Windsor Park Stud

24/04/2025

We had some of the local trainers come by to check out our draft 👀 heading down to Christchurch this Sunday for our annual Rugby, Racing and Beer 🏈🐎🍺sale held at Riccarton Park Racecourse next Friday ⭐️

Huge thanks to our sponsors: Entain, , , Arion Pedigrees, Taylor Perry Consulting and Riccarton ParkRacecourse

23/04/2025

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22/04/2025

Electron is likely to back-up in Saturday's Gr.2 Travis Stakes (2000m) at Te Rapa.   Photo: Kenton Wright (Race Images) Group Two season swansong for in-form mare Joshua Smith, LOVERACING.NZ News Desk 22 April 2025 Electron recorded her second Group Three placing in three starts when third in last ...

16/04/2025

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16/04/2025

15/04/2025

🎪 💪🏼 Another smart one at the trials today by CIRCUS MAXIMUS, Paltrow Miss (Tantalising) wins her trial by 5L today for the Robbie Patterson yard.

His progeny showing the rights signs in the stables and on the tracks!

14/04/2025

We are excited to be hosting our 4th edition of our WINDSOR PARK RUGBY RACING & BEER LUNCHEON AND LIVE YEARLING SALE dated Friday, 2nd May 2025 with special guests Kieran Read and Will Hayes.

Progeny by ARMORY, CIRCUS MAXIMUS, SHAMEXPRESS, SWORD OF STATE, TURN ME LOOSE and VANBRUGH will be on offer, and we feel this is our best draft to date.

We have had tremendous success from the sale, again highlighted on late last month when PROVED (Lot 1 in 2022 sale) and COLLECT YOUR CASH (Lot 4 in 2022 sale) both won at Sandown and Randwick, respectively. PROVED, who remains unbeaten after 5 starts including wins at Moonee Valley and Sandown. COLLECT YOUR CASH, the stakeswinning graduate went on to win the Dunedin Guineas and now with G*i Waterhouse and Adrian Bott where he had his first start win at Randwick for the new yard.

In total, 15 graduates have started at the races with 11 winners for 28 wins, have a stakes winner, a stakes-placed filly, a couple of Metropolitan Australian winners.

Catalogue release will be this week and on farm parades can be made by appointment.

Horses are flying to Christchurch on 27th April and will be on parade there from the 29th of April. Spots are limited for this year’s luncheon, so much that there are only single tickets left, so get in touch with the team about information for the sale if you are wanting to attend the function.

08/04/2025

PROVED - unbeaten after 5️⃣ starts including wins at Sandown and Moonee Valley is a WINDSOR PARK RUGBY RACING and BEER Sale graduate (pictured here winning at Moonee Valley).

The upcoming Windsor Park Rugby Racing and Beer Sale is scheduled for May 2, Showgate, Riccarton Park Racecourse and catalogue will be out later this week with 10 lots to sell under Steve Davis Auctioneer hammer.

14 starters from the sale, 10 winners of 28 races!

03/04/2025

🤩 Outstanding 6-Time Gr.1 Champion
Auguste Rodin to stand at Windsor Park for a fee of $30,000 + GST

Read about him here - https://mailchi.mp/windsorpark/invitation-from-windsor-park-stud-21433199?e=d4927075be

03/04/2025

AUGUSTE RODIN,

Outstanding 6 Time Gr.1 Champion Auguste Rodin to stand at Windsor Park.

Auguste Rodin one of the world's finest racehorses of his generation, a 6-time Group One winner at ages 2, 3 and 4, has been announced to stand at Windsor Park Stud, Cambridge this Spring.

The Champion 3YO’s spectacular CV includes victories in both the English Derby and Irish Derby to go with triumphs at Weight-For-Age against the older horses in the Irish Champion Stakes and Breeders’ Cup Turf at that age.

In achieving this success Auguste Rodin became the first and only 3YO in history to secure these four championship Gr.1 races in his classic year.

Auguste Rodin’s English Derby win was also historic as he recorded the fastest final two furlongs in the modern era of the blue riband, surpassing Galileo, who ran the second-fastest finishing time.

Trained by Aidan O’Brien, the Ballydoyle superstar earned TDN Rising Star status at 2 with a juvenile win at Naas over 7f followed by victory in the Gr.2 Champions Juvenile at Leopardstown and culminating with success in the Gr.1 Futurity Trophy at Doncaster over 1m.

Following his record-breaking classic season Auguste Rodin cemented his physical and mental soundness at 4 when adding the Gr.1 Prince Of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot to his impressive resume.

This victory provided the Champion with his 8th win and prizemoney earnings in excess of NZ$11 million over distances from 7f to 12f.

“We are privileged to welcome a racehorse of Auguste Rodin's calibre to our stallion roster,” commented Windsor Park principal Rodney Schick.

“His race performance has a remarkable similarity to that of High Chaparral who we stood here at Windsor Park and who enjoyed global success and international renown through his own success and that of his sons, grandsons and daughters at stud.

“We extend our thanks to Coolmore for their continued strong endorsement and support of both Windsor Park and the New Zealand breeding industry, just as they did last season shuttling Paddington here.

“Like High Chaparral, Auguste Rodin has loads of quality and we are so excited to be able to offer him to breeders,” said Schick.

Auguste Rodin’s career, combining six Gr.1 wins from 1m to 12f, mirrors that of High Chaparral.

Both horses share victories in the Gr.1 Futurity Trophy at 2, the English and Irish Derbies, Irish Champion Stakes and Breeders’ Cup Turf with the key difference being Auguste Rodin’s success at Royal Ascot in the Gr.1 Prince Of Wales’s Stakes at 4.

“Auguste Rodin is an exceptional racehorse and stallion prospect with the blend of class, speed and pedigree that only the very best possess”, commented Coolmore’s MV Magnier.
“He is a very special horse for us at Coolmore and I truly believe he ranks up there with the best racehorses and sires that we have stood here before him.

“We’re delighted he is going to shuttle to Windsor Park Stud to enhance his future legacy in the Southern Hemisphere”.
Reflecting on Auguste Rodin’s remarkable achievements, trainer Aidan O’Brien had this to say:

“He was always very highly rated from the time he was a foal at Coolmore and when Ryan (Moore) first rode him as an early 2YO he said then he was a very special horse.

“He connects two of the most powerful breeding lines in the world and has been a pleasure to train.
“Physically he fills the eye so well as he has that extra quality and movement. He’s very well balanced and very well proportioned and blessed with a big stride which is usually the sign of a very good horse”.

Jockey Ryan Moore was also full of praise for Auguste Rodin.

“He’s been an unbelievable horse for us. We have always thought the world of him. He has everything you’d want in a horse. He has so much pace winning over 7 furlongs at 2 and was able to stretch that out to a mile and a half. Horses like him are so hard to find. An incredible horse.”

Crafted from the finest global genetics Auguste Rodin hails from the final crop of Japanese Triple Crown winner and 11-time Champion Sire Deep Impact, a son of the legendary racehorse and sire Sunday Silence to whom Auguste Rodin bears a striking physical resemblance.

Auguste Rodin boasts six multiple-champion sires in his first three generations, directly descending from three standout race mares—all Gr.1 performers at less than a mile.

He is the first foal from Champion triple Gr.1 winner Rhododendron, one of the premier daughters of immortal sire and broodmare sire Galileo and a sister to seven-time Gr.1 winning Champion Magical.

Both Champion sisters are out of Pivotal’s triple Gr.1 and 1,000 Guineas winner Halfway To Heaven while his brilliantly fast third dam Cassandra Go won the time-honoured King’s Stand Stakes over 5f at Royal Ascot.

Confirming the powerful genetic heritage of Auguste Rodin, the blend of Deep Impact with Galileo blood has given rise to an eyewatering 17% Group winners to runners.

Auguste Rodin takes his place on Windsor Park’s 2025 stallion roster with fellow Coolmore sires Paddington and Circus Maximus and alongside resident leading stallion ShamExpress, sire of current world-leading Champion Sprinter Ka Ying Rising.

Auguste Rodin will stand in 2025 at an introductory fee of $30,000+gst.

31/03/2025

Listen Delivering a chilling reminder of his extraordinary talent, Ka Ying Rising (Shamexpress) posted his 11th consecutive victory with a blistering display in the Sprint Cup (Gr 2, 1200m) to crown Zac Purton’s return to race riding at Sha Tin on Sunday. The world’s highest-rated sprinter, Ka Y...

29/03/2025

READ: Electron strikes back with a dominant mile victory at Te Aroha.
https://www.racingnews.co.nz/electron-dashes-to-dominant-te-aroha-victory/

26/03/2025

🇦🇺 Australian Metropolitan double for Rugby, Racing and Beer Graduates 🏉 🐎 🍺

🏆 PROVED (Time Test ex Out To Impress) unbeaten in 5 starts for her purchaser Enver Jusufovic Racing. She was Lot 1 of our 2022 sale

💰 COLLECT YOUR CASH (Rageese ex Prompt Payment) wins at Randwick yesterday for G*i Waterhouse and Adrian Bott. He was lot 4 of our 2022 sale and knocked down to Ben Kwok, he went on to be a stakes winner in NZ for Shankar Muniandy then privately sold to Australia.

Our next boutique sale is scheduled for Friday, 2nd May 2025 at Riccarton Racecourse where guest speakers have been confirmed as Lindsay Park Racing Hayes brothers and All Black legend and former world rugby player of the year Kieran Read

26/03/2025

https://www.breednet.com.au/news/37982/circus-maximus-filly-goes-two-for-two-

Windsor Park Stud’s first season sire Circus Maximus (IRE) has a nice filly on the rise with the Paul Shailer trained Ha’Penny Hatch making it two wins in as many starts when saluting at Eagle Farm on Wednesday.

26/03/2025

🥇🥇HA'PENNY HATCH makes it back-to-back metropolitan 2YO wins

"The Royal Ascot Gladiator" CIRCUS MAXIMUS (Galileo) has a smart filly in HA'PENNY HATCH (ex. Emily Margaret) and remains unbeaten winning again at Eagle Farm over 1400m today winning by 1.7 lengths.
Having won her first start, she was heavily backed as favourite to continue on her winning way which she did with style in front in the famous WINX colours. Trained by Shailer Racing who purchased her at Karaka with Michael Hughes from Wentwood Grange. HA'PENNY HATCH is bred by Mr and Mrs Rodger Finlay.

We look forward to more progeny stepping out by CIRCUS MAXIMUS whose progeny are impressing in the stables and the trials.

Watch replay here - https://www.racingqueensland.com.au/racing/replays/tab-race-replays/race-player/thoroughbred/e%20fm/20250326/race/1

25/03/2025

SHAMEXPRESS mare dominates Sunline Stakes

Hot stallion Shamexpress continues his outstanding season, with his son KA YING RISING recently named the world’s best sprinter. Additionally, his daughter GRINZINGER BELLE delivered an emphatic victory in the Sunline Stakes, winning in true Sunline style.

GRINZINGER BELLE was unstoppable in the Gr.2 Sunline Stakes at Moonee Valley, powering to a 2.75-length victory with a bold front-running display.


In what marked her fourth career Group win and third this season, she added the Sunline Stakes to her impressive list of victories, which already includes the Let’s Elope Stakes (Gr.2), Vanity Stakes (Gr.3), and Ladies Day Vase (Gr.3). From the 400-metre mark of the $300,000 G2 feature, the 4-year-old mare was four lengths ahead and was in complete control, cruising to victory.

Trainer Danny O’Brien, who was confident in his mare’s performance, said, “She’s a mare that when conditions suit and she gets rolling, she’s very hard to get on the back of, let alone get past.” He added, “She’s headed for the Gr.1 Queen of the Turf in three weeks in Sydney.”

Winning jockey Declan Bates said GRINZINGER BELLE was a genetically-gifted mare.

“She’s such a lovely big mare to ride. She has a nice, high cruising speed, and it’s just a matter of letting her use that in the right way,” he said.

“She was just better than them today.”

Shamexpress himself has had a stellar season, currently sitting 4th in the Centaine Award, with global earnings of A$10,197,799, closely trailing Per Incanto, Savabeel, and Tavistock. His season highlights include the world’s best sprinter KA YING RISING, dual cups winner BLUE SKY AT NIGHT, and Singapore Derby and Triple Crown hero LIM’S SALTORO.

The next opportunity to purchase a Shamexpress yearling will be at Windsor Park's South Island Rugby Racing and Beer Sale, scheduled for Friday, May 2nd.

The 2025 service fee for Shamexpress will be announced in the coming weeks.

22/03/2025

READ: A powerhouse performance by Grinzinger Belle wins her the Gr.2 Packaging Needs Sunline Stakes (1600m).
Windsor Park Stud

https://www.racingnews.co.nz/grinzinger-belle-earns-group-one-opportunity/