Legacy for families from Pencarrow stud success
Waikato’s Pencarrow Stud was established by international businessman Sir Peter Vela.
Through years of hard work and expert judgement, Peter and his late brother Philip created a legacy for their families and for the New Zealand thoroughbred industry.
Over the past four decades the Pencarrow Stud have fashioned some of the best thoroughbred families. The famed family of Group Three winner Richebourg, Group winning daughters Grand Echezeaux and Romanee Conti, and the latter’s champion race mare Ethereal continues to pay dividends for the breeding operation.
For next week’s New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sales at Karaka, the draft of 17 yearlings features 12 colts and five fillies. Stud manager Leon Casey is pleased with the offering.
“They have settled in well and there is a good range of horses. There is something for everybody and they have all thrived in the last month or so,” said Casey.
“It has been a good year and they have all finished off well.”
Casey pinpoints a colt and filly that are sure to attract plenty of attention at the sale.
“There have been a few people that have seen the American Pharoah colt that compared him favourably to those that sold on the Gold Coast. He is a big, strong horse with a lot of quality.”
The Snitzel filly, out of stakes placed Encosta de Lago mare Echezeaux looks to be an opportunity to buy into the Richebourg family.
“I think the Snitzel filly will be on any lists of those looking for a quality filly with plenty of residual breeding value. The significant thing with that family is every bit of black type on that page was put there by Pencarrow Stud, with one direct exception, and that is a filly that we sold to Westbury through our yearling draft. She produced Bellini Rose, a Group Two winner, who produced Howard Be Thy Name, a Group One Derby winner.”
“It has been such a great family and we have already shown that others can buy into the family and have success.”