Ocean Park（NZ）2008

Description

OCEAN PARK (NZ) (Bay 2008-Stud 2013). 8 wins from 1200m to 2050m, MVRC WS Cox P., Gr.1. Leading NZ Sire (Aust/NZ combined) in 2019-20. Sire of 471 rnrs, 287 wnrs, 21 SW, inc. SW Tofane (ATC All Aged S., Gr.1), Kolding, Kovalica, Ocean Billy, Oceanex, Star of the Seas, Fabric, Our Hail Mary, High Emocean, Dionysus, Another Dollar, Out of the Park, Ocean Beyond, Southern Lad, Seaway, Kai, Poser, Southern Ocean, etc.

Ocean Park won titles of Champion in both Australia and New Zealand and in capturing those accolades he displayed his class at Group 1 level with toughness and soundness. These attributes are now showing in his progeny.

Ocean Park’s stallion career is spearheaded by progeny such as Kolding, winner of the G1 Epsom Hcp, G1 George Main Stakes, G1 All Aged Stakes WFA and the inaugural Golden Eagle, and the courageous mare Tofane, a four-time Group 1 winner who reigned supreme in the G1 All Aged Stakes WFA, G1 Stradbroke Handicap, the G1 Tatt’s Tiara and the G1 CF Orr Stakes. Continuing Ocean Park’s cross-Tasman impact, Chris Waller’s Kovalica captured the 2023 G1 Queensland Derby for Ocean Park with a stunning two-length victory.

Ocean Park also boasts G1 Auckland Cup winner Ocean Billy and other stakes-winning progeny in Australia and New Zealand include G2 Matriarch Stakes winner Oceanex, G2 Blamey Stakes winner Star of the Seas, G2 Queen of the South Stakes winner Fabric, G3 Premiers Cup winner Another Dollar, G3 Thoroughbred Breeders Stakes winner Out of the Park & G3 Trentham Stakes winner Our Hail Mary.

Ocean Park is now the sire of 20 stakes winners & 35 stakes performers. His 12 Group 1-performed standouts comprise Kolding (1st G1 Epsom Hcp, G1 George Main Stakes & G1 All Age Stakes), Tofane (1st G1 All Aged Stakes, G1 Stradbroke Hcp, G1 CF Orr S., G1 Tattersall’s Tiara), Kovalica (1st G1 QLD Derby, 3rd G1 Doomben Cup), Ocean Billy (G1 Auckland Cup), Rondinella (2nd G1 Sydney Cup, 3rd G1 New Zealand Stakes and 3rd G1 Tancred Stakes), Another Dollar (2nd G1 Queensland Oaks), Mongolianconqueror (2nd G1 NZ Derby), Arrogant (2nd G1 Rosehill Guineas), Star of the Seas (2nd G1 Doncaster Hcp, 2nd G1 Winx Stakes, 2nd G1 George Main Stakes and 3rd G1 Epsom Hcp), Marine (3rd G1 New Zealand Two Thousand Guineas), Bargain (3rd G1 Australian Oaks) and High Emocean (3rd G1 Melbourne Cup).

All told, Ocean Park has sired 280 individual winners and has achieved a 60.5% winners-to-runners ratio. His consistency was rewarded in July 2020 when he won the Dewar Award for New Zealand-based sires by progeny earnings in New Zealand and Australia. It’s a title that fellow Waikato Stud stallion-stablemate, Savabeel, had held for four consecutive years.

To further the comparisons to Savabeel, Ocean Park was at his very best at middle distances. Both would thrive at 2040m with each claiming Australasia’s greatest weight-for-age race, the W.S. Cox Plate.

In achieving that feat amongst his five Group 1 successes, Ocean Park was voted both Champion Middle Distance Horse of New Zealand and Champion Middle Distance Horse of Australia in the 2012-13 season – in that same season he was NZ Horse of the Year. That treble of accolades is unique to Ocean Park.

In addition to his phenomenal strike rate and being crowned the Dewar Award for 2019/20, Ocean Park’s success is all before him. His strengths are formidable – by Champion Sire Thorn Park; out of NZ Broodmare of the year Sayyida, by Zabeel; producing striking yearlings that made up to $700,000 and averaged $126,548 at Australasian yearling sales in 2024.