Date set for the Windsor Park Stud Rugby, Racing and Beer Sale

18th March / Windsor Park Stud News

The date is set for the Rugby, Racing and Beer Sale set for 23rd April 2026, held at Riccarton Park, Christchurch.  Yearlings are in prep for the sale and with an outstanding record of graduates i...

Service fee set for Champion 3YO SAVAGLEE

14th March / Windsor Park Stud News

Service fee set for Champion 3YO SAVAGLEE  Group One Classic winner SAVAGLEE, the best credentialed stallion prospect of exceptional sire SAVABEEL has been confirmed to stand at Mapperl...

First-Crop Derby Success for Circus Maximus

March 10 2026, RACENEWS

ROAD TO PARIS winning the 2026 Gr.1 NEW ZEALAND DERBY at Ellerslie Windsor Park Stud’s exciting young stallion CIRCUS MAXIMUS has reached a major milestone, with his first-crop son ROAD TO PARIS ca...

Son of CIRCUS MAXIMUS wins G1 New Zealand Derby

14 March 2026, loveracing.co.nz news desk

ROAD TO PARIS returns victorious following the Gr.1 HKJC World Pool New Zealand Derby (2400m). Photo: Kenton Wright (Race Images) The name Roger James is synonymous with the blue riband Gr.1 New Ze...

Stud syndicate swoops on Champion Three-Year-Old Savaglee. 

9 March 2026 | Windsor Park News

Stud syndicate swoops on Champion Three-Year-Old Savaglee.   A syndicate headed by Windsor Park Stud, Mapperley Stud & Lion Rock Bloodstock have secured Champion Three-Year-Old SAVAGLEE...

Ka Ying Rising Wins Record 18th Straight Race In Course Record Time

23 Feb 2026, Heather Anderson TDN

The weight of history laid heavy on the strapping shoulders of Hong Kong Horse of the Year Ka Ying Rising at Sha Tin on Sunday. Tied with Hong Kong wunderkind Silent Witness (El Moxie) on 17 consec...

‘A League Of His Own’: Ka Ying Rising Scores Historic 18th Consecutive Hong Kong Win

22 Feb 2026, Leo Schlink/HKJC

New Zealand-bred ShamExpress gelding Ka Ying Rising surpassed the longstanding record of Hong Kong luminary Silent Witness on Sunday at Sha Tin and did so in record time. Trainer David Hayes believ...

Get your next champion from Windsor Park at Karaka 2026

14 Jan 2026, Racenews

Champion international galloper and leading sire SO YOU THINK - a 2008 Windsor Park Stud Karaka yearling sales graduate Champion gallopers SO YOU THINK, MIGHT AND POWER and AEROVELOCITY are among m...

Derby favourites stake their claims for CIRCUS MAXIMUS

14 Jan 2026, RACENEWS

CIRCUS MAXIMUS stakes winner TOWERING VISION Windsor Park Stud’s exciting young sire CIRCUS MAXIMUS, whose oldest progeny are now talented 3YO’s, looks to be following the same trajectory as forme...

In a league of his own Ka Ying Rising delivers another world-dominating performance

Jan 1, 2026 RACENEWS

NZ-bred KA YING RISING – the World’s number one sprinter, post-race at Sha Tin with jockey Zac Purton Photo: Edward Whitaker (racingpost.com/photos) Extending his consecutive race winning sequence...

ShamExpress stunner wins Group 3

December 8 2025, Love Racing

SHAMEXPRESS racked up his third Group winner of the season on Saturday when THE SCUNNER comprehensively won the Gr.3 Spring Sprint at Trentham on Saturday. The Ashley Meadows-prepared son of SHAMEX...

Circus Dancer upstages rivals in Fillies’ Stakes

29 November 2025, Richard Edmunds, LOVERACING.NZ News Desk

Unbeaten Circus Maximus filly Circus Dancer kept her perfect record intact with a professional performance to win the Listed O’Learys Fillies’ Stakes (1340m) at Wanganui on Saturday. The $80,000 th...

Opening Address rewards patient connections

30 November 2025, NZ Racing Desk

Windsor Park yearling graduate Opening Address (So You Think) was back in the winner’s circle for the first time since winning the Listed Batman Stakes (1800m) at Flemington on Melbourne Cup Day ju...

Superstar Ka Ying Rising Outstanding Again

24 - Nov 2025 / Breednet

Fresh from his history making  win in the $20million The Everest at Randwick in Sydney last month, the David Hayes trained Ka Ying Rising looked fabulous in the yard despite his travels and ran acc...

Royal Ascot supremo CIRCUS MAXIMUS sires 3YO double

Continuing his hot run of form, exciting young sire CIRCUS MAXIMUS (Galileo) provided a winning double at Pukekohe today with promising first-crop 3YO fillies Circus Trix and Cirque De Rose both sa...

Champion Armory sires impressive first-crop 2YO winner

October 27 2025, NZ Racing Desk

Debutante 2YO filly Silhouette delivered a dream start for Mapperley Stud based sire Armory when providing Galileo’s champion son with his initial first-crop 2YO winner at Trentham at the weekend. ...

Nepheti back on top first up

23 Oct 2025/ NZ racing

Nepheti winning The George Abernathy and Associates 1150 at Te Aroha on Wednesday. Photo: Kenton Wright (Race Images) The Nepheti of old showed her colours at Te Aroha on Wednesday, the mare kic...

"Champions do what others can't, he's the world's best sprinter"

18 Oct 2025, Breednet

Ka Ying Rising wins the Everest On a day when the Kiwi breds ran rough shod over Randwick, no star shone brighter than the world's best sprinter Ka Ying Rising, the champion sprinting son of ShamE...

Timeform Declares Hong Kong Sprinter Among Century’s Elite

12 Sept | Windsor Park News

Timeform Declares Hong Kong Sprinter Among Century’s Elite In a strong declaration that is sending ripples through the international racing scene, highly respected British r...

Ka Ying Rising begins Everest ascent in style

8 SEPTEMBER 2025, HKJC

Zac Purton has declared New Zealand-bred sprinting sensation Ka Ying Rising’s outstanding win in the HKSAR Chief Executive’s Cup Handicap (1200m) (ShamExpress) at Sha Tin on Sunday the equal-best o...

Engine Of War fuels Derby hopes for Circus Maximus

4th August| Windsor Park News

Victoria Derby aspirant Engine Of War made a strong impression on debut in Australia, scoring over 1500m at Sandown for the Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr stable and is now the early pre ...

Sterling Express comes of age in Foxbridge Plate

24 August 2025, LOVERACING.NZ

Sterling Express (ShamExpress) stepped up to Group level for the first time in Saturday’s Gr.2 Waikato Stud Foxbridge Plate (1200m) at Te Rapa, and a stunning last-to-first performance showed that ...

ShamExpress’ unbeaten star Ka Ying Rising claims Horse of the Year title

The world’s highest rated sprinter KA YING RISING, whose outstanding Hong Kong performances culminated in an unbeaten 2024/25 racing season, won the Horse of the Year title at a special presentatio...

Smart filly confirms upward trajectory for Circus Maximus

27 May 2025, Racenews

The debut win of Paltrow Miss at New Plymouth at the weekend provided further evidence of the exciting future ahead for Champion Miler and dual Royal Ascot hero Circus Maximus. A first crop daughte...

A towering performance claims 2YO stakes victory for first season sire Circus Maximus

May 5 2025, NZ Herald

Handsome 2-year-old Towering Vision broke his maiden status in the best possible fashion when he took out the Listed Waikato Equine Veterinary Centre Stakes (1400m) in a torrid finish at Te Rapa. T...

2025 RUGBY RACING and BEER sale results - 100% clearance, outstanding success

28 APRIL, 2025

  Click here to view catalogue Thanks for all the support from so many making our 2025 South Island RUGBY, RACING & BEER sale another outstanding success...

A Champion on Champion's Day - World's Best Sprinter annihilates opposition

APRIL 28, 2025 South China Morning Post

Champion Ka Ying Rising put the cherry on a perfect season with another blockbuster display at Sha Tin on Sunday, completing a clean sweep of the Hong Kong Speed Series with victory in the Group On...

Check it out! Gr.1 updates for this Friday's Windsor Park Rugby, Racing & Beer sale. Don't miss it!

APRIL 28, 2025 RACENEWS

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History-maker Auguste Rodin new to Windsor Park’s quality roster

Windsor Park have announced their 2025 stallion fees. Leading European 2YO and Champion 3YO AUGUSTE RODIN, the latest addition to their stallion roster, is oversubscribed at an introductory ...

Unbeaten 5-times winning Melbourne racemare PROVED. A 2022 RR&B South Island sales graduate. Save The 2025 Date!

UPDATE: Stakes winner COLLECT YOUR CASH, a recent Sydney winner for leading trainers GAI WATERHOUSE and ADRIAN BOTT and another successful RUGBY, RACING & BEER sales graduate.