Breeding
Entries for New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2023 Ready to Run Sale of Two-Year-Olds are now open, with the Sale set to be held at the Karaka Sales Centre on 22 and 23 November. With a reputation like no other, NZB’s Ready to Run Sale is renowned for being the
Breeding
The 2023 National Online Breeding Stock Sale is now live online on Gavelhouse Plus, with 54 lots on offer. Bidding is set to open on Friday 7th July and will close from 7pm (NZT) on Wednesday 12th July. The catalogue is comprised of a mix of young and proven mares,
Breeding
A highly successful season for Redwood continued at the weekend with another pair of significant home-bred winners for the Westbury Stud resident. The Group One-winning son of High Chaparral added to his stakes haul for 2022/23 at Sha Tin on Sunday evening when Tuchel triumphed in the final Group
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Whanganui-based stallion Unusual Suspect has proved a more than useful sire. Standing at the Auret family’s Letham Stud, the now 19-year-old stallion has produced a host of well-credentialed horses, including the stakes winner Unusual Countess and multiple Melbourne metropolitan winners So Unusual and Unusual Culture. The latter, who was
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Proisir’s remarkable season went to another level at the weekend with his progeny’s earnings surpassing $4 million, the first time that mark has been reached in New Zealand stallion history. The Rich Hill Stud resident has an unassailable lead in the race for the General Sires’ Premiership with
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Multiple stakes performer Windermere was the highlight lot of the broodmare session at Friday’s New Zealand Bloodstock National Weanling & Broodmare Sale at Karaka and fetched $120,000 to the bid of Little Avondale Stud’s Sam Williams. The six-year-old daughter of All Too Hard was a four-time winner
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Gordon Cunningham is a man that knows a good Ocean Park. The Curraghmore principal has sold two of the stallion’s Group One winners Tofane and Kovalica and he was delighted to secure a colt by Ocean Park from the High Chaparral mare Rolling in Thedeep at Friday’s New
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Riversley Park’s Sam Beatson was active at Friday’s New Zealand Bloodstock National Weanling and Broodmare Sale with three purchases, including a sale-topping weanling colt by Per Incanto. Beatson extended to $150,000 to secure the Brighthill Farm presented colt, who is out of a Redoute’s Choice mare
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Hong Kong buyer Nancy Wong made her presence felt at New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Weanling & Broodmare Sale on Friday with seven purchases. Under her Dungowan Racing banner, she signed for four fillies and three colts at Karaka along with Bryce Tankard’s Waikato Bloodstock. Wong’s most expensive
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Waikato thoroughbred nursery Kaha Nui Farm were the leading buyers at Friday’s New Zealand Bloodstock National Weanling and Broodmare Sale with four purchases, headed by Lot 67, a filly by leading sire Proisir. Nicky White went to $140,000 to secure the strongly made filly who is out of
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Trainer Tony Gollan has made little secret of the high-regard in which he holds progressive galloper Antino (NZ) (Redwood). The striking son of Redwood has hardly put a foot wrong as he steps through his grades and made short-work of his seasoned rivals in the Listed Wayne Wilson (1600m) last
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With the welcome return of New Zealand Bloodstock’s popular winter mixed sale format, along with the prospect of a rejuvenated New Zealand racing industry on the back of the TAB’s deal with global wagering giant Entain, weanling vendors are in a positive frame of mind leading into Friday’