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The decision to save Exodus from a serious racing injury has provided Windsor Park Stud with yet another major breeding success at the Hong Kong international meeting.

She is the dam of the Gr.1 HK Sprint winner Aerovelocity and continued the Cambridge farm’s proud record on the Sha Tin stage.

“We also bred the Hong Kong Mile winners Catalan Opening and Beauty Flash and sold the dams of two others through our yearling drafts,” Windsor Park general manager Steve Till said.

“We sold Able Friend’s mother Ponte Piccolo for Nick Wigley to Gai Waterhouse for $105,000 and she was a stakes winner and we also sold Miss Priority, who was the dam of Lucky Owners. She was from the family of Might And Power.

“It’s been a very good meeting to not only us, but the New Zealand industry and continues to show we can breed horses that can compete internationally at any level.”

Till and stud co-owner Nelson Schick bred Aerovelocity, a son of Pins, from the Kaapstad mare Exodus.

“She won a maiden race for us and then we stepped her up to 2000 metres at Te Rapa and she went amiss on the corner,” Till said.

“She smashed a pastern, but we managed to piece her back together – she was a good type and well-bred as a sister to the Group Two winner Kapitain Kash and a half-sister to Dante’s Paradiso, a stakes winner in Australia.

“After a long recovery we managed to breed three foals and they have all been winners with Aerovelocity the third. Unfortunately, the mare died having the fourth foal.”

Aerovelocity was purchased by Paul O’Sullivan for $120,000 at Karaka in 2010 and has now won eight of his 15 starts.

“He’s the first New Zealand-bred winner of the Hong Kong Sprint,” Till said.

Windsor Park Stud will offer a Rip Van Winkle filly out of Psalms, a half-sister to Aerovelocity’s dam during the Select Sale at Karaka in 2015.