After three weeks of back-to-back sales, the Valachi Downs dispersal on Gavelhouse Plus concluded yesterday with total turnover nearing $10 million. Yulong’s Written Tycoon syndicate were once again to the fore of the buyers’ list, purchasing the yearling sister to four-time Group 1 winner Tofane (Ocean Park) for $460,000, having last week added their dam,... Read More

The headline mares in yesterday’s Inglis Digital auction will be retained by their owners after failing to meet their reserves but the bumper late June sale still saw turnover of $6,428,750, pushing trade through the company’s online platform to more than $93 million for the financial year. Chris and Jane Barham, the breeders of dual... Read More

Watch Me Dance (I’m All The Talk), a three-time Group winner, yesterday set a record price of $600,000 for a thoroughbred sold at public auction in Western Australia after being purchased by eastern state interests for the new benchmark figure at the Magic Millions Perth Winter Sale. The Steve Wolfe-trained rising five-year-old mare, a winner... Read More

88 per cent clearance rate for one-day sale as international buyers return Buyers took advantage of the Valachi Downs dispersal at the New Zealand Bloodstock National Weanling Sale yesterday, with two foals bred by Kevin and Jo Hickman topping the one-day Karaka auction, as pinhookers also threw their support by rising sire Tarzino (Tavistock). Demonstrating... Read More

New Zealand Bloodstock will go against convention and conduct the Valachi Downs dispersal sale at Karaka this morning, prior to the start of the 112-lot National Weanling Sale, the company’s late autumn live auction offering. The decision by Kevin and Jo Hickman to sell their Valachi Downs property and training operation at Matamata, and disperse... Read More