Pins parading at Waikato Stud
It's been a great couple of weeks for the super consistent Waikato Stud stallion Pins (Snippets[AUS]-No Finer[AUS]) with three Stakes winners on the board already this season.
That comes as no surprise to Waikato Stud General Manager Mark Chittick who maintains he is a great stallion.
"Pins consistently leaves Stakes winners, and winners. Each season he has around 10-12 Stakes winners, and always has a good horse on the go either here or in Australia or Hong Kong. Over the last ten years he has ranked in the top five stallions every year".
"Already this season he has had three group winners, including the two new three-year-old fillies Honey Rider (ex Southern Heights) and Legless Veuve (ex Hyades), and Mackintosh (ex Lolly Scramble) has won a Group Two to add to the two Group Three events he won last season. It looks like Aerovelocity is back on track in Hong Kong as well."
Honey Rider won the Gr.3 Hawkes Bay Breeders Gold Trail Stakes beating another Pins filly Glass Slipper (ex Fairy Tale), and a week later Legless Veuve was very impressive winning the Gr.2 Caulfield Guineas Prelude, beating last year's Gr.1 Manawatu Sires' Produce Stakes winner Luna Rossa (NZ) (Written Tycoon)
Legless Veuve was a $150,000 purchase by Aquanita Stables, from the Waikato Stud draft at the 2015 Premier Yearling Sales.
"She always was a nice filly right from the start and she grew into a bloody nice filly by the time she got to be a yearling. Being a full sister to Tootsie and a good looker, she was always going to sell well and it's great to see that she has lived up to expectations".
"Her dam Hyades is a funny mare, she has one small foal and then the next foal is really big, however she did do a nice job on this one. It's a lovely family and one of our original families going back to Georgina Belle".
A daughter of Pakistan II, Georgina Belle raced successfully in the United States and was later purchased by Garry Chittick as a broodmare. Top-class racehorses Glamour Puss, Starman, Rare Insight, Vision and Power, Escadaire, Arenti and Legless Veuve are all descendants.
Legless Veuve is the tenth foal from Hyades and the sixth by Pins. Hyades best performer is the Group One-placed Tootsie the winner of seven races including the Gr.3 Mannerism Stakes at Caulfield and the Listed Waikato RC Sprint. – Michelle Saba
That comes as no surprise to Waikato Stud General Manager Mark Chittick who maintains he is a great stallion.
"Pins consistently leaves Stakes winners, and winners. Each season he has around 10-12 Stakes winners, and always has a good horse on the go either here or in Australia or Hong Kong. Over the last ten years he has ranked in the top five stallions every year".
"Already this season he has had three group winners, including the two new three-year-old fillies Honey Rider (ex Southern Heights) and Legless Veuve (ex Hyades), and Mackintosh (ex Lolly Scramble) has won a Group Two to add to the two Group Three events he won last season. It looks like Aerovelocity is back on track in Hong Kong as well."
Honey Rider won the Gr.3 Hawkes Bay Breeders Gold Trail Stakes beating another Pins filly Glass Slipper (ex Fairy Tale), and a week later Legless Veuve was very impressive winning the Gr.2 Caulfield Guineas Prelude, beating last year's Gr.1 Manawatu Sires' Produce Stakes winner Luna Rossa (NZ) (Written Tycoon)
Legless Veuve was a $150,000 purchase by Aquanita Stables, from the Waikato Stud draft at the 2015 Premier Yearling Sales.
"She always was a nice filly right from the start and she grew into a bloody nice filly by the time she got to be a yearling. Being a full sister to Tootsie and a good looker, she was always going to sell well and it's great to see that she has lived up to expectations".
"Her dam Hyades is a funny mare, she has one small foal and then the next foal is really big, however she did do a nice job on this one. It's a lovely family and one of our original families going back to Georgina Belle".
A daughter of Pakistan II, Georgina Belle raced successfully in the United States and was later purchased by Garry Chittick as a broodmare. Top-class racehorses Glamour Puss, Starman, Rare Insight, Vision and Power, Escadaire, Arenti and Legless Veuve are all descendants.
Legless Veuve is the tenth foal from Hyades and the sixth by Pins. Hyades best performer is the Group One-placed Tootsie the winner of seven races including the Gr.3 Mannerism Stakes at Caulfield and the Listed Waikato RC Sprint. – Michelle Saba