The Weekend Wrap 25 February

What a big weekend for CAPTAINTREACHEROUS!Eight winners including two new three-year-old winners – Party Central (bred by Breckon Farms) at Newcastle in 1:55.8 and Its Electrifying (Les Whiteside) in 1:54.6, one of an Albion Park double with Captains Pick (Solid Earth) who went 1:55.1 to take his bank to $180,000. Captain Jack (K Hurst, M…

Captaintreacherous smashes Australasian yearling record

From NZB, published 15 February 2025 The Auckland Session of the 2025 National Standardbred Yearling Sale  was one for the history books when 130 lots went under the auction hammer at the Karaka Sales Centre on Saturday.  Not just one, but two equal record top lots were recorded when the dominant force of Stonewall Stud…

A big weekend for yearlings…

Our standout sires TALL DARK STRANGER, STAY HUNGRY and CAPTAINTREACHEROUS stand out in the catalogues for the NZB National Yearling Sale at Karaka and the Australian Pacing Gold Sydney sale this weekend, and the NZB Canterbury Sale on Tuesday: NZB Karaka 15 FEBRUARY Lot 1, a CAPTAINTREACHEROUS filly out of Bettors Delight mare, Ice ImperialLot…

The Midweek Report 14 February

Two big sales coming up this weekend starting on Saturday with the NZB National Yearling Sale at Karaka and followed on Sunday in Sydney with the Australian Pacing Gold sale – CAPTAINTREACHEROUS, STAY HUNGRY and TALL DARK STRANGER are very well represented across the two – find the full listing here: https://www.empirestallions.com/2025-yearling-season-is-here/ BETTING LINE once…

The Weekend Wrap 3 February

STAY HUNGRY has an exciting three-year-old to watch after Go Without (bred by Rhiannon Park) secured back-to-back wins by clocking 1:54.5 at Geelong this week! CAPTAINTREACHEROUS wasn’t without a juvenile winner either with filly Keayang Payton (Durham Park Standardbreds) saluting on debut later on the card. CAPTAIN secured a further five winners across the weekend…