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14 Jan 2025

Several significant pedigree updates have given a major boost to Pencarrow Stud’s draft for Karaka 2025.

Pencarrow will offer another quality draft of 26 yearlings during Book 1, many of them close relatives to notable recent racetrack performers.

The most significant of these updates is for Lot 498, a filly by Pierro out of Breeze (Sea The Stars). She is a full-sister to the highly talented three-year-old Golden Century (NZ) (Pierro), who ran second and was beaten by a nose in Sunday’s $100,000 Listed Gingernuts Salver (2100m) at Ellerslie.

13 Jan 2025

Tomodachi (NZ) (Tarzino) made a big impression winning three of her five starts as a three-year-old last season, and the exciting Pencarrow prospect picked up right where she left off with a first-up victory in Friday’s $40,000 Social Club Greerton (1200m) at Tauranga.

07 Jan 2025

The international success and esteem that Pencarrow Stud has enjoyed over the last few decades has been underpinned by exceptional female families built up by Sir Peter Vela. Buyers get relatively few chances to tap into those famous bloodlines, but Pencarrow’s yearling drafts at Karaka every year provide that prized opportunity.

03 Jan 2025

Classy two-year-old Too Sweet (NZ) (Satono Aladdin) became the latest stakes winner for an iconic Pencarrow Stud family when she led all the way to win the $225,000 Group Two Skycity Eclipse Stakes (1200m) at Ellerslie on New Year’s Day.

The Roydon Bergerson-trained filly has now had three starts for two wins and a placing, earning $164,400 for an ownership group headed by Chris Rutten.

Too Sweet is by Satono Aladdin out of the Pencarrow-bred Sparkling Rose (NZ) (Bernardini), who descends from one of the stud’s greatest mares, Grand Echezeaux (NZ) (Zabeel). Sparkling Rose herself was unraced but is now making a mark of her own as a broodmare.