SOUTHLAND AND OTAGO horses will compete for a $30,000 stake in the 2016 running of the Macca Lodge Trained South of the Waitaki race at Addington on Show Day in November.

This is the third year the race will be run exclusively for southern-trained horses, but there are some changes this time. The stake has been boosted $10,000, the distance has been reduced to a 1950-metre mobile and three-year-olds are now eligible for the race for C1 and C2 pacers.

Won last year by the Nathan Williamson-trained and driven Statham, the race builds on the success of the Macca-sponsored winter series at Addington in July.

Brent, Sheree and Caine McIntyre are delighted to be associated with the race again.

RECIPROCITY — pronounced Reci-procity not Re-cipro-city, as the Trackside commentators would have us believe — became the first winner from Panspacificflight’s third New Zealand crop with a stylish front-running win at the Northern Southland meeting at Invercargill on Saturday.

Brent Barclay hunted the three-year-old filly to the lead after about 400 metres and she won the way a $1.80 shot should. She sprinted her last 800 metres in 57.1, with a final quarter in 27.4, and posted a time of 2:44 for the 2200 metres mobile.

Reciprocity cruises to victory at Invercargill on 01 October

You can watch Reciprocity’s maiden win here

Owned by Invercargill solicitor Lester Smith, Reciprocity is a full-sister to Sally Maclennane who won one race in the Macca Lodge colours last season before being exported to Australia. They’re out of the six-win Badlands Hanover mare Weka Lass, a daughter of the Chariots of Fire winner Oaxaca Lass.

West Australian winner Straight Thru Blue is bred on the same cross. The double up in the blood of Western Hanover — the sire of Badlands Hanover and the grand-sire of Panspacificflight — is obviously serving breeders well.

You can read Bee Pears’s blog on Reciprocity here.

“THEY JUMPED out of trees to back him, they flew international and they landed the prize.” That was race caller Mark McNamara’s summation as Panspacificflight debutante Thisismylastflight thrashed a $13,000 maiden field at Addington on 09 September.

You can watch Thisismylastflight’s impressive debut here

Thisismylastflight ran his last mile in close to 1:56 and was three-wide for most of it. He had to go four-wide to reach the lead on the turn and outstayed the opposition.

Thisismylastflight was passed in at the 2014 Christchurch yearling sales. He’s out of the Christian Cullen mare Sevenspanishangels, a half-sister to Perth Interdominion entrant Jimmy Johnstone, who was 7th in Adore Me’s 2014 New Zealand Trotting Cup and has now won nine times in West Australia, including three of his last four starts at Gloucester Park in Perth.

THE WEST AUSTRALIAN owners of Straight Thru Blue are so impressed with their four-win Panspacificflight gelding that they’ve been in touch with Macca Lodge to source another horse by the same sire.

The five-year-old is the latest individual winner from Panspacificflight’s stellar first New Zealand crop that has had so much success on both sides of the Tasman. Straight Thru Blue, who was sold by the McIntyres as a late three-year-old, posted his third win in WA at Northam 02 September and won again at Pinjarra on 05 September, rating 1:56.4 for the 2170 metres. He’s won four of his eight starts this campaign.

The delighted owners have now purchased a two-year-old Panspacificflight gelding from Macca Lodge. Called Diamond Creek, he’s the first foal from the one-win Christian Cullen mare Zest Philly.

MACCA LODGE stable star Pulp Fiction put some indifferent form last season behind him with a scintillating fresh-up win at Winton on Sunday.

Junior driver Matt Anderson took the Art Major entire back off the gate from the outside of the front line at the mile start. He then zipped to the front at the end of the back straight and ran away to win by nearly three lengths.

Pulp Fiction recorded his fastest winning mile rate of 1:55.2. The last half was cut out in 55.6 with the final quarter in 27.1.

He gave Tony Stratford his first training success of the season in, appropriately, the Macca Lodge Mobile Pace.

Now assessed at C7, Pulp Fiction has been nominated for the Hannon Memorial at Oamaru this Sunday.

PANSPACIFICFLIGHT gelding Arden’s Concord posted his fifth win when he demolished a handy field of C2-4 pacers at Oamaru on 28 August.

Driver Rory McIlwrick took luck out of the equation with the warm favourite, pushing him from three back on the fence into the lead after 700 metres of the mobile 2600-metre event. He dictated the pace and the five-year-old ran away to score by an ever-widening five and a half-lengths, scorching over his last 800 metres in 55.7 with the final quarter in 27.8. The overall time was 3:15.6.

Arden’s Concord has been in great form for Dunedin trainer Graeme Anderson, winning twice and placed second three times in his last five starts.

Click here to watch Arden’s Concord in action at Oamaru

MACCA LODGE export Concorde Dawn has kept Panspacificflight’s record moving as a sire in Australia with an impressive win in Victoria.

After a second in her first start across the Tasman at Yarra Valley, she sat parked out and rated 1:59.7 for the mobile 2190 metres when successful at Shepparton on 12 August.

From the Gretna Hanover family, Concorde Dawn won once and had three seconds and two thirds for Macca Lodge trainer Tony Stratford before being sold.

Still a three-year-old in Australia, she’s one of six winners so far from Panspacificflight’s second New Zealand crop, which features Group I winner Arden’s Choice, who has been a fantastic advertisement for the Macca Lodge sire.

The other winners from that crop are Ansett Flight, Arden’s Legacy (who was third in the 2015 Kindergarten Stakes before being exported), Julia Lady and Sally Maclennane.

MACCA LODGE employee Mark Gutsell has bragging rights at work this week after his horse Frank The Tank won fresh-up at Gore on Sunday.

Mark part-owns and trains the Royal Mattjesty gelding and is fleetingly ahead of Macca Lodge trainer Tony Stratford on the 2016-17 premiership with one win from one start.

The best Tony could manage on the day was a third with Ted Cady and a fourth with Mucho Macho Man.

Frank The Tank, who won fresh-up for Clark Barron last season, has now won twice from six starts. The punters didn’t miss an impressive workout win the week before and he went out a warm second favourite.

Mark previously enjoyed good success with Run Fatboy Run, who won five races here before being exported in 2014. He’s won a further six in Australia for his New Zealand owners, most recently at Albion Park in Brisbane on 20 August.

SOMEBEACHSOMEWHERE gelding The Honey Badger was honoured as last season’s top Southland two-year-old colt or gelding at the province’s annual harness racing awards in Invercargill on 15 August.

Trained at Macca Lodge by Tony Stratford, The Honey Badger won twice last season. He’s owned by Macca co-proprietor Caine McIntyre and his brother-in-law Paul Hailes, who bred the gelding from his family’s good mare, Glenburn Jewel.

The Honey Badger is set to resume at the Invercargill meeting in mid-September. If he shapes up as well as expected, he’ll head to the Sires’ Stakes heat at Forbury Park in October.

PANSPACIFICFLIGHT progeny continue to rack up wins in Australia.

The latest winners were Wattlebank Flyer, in New South Wales on 14 August, and Straight Through Blue, in West Australia on 15 August, who were both posting their second wins.

Wattlebank Flyer won one race for Tim Trathen in Canterbury before he was exported. Winless in a Queensland campaign over the summer, he found the opposition a lot weaker over the border at Tamworth and bolted in for Barty Cockburn after leading all the way over a mile in a sedate 2:01.6. He paid just $1.10 to win.

Straight Thru Blue was also strongly favoured when he won his second race on the Pinjarra track. He led all the way over 2185 metres, comfortably holding out a former Macca Lodge stablemate Suzie’s Gem in a mile rate of 1:58.8.

Straight Thru Blue is out of the Badlands Hanover mare New York Franco. Bred by Brent, Sheree and Caine McIntyre at Macca Lodge, he was placed three times for Tony Stratford at Forbury Park last winter before being exported. His younger half-sister, Alabama Shakes (by Changeover), went 1:54.6 as a two-year-old in Australia last season after also being developed at Macca Lodge.

Both Wattlebank Flyer and Straight Thru Blue are from Panspacificflight’s first New Zealand crop. His frozen semen isn’t available in Australia.