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Plenty to cheer about ahead of New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Weanling and Broodmare Sale
New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2023 National Weanling and Broodmare Sale takes place tomorrow, featuring 170 weanlings (after withdrawals). It will be a full day of trade and the weanling numbers alone represent an increase of 60 lots compared with the 2022 sale which turned out to be quite buoyant. Broodmares, which haven’t been part of this... Read More
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Alcohol Free to join Waterhouse/Bott stable after record sale
Alcohol Free (No Nay Never) will be trained in Australia by Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott after her dramatic 5.4 million guineas (approx. AU$10.1 million) purchase for BBA Ireland and a Yulong Investments-led partnership at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale on Tuesday evening. She will become the most expensive horse sold at auction to race... Read More
BBA Ireland outgun Coolmore for Alcohol Free
Four-time Group 1-winning mare Alcohol Free (No Nay Never) stole the headlines at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale yesterday when selling for 5.4 million guineas (approx. AU$9,658,170) the second-most expensive thoroughbred ever sold at auction in Europe. The winning bid was landed by BBA’s Michael Donohue, sitting next to Mr Yuesheng Zhang, with Alcohol Free... Read More
Sherrin’s Frankel appeal sees breeder strike at Tattersalls
Queensland-based breeder Michael Sherrin’s love for Britain’s unparalleled champion racehorse and sire Frankel (Galileo) has seen the Sheralee Estate supremo travel halfway around the globe to source mares with which to breed to the Juddmonte stallion. Motor car racing businessman Sherrin, 72, and agent Jim Clarke first scoured the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale catalogue... Read More
Cambridge Stud aiming high with Tattersalls purchase
Brendan and Jo Lindsay’s Cambridge Stud went to 100,000gns (approx. AU$188,800) with Group race success in mind for three-year-old filly Terra Mitica (Ulysses), a daughter of Cheveley Park stallion Ulysses (Galileo), as the 2022 December Mares Sale went through the gears at Tattersalls yesterday. Catalogued as Lot 1512, the filly was bought in conjunction with... Read More
Australian breeders’ focus switches to American sales
Big southern hemisphere contingent en route to Fasig-Tipton and Keeneland breeding stock sales It may be the biggest week on the Australian racing calendar, but a contingent of breeders, bloodstock agents and industry professionals are on their way to the US for America’s Breeders’ Cup meeting and broodmare sales in Kentucky. Representatives from major Australian... Read More