Omnicorp set for N.Z. stud

Press, 22 August 1989, Page 33

Omnicorp set for N.Z. stud

NZPA-AAP Sydney Victoria Derby winner, Omnicorp, has been retired and will take up stud duties in New Zealand. The Bart Cummings- ■ trained five-year-old will join his sire, Grosvenor, at ■ the Field House Stud, at Matamata. ’ Omnicorp had not j raced since finishing a close third behind At Sea and Prince Anton in the Expressway Stakes (1200 m at Randwick in February last year. ; The stud is offering 15 shares in Omnicorp at sAustl 5,000 and is to charge a modest sAust3soo stud fee for the entire’s first season. “We could have stood him for more, but we want to get a full book in the first season,” studmaster Ray Knight said. Omnicorp won four of his 15 starts during his two seasons of racing, including the 1987 Victoria Derby (2500 m the AJC San Domenico Stakes (1000 m and VATC Norman Robinson Stakes (2000 m Omnicorp, which earned sAustso6,lso in stakemoney, is by the 1982 Victoria Derby winner, Grosvenor, out of Bourbon Lassie. Grosvenor was the leading sire of Group One winners last season and finished 14th on the New Zealand and Australia sires’ list behind Sir Tris- ' tram. Cummings still has to find a stud for Australia’s first sAust2 million earner, Beau Zam, which was officially retired last month.