Cheltenham Stables

04/05/2024

New Zealand-bred star Antino put a frustrating spring campaign behind him with a superb first-up performance in Saturday’s A$300,000 Gr.2 U&U Recruitment Victory Stakes (1200m) at Eagle Farm.

27/04/2024

Cheltenham Stables Breaking graduates quinella the Group 2 Travis Stakes today.

Congratulations to all of the owners, trainers and everyone involved.

Our Breaking Graduates have had a phenomenal season with 10 individual stakes winners and a further 4 stakes placed, of which there have been 3 individual Group 1 winners with another 4 individual Group 1 placed.

30/01/2024

Exciting to have two of our graduates that won on Karaka Millions night invited to the All Star Mile Racing.com Racing Victoria

29/01/2024

27/01/2024

Wow what a night for Cheltenham Stables Graduates, winning 3 of the 6 races last night at the Karaka Millions. Crocetti keeping his unbeaten record to now be 7 from 7 winning the Group3 Almanzor Trophy , Desert Lighting smashing them in the $1 million dollar Aotearoa Classic and Orchestral absolutely bolting in in the $1.5 million dollar TAB Karaka Millions 3yo race. Congratulations to everyone involved, thank you for your support, we love being lucky enough to get to educate your young horses. Byerley Park

13/01/2024

Magic Millions January 2024 sale all done, we were fortunate enough to purchase 4 outstanding c**ts. We look forward to working with these lovely c**ts and re-offering them later in the year.
Magic Millions Arrowfield Stud Widden Stud Sledmere Stud

12/01/2024

Magic Millions January 2024 sale all done, we were fortunate enough to purchase 4 outstanding c**ts. We look forward to working with these lovely c**ts and re-offering them later in the year.

29/12/2023

Looking forward to New Zealand Bloodstock Karaka Book 1 yearling sales. We are presenting our first yearling draft. We have 3 quality yearlings for sale, come and check them out. We will be located in D barn, or if you would like to view on farm please get in touch. John 021705504
Pic 1 is Lot 85 Bivouac x Fleet of Foot Filly
Pic 2 is Lot 59 Satono Aladdin x Evanescence Filly
And Pic 3 is Lot 93 Dundeel x French Skyline C**t
New Zealand Bloodstock

09/12/2023

Congratulations Barneswood Farm Ltd, Peter and Dawn Williams and everyone involved, great win today. Desert Lightning becomes the 21st Group 1 winner broken in at Cheltenham Stables. We love seeing the horses that we have been so lucky to have worked with winning at the elite level.

Desert Lightning takes out the Gr.1 TAB Classic with jockey Vinnie Colgan claiming his 26th Group One win 😍

22/11/2023

After a super day one we are ready to present seven quality lots on day two 💥

21/11/2023

Sale day has arrived at the NZB Ready to Run sale. We have three quality lots heading through the ring today
Lot 3 Embellish x Dancing May Lot 157 Sweynesse x O’Becky Lot 167 El Roca x Palace Crown

14/11/2023

Great read with an in depth look into some of our Ready to Run Draft in The Thoroughbred Report Ausnz today. We can’t wait to get up to New Zealand Bloodstock Karaka to start parading our exciting draft of horses, we will be available to start parades on Sunday the 19th November.

The Thoroughbred Report took an in-depth look at Cheltenham Stables' draft ahead of the 2023 New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale, starting on Wednesday, November 22 and concluding on Thursday, November 23.

11/11/2023

Great win by Crocetti today, he brings up 20 individual Group 1 winners broken in by Cheltenham Stables. Congratulations to Daniel and all involved. 6 wins from 6 starts.

28/10/2023

Cheltenham Stables graduates quinella the Crystal Mile at the Moonee Valley Racing Club.
Prowess for Kingsclere Stables was broken by Cheltenham Stables and Antino Gollan Racing was sold through Cheltenham Stables New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run draft

READ: Kingsclere Stables mare Prowess has put her minor Spring setbacks behind her after taking out Saturday’s Gr.2 McCafe Crystal Mile (1600m) at Moonee Valley.

https://www.racingnews.co.nz/prowess-makes-her-mark-in-melbourne/

25/10/2023

In the Spotlight this week we highlight undefeated three-year-old Crocetti who dominated in the Gr.2 James and Annie Sarten Memorial 😍

The Zacinto gelding led all the way in the hands of premiership-leading jockey Warren Kennedy, extending his perfect five-start, five-win career 🙌

Trained by Danny Walker and Arron Tata for owner-breeder Daniel Nakhle, the Sarten was the second black-type success for Crocetti, who also took out the Gr.3 Northland Breeders’ Stakes 🏆

18/10/2023

Proud of all the horses and our hardworking team doing a stellar job at the NZB Ready to Run Breeze Ups 💪 Excited to present this classy draft of horses at next months sale

19/09/2023

Great day at the Cambridge Jockey Club for the Inglis breeze ups yesterday. The horses all breezed up really well. This is our I Am Invincible x Bit Of Cheek C**t who breezed up in a slick time of 10.68 seconds.

15/08/2023

Anyone out there looking for some morning hours mucking out? Rubber floored stables, start and finish times flexible, competitive hourly wage. Mon- Fri 🐴🧹

10/06/2023

Exciting watching Antino as he progresses in his racing career, always such a great feeling being involved with these horses during their early education. He was such a nice horse to work with and a graduate from our first draft of Ready2Run horses New Zealand Bloodstock
Gollan Racing

The Listed Wayne Wilson (1600m) may have been something of a consolation prize at Eagle Farm on Saturday, but a spectacular performance by New Zealand-bred Antino has eased any disappointment for his trainer Tony Gollan and got him thinking about spring carnivals in Sydney and Melbourne.

20/03/2023

It is always a great buzz watching horses we have broken in performing at the top level. Good luck to the Kingsclere Stables team and all other connections involved with this outstanding filly.

JAMES LOOKING TO TURN BACK THE CLOCK

Roger James will be hoping to roll back the years in Sydney this weekend with his top-class filly Prowess.

The Cambridge trainer has the daughter of Proisir set for Saturday’s Gr.1 Vinery Stud Stakes (2000m), an age group feature at Rosehill that he won back in 2002 with Sixty Seconds.

“I remember it very well, my memory’s not failing and it would be lovely to do it all over again,” James said.

He now operates in partnership with Robert Wellwood, and Prowess will bid to hand the duo their second Group One success on Australian soil following Pinarello’s win last season in the Queensland Derby (2400m).

“She arrived here on Sunday and was dripping from head to toe when she got off the float, but it was 32 degrees,” James said.

“Honestly, top marks to her as she has now really settled in incredibly well at Randwick. We’re pretty happy with her.”

Prowess, who will be ridden by Mark Zahra, sealed her trip with an impressive last start defeat of the older horses in the Gr.1 New Zealand Stakes (2050m) at Pukekohe.

Freshened after finishing third in the Gr.1 New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m), she is unbeaten this preparation following her first-up success in the Gr.2 Auckland Guineas (1600m).

Prowess then claimed the Listed Karaka Million 3YO Classic (1600m) and the Gr.2 David & Karyn Ellis Fillies’ Classic (2000m) before the New Zealand Stakes.

James and Wellwood have also celebrated top-flight victories with Concert Hall in the Gr.1 Zabeel Classic (2000m) and Two Illicit in the Gr.1 Captain Cook Stakes (1600m) since forming a partnership at the beginning of the 2018-19 season.

Wellwood initially joined Kingsclere Stables in 2017 in the role of Racing Manager before taking out his trainer’s licence.

“It’s great to have a modern-thinking brain and we both have a good deal of input,” James said.

“It’s lovely to have that young line of thought coming into things and someone to bounce things off.

“It’s a true partnership and Robert is also a business partner now and it’s all working very well.”

Prowess’ stablemate Mark Twain will also head to Sydney to contest the Gr.1 Australian Derby (2400m) at Randwick on Saturday week.

The lightly raced son of Shocking finished a gallant fourth in the Gr.1 New Zealand Derby (2400m) at his fifth appearance.

The OTI Racing-owned Mark Twain had broken his maiden at Hawera on Christmas Eve and then beat the older horses over 2100m at Hastings in his lead-up to the Classic at Te Rapa.

After taking plenty of advice, the stable has elected to forego the opportunity of starting the gelding in this Saturday’s Gr.2 Tulloch Stakes (2000m) at Rosehill.

“He won’t arrive here until next week, we’re pretty certain that he’s going to make the Derby field so we’re not running him this weekend,” James said.

“He will have his preparation at home and hopefully we have made the right call.

“We have spoken with numerous people that have done a lot of homework for us and they have all come up with, at this stage, at least a 90 percent chance of making the Derby without another run and that’s our preferred option.” – NZ Racing Desk

📸Prowess will contest the Gr.1 Vinery Stud Stakes (2000m) at Rosehill on Saturday. Photo: Trish Dunell

15/01/2023

Home from a successful trip to Gold Coast sale, plenty of outstanding horses to inspect. We managed to purchase Lot 668 - I am Invincible x Bit of Cheek from the draft of Westbury Stud

16/11/2022

16/11/2022

Brilliant result today for the team and for our wonderful clients whom trusted us to prepare this lovely horse. Can’t wait to see him on the track 💨 👌

⭐ Highlight Lot ⭐

Mr F. Liu purchased Lot 22, a Bay Gelding out of Cheltenham Stables for a healthy price of $375,000.

09/11/2022

Ready to Run sale is just around the corner. Check out our lovely boys who will be going under the hammer Wednesday next week!
Iffraaj x Bella Grace Lot 22
Iffraaj x Charlotte Russe Lot 52

09/11/2022

New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run sale is just around the corner. Check out our lovely boys who will be going under the hammer Wednesday next week!

18/10/2022

https://youtu.be/YuFOC8im7rc
We had a fantastic Inglis Ready2Race sale this year, achieving leading vendor! here is a clip on our outstanding The Autumn Sun c**t, can’t wait to see the horses we prepared on the race track

A feature story from the Inglis Ready 2 Race sale on Lot 58 a son of Arrowfield Stud's champion The Autumn Sun from a grand daughter of Ethereal who sold for...