Sales News

Lean Mean Machine colt sets the pace

A colt by Aquis Farm’s first season sire Lean Mean Machine (Zoustar) ran a blistering 10.06 seconds for his breeze-up during the second session at Te Rapa yesterday, to top the standings across the two days of hit-outs for the NZB Ready To Run Sale.  The Ohukia Lodge consigned colt, catalogued as Lot 305, is... Read More

Frankel mare tops Inglis Digital Sale

Romantic Road, a four-year-old daughter of champion sire Frankel (Galileo) out of Canadian Grade 1 winner Miss Keller (Montjeu), and Seagrove (Exceed And Excel) have topped the latest Inglis Digital sale, which concluded yesterday. The pair sold for $150,000, with the unraced Romantic Road purchased by Emma Smith on behalf of Valencia Park in New... Read More

International investors to play prominent role at Inglis Ready2Race Sale

Middle market to hold the key to depth of the buying bench at Riverside Stables as juveniles go under the hammer Inglis’ Sebastian Hutch is not making any bold predictions ahead of today’s Ready2Race Sale, Australasia’s opening two-year-old auction of the year, despite a large international buyer cohort being in Sydney for the first time... Read More

Raleigh celebrates ‘amazing’ pinhook result with Inglis Digital mare

Estonian Princess (Snitzel) topped the Inglis Digital September (Early) Sale which concluded yesterday at $375,000, in what was an excellent pinhook result for Simon Raleigh of TJS Bloodstock.  Raleigh had purchased the Group 3-winning daughter of Snitzel (Redoute’s Choice) just 16 months earlier for $200,000 in foal to So You Think (High Chaparral) from the... Read More

New Zealand Bloodstock releases bumper catalogue for 2022 Ready to Run Sale

New Zealand Bloodstock expects to welcome an influx of buyers from key overseas markets in Australia and Hong Kong, as well as further afield, for its Ready to Run Sale in November for the first time in three years. The thoroughbred auction house, which last night released a catalogue of 329 lots for the two-day... Read More

Entriviere to be offered on Gavelhouse Plus after injury

Group 1-winning mare Entriviere (Tavistock) has been retired and will be offered to the market via Gavelhouse Plus after a career-ending injury.  The Te Akau-owned mare, winner of the Railway Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) earlier this year in her native New Zealand, finished sixth on her return this season in the Kerikeri Cup (1100m), but... Read More