Windsor Park Stud

Paddington to Shuttle to New Zealand's Windsor Park Stud

Paddington (GB) (Siyouni {Fr}) will shuttle to New Zealand to stand at Windsor Park Stud, which was also the former southern hemisphere home of his broodmare sire Montjeu (Ire). Currently covering his first book of mares at Coolmore Stud in Ireland, the four-time Group 1 winner will become the first son of the Aga Khan Studs' Siyouni to join the stallion ranks in New Zealand. Siyouni's champion son St Mark's Basilica (Fr) shuttles to Coolmore's base in the Hunter Valley. Though Siyouni has remained in France throughout his stud career,...

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The Awakening Of Rip Van Winkle

Forced into retreat by injury in 2010, Coolmore's one-time powerhouse Rip Van Winkle (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}--Looking Back, by Stravinsky) has only just begun to show signs of stirring in his residence at Windsor Park Stud in New Zealand. In the last month, the pairing of Te Akau Shark (NZ) and Jennifer Eccles (NZ) took his reputation to the next level with the former winning the G1 BCD Group Sprint and G1 Chipping Norton S. and the latter the G1 New Zealand Oaks. That placed him sixth in his county's sires'...

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