Ralph Thoroughbreds

08/08/2026

BUNDY! Makes it his 4th win in just 12 starts and over 100K in prize money for Kevin Myers. A book two purchase for Dummy in 2022. Sold on behalf of Michael Thompson and Eleanor Thompson.

06/08/2026

First lot of horses on the new farm! Unreal feeling. The place is slowly coming together. What a beautiful view

25/06/2026

Done and dusted for another year. Ed Stapleton | Bloodstock Agent and myself have been hard at work finding our next superstar 🤞. Tough sale at Great Southern where we only managed to get one c**t and had good success at Karaka getting another two c**ts.
Lot 11 (GS): Dirty Work x Horizontal c**t.
Lot 11 (NZB): Ardrossan x Pertinacity c**t.
Lot 130 (NZB): Redwood x Lady de Vere c**t

07/05/2026

- We’ve had a busy but successful week at weanling sales. Bought 3 lovely types to take on to the yearling sales in 2027.
Lot 36: All Too Hard x Snit Ball filly.
Lot 94: Capitalist x Traviata c**t.
Lot 375: Zousain x Majestic Faith c**t.
We will be looking for more weanling opportunities in the next month.

04/05/2026

Big week on the board. Our first Group One winner for Ralph Thoroughbreds and with Wigmore winning the South Australian Derby. Couldn’t of done it without my lovely wife . We are at the Inglis Sydney Weanling sales looking for our next superstar racehorse. There are plenty of great opportunities over the next two days. All the work is done. Keep an eye out today and feel free to message me if you’d like to be involved.

02/05/2026

Wigmore (NZ) (Sweynesse) stormed home to capture the Gr.1 South Australian Derby (2500m) at Morphettville, arriving in time after a perfectly judged ride from Teo Nugent.
The New Zealand Derby fourth placegetter was initially prepared by Caley Myers before being secured by bloodstock agent Phill Cataldo for OTI Racing and he is now trained by Phillip Stokes in Australia. Wigmore was originally a $25,000 purchase from Book 2 of the 2024 New Zealand Bloodstock Yearling Sale out of Ralph Thoroughbreds draft.

https://www.racingnews.co.nz/stokes-lands-sa-derby-with-recent-kiwi-addition/

05/04/2024

RETURN MESSAGE (War Decree x Word Savvy) at her second start winning yesterday at Wangauni. Making her dam "Word Savvy" 2 from 2 currently. With "Judy's Great" racing at Sha Tin on Sunday race 6.

What a good story this has been so far. Being able to get back into our old Message family has been amazing. Word Savvy has been so good to us with her sale results and now her offspring's are doing the job on the track. Return Message - bringing back the "Message" name and wearing Poppa's colours was very special to us. Dad and Melanie have done such a great job with Return Message - she's a result of there hard work!

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Woohoo! Tonight we bought this beautiful 2yo filly by War Decree out of our mare Word Savvy. Last March we bought Word Savvy with a War Decree c**t at foot from the Valachi Downs Unreserved Reduction Sale 2021 for $28,000. Sadly we lost a Time Test c**t when foaling down. The foal at foot was sold this year at the Karaka Yearling sales book two for $150,000 to Regal Farm / Legend Bloodstock / Upper Bloodstock. Word Savvy is currently in foal to Circus Maximus and booked to see Tivaci this season coming.

We are so happy to buy this filly tonight. She is from the family of Miss Morrinsville. Dad (Stephen) trained her as a young lad in his early 20s before on selling Miss Morrinsville to Poppa (John). Poppa bred and trained dual Group One winner The Message from her. Poppa famously named all the offspring "something" Message. Now securing this filly was important to us with keeping the family alive as we 100% believe we will bred another high class horse. We will fix her up and give her a go with Dad.

Welcome back girl

02/02/2024

Beautiful girl Daisy 🌼

14/01/2024

That time of year again! Not long to go now till we are at 2024