Kentuckiana Lodge

30/10/2025

No Friday Night Lights for us this week! Instead we will be enjoying the sunshine and the NZ Cup week preparations!

30/10/2025

🤩A super story from our Aussie friend Adam Hamilton!

“For Dalgety, who was born into the game with a legendary trainer as his father (Jim Dalgety), he has tried to win the NZ Cup for 35 years, but had to be content with two seconds and three thirds.”

“Republican Party has clearly gone to a new level this campaign - we saw it early in his work and now he’s taking it into his races. Even I was a bit surprised about how easily he beat them at Ashburton”

30/10/2025

A Kentuckiana quinella for the boys!!
🥇🐴FREEZE FRAME 🥈🐴FUGITIVE

30/10/2025

GROUP 2 ASHBURTON FLYING STAKES in the bag! Stu is right in the zone!! 🐴🏆💪🏽🤩

29/10/2025

Kentuckiana preps for Cup Week with brilliance at Ashburton!

Co-trainer Cran Dalgety jokes that "we are just waiting on a truck to drop off several tonnes of cotton wool to get us through the next two weeks." 😅

The team produced the quinella in the final heat of the Sires Stakes 2yo Series with 🥇FREEZE FRAME & 🥈FUGITIVE before 🥇REPUBLICAN PARTY continued his faultless New Zealand Cup preparation with his powerhouse win in the Group 2 Ashburton Flying Stakes.

👉Read more on the day that was and what's on for the next two weeks;
https://www.kentuckianalodge.co.nz/news/27-10-2025/kentuckiana-preps-for-cup-week-with-brilliance-at-ashburton/

📖 - Jonny Turner
📸 - Race Images

28/10/2025

Some wild weather lately - rain, hail, wind and shine literally, even some spring snow!! ❄️⛈️🌪️☀️
One positive is this beautiful view of the snow capped mountains we get to see every day!

The yearlings are happy with their green grass and the return of the sun!

28/10/2025

Down to the local today with the exceptional Kentuckiana team (plus & minus a few)!

We do love any excuse to celebrate🥳, but appreciate these wins are a direct result of all the hard work from the team keeping these horses happy, healthy and fast!!

Thank you team!! Roll on Cup Week!! 🤩🐴🌞😍

Peep Stu’s race replay on the tele in the background😅🥳

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27/10/2025

🥇🐴REPUBLICAN PARTY

Talk about in the zone! Stu proudly adds the GROUP 2 - NZB AIRFREIGHT ASHBURTON FLYING STAKES to his sparkling resume today at Ashburton!!

We are all absolutely riding the wave of excitement having him in the winning circle yet again! We can not be more thrilled with his campaign so far and are all eager with excitement for what’s to come!

🤩Congratulations to team Kentuckiana, happy owners Mrs C M Dalgety, G E Dickey, Mrs J E Rooney, G A Ayers, First Term Syndicate, D A Schollum, K J Cummings, B A Smith, G P Merlo, A & M Syndicate and all connections!

📸 - Race Images