Overseas buying bench tipped to hold up as key players use expert eyes of domestic contacts for yearling inspections ahead of NZB auction  The international buying bench, the backbone of the New Zealand Bloodstock Karaka Yearling Sale, may be locked out of the country’s biggest thoroughbred auction, but major overseas investors are still largely expected... Read More

Northland farm to send through Per Incanto half-brother to current favourite for New Zealand’s richest juvenile race A win for Karaka Million 2YO (RL, 1200m) favourite Millefiori (Iffraaj) in Saturday’s $1 million feature could prove bountiful for Totara Park Stud’s Dirk and Nicci Oberholster, who are offering up a Per Incanto (Street Cry) half-brother to... Read More

NZB managing director Andrew Seabrook feeling positive ahead of Sunday’s start With the record-breaking Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale now behind us, the attention of the southern hemisphere thoroughbred industry turns to the NZB Karaka Yearling Sale which begins on Sunday. Commencing after the running of NZB’s Karaka Million Twilight Meeting at Ellerslie on... Read More

Alpine Edge’s half-brother to be trained on the Gold Coast, Iffraaj colt to head interstate Yarramalong Park principal Richard Foster says the time was right to cash in on the success of exciting two-year-old Alpine Edge (Better Than Ready) by selling his half-brother by Deep Field (Northern Meteor) for $310,000, one of two colts to... Read More

Demand remains strong in increased second session with one day to go on the Gold Coast The three-quarter sister by Scissor Kick (Redoute’s Choice) to this season’s Brisbane two-year-old winner True Moonlight (Not A Single Doubt) yesterday topped the opening Book 2 session of the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale, helping push the aggregate... Read More