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$10 million mare sold at Fasig-Tipton sale

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Mandy Pope of US operation Whisper Hill Farm had to outlay an eight-figure amount to secure the 2011 US champion older mare Havre De Grace (Saint Liam – Easter Brunette, by Carson City) at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale.

A product of the sole crop of the late 2005 US Horse Of The Year Saint Liam (Saint Ballado – Quiet Dance, by Quiet American), Havre De Grace won nine of 16 starts on the racetrack, including a trio of Grade 1 success in the Beldame Invitational (1m 1f), Woodward Stakes (1m1f) and Apple Blossom Handicap (1m1f) during her terrific 2011 season.

Havre De Grace fetched $US380,000 at a 2008 Keeneland yearling sale but Pope needed to hold her nerve as she prevailed with a $US10 million bid. Pope told the Bloodhorse that Havre De Grace was the perfect broodmare prospect.

“She was absolutely gorgeous—there’s nothing more to say. She’s beautiful,” Pope said. “You look at her and she’s everything a racehorse should be, and she has a wonderful attitude.

“She’s the epitome of what we’re all trying to breed as far as conformation and racing ability. Hopefully she’ll pass that on to her foals.”

Havre De Grace’s massive price tag doubled the next highest amount paid at the sale. M V Magnier, the son of Coolmore Stud partner John Magnier signed a $US5 million docket for Untouched Talent (Storm Cat – Parade Queen, by A P Indy), the dam of Bodemeister (Empire Maker – Untouched Talent, by Storm Cat). Bodemeister finished second in the Grade 1 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes but won the Grade 1 Arkansas Derby in fine fashion.

 

 

 

Coolmore snaps up Group 1 producer at Patinack reduction

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Group One producing mare Midnight Ballet was the star of the show at the Magic Millions Patinack Farm Unreserved Broodmare Sale on the Gold Coast.

Midnight Ballet attracted an opening bid of $100,000 before selling for $240,000. She was sold with a Onemorenomore colt at foot and is in foal to leading young sire Husson.

Leading bloodstock agent Colm Santry, who placed the winning bid on behalf of Tom Magnier, said the mare was the real stand-out of the sale.

“It’s a rare opportunity to have such a quality mare offered,” Santry said. “She is a proven Group One producer, a quality individual and we’re delighted to buy her.

“She will visit Fastnet Rock next spring and produce a full relation to Rock Classic,” Santry added.

The 191 mares offered fetched a sale gross of $2,779,750 with the average price a healthy $14,554.

“The sale has exceeded everyone’s expectations,” Magic Millions Managing Director Vin Cox said. “We are delighted with the participation from buyers right around Australia and overseas.

“The results tell us that the industry is in a buoyant state despite these difficult times.

“The success of this sale can largely be attributed to the organisation and manner in which the Patinack Farm staff conducted themselves.”

The selling action at the Gold Coast continues tomorrow with the first of two sessions of the National Horses in Training Sale.

TOP SELLERS

$240,000 – Midnight Ballet – Tom Magnier (NSW)
$70,000 – Long Lake – Sheamus Mills Bloodstock (Vic)
$70,000 – Crazy Quality – Magic Millions as agent (Qld)
$62,500 – Dibella – Sheamus Mills Bloodstock (Vic)
$60,000 – Fast Fleet – Rosemont Stud Pty Ltd (Vic)
$55,000 – Bradoglen – Prima Park Bloodstock Ltd (NZ)
$55,000 – Testagame – Peter Ford T’breds as agent for Hillside (Vic)
$54,000 – Dehere or Not – Hancock Quality Bloodstock (SA)
$52,000 – Naughty Minx – Magic Millions as agent (Qld)

SALE STATISTICS

Lots Catalogued: 203
Lots Sold: 191
Lots Withdrawn: 12
Lots Passed In: 0
Top Price: $240,000
Average Price: $14,554
Sale Gross: $2,779,750
Sold %: 100

 

NZB Ready to Run Sale catalogue online

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New Zealand Bloodstock has released the online catalogue and free iPad application for the company’s perennially successful Ready To Run Sale, which will take place on November 20 and 21.

NZB’s Ready To Run sale has produced nine Group 1 winners in the last five seasons while averaging 14 individual stakes winners per season in the same time.

Last year’s Ready To Run Sale graduates won Group 1 races in Australia and Hong Kong as well as taking out three more Derbys to make it six Derbys won by NZB Ready To Run Sale horses since 2010.

Sangster (Savabeel) and Able One (Danasinga) led the stream of Ready To Run Sale graduates to prosper with Group 1 wins between them

The New Zealand Ready to Run Sale has produced a Group 1 winner from every Sale for the last 10 years and this year’s catalogue features 407 well-bred athletic two-year-olds by a leading selection of 115 New Zealand and Australian sires.

The NZB Ready To Run sale will offer 370 colts and geldings among the 407 horses on offer.

The line-up for this year’s sale includes:

-          Siblings to over 30 stakes winners including New Zealand’s Champion 3YO and Group 1 NZ Derby winner Silent Achiever (O’Reilly), Group 1 Singapore Krisflyer International Sprint winner Green Birdie (Catbird), Group 1 Easter Handicap winner Pasta Post (Postponed) and more.

-          Progeny from 19 stakes winning mares including Group 1 winners Deebee Belle (Bin Ajwaad), Fayreform (Tights), Moire (Crested Wave) and Group 2 winners Pulcinella (Stravinsky) and Star Affair (Star Way).

-          Seven two-year-olds by Australia’s Champion Sire Fastnet Rock and 11 from New Zealand’s Champion Sire O’Reilly who has made a great start to the 2012/13 season with Sacred Falls, Emerald Queen and the hugely promising Mosse.

-          Two-year-olds by hot young sires including Bernardini, Casino Prince, Darci Brahma, Elusive City, Falkirk, Iffraaj, Savabeel, Starcraft and Stratum.

-          Leading New Zealand and Australian sires are all well represented with two-year-olds by, Commands, Danehill Dancer, Encosta de Lago, Exceed and Excel, High Chaparral, Lonhro, Pentire, Pins, Redoute’s Choice, Stravinsky, Testa Rossa, Thorn Park, Volksraad, Zabeel and more.

Breeze Ups will be held on 15 & 16 October with DVD copies of the Breeze Ups available from 23 October. To view New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run Sale catalogue online, click here.

To request your copy please email Receptionist Faye Hunt at reception@nzb.co.nz or call +64 (0)9 298 0055. For more information visit www.nzb.co.nz.

 

Patinack to reduce stock by 350

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Magic Millions has announced it will host an unreserved reduction sale of both racing and breeding stock from the mammoth Patinack Farm operation.

Patinack Farm has decided to offer a selection of two-year-olds, racehorse and broodmares at the sale, which will run in conjunction with the Magic Millions National Horses in Training Sale, which will run from October 30 to November 2.

The Patinack Farm draft is expected to include about 350 lots. This will be in addition to the 350-400 lots for the Horses in Training Sale.

“Magic Millions is pleased to have been chosen to conduct this important sale,” Magic Millions Managing Director Vin Cox said.

“Patinack Farm has built up an impressive line up across all levels of the industry and their upcoming reduction sale will be giving buyers a unique opportunity.”

“Two of the farms young sires – Casino Prince and Husson – recently completed the 2011/12 season as the two leading first season sires in the country – a remarkable achievement.”

“A large number of the mares to go under the hammer will be in foal to a Patinack Farm stallion – including both Casino Prince and Husson.”

Patinack Farm Chief Executive officer Peter Beer said the racehorse owner and breeder’s decision was a difficult but necessary choice.

“Patinack Farm operation is now one of the biggest in the world, with a very strong broodmare band,” he said.

“We have reached a point where we need to reduce our numbers and we regret losing some of our best stock, but a decision had to be made.”

“The sale will be filled with quality entries and will be a genuine reduction.”

“All horses lotted will be offered, subject to veterinary reasons. And all lots will be offered without reserve – the market will set their values.”

Further details of the sale will be released soon. Catalogues will be available in late September.

 

 

Three more recruits for Magic Millions

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Sales company Magic Millions has added three members to its new-look team for the new financial year.

Respected operators David Houston and Paul Beamish signed on with the Magic Millions outfit a few weeks ago while Adrian Hancock, Julian Blaxland and Tom Inglis have joined the group on a full-time basis.

Hancock will “oversee the Adelaide arm of the Magic Millions operation” as Magic Millions’s South Australian-based consultant while Blaxland will join the Magic Millions inspection team.

Chief executive Vin Cox said Blaxland would inspect “a large proportion of horses in the Hunter Valley and across New South Wales”.

Inglis has taken a position as a bloodstock consultant based on the Gold Coast.

“Our team has come together brilliantly over the past few weeks with David Houston and Paul Beamish also joining the team – we couldn’t be happier,” Cox said.

“We’re really looking forward to the upcoming sales including the Perth July Thoroughbred Sale and the National Horses in Training Sale on the Gold Coast.”

 

Fastnet Rock weanlings in demand at opening day of Inglis sale

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Coolmore’s champion sire in-waiting Fastnet Rock (Danehill – Piccadilly Circus, by Royal Academy) produced the top two lots on the opening day of the 2012 Inglis Weanling and Bloodstock Sale in Sydney.

More than $3.7 million changed hands on the first day’s trading at the sale. The $24,353 average represented a 55 percent rise on the corresponding day last year while the clearance rate finished the day at a healthy 80 percent.

Coolmore Stud offered the top lot of the day when the Fastnet Rock colt out of the Group 2-winning mare Bird Of Fire (Stravinsky – Go You Beauty, by Comet Shine) sold for $270,000 to a Victorian purchaser. The youngster is bred on the same cross as multiple Group 1 winner Mosheen (Fastnet Rock – Sumehra, by Stravinsky).

Coolmore Stud also offered the second top lot when it sold a Fastnet Rock filly out of the Group 1-placed mare Sarah Vee (End Sweep – Captivating, by Canny Lad) to Musk Creek Farm for $250,000. The filly is a half-sister to the well-performed three-year-old Rahveel (Zabeel – Sarah Vee, by End Sweep).

“Vendors that brought quality offerings to today’s sale were well rewarded by the strong local and international buying bench assembled, who no doubt are well aware of the strong demand for Australian bred thoroughbreds in the yearling sale ring,” Inglis Bloodstock Director Jonathan D’Arcy said.

“The progeny of Fastnet Rock have been in high demand at all of Inglis’ sales this year and that continued today. (It was) very pleasing to see a wide range of purchasers on the buyers list today, from pinhookers and breeders to owners, agents and trainers.”

Click here to see the full set of results of the first day of the Inglis Weanling and Bloodstock Sale. The sale continues on Thursday at 10am.

Lonhro filly tops second session of MM National Yearling Sale

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A Lonhro filly topped the second session of the Magic Millions National Yearling Sale

A filly by Darley’s champion stallion Lonhro (Octagonal – Shadea, by Straight Strike) fetched the highest amount at Wednesday’s second session of the Magic Millions National Yearling Sale on the Gold Coast.

A Lonhro filly topped the second session of the Magic Millions National Yearling Sale

Tyreel Stud provided the sale-topper on Tuesday’s opening day when New Zealander David Ellis paid $230,000 for a Sebring (More Than Ready – Purespeed, by Flying Spur) colt and the Agnes Banks-based operation also consigned the Lonhro filly, who is out of Paris Tryst (Fusaichi Pegasus – Let’s Elope, by Nassipour).

Paris Tryst is an unraced daughter of the champion racemare Let’s Elope (Nassipour – Sharon Jane, by Blushing Groom) and is a half-sister to Group 2 winner Ustinov (Seeking The Gold – Let’s Elope, by Nassipour). Macau-based brothers Nicholas and James Moore paid $160,000 for the filly on behalf of Chinese interests.

Warwick Farm trainer Gary Portelli paid $150,000 for a Redoute’s Choice colt out of the Nassipour mare Platonic (Nassipour – Startling Lass, by Luskin Star), who is a half-brother to the Group 3 winner Carnegie House.

Caulfield trainer Mick Price outlaid $150,000 of his total spend of $297,000 for a son of boom Coolmore sire Fastnet Rock (Danehill – Piccadilly Circus, by Royal Academy) out of My Dream Girl (King Ivor – St Klaire, by Bletchingly).

The clearance rate for the Select section of the National Weanling Sale closed at 74 percent, four percent higher than last year’s figure while at sale grossed more than $7.7 million on 241 lots sold at an average of $32,012.

“It was a satisfying day’s selling and sale,” Magic Millions managing director Vin Cox said. “Results across the board are in the same line as last year and that is positive.

“The most pleasing aspect of the past couple of days had been the spread of buyers – both domestic and international.”

Click here for the full results of the Select session of the Magic Millions National Yearling Sale.

 

 

Sebring colt tops opening day of MM National Yearling Sale

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A New Zealand buyer paid $230,000 for a colt by Golden Slipper winner Sebring (More Than Ready – Purespeed, by Flying Spur) to top Tuesday’s first session of the Magic Millions National Yearling Sale on the Gold Coast.

Top Kiwi bloodstock agent David Ellis purchased the chestnut, who is a son of the Group 1 winner Bramble Rose (Shinko King – Images, by Gleam Machine). Bramble Rose won the New Zealand Oaks as a three-year-old in 2003 before she was placed in the Arrowfield Stud Stakes as well as the AJC Australian Oaks in the same year.

Interestingly, the colt failed to reach a $150,000 reserve when he passed through the sales ring at the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale earlier this year.

Tyreel Stud offered the yearling, who is a half-brother to the Patinack Farm-owned Stakes winner Maules Creek (Redoute’s Choice – Bramble Rose, by Shinko King), who fetched $400,000 as a yearling himself in 2009.

Hong Kong-based Magus Equine went to $190,000 to secure a son of Encosta De Lago (Fairy King – Shoal Creek, by Star Way) out of Slip Sliding (Thunder Gulch – Sister Dot, by Secretariat). Magic Millions managing director Vin Cox said the purchases were an indication of the strength of the overseas buying bench, which contributed to a gross of more than $3.9 million, an average of $33,647 and a 70 percent clearance rate.

“It was a good even sale today,” Magic Millions Managing Director Vin Cox said.

“We’re very happy with the attendance from around Australia and all corners of the globe – they are here to buy.”

“The internationals were very strong today – purchasing no fewer than 34 lots.”

Click here for the full first day’s results of the Magic Millions National Yearling Sale.

So You Think brother out of Easter Sale

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Willow Park Stud has confirmed that the full brother to So You Think has been withdrawn from the 2012 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale that commences next week.

The colt by High Chaparral (Ire) out of the stakes winning Tights (USA) mare Triassic has been diagnosed as a wobbler and faces an uncertain future.

High Chaparral - Triassic colt

High Chaparral - Triassic colt

“It is devastating news for his owners Mike Moran and Cecile Smith, as well as my staff who had done an exceptional job in preparing the colt for the sale,‚Äù said Willow Park proprietor Glenn Burrows. ‚Ä®”It is still hard to fathom that a few days ago he was parading perfectly and yet here we are today having to withdraw him from sale.‚Äù

One of the treating veterinarians, Dr Angus Adkins of Scone Equine Hospital, said, “Unfortunately this condition often presents as a yearling, just when their potential is being realised.¬†It is a developmental condition that is often progressive and his future is in doubt.‚Äù

Big Brown colt sells for US$1.3 million

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A 2yo colt by Gr 1 Kentucky Derby winner Big Brown (Boundary) became the new sale topper at the Fasig-Tipton Florida select sale of two-year-olds on Monday when he fetched $US1.3 million from Coolmore associate Demi O’Byrne.

Consigned by Ciaran Dunne’s Wavertree Stables, the Big Brown colt was bred in Pennsylvania by Lansdon Robbins and Tom Hansen. He worked 200m in :10 1/5 during the auction’s breeze-up show at Palm Meadows Training Centre. 

The $1.3 million colt was produced from the winning mare Cool Ghoul (by Silver Ghost). He is a half brother to dual stakes winner Dagnabit and the winning, stakes-placed runner Bad Boy Rising (both by Freud ).

A considerable amount of appeal comes from the family of the Big Brown colt‚Äôs second dam, Single Blade (by Hatchet Man), who captured the 1987 Gazelle Handicap (gr. I). She is the dam of 12 winners, including grade II victor Comeonmom (by Jolie’s Halo).‚Ä®

Big Brown shuttled to Vinery in New South Wales for the 2011 Australian season.