New Zealand’s Busiest Sires in 2022

Tara Madgwick - Monday May 1

It’s been impossible to ignore the torrent of Group I winners in Australia during the autumn carnival that carry the NZ suffix so a look at the busiest sires in New Zealand last year offers an insight into the future for this most fertile source of elite thoroughbreds.

Busiest NZ Sires That Covered 100 or Mares in 2022

STALLION

STUD

2022

2021

Tarzino

Westbury Stud

197

88

Proisir (AUS)

Rich Hill Stud

170

126

Satono Aladdin (JPN)

Rich Hill Stud

169

60

Turn Me Loose

Windsor Park Stud

139

103

Almanzor (FR)

Cambridge Stud

136

142

Armory (IRE)

Mapperley Stud

NEW 127

 

Noverre

Waikato Stud

 NEW 127

 

Sword Of State (AUS)

Cambridge Stud

NEW 126

 

Savabeel (AUS)

Waikato Stud

120

148

Embellish

Waikato Stud

117

158

Hello Youmzain (FR)

Cambridge Stud

115

141

Ardrossan (AUS)

Waikato Stud

110

65

Vanbrugh (AUS)

Windsor Park Stud

106

50

Per Incanto (USA)

Little Avondale Stud

105

133

Time Test (GB)

Little Avondale Stud

103

119

Tivaci (AUS)

Windsor Park Stud

100

124

Figures from NZTM

Tarzino was the busiest sire in NZ last year.

Tavistock’s Derby winning son Tarzino was the busiest sire off the back of his impressive results last season when he sired Gypsy Goddess to win the G1 Queensland Oaks and Jungle Magnate to win the G1 SA Derby.

Proisir was starting to show signs of something good last spring, but few could have predicted what has unfolded this year with his burgeoning NZ success spilling over into Australia with G1 wins for his superstar fillies Legarto and Prowess.

Proisir was well found last year.

His 5.7% SW to runner strike rate is only going to improve with the benefit of better mares and the stat that has really pricked people’s ears is the G1 winner for every 45 runners which is heading towards Savabeel’s impressive G1 winner in every 39 runners.

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Satono Aladdin (Jpn) has produced a G1 winnerin each of his first two crops.

Japanese shuttler Satono Aladdin (Jpn) has not set the world on fire in his homeland of Japan, but he’s doing the right thing here with his first two crops producing four stakes-winners from 41 runners, two of them G1 winners Pennyweka and Tokyo Tycoon.

Armory (IRE) (Galileo), Noverre (Savabeel) and Sword of State (Snitzel) were all very popular and all very different.

Armory (IRE)

Armory was a multiple Group winner in Ireland at two, three and four with multiple G1 placings and notably a second to Sir Dragonet in the Cox Plate.

Noverre

Noverre was an expensive $800,000 Karaka purchase for David Ellis and won the G1 NZ 2000 Guineas retiring lightly raced with just seven starts only missing a place once.

Sword of State

Sword of State was a $600,000 Magic Millions purchase and won four of five starts at two including the G1 ARC Diamond Stakes to be Champion NZ 2YO.

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