THE MACCA LODGE colours were back in the winner’s circle at the Forbury meeting on 13 May when Panspacificflight three-year-old filly Concorde Dawn won at her eighth start.

Driver Nathan Williamson got her around to the lead from a second line draw and she toughed it out to post a time of 2:46.4 for the 2200-metre mobile. She cut out her last quarter in 28.7.

The McIntyres bred Concorde Dawn from the Bettor’s Delight mare Puddy Cat Anvil. She gave Macca Lodge trainer Tony Stratford his 15th winner for the season and is the sixth individual winner from Panspacificflight’s second New Zealand crop.

Just two races earlier Tony had won with Deceitndesire, who was recording her second win for the Maccas Slackers Syndicate — consisting of staff at Macca Lodge — since they leased her in the spring. In nine starts for the syndicate, she has also had three third placings.

Dexter Dunn found the gaps he needed to get the Bettor’s Delight mare home in a 2700-metre standing start race after being three back on the fence.

WHAT DO YOU do with a horse who has won seven races and $90,000 this season? Well, you send him to Macca Lodge for a well-earned spell.

That’s what the owners of Costa Del Magnifico have done after the Mach Three four-year-old’s win in the Southern Country Cups Final on Diamonds Day at Invercargill on 14 April.

They’ve turned down the opportunity to race him in the Jewels at Cambridge and trainer Brent Shirley will set him for some of the spring lead-up races to the New Zealand Cup.

THE NUMBER of permanent residents at Macca Lodge has been boosted recently.

About 30 broodmares have been transferred there from another Northern Southland stud, Kina Craig, which has closed down.

Despite the big increase in numbers, the “Vacancy” sign remains up at Macca, which is still accepting broodmares ahead of the winter.

IF YOU HAD a mare called Pansformation, by a sire called No Pan Intended, you’d have to send her to Panspacificflight, wouldn’t you?

Well, the breeder, Peter Pan Stables in Ohio, did.

The result was a colt named Pansformative, now four, who took a time of 1:50 neat when he won at the Meadowlands in March. Just one of the latest impressive winners by Panspacificflight in North America.

The Pan connection isn’t entirely coincidental. Bob Glazer, of Peter Pan Stables, was the owner of The Panderosa, who repaid his purchase price of $US250,000 many times over as both a racehorse and then a stallion. And The Panderosa is the sire of Panspacificflight. Glazer also owned No Pan Intended, who won the Triple Crown in 2003, took a time of 1:50.3 and sired the winners of $US34 million.

No Pan Intended, a full brother to champion sire Bettor’s Delight, was bought late last year by Oakwood Stud in Ireland.

PROMISING Panspacificflight four-year-old The Manipulator has resumed hoppled work at the All Stars Stable in Canterbury and should be seen back on the track this autumn.

The first winner left by Panspacificflight in New Zealand, The Manipulator looked to have a big future before he suffered a knee injury a year ago. He’d had two wins and two seconds from four starts before he was injured.

The dam of The Manipulator, the Presidential Ball mare Luckisaladytonight, produced a full sister to him this season.

ONE OF THE LATEST additions to the Macca Lodge broodmare band is the dam of one of the North Island’s most promising two-year-old fillies.

The McIntyres bought the Bettor’s Delight mare Raconteur from Tuapeka Lodge late last year and have enjoyed watching the progress of her first surviving foal Talkerup, the Oaks-bound Changeover filly who has gone 1:56 and won three of her first five starts.

Now Raconteur’s second foal, Ask Again, looks like she’ll be a contender in the upcoming two-year-old fillies classics.

After being unbeaten at her two public workouts, the Mach Three filly was an impressive qualifier at the Auckland trials on 27 February.

Trainer Brent Mangos sooled her to the lead in a 1700 metres mobile heat at Alexandra Park and she ran away to win by three lengths, posting a 2:00 mile rate with a closing quarter of 27.3.

Ask Again was a $35,000 purchase at last year’s yearling sales. A three-quarter brother, Culpeka (Mach Three-Tuapeka Maddy), sold for $62,000 at last month’s sales.

Raconteur and Tuapeka Maddy are out of the Holmes Hanover mare Letatalk, who has left the big West Australian winner Machtu (also by Mach Three) as well as Tight Lipped, who posted his third win at Palmerston North on 01 March.

ARDEN’S CHOICE qualified for the rich Nevele R Three-Year-Old Fillies Series Final at Addington in the autumn when she ran second in a heat at Alexandra Park on 12 February.

For the first time in her race career, the Panspacificflight filly was pushed hard out of the gate, driver Zac Butcher wanting to take advantage of her No. 1 draw in the 1700-metre sprint. Bettor Think Quick came up the passing lane to claim her in the straight, running a time of 2:03.6 with the last half in 56.4 and the final quarter in 27.3.

This was Arden’s Choice’s first start for trainer Barry Purdon stable after previously being in the All Stars Stable in Canterbury.

Her next big target is the Group I Pascoes Northern Oaks, worth $125,000, at Alexandra Park on 04 March.

But she races again at the park on Friday night. Also in action there are two Panspacificflight four-year-olds, Little Rascal, the track specialist, and In Full Flight, who ran a promising first-up second on 05 February.

It’s taking a while, but In Full Flight is the horse that will probably give Panspacificflight a winning percentage of better than 50 per cent from his first crop. Arden’s Concord, who has gone on to win three times, became his 11th winner from 23 live foals back in August. In Full Flight would be the 12th.

MACCA LODGE’S Caine McIntyre has a good one in The Honey Badger who is down to start in this weekend’s Group III $25,000 Alabar Kindergarten Stakes at Wyndham after an impressive debut on the same track earlier in the month.

Caine races the Somebeachsomewhere gelding with his brother-in-law Paul Hailes, of Balfour. The Honey Badger smashed the track record for two-year-old colts and geldings over 2400 metres (mobile) by more than six seconds when he posted 2:59.5 in downing a maiden field on 08 February.

THB provided Macca Lodge trainer Tony Stratford with his 11th win of the season. He has also entered Mach Three filly Jody Direen for the Kindergarten. Tony has won the race previously with Le Sol in 2010. The competition will be tough, though, with the Purdon and Rasmussen team entering three runners, including the Sapling Stakes winner Pacing Major.

(It was in the Kindergarten last year that another son of Somebeachsomewhere kicked off his racing campaign for the All Stars Stable. That was Waikiki Beach, who has gone on to win all 14 starts in Australia and New Zealand.)

Paul’s having a wonderful trot as a breeder this season. On the same day that The Honey Badger won, his half-sister Glenburn Joy (by American Ideal) also won very impressively on debut in track record time for a three-year-old filly.

They’re out of the Live Or Die mare Glenburn Jewel, who’s a half-sister to the Hailes family’s big winner Chesterton and Novena Rose, another American Ideal filly that Paul and wife Lauren sold for big money to Australia this season.

PANSPACIFICFLIGHT three-year-old filly Julia Lady’s overdue success on the grass at Rangiora on 08 February continues her sire’s good run with Holmes Hanover mares.

Four Holmes Hanover mares were covered by Panspacificflight in his first season here — and two of the progeny have gone on to become multiple winners: Glenisla (out of Touche Franco), formerly trained at Ardmore by Tony Herlihy, has won seven races in Australia and taken a mile rate of 1:55.5; and Wick (out of On The Double) has won five times for Wyndham trainer Brendon McLellan. The four-year-old gelding’s latest win came in a C2-C3 mobile over 2400 metres at Winton on 05 February.

Julia Lady, bred by former Harness Racing New Zealand chairman Max Bowden and his wife Frances, is out of Precocious Arden, one of only two Holmes Hanover mares to produce a live foal to Panspacificflight in his second New Zealand crop. After racing without much luck for three seconds and a third on grass tracks, Julia Lady was at false odds of six to one when she scooted up the passing lane for her maiden win.

She’s Panspacificflight’s seventh individual winner here this season.

And in New South Wales four-year-old Panspacificflight mare Last Flight In scored in 1:56.7 at Newcastle. That was her seventh win, matching Glenisla’s record for the most number of wins down under by the stock of her sire.

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BRENT, CAINE, TONY and the team at Macca Lodge handle a host of young horses each year that go on to make fine racehorses.

One of the latest is the four-year-old American Ideal gelding American Spirit. He won his first two starts for Mosgiel trainer Darryn Simpson and added a third win on the grass at Waikouaiti on 07 February.

Said Dunedin part-owner Garry Clarke after American Spirit’s second win: “He was handled at Macca Lodge and when he came home he was the easiest we have ever had to deal with.”

Nice.