16/5/08 Kosi
Bay a star supplementary lot in National sale
Last start Group Two winner Kosi
Bay will go under the hammer at the upcoming Magic
Millions National Broodmare Sale on the Gold Coast.
The star mare is yet another highlight
entry for the sale which will be held from June 1,
following the four day Magic Millions National Weanling
Sale.
A daughter of Nureyev's leading
international sire son Spinning World, Kosi Bay is
a sensationally bred mare who will attract the attention
of leading breeders across Australia and overseas.
Trained by Hall of Fame horseman
Bart Cummings, Kosi Bay scored a fast finishing win
in the Group Two Emancipation Stakes when she faced
the starter at her most recent start on May 3.
That brought her racetrack record
to four wins - two at stakes level - and ten minor
placings from 30 starts and stakes earnings of $334,950.
As well as being a top class racetrack
performer in the her own right, Kosi Bay has a black
type packed pedigree.
Being from winning Varick mare Calvinia,
Kosi Bay is a half sister to the Group One winning
New Zealand based star Calveen.
A winner of 10 races from 1400 to
1600 metres, Calveen was the Champion Sprinter/Miler
of New Zealand in 2005. In all she won six group events.
Kosi Bay and Calveen's dam Calvinia
is a half sister to six winners including the Group
One Derby winner English Wonder.
English Wonder in turn is the dam
of two Group One winners - Dr Grace (four Group One
wins) and Asia (SA Oaks).
16/5/08 Fastnet
Colt Highlights Inglis Great Southern Opening
The brilliant run of sales success
being enjoyed by Coolmore’s Fastnet Rock continued
at Oaklands today when a colt made $225,000 at the
opening weanling session of the Inglis Great Southern
Sale.
The colt, from the US winning Alysheba
mare Crazy Fling, who in turn is a daughter of the
dual Grade 1 winner Some Romance (Fappiano), was offered
by Three Bridges Thoroughbreds and purchased by Victoria’s
DHK Investments.
The Fastnet Rock colt was the highlight
on a solid opening day, where 130 weanlings changed
hands for a gross of $1,550,000 at an average of $11,923.
Blue Gum Farm’s Elvstroem
was also in demand, providing three of the top five
lots, including Little Plains Stud’s bay filly
from the Hurricane Sky mare Crystal Sprite, which
sold to Tim Stewart & Associates (NSW) for $80,000.
Stewart who took a real shine to
the Elvstroem weanlings, also paid $50,000 for two
other fillies by Danehill’s globetrotting multiple
Group 1 winner.
The session also saw the first weanlings
by Redoute’s Choice’s stunning Caulfield
Guineas winner God’s Own offered for sale, with
a bay colt from the Zabeel mare Zadonna making $60,000,
also to the bid of DHK Investments.
The sale continues tomorrow from
11am with the second and final session of weanlings,
before the Broodmare section begins on Sunday.
Lot Col Sex Sire Dam Purchaser Price
165 B C Fastnet Rock Crazy Fling (USA) DHK Investments
Pty Ltd VIC $225,000
170 B F Elvstroem Crystal Sprite Tim Stewart &
Associates Pty Ltd NSW $80,000
75 B C God's Own Zadonna DHK Investments Pty Ltd VIC
$60,000
68 B F Elvstroem Wellington Dreamer Tim Stewart &
Associates Pty Ltd NSW $50,000
113 B F Elvstroem Belle Ball (NZ) Tim Stewart &
Associates Pty Ltd NSW $50,000
Statistics - Lots 1 to 200
Lots Catalogued
200
Gross Value
$1,550,000
Lots Sold
130
Top Price - Lot 165
$225,000
Lots Passed In
41
Average Price
$11,923
Lots Withdrawn
29
15/5/08 Sebring to Widden
Widden Stud is delighted to announce that Sebring
– winner of the Golden Slipper, Sires Produce
Stakes and Champion Two Year Old elect – will
join the roster at Widden at the conclusion of his
three year-old season, ending weeks of intense speculation
as to his future stud plans.
“He is the most sought after
stallion prospect to emerge in a very long time and
we are thrilled that his owners have chosen Widden
as the farm to give their horse the best possible
home and opportunity of succeeding at stud,”
said Antony Thompson.
“Sebring will be the fifth
Golden Slipper winner, Australia’s Sire making
race, to stand at Widden, following in the illustrious
footsteps of Todman, Vain and Marscay – all
champion sires in their own right - as well as the
2005 winner Stratum, whose oldest progeny are now
impressive weanlings.”
A son of outstanding Halo line sire
More Than Ready (USA), Sebring is the dominant juvenile
this season winning five of six starts and in excess
$2.5 million in prizemoney since his racing debut
in January 2008, highlighted by his memorable victory
in the Group One STC Golden Slipper Stakes.
Sebring magnificently overcame well-documented
obstacles in the lead up to the race and a skirmish
at the top of the straight to take Australia’s
greatest juvenile event in a scintillating performance.
“He lost his footing at the
top of the straight but then all of a sudden he balanced
himself and exploded up the straight,” said
trainer Gai Waterhouse in her post race comments.
“It was the most exciting
race I’ve seen in years. This stamps him as
Australia’s leading two-year-old and he can
go anywhere in the world and stand at stud,”
she added.
The battle to secure Sebring as
a stallion prospect has attracted much comment and
conjecture, the syndicate of Star Thoroughbreds owners
electing to wait and measure all the options, rather
than acting in haste.
“We received offers from any
number of major studs, but after considering all the
many and varied alternatives it was agreed that Widden
offered us the best opportunity to pursue our goals
with Sebring on the racetrack and at the same time
ensure his future at stud,” said part-owner
James Hazzisevastos.
For further information Antony Thompson
0427 470 507, Derek Field 0408 492 495 on tel: 02
6549 9999 fax: 02 6549 9900 email: info@widden.com

Sebring Photo by Lisa Grimm www.lisagrimmphotography.com
14/5/08 Successful Broodmare
Session Concludes 2008 National Weanling, Broodmare
& Mixed Bloodstock Sale
A successful conclusion to the New Zealand Bloodstock's
three-day National Weanling, Broodmare & Mixed
Bloodstock Sale has seen the remaining broodmares
on offer met with solid demand to record increases
across the board.
A positive atmosphere around the
sale grounds translated into good results for the
newly united broodmare and weanling sessions, one
of the most pleasing of which was the 78% clearance
rate for the broodmare offering, up significantly
from 66% last year.
With 312 broodmares catalogued it
was the biggest broodmare selection at Karaka since
2004, with 222 sold for $2,681,150, up 81% from $1,482,550
for 138 sold last year.
Showing the strength of the middle
market the median price for the broodmares climbed
33% to $4,000 (from $3,000 in 2007), with the average
following suit to finish at $12,077, up 12% from $10,743
in 2007.
The highlight of the broodmare offering
was the $250,000 Fusaichi Pegasus mare, Glitter Woman,
at Lot 561. She was purchased by Margaret and Murray
Hardy's Camray Trust carrying a positive test to NZ
champion sire Zabeel.
The second highest price of the
Sale came at Lot 617, with unraced Sadler's Wells
mare Make Me Dream purchased by the Hong Kong Breeders
Club for $210,000 in foal to Pins.
This contributed to the Hong Kong
Breeders Club being leading broodmare buyer of the
Sale with five purchased for $262,100.
It was John O'Flaherty's Oughterard
Farm in Te Aroha that lead the broodmare vendors by
average with three sold for an average of $36,000,
with Rachel Spriggins' Walnut Hill Farms in Matamata
the leading vendor by aggregate with 17 mares sold
for $334,800.
In the final analysis, total turnover
for the three-day Sale was $7,376,550 for 588 horses
sold from the 777 catalogued. This represents an overall
Sale average of $12,545, with a median of $5,000,
and a very healthy clearance rate across all three
days of 84%.
Broodmare Session Statistics 2008
2007
Catalogued 312 234
Sold 222 138
Clearance 78% 66%
Aggregate $2,681,150 $1,482,550
Average $12,077 $10,743
Median $4,000 $3,000
Top Ten Broodmare Lots Lot Name
Breeding Covering Sire Vendor Purchaser Price
561 Glitter Woman Fusaichi Pegasus / Precious Glitter
Zabeel CURRAGHMORE STUD CAMRAY TRUST $250,000
617 Make Me Dream Sadler's Wells / Heavenly Calm Pins
SEATON PARK HONG KONG BREEDERS CLUB $210,000
557 Full Noise Kaapstad / War Cry O'Reilly LITTLE
AVONDALE STUD MR DJ TREVETHAN $102,500
520 Danvers Danzero / Vreeland One Cool Cat WALNUT
HILL FARMS MR GM HACKETT $90,000
513 Cycee Nugget Volksraad / Gold Ingot One Cool Cat
RODMOR STUD ESKER LODGE LTD $85,000
602 Leilah Zerpour / Yuleda O'Reilly WAIKATO STUD
KEVIN DAGG BLOODSTOCK $80,000
541 Ever Revie Hamas / Lucy Limelight Pins BLANDFORD
LODGE NZB as agent $60,000
502 Clavarias Candy Stripes / Shiitake One Cool Cat
TRELAWNEY STUD OVERTON FARM $60,000
605 Lightning Tree Blazing Keel / Treepop O'Reilly
OUGHTERARD FARM MICHAEL WALLACE BLOODSTOCK $56,000
662 Penticton Pentire / Ballermoss Darci Brahma THE
OAKS STUD MR SA MILLS $55,000
Leading Purchasers by Aggregate
Purchaser Bought Aggregate Average Top Price
HONG KONG BREEDERS CLUB 5 $262,100 $52,420 $210,000
NZB as agent 23 $252,100 $10,961 $60,000
CAMRAY TRUST 1 $250,000 $250,000 $250,000
ESKER LODGE 2 $123,000 $61,500 $85,000
MR DJ TREVETHAN 1 $102,500 $102,500 $102,500
MR TO HARRISON 3 $91,000 $30,333 $42,000
MR GM HACKETT 1 $90,000 $90,000 $90,000
GRANGEWILLIAM STUD 8 $86,500 $10,813 $22,000
BERKLEY STUD 20 $81,200 $4,060 $12,500
KEVIN DAGG BLOODSTOCK 1 $80,000 $80,000 $80,000
Leading Broodmare Sires by Average
Sire Sold Average Aggregate Top Price
Kaapstad 4 $29,050 $116,200 $102,500
Zabeel 3 $29,000 $87,000 $40,000
Volksraad 4 $26,000 $104,000 $85,000
Maroof 3 $25,417 $76,250 $40,000
Pentire 3 $20,333 $61,000 $55,000
Cape Cross 4 $16,825 $67,300 $32,500
Danasinga 4 $15,625 $62,500 $42,000
Centaine 12 $14,783 $177,400 $42,000
Nassipour 3 $12,867 $38,600 $38,000
Stravinsky 3 $12,833 $38,500 $17,000
Leading Vendors by Aggregate Vendor
Sold Aggregate Average Top Price
WALNUT HILL FARMS 17 $334,800 $19,694 $90,000
WAIKATO STUD 25 $288,400 $11,536 $80,000
SEATON PARK 8 $262,950 $32,869 $210,000
CURRAGHMORE STUD 2 $251,250 $125,625 $250,000
BLANDFORD LODGE 6 $184,000 $30,667 $60,000
LITTLE AVONDALE STUD 9 $144,100 $16,011 $102,500
RODMOR STUD 6 $141,800 $23,633 $85,000
TRELAWNEY STUD 8 $132,600 $16,575 $60,000
THE OAKS STUD 7 $124,500 $17,786 $55,000
OUGHTERARD FARM 3 $108,000 $36,000 $56,000
WINDSOR PARK STUD 11 $72,500 $6,591 $31,000
Leading Vendors by Average Vendor
Sold Average Aggregate Top Price
OUGHTERARD FARM 3 $36,000 $108,000 $56,000
SEATON PARK 8 $32,869 $262,950 $210,000
BLANDFORD LODGE 6 $30,667 $184,000 $60,000
RODMOR STUD 6 $23,633 $141,800 $85,000
WALNUT HILL FARMS 17 $19,694 $334,800 $90,000
THE OAKS STUD 7 $17,786 $124,500 $55,000
MR GR & MRS J HINES 3 $17,000 $51,000 $42,000
TRELAWNEY STUD 8 $16,575 $132,600 $60,000
LITTLE AVONDALE STUD 9 $16,011 $144,100 $102,500
HALLMARK STUD 3 $14,567 $43,700 $40,000
Overall Sale Summary
2008
Catalogued 777
Sold 588
Clearance 84%
Aggregate $7,376,550
Average $12,545
Median $5,000
* includes weanlings, yearlings,
two-year-olds, unraced stock, racehorses, broodmares,
stallion shares and supplementary entries.
13/5/08 North Queensland
Magic Millions Two-Year-Old Bonus Series
The Chairman of Queensland Racing Limited (QRL), Mr
Bob Bentley, announced in February last year increases
to four key races leading into the $100,000 Parry
Nissan Two-Year-Old Classic. Due to Equine Influenza
(EI) and the affects it had on the two-year-old populations
in North Queensland the first two races of this series
were not programmed.
QRL and Magic Millions have taken the decision to
re-allocate the additional races as per the schedule
below, the series will commence this weekend in Cairns
with the running of a $20,000 two-year-old Handicap
to be conducted over 1000m.
Date Club Race Prize QTIS Total
17/05/08 Cairns 2yo Hcp 1000m $20,000 $7,000 $27,000
29/05/08 Townsville 2yo Hcp 1000m $20,000 $7,000 $27,000
09/06/08 Townsville Parry Nissan 1200m $100,000 $100,000
12/07/08 Cairns 2yo Hcp 1250m $20,000 $7,000 $27,000
24/07/08 Townsville 2yo Hcp 1200m $20,000 $7,000 $27,000
As highlighted above, the two races
scheduled for October and November 2007 have been
repositioned to July 2008. This movement will ensure
stakeholders have the opportunity to participate in
this feature race bonus series.
Taking into account QTIS Added Stakes these races
are worth a combined total of $208,000. In addition
to the prizemoney and QTIS Added Stakes on offer,
Magic Millions have announced a $50,000 Bonus, which
will be conducted across the five feature races.
To be eligible for the bonus, the series winner must
be paid up for the Magic Millions Race Series.
Should the series winner/s be paid up for the Magic
Millions Race Series they will receive a $50,000 bonus
from Magic Millions Pty Ltd.
In the event that the series is
tied and two or more of the tied horses are eligible
for the $50,000 bonus, it will be divided equally
between the eligible winners.
Points to be allocated as follows:
1st 10
2nd 7
3rd 5
4th 3
All other starters 1
13/5/08 Darley's Purchase
Of Woodlands Approved
Darley and Inghams Enterprises announced today that
the Foreign Investment Review Board has approved Darley's
purchase of Woodlands.
Consequently, the sale will be completed by this Friday
(16th May 2008).
Horses previously running in the cerise colours of
the Woodlands Stud Syndicate will from that time on
race in Sheikh Mohammed's ownership and racing colours,
which are maroon and white.
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
said: "I am delighted to be making this commitment
to Australian racing, to people who share my passion
for thoroughbreds. I welcome the team from Woodlands
and look forward to developing the champions of the
future."
The outgoing owner of Woodlands, Bob Ingham, said:
"It has been a pleasure working with the dedicated
people at Woodlands Stud and Crown Lodge. I thank
them dearly for the wonderful job they have done over
many years and I wish Sheikh Mohammed every success
in the future."
13/5/08 All Time Record
Clearance Highlights NZB Weanling Session
Following a strong opening session at Karaka yesterday,
the demand for weanlings intensified today with the
remaining 141 lots catalogued boosting yesterday's
figures, highlighted by a new all time record clearance
rate.
At the close of the weanling session
earlier today, a total of 316 weanlings have sold
from the 396 on offer, representing a staggering 89%
clearance. This is the highest clearance rate ever
seen at a New Zealand Bloodstock reserved auction
sale.
With this morning's selection averaging
a very strong $16,203, the total weanling offering
has also posted a new record average of $13,757, up
11% from $12,421 in 2007, with a median that held
steady from yesterday at $6,000. Total takings for
the weanlings are $4,339,600, up 88% from $2,304,000
last year with 188 sold at that Sale.

Day two's highest priced weanling - Lot 360 by Pins
from Winds of Conquest
Today's top price was a shade off
the $130,000 fetched by the Stravinsky filly from
Full Noise (Kaapstad) at Lot 109 yesterday, with Lot
360 bought by GTS Bloodstock for $125,000. The colt
by Pins from Winds of Conquest (Quest for Fame) is
a half-brother to dual Group 3 winner Coup Bloomsbury
(Centaine).
GTS Bloodstock principal Janine
Dunlop confirmed that she has pinhooked the colt for
her Phoenix Park draft at the Karaka Premier Sale
in January. "He stood out to me as one of the
best colts in the Sale and being by a top performing
sire like Pins, from a current family, he had the
pedigree to match. Ancroft Stud has done a great job
preparing the colt and he's guaranteed to develop
into a lovely yearling."
GTS Bloodstock was the leading individual
buyer of this session with five weanlings purchased
for an aggregate of $339,500.
Garry and Mark Chittick's Waikato
Stud has reaped the benefit of offering all their
weanlings unreserved, topping the leading vendors
tables with 28 sold for an average of $18,061. Their
top priced weanling came early in the Sale, with Lot
8 selling for $60,000. The colt by O'Reilly from Barzar
Babe (Danasinga) was bought by Noble Bloodstock.
Waikato Stud's stallions have also
dominated the leading sires list, with their resident
sires Pins, Savabeel and O'Reilly the top three sires
by average with three weanlings or more sold at this
Sale.
Mark Chittick confirmed that all
Waikato Stud owned broodmares catalogued today and
tomorrow will now also be offered on an unreserved
basis. "Buyers knew exactly where they stood
with our weanling offering and that has definitely
paid dividends for us. It makes sense for us to offer
the broodmares on the same basis."
Marketing Manager Petrea Vela summed
up the success of the weanling sessions. "We
have been incredibly heartened by the market strength
seen over the past couple of days. The activity of
the local buyers shows just how successful the tax
and depreciation changes made nearly two years ago
have been for the industry, and we are very encouraged
by the confidence that those buyers are showing in
their domestic market."
"It's clear to us that the
weanling sale concept is gaining traction in New Zealand
and vendors like Waikato Stud and Curraghmore Stud
are proving it to be a viable trading option for them.
We are certain there's a good foundation here for
us to develop this market even more into the future."
With the first part of the day at
Karaka dedicated to last of the weanlings, the afternoon
saw yearlings, two-year-olds, unraced horses, racehorses
and the first of the 300 broodmares offered for sale.
The mixed bloodstock sessions combined
to record a clearance rate of 84%, with 47 lots sold
for $350,200 at a combined average of $7,626.
The highlight of the mixed sessions
was the Pins filly at Lot 453, Lasting Legacy, a half-sister
to Group 1 South Australian Oaks winner, Dowry (Bahhare).
Being sold as a racing or breeding proposition, she
was purchased by Queensland's Blue Sky Thoroughbreds
for $100,000 from Rodmor Stud.
The first 52 of the 303 broodmares
catalogued concluded selling for today, with the highlight
so far the Bassenthwaite mare, Candescent, a $40,000
purchase from The Oaks Stud. The dam of Group 1 Easter
Handicap winner, Rags to Riches, she is carrying a
positive test to first season covering sire, Darci
Brahma.
The Broodmare session will continue
from 10am tomorrow (Tuesday) at Karaka.
Weanling Session Results Summary
2008 2007
Catalogued 396 252
Sold 316 188
Clearance 89% 85%
Average $13,733 $12,421
Median $6,000 $7,000
Aggregate $4,339,600 $2,335,150
Top Price $130,000 $115,000
Top Lots Lot Type Breeding Vendor
Purchaser Price
109 B.F Stravinsky / Full Noise LITTLE AVONDALE STUD
MARCUS CORBAN BLOODSTOCK $130,000
360 C.C Pins / Winds of Conquest ANCROFT STUD GTS
BLOODSTOCK $125,000
138 BR.C O'Reilly / Honor Rush ESKER LODGE MR J SEE
$105,000
117 B.F Savabeel / Glittering Girl CURRAGHMORE STUD
GTS BLOODSTOCK $100,000
295 C.C Rock of Gibraltar / Sheez Zocay WELLFIELD
LODGE NEW ZEALAND BLOODSTOCK as agent $75,000
118 B.F Savabeel / Glitter Woman CURRAGHMORE STUD
MR J SEE $70,000
330 B.C Benicio / Tears We Cry BRIGHTHILL FARM GTS
BLOODSTOCK $62,500
8 B.C O'Reilly / Barzar Babe WAIKATO STUD NOBLE BLOODSTOCK
$60,000
91 B.C Savabeel / Energetic Dancer BRIGHTHILL FARM
LJ & MR ANDERSON $60,000
296 BR.C One Cool Cat / She's Heaven Cent CURRAGHMORE
STUD GALAXY RACING $60,000
361 C.C Pins / Worship BRIGHTHILL FARM MR SA MILLS
$60,000
Leading Buyers by Aggregate Purchaser
Bought Aggregate Average Top Price
NEW ZEALAND BLOODSTOCK as agent 30 $409,000 $13,633
$75,000
GTS BLOODSTOCK 5 $339,500 $67,900 $125,000
MR J SEE 4 $233,000 $58,250 $105,000
NOBLE BLOODSTOCK 4 $146,000 $36,500 $60,000
GALAXY RACING 8 $134,250 $16,781 $60,000
MARCUS CORBAN BLOODSTOCK LTD 1 $130,000 $130,000 $130,000
NICHOLSON O'ROURKE 5 $120,000 $24,000 $55,000
MR SA MILLS 3 $114,000 $38,000 $60,000
SIR JAMES LODGE 8 $92,500 $11,563 $27,000
MR MW HAMILTON 4 $90,000 $22,500 $30,000
Leading Sires by Average (3 or more
sold) Sire Sold Average Aggregate Top Price
Pins 4 $61,750 $247,000 $125,000
Savabeel 8 $49,063 $392,500 $100,000
O'Reilly 8 $44,500 $356,000 $105,000
Van Nistelrooy 5 $27,100 $135,500 $42,500
Handsome Ransom 7 $24,786 $173,500 $47,500
Align 3 $24,167 $72,500 $32,500
Mossman 3 $23,000 $69,000 $38,000
Chianti 3 $22,467 $67,400 $44,000
Falkirk 3 $20,000 $60,000 $38,000
High Chaparral 4 $19,875 $79,500 $42,500
Leading First Season Sires by Average
(3 or more sold) Sire Sold Average Aggregate Top Price
Falkirk 3 $20,000 $60,000 $38,000
Zenno Rob Roy 3 $14,000 $42,000 $22,000
Keeninsky 4 $11,625 $46,500 $22,500
Castledale 5 $8,410 $42,050 $16,000
Duelled 3 $5,867 $17,600 $12,000
Mr. Nancho 4 $5,500 $22,000 $15,000
Leading Vendors by Aggregate Vendor
Sold Aggregate Average Top Price
WAIKATO STUD 20 $341,200 $17,060 $60,000
CURRAGHMORE STUD 12 $319,250 $26,604 $100,000
BRIGHTHILL FARM 10 $230,000 $23,000 $60,000
LITTLE AVONDALE STUD 9 $210,600 $23,400 $130,000
WALNUT HILL FARMS 11 $177,500 $16,136 $55,000
ESKER LODGE 5 $160,000 $32,000 $105,000
TWIN PINE THOROUGHBREDS 11 $123,300 $11,209 $46,000
TE RUNGA STUD 10 $111,950 $11,195 $47,500
WINDSOR PARK STUD 9 $108,850 $12,094 $50,000
HAUNUI FARM 9 $100,900 $11,211 $42,500
Leading Vendors by Average (3 or
more sold) Vendor Sold Average Aggregate Top Price
ESKER LODGE 5 $32,000 $160,000 $105,000
CURRAGHMORE STUD 12 $26,604 $319,250 $100,000
WOODBINE FARM PARTNERSHIP 3 $24,333 $73,000 $31,000
LITTLE AVONDALE STUD 9 $23,400 $210,600 $130,000
BRIGHTHILL FARM 10 $23,000 $230,000 $60,000
BLANDFORD LODGE 4 $23,000 $92,000 $45,000
BLUE GABLES FARM 5 $18,800 $94,000 $26,000
HENLEY PARK 3 $18,000 $54,000 $24,000
WAIKATO STUD 20 $17,060 $341,200 $60,000
WALNUT HILL FARMS 11 $16,136 $177,500 $55,000
Mixed Bloodstock Results Summary
Sold Clearance Aggregate Average Top Price
Yearlings (18) 14 100% $72,500 $5,179 $20,000 (Lot
402)
Two-Year-Old (11) 4 50% $26,800 $6,700 $17,000 (Lot
416)
Unraced Stock (19) 16 84% $46,750 $2,922 $8,250 (Lot
441)
Racehorses (18) 13 87% $204,150 $15,704 $100,000 (Lot
453)
Total 47 84% $350,200 $7,626 $100,000 (Lot 453)
Top Broodmare Lots (First Session)
Lot Type Name Breeding Covering
Sire Vendor Purchaser Price
479 B.M+ Candescent Bassenthwaite / Candelila Darci
Brahma THE OAKS STUD NZ BLOODSTOCK (as agent) $40,000
482 B.M+ Car Key Carnegie / Key of Future One Cool
Cat CHESTERFIELDS PERFECTLY READY SYNDICATE $32,000
494 BR.M Cent to Win Centro / Lady Nairne LITTLE AVONDALE
STUD BLUE GABLES FARM $18,000
490 C.F+ Celtic Symphony Traditionally / Maggie Keeper
WALNUT HILL FARMS MR MJ CORCORAN $13,500
491 B.M+ Centakin Centaine / Luskin Lady Fast 'n'
Famous WAIKATO STUD KINNOUL INVESTMENTS $11,000
12/5/08 Autumn Concludes
as Spotlight Turns to Great Southern Sale
The William Inglis Autumn Yearling
Sale concluded at Oaklands today, with almost $2million
traded across the two days.
Colts by Lindsay Park's Face Value
and Blue Gum Farm's Elvstroem topped today's session
at $40,000.
Three Bridges Thoroughbreds' Face
Value-Classy Gift (With Class) colt was knocked down
to the First Tuesday syndicate, while Blue Gum's Elvstroem-Golden
Prayer (Amen Brother) colt was sold to Victorian trainer
Chris Parry.
The overall sale topper was the
Dash For Cash-Mother To Be (Dance Floor) colt, which
sold yesterday to Mick Price for $42,500.
In all, 224 yearlings were sold
at a gross of $1,970,500 and average of $8797.
The buying bench, which assembled
from every state in Australia, also included a number
of on-line bidders, with six horses sold on-line during
the sale.
Buyers who secured progeny at this
sale now have the chance to enter those yearlings
in next year's $2.5million Inglis Race Series, which
includes the $100,000 Inglis Plate, restricted to
Autumn Yearling Sale graduates only.
Attention now turns to the Great
Southern Sale, which begins with the Weanling section
from 11am this Thursday, May 15.
“We have some lovely weanlings
for sale here later in the week and they will be available
for inspection from Tuesday afternoon,” Inglis
Director Peter Heagney said.
“This sale really does showcase
some of the best weanlings Victoria has to offer and
includes the first chance buyers have to secure progeny
by a number of exciting first season stallions.”
The Great Southern Sale, which also
includes Broodmares and other mixed breeding stock,
runs over four sessions on May 15, 16, 18 and 19.
Sale Statistics - Lots 1 to 360
Lots Catalogued
360
Gross Value
$1,981,000
Lots Sold
227
Top Price - Lot 26
$42,500
Lots Passed In
82
Average Price
$8,727
Lots Withdrawn
51
Median Price
$5,000
Top Lots
Lot
Col
Sex
Sire
Dam
Purchaser
Price
26
G
C
Dash for Cash
Mother to Be (NZ)
M G Price Racing & Breeding Pty Ltd VIC
$42,500
232
B
C
Face Value
Classy Gift
First Tuesday VIC
$40,000
294
B
C
Elvstroem
Golden Prayer
C Parry VIC
$40,000
163
B
F
Good Journey (USA)
Volkiss (NZ)
Edwards Elkington Racing VIC
$35,000
314
Ch
C
Denon (USA)
Into the Mystic
J Cox VIC
$34,000
12/5/08 Dash For Cash
Colt Tops Autumn Day 1
A colt by Australian Guineas winner
Dash For Cash topped the opening session of the William
Inglis Autumn Sale when he was sold to leading trainer
Mick Price for $42,500 today.
The colt was offered by Phoenix
Broodmare Farm and is from the Dance Floor mare Mother
To Be.
A strong Victorian buying bench
assembled at the sale, along with other buyers from
South Australia, New South Wales, Western Australia
and Tasmania.
Today’s average of $9,204
fell just short of last year’s record average
figure and overall, $1.05million was traded.
“We are very happy with the
result,” Inglis Director Peter Heagney said.
“Although the average is slightly
down on last year’s record figure, it’s
more a reflection of the revised format this year,
as an additional 200 horses were previously sold in
March at Melbourne Premier.”
“There was strong competition
on a good number of the horses sold today and the
buying bench, which included a number of on-line bidders,
was spread across most part of Australia.”
Good Journey, sire of this season’s
stakes winners Sound Journey and Grand Journey (the
latter a G1 winning $6500 graduate of this sale herself),
was the leading sire of the session, with four lots
selling for $92,000, including a filly from the stakes
placed Volksraad mare Volkiss to Edwards/Elkington
Racing (Vic) for $35,000.
The Sale continues from 11am tomorrow.
Statistics Day 1 - Lots 1 to 180
Lots Catalogued
180
Gross Value
$1,049,250
Lots Sold
114
Top Price - Lot 26
$42,500
Lots Passed In
44
Average Price
$9,204
Lots Withdrawn
22
Median Price
$6,000
Strong Selling At Opening
Session of NZB National Weanling & Broodmare Sale
It was a very strong day's trade at the first weanling
session of New Zealand Bloodstock's National Weanling
& Broodmare Sale today at Karaka, highlighted
by increases in turnover, average and clearance from
last year.
Of the 255 weanlings catalogued
for sale today, 202 were sold for an aggregate of
$2,531,950, representing a current average of $12,534
and a very strong clearance rate of 87.4%. With 188
of the total 252 weanlings catalogued last year selling
for $2,335,150, turnover is already up 8% with 143
weanlings still to come.
New Zealand Bloodstock Marketing
Manager Petrea Vela was confident that today's results
signalled the growing strength of New Zealand's local
market.
"In a weanling catalogue that
was dominated by fillies, it was a clear sign of the
strength of New Zealand domestic racing and breeding
that we can generate such a healthy average and aggregate
for the day and still record an 87% clearance rate.
Traditionally the pinhookers underpin this Sale but
today, not only were the pinhookers very active, but
they also faced stiff competition from a raft of local
buyers looking for weanlings to retain, which is a
great boost for the industry."

Day one highlight - Lot 109 by Stravinsky from Full
Noise sold by Little Avondale Stud.
The highlight of the day was a filly
by Cambridge Stud shuttle sire Stravinsky at Lot 109,
from the Group 1 performed Kaapstad mare Full Noise,
purchased for $130,000 by Marcus Corban Bloodstock.
Cambridge Stud General Manager,
Marcus Corban, secured the filly on behalf of a local
client. "We picked her out as a lovely walking
Stravinsky filly that will be well suited to putting
through the Karaka Yearling Sale in January."
A handful of lots later, the second
of three young horses to make six figures today was
another filly, this by Savabeel from Marscay mare
Glittering Girl. She was bought by Janine Dunlop's
GTS Bloodstock Ltd for $100,000 from Curraghmore Stud.
Today's leading buyer was Singapore
owner Jayven See, who purchased three weanlings, including
a top price of $105,000 for Lot 138, a colt by O'Reilly
from Honor Rush (Honor Grades) offered by Esker Lodge.
Waikato Stud's decision to offer
all their weanlings on an unreserved basis is paying
dividends for the Stud, with the progeny of their
sires O'Reilly and Savabeel featuring prominently
in the results, and Waikato Stud currently heading
the leading vendor tables with 16 sold for an aggregate
of $300,900 at an average of $18,806.
Savabeel's four fillies and one
colt catalogued so far were in high demand to make
him the leading sire by average with all five entries
sold for an average of $61,400, followed by stable
mate O'Reilly in second, with both colts and fillies
featuring in the top ten lots, with a total of six
sold for an average of $53,500.
Waikato Stud has a further 14 weanlings
catalogued for tomorrow.
The remaining 143 weanlings (including
two supplementary entries) will go under the hammer
from 10am at Karaka tomorrow, followed by yearlings,
two-year-olds, unraced stock, racehorses, and the
first of the 300 broodmares on offer. The remaining
broodmares will be offered on Tuesday from 10am.
2008 National Weanling, Broodmare
& Mixed Bloodstock Sale Day 1 Statistics 2008
(Day 1) 2007
Catalogued 255 252
Sold 202 188
Clearance 87.4% 85%
Average $12,534
$12,421
Median $6,000
$7,000
Aggregate $2,531,950
$2,335,150
Top Price $130,000
$115,000
Top Ten Lots Lot Type Breeding Vendor
Purchaser Price
109 B.F Stravinsky / Full Noise LITTLE AVONDALE STUD
MARCUS CORBAN BLOODSTOCK $130,000
138 BR.C O'Reilly / Honor Rush ESKER LODGE MR J SEE
$105,000
117 B.F Savabeel / Glittering Girl CURRAGHMORE STUD
GTS BLOODSTOCK $100,000
118 B.F Savabeel / Glitter Woman CURRAGHMORE STUD
MR J SEE $70,000
8 B.C O'Reilly / Barzar Babe WAIKATO STUD NOBLE BLOODSTOCK
$60,000
91 B.C Savabeel / Energetic Dancer BRIGHTHILL FARM
LJ & MR ANDERSON $60,000
165 B.F O'Reilly / La Charea WALNUT HILL FARMS NICHOLSON
O'ROURKE $55,000
47 B.F Savabeel / Chiming WINDSOR PARK STUD TARMILL
PTY LTD $50,000
60 C.C Handsome Ransom / Creve Coeur TE RUNGA STUD
MR CP BISHOP $47,500
175 BR.F Ekraar / Leontyne TWIN PINE THOROUGHBREDS
SEDGEMERE FARM $46,000
Leading Purchasers by Aggregate
Purchaser Bought Aggregate Average Top Price
NEW ZEALAND BLOODSTOCK (as agent) 20 $241,800 $12,090
$39,000
MR J SEE 3 $189,000 $63,000 $105,000
GTS BLOODSTOCK 2 $135,000 $67,500 $100,000
MARCUS CORBAN BLOODSTOCK 1 $130,000 $130,000 $130,000
NOBLE BLOODSTOCK 3 $103,500 $34,500 $60,000
Leading Sires by Average (3 or more
sold) Sire Sold Average Aggregate Top Price
Savabeel 5 $61,400 $307,000 $100,000
O'Reilly 6 $53,500 $321,000 $105,000
Van Nistelrooy 3 $27,833 $83,500 $42,500
Handsome Ransom 7 $24,786 $173,500 $47,500
Align 3 $24,167 $72,500 $32,500
Leading Vendors by Aggregate Vendor
Sold Aggregate Average Top Price
WAIKATO STUD 16 $300,900 $18,806 $60,000
CURRAGHMORE STUD 9 $218,250 $24,250 $100,000
BRIGHTHILL FARM 8 $201,000 $25,125 $60,000
LITTLE AVONDALE STUD 6 $183,000 $30,500 $130,000
ESKER LODGE 5 $160,000 $32,000 $105,000
Leading Vendors by Average (3 or
more sold) Vendor Sold Average Aggregate Top Price
ESKER LODGE 5 $32,000 $160,000 $105,000
LITTLE AVONDALE STUD 6 $30,500 $183,000 $130,000
BRIGHTHILL FARM 8 $25,125 $201,000 $60,000
WOODBINE FARM PARTNERSHIP 3 $24,333 $73,000 $31,000
CURRAGHMORE STUD 9 $24,250 $218,250 $100,000
11/5/08 Inglis Autumn
Yearling Sale offers Genuine Value
Tough gelding Not A Copy delivered
a timely reminder of the value to be had at the William
Inglis Autumn Yearling Sale with a determined win
at Caulfield on the eve of this year's sale.
NOT A COPY ($12,000 2004 Autumn,
5g Genuine-Manilla Mistress) landed his sixth career
win – and second metropolitan success in his
past three starts – when taking his earnings
beyond the $160,000 mark in the Winning Edge Presentations
Plate (1100m).
“It once again goes to show
you don't have to spend a fortune to secure a good
racehorse and the Autumn Yearling Sale continues to
be a terrific source of good horses for very little
money,” Inglis Director Peter Heagney said.Not
A Copy is by Genuine, also the sire of the Autumn
Yearling Sale's pin up graduate from the past few
seasons, Pompeii Ruler. The 2008 Autumn Sale begins
at Oaklands tomorrow at 11am and a catalogue of 360
yearlings will be sold over the next two days.
Meanwhile, Inglis Easter graduates
Fravashi and Royal Discretion continued their rise
through the ranks with decisive wins at Hawkesbury
today.
FRAVASHI ($550,000 2007 Easter,
2c Falbrav-Angelic Smile), a graduate of Ron Gilbert's
Highgrove Stud, made it two wins from as many starts
when taking out the Windsor RSL 2YO Handicap (1200m)
and trainer Peter Snowden indicated the colt would
now head to Brisbane for the G2 QTC Sires Produce
Stakes (1400m).
A Redoute's Choice half-brother
to Fravashi sold for $1.1million at last month's William
Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.
ROYAL DISCRETION ($180,000 2006
Easter, 3g Royal Academy-Discretion) made it back-to-back
stakes wins this preparation when taking out the Listed
Hawkesbury Guineas from fellow Inglis graduate TURFFONTEIN
($70,000 2006 Premier, 3c Johannesburg-Spirit Of Grace)
in a repeat of the G3 South Pacific Classic quinella
last month at Randwick.Royal Discretion, who was prepared
for sale by Attunga Stud, was also a winner on this
day last year, taking out the juvenile event, which
was won by Fravashi today.
DON'T TELL PAT ($75,000 2005 Classic,
4g Monashee Mountain-What A Twister) rounded out a
good day for Inglis graduates at Hawkesbury when sending
favourite backers home on a winning note in taking
out the final event on the program.
The lightly raced gelding has now
won 5 of his 10 career starts
Guineas Win for Royal
Discretion and Royal Academy
11th May 2008
Classy three year-old Royal Discretion
(3g Royal Academy x Discretion, by Canny Lad) backed
up from a brilliant win at Randwick on April 30 to
add another feature race success to his resume at
Hawkesbury on Saturday.
The talented bay skipped along just
off the lead and then kicked away in the straight
to win the Listed Hawkesbury Guineas over 1400 metres
by more than a length over the fast finishing Turffontein
(3c Johannesburg x Spirit of Grace, by Dr Grace) to
give Coolmore sires the quinella.
The Gai Waterhouse trained son of
Royal Academy has now won five of 12 starts earning
$300,575 and will head to Brisbane for a crack at
the Group Two QTC Queendland Guineas on June 9.
“I think he’ll run the
mile easily because he relaxes so well,” said
Gai Waterhouse.
Raced by the Bott family’s
E Thoroughbred and their South African based partners,
Royal Discretion was purchased by Tony Bott for $180,000
at the 2006 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale
from the draft of Attunga Stud.
A half-brother to Group Three placed
mare Tactfully, Royal Discretion is the third foal
of stakes-placed Canny Lad mare Discretion, a half-sister
to South African stakes-winner Sunrise Silence.
Rowley Mile Success
for Rabbuka and Giant's Causeway
11th May 2008
Lightly raced four year-old Rabbuka
(4g Giant's Causeway x Explosive, by Fappiano) added
to his impressive tally when scoring a powerful win
over stablemate Party Crasher in the $100,000 Rowley
Mile at Hawkesbury on Saturday.
He camped just off the pace and
finished off doggedly in a performance that will have
connections raising their sights to better quality
assignments during the Brisbane Winter Carnival.
“He’s got the makings
of a middle distance superstar,” said winning
trainer Gai Waterhouse.
“He’s got an enormous
future and is definitely Brisbane bound now.”
A homebred for Gooree Stud, Rabbuka
is a half-brother to smart Group Three winner Queen
of the Hill being by Giant’s Causeway from the
Fappiano mare Explosive, who descends from the family
of champion sires Sadler’s wells and Nureyev.
Rabbuka has won four races from
seven starts and placed twice, earning $108,950 in
prizemoney and like so many of the Giant’s Causeway
stock in Australia seems to be finding top form with
patience and maturity.
New Group Three Winner
for Montjeu
11th May 2008
Fresh from siring the winner of
the Group One AJC Australian Derby in Nom du Jeu,
Montjeu has continued his good Australian form with
another smart stakes-winner in Fulmonti (5g Montjeu
x Grosvenor's Pride, by Grosvenor) .
The Chris Jordan trained five year-old
took out the Group Three BTC Chairman’s Handicap
over 2020 metres at Doomben on Saturday, proving too
strong at the post to defeat Diamondsondinside by
half a length .
An improving stayer with seven wins
and 12 placings from 33 starts and prizemoney of $305,100,
Fulmonti should be well placed in the long distance
events in Brisbane over the next few months.
A $100,000 purchase from the 2004
NZB Premier Yearling Sale from the draft of Mapperley
Stud, Fulmonti is a half-brother to Group Three winner
Pride of the Class being from the Grosvenor mare Grosvenor’s
Pride, a half-sister to the dam of former brilliant
sprinter Pembleton.
A leading sire in Europe, Montjeu
shuttled to Windsor Park Stud in New Zealand for a
number of seasons, his last crop of Kiwi bred youngsters
now two year-olds.
9/5/08 Zabeel
Achieves Gr.1 Damsire Double at Randwick
Cambridge Stud’s magnificent sire Zabeel (NZ)
(Sir Tristram) achieved a notable Gr.1 damsire double
at Randwick last weekend.
Already the sire of 37 individual
Gr.1 winners, Zabeel (NZ) took his Gr.1 record as
a damsire to nine (see table) last Saturday after
superlative wins by Samantha Miss (Redoute’s
Choice) in the AJC Gr.1 Champagne Stakes (1600m) and
by Sarrera (Quest For Fame) in the AJC Queen Elizabeth
Stakes (2000m).
Cambridge Stud's champion sire Zabeel (NZ)
As a result the Sir Tristram sire is currently posted
6th on the Australian Broodmare Sires’ Premiership,
a position that sees him feature alongside the former
Waikato Stud stallions Defensive Play in second, and
Centaine in third.
In total, Zabeel has achieved 38
stakes winners as a damsire and is strongly represented
on the winners-to-runners side of things with a 63.2%
strike rate.
Looking to the stallions who his
daughters have so far clicked best with on a stakes
level, Stravinsky (USA) takes poll position with five,
followed by Redoute’s Choice, Danehill and Quest
For Fame in second with three stakes winners each.
Remarkably another sire who once
adorned Cambridge Stud's stallion roster features
as the leading sire of winners-to-runners. Now deceased,
Rhythm features foremost with the five winners from
six runners and is also responsible for the two Gr.1
winners Zabeat (NZ) and Upsetthym (NZ).
Zabeel (NZ) will be represented
by three broodmares at this weekend’s New Zealand
Bloodstock National Weanling, Broodmare and Mixed
Bloodstock Sale. The Sale will also provide the opportunity
to access a Zabeel (NZ) weanling, an unraced three-year-old
gelding and to a twice raced four-year-old gelding
(click here to view progeny on offer). Gr.1 Damsire
Success
Headturner (Anabaa)
Darci Brahma (Danehill)
Samantha Miss (Redoute’s Choice)
Apercu (Encosta de Lago)
Sarrera (Quest For Fame)
Zabeat (Rhythm)
Upsetthym (Rhythm)
Cats Fun (Catbird)
Art Success (Pentire)
Two-Year-Old Quinella
for Danroad (AUS)
Promising Highview Stud-based sire Danroad (AUS) (Danehill
x Strawberry Girl by Strawberry Road) provided the
quinella in the two-year-old event at Wednesday’s
Dargaville meeting.
The Leanne Bertling-trained debutant
Kerilla (NZ) (Danroad x Love Dust) scored by one-and-a-half
lengths over Outtalimitz (NZ) (Danroad x Peripherique)
in the 1200m juvenile race and both are now headed
for black type races at their next outings.
Danroad (NZ) heads the first season sire table by
Winners
Completing a trifecta for Highview Stud-based sires
in the race was Onesong (NZ) (Align x Renanaisance
Girl) who went a very useful race on debut for third.
Kerilla (NZ) was bred by Peter Yip
of Hong Kong, in partnership with Westbury Stud, Auckland.
She represented the third individual winner (from
six starters) posted by Danroad (AUS) making him the
leading first-season sire in New Zealand this season
by individual winners.
Bertling said she will now aim Kerilla
(NZ) for the Listed $55,000 Castletown Stakes at the
Foxton meeting on June 2.
“She’s up to black type
company,” Bertling said. “She still has
quite a bit to learn but once she is more street wise,
there will be a lot more improvement in her.”
Alternatively, the Logan and Gibbs-trained
Outtalimitz (NZ) is being set for the Champagne Stakes
at Ellerslie later this month.
Highview Stud’s Brent Gillovic
is delighted with the promising start made by Danroad’s
progeny.
“Time was always going
to be their ally" said Gillovic.
“Danroad is a big horse and
over New Zealand mares, he has thrown big, strong,
but well balanced types and they are really beginning
to hit their straps.
“As a very fast son of the
incomparable Danehill, I have always believed he is
a very exciting stallion prospect and I am sure this
is just the beginning for him in his stud career,”
he said.
Danroad (AUS) will be represented
at the New Zealand Bloodstock National Weanling, Broodmare
& Mixed Bloodstock Sale by three Weanlings and
two Yearlings. To view click here.
Captain
Rio Registers NH Gr.3 Success
Following on from the Gr.1 success registered by Il
Quello Veloce (NZ) in the Manawatu Sires’ Produce
Stakes in New Zealand, Westbury Stud’s shuttle
sire Captain Rio (GB) (Pivotal) has asserted his Northern
Hemisphere presence with a recent Gr.3 winner in Ireland.

Westbury Stud's exciting shuttle sire, Captain Rio
(GB)
Displaying a barnstorming finish
not unlike that of his Gr.1 southern hemisphere counterpart,
Capt Chaos (IRE) dented some tall reputations on Monday,
after a last to first win effort in the Gr.3 Tetrarch
Stakes (3YO, 1400m) at the Curragh.
Winning by a length and three-quarters,
Capt Chaos (IRE) is the second stakes winner in the
Northern Hemisphere for the Pivotal sire, with the
other horse in question being the Gr.3 Kempton Sirenia
Stakes (1200m) winner, Philario (IRE).
Captain Rio (GB) is represented
by eight weanlings (click here) and one broodmare
(click here) at the National Weanling and Bloodstock
Sale at Karaka starting this Sunday, a venue which
is just minutes away from his Westbury Stud base,
where he will stand for NZ$12,500 plus GST this season.
One
Cool Cat (USA) Running Hot
The Cambridge Stud shuttle sire One Cool Cat (USA)
(Storm Cat) continued the flying start he has made
in Europe this season, with his seventh individual
winner landing in Rome, Italy last Sunday.
Reiterating the success that has
put One Cool Cat (USA) as the leading European sire
of two-year-olds in Great Britain and Ireland, the
promising Diglett (ex Rich Gift, by Cadeaux Genereux)
showed his class with a comfortable one length win.
Cambridge Stud's hot shuttle sire One Coot Cat (USA)
One Cool Cat's (USA) additional five winners to date
have been Cool Tarifa, Baycat, Smokey Storm, Icesolator
and Mister Ghiaccio.
Trained by James Burns, Cool Tarifa
(ex Tarafiya by Trempolino), was successful in the
very first Irish two-year-old race of the season at
the Curragh on March 30, and has Royal Ascot in June
amongst her future plans, following a tilt at the
G3 Swordlestown Sprint at Naas.
"She's got everything you'd
expect from a One Cool Cat - she's tough, she's fast
and has a bit of class," said Burns. "Hopefully
she's an Ascot two-year-old but she'll have to progress
and we'll look at the Swordlestown in Naas next."
A $3.1 million Keeneland yearling,
One Cool Cat (USA) was a dual Gr.1 winning juvenile
and was the Champion European 3YO Sprinter.
One Cool Cat (USA) was one of the
best two-year-olds seen in Europe in 2003, and continued
his outstanding form as a three-year-old, scoring
an impressive win in the Gr. 3 Phoenix Sprint Stakes
at the Curragh over 1200m, and finished a fine third
in the Gr. 1 Nunthorpe Stakes at York.
Commencing stud duties in New Zealand
in 2005, One Cool Cat's (USA) first Southern Hemisphere
crop made a big impression at the National Sale at
Karaka earlier this year.
One Cool Cat (USA) was the leading
New Zealand-based first season sire during the Premier
session with 24 lots selling for $4,625,000 at an
average of $192,708.
One Cool Cat's (USA) leading light
was a filly out of the Gr.3 winning Sir Tristram mare
Diamond Cashel, who realised $925,000 - the second-top
price of the sale.
The youngster is a half-sister to
Royal Asscher (NZ) (Gr III CS Hayes Stakes, Listed
William Crockett, Ottawa Stakes), and was purchased
by the free-spending Queenslander Nathan Tinkler,
whose Patinack Farm also purchased a One Cool Cat
half-sister to the Gr.2 Winter Stakes winner La Sizeranne
for $640,000.
One Cool Cat (USA) will stand again
at Cambridge Stud in 2008 at a service fee of NZ$15,000
+ gst.
One Cool Cat (USA) is represented
by three weanlings at the NZB National Weanling, Broodmare
and Mixed Bloodstock Sale.
Golan
Adds NH Gr.3 Win
Golan (IRE) (Spectrum), sire of the 2007 Gr.1 VRC
Derby hero Kibbutz (NZ), added to his stallion record
with a notable Gr.3 success in the Northern Hemisphere
on Monday.
After a thrilling tussle, his four-year-old
colt Regime (IRE) was able to seal the Irish black-type
success by a critical head margin after pulling out
all the stops in the Gr.3 Mooresbridge Stakes (2000m)
at the Curragh.
Windsor Park Stud's Gr.1 Sire Golan (IRE)
The win represented Regime’s second victory
at this level for his trainer Michael Bell, with earlier
success coming in the Gr.3 Sandown Classic Trial Stakes
(2000m) last season.
Having commenced stud duties in
2003, Golan (IRE) has so far achieved the following
stakes winners:
Kibbutz (NZ): Victor of the Gr.1
VRC Derby (2500m) and of the Listed Hill Smith Stakes
(1800m) last season.
Regime (IRE): The aforementioned dual Gr.3 winner.
Lady Alberton (NZ): Winner of the Gr.3 ARC Eclipse
Stakes (1200m)
Distinguished with a Timeform rating of 129, Golan
(IRE) was a first class racehorse who attained significant
racing kudos as the equal highest rated 4yo in the
world in 2002.
Successful at his only start as
a juvenile, Golan (IRE) stamped his formidable presence
as a three-year-old with wins in the Group 1 Two Thousand
Guineas (1600m) and the Group 2 Longchamp Prix Niel
(2400m).
The Spectrum sire then followed
this success in his four-year-old campaign with an
additional Gr.1 win in the Ascot King George VI &
Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes (2400m).
Interestingly, a number of notable
placings dot the bay stallion’s race record,
with the foremost of these coming at three when second
in the Group 1 Epsom Derby (2400m), when third in
the Group 1 Irish Derby (2400m), and when fourth in
the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (2400m).
Golan (IRE) will be represented
by 14 weanlings at the NZB National Weanling, Broodmare
and Mixed Bloodstock Sale this Sunday, with additional
representation coming later in the three day sale
thanks to the presence of an unraced three-year-old
and from two broodmare prospects (click here to view
progeny on offer).
Golan (IRE) commenced southern hemisphere
stud duties at Windsor Park Stud at Cambridge, NZ
in 2003 and will stand for NZ$12,000 plus GST in 2008.
2008
Service Fee Announced for Ishiguru (USA)
Due to popular demand Chequers Stud have announced
a service fee of $10,000 (plus GST) for their resident
Danzig sire Ishiguru (USA) this season.

Ishiguru (USA) will stand for $10,000 plus GST in
2008.
Ishiguru (USA), who has enjoyed
full books in the last two years, commenced stud duties
in New Zealand in 2004 and has so far been well represented
with three winners from the 4 two-year-old’s
to have hit the tracks locally this season.
Of these three winners, Ishiguru’s
case has been best advanced by the Gr.3 placegetter
I Robot (NZ) and the Listed level placegetter, Ishibabe
(NZ).
Shuttling to Tween Hills Farm in
the United Kingdom, Ishiguru (USA) counts the Gr.2
winner Hellvelyn and the Gr.3 winner She’s Our
Mark as his leading northern hemisphere propositions.
Ishiguru was Danzig's most expensive
yearling of 1999 when he was knocked down to leading
bloodstock buyer Demi O'Byrne for $US1.15 million
at the prestigious Keenland July sales.
Progeny by the Cambridge based sire
have been well received in the sales arena, with offspring
here selling for up to NZ$210,000 and averaging $84,600
(a figure nearly 17 times his initial service fee)
at the recent Karaka yearling sales series.
To date, a half brother to the 2007
Hong Derby winner Vital King (NZ) has featured foremost
of those yearlings sold, with the successful bidder
on this occasion being the powerful Hong Kong Jockey
Club.
Ishiguru fans will be afforded the
opportunity to purchase 10 of his weanlings at this
Sunday's New Zealand Bloodstock National Weanling,
Broodmare and Mixed Bloodstock Sale (click here to
view).
Trained by Aidan O'Brien, Ishiguru
(USA) was a top class sprinter, who made the best
possible start to his career when debuting as a two-year-old
for an 11 length win.
Ishiguru (USA) subsequently earned
a form rating of 114 for this and went on to score
Gr.3 success in the Miller Flying Stakes at Leopardstown
as a three-year-old.
Johar
Distinguished with Top Selling Colt at Tattersalls
Guineas Breeze Up Sale
The former Highview Stud shuttle sire Johar (USA)
(Gone West) was distinguished with the top selling
colt at the recent Tattersalls Guineas Breeze Up Sale
in England.
Presented by Willie Browne’s
Mocklershill Stable, the striking colt achieved the
second top billing at the sale, with the hammer falling
at the hands of a 370,000 guineas (approx. NZ$937,202.60)
bid from bloodstock agent Dick O’Gorman.
To obtain the colt O’Gorman,
who also purchased the top selling Exceed and Excel
filly for 470, 000 guineas (approx. NZ$1,190,501),
had to see off the challengers of agent Jamie McCalmont,
the Coolmore team of Michael Tabor and Paul Shanahan
as well as Charlie Gordon-Watson, who had also been
taken by the Johar colt.
Johar was a multiple Grade 1 winner
who made history when winning the 2003 Breeders' Cup
Turf in a deadheat with High Chaparral.
The handsome Gone West sire made
16 starts over his two year career in both the US
and Japan, recording earnings of US$1,494,496 and
equalling the international classification of 127
achieved by both Mineshaft and Falbrav.
He set two track records with his
victories in the G.2 San Marcos H. and the G.2 Oak
Tree Derby and was an Eclipse Award finalist in 2003.
Johar is represented by four weanlings at the New
Zealand Bloodstock’s National Weanling, Broodmare
and Mixed Bloodstock sale commencing this Sunday (click
here to view progeny).
Thano
(ARG) Joins Grangewilliam Stud
The Gr. 1 winning son of Southern Halo, Thano (ARG)
(ex Di Machine by Digression) will take up stud duties
at Grangewilliam Stud, in Wanganui, this season.
A Gr.1 winner at three, Thano (ARG)
entered his name among Argentina's best middle distance
horses by defeating a talented field in the Gr1 Gran
Premio General San Martin (1800m) at Hipodromo Argentino
de Palermo in Buenos Aires.
He was Gr.1 placed when third in
the San Isidro Clasico Capital, fifth in the Gr.1
Palermo Estrellas Classic, and third in the Gr.2 Palermo
Clasico Peru.
From the unraced Digression mare
Di Machine, a three-quarter sister to Di Escorpion,
a three-time Gr 1 winner in Argentina, Thano (ARG)
is from the family of world champion galloper Invasor,
who won 11 of his 12 starts, including six consecutive
Gr I races, and over $US7.8 million.
Thano (ARG) will stand at Grangewilliam
Stud at a fee of $5000 plus GST, alongside Brilliance
(USA) (Thunder Gulch).
9/5/08 Supplementary
Entries For Great Southern Sale
Next week's William Inglis Great Southern Sale has
been boosted by the addition of three very attractive
supplementary broodmare entries.
The stakes placed mares LEZAYRE
(by Keltrice) and FOREST NATIVE (by Forest Wildcat)
are both being offered in foal to Fastnet Rock, while
the regally-related DANEHILL LASS (Danehill) is in
foal to More Than Ready.
They are being offered by Luskin
Park and will be sold on Monday, May 19 immediately
after Lot 823.
Lezayre was multiple stakes placed
and won 10 races. She is already proving a success
at stud, with two winners already, including the multiple
Hong Kong winner Plezayre.
Forest Native, a Listed runner-up
at Santa Anita, is a grand-daughter of the great Storm
Cat and is from the stakes winning Water Bank mare
Miss Timebank.
Danehill Lass, a Sydney winner for
Gai Waterhouse, is from the stakes placed Gone West
mare Western Hour.
Her third dam is the wonderful producer
Fanfreluche (by Northern Dancer), whose countless
black type descendants include Australia's Champion
Sires Flying Spur and Encosta De Lago.
Being by Danehill and in foal to
More Than Ready, her foal will be bred on the same
cross as More Than Ready's Group One winners Perfectly
Ready and Benicio and along similar lines to this
season's Champion two-year-old Sebring, who is from
a grand daughter of Danehill, being out of a Flying
Spur mare.
9/5/08 Castledale
Weanlings Hold Extra Appeal at Karaka
New Zealand Bloodstock's National Weanling & Broodmare
Sale this Sunday will see the launch of Te Runga Stud's
"Castledale Challenge", an exciting competition
where the owners of a first crop Castledale filly
can battle for lucrative rewards.
The new initiative established by
Te Runga Stud principal, Wayne Larsen, offers a valuable
incentive to buy and race a Castledale filly, with
the winner of the Castledale Challenge taking home
a new Ford Car valued in excess of $34,000.
"The Castledale Challenge is
a simple concept that adds real financial benefits
to purchasing and racing a Castledale filly,"
said Te Runga studmaster Wayne Larsen. "They
will be buying a daughter of a genuinely world class
racehorse, and the buyer only has to select the best
one to win a new Ford for the filly's owners."
The Castledale Challenge is held
over the 2009/10 and 2010/11 racing seasons and points
are awarded on a 10, 5, 3 and 1 basis for 1st, 2nd,
3rd and unplaced respectively, for every race in New
Zealand and Australia. The filly that wins the most
points by the end of her three-year-old racing season
shall be declared the winner.
Qualification for the Castledale
Challenge is simple: the Castledale filly is registered
for the competition by her breeder and then must be
sold through the ring at a New Zealand Bloodstock
Sale. By selling, the Castledale filly is now fully
qualified for the Castledale Challenge and at no cost
to her new owners is fully eligible to win the Ford
Car and other rewards.
In addition to the Ford car the
new owners will receive free transport in New Zealand
to the races courtesy of Majestic Horsefloats.
The Castledale Challenge also offers
prizes of Dunstan Feed to the breeder and New Zealand
based trainer every three months of the filly that
collects the most points in that period, and the New
Zealand trainer who collects the most points at the
end of the Castledale Challenge will receive a substantial
prize of Dunstan Feed. The breeder of the winning
filly will also win a substantial travel package.
Castledale (IRE) was a highclass
Group winner at two, a Group One Derby winner at three
and a Group One winning miler at four. A son of Peintre
Celebre, by the time of a career ending injury Castledale
was ranked third by an international thoroughbred
panel for the Breeder's Cup Turf Mile behind eventual
2005 Breeders Cup winner Artie Schiller.
The first four fillies who have
been registered for the Castledale Challenge sell
at the New Zealand Bloodstock National Weanling Sale
this weekend:
Lot 50 Castledale-Classic Question
Lot 104 Castledale-Flounce
Lot 204 Castledale-Mirror Lake
Lot 382 Castledale-Amaretti
"The financial viability of racing a filly in
New Zealand has never been better for at least thirty
years in real terms," commented Larsen.
"The New Zealand Government
introduced taxation adjustments two years ago and
the Thoroughbred Code Body NZTR is really focused
on returns to owners, so much so that in the last
three years the net return to owners has increased
a massive 82%. Te Runga Stud is now adding to that
economic viability with the Castledale Challenge."
For further information visit www.terunga.co.nz
9/5/08 Ustinov to Millford
Thoroughbreds
In a major coup for Victorian breeding,
immaculately bred USTINOV will re-locate to Millford
Thoroughbreds, Avenel,Victoria in 2008.
Standing in New Zealand since retiring
from racing in 2003, Ustinov’s oldest runners
are 3YOs and his return to Australia couldn’t
be more timely.
With just 30 runners to raise the
flag, Ustinov’s high flyers include the outstanding
sprinter/miler, Antarctic Miss and Kiwi speedster
Anna Bek, along with winners in Victoria, Queensland,
New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia.
Antarctic Miss rose to prominence
at last year’s spring carnival with a victory
in the MVRC Champagne Stakes-G3 (1200m) at Moonee
Valley and followed up with a resounding third behind
Serious Speed in the MRC Thousand Guineas-G1 at Caulfield.
The Anthony Cummings-trained and
Patinack Farm-owned, Anna Bek, went close to adding
some black type with Damien Oliver on board in the
VRC PFD Stakes-LR (1100m) at Flemington in March and
is a 3-time winner in New Zealand.
With the considerable potential
his stock have shown on this side of the Tasman, owner
Denis Marks determined to bring Ustinov to Australia
and has entrusted his prize stallion with Millford
Thoroughbreds.
It’s been a big fortnight
for Millford! Principals Richard Kerry and Jarrod
Byers have only just announced the formation of Millford
Thoroughbreds, bringing to the operation a wealth
of industry experience and a reputation for the highest
level of professionalism.
“Securing Ustinov as Millford
Thoroughbreds’ foundation stallion is a dream
come true,” Richard Kerry enthused. “His
3YOs have really taken off and I reckon the crops
coming through will follow suit.
“It’s not hard to see why Ustinov’s
getting such good performers. A lot of people recall
his victory in the AAMI Vase-G2 over 2040m at Moonee
Valley (defeating Viking Ruler) but it should also
be noted that this horse won over 1200m as a 2YO and
ran second to Champion 2YO Viscount in the AJC Champagne
Stakes-G1.
“At three he ran second in the Ascot Vale-G2
(now Group One), second in the Caulfield Guineas-G1
(behind Lonhro), won the AAMI, ran fourth in the VRC
Derby-G1 and resumed in the autumn with a third behind
Dash For Cash in the Cadbury Guineas-G1.
“Then, as an older horse he
ran third behind Lonhro and Sunline in the Yalumba-G1.
Ustinov had that wonderful early speed before furnishing
into a magnificent type who could compete with the
elite from a mile to a mile and a half.
“That’s a highly desirable
attribute for a future stallion and he certainly has
the breeding …”
A son of the Champion USA sire, Seeking The Gold,
Ustinov is out of Let’s Elope, one of the finest
mares to grace our racetracks in the past two decades.
Seeking the Gold, a son of Mr Prospector, has enjoyed
considerable success in this part of the world with
Group One winner/Group One sire Secret Savings and
has also produced 82 stakeswinners world wide.
As for Let’s Elope, she is best remembered as
winner of the 1991 Melbourne Cup, but she also won
10 other races from 1400m to 2400m including the Caulfield
Cup-G1, Australian Cup-G1 and Mackinnon Stakes-G1.USTINOV
will stand this season at Millford Thoroughbreds at
a fee of $8,800 inc. GST. Live foal guarantee.
For further information, phone Richard
Kerry on 0458 962 350 or Jarrod Byers on 0458 962
351.
8/5/08 Inglis Autumn
Yearling Sale Begins Sunday
The William Inglis Autumn Yearling Sale, the source
of some of Australia's best value Group 1 winners
in recent times, has a quality catalogue of 360 yearlings
to be sold over two days, beginning this Sunday, May
11.
Pompeii Ruler, Lazer Sharp and Grand
Journey – all Group 1 winners – have earned
a combined $2.8million between them over the past
few seasons, but each could have been purchased from
the Autumn Yearling Sale for less than $20,000.
“Year after year this sale
produces quality gallopers that were purchased well
within the budgets of most owners,” Inglis Director
Peter Heagney said.
“I have no doubt that will
also ring true for graduates of this year's Autumn
Yearling Sale.”
There is also extra incentive for
buyers this year.
All graduates of this year's sale
are eligible for a $100,000 2YO race to be run in
Melbourne's autumn next year, restricted to graduates
of this sale.
Furthermore, those paid up to run
in that race are also eligible for William Inglis'
$2.5million race series of Graduate only races and
metropolitan, provincial and country bonuses throughout
Victoria, ACT and NSW.
This year's catalogue features progeny
by a good number of Australia's leading sires, including
progeny of first season stallions like Danbird (7),
Delzao (6), Denon (7), Elvstroem (3), Kempinsky (3)
and Refuse To Bend (4).
The opening session begins on Sunday
from 11am, with the second and concluding session
beginning at the same time on Monday. The Great Southern
Sale will follow on Thursday commencing with weanlings
(May 15 & 16) and concluding with General Bloodstock
on May 18 and 19.
8/5/08 Jealous Guy,
New Winner for Rock
Rock of Gibraltar featured at Canterbury
on Wednesday when his two year-old son Jealous Guy
(2c Rock of Gibraltar x Broken Promise, by Brief Truce)
took out the restricted juvenile event over 1100 metres
at his second race start.
Improving off a first up sixth to
Fravashi on a heavy track, a race that is looking
to have very strong formlines, Jealous Guy travelled
handy throughout and fought on tenaciously to win
by a head for the Tim Martin stable.
Raced by a large group of owners,
Jealous Guy was bought by Tim Martin for $260,000
from the Coolmore draft at the 2007 Magic Millions
Yearling Sale.
He is the fifth foal of the imported
Brief Truce mare Broken Promise, who comes from the