Owners join forces
New owners Brendan and Jo Lindsay have joined forces with the Hogan legacy to create a quality Cambridge Stud draft for the 2020 New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sale.
Sir Patrick and Lady Justine Hogan made Cambridge Stud world renowned, breeding more than 40 Group One winners and claiming the title of leading vendor at New Zealand’s national yearling sale for 31 consecutive years.
The Lindsays brought the stud in late 2017 and took ownership in April 2018.
“The yearlings in this draft are the result of last matings arranged by the Hogans with their Cambridge Stud mares, while there’s also a strong representation of Brendan and Jo Lindsay’s mares with a sprinkling of Australian stallions they selected,”
Cambridge Stud’s Chief Executive Henry Plumptre said. “We’re hoping the draft will be well received. We’ve had good attendance and feedback for our parades.”
Big results on the racetrack and in the sales would be a welcome change of fortune.
“We’ve had a pretty devastating six months, losing three stallions (Roaring Lion, Burgundy and Tavistock),” Plumptre said. “We’ll be offering 25 yearlings by Tavistock at Karaka as a key feature of our draft.”
He is hoping for a strong Cambridge performance as part of a highly successful Karaka sale.
“I think that any expectation that we’ll just continue off what happened in the Magic Millions Sale would be wrong. We’re not offering the same product, and it’s not the same market. We’re selling different types of horses who’ll run over different distances,” said Plumptre. As Australia is their major market, they’re expecting to entice a good number of Australian buyers.
“One thing that we can rely on is that our yearlings have been raised on the very-best quality grass, which unfortunately hasn’t been the case in Australia.”