stud in N.Z. there was always the danger that he would be perceived as one horse sire. However the son of Green Desert has quickly allayed those fears by producing a further 13 stakes winners that have contributed to Desert Sun’s total earnings of over $20 million. No fewer than 12 of Desert Sun’s 14 stakes winners have been fillies including his three Group 1 winners, Sunline, La Bella Dama and the latest (Our) Egyptian Raine.

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Desert Sun


The kiwi mare stepped out to score a brilliant win in the G2 Swettenham Stud Stakes (1200m) at Morphettville in Adelaide on Saturday, February 15.

Ridden by top kiwi jockey Catherine Treymane who jumped the four-year-old daughter of Desert Sun, straight to the front from gate 13 in the 15-horse field.

(Our) Egyptian Raine increased her lead rounding the turn and Treymane had stolen a winning break on the rest of the field down the straight.

Two classy in-form fillies from Victoria filled the trifecta, both were down in the weights on the weight-for-age scale, Brief Embrace (Irgun - Tranquil Love) gave chase inside the last 200 metres and looked as if she would overhaul her rival but ran out of ground, as the post was near enough for Our Egyptian Raine who held on to win by a half head. The other filly Dama De Noche (Snippets - Daisy Bates) was a length away in third placing.

DESERT SUN

Our Egyptian Raine is from the Karioi Lad mare Egyptian Queen winner of six races and the dam of two foals to race with (Our) Egyptian Raine the second foal the best preformed.

(Our) Egyptian Raine is the winner of the Group One Railway Stakes at Ellerslie on New Year's Day, she then stepped out in the G1 Telegraph Handicap (1200m) at Trentham, to finish second, on January 25.

(Our) Egyptian Raine is not an overly big mare but has plenty in common with other famous daughter of Desert Sun she has plenty of grit, she is a front-runner who does not fold up when tired and very brave at the finish.

(Our) Egyptian Raine will now take on Australia's best sprinting mare Spinning Hill (Dolphin Street- Incline) in next month's G1 Australia Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley.

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Don Eduardo (NZ) (Zabeel), the highest-priced yearling ever sold through the sale ring in the southern hemisphere, is to stand at Tirau’s Fayette Park Stud in New Zealand this year.

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Zabeel

In a major coup for the New Zealand breeding industry David and Masey Benjamin’s Fayette Park operation are thrilled to have accepted the kind offer of, Don Eduardo’s owner Mr Eduardo Cojangco of Gooree Park, Australia to stand his magnificently bred Australian Derby winner.

David Benjamin said: "We are all very excited and honoured at the prospect of Don Eduardo coming to Fayette Park. "He will help fill the huge gap left by the death of our champion sire, Grosvenor (NZ) (Sir Tristram) who was put down in 2001. Grosvenor was himself a VRC Derby winner," Benjamin said.

Don Eduardo, a magnificent looking bay colt standing 16.2 hands, was considered by all the good judges as being one of the best conformed colts to go through a sale ring in the Southern Hemisphere for a long time.

Bred by Sir Patrick and Lady Hogan, Don Eduardo was offered from the draft of Cambridge Stud at the Karaka yearling sales of 2000. He was purchased for a record price of $3.6 million by Tik Tik Trinidad on behalf of Mr Cojaungco.

"The Don" as he is affectionately known won five races from Lee Freedman’s stable culminating in his success in the 2002 San Miguel AJC Derby at Royal Randwick. In this Group One 2400m classic he beat home Carnegie Express and Pentastic.

As a three-year-old Don Eduardo also won the Group Two Shannon’s Classic over 1800m at Caulfield, beating Royal Code. He also finished a gallant second behind Carnegie Express in the Group One Rosehill Guineas.

This season as a four-year-old Don Eduardo finished third behind Northerly and Magical Miss in the Group One Underwood Stakes in Melbourne and also filled third placing behind Northerly in the Group One Australian Cup. Don Eduardo showed a good turn of foot as well as staying prowess as he won races at distances ranging from 1300m to 2400m. His career stake-earnings stood at $A1,685,110.

Don Eduardo is a three-quarter brother to dual Group One winning Tristalove who is the dam of Group One Spring Champion Stakes winner Viking Ruler. He is also a three-quarter brother to Antwerp, winner of eight races, and the dam of champion Australian two-year-old of 2000-01 and champion Australian three-year-old of 2001-02, Viscount.

His dam, Diamond Lover, won eight races including the Group One Railway Handicap (1200m) at Ellerslie. Diamond Lover is a daughter of the legendary Eight Carat who left six winners including five Group One winners of 16 Group One races.

Eight Carat is the dam of 10-time Group One winner Octagonal and also of Mouawad, Kaapstad, Diamond Lover, Our Marquise. It is also the family of champion three-year-old and successful sire Danewin and the very popular Commands.

Don Eduardo will stand his first season at a service fee of $NZ12,500 and will cover 25 of Cojuangco’s beautifully bred mares. Benjamin said Don Eduardo was due to arrive later in the autumn. He will stand alongside Fayette Park’s other sires, Germano, Postponed and Stark South.

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Champion Ethereal heads a list of more than 15 stakes winning mares and almost 20 stakes producers to be served by the regally bred Storm Cat stallion Van Nistelrooy at Trelawney Stud this spring, reports N.Z Thoroughbred News.

Due to have her first foal, by Coolmore’s champion Giants Causeway on August 23, Ethereal will be joined by another Pencarrow Stud owned mare, Sir Tristram’s Classic winning daughter Riverina Charm, dam of Filly of the Year Sarwatch and Group winner Paolino, to Van Nistelrooy.

Other prominent mares to visit Van Nistelrooy in his first season include triple Group One winner, Fayreform, Group One winner Coogee Walk, national 1400m record holder Dopff, Queensland Oaks runner up Midnight Babe, Group Three winner Lingarton, English Group winner Verlei, Group winning filly Party Queen, stakes winner Oh Sister, Yankee Gold, dam of three-time stakes winner Joans’ Best.

In other N.Z. news, champion racemare, Let’s Elope (Nassipour), dam of stakes winner Ustinov (Seeking The Gold), foaled a “striking” bay filly foal by Fusaichi Pegasus on Thursday night at Seven Creeks Farm in Victoria.

Let’s Elope will visit Elusive Quality at Darley, Australia this year.
By: Mark Smith - Friday, 15 August 2003

VAN NISTELROOY TO TRELAWNEY STUD IN NZ.

Van Nistelrooy - the world's most expensive yearling sold at auction in 2001 - has been retired from racing due to injury. He will shuttle to Trelawney Stud in New Zealand for the upcoming season after a deal was brokered by New Zealand Bloodstock and Adrian Nicoll of BBA (Ireland). The son of Storm Cat will enter quarantine later this week and be shipped to New Zealand in early August.

A $6,400,000 yearling purchase, Van Nistelrooy impressed many observers when landing his first three races as a two-year-old, all at Ireland¹s racing headquarters The Curragh. The third of these was the Group 2 Futurity Stakes in which he recorded a faster time than recent winners of the race and subsequent superstars Hawk Wing and Giant's Causeway. Three weeks later, in the Group 1 National Stakes, Van Nistelrooy was narrowly beaten into second by this year's Group 1 English 2,000 Guineas winner Refuse To Bend.

As well as a race record, Van Nistelrooy has the pedigree to make a stallion. He is bred on the same Storm Cat/Halo cross as the ill-fated Harlan, who sired multiple Grade 1 winners Harlan's Holiday and Menifee before his premature death. Enthusing about Storm Cat as a sire of sires, acknowledged expert Alan Porter noted in Owner/Breeder magazine that sons "Forest Wildcat, Hennessy, Storm Boot, Harlan, Future Storm, Delineator, Storm Creek, and Illinois Storm have all sired at least one major stakes winner better than themselves."

Trelawney Stud's manager Brent Taylor commented: "He was a top notch two-year-old; he's by the right sire; and you couldn't find a nicer looking individual anywhere in the world. We're really excited about standing him and I think he'll offer breeders here fantastic value."

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Another mating I think confirmed is Sunline to Rock of Gibraltar. That'll attract some big $$$$ for sure.

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By Craig Young
September 1, 2003

A mating between thoroughbreds of the highest order is likely to happen at Coolmore Stud in the Hunter Valley today, with Australasian racing's greatest mare, Sunline, set to be served by Europe's Rock Of Gibraltar.

"It is something special," Coolmore stud manager Peter O'Brien said yesterday. "The best race mare in the southern hemisphere being mated with one of the best horses in the northern hemisphere."

Sunline's former co-trainer Steve McKee was in Sydney at the weekend with The Metropolitan- bound stayer Live By The Sword, which finished third in the opening race at Rosehill on Saturday.

McKee, who trained the horse with his father and major owner Trevor, accompanied Sunline to Australia, spending three days at Coolmore to ensure the winner of an Australian record $11,351,607 in stakes was settled in.

"We originally entertained going to Danehill but he died, so we thought why not go to his best son," McKee explained. "When Rock Of Gibraltar won he put paid to them in a couple of strides and it'll be a good mix with her grinding speed."

Sunline won 13 group 1 events, including two W.S. Cox Plates and as many Doncaster Handicaps, and was successful internationally, winning in Hong Kong and finishing the most courageous of thirds in Dubai two years ago.

Rock Of Gibraltar, whose owners include Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, won a world record seven consecutive group 1s, the winning sequence ending when he was second in the Breeders' Cup Mile in the US last year, the stallion's last race.

O'Brien, who believes Sunline will be the first horse served by Rock Of Gibraltar, said the stallion's pedigree was "only fitting" for the great mare.

Rock Of Gibraltar's fertility rate has been tested and found to be excellent - good news considering the service fee is reported to be $125,000, and he is expected to serve more than 100 mares in coming months.

While McKee is unsure if any subsequent Rock Of Gibraltar-Sunline foal will be kept or sold, O'Brien has no doubt what he would be doing with any issue.

Noting owners took chances on yearlings with lesser breeding, O'Brien asked: "Why wouldn't you take the risk on one that is bred to be the superstar of superstars?"

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Breeding career ahead: retired champion Sunline with barn foreman Alan Bassett at Coolmore Stud on Friday. Photo: Ron Bell

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Darci Brahma retired 15 Feb 2007


By Rob Burnet

Darci Brahma, the winner of the Group I, Waikato Draught Sprint (1400m) at Te Rapa last Saturday, has been retired to stud reports thoroughbredfocus.co.nz.

The Danehill entire suffered a minor hock injury after Saturday's race and on Thursday he was being treated with antibiotics.

“Mark (Walker) and I went through the options and decided that the best decision was to retire him,” said Te Akau Racing principal David Ellis.

Ellis selected the Danehill-Grand Echezeaux (by Zabeel) colt out of the draft of Pencarrow Stud for $1.1 million at the 2004 New Zealand Bloodstock Ltd Premier Yearling Sale, and syndicated him amongst a group of investors.

A racing career of 19 starts has produced 10 wins, including five at Group I level, and he was valued at $10 million when arrangements for his pending stud career at The Oaks Stud were recently finalised.

“He won his first race and he won his last,” added Ellis. “The whole racing industry has had a wonderful ride on this horse.

“He retires as the first horse to top the National Sale and then become the highest rated two-year-old and three-year-old before going on to win two group one races as a four-year-old.

“The highlight of his career was his Telegraph Handicap at Trentham in January. He proved his class that day by running the 1200 metres in 1:07 and it was such a thrill for the public to witness how good a galloper he was," said Ellis.

Darci Brahma is expected to be transferred to The Oaks Stud next week.

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