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Scene set for competitive Ready to Run Sale as New Zealand Bloodstock adapts to Te Rapa 

Strong buyer registration numbers and graduate success has Rolston hopeful of strong participation at two-year-old auction The racetrack surroundings of Te Rapa are foreign for a New Zealand horse sale but the show must go on – and that it will over the next two days.  New Zealand Bloodstock’s Karaka complex, widely considered one of... Read More

Bumper Magic Millions catalogue set to be revealed

Strong representation from the big guns and boom first season sires as preparation under way for season-opening Gold Coast sale Magic Millions will this morning officially release the catalogue for the 2022 Gold Coast Yearling Sale in what the company promises will be another incomparable line-up of horses capable of delivering on the big stage.... Read More

Rogerson keen on his Ready to Run quartet headed by an Almanzor colt

Kiwis do early legwork ahead of this week’s New Zealand Bloodstock two-year-old sale If Graeme Rogerson’s experience is any guide, agents and buyers intending to participate in this week’s New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale have heeded the call to undertake their pre-auction work early. The two-day sale of juveniles, the largest of the... Read More

The Perfect Pink leads home 1-2-3-4 for Richards in New Zealand 1,000 Guineas

Victory in the Group 1 brought up the trainers 50th elite level winner and Savabeel’s 26th  Just when you thought Jamie Richards couldn’t get anymore dominant, the young trainer took his career into another stratosphere yesterday when The Perfect Pink (Savabeel) landed the New Zealand 1,000 Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) at Riccarton, leading home an... Read More

Queensland-based Archer Park sells for $6 million

World-renowned equestrian Ashlie Waters will transition into the thoroughbred industry after she purchased state-of-the-art Queensland spelling and pre-training facility Archer Park for $6 million yesterday. Archer Park, which went to auction at the Woodford Hotel in a sale handled by Donovan and Co’s Clint Donovan and Magic Millions, bought the property to allow her to... Read More

Kestrel and Boomer combine for breakthrough Keeneland score

Fast stakes-winning Karakontie mare Karak continues strong Australian interest in US breeding stock market Kestrel Thoroughbreds’ Bruce Slade made his first successful foray into the US mare market on day two of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale as southern hemisphere breeders continued to plunder Kentucky in search of outcross pedigrees. Slade teamed up with... Read More