Manifique a highlight lot in gavelhouse.com auction
Manifique (Savabeel) is the standout lot on the latest fortnightly auction on gavelhouse.com.
Bidding currently stands at $27,000 for the Group 2 performer and is due to close around 7.30pm (NZ Time) on Monday.
Manifique is by New Zealand’s ten-time champion sire Savabeel (Zabeel), who is also putting together an outstanding record as a broodmare sire. His daughters have produced the Group 1 winners Never Been Kissed (Tivaci), Icebath (Sacred Falls), Savatoxl (Kuroshio), Beauty Eternal (Starspangledbanner), Warmonger (War Decree) and Gringotts (Per Incanto).
The dam of Manifique is New Zealand’s 2011-12 Champion Stayer, multiple Group 1 winner Shez Sinsational (Ekraar) and she is the dam of four winners including Manifique as well as her high-class half-sisters Sinarahma (Darci Brahma) and House Of Cartier (Alamosa). That pair were Group 2 and Group 3 winners respectively, who were also placed at Group 1 level.
Manifique was a $420,000 yearling purchase from Book 1 of Karaka 2020 by her part-owner Glen Cotterill.
From 26 starts, Manifique has recorded four wins and six placings and has earned $174,635 in prize-money.
She made a huge impression with back-to-back victories in the spring of 2023, winning a Rating 75 at New Plymouth by four and a half lengths before a stunning eight-length runaway in a $70,000 open handicap at Trentham.
Manifique went on to add some black type to her impressive CV, finishing second in this year’s Awapuni Gold Cup (Gr 2, 2100m).
Spelled not long after her Awapuni Gold Cup placing in the autumn, Manifique has now returned to Didham’s Awapuni stable and has been showing good signs in her pacework and gallops. She is being sold as either a racing or breeding proposition.
Manifique is one of 53 lots currently open for bidding on gavelhouse.com. Bidding will close on the first lot from 7pm on Monday.