GRAEMAR STUD aka Advantageous Ventures Limited

22/04/2024

Stakes Success for Sassy Merlot (NZ) 💅

A purchase price of just $24,000 for Sassy Merlot (NZ) (Burgundy) in Book 3 of Karaka 2020 has turned into more than $180,000 in stakes, capped by a coveted black-type win in Saturday’s $80,000 Listed Daphne Bannan Memorial Great Easter Stakes (1400m) at Riccarton. 🎉

Bred and sold by Advantageous Ventures, Sassy Merlot was bought by Paul Moroney Bloodstock and Ballymore Stables NZ. She has now earned almost eight times her purchase price, with Saturday’s Listed victory sending her value even higher.🤝

Sassy Merlot is trained at Matamata by Mike Moroney and Pam Gerard.

“She’s been a tough horse all the way through,” Gerard said. “It’s just a little bit harder up north, especially when you get tracks that aren’t quite to suit. I’m really pleased now that we talked the owners into coming down."

Read more 📰: https://tinyurl.com/3jyrc2cw

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22/04/2024

Aimee Peterken 🥂🍾

READ: “I love the science of it (breeding) and to come in and attempt something different excites me, so I thought I would give it (thoroughbreds) a go.”

Aimee Peterken has only been breeding thoroughbreds for a few years, but she is already starting to leave her mark.

https://www.racingnews.co.nz/first-stakes-winner-for-peterken/

22/04/2024

Feeling truly blessed 😇❤️🏇

Advantageous Ventures principal Aimee Peterken.  Photo: Supplied Peterken breeds first stakes winner Joshua Smith, LOVERACING.NZ News Desk 22 April 2024 Aimee Peterken has only been breeding thoroughbreds for a few years, but she is already starting to leave her mark. The Auckland-based marketing p...

21/04/2024

Sassy Merlot powers home to score a valuable victory in Saturday’s Listed Daphne Bannan Memorial Great Easter Stakes (1400m) at Riccarton.  Photo: Ajay Berry (RIS) Southern raid produces black-type gold for Sassy Merlot Richard Edmunds, LOVERACING.NZ News Desk 20 April 2024 An autumn trip to Cant...

20/04/2024

20/04/2024

Go Sassy!!! Love your spirit my girl 👊❤️

23/02/2024

Saveadance x Ace High filly (aka Tang)

23/02/2024

Saveadance x Burgundy (aka Gigi)

23/02/2024

Worth a watch! From very back to front, very powerful run… it’s how she won it! 1st race ❤️‍🔥

23/02/2024

Very impressive 1st race for Texas Dolly (aka Tang) at Riccarton today! Congrats to all 🍾

Saveadance x Ace High 3yo ❤️
Rich Hill Stud Riversley Park

05/11/2023

Sunday morning visit to meet my new addition!
Hope Diamond x Sweynesse filly ❤️‍🔥
4.11.23 - 1 day old Hallmark Stud

26/01/2023

Settled in well and stepping out with the start of our parades on Wednesday! Karaka 2023: National Yearling Sales Series
📍Barn C, stable 78

Book 1 - Lot 486
Saveadance x Ace High (half sister to Sassy Merlot)

18/01/2023

Exciting days ahead! Thanks NZ Racing News

READ: Aimee Peterken of GRAEMAR STUD aka Advantageous Ventures Limited will offer her first New Zealand Bloodstock Book 1 yearling at Karaka 2023.
https://www.racingnews.co.nz/peterken-savours-first-book-1-opportunity/

17/01/2023

Excited to get a mention by New Zealand Bloodstock with the lead into Karaka 2023: National Yearling Sales Series

11/01/2023

Proudly introducing half-sister to multiple stake placing Sassy Merlot, out of Saveadance (Savabeel x Volksraad) by Ace High. She is an upstanding filly and true to the Zabeel type. Comes from the fine Dam family of Echostatic, COUP RAY, SINGALONG and PENNY ARCADE.
Book 1, she goes under the hammer on Tuesday 31st January and will be on site from Tuesday 24th January for inspections and parading.

Lot 486 - Ace High x Saveadance

20/12/2022

Thrilled to announce is in foal to and is in foal to for her first foal 🫶
Bring on 2023 🦄
Windsor Park Stud
Novara Park Stud

27/11/2022

Pretty happy with my Salvation x Shocking filly 💓
Rich Hill Stud

29/10/2022

Great ride on ! Well done 👍

24/10/2022

Welcome!
Salvation (Savabeel/Pins) x Shocking
DOB 22.10.22

13/08/2022

Big day for this wee cherub handling wise. Has the best disposition to work with, I’m so happy with our progress! Quite the wooly monster, but all of Saveadance’s babes are all the same this time of year!!! 💕🐎

^Saveadance x Ace High

04/06/2022

Introducing 2021 season’s foal from Saveadance, by sire Ace High - a little more bling than usual! Known as ‘Foxy’.

06/05/2022

I am pleased to announce that this elegant boy aka Saviour (Salvation x Echoes of Heaven) will enjoy a racing career with Bell Racing. I look forward to sharing in his progress in the coming years as I follow in his journey. I really miss this big boy!

10/03/2022

2nd day of parades, Barn A
Stables 80 & 87

05/03/2022

Introducing this upstanding and sizeable c**t, out of a Savabeel x Pins mare and by the underrated sire Echoes of Heaven. Dam lines trace back to Richebourg family. Book 2 Sales, under the hammer on Saturday 12th March. Will run early.

Lot 1032 - Echoes of Heaven x Salvation c**t
https://vimeo.com/684068507

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This is "22NYSS, Lot 1032.mp4" by Marie Richards on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

05/03/2022

TEXAS DOLLY
Introducing half-sister to multiple stake placing Sassy Merlot, out of Saveadance (Savabeel x Volksraad) by popular first season sire Ace High. She is very true to the Zabeel type. Comes from the fine Dam family of Echostatic, COUP RAY, SINGALONG and PENNY ARCADE.
Book 2 Sales, under the hammer on Saturday 12th March.

Lot 1038 - Ace High x Saveadance
https://vimeo.com/684072658

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Karaka Sales 2022 Lot 1038 Ace High x Saveadance Filly

03/03/2022

Such beauties! Still great mates despite their gender differences as yearlings 💕

Lot 1032 - Echoes of Heaven x Salvation (Bay c**t)
Lot 1038 - Ace High x Saveadance (Black Filly)

📸 Marie Richards Photography

01/03/2022

Sassy Merlot (2018)
Burgundy x Saveadance
I am so proud of my homebred filly who was purchased as a yearling from 2020 Book 3 by Paul Moroney and has been successfully campaigned this 2021/22 by Mike Moroney - Ballymore Stables. She has gone on to achieve the following results to date:
2nd WRC Desert Gold S. Gr.3
3rd Wellington Guineas Gr.2
1st Waikato RC Brokerweb Risk Services H.

Her dam Saveadance is still a foundation mare at Graemar Stud.

28/02/2022

Introducing two upstanding yearlings for Karaka with our 2022 New Zealand Bloodstock Book 2 draft. Both of these yearlings will be onsite from Thursday 10th March, however if you wish to inspect them prior to this time please feel free to contact Aimee Peterken 0272442961. They will go under the hammer on Saturday 12th March .

Lot 1032 : Echoes of Heaven x Salvation (Pins x Savabeel) c**t
https://www.nzb.co.nz/sales/22kbb/1032

Lot 1038 : Ace High x Saveadance (half sister to Sassy Merlot) filly
https://www.nzb.co.nz/sales/22kbb/1038