Stay tuned for the May edition of Australian Breeding & Racing magazine. It features our latest article on a new commercial stud making a name for itself in Victoria - Paringa Park.

Paringa Park will offer the services of young Encosta de Lago entire Delzao to breeders later in the year. Paringa Park secured a 25% share in Delzao after his run in the Australian Cup last year and the remaining 75% share in the stallion was purchased just last month by a syndicate headed by stud manager Tim Breadmore and his client Richard Pietrykowski.

Delzao has raced 27 times (to 6 April 2005) for six wins and eight placings, earning more than a million dollars in stakes money (and making him Encosta de Lago's third highest prize money earner after Alinghi and Titanic Jack). In early April he ran second to Grand Armee in the G1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2000m) at Randwick. His best win is considered the G2 Feehan Stakes at Moonee Valley in 2004 where he beat home Makybe Diva in a photo finish.

Adding his name to a string of other Australian thoroughbreds in recent weeks, Delzao will pursue the international circuit before retiring to stud later this year; his first challenge the G1 Champions Mile to be contested at Sha Tin on May 14 - a race worth $4.7 million to the winner. All going well he will then travel to Japan.

Delzao will stand for a fee of $7,700 (including gst) when he retires to Paringa Park.