Cambridge Stud to Send Pivotal Ten to Lindsay Park

Media Release - Wednesday April 2

Multiple stakes winner Pivotal Ten is to continue her career across the Tasman at Lindsay Park with brothers Ben, Will and JD Hayes.

The daughter of Ten Sovereigns will relocate in due course to the family’s Euroa complex to prepare for a spring campaign in Melbourne.

The three-year-old’s sparkling run of southern form through the summer prompted Cambridge Stud to purchase a 50 percent holding in the filly from owner Colin Wightman.

Pivotal Ten will continue her racing career with Lindsay Park Racing in Melbourne.   Photo: Monica Toretto

Connections identified Lindsay Park as the ideal fit for Pivotal Ten, given she has previously thrived in rural surroundings.

“We feel that environment will be more conducive for her, they’ve got day paddocks there and all the facilities, it’s as good as anything you’d ever see,” said Brendan Lindsay, who owns and operates Cambridge Stud with wife Jo.

“It’s all about giving her the best opportunities and do the right thing by the horse, and that has to be in Australia.”

Pivotal Ten won five of her eight starts under the guidance of trainer-rider Samantha Wynne, including consecutive Listed victories in the NZB Insurance Stakes (1400m), Gore Guineas (1335m) and Southland Guineas (1400m).

“Sam did a terrific job with the horse, there’s no doubt about that with the record speaking for itself,” Lindsay said.

She was unplaced for the new ownership group in the inaugural running of the $3.5 million NZB Kiwi (1500m) and returned to Canterbury for a break after the Ellerslie feature.

“We’re not exactly sure what happened in The Kiwi and she didn’t perform to the level we thought she would,” Lindsay said.

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“Maybe it was that way around (right-handed), maybe it wasn’t and perhaps she had come to the end of it.

“She has arrived at Karaka, we flew her up from the South Island as we didn’t want to put her on a float, and it was the last plane coming up for a while.

“She’ll spell for probably another five weeks and then she’ll go over to the Hayes boys at Euroa.”

Bred by Valachi Downs, Pivotal Ten was a $15,000 New Zealand Bloodstock Weanling Sale purchase for Wightman and is a daughter of the unraced English-bred Pivotal mare Lady Woodcote.

She is a sister to the Gr.1 Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp (1000m) winner Maarek.

Meanwhile, the Cambridge Stud-owned Holymanz has stakes races on his upcoming program after the son of Almanzor finished a bold third when resuming over 1600m at Flemington at the weekend.

He has been a multiple Group placegetter for trainer Ciaron Maher and the Listed Golden Mile (1600m) at Bendigo and the Listed Scone Cup (1600m) are possible targets.

“He’s been knocking around that Listed and Group Three area, he’s not quite up to that Group One standard,” Lindsay said.

“He’s honest and every time he turns up at the races he puts his best foot forward.” – LOVERACING.NZ News Desk

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