News

Thanks to the Racing News: Anna Miles and Michael Simpson of Pear Tree Farm are looking forward to Sunday when their two weanling colts go under the virtual hammer in … Read More

Thanks to the Otago Daily Times: When Anna Miles leads a potential young racehorse around the sales ring, she always thinks of her grandfather and how proud he would be. … Read More

Thanks to NZTBA for the nice write up on our trip last week to the May Sale: Anna Miles and Michael Simpson are not afraid to go against the status … Read More

We decided to take our lovely homebred colt by Proisir out of Darci Brahma mare, Works Wonders to the NZB May Sale. We rated the colt highly and wanted to … Read More

We were so thrilled and excited to watched the beautiful filly ‘Harlow’ win on debut for Te Akau Racing at Te Rapa recently. Harlow was allowed to sit at the … Read More

We have just arrived back from a three week visit to Europe. We had a busy and varied trip. Our first stop was as guests of French trainer Nicolas Clement … Read More

We were over the moon to sell our lovely filly by Proisir out of Joan’s Girl to Te Akau Racing for $41,000 at the recent South Island Yearling Sale. The … Read More

We used a new foaling alarm system this year (Smart Foal Alarm) and it proved to be an excellent system that allowed us to remotely monitor mares on all of … Read More

After what seems like a very long and wet winter, we are finally experiencing some more spring like days with warmer temperatures which are helping to dry out the very … Read More

Spring is well and truly here with luscious green grass everywhere. We have welcomed one foal so far this year and have another due at the start of November. ‘Joan’s … Read More

The South Island Yearling Sales were a huge success with massive increases on all statistics including a mean of $15,000 (up from $6000 in 2015). Our draft of ten were … Read More

We were very lucky with the weather on Sunday when we paraded our 2016 South Island Sale Yearling Draft for a good crowd of prospective buyers organised by the Central … Read More

Spring has brought with it some welcome rain and new grass growth. All the horses have now lost their winter coats and are all looking fabulous. We have been treated … Read More

Yearling sales are over and done with for the year. We presented a strong draft at the April South Island Session and were delighted with the results. Of particular note … Read More

We are well into our sales preparation for 2015. We have a lovely draft of seven yearlings heading to the April 17th South Island Sale in Christchurch. We will proudly … Read More

Big changes for us this year with the South Island Sales being held in April. We had a successful sale which saw Pear Tree Farm finish third on the leaders … Read More

We were excited to watch Solar Dragon winning in Hong Kong on New Year’s Day. We sold this son of Danroad and Snow Reason as an untried 2yo through the South … Read More

We were thrilled to watch our homebred Knowing win at Hawera over 1600m – his second win from seven starts. He was ridden well by J Parkes and trained to … Read More

We were delighted to take a quality draft of horses to the final August South Island Sale. The horses were very well received and sold accordingly well. The Road To … Read More

Central South Island Owners & Trainers Assn invite you to join us on, Sunday 28th July, for the 2013 Stud Tour and Yearling Parade to inspect some of the local stallions standing … Read More

‘Knowing‘ winning his fourth start on 10th June at Waverley ridden by Opie Bosson. This lovely horse was bred, foaled, raised, broken in and first ridden work done at Pear … Read More

Summer is rolling on and we have been busy making hay while the sun shines. Michael and I actually got brave this year and cut, raked and baled our own … Read More

We have been relaxing a bit since the South Island Sale, just enjoying not being too busy before the foaling season starts. We had our first foal on Monday – … Read More

The 2012 South Island Sale was a very difficult market to sell horses in on Friday. Pear Tree Farm did manage to sell all but one of the colts that … Read More

On Sunday, we hosted the Central South Island Racing Owners and Trainers Annual Stud Tour. We proudly paraded all six colts that are heading to the South Island Sale on … Read More

D’Cash has had a great two weeks, with three winners in the North Island. The first of those was 3yo filly ‘Heapzacash‘ at Waverly RC 5/7/12 over 1200m. This win … Read More

The Danroad–Snow Reason that sold for $56,000 at 2011 South Island Sale was purchased by Cambridge trainers Tim and Margaret Carter. It has been a huge thrill for us to … Read More

The South Island Sale is now less than a month away and we are very pleased with the progress of all six colts that will be part of this years draft. … Read More

Pear Tree Farm had a great sale result on 12th August at the South Island Sale and were 4th highest on the vendors list of averages at the completion of … Read More

On Saturday we hosted the Central South Island Owners and Trainers Stud Tour and Yearling Parade. We had lovely weather and the horses behaved beautifully. We received some great comments … Read More