Top Pencarrrow Team At Taupo Meeting
12 Aug 2008
Pencarrow Stud will have a strong line-up of four runners at Wednesday's Taupo Racing Club meeting held at Taupo.
Pencarrow Stud will have a strong line-up of four runners at Wednesday's Taupo Racing Club meeting held at Taupo.
The team at Pencarrow Stud are excited to see the arrival of a foal by five-time Group 1 winner Darci Brahma on the Hamilton-based stud farm early Monday.
Reigning New Zealand Bloodstock Filly Of The Year Insouciant (Keeper x Loudenne) finished a nice second behind quality stablemate Princess Coup in an open catchweight trial at Te Teko on Tuesday.
Four Pencarrow Stud owned-and-bred horses - including 2007/08 NZ Bloodstock Filly Of The Year Insouciant - headed to Taupo last Friday for a gallop.
Pencarrow Stud-bred Big Maverick has finished a brave second in the final leg of the Singapore Three-Year-Old Triple Crown series at Kranji racecourse.
Pencarrow Stud was the recipient of a prestigious Group 1 award at the Waikato breeders annual dinner held in Hamilton on Friday night.
Having dominated both of the first two legs, the Pencarrow Stud-bred gelding Big Maverick (NZ) (Ajfan by Woodman) will shoot for a clean sweep of the Singapore 3YO Challenge Series at Kranji racecourse on Sunday.
The University of Waikato has much pleasure bestowing the award of 2008 Distinguished Alumni on Peter Vela
Pencarrow Stud will be a recipient of one of the coveted trophies at the Waikato Breeders' annual Cathay Pacific Group 1 dinner being held at the Kingsgate Hotel in Hamilton on Friday July 25.
The Pencarrow Stud bred gelding El Gitano broke his maiden at Rotorua last week, with a win in the 1600m event for his owner IDL Racing.
New Zealand's reigning three-year-old Filly of the Year, Insouciant (Keeper x Loudenne), showed she is right on target for her spring campaign with a win in her trial at Cambridge today.
Top quality Pencarrow Stud-bred mare J'Adane (Danehill x Affirmed Lane) is expected to make her much-awaited return to racing next month.
Sean Woods-trained Sohna (Canny Lad x Zinarush) was in the winners' circle in a HK$590,000 event at the Hong Kong Jockey Club's race-meeting at Sha Tin on Tuesday night.
This season's New Zealand Bloodstock "Filly Of The Year", Insouciant, is coming up very well in her new preparation.
Pencarrow Stud-bred Big Maverick, pictured left, has easily won the second leg of the Singapore Three-Year-Old Challenge putting him on target to take out the "Triple Crown".
A number of broodmares due to foal in the coming season have returned to Pencarrow Stud in recent days.
Top trainer Laurie Laxon and jockey Saimee Jumaat can't wait for the other legs of the Three-Year-Old Challenge to come around for top-class three-year-old Big Maverick.
Pencarrow Stud has celebrated another feature race win in Singapore with Steel Cut (Danehill x Miller's Pride) taking out the S$75,000 Kranji Stakes over 1200 metres on Friday night.
With Casino Drive's Belmont hopes halted by a stone bruise, his connections confirm that he is now likely to target the Breeders' Cup Classic at Santa Anita on 25 October.
Pencarrow Stud-bred Big Maverick (O'Reilly x Ajfan) has enhanced his fine record by winning the first leg of the Singapore Three-Year-Old Challenge at Kranji Racetrack on Friday night.
New Zealand's Pencarrow Stud will take particularly close interest in the performance of Casino Drive who will be looking to continue a fine family tradition in Sunday's Belmont Stakes run at Belmont Park in New York.
Pencarrow Stud-bred Saperavi will join the stallion ranks at Willow Glen in South Canterbury this year.
Two of Pencarrow Stud's two-year-old fillies were successful in their trials at Cambridge on Wednesday, both under the tutelage of Te Akau Stables' Mark Walker.
A number of exciting rising two-year-old Pencarrow Stud-owned fillies are currently being broken in.