Sales

Two down, one to go

It is New Zealand Bloodstock’s turn to stage their annual Ready To Run Sale and the 2023 edition is set to be held within an uncertain market. Two recent similar sales, in Sydney and on the Gold Coast, were mixed at best. The Inglis Ready2Race Sale in Sydney was at times hard going resulting in... Read More

Riversley to offer another bumper draft

Riversley Park is set to offer another bumper Ready To Run Sale draft at Karaka this week. The Waikato farm will have 38 juveniles go under the hammer and farm principal Sam Beatson is looking forward to seeing how his draft is received by the international buying bench. Farm graduates have performed to a high... Read More

Slipper winner Fireburn sold to Japan

Last year’s Golden Slipper Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) winner Fireburn (Rebel Dane) has been retired and will now embark on a career as broodmare in Japan.   Bred by Laurel Oak Bloodstock’s Louis Mihalyka, Grant Bloodstock and Carpe Diem Syndicate, Fireburn, whose other elite-level victory came in the 2022 Inglis Sires’ (Gr 1, 1400m), has been... Read More

Quality to the fore as Magic Millions release bumper Gold Coast yearling catalogue

A bigger book of 1,468 youngsters set to go under the hammer in January Half-siblings to some of Australasia’s finest sprinters including Imperatriz (I Am Invincible), Think About It (So You Think), In Secret (I Am Invincible) and Sunlight (Zoustar) are set to be among the most keenly sought lots at January’s bumper Magic Millions... Read More

Australians swoop for Three Witches 

Three Witches (Into Mischief), a Grade 3-winner, who was last seen finishing third behind Midnight Olive (Ghostzapper) in the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (Gr 1, 7f) at Santa Anita on November 5, was the headline act of the third session of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale on Friday, after Rifa Mustang Europe... Read More

Domeland snap up Urban Outlook and Humanity 

After a frenetic spending spree early on Wednesday at Tattersalls Autumn Horses In Training Sale, southern hemisphere buyers kept up the pace well into the evening at Park Paddocks.  With the likes of Waterhouse, Bott, McEvoy and Australian Bloodstock dominating proceedings earlier in the afternoon, Australian operation Domeland made its presence felt by securing the... Read More