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Back to business for Xtravagant
Posted On: Wednesday, 25 November 2015
Rich Hill Stud's star graduate
Xtravagant (Pentire) is back in work after his outstanding victory in the New Zealand 2000 Guineas.
The crack son of Pentire has thrived since Riccarton and is ......
Debutante earns further black type for Jimmy Choux
Posted On: Sunday, 22 November 2015
Jimmy Choux has produced his second black type performer from only a handful of first crop representatives.
Rich Hill Stud’s exciting young stallion was credited with his first......
Pentire averages $130,000 at Ready To Run
Posted On: Friday, 20 November 2015
This week's Karaka Ready To Run Sale featured four lots by Rich Hill's champion sire
Pentire, selling up to
$240,000 and averaging
$130,000.
Currently New Zealand's leading active sire of Gr......
Black-type debut for Manolo Blahniq (Jimmy Choux)
Posted On: Friday, 20 November 2015
Craig Thornton has high hopes for
Manolo Blahniq, who has won all three of his trials and debuts in Saturday's Murdoch Newell Stakes.
Craig Thornton has immense respect for the quality of hi......
Black type performers for Jimmy Choux at Riccarton and Sandown
Posted On: Monday, 16 November 2015
Precocious filly What Choux Want is doing an outstanding job for her freshman sire Jimmy Choux. She credited the exciting young Rich Hill Stud stallion with his first winner when she was successful ......
Pentathlon (Pentire) a young stayer on the rise
Posted On: Sunday, 15 November 2015
Pentathlon backed up an impressive victory on the middle day of the New Zealand Cup carnival with another outstanding performance to complete a winning double at Riccarton yesterday.
The ......
Cup winner tops star-studded Rich Hill draft
Posted On: Wednesday, 11 November 2015
Prince of Penzance (pictured) has proved the headline act out of Rich Hill Stud's draft to Karaka four years ago, but he's not had a shortage of stars in supporting roles. While the historic
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Manolo Blahniq (Jimmy Choux) to debut for Thornton in the Murdoch Newell Stakes
Posted On: Tuesday, 10 November 2015
A much talked about juvenile through two earlier impressive trials wins,
Manolo Blahnicks made it a winning hat-trick on Monday (pictured) when scoring nicely over 650m at the Cambridge trials......
Prince of Penzance a well deserved Cup winner for sire
Posted On: Monday, 9 November 2015
PENTIRE, the sire of
Prince of Penzance, the 6-year-old New Zealand bred gelding who on November 3 became only the fourth 100-1 plus winner of the Melbourne Cup and the first ridden by a female ......
Pentire alive and kicking and in top form as sire
Posted On: Monday, 9 November 2015
SO MUCH about
Pentire seems to belong to a bygone era of racing. He was bought by Darley supremo John Ferguson in his previous incarnation as a talent scout for owner Mollers Racing, whose fam......
Australia beckons brilliant 2000 Guineas winner
Posted On: Monday, 9 November 2015
A late summer Australian campaign is on the cards for brilliant Sothys New Zealand 2000 Guineas winner
Xtravagant.
The runaway winner of the Riccarton classic is on his way back north and by ......
Cameron breaks his 2000 Guineas duck as Xtravagant (Pentire) smashes rivals
Posted On: Saturday, 7 November 2015
Xtravagant by name and extravagant by nature - that was how Matt Cameron finally broke his New Zealand 2000 Guineas bogey on a colt with the name that says it all.
From barrier rise Cameron mad......
Xtravagant poised to showcase Pentire power
Posted On: Friday, 6 November 2015
Rich Hill Stud stallion Pentire's already fabulous week might just be about to get better.
That's the suggestion from Matamata trainer Stephen Autridge, who saddles Pentire colt
Xtravagant (p......
Yellen (Pentire) wins the first on Oaks Day at Flemington
Posted On: Thursday, 5 November 2015
The rain arrived on Crown Oaks morning with Flemington's track downgraded to a Soft 6 after 12.8mm of rain from early morning, but the sun came out for the first of the programme and Chris Waller, H......
Another Kiwi Bred Cup Hero
Posted On: Thursday, 5 November 2015
Kiwi stayer
Prince of Penzance
(Pentire) outclassed a star-studded international field to take out the A$6 million Group 1 Emirates Melbourne Cup (3200m) - Continuing the rich history New Zealand......
Cup victory a life-changer
Posted On: Wednesday, 4 November 2015
Rich Hill Stud's John Thompson is still coming to grips with the few minutes at Flemington on Tuesday afternoon that have thrust him into the spotlight of the racing world.
The Walton farm near Mat......
Melbourne Cup Winner for Pentire
Posted On: Tuesday, 3 November 2015
The champagne was flowing at Rich Hill Stud on Tuesday afternoon with a Group One celebration to toast their major role in a history-making Melbourne Cup result.
Their giant-killing farm gradua......
Choisir's reputation as a standout sire of sprinters took another leap forward on Saturday when his 3YO star Japonisme became his eighth Gr.1 winner.
Posted On: Tuesday, 3 November 2015
Coolmore stakes winner Japonisme bred on the same Choisir x Encosta de Lago cross as Proisir.
Japonisme (Choisir x Haiku by Encosta De Lago) extended his sire's influence taking out the Gr......
Autridge happy with 2000 Guineas pair after Riccarton workout
Posted On: Monday, 2 November 2015
Stephen Autridge saw enough in a fleeting weekend visit to Riccarton to tell him that
Xtravagant (Pentire) and Bishop Rock are right on target for Saturday's Sothys New Zealand 2000 Guineas.
Aut......
Slice Of Cake (Sir Percy) confirmed for 2000 Guineas
Posted On: Monday, 2 November 2015
Promising Cambridge three-year-old
Slice Of Cake is a confirmed runner in Saturday's Gr. 1 Sothys New Zealand 2000 Guineas at Riccarton.
Trained by Tony Pike, who won the Guineas in 2012 with Sac......
Nigelissima (Pentire) wins in tight finish at Awapuni
Posted On: Monday, 2 November 2015
Cup races might be on the horizon for black-type performer
Nigelissima after she scored an exciting win over brave rival Highly Likely at Awapuni Saturday afternoon.
The five-year-old Pentire mar......
Rich Hills Cup hope in good touch
Posted On: Sunday, 1 November 2015
Prince Of Penzance has the credentials to perform much better in Tuesday's Gr 1 Melbourne Cup than his long odds might suggest. Currently quoted at better than 60-1 in most markets, the Ri......
