NZB: buyers and vendors ready to engage with virtual sale
Auction house well prepared to overcome challenges of online setting for next month’s two-year-old market New Zealand Bloodstock’s Danny Rolston is adamant both buyers and vendors can defy the challenges presented by the prevailing Covid-19 restrictions in the country, which on Monday forced the auction house to take next month’s Ready To Run Sale online... Read More
Busuttin and Young add northern hemisphere power to earlier Australia buys
Australian interest was again high on the second day of the Tattersalls 2021 Autumn Horses In Training Sale as Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young added to their three buys at the Inglis Ready2Race Sale hours earlier, with the purchase of Bonneval, an improving gelding by Siyouni (Pivotal). Catalogued as Lot 640, Busuttin, bidding online,... Read More
Speedy Hong Kong-bound Super One colt stars at Inglis Ready2Race Sale
$400,000 top price as buyers gravitate to middle and high-end of two-year-old market A domestic buying bench featuring some new and arguably unexpected names prepared to invest heavily at the top-end of the market helped underpin yesterday’s record-breaking Inglis Ready2Race Sale in Sydney, another example of the thirst for Australian bloodstock. The honour of the... Read More
22 for Caravaggio
New winners Caravaggio (pictured) – Former Coolmore shuttler Caravaggio (Scat Daddy) sired his 22nd individual winner when his son Inuit (2 c ex Prairie Blossom by Dalakhani) got off the mark in a conditions race over 1800 metres at Lyon La Soie. Sent off as favourite after finishing second on his debut last month, Inuit... Read More
Going Global
Thoroughbred racing and breeding is truly global, exemplified by the result of Saturday’s thrilling Cox Plate (Gr 1, 2040m) at Moonee Valley. The winner, State Of Rest (Starspangledbanner), is bred in Ireland, is by the Australian sprint star Starspangledbanner (Choisir) and arrived in Melbourne as the last-start winner of the recently re-established Saratoga Derby Invitational... Read More
Australians active on opening day of Tattersalls Horses in Training Sale
As expected, Australian buyers were out in force on the opening day of Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale, with Ciaron Maher and Australian Bloodstock securing prospects to continue their career Down Under. Maher and David Eustace purchased two lots, with Stuart Boman signing for Montather (Dubawi) on behalf of Maher after he went to... Read More