SEVEN-YEAR-OLD PANSPACIFICFLIGHT gelding Arden’s Concord took bad luck out of the equation when he led all the way at Gloucester Park in Perth on 15 March.

He hadn’t won in eight previous starts this season but punters sent him out a $1.55 favourite on the back of some luckless runs. Owned by the Butterworths, who bought him out of Graeme Anderson’s Otago stable in 2016, Arden’s Concord has now won 11 times and earned stakes of nearly $100,000. He rated 1:57.5 for the 2130 metres.

Another from Panspacificflight’s stellar first crop, Last Flight In, posted her 13th win at Kilmore in Victoria on 12 March.

PANSPACIFICFLIGHT mare JD Chancey’s Gal took her career earnings past $US180,000 when she won the mares open pace at Miami Valley in Ohio on 08 March.

The former Indiana Sires Stakes three-year-old winner scored in 1:52.1. This was her 14th win in just 43 starts.

QUALITY PANSPACIFICFLIGHT mare Reciprocity recorded her fastest time when she won a $A24,000 mares race at Tabcorp Park Melton in Victoria on 23 February.

The five-year-old Group winner worked hard to get the lead from a wide draw and rated 1:54.1 for the 1720-metre journey.

Her fifth win of the season, and her 12th overall, took her career earnings past $A90,000. Another Panspacificflight mare, Last Flight In (12 wins, $124,000), ran third in the same race.

Reciprocity became Panspacificflight’s third Group race winner in Australasia when she won $30,000 Group Three VHRSC Metropolitan Pace Final on the same track on 04 January. Arden’s Choice won a Group I two-year-old fillies race at Auckland in 2015 and Little Rascal won a Group III mile at Menangle in 2017.

NET TEN EOM has left his first New Zealand-bred winner with the Tony Stratford-trained Wolf West scoring on his home track at Gore on 26 August.

Wolf West, one of three Net Ten EOMs to qualify last season, had one two-year-old start before being put aside. He was bred by Macca Lodge client Neill Timms from his one-win Son Of Afella mare Ali’s Fella.

Wolf West . . . first NZ winner for Net Ten EOM

“Timmsy” also bred the first New Zealand winner by Macca Lodge’s other sire, Panspacificflight. That was The Manipulator, who finished an unlucky third on the same card at Gore on the back of a win at his previous start.

MACCA LODGE sire Net Ten EOM was represented on race day for the first time in New Zealand when two-year-old filly Countess of Arden stepped out in a Young Guns heat at Alexandra Park in Auckland on 02 March.

Unfortunately, she drew the outside of the second line and suffered a check down the back straight. She had two more starts for Clevedon trainer Barry Purdon, including lining up in the Group II Delightful Lady Classic, but has now returned south for a spell.

Countess of Arden, out of a daughter of New Zealand Oaks winner Young Eden, was the second Net Ten EOM to qualify here. In February Tony Stratford qualified Wolf West at Gore.

Net Ten EOM, a son of the late Somebeachsomewhere, is already a proven sire of two-year-olds in the United States, where he left 18 winners from his first crop last year.

New Zealand’s leading trainers and big-spending owners are set to descend upon the Otago-Southland region to check out its yearling sales contenders.

The annual Southern Bred Southern Reared yearling sales tour is on Wednesday, January 31.

The bus tour will break from its usual two-day format and change to a one-day, nine-hour feast of the region’s blueblood standardbreds.

Among the classy lineup of yearlings is a full brother to West Australian star Chicago Bull. The yearling is the only offering being prepared by Katrina Price of Winton.

Macca Lodge will present a Majestic Son yearling from former classy trotter One Under Kenny. This season that broodmare has produced Kenny’s Dream. who looks to be on a path towards the country’s best three-year-old trotting races.

Arden Lodge will present another strong draft of eight yearlings including a colt by Somebeachsomewhere from broodmare gem Winter Rose.

The tour will take in six stops starting at Shard Farm near Invercargill and finishing at Wingatui racecourse.

To book your space on the bus tour RSVP to Katrina Price; katrina.price@xtra.co.nz ph 021 369 097.

The south’s largest breeding farm, Macca Lodge, is about to close the curtain on another successful breeding season.

The Northern Southland property has served more than 300 broodmares and enjoyed good in-foal rates, studmaster Brent McIntyre said.

“The results have been very pleasing with mares getting in foal,” he said.

A Rocknroll Dance was the most popular stallion choice with southern breeders this season.

“He was available at quite a competitive deal so a lot of breeders took that up.

“Plus, it helped that he’s doing a job in the states and the feedback from trainers has been pretty good, too.”

Southland favourite Franco Ledger attracted a good book of 22 mares, standing his first season at stud at a zero service fee.

That fee has seen some breeders that would have otherwise left their mares empty mate them with the stallion, McIntyre said.

Macca Lodge has foaled more than 200 mares this season and there have been some bluebloods among them.

Three times Jewels winner Venus Serena foaled an Art Major colt and a full brother to Interdominion heat winner Galactic Star was welcomed from dam Petra’s Star. A full brother to New Zealand Cup winner Arden Rooney, by Bettor’s Delight from Tosca Hanover, was also born. All three colts are owned by Arden Lodge.

The stud’s resident stallion Net Ten EOM was mated with Wave Runner, the dam of Bonnie Joan, and they left a striking colt, McIntyre said. (courtesy Harness News)

VOLANDO DENARIO became the second winner from Panspacificflight’s three-year-old crop when, just like Naholo three weeks earlier, she won on debut.

The filly’s win came at the Cambridge meeting on 06 December. Trained by Arna Donnelly, she was given a nice run by Scott Phelan before swooping on the leaders on the turn and holding out the favourite Kingsman by a neck in 2:46 for the mobile 2200 metres.

Bred by Mark and Pauline O’Connor from the Bettor’s Delight mare Ergo Denario, Volando Denario is a full sister to the two-win mare Schwartz Denario. The well-performed Panspacificflight mare Last Flight In (11 wins) is out of Ergo Denario’s dam, Orse M Denario.

Naholo and Volando Denario are two of just 14 surviving progeny from Panspacificflight’s three-year-old crop.

ARDEN’S CONCORD raised the first 100 wins for Panspacificflight’s first New Zealand-bred crop and then quickly scored the 101st win as well.

Two weeks after posting his first Australian win, the six-year-old gelding won his next start at Maryborough in Victoria on 30 November. This time connections advised stewards he would be driven less aggressively. He was taken back off the gate from his wide draw but was taken to the front mid-race by driver Greg Sugars and held on to win by half a head. He ran the 2190 metres in a 1:58.6 mile rate with the last quarter in 27.8.

Arden’s Concord, previously with Otago trainer Graeme Anderson, has now won eight times from 24 starts with five seconds and two thirds.