This Sunday the 22nd of July, LA sells three young mares at the National Broodmare and Mixed Sale at Karaka. The sale offers buyers a great opportunity to invest in an industry very much on an upward curve on the back of increasing prizemoney and yearling sale returns. We are located in Barn G which is due south of the sale ring.
Sam will be in attendance and would love to see you whether you be an existing client or simply wanting more information about investing in the industry.
A feature of LA’s offering is the currency of successful performers from the families of all three mares. We get awfully attached to our stock but as the saying goes in breeding horses, ‘you cannot keep them all’.
Here is a brief summary of each of the mares.
Lot 109 – Colouring Up
A Carolingian mare sold in foal to Towkay. From the family of our great matron Sound Lover, she’s also related to last seasons Group One Blue Diamond Stakes winner Nadeem. Carolingian, who stood at LA ,has had a big season as a broodmare sire with a Group One winner in Nightlign and Australian Group winner Splashing Out.
Lot 123 – Faberge
A Towkay half sister to Cent From Heaven – dam of Group winner Eloa and highly promising Hong Kong performer Winning Fellowship – and Lodore Mystic – dam of 2007 Group One Diamond Stakes winner Alamosa, Faberge presents a wonderful opportunity to buy into a highly commercial family of early running types. With his oldest progeny only six years of age Towkay has not had a chance to establish himself as a broodmare sire but the bloodlines are certainly there to succeed in this capacity. His dad Last Tycoon has been an outstanding sire of broodmares and in turn his successful siring son O Reilly is making a great start to that phase of his career.
Lot 247 – Security
A Grosvenor mare being sold on behalf of our clients Don Gordon and Fayette Park, with a positive test to the emerging sire success Postponed.
On the racing front this last week, Towkay had further success with Macrob (Towkay-Our Dorothea) winning at Hastings. One of the few Towkay's to relish the winter tracks; Macrob was recording his third win.
Sunday in Victoria saw the winning debut of Cuthbert Son (Centaine-Nikki’s Bride) who we bred and sold in conjunction with Brian Hutchinson and Don Gordon. The same partnership has had great sale success with other progeny of the mare, including realising in excess of $620,000 for her two most recent yearlings by Pentire and Montjeu. Nikki’s Bride was covered by Pins last year and has a weanling filly by Savabeel who will be going forward to Karaka next year.
For those of you looking to buy at the South Island Sale on 10 August, make sure you inspect lot 110, the Dubai Destination two-year-old gelding from Rivertaine which. The Pines Thoroughbreds will present on our behalf. At Waikato Stud’s open day last Sunday, MC Butch Castles was heard to comment how highly Hong Kong jockey Brett Prebble rates this gelding’s half brother O Reilly Rally. With his sire Dubai Destination making such a good start to his siring career in the Northern Hemisphere, he’s going to be a highly sought after lot.
Look forward to catching up with you next week with all the news from the broodmare sale.
