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Highview Stud Manager Brent Gillovic is looking forward to Karaka later this month where yearlings by resident stallion Wrote will be offered in New Zealand for the first time. Gillovic is heading into the sale buoyed by the feedback he has received from bloodstock agents and trainers. “They are lovely
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A son of Haunui Farm stallion Iffraaj topped the Book 2 session of the Magic Million Gold Coast Yearling Sale on Monday. Lot 1037 was knocked down to Orbis Bloodstock for $370,000, a record price for the Book 2 session. Consigned by Willow Park Stud the colt is from
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Entries for New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2020 South Island Sale and May Sale are now open. The South Island Sale will take place at the Canterbury Agricultural Park on April 17, while the May Sale will occur at Karaka on May 14 and 15. While yearlings sold at both sales
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Libby and Sam Bleakley’s Highden Park has built up an impressive roll of honour in a relatively short space of time, and they are hoping to add to it with their draft of yearlings at Karaka 2020. Their sale graduates include two-time Hong Kong Horse of the Year Beauty
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Karaka 2020 looms as a bumper week for Wairarapa’s Little Avondale Stud and their high-flying stallion Per Incanto. The son of Street Cry is third on the New Zealand sires’ premiership in terms of prize-money, and his 37 winners put him in equal top spot alongside Waikato Stud champion
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With big numbers heading to Karaka later this month for the New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sale, three fresh faces from the New Zealand stallion line-up have made strong debuts in this week’s Magic Millions Yearling Sale on the Gold Coast. Westbury Stud’s Tarzino, Waikato Stud’s Tivaci
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2020 is already a year to remember for Chris Stewart and Robyn Milliken. The Karaka-based couple bred Platinum Invador (NZ) (Redwood) who recorded their biggest moment in racing at Ellerslie on New Year’s Day when winning the Gr.3 City of Auckland Cup (2400m). “He is the first stakes
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Jason Coutss and Charlotte Young made their first foray into the stallion business in 2017 when they began standing Prince of Brooklyn at their Otago property for a fee of $3,000+gst, and he will be represented by his first crop of yearlings at Karaka later this month. He
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Verdi will be represented by his first crop of yearlings at Karaka at the end of this month. He began his stallion career at Long Acres Stud, the Canterbury operation of Myles Gordon and Deborah Clark, in association with Monovale Farm, for an initial fee of $3,000+gst in
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A champion New Zealand three-year-old, Puccini will be represented by his first crop of yearlings at Karaka later this month. A son of champion stallion Encosta de Lago, Puccini is out of stakes-winning Paris Opera mare Miss Opera. The quality broodmare is also the dam of six-time Group One winner
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Valachi Downs will send a quality group of yearlings through the ring during the 2020 New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sales, but this year’s Karaka draft is likely to be remembered mostly for the generosity of the Matamata stud’s owners Kevin and Jo Hickman. Valachi will offer 16
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Street Cry’s well-performed son Telperion, a half-brother to Group One winner Kementari, will be represented by his first crop of yearlings at Karaka next month. He is out of the Redoute’s Choice mare Yavanna, herself a daughter of the Group Three winner Wild Queen, who is a half-sister