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.

ARDEN’S CONCORD provided sire Panspacificflight with his fourth win of the new season when he won over 2400 metres at Winton on 06 September.

Junior driver Rory McIlwrick gave the four-year-old gelding a perfect run in the one-one sit and he powered away to win by two lengths in 3:04.5 in wintry conditions on an easy track. The leaders ran their last half in 59.5 with the final quarter in 29.5.

This was Arden’s Concord’s second win from just five starts and a penalty-free one so he’ll be hard to beat wherever he lines up next.

We’ve already pointed out how strongly Panspacificflight featured in last season’s sires statistics. Well, click on the link below and see how he’s going at this early stage of the new season. Note that his four wins have come from just 71 eligible foals (including his two-year-old crop) whereas all the stallions above him on the premiership have at least three times as many foals.

New season stats for pacing sires in New Zealand

THE MACCA LODGE colours were in the winner’s circle for the first time this season when three-year-old Panspacificflight filly Sally Maclennane broke through maiden ranks at Gore on 23 August.

After making a mistake when well-supported in her first run for the season at Invercargill a fortnight earlier, Sally Maclennane was eased out of the gate by John Dunn in the 2200-metre event. She made a run three-wide with a round to go before pressing on to lead at the 600-metre mark and holding on gamely to win in 2:49 neat.

The McIntyres leased her dam, the Badlands Hanover mare Weka Lass, from owner Leicester Smith for a season to put to Panspacificflight. Sally Maclennane, who trialled in 1:58 as a two-year-old, is the second winner from her sire’s second crop here behind quality filly Arden’s Choice.

Weka Lass, who is out of the big winner Oaxaca Lass, has also left a full-sister to Sally Maclennane called Reciprocity.

Macca Lodge trainer Tony Stratford made it two wins for the day when Ultra Shok backed up his Invercargill effort with the seventh win of his career. The seven-year-old Julius Caesar gelding has won $10,500 from three starts this month and should be in for his most profitable season yet.

BONNIE’S KHALEESI was named the Southland Standardbred Breeders’ Three-Year-Old Filly of The Year at Southland harness racing’s awards night in Invercargill.

The Live Or Die mare, now four, also won the won the Robin Dundee Three-Year-Old Filly Award after recording two wins, two seconds and a third, for $16,000 in stakes, last season. She was also a luckless seventh in the Nevele R/Macca Lodge Southland Oaks Final.

Bonnie’s Khaleesi returns to the birdcage after her first win at Invercargill in February

Bonnie’s Khaleesi is raced by her breeders, Macca Lodge’s Sheree and Brent McIntyre, his sister Jan Nelson and her husband Wally. She’s out of the good mare, Bonnie Lass, who won 10 races for the two couples.

Another Tony Stratford-trained horse, Envious, won the Southland harness award for two-year-old fillies.

And Panspacificflight filly Arden’s Choice won an Award of Excellence for her two-year-old campaign.

MACCA LODGE’S Brent McIntyre wasn’t surprised that Panspacificflight left a two-year-old last season as good as Group 1 winner Arden’s Choice — after all, he’s produced something like 120 two-year-old winners in North America and the number just keeps on increasing.

Take the other day, 15 August, at Hoosier Park in Indiana. Panspacificflight provided three two-year-old winners on the one programme, as well as a couple of placegetters.

Ticket To Fly won a $US15,000 two-year-old fillies race in 1:53.4 with a final quarter in 28.1. Another filly, Made of Jewels As, also won, in 1:55.1, with a second Panspacificflight runner, Sandy’s Flight, third in the same race. And Paver Jack scooted over his final quarter in 27.3 to win a $US10,000 race in 1:56 with Flight of Siam in third place.

MACCA LODGE is getting in behind the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting club’s efforts to attract more southern-trained horses to Addington during Cup Week.

Horses from the south have traditionally played a significant role in the biggest harness racing carnival of the year, but their numbers have been tending to drop off. So last year, on Show Day, the Met programmed a race solely for horses trained in Otago and Southland and called it “the South of the Waitaki River” race. It drew a strong field and was won by the Tony Barron-trained Phoenix Warrior.

The Met have decided to programme the $20,000 race again this year with Macca Lodge as the sponsor. And this November southern commentator Dave McDonald will be calling the race.

The club built on this idea with a “South of the Waitaki” winter series in which Panspacificflight gelding Wick won two heats and finished second in the final.

PANSPACIFICFLIGHT edged closer to a 50 per cent winning strike rate from his first crop when Arden’s Concord downed a maiden field at Forbury Park on 13 August 2015

The four-year-old gelding came off the unruly position in a 2200-metres standing start event to win easily in the hands of Brent Barclay. Dunedin trainer Graeme Anderson paid $25,000 for the son of Artiscape mare Madam Maroussia at the 2012 yearling sales. He remains in the ownership but the horse is trained by Matt Saunders at West Plains, near Invercargill.

Arden’s Concord became Panspacificflight’s 11th winner from a first crop of 23 live foals, giving the stallion a winning percentage of nearly 48 per cent.

Here’s a list of all Panspacificflight’s winners from his first crop:

Arden’s Concord 4 b g (Madam Maroussia, by Artiscape). Three wins
First Flight In 4 b g (Sharjanter, by Christian Cullen)
Glenisla 4 b m (Touche Franco, by Holmes Hanover). Seven wins in Australia
Last Flight In 4 b m (Orse M Denario, by Washington VC). Six wins, including five in Australia
Little Rascal 4 br g (Evita Franco, by Live Or Die). Six wins, five at Alexandra Park and one at Addington
(Sir) Mac’s Man 4 b g (Galleons Testimony, by Elsu). Six wins in Australia
Schwartz Denario 4 b m (Ergo Denario, by Bettor’s Delight). Two wins
Southern Pursuit 4 b g (Relentless Storm, by Live or Die). Four wins
The Manipulator 4 b g (Luckisaladytonight, by Presidential Ball). Two wins before out with injury
Wattlebank Flyer 4 br g (Careful Seznicki, by Courage Under Fire)
Wick 4 br g (On The Double, by Holmes Hanover). Five wins

WATTLEBANK FLYER became Panspacificflight’s 10th individual three-year-old winner when he won at Addington on 24 July.

The Tim Trathen-owned and trained gelding broke through for his maiden win in the hands of Blair Orange on the same night that Wick recorded one of his three Addington wins. This was the second time Panspacificflight had two wins from two starters at the home of harness racing after both The Manipulator and Arden’s Choice won at the same meeting in April.

Wattlebank Flyer’s success gave his sire a 43 per cent winning record for the season from his first crop. This figure includes two of his Australian performers, Glenisla (seven wins) and Sir Macs Man (four wins), who didn’t win here before they were exported and, therefore, aren’t included in the Harness Racing New Zealand statistics.

Coincidentally, Panspacificflight also has a 43 per cent strike rate in North America, where his 193 winners have come from 447 foals.

Panspacificflight was 10th on the list of sires of three-year-old pacers here last season. Whichever way you look at it, his statistics are most impressive.

All the sires ahead of him had at least twice as many foals — and, in the case of champion sire Bettor’s Delight 10 times as many — but none had a percentage higher than 43. Panspacificflight’s close relative Art Major was the best of them with 34 winners from 85 foals for a strike rate of 40 per cent. Of the others in the top 10, Bettor’s Delight had 33 per cent winners, American Ideal 21 per cent, Mach Three 30 per cent, Changeover 18 per cent, Christian Cullen 28 per cent, McArdle 22 per cent, Gotta Go Cullect 14 per cent and Live Or Die 11 per cent.

And among those behind Panspacificflight (remember he had 10 winners as three-year-olds from 23 foals) in the rankings, look at these statistics: Gotta Go Cullen, eight winners from 37 foals; Jereme’s Jet, five from 40; Shadow Play, three from 19; Stonebridge Regal, 10 from 82; Elsu, six from 87; Santanna Blue Chip, eight from 52; Badlands Hanover, six from 72, Courage Under Fire, five from 23; Falcon Seelster, four from 48; Art Official, six from 49; Grinfromeartoear, four from 33; Washington VC, four from 45; Ohoka Arizona, three from 25; Real Desire, two from 34; Sands A Flyin, one from 26; Lis Mara one from 37; Extreme Three, none from 60; Flashing Red, none from 28; and Royal Mattjesty, none from 24.

Compelling reasons to consider Panspacificflight for the 2015-16 breeding season.

YOU’D EXPECT a filly by the late great Rocknroll Hanover out of a world champion Artsplace mare to be able to run. And this one certainly can.

Thirty X is her name and she won a $US13,000 fillies and mares race in 1:53.3 at Mohegan Sun Pocono on 09 June.

The three-year-old filly is a half-sister to Net Ten EOM, the Somebeachsomewhere sire whose frozen semen is available to New Zealand breeders at Macca Lodge.

Their dam, Glowing Report, was a world champion, Breeders Crown champion and multiple stakes winner who earned more than $US450,000 each year she raced from age two to five.