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Champion two-year-old Farnan retired to Kia Ora
Farnan, brilliant all-the-way winner of the 2020 Golden Slipper and rated the most dominant two-year-old Champion of the century by Timeform, has met with a setback in training and has been retired to stud. The son of Not A Single [...]
Candika Another Proven Success For Walter & Kia Ora Stud
He won't mind us saying, but Jamie Walter has his 'moments'. Take Saturday for instance. Candika, the 3YO Sebring filly which Walter purchased and syndicated on behalf of his Proven Thoroughbreds, won the Listed Mandate Princess Stakes over 1600m [...]
Kia Ora Stud Inglis Easter Treats
Kia Ora’s current record at the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale highlights that history keeps being made, and the historic farm has an impeccable record any stud farm would be proud of. Dual Gr1 winner Loving Gaby (I Am Invincible) pictured below, as well [...]
Kia Ora Stud Australian-Bred Babies Loom Large in Japan
A pair of Australian-breds, still just Southern Hemisphere juveniles, but forced to take on year-older rivals in the Northern Hemisphere, each look to improve on debut third-place efforts when they face the starter for the second time in [...]
More Than Real Leads The Way At Easter for Kia Ora Stud
With six yearlings selling at the 2019 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, it was the stunning Exceed And Excel x More Than Real filly that led the way. The most expensive filly to sell on day one of [...]
Kia Ora Stud Loving Gaby Looking Good For Sires
With Inglis selling exciting juvenile Loving Gaby’s dam Maastricht in The Chairman’s Sale on behalf of Alan Bell in early May, there will be added interest in how the Gr1 Golden Slipper fourth-placed filly goes in Saturday’s Gr1 Inglis [...]
Kia Ora Stud Nafaayes Lands Gauteng Fillies Guineas
Darley Stud’s perennially successful sire Exceed And Excel (also bred and sold by Kia Stud) enjoyed a day to remember on Saturday when his two-year-old son McLaren won the G3 Canonbury Stakes at Rosehill and 3yo daughter Nafaayes won [...]
Group 3 Victory For Kia Ora’s Loving Gaby
Yarraman Park's outstanding sire I Am Invincible added a sixth juvenile stakes-winner this season to his tally on Saturday with an impressive debut victory for Loving Gaby in the Group III MRC Chairman's Stakes at Caulfield on Saturday. Trained [...]
Slipper Target For Kia Ora’s Bull
Trainer Peter Gelagotis says highly regarded colt Chicago Bull will be aimed at the Gr1 Golden Slipper in the autumn. The 2YO son of Exceed And Excel was well supported on debut when finishing a close-up third behind [...]
Nafaayes Captures G2 Ipi Tombe Challange
Darley’s top class shuttle stallion Exceed And Excel, who was bred and sold by Kia Ora Stud, was in the news at Turffontein on Saturday when his Australian bred daughter Nafaayes won the G2 World Sports Betting Ipi Tombe [...]
Bull charges a new era for Gelagotis brothers
Chicago Bull's (Exceed and Excel) debut in Thursday's G3 Maribyrnong Plate at Flemington, represents a brave new era for brothers Peter and Manny Gelagotis as they target the 2-year-old riches for the first time in many years. Off the [...]
Kia Ora Stud Active At Fasig Tipton
Kia Ora Stud manager Alex Kingston was present on the sales ground, striking on Lot 149, a Lonhro mare named War Heroine, and Lot 206, the mare Jennifer Lynette (Elusive Quality). War Heroine (pictured), a winner of the G2 San Clemente S., [...]