{"id":185600,"date":"2025-12-16T00:05:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T00:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/185600\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T00:05:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T00:05:14","slug":"new-base-big-plans-for-the-whites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/185600\/","title":{"rendered":"New base, big plans for the Whites"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Just as many are winding down for the summer,\u00a0 Stacey and David White are accelerating into an exciting new phase of their training careers.<\/p>\n

The well-known harness racing couple are embarking on a big change as David leaves his full-time job at the country’s leading barn Stonewall Stud at the end of this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Together with wife Stacey, who’s the Sponsorship and Marketing Manager at Woodlands Stud, they will relocate to a brand new, purpose-built facility at Ashburton Raceway.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It’s a busy time but we are very excited about what\u2019s ahead,” says Stacey, “we are fully committed to making it work.”<\/p>\n

The couple will make the move from Christchurch in coming weeks, along with their two young children, aged two and 10 months. Until now they have been training a small team alongside David’s day job at Stonewall Stud’s Rolleston base.<\/p>\n

They have had 20 wins together since 2019 – including five in Australia.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re not starting from scratch,\u201d David said. \u201cWe already have the gear, the carts and the systems in place, which gives us a real head start.\u201d<\/p>\n

Training independently has long been part of the Whites\u2019 long-term plan, and the timing now feels right.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s something we\u2019ve always worked towards,\u201d Stacey said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a big move, but it gives me flexibility with the kids and the chance to fully focus on our own horses,\u201d David added.<\/p>\n

Their first starters from their new base could be as early as January.<\/p>\n

“Initially there\u2019s capacity for around a dozen horses,\u201d David said. \u201cWe currently have eight, including five rising two-year-olds, and over time we could comfortably grow to 20 or 25.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Their stable star without doubt is this year’s Rowe Cup winner Bet N Win.<\/p>\n

They purchased him for $32,500 in 2021. He has gone on to win 15 races and over $550,000.<\/p>\n

“Certainly Bet N Win and Major Hot have helped us in terms of success and profile to get to where we are now,” says David.<\/p>\n

Major Hot was the training partnership’s first Group 1 winner when he took out the Queensland Derby at Albion Park in Brisbane last year.<\/p>\n

“The owners in those horses are very supportive and they have been the ones to give us confidence to take this next step,” says Stacey.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They include the likes of Glenys and Philip Kennard and Peter Baken. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Once they are settled in Ashburton one of the Whites’ top priorities will be to secure some new horses at the 2026 NZB Standardbred National Yearling Sales.<\/p>\n

“We will certainly be active during the sales in February,” says Stacey, “hopefully we can find a few more Bet N Wins.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just as many are winding down for the summer,\u00a0 Stacey and David White are accelerating into an exciting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-185600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}