New Zealand’s Busiest Sires in 2022

It’s been impossible to ignore the torrent of Group I winners in Australia during the autumn carnival that carry the NZ suffix so a look at the busiest sires in New Zealand last year offers an insight into the future for this most fertile source of elite thoroughbreds.

Busiest NZ Sires That Covered 100 or Mares in 2022

Figures from NZTM

Tavistock’s Derby winning son Tarzino was the busiest sire off the back of his impressive results last season when he sired Gypsy Goddess to win the G1 Queensland Oaks and Jungle Magnate to win the G1 SA Derby.

Proisir was starting to show signs of something good last spring, but few could have predicted what has unfolded this year with his burgeoning NZ success spilling over into Australia with G1 wins for his superstar fillies Legarto and Prowess.

His 5.7% SW to runner strike rate is only going to improve with the benefit of better mares and the stat that has really pricked people’s ears is the G1 winner for every 45 runners which is heading towards Savabeel’s impressive G1 winner in every 39 runners.

Japanese shuttler Satono Aladdin (Jpn) has not set the world on fire in his homeland of Japan, but he’s doing the right thing here with his first two crops producing four stakes-winners from 41 runners, two of them G1 winners Pennyweka and Tokyo Tycoon.

Armory (IRE) (Galileo), Noverre (Savabeel) and Sword of State (Snitzel) were all very popular and all very different.

Armory was a multiple Group winner in Ireland at two, three and four with multiple G1 placings and notably a second to Sir Dragonet in the Cox Plate.

Noverre was an expensive $800,000 Karaka purchase for David Ellis and won the G1 NZ 2000 Guineas retiring lightly raced with just seven starts only missing a place once.

Sword of State was a $600,000 Magic Millions purchase and won four of five starts at two including the G1 ARC Diamond Stakes to be Champion NZ 2YO.