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The four-day Tattersalls December Foal Sale got off to a solid start on an opening day with a son of IFFRAAJ topping proceedings at 57,000 guineas on a day that saw six lots sell for 40,000 guineas or more. The turnover fell narrowly short of last year’s opening session despite offering 18% fewer foals, whilst the average and median rose significantly by 16% and 60% respectively. Iffraaj Colt Sel ...
Part-owner, and breeder of the Listed Ballarat Cup (2000m) winner Irish Flame, originally is still very much a Taranaki girl. She may have lived on the Central Coast of New South Wales for 40 years but Margaret Reid, the So much so that the green and brown colors that Irish Flame races in feature a stylized logo of Mount Taranaki and the nearby Waiwhakaiho river. She shares those colors with her ...
Grant Pritchard-Gordon, a regular purchaser at Southern Hemisphere sales over the years, celebrates two extraordinary racing wins by recent graduates of his Badgers Bloodstock. Gr.1 VRC Oaks winner Personal (3f Fastnet Rock x Personify) was bred and sold by Cressfield, but her mother caught the eye of Badger’s Bloodstock a long time before that. At that same 2008 Inglis breeding stock sale, Badge ...
David Ellis and his Te Akau Racing Syndicates owned Imperatriz overcame a wide drawn and heavy 10 ground to score a short neck win on debut in the 1000m juvenile contest as the favourite at Otaki. David bought the I Am Invincible 2YO filly for A$360,000 at Magic Millions from the Bhima Thoroughbreds draft and she is the second foal and first winner for Berimbau a Group II placed Shamardal (USA) m ...
After his extraordinary recent performances, Gr.1 winning Bivouac has been elevated to the rank of the world’s joint-highest rated sprinter along with Classique Legend who is in preparation for the Gr.1 Hong Kong Sprint, where he is favourite to win. Nature Strip remains on the 124 he earned for his T.J. Smith Stakes triumph while Sir Dragonet is equal 28th in the world after rising to 121 follow ...
The world’s joint-highest rated sprinter Classique Legend has begun preparation for the Gr.1 Hong Kong Sprint, where he is favourite to win. Classique Legend stands equal-fourth in the LONGINES World’s Best Racehorse Ranking with a rating of 125 placing him at the head of the speed division together with Godolphin’s three-time G1-winning sprinter Bivouac. Caspar Fownes is very pleased with his ne ...
Champion sire Exceed and Excel made a splash at the Karaka Ready To run Sale earlier today with a $525,000 colt and then gave us an impressive maiden winner at Hawkesbury carrying the colours of her breeder and part-owner Kia Ora Stud. The Mark Newnham trained filly Escape Artist was second and fourth at her first two starts back in June and July, but returned to racing a stronger filly on Thursd ...
After 10 days of competitive trade for quality broodmares, broodmare and stallion prospects, weanlings and horses of racing age, including nine horses sold for US$1 million, the Keeneland’s November Breeding Stock Sale has finally ended with strong participation from many prominent domestic and foreign horsemen who make up the sale company’s deep buying bench. For the auction, held Nov. 9-18, Kee ...
Te Akau Principal David Ellis purchased what he considered the best son of Darci Brahma for A$350,000. Nearly 17 years ago, Ellis went to A$1.1 million to secure the five-time Gr.1 winner, Darci Brahma out of Pencarrow Stud’s 2004 Premier Yearling Sale draft. He paid a fraction of that to purchase lot 219, the colt out of Encosta de Lago mare Granadilla, from Lilywhites Lodge’s Ready To Run Sale ...
The grande finale of the successful New Zealand Bloodstock Ready To Run Sale was the sale of a colt by Savabeel out of the O’Reilly mare Miss Opulence who was knocked down for the sale-topping price of A$700,000. She is a half-sister to multiple Group One winner's Sir Slick and Puccini. Presented by Sam and Hana Beatson’s Riversley Park, the athletic bay attracted the interest of multiple parties ...