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Jason Coutss and Charlotte Young made their first foray into the stallion business in 2017 when they began standing Prince of Brooklyn at their Otago property for a fee of $3,000+gst, and he will be represented by his first crop of yearlings at Karaka later this month. He
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Verdi will be represented by his first crop of yearlings at Karaka at the end of this month. He began his stallion career at Long Acres Stud, the Canterbury operation of Myles Gordon and Deborah Clark, in association with Monovale Farm, for an initial fee of $3,000+gst in
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A champion New Zealand three-year-old, Puccini will be represented by his first crop of yearlings at Karaka later this month. A son of champion stallion Encosta de Lago, Puccini is out of stakes-winning Paris Opera mare Miss Opera. The quality broodmare is also the dam of six-time Group One winner
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Valachi Downs will send a quality group of yearlings through the ring during the 2020 New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sales, but this year’s Karaka draft is likely to be remembered mostly for the generosity of the Matamata stud’s owners Kevin and Jo Hickman. Valachi will offer 16
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Street Cry’s well-performed son Telperion, a half-brother to Group One winner Kementari, will be represented by his first crop of yearlings at Karaka next month. He is out of the Redoute’s Choice mare Yavanna, herself a daughter of the Group Three winner Wild Queen, who is a half-sister
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Highview Stud stallion Wrote will be represented by his first crop of yearlings at Karaka next month. The Irish-bred Wrote won three of his nine starts for Aidan O’Brien including the Gr.1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (1609m). The only Group One-winning two-year-old son of High Chaparral was also
Breeding
Taroni, an impressive 2YO winner at Ellerslie on Boxing Day in the colours of Cambridge Stud's Brendan and Jo Lindsay, joins Group two-winner Play That Song, stakes performer Ohio Showgirl and Australian-based Disco Lights to give former Haunui Farm stallion Showcasing (GB) (Oasis Dream) four of the top
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Group One winner Vanbrugh will be represented by his first crop of yearlings at Karaka in January 2020. A son of champion sire Encosta De Lago, Vanbrugh is the winner of more than $A740,000 and hails from the outstanding Waikato Stud family of Group One winners Diademe and Sacred
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Rageese joined Vanbrugh and Turn Me Loose as new comers to Windsor Park Stud for the 2017 breeding season, and his first yearlings will be offered at Karaka next month. Owned in partnership with Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al Maktoum the imposing son of Street Cry is a direct descendant
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Haunui Farm welcomed Champion European two-year-old Belardo to their stallion roster in 2017, where he stands for a fee of $12,000+gst. His first crop of yearlings will be offered at Karaka next month. The multiple Group One winner is a son Lope de Vega and a half-brother to
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Preferment, a four-time Group One-winning son of Zabeel, returned to his country of birth in 2017 to stand at Brighthill Farm for a fee of $12,500+gst, and his first crop of yearlings will be on offer for the first time at Karaka in January 2020. A brother to
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Progeny of Champion Australian three-year-old of his year, Tarzino, will be offered for the first time as yearlings at Karaka next year. Dual Group One winner Tarzino stood his first season at stud in 2017 at Gerry Harvey’s Westbury Stud for a fee of $15,000+gst. The first