Paul Moroney Bloodstock

Here's my synopsis of our recent French-based purchase, the blue-blooded Defining (GB).

"Very tardily away and raced greenly on debut over 2050m at Saint-Cloud but kept making ground willingly from last for sixth of 10. The winner then scored at listed level & is now G3 placed and the runner-up is subsequently a G3 winner, G1 3rd & 5th in the French Derby.
Second start over 2400m at Saint-Cloud, still ran greenly after leading but fought well not beaten far. Both the winner and runner-up are now stakes performers, the former a G2 winner & G2 placed since, the latter listed placed after winning at Chantilly next time.
Stayed 2400m strongly to win his third start at Compiegne with the runner-up scoring easily at its next start.
A good thing beaten when badly held up before finishing fast for third by a short neck x head over 2400m at Clairefontane next and only other start.
A progressive, well-bred stayer likely to get further than 2400m on the evidence to date. An exciting prospect for Australia."

Lindsay Park Racing

Good to see our NZ 2000 Guineas winner from last season Romanoff trial so well before racing at Te Rapa Racing today. The other part of our G1 Classic quinella, Affirmative Action, resumes there later this afternoon in the time-honoured Foxbridge Plate (G2). Best of luck to Ballymore Racing NZ

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Our good friends and clients Cam and Eva Heron's Highline Thoroughbreds are certainly making their mark on the New Zealand racing and sales scene and we are proud of our association and team work aiding their rise through the ranks.
However, the article below has missed one of our combined success stories - dual stakes winning weanling purchase Glamour Tycoon.
That means, from just eight weanlings we've bought together to have raced, four have become stakes winners from a total of 12 purchases for resale as yearlings.
To date, four just turned three-year-olds are yet to race and all but one of the eight to have started have won with the other placed.
We could easily have had a part in six of the seven stakes winners sold through Highiine's drafts as we consulted on and recommended the post sale purchase of Dark Destroyer to David Archer while Legarto was our best filly in Book 2 in the Covid year we did the Karaka sale on line from Australia but we couldn't convince anyone to buy her while not on site.
Long may it continue!

Footnote: Captive Audience (2yo f Captivant ex Love's A Riddle), our only 2025 weanling purchase and sold through Highline at Karaka this year, won on her trial debut at Foxton today. Will she be out next combined stakes performer?

https://loveracing.nz/News/54092/AnotherSaintlyperformanceforHighline.aspx

She's No Saint was certainly impressive. Good luck to connections for the remainder of her campaign and congratulations on today's success.

Bradley claims home feature with exciting filly She's No Saint winning the Gr.3 Cambridge Stud Northland Breeders’ Stakes (1200m). Photo: Therese Davis (Race Images) Bradley claims home feature with exciting filly Joshua Smith, LOVERACING.NZ News Desk 15 August 2026 Local filly She’s No Saint put her contemporaries on notice for the rest of....

It seems our 2016 South American broodmare purchase Mecha Corta has another quality offspring in Japan with her current two-year-old c**t Dragon Baldr - pictured in training - scoring impressively on debut over 2000m at Chukyo racecourse on Sunday.
Dragon Baldr (by Contrail) must be a good sort as he fetched 286m yen (approx $A2.5m) as a yearling last year and his trainer Yuichi Fukunaga Is spruiking the c**t as a Japan Derby prospect next season.
Mecha Corta, a Group 1 Guineas winner in Argentina, has already produced stakes winner and G2 placed Danon Fair Lady (by Kizuna) which won three of her seven starts and also finished fourth in a G1.