Waikato Stud-based sire O’Reilly has made an unprecedented clean sweep of the New Zealand Stallion Awards for the 2012-13 season.

O’Reilly has won the Grosvenor (domestic championship), Dewar (combined NZ and Australian progeny stake earnings) and Centaine (NZ-conceived progeny world-wide) awards.

In addition to being the leading sire by earnings, O’Reilly heads his peers by winners, wins, stakes wins and stakes winners, plus he is the leading sire of three-year-olds and is fourth on the NZ Broodmare sires’ premiership for the season.

Furthermore O’Reilly’s son Alamosa has been crowned New Zealand’s leading first season sire.  The Wellfield Lodge-based sire was represented by 5 winners in his first crop of runners, headed by the Listed Champagne Stakes winner Salamanca.

“We’re so proud of him becoming the first stallion in history to achieve this clean sweep of all three of New Zealand’s major awards,” said Waikato Stud’s Mark Chittick  “At the end of the day, he’s been with us since he was a foal and he’s gone on to be a major part of our growth and success.  It takes an incredible stallion to have accomplished what he has.”

It is the second time the son of Last Tycoon has won the Centaine and Dewar Awards and his third Grosvenor Award.  O’Reilly was represented by 15 stakes winners over the past season including Group 1 winners Sacred Falls and Shamexpress.

Meanwhile, legendary Cambridge Stud stallion Zabeel topped the broodmare sires’ premiership on both sides of the Tasman for a second year running.