News - WANDJINA (AUS)
We’ve been running a series of stories on Breednet highlighting value sires that do a good job and Larneuk Stud is home to two of them and if you only have $6,600 to spend on a service fee, it’s hard to find better bang for buck than these guys.
Larneuk Stud in Victoria is home to value sire Wandjina, whose talented son Galaxy Patch staked his claim for glory on Hong Kong International Day next month when scoring a thrilling win for James McDonald in the Group II BOCHK Private Wealth Jockey Club Mile (1600m) at Sha Tin on Sunday.
The record of the Group I MRC Caulfield Guineas as an elite sire making race has never been more on display than it is right now with past winners including outstanding young sires The Autumn Sun (2025 fee $66,000), Super Seth ($75,000) and Ole Kirk ($99,000).
Wandjina’s quality sprinting daughter Infancy produced a career best on day two of The Championships at Randwick when resuming off a break to win the Group II Sapphire Stakes (1200m).
Larneuk Stud in Victoria is home to value sire Wandjina, whose talented son Galaxy Patch has been acclaimed as the next rising superstar in Hong Kong racing following his dominant return in the Group II Sha Tin Trophy (1600m) on Sunday.
In the form of her life at age five, Terra Mater parlayed her success in the Listed Mona Lisa Stakes at Wyong when capturing Friday’s $250,000 Group III Reward Hospitality Tibbie Stakes (1400m) at Newcastle.
A $1million Inglis Easter yearling by an iconic champion sire bought by a great judge, this colt went on to be a Group I winner at three and as a sire is ticking along at close to 70% winners to runners – so what sort of service fee does he command?
There would be few greater bargains in racing than Terra Mater, who landed a massive plunge in Sunday’s Listed Domeland Mona Lisa Stakes (1350m) at Wyong.
The Hong Kong racing season has come to an end and stallions that are standing or stood in Australia have a strong presence in their leading sire list for 2023/2024.
There was no shortage of green 2-year-olds tracking down the straight in the Vale Don Jackson Maiden Plate (1000m), which paved the way for the Wanjina debutant The Sun Dance to capture the opener on Caloundra Cup Day.
2023 Cox Plate hero Romantic Warrior’s outstanding performance during the 2023/24 racing season saw the Irish bred globetrotting Hong Kong hero earn the Horse of the Year title at a special presentation in Hong Kong last Friday with several Australian and New Zealand bred horses also honoured.
Larneuk Stud’s blueblood Snitzel stallion Wandjina has had a good season with nearly 50 Australian winners including new stakes-winner Infancy and has made his presence felt in Hong Kong with a winning double at Happy Valley on Wednesday.
Progressive Aussie bred gelding Galaxy Patch is a star on the rise in Hong Kong for his sire Wandjina, powering home from what looked an impossible position to win the Group III Premier Plate (1800m) at Sha Tin on Sunday.
When Larneuk Stud, the prolific Victorian stud and nursery, was briefly offered for sale last year, principal, Neville Murdoch realised he was attached to the farm and the industry in a way that defies explanation.
Progressive Aussie bred gelding Galaxy Patch scored his first stakes win at Sha Tin on Sunday when the four year-old son of Wandjina scored a narrow victory in a thrilling finishing to the Group III Lion Rock Trophy(1600m)
The admirably consistent Wandjina mare Terra Mater booked her ticket for the $1,000,000 Midway Championship final on Day Two of The Championships at Randwick with a hard-fought victory in Wednesday’s Polytrack Provincial-Midway Championship Wildcard Plate (1400m).
It was a blowout for punters when the 3-year-old Wandjina filly Infancy came with a well-timed run to capture Saturday’s Listed Tokyo City Keiba Fireball Stakes (1100m) at Randwick.
A perennial source of quality racehorses, Victoria’s Larneuk Stud has unveiled its lineup for spring: a diverse quartet whose own sires have produced 534 stakes winners of $750 million.
For the fourth year in a row, Australian Bloodstock and Kris Lees combined to capture the Group III Horsepower Newcastle Newmarket (1400m) when Wandabaa found conditions to suit for a richly deserved maiden stakes success.
Larneuk Stud is the new home for Snitzel’s Group I winning son Wandjina and he featured at the last metropolitan meeting of the season in Melbourne when two year-old gelding Rock Artist scored an all the way win at Moonee Valley.