Anglesea Stud

04/06/2026

The 2nd in our series of our horses in racing is My Alibi (Roc de Cambes x Hot Pursuit), or Alison to her close friends. We have a 15% stake in this one which we purchased off Gavelhouse back in April 2024 in conjunction with Eales Racing for the meager price of $8,800.
Raced lightly by The Oaks stud prior, she came to us with 4 starts for not much. What appealed to me was the breeding - Roc de Cambes over a mare by Spartacus. Normally anything by Spartacus I would avoid like the plague, however when Roc de Cambes is put over a Spartacus mare, his winners to runners is something like 92%
Since coming in the stable, she has had 17 starts for 3 wins, 2 seconds and a third and won over $80k, well and truly paying for herself. She is back after a break this Saturday in R10 where she is in the R75 1400m.

31/05/2026

It's been a while since we have done any kind of update on our horses in racing, so I thought I'd start a series where we take a more in depth look at what we have going around right now. First cab off the rank is Lady Anglesea.
We purchased her Dam, Belle Fleur (Danzero x Diva Belle) at the Karaka May sale in 2019, for the bargain price of $1,500 and she was in foal to Proisir. The mare was bought to go to new stallion at the time Jon Snow, so she was immediately sent down to Clearview Park Stud where a few months later a lovely filly foal was born.
The foal, called Posie in the paddock, was broken in as a 3yo by Josh Shaw Racing before heading off to Lisa Latta Racing for her racing career.
After a slowish start to her career, she showed us her potential at just her 3rd raceday start, breaking maidens at Waverley in March last year. The time she ran that gave us confidence that she could gallop and exciting times lay in store. As of now, we haven't got to see her realise this talent again, though her last start Whanganui she showed more than she has for a while. She has been hard to get a line on, we thought she would stay so prepared her for longer distances, but this turned out not to be the case. It also took us a while to gather she preferred the track more on the heavy side so that is where we will focus next. Fingers crossed Posie can respond!
She is well bred out of the great "Belle" family so will be a handy acquisition to the broodmare band post racing.

29/05/2026

Lady Anglesea (Proisir x Belle Fleur) is back to the races today, though we would have preferred a heavier track. She is in R6 at Whanganui in what is a small but even field and she has the services of in form apprentice Toni Davies. Fingers crossed!

27/05/2026

A successful first day at the jump outs for our 2yo Time Test filly out of Its All Fun. Also recently named "Fun Time", she acquitted herself well, behaving nicely and loading up and jumping with the pack. She cruised with them without being asked for anything by jockey Hannah, so will now have a few weeks off to digest what's happened so far, and then back to it. Thanks to the team at Eales Racing for taking such good care of her and her education!

22/05/2026

Always an exciting day when the Majestic Horse Floats LP truck turns up with a new arrival. Felicienne (Al Maher x Nena Candida) we bought a while back (in foal to Swiss Ace) and with her Satono Aladdin filly at foot. We have retained her and now also have a Swiss Ace weanling filly by her. She has been under the wonder care of Sue and Pete Westend up at Norwegian Park - Cambridge.

Felicienne won the Gr.3 Schweppes Trophy at Flemington and was a winner of 5 races in all. A nice addition to the broodmare band, especially with her grand dam being the wonderful Candide, winner of the NZ Oaks Gr.1, NZ Thousand Guineas (Gr.1), 3rd in the AJC Oaks, Caufield Stakes and 4th in the Caufield Cup.

12/05/2026

Recently named Audax (The Bold One x Tigris gelding we purchased with Eales Racing at the yearling sales) trialled up nicely yesterday running a good 2nd in front of a few handy ones. Exciting times ahead!

06/05/2026

Some of you may remember Ferrario, a Contributer that we bought 30% into with Eales Racing at the yearling sales with the aim to pinhook at the ready to runs. While the Ready to Run sale didn't eventuate, we pushed on and got him up to win his first trial back in Nov at Woodville. On the strength of that win, an offer to buy from Australia was too good to turn down so off he went and is now trained by Patrick Payne.
Astute followers of trial results, may recognise the horse in the pics he beat home, Wigmore (by Sweynesse). Wigmore was also sold to Aust after his NZ Derby performance and just this last weekend won the Grp.1 South Australian Derby. This bodes well for Ferrario's new owners!

02/05/2026

Zackery heading to R6 Tauherenikau for us today - hoping for a good result in the smaller field!

Off to Tauherenikau today for Zackery!

Good luck to everybody involved 🎉

27/04/2026

Official race pics or Friday's Otaki win, courtesy of Pete at Race Images NZ.