WATCH OUT for the new Macca Lodge colours this season. All going well, they’ll be seen in the race the stud is sponsoring during Cup week in Christchurch.

They’re navy blue with emerald green sleeves with the Macca Lodge logo on the front and back. Replacing the blue with green stars, they were first worn by junior driver Craig Ferguson behind Bonnie’s Khaleesi at Gore this month.

She finished fourth first-up for the season and will race next at the Riverton meeting on 01 November.

With a bit of luck Bonnie’s Khaleesi, last season’s Southland Three-Year-Old Filly-Of-The-Year, will then contest the $20,000 Macca Lodge-sponsored South of the Waitaki race on Show Day at Addington. It’s a 2600-metre mobile for C1 and C2 pacers. Eligible horses must have been registered with a southern trainer as at 01 August.

FOOTNOTE; Horses trained at Macca Lodge who are not owned by the McIntyres will continue to race in trainer Tony Stratford’s own colours.

PANSPACIFICFLIGHT has made a flying start to the 2015-2016 season, boosted by the emergence of Arden’s Concord, who extends a remarkable family connection between his sire and Artsplace.

Arden’s Concord (centre) outstays Robyn’s Bad Boy and Popular to post his third win at Invercargill on 20 September.

The four-year-old gelding notched his third win from just six starts when he scored again at Invercargill on 20 September. Unlike his two previous wins, when he blasted out of the one-one to outsprint his rivals, this time Arden’s Concord won from the front, covering the 2200 metres mobile in 2:46.6 with the last half in 58.5 and the final quarter in 27.9.

He’s the last foal out of the Artiscape mare Madam Maroussia, who has left other good performers in Sachin Arden, Ideal Arden and Arden Castle.

The Stivens of Arden Lodge were quick to cross a mare descending from Artsplace to Panspacificflight. The logic here is overwhelming.

• Panspacificflight is a half-brother-in-blood to the Artsplace sires Art Major and Perfect Art.
• He’s a half-brother-in-blood to Worldly Beauty, by Artsplace, one of North America’s best racemares.  We don’t think that’s an exaggeration for a horse that was the Two and Three Year Old Filly Of The Year, went 1:49.3 and earned nearly $US2 million in stakes.
• And he’s also a half-brother in blood to Worldly Treasure, who left a reasonable sort to Somebeachsomewhere in Captaintreacherous (1:47.1, $US3 million). Oops, nearly forgot to say that Worldly Treasure’s also by Artsplace.
• For good measure, his dam is a half-sister to top sire Real Artist, by Artsplace.
•  And, to complete the picture, Panspacificflight  has a pretty useful half-brother by Artsplace called Theredandpanlines, who has won 50-odd races and nearly $US1 million in stakes in North America.

Of course, the Stivens have hit the jackpot with Panspacificflight’s outstanding two-year-old filly from last season Arden’s Choice but among the mares they booked into Pans in his second season here was the young Artsplace mare Ardensplace. She produced First Class Arden, who qualified for Grant Payne in 1:58.5 as a two-year-old and was good enough to make the Sires Stakes Final at Addington in 2015. Sadly he dropped dead on the training track when he was being prepared for his three-year-old campaign by Barry Purdon at Clevedon.

Finally, Panspacificflight’s biggest winner, Fridaynightflight (1:51.6, 21 wins, $US602,000) is out of a mare sired by Grinfromeartoear, a son of Artsplace.

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IMPRESSIVE two-year-old qualifier Mucho Macho Man could be heading for the Young Guns series in Auckland at the end of the year.

The son of Mach Three and the unraced Bettor’s Delight mare Alisa is another horse in the Macca Lodge stable owned by Kenny Baynes. She’s out of the Ferndale Star breed of his late father Colin.

Ferndale Star was one of the Hokonui Stud’s cornerstone mares and Colin named some of her progeny after his son back in the 1960s and 70s — Kenny Charles, Young Kenny and later on Sir Kenny, who all went on to race in the United States. She also left the good winners Moonshiner and Sly Brewer as well as fillies in Hokonui Star, Gentle Miss and Taxi Dancer.

Taxi Dancer was the dam of NZ Free-For-All winner Tax Credit back in 1988 but the family hasn’t been prominent in the past couple of decades. Mucho Macho Man, who is from the Taxi Dancer line, could be about to change all that.

FOOTNOTE: Kenneth Charles Baynes was himself named after a horse — Young Charles, the sire his father stood at stud, who left none other than the mighty Young Quinn.

THREE-YEAR-OLD filly Envious will make a poignant return to racing at the the Gore Harness Racing Club meeting on 10 October.

She’s owned by Jo Calder and her partner Kenny Baynes, a son of former owner-trainer, breeder and administrator Colin Baynes, who died in Gore this week. He was 94.

The club has renamed Envious’s race the Farewell Colin Baynes Mobile Pace. Champion reinsman Dexter Dunn will drive the Changeover filly, wearing the Baynes colours known to the harness racing community through the deeds of horses like Cool Cat, Clancy, Game Paul, Roman Gladiator and, most recently, Cool Cobber.

Envious is trained at Macca Lodge by Tony Stratford.

FOOTNOTE: Envious finished second.

LITTLE RASCAL, arguably the best performed of Panspacificflight’s first New Zealand crop, resumes in a $20,000 race on premier night at Addington on 09 October.

The Robert Dunn-trained four-year-old gelding has drawn No 1 on the front line in his first standing start. That mightn’t be ideal but he has been beginning well at the trials. He zipped over his last 400 metres in 26.2 when he won at the Ashburton trials on 29 September.

Little Rascal has done most of his racing from Dunn’s northern base, winning all four of his races at Alexandra Park, where has recorded impressive winning mile rates of 1:56.9 over 2200 metres and 1:59.6 over 2700 metres. But he stayed in the South Island after running in the Jewels at Ashburton. He’s owned by Ian Dobson of Christian Cullen fame. .

Another talented Panspacificflight pacer down to race this weekend, Arden’s Concord, has been scratched from his Gore engagement. Trainer Matt Saunders says he’s not 100 per cent and doesn’t want to risk him.

FOOTNOTE: Little Rascal lived up to his name in contributing to the shambles at the start of this race. He finished up being put to the unruly position but blew the long-delayed start anyway. Back to a mobile the following week, Little Rascal rattled home for fourth from a bad draw over 1950 metres and will be worth following during Cup week.

Last Flight In wins her first race in Tasmania

FORMER SOUTHLAND pacer Last Flight In posted the fastest winning time of Panspacificflight’s progeny down-under with a win over a mile in 1:53.8 at Menangle in Sydney on 29 September.

The four-year-old mare, who won her only start for Clark Barron before being exported, has now won five races from 15 starts in Australia. She won three races in Tasmania before transferring to Kevin Pizzuto’s stable in New South Wales and was driven by former New Zealand junior driver Jack Trainor. (Pizzuto is serving a nine-month suspension for his drive in the race that Smolda was controversially beaten in at Menangle in May).

The previous fastest winning time by a New Zealand-bred Panspacificflight was the 1:55.5 time of Glenisla at Newcastle in February. Glenisla, who was developed by Tony Herlihy at Ardmore before being exported, has had seven wins, more than any other Panspacificflight progeny in Australasia.

Outstanding filly Arden’s Choice ran 1:53.5 when she was second to Dream About Me at the Jewels in Ashburton in June.

THE BREEDING season is just about upon us again and we’ve been getting a pleasing number of inquiries for Panspacificflight and Net Ten EOM. Their books are still open.

We’ve been getting really good feedback from the TESTMATING feature on the website.

While most of the mares will be served here at Macca Lodge, we want you all to know that we do provide frozen semen from both these sires to other studs throughout the country.

This means that you do not have to send your mare to Southland to be served by Panspacificflight of Net Ten EOM.

PANSPACIFICFLIGHT three-year-old filly Sally Maclennane is heading to South Australia this week after being sold by the McIntyres of Macca Lodge. She won a maiden race at Gore in August.

THE INTERNATIONALISATION of the breeding business through the shuttling of stallions and the transfer of frozen semen can take a lot of the guesswork out of assessing “new” sires here.

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Take Panspacificflight, a proven sire in North America before his frozen semen became available at Macca Lodge in 2010. As we’ve already noted, he’s closely related to a clutch of highly-performed racehorses and stallions by the champion sire Artsplace, including Art Major.

And if you look at Panspacificflight’s North American record you’ll see that he has crossed well with Artsplace mares. Their 25 foals have won an average of $US32,500 with Tyber Tyke (1:50.2, $US265,000) the best of them.

He has gone even better with mares by Artsplace’s son Artiscape, the dam sire of Arden’s Concord. Nine foals have been bred on this cross in North America with average earnings of $US47,000.  Pacific Sun Rae ($US320,000) has been the standout performer.

But the striking thing about Panspacificflight’s North American record is how well he has crossed with Presidential Ball mares. There his 10 foals out of PB mares have won an average of $US96,000 and four have gone 1:55. The best has been seven-year-old Paco Labrook (1:48.8), from his first crop, who has won 32 races and $US570,000. Even taking Paco Labrook out of the equation leaves this cross with impressive average earnings per foal of $US43,000.

The Manipulator . . . bred on the hot Panspacificflight-Presidential Ball broodmare cross.

So it’s no surprise, then, that one of the best horses from Panspacificflight’s first crop here (and his first winner) is bred on this cross. The Manipulator, with two wins and two seconds from five starts, was a highly promising three-year-old in the All Stars Stable before a knee injury cut short his season in the autumn.

He’s out of the good racemare Luckisaladytonight, one of only three Presidential Ball mares to produce a Panspacificflight foal here so far.

All of which suggests the many mares in Southland by the Presidential Ball stallion Washington VC would be a good match with Panspacificflight.

Again, the evidence is very promising. The only foal out of a Washington VC mare in Panspacificflight’s first crop is Last Flight In, who won on debut for Clark Barron in Southland before being exported to Australia where she’s doing a good job for her new owners. Originally in Tasmania but now in New South Wales, she’s won another seven times and taken a 1:53.8 mile rate at Menangle.

Other strong pointers are emerging from Panspacificflight’s first crop.

He was bred to only two Live Or Die mares and they’ve both produced good horses — the Alexandra Park specialist Little Rascal and Southern Pursuit, who’ve won 11 races between them.

Holmes Hanover is also to the fore with his daughters producing Panspacificflight progeny Wick and Glenisla, who between them have won 15 races here and in Australia. Winning three-year-old filly Julia Lady and Ansett Flight are also out of Holmes Hanover mares.

The best of Panspacificflight’s progeny here, three-year-old filly Arden’s Choice, is out of an In The Pocket mare.

HARDY CAMPAIGNER Ultra Shok has been sold out of Tony Stratford’s Macca Lodge stable and will do his future racing in the United States.

The Julius Caesar seven-year-old won $43,000 in stakes from his 61 starts with seven wins, seven seconds and five thirds. He has been in career best form this season with two wins and a second from four starts.

Ultra Shok, out of the Holmes Hanover mare Elleuro, is a half-brother to the dam of Darcee.