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Coeur Volante’s traits have Ballymore going back for more Proisirs
Rich Hill’s filly by New Zealand’s champion sire sells for $170,000 at Karaka The similarities between a $170,000 Proisir (Choisir) filly and Mike Moroney’s three-time stakes winner Coeur Volante proved irresistible for the trans-Tasman trainer at Karaka yesterday. Ballymore’s Moroney continued his plundering of the Book 2 New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sale, signing for... Read More
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Moroney’s judgement stands test of time for Sears
Pendragon’s half-brother joins Queensland stable after $220,000 buy at NZB As the saying goes, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. And that’s the philosophy Queensland trainers Tony and Maddy Sears have stuck by at this week’s New Zealand Bloodstock Karaka Yearling Sale, once again employing the services of renowned agents Paul Moroney and Catheryne... Read More
Baker goes back to Little Avondale well
Earlier in the afternoon, Sam Williams has compared his and wife Catriona’s Savabeel colt, who was bought by Bjorn Baker and Jim Clarke for $525,000, to another Little Avondale-bred stakes winner by the same sire in Addictive Nature. The colt is the second foal out of two-time winner Alam Mo Na (High Chaparral), herself a... Read More
Confidence in Wootton Bassett hits Karaka
Camilleri-bred filly by Coolmore shuttler sells for $800,000 on final Book 1 day of NZB sale Agent Damon Gabbedy’s 15 years of experience in Europe instils huge confidence that proven northern hemisphere sire Wootton Bassett (Iffraaj) can transfer his potency Down Under. As New Zealand Bloodstock’s (NZB) Book 1 National Yearling Sale came to a... Read More
Third time lucky for Mills
Sheamus Mills put aside his day one disappointment of missing out on the $1.6 million sister to Prowess and the sister to Group 1-placed Japanese Emperor to yesterday buy his first yearling by Savabeel since You’re So Good, the 2013 Australian Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) runner-up. Yesterday, he paid $650,000 for the half-sister to the... Read More
Perry gets his Savabeel filly … eventually
Bruce Perry could have saved his Elsdon Park client Lib Petagna $20,000 had Jamieson Park’s James Chapman accepted the agent’s unsolicited paddock offer for a Savabeel daughter of Group 1-winning mare Thee Auld Floozie (Mastercraftsman). Acting for Petagna, Perry paid $620,000 for the half-sister to Just A Floozie (I Am Invincible) who was sold through... Read More