Little Avondale Stud

02/06/2026

A very big LA welcome to John Cameron from New Zealand Bloodstock along with our Feed Rep Sonia McKay of NRM and guests to inspect our draft of 6 quality weanlings headed to the National Weanling Sale on the 25th June at Karaka

Lot 27 Hello Youmzain x Ritzy Sparkle Filly
Lot 48 Hello Youmzain x Tereras Filly
Lot 63 Per Incanto x War Piglet C**t (pictured)
Lot 65 Per Incanto x Winehouse Filly
Lot 97 Ardrossan x Deva Dynasty C**t
Lot 139 Proisir x Monolink C**t (pictured)

Wonderful opportunity to purchase quality weanlings

📸 Liz Wakeham Equus Media NZ

01/06/2026

All welcome at Little Avondale tomorrow at 11.30am to view our 2026 National Weanling Sales draft with New Zealand Bloodstock

A quality draft of 6 weanlings, highlighted by a c**t by PER INCANTO - currently 5️⃣th on the Australian Premiership, a c**t by Proisir - sire of yesterday’s $2.8 million sale Legarto and a beautiful walking filly by PER INCANTO 🔥

31/05/2026

Aeroinvincible wins the Hakka Cup in Hong Kong for trainer Pierre Ng.

Aeroinvincible is a 5YO son of PER INCANTO x Miss Bondi and was bred and sold by Dr John O’Brien.

Congrats to all the connections

29/05/2026

A very big happy 21st to our lovely Sheryl Marinacce 🎉🎂

It’s been an absolute pleasure having you with Team LA for the last 11 months 🥰

Have a wonderful day in the beautiful Wairarapa sun working with all your favourite horses ☀️🐴

29/05/2026

The last Gr.1 of the Australian season is upon us and Jimmysstar is ready to go in the Gr.1 Ladbrokes Kingsford Smith Cup. He’s drawn the outside barrier of 15 and fingers crossed Jimmy can finish his autumn campaign with his 4th Gr.1.

Fellow Little Avondale graduate and last start Gr.1 winner, Desert Lightning is also in the field and he will jump from the much better barrier of 7. Good luck to all the connections of both Jimmysstar and Desert Lightning.

The LA owned and syndicated “She’s All That” is starting at Te Rapa in the Rating 75 1200m – race 8. Good luck to all our fellow racing owners and hopefully some of her syndicate can be on course with Wexford Stables to cheer her home.

A new LA racing syndicate, with our Aussie friends, has Autummentum debuting at the Wanganui Races in Race 1 – Maiden 2YO & Up 1340m. Autummentum has been promising at her trials to date and should give a good account of herself for trainers, Guy Lowry and Leah Zydenbos.

Another very exciting debut runner at Wanganui is the Time Test x Eloa 3YO Gelding that the farm still owns a share of. Yaldy Time has been super impressive winning both his trials by large distances. Good luck to trainer Robbie Patterson and our fellow owners.

There’s some great racing action across all of NZ and Australia on a super Saturday of racing – the LA tracked runners to follow are:

Te Rapa
⭐️Race 5 – Little Bit of Love
⭐️Race 6 – To the Max (Per Incanto x Penny Bright)
⭐️Race 7 – Purosangue (Per Incanto x Sayyzel)
⭐️Race 8 – She’s All That, Testwin, Vieni Su (Per Incanto x Sans Souci)

Wanganui
⭐️Race 4 – Yaldy Time (Time Test x Eloa)
⭐️Race 6 – Anaroa and La Dulcin’ee

Eagle Farm
⭐️Race 8 – Jimmysstar and Desert Lightning

Rosehill
⭐️Race 5 – Empress of Japan (Savabeel x Tsukioka)
⭐️Race 8 – Fleeting Spirit (Per Incanto x Caserta)

Illawarra
⭐️Race 4 – Fimiston (Per Incanto x Gold)
⭐️Race 7 – Invisible Magic (Per Incanto x Visible)

Toowoomba
⭐️Race 2 – last start winner Luton Hoo

Belmont WA
⭐️Race 4 – The Calabrese (Per Incanto x Drive On)

Werribee
⭐️Race 4 – Epoch and Step in Time

All the very best of luck to all the breeders, owners and connections of the horses running today!

29/05/2026

What a debut by Catwalk Queen at Tauranga🏇

This lovely 3YO filly by Per Incanto x Outflank is owned by The Catwalk Collective Syndicate and Entain NZ and all racing stakes earnt by Entain are donated to The CatWalk Trust.

Well done to Wexford Stables, jockey Matt Cartwright and all the owners!

Fun times ahead with this queen 👑

28/05/2026

Happy Friday from Sam and a very special guest - David Redvers from Tween Hills Stud.

Great to have you on the farm David, and yes your horses would look fantastic on the green grass of Little Avondale 🥰

Widden Stud NZ Thoroughbred Breeders' Association

27/05/2026

What a stunning day it is today ☀️ great opportunity to have a mid-morning coffee ☕️ and listen to Sam’s latest interview on the Midweek Mail Run with Mick Guerin

https://open.spotify.com/episode/40jB7pofRgiBJyjEGOAovx?si=q2LdxMloTneY69I_qlouuw

Sport Nation Mornings · Episode

26/05/2026

All welcome at Little Avondale on Tuesday 2nd June at 11.30am to view our 2026 National Weanling Sales draft with New Zealand Bloodstock

A quality draft of 6 weanlings, highlighted by a c**t by PER INCANTO - currently 6️⃣th on the Australian Premiership, a c**t by Proisir - sire of yesterday’s $2.8 million sale Legarto and a beautiful walking filly by PER INCANTO 🔥

26/05/2026

Let’s go Jimmy 💪- let’s finish the autumn is a bang 🔥

READ: Jimmysstar gets his final chance to bag a Group One win this campaign on Saturday.

https://www.racingnews.co.nz/jimmy-set-to-end-his-autumn-drought/