Promising Melbourne sprinter Search Squad (Falkirk-Comb The Seas), himself a purchase from our 2011 Weanling Sale draft, won his third race in just seven career starts when successful over 1300m in Melbourne on Saturday, increasing interest in his half brother by Per Incanto who we offer as LOT 259 at the National weanling and Broodmare Sale at Karaka on 12 and 13 May. Given the reception afforded the first crop yearlings of Per Incanto (Street Cry-Papa Reale by Indian Ridge) at Sydney Classic...
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Our decision to keep supporting the Inglis Sydney Easter Yearling Sales was again vindicated with another well-received draft at the Newmarket salegrounds last week. Emirates Park, owners of Golden Slipper winner Mossfun, purchased our Pins - Kumari filly for Aus $410,000. LA bred the filly in partnership with JML Bloodstock and Barlow Thoroughbreds. The Hong Kong Jockey Club signed the sales docket at Aus $300,000 for the Stratum colt from Sound Lover's daughter Bellabaci , her first foal and...
The superlatives seem to have already all been used on Towkay mare Viadana (Towkay-Yeah Nah by Kinjite) this season as she has cut a swath through...
Sterling City (Nadeem-So Gorgeous by Brief Truce) certainly picked the right race to land both he and his sire their inaugural group 1 success. The...
Lightly raced Towkay mare Waikawa ( Towkay -Harinui by Generous) showed her serious potential with an outstanding performance to finish third in the Group 3 Hiremaster Cuddle Stakes over 1600m at Trentham on Saturday. The Christopher and Susannah Grace bred and owned 4YO was having just her third raceday start following previous wins at Trentham and Hastings. Sunday’s Hong Kong Derby meeting may have unearthed another exciting Towkay performer in the form of four and a half length 1200m winner...
Nadeem mare Sharnee Rose ( Nadeem- Farasha by Jeune) added to her impressive black-type record with a second place finish in the Group 3 ATC Wiggle Stakes in Sydney on Saturday, and in doing so created more interest in her yearling half brother by Makfi who sells as part of our draft at the Sydney Easter Yearling Sale on 8-10 April. A dual group winner last spring in Sydney, five-year-old Sharnee Rose is looking like a major player in upcoming Group 1 races the Coolmore Stud Classic and Queen...
Statisticians must have been busy following the remarkable achievement of Towkay full brother and sister Tainui ( Towkay -Harinui) and Waikawa (Towkay-Harinui) winning their respective 1400m and 1600m assignments at Hastings on Saturday. The achievement in itself is unique but given that they did exactly the same thing on the middle day of the Wellington Cup Carnival almost defies belief. The Christopher and Susannah Grace bred pair have now had five starts between them for four wins and a...
Exciting sprinter Precision King ( Towkay -Quasi Stellar by Catrail) justified his short odds with a strong win in a Class 3 event over 1200m at Sha...
Unfortunately luck once again deserted Nadeem’s exciting sprinting son Sterling City as he bid to atone for his unlucky fifth in the Group 1...
Long regarded as consistently one of the most competitive Gr.1 events on our calendar, this season’s renewal of the Gr.1 NRM Sprint at Te Rapa was...
Momentum which commenced from his first parade at LA in the autumn of 2011, then spiked at the Sydney Classic Sale a fortnight ago, has now literally jumped off the Richter scale with Per Incanto’s (Street Cry-Pappa Reale by Indian Ridge) outstanding Karaka debut this week. The sprinting son of Street Cry had 13 yearlings sell at Karaka for an average of just over $54,000, including 12 in Select for $50,500, stunning value for his first season service fee of $4,000 plus GST. This week’s...
LA had a Top 10 finish by aggregate ($1,620,000) with an average of of $147,275 for 11 lots sold. a fantastic result and we head into the Select Sale buoyed by the last two days and full of optimism for the week ahead. Once again it was pleasing to see the familiar names of proven buyers returning to buy with confidence from LA . Names like Lisa Latta, Paul Moroney, Kris Lees, David Ellis, Dean Hawthorne and the Hong Kong Jockey Club. Congratulations to Brendan and Jo Lindsay on their purchase...
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First and foremost, stockman and people whose interest in the animal translates into an innate ability to read how a horse will develop. I’ll see a foal at LA and Sam or Buzz will tell me how they expect it to develop. I’ll see it during my Karaka inspections 12 months later, and you could blow me over with a feather
Danny Rolston -
NZ Bloodstock, Karaka