Aquis adds four more stallions

Sunday 16 April 2017, 1:50pm

Aquis Farm has extended its aggressive move into the national breeding market by standing the largest ever number of stallions at one Queensland stud next season.

The stud has been at all the major sales this year and was able to sell all its main lots at the Gold Coast Magic Millions sale for $3.5 million.

Aquis, which is at Canungra in the Gold Coast hinterland, stood four stallions last year - Spill the Beans, Holy Roman Emperor, Benfica and Domesday.

Kiss and Make Up, Husson, Furnaces and Sweet Orange will be added to the roster this year.

It is a major boost for the Queensland breeding industry after the state's biggest stud, Glenlogan Park, dramatically scaled back its operation.

Former top NSW country trainer Greg Bennett has arrived at Aquis to take up his new job as director of racehorse development.

Chief executive Justin Fung said Bennett would manage the development of all the racing stock at Aquis from when they were bought until they retired.

– AAP

Latest News

Prime Thoroughbreds - We have a Host of Leaders in our Team

Tuesday, 29 June 2021

Prime Thor­ough­bred’s cur­rent rac­ing team is putt­ing to­gether quite a re­cord. We have 22 hors­es that have raced in our team at pre­sent. Six­teen of th­ese are win­n­ers in­clud­ing the Stakes win­n­ing trio Ru­bisa­ki, Fituese and Xtreme­time with Miss Di­vine Em and Miss In Charge run­n­ing 4th in Stakes races. This sees a stakes win­n­er to win­n­er ra­tio of 18.75% with a stake’s per­formed to win­n­er ra­tio of 31.25%. Th­ese are ex­cep­tio­n­al fig­ures.   More »

Freedmans land maiden Group One win

Saturday, 27 February 2021

Un­der-rat­ed fil­ly For­bid­den Love has emerged as an au­tumn car­ni­val smokey with a bril­liant per­for­mance to win the Sur­round Stakes at Rand­wick.  More »

Capriccio completes Damian Lane treble

Saturday, 27 February 2021

In a big day for coun­try-trained hors­es, War­r­nam­bool fil­ly Capric­cio has tak­en out the In­glis Dash for Daniel Bow­man.  More »

More news headlines »