NZ Thoroughbred Marketing hosted 23 Australian trainers for a “week-long visit around stud farms based in the Auckland & Waikato regions”. Studs visited by the tour were Haunui Farm, Westbury Stud, Cambridge Stud, Pencarrow Stud, Highview Stud, Curraghmore Stud, Windsor Park Stud, The Oaks Stud, Trelawney Stud, Wentwood Grange, Waikato Stud, Blandford Lodge & Rich Hill Stud. The trainers were: Jason Coyle, Suman Hedge, Darrell Ible, Bede Murray & Paul Murray (NSW); Andrew Gluyas, Richard Jolly, Sam Kavanagh & Phillip Stokes (South Australia); Joe Byrne, Michael Grant, Owen Miller & Wally Mitchell (Western Australia); & Troy Corstens, Levi Kavanagh, Gavan Kerr, John McArdle, Jarrod McLean, Peter Moody, Aaron Purcell, Bill Schwarzenberg, Robert Smerdon & Jason Warren (Victoria).
