Kane Jones

by Glen Latham

Anyone who has had dealings with Kane Jones will know that his recent promotion to Bloodstock Sales Manager at New Zealand Bloodstock was both richly deserved and the smartest of plays by his employers. Popular with buyers and vendors alike while carrying a deep understanding of pedigrees and an insightful perspective of just where the market is at, Jones is a significant cog in the NZB machine entering an exciting post-COVID dawn for the auction house

How does a young Kane Jones find himself on a path to the bloodstock industry?

Not really. Sometimes I’d go to trackwork I grew up on a farm in the semi-rural town of Hawera in Taranaki and my parents always had a broodmare or a racehorse. I grew up around horses and my first real introduction was a rude one, getting kicked in the face by a broodmare as a three year-old. It slowed me up for a few weeks but it certainly didn’t put me off horses.

My father held an Owner/Trainer’s license while owning and operating an aluminium joinery company. As a youngster I would go to the track with him whenever I could, definitely weekends and occasionally before school, and over time just developed a real passion for the Thoroughbred.

With a business as a primary income was your father training in search of a champion or just as a hobby?

Dad generally traded horses if possible and enjoyed some success moving nice horses on from the trials or races. He has always had a great affinity with animals and was selftaught as a trainer having a great ability to get a horse to show up early in its career. When