For Waikato Stud, taking the time to step back and analyse the business is not just prudent, it’s essential to long-term success. Recent commercial activity has created the opportunity for us as a family to reassess operations, refine our focus and bring the farm back to a more sustainable and manageable scale after a period of testing capacity.
Like any high-performing business, recognising when to pause, reset and reposition is critical to maintaining standards and driving future growth. By streamlining numbers, our focus sharpens on quality over quantity, continuing to breed fast, elite racehorses while ensuring our team can operate at their best.
At its core, it’s about preserving what makes Waikato Stud special: a passionate team, a commitment to excellence, and the ability to enjoy the journey as much as the results.
In the coming months, we will be offering a selection of WS stock across a range of public auctions However, genuine offers are welcomed on the stock listed below ahead of these sales.
Please feel free to get in touch with the team to make an offer or seek more information.
Regards, Waikato Stud
SUMMARY - Gavelhouse Sale
Commencing Tuesday, 16 June 2026
APPIAN WAY tivaci boulevard Unraced 3yo breeding proposition
BALVENIE Savabeel lady tatia RACEHORSECALIFORNIAN Savabeel Prickle ardrossan IF - 22/11/2025
DELUXE Savabeel Splendid ardrossan IF - 27/09/2025 FACADE Savabeel masquerade ardrossan IF - 14/11/2025
tivaci HEARTFELT NOVERRE IF - 11/12/2025
SKATER tivaci TONYA RACEFILLYOF TWO MINDS Rock ‘n’ Pop not sure MISSED – NIF MISSED SO SPLENDID Savabeel Splendid Ocean Park IF - 24/09/2025
SPINNING Savabeel Spindle MISSED - NIF MISSED
2022 Bay or Brown Filly
Tivaci ex Boulevard (NZ)
Breeding Proposition Only
APPIAN WAY (NZ)
VET HISTORY/DISCLOSURES: Nil
RELEVANT MANAGEMENT COMMENTS: Good to work with on the ground, retired due to unpredictable behaviour under saddle.
APPIAN WAY (NZ)
REPROD
3YO RACEHORSE
2022 Bay Gelding
Savabeel ex Lady Tatia (AUS)
Current status: CURRENTLY RACING
BALVENIE (NZ)
VET HISTORY/DISCLOSURES: Left stifle surgery (cyst) as yearling.
RELEVANT MANAGEMENT COMMENTS
Currently in work with Shaune Ritchie and Colm Murray, has shown no complications or related lameness since surgery.
BALVENIE (NZ)
RACING HISTORY:
3: 0-0-0 | Prizemoney: $1,565. Last start on 24/5/26, finished 4 of 11 at Te Rapa, beaten 1.3L over 2200m.
2017 Bay Mare
Savabeel ex Prickle (NZ)
Current status: IN FOAL
Covering sire: ARDROSSAN
Last service date: 22/11/2025
CALIFORNIAN (NZ)
VET HISTORY/DISCLOSURES: Nil.
RELEVANT MANAGEMENT COMMENTS: Cast right front hoof to stabilise a blowout. It is growing down nicely, more a proactive measure from farrier. APPROX
SAVABEEL AS A BROODMARE SIRE
4% SW2R and 61% W2R Daughters have produced Group 1 winners Icebath, Gringotts, Autumn Boy, Road To Paris, etc. In-utero cross (Ardrossan ex Savabeel) performs at 9% SW2R.
CALIFORNIAN (NZ)
RACING HISTORY 6: 1-0-1 | Prizemoney: $20,115 | Winner at 1600m in Australia.
RACING HISTORY Unraced
2014 Brown Mare
Savabeel ex Splendid (NZ)
Current status: IN FOAL
Covering sire: ARDROSSAN
Last service date: 27/09/2025
DELUXE (NZ)
VET HISTORY/DISCLOSURES: Nil.
RELEVANT MANAGEMENT COMMENTS: Sedate to scan
SAVABEEL AS A BROODMARE SIRE
4% SW2R and 61% W2R Daughters have produced Group 1 winners Icebath, Gringotts, Autumn Boy, Road To Paris, etc. In-utero cross (Ardrossan ex Savabeel) performs at 9% SW2R.
DELUXE (NZ)
RACING HISTORY 9: 1-1-0 | PRIZEMONEY: $22,422.
2015
Bay Mare
Savabeel ex Masquerade (NZ)
Current status: IN FOAL
Covering sire: ARDROSSAN
Last service date: 14/11/2025
APPROX HEIGHT 16 hh
FACADE (NZ)
VET HISTORY/DISCLOSURES: Nil.
RELEVANT MANAGEMENT COMMENTS: Sedate to scan
SAVABEEL AS A BROODMARE SIRE
4% SW2R and 61% W2R Daughters have produced Group 1 winners Icebath, Gringotts, Autumn Boy, Road To Paris, etc. In-utero cross (Ardrossan ex Savabeel) performs at 9% SW2R.
RACING HISTORY 7: 1-0-1 | Prizemoney: $29,675 | Winner over 1200m at Pakenham (Australia).
RACING HISTORY Unraced
Racefilly 2022 Brown Filly
Tivaci ex Tonya (NZ)
Current status: IN TRAINING
ICE SKATER (NZ)
VET HISTORY/DISCLOSURES: Nil.
RELEVANT MANAGEMENT COMMENTS: Was in work with Janelle Millar.
ICE SKATER (NZ)
RACING HISTORY: Has had one trial on 3/6/26.
RACING HISTORY Unraced
REPR
2016 Bay Mare
Rock ‘N’ Pop ex Not Sure (NZ)
Current status: NOT IN FOAL
Missed in 2025
OF TWO MINDS (NZ)
VET HISTORY/DISCLOSURES: Has an opacity on her right eye. Likely scarring from previous trauma, deemed stable and does not require treatment. Her eyesight is not affected. Vet report on Gavelhouse.
ROCK ‘N’ POP AS A BROODMARE SIRE
Less than 25 runners, 12 winners from 21 runners. Daughters have produced Stakes winner Gold Wolf and four-time winner Party Crasher.
MINDS (NZ)
RACING HISTORY UNRACED
RACING HISTORY Unraced
2013 Bay Mare
Savabeel ex Splendid (NZ)
Current status: IN FOAL
Covering sire: OCEAN PARK
Last service date: 24/09/2025
APPROX HEIGHT 16 hh
SO SPLENDID (NZ)
VET HISTORY/DISCLOSURES: Nil.
RELEVANT MANAGEMENT COMMENTS: On monthly Sulphur-T due to slipping in 2024 Only precautionary and no placentitis present.
SAVABEEL AS A BROODMARE SIRE
4% SW2R and 61% W2R Daughters have produced Group 1 winners Icebath, Gringotts, Autumn Boy, Road To Paris, etc. In-utero cross (Ocean Park ex Savabeel) performs at 50% W2R
RACING HISTORY: 21:3-4-5 | PRIZEMONEY: $159,855. Two-time Metro winner in Australia.
RACING HISTORY Unraced
2020 Bay Mare
Savabeel ex Spindle (NZ)
Current status: NOT IN FOAL Missed in 2025
APPROX HEIGHT 15.3 hh
SPINNING (NZ)
VET HISTORY/DISCLOSURES: Nil.
RELEVANT MANAGEMENT COMMENTS: Nil
SAVABEEL AS A BROODMARE SIRE
4% SW2R and 61% W2R Daughters have produced Group 1 winners Icebath, Gringotts, Autumn Boy, Road To Paris, etc. In-utero cross (Ardrossan ex Savabeel) performs at 9% SW2R.
