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Thorn Park Leads Pins & Pentire On NZ Sires Title

In New Zealand, Windsor Park Stud's Gr1-winning Australian-bred sire Thorn Park leads Waikato Stud's Australian-bred stallion Pins & Rich Hill Stud’s multiple European Gr1-winning stallion Pentire on the New Zealand General Sires Title (by prize-money) according to arion.co.nz (figures to June 7):

1. Thorn Park (Spinning World-Joy, by Bluebird) NZ$2,956,562
2. Pins (Snippets-No Finer, by Karou Star) NZ$1,403,635
3. Pentire (Be My Guest-Gull Nook, by Mill Reef) NZ$1,360,894
4. Keeper (Danehill-Nuwirah, by Pleasant Colony) NZ$1,314,852
5. Montjeu (Sadler's Wells-Floripedes, by Top Ville) NZ$919,975  
6. Lord Ballina (Bletchingly-Sunset Girl, by Star Affair) NZ$852,613
7. Volksraad (Green Desert-Celtic Assembly, by Secretariat) NZ$848,213  
8. Stravinsky (Nureyev-Fire The Groom, by Blushing Groom) NZ$741,800
9. O’Reilly (Last Tycoon-Courtza, by Pompeii Court ) NZ$732,777
10. Charge Forward (Red Ransom-Sydney's Dream, by Bletchingly) NZ$687,149