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Outstanding 6-Time Gr.1 Champion Auguste Rodin to stand at Windsor Park
3 April, 2025
Auguste Rodin one of the world's finest racehorses of his generation, a 6-time Group One winner at ages 2, 3 and 4, has been announced to stand at Windsor Park Stud, Cambridge this Spring.The Champ...

Champion Son Of ShamExpress Brilliant Again In Sprint Cup
30 March 2025, Craig Tompson, Breednet
ShamExpress' imperious son Ka Ying Rising was brilliant again at Sha Tin on Sunday, confirming his status as the World’s Leading Sprinter, when winning the Group II The Sprint Cup (1200m) on his wa...

Windsor Park Rugby Racing and Beer Sale Graduates collect Australian Metropolitain double
28 March/ WPS media
The WINDSOR PARK RUGBY RACING & BEER LUNCHEON AND LIVE YEARLING SALE is upcoming dated Friday 2nd May 11.30am. Guest speakers for the event have been confirmed as the HAYES brothers from the re...

Circus Maximus Filly Goes Two for Two
26 March/ WPS news
Circus Maximus Filly Goes Two for Two Windsor Park Stud’s first season sire Circus Maximus has a nice filly on the rise with the Paul Shailer trained Ha’Penny Hatch making it two wins in as many st...

Circus Maximus Filly Goes Two for Two
25 March 2025/ WPS news
Windsor Park Stud’s first season sire Circus Maximus has a nice filly on the rise with the Paul Shailer trained Ha’Penny Hatch making it two wins in as many starts when saluting at Eagle Farm on We...

Debut Australian metropolitan winner a first for Circus Maximus
12 MARCH 2025, RACENEWS
Champion miler and triple Gr.1 winner CIRCUS MAXIMUS sired his first winner from his first Australian runner at Eagle Farm in Brisbane today when his first crop 2YO daughter Ha'penny Hatch proved t...

Remarkable mare Blue Sky At Night wins Gr.3 Avondale Cup
22 February, Richard Edmunds, LOVERACING.NZ News Desk
ShamExpress mare Blue Sky At Night has defied double-digit odds to win both of New Zealand’s biggest 2400m handicaps this season, adding Saturday’s Gr.3 Eagle Technology Avondale Cup at Ellerslie t...

Ka Ying Rising makes it 10 straight with fighting win, his third Gr.1 race in a row
24 February 2025, South China Morning Post
Trainer David Hayes was feeling the pinch in the home straight but ultimately the son of ShamExpress, Ka Ying Rising, had all the answers on his way to a 10th straight victory in Sunday’s Group On...

Catherinenz makes powerful resumption at Otaki
10 February 2025, Jess de Lautour, Loveracing.NZ News Desk
ShamExpress’ smart and progressive daughter Catherinenz made the perfect return to her five-year-old term at Otaki on Sunday, scoring a gritty victory in the Cavallo Farms and Chris Rutten Bloodsto...

Risque Ruler storms to victory in Karapiro Classic
10 February 2025, Kevin Robertson, Loveracing
Progressive mare Risque Ruler, raced on lease from her breeders Windsor Park Stud, produced a performance that had to be seen to be believed when taking out the second running of the Sir Patrick Ho...
Born at Windsor Park, bound for greatness: the quiet breeding triumph behind Ka Ying Rising
20 JANUARY 2025, Renee Geelen TTR
Hong Kong’s exciting dual Group 1 winning sprinter Ka Ying Rising (NZ) (ShamExpress {NZ}) was foaled at Windsor Park Stud for his breeder Fraser Auret, and TTR spoke to the farm about his sire, the...

Ka Ying Rising stuns with second Sha Tin course record in three starts
20 JANUARY 2025, Leo Schlink HKJC Racing News
David Hayes anointed Ka Ying Rising as “probably the best horse” he has trained, while Zac Purton described the speedster as a “really special horse” after the four-year-old’s incredible record-bre...

KARAKA 25.....OUR PREPARATION, YOUR OPPORTUNITY, EQUALS SUCCESS
OUR PREPARATION, YOUR OPPORTUNITY, EQUALS SUCCESS Windsor Park Stud, a proven farm with a rich history of success with over 50 individual Gr.1 winners, are at Karaka ‘25 with another quality draft...

Blue Sky At Night continues family legacy
17 December 2024, Joshua Smith NZ Racing Desk
Blue Sky At Night (ShamExpress) gave owner-breeders Isabel and Alistaire Barker a massive thrill last Saturday at Te Rapa when taking out the Gr.3 Waikato Cup (2400m), extending the couple’s great ...

Is this son of ShamExpress the World’s Best Sprinter?
17 NOVEMBER, 2024 JustHorseRacing
The David Hayes-trained galloper Ka Ying Rising (ShamExpress) continued his jaw-dropping progress at Sha Tin racecourse in Hong Kong on Sunday when securing his seventh consecutive victory in barel...

Ka Ying Rising smashes track record. Son of ShamExpress is 'different gravy'.
18 November, 2024 HKJC
The irresistible surge of Ka Ying Rising (NZ) (Shamexpress) towards Group 1 glory continued at Sha Tin on Sunday when David Hayes’ emerging champion sprinter powered to victory in the Gr.2 BOCHK Pr...

Windsor Park stallions dominate in Hong Kong!
23 OCTOBER 2024, RACENEWS
Windsor Park barn-mates ShamExpress (O’Reilly) and Turn Me Loose (Iffraaj) really lit up Hong Kong racing on Sunday when their respective sons, Ka Ying Rising and Karma featured with hugely impress...

The Swney tree
23 OCTOBER 2024, WPS news
This is the Swney tree in our roadside paddock given to us by Gray and Merle Swney, special friends and foundation clients of Windsor Park from our beginning. Gray and Merle bred many good racehors...

Windsor Park-bred colt garners 2000 Guineas favouritism
1 SEPTEMBER 2024, RACENEWS
Impressive Windsor Park Stud-bred colt Age Of Discovery (3 c Savabeel – Bayrock, by Fastnet Rock) secured Gr.1 2000 Guineas favouritism and created a milestone 2000th career win for trainer Mark Wa...

A star is born for SHAMEXPRESS
12 AUGUST 2024, RACENEWS
LIM’S SALTORO (inner), the brilliant son of SHAMEXPRESS and rising star of Singapore racing, did what few people thought possible by holding off reigning Horse Of The Year LIM’S KOSCIUSZKO to win a...

The real deal has arrived!
6 August 2024, RACENEWS
One of the world’s best racehorses last year, Ballydoyle superstar PADDINGTON, a 4-time Gr.1 winning son of Champion sire SIYOUNI arrived at Windsor Park at the weekend following the completion of ...

Group One honours for brilliant son of SHAMEXPRESS
22 JULY 2024, RACENEWS
LIM’S SALTORO (ShamExpress), the new star of Singapore racing and best four-year-old racing there did not disappoint his supporters when successful in the $400,000 Gr.1 Singapore Derby (1800m) on S...

LIM’S SALTORO a star shining brightly for SHAMEXPRESS
2 JULY 2024, RACENEWS
LIM’S SALTORO, the highclass son of SHAMEXPRESS, continued his climb to the top in Singapore racing when successful in the Gr.2 Stewards' Cup at the weekend in his first attempt over 1600m. LIM'S ...

Royal Ascot hero off the mark with impressive 2YO!
Glorious Goodwood provided dual Royal Ascot hero CIRCUS MAXIMUS with his first-crop 2YO winner Alerta Maxima overnight. Improving from her debut run, Alerta Maxima lay midfield in the running befo...

The cream rises to the top
5 JUNE 2024, RACENEWS
KA YING RISING, an exciting sprinting star in Hong Kong this season Windsor Park sire SHAMEXPRESS (O’Reilly) has enjoyed a brilliant run of success this season, and with back-to-back Group winners ...

Meagher hungry to add Silver Bowl trophy to the mantelpiece
5 JUNE 2024, Larry Foley, Singapore Turf Club
Thanks mainly to some very ‘useful’ types in Lim’s Lightning and Lim’s Kosciuszko, trainer Daniel Meagher has won most Group races on offer in Singapore.And given the dominance of his two stable st...

ShamExpress sires new Hong Kong sprinting star
3 JUNE 2024, Daryl Timms Hong Kong Racing News
Hong Kong has discovered a new sprinting star with Ka Ying Rising’s (ShamExpress) victory in the HK$4.2 million G3 Sha Tin Vase Handicap (1200m) at Sha Tin on Sunday (2 June). The David Hayes-train...

Australian Gr.3 win highlights a big month for SHAMEXPRESS
28 MAY 2024, RACENEWS
Windsor Park graduate MARACANA, the multiple Group performed daughter of SHAMEXPRESS and a Magic Millions mare sale entry this week, enhanced her value considerably when adding a tough GR.3 win to ...

Group Three win bolsters Maracana’s value
Five-year-old mare Maracana (ShamExpress) recorded a timely victory in the Gr.3 Drinkwise Mile (1600m) at Doomben on Saturday, with the daughter of ShamExpress set to go under the hammer at this we...