bigstar Oakland Park Stud – Where Champions Are Bred

Our goal at Oakland Park Stud is to breed racehorses capable of winning at Black Type level. Everything we do is meticulously planned around achieving this goal. Nothing is left to chance.

We would like to think our record to date shows our efforts are working, having bred Australia’s fighting tiger, Northerly – Australian Horse of the Year, two-time winner of the Cox Plate, Caulfield Cup, two Australian Cups and Railway Stakes.

Some of our other stars include Marasco (Makybe Diva Stakes), Ihtsahymn (Kingston Town Classic), Shirazamatazz (WA Derby), Covertly (Railway Stakes) and Roman Time (Karrakatta Plate and Sires Produce Stakes. Other Black Type gallopers include Grand Nirvana, Paris Petard, Jestatune, All Friared Up, and Jukebox who is now at stud.

Breeding winning thoroughbreds is what we have been doing for over 25 years. So when you go to the Sales and buy a yearling with the XX5 brand, you can be assured we have done what we can to get you into the winner’s circle.

STANDING AT OAKLAND

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Standing at 16.1 hands, Sessions is an outstanding looking individual from a brilliant family and is Group 2 winning sire of Champion racehorse and sire Lonhro.

Sessions was a colt of the highest quality and from the classy Canny Lad stakes winning mare Seances, herself a half-sister to arguably Darley Stud’s best ever filly Unwordly.

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Shooting To Win was an outstanding racehorse who won the stallion-making Group 1 MRC Caulfield Guineas over 1600 metres.

From his first five crops to race Shooting To Win has had 245 runners to grace the racetrack for 145 individual winners, an impressive 59% winners to runners’ ratio with progeny earnings of over $16 million.

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EARLY, TOUGH & ENDURING – Ingratiating has all attributes to make the grade as a leading stallion in Western Australia.

A handsome 16 hands stallion who won the LR Maribyrnong Trial (1000m) first-up and then returned to Flemington in the autumn to claim the LR Talindert Stakes, Ingratiating is the best-performed Australian-bred 2yo to retire to stud in Western Australia.

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Latest News

Rifleman fires late to break through at Belmont

Rifleman produced an impressive turn of foot to record his first career victory for Oakland Park Stud, sweeping past the field late to win the Drummond Golf Plate (1000m) at Belmont Park on Saturday, July 25. The two-year-old settled well…

Snitzelatte digs deep for back-to-back Ascot wins

Snitzelatte continued her strong run of form for Oakland Park Stud, producing another determined finish to claim back-to-back wins at Ascot and give Holly Nottle an early race-to-race double on the program. In a race run at a genuine clip,…

Crimson Pirate breaks through at Ascot

Crimson Pirate has finally put it all together, breaking through for a deserved maiden victory in the Wittens Irrigation & Design Handicap (1500m) at Ascot on Sunday, 15 February 2026, delivering a pleasing result in the Oakland Park colours for…

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All breeders set out to breed sound and competitive racehorses, with the dream of maybe one day breeding a horse worthy of being called a Champion.

For Oakland Park Stud, that dream came true – we were blessed to have bred Northerly. As history now records, Northerly, or as we affectionately call him “Norton”, was probably the most unlikely candidate to rise to the level he did. He was born without a pulse. His legs were not correct, and wasn’t that flash to look at. However, as we were to find out – he had that elusive X factor. That special something that only very few equine athletes throughout history have possessed.

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