$120,000 Mare Windermare Heads to Little Avondale

Media Release - Friday June 16

Multiple stakes performer Windermere was the highlight lot of the broodmare session at Friday’s New Zealand Bloodstock National Weanling & Broodmare Sale at Karaka and fetched $120,000 to the bid of Little Avondale Stud’s Sam Williams. 

Stakes-performed mare Windermere pictured at Karaka Photo: Trish Dunell

The six-year-old daughter of All Too Hard was a four-time winner in Australia and placed in the Listed Christmas Cup (2400m) and Listed Tatt’s Gold Crown (2137m).

Presented by Kilmore Farm as part of the dispersal of prominent Australian breeder Rob Ferguson’s New Zealand-based mares, Windermere is in foal to Cambridge Stud’s exciting young sire Sword Of State.

Windermere is out of the unraced Sadler’s Wells mare Rosetta Stone, a sister to multiple Group One winner Brian Boru (Sadler’s Wells) and Group One-producing broodmare Kitty O’Shea.

She is also closely related to the Epsom Derby (2400m) winner Workforce, who also won the Gr.1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (2400m), in addition to Group One winners Best Solution and El Bodegon.

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“I missed out on a number of mares on the Gold Coast as the competition was very strong and this mare was the standout of the mares here,” Williams said.

“She was the only mare I wanted.

“She maps very well with Per Incanto and being a Group placed mare, the page for her foal will read attractively.

“She represents a strong international female family and I was delighted to get her.”  - NZ RAcing Desk

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