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Bart Cummings who purchased Derby winner Roman Emperor from our 2007 Karaka Premier draft looks to have another serious candidate for major Australian three-year-old honours judging by the impressive win of Kudakulari (Savabeel-Oenotria) in Saturdays Listed Fernhill Handicap at Randwick. Bred by JML Bloodstock and Brown Thoroughbreds, Kudakulari was part of our 2009 Karaka Premier draft selling to the master trainer for $140,000. Despite racing wide throughout the two-year-old colt came away...

Factors such as the extremely high Australian dollar may have kept a lot of international buyers away from the Inglis Australian Yearling Sale which concluded last Thursday in Sydney but we were still pleased with our gross of Australian $370,000 (NZ $480,000) for our three yearlings. Once again it was very satisfying to see our draft catch the eye of some of the most astute yearling selectors in the business. Grahame Rogerson bought the O'Reilly half brother to group winner Larry's Never Late...

Sam's in Sydney for the Australian Yearling Sales which start on Tuesday 6 April. We are straight into action with lot 9 and the O Reilly half brother to the recent Australian group winner Larry's Never Late. Back home the farm is gearing up for our largest representation in a number of years at the National Weanling Broodmare and Mixed Sale at Karaka which gets underway on Monday 3 May. Read on for more about the LA draft including the broodmare in foal to the sire of Saturdays Golden Slipper...

Exciting Towkay galloper Ace Aliado ( Towkay -Waikawa) put his unbeaten 7 win career on the line when he resumed from a four month break in Fridays...

Wins Highlight Weanling Sale Entry and Sydney Bound Yearlings . The win of the LA bred filly Kallisan (Stratum- Eloa ) in the two-year-old event at Waverley on Sunday has raised the profile of LA's Savabeel - Cent From Heaven weanling colt in the National Broodmare and Weanling Sale at Karaka starting on May 3. Cent From Heaven is also the mother of group winner Eloa . A $230,000 purchase by Stephen Gray from our 2009 Karaka Premier draft, Kallisan's victory was well deserved after successive...

The highlight for the farm last month was the win in the Group Three Launceston Cup of Larry's Never Late (Pentire- Laebeel ) His dam Laebeel is now...

The win of Larry's Never Late ( Pentire- Laebeel) in Wednesday's Group Three AAMI Launceston Cup was perfect timing with the farm set to offer his half brother by O'Reilly in the upcoming Australian Yearling Sale in Sydney. Laebeel herself a stakeswinner and runner up in the 1999 Caulfield Cup to Sky Heights, has a two-year-old Pins filly that we have leased out to race from the Leon Corstens stable in Melbourne and a Pins weanling colt which we will likely take to Karaka next year. Bred by...

So the dust has settled on one of the more extraordinary National Yearling Sale Series in years. Not even the most optimistic could have predicted...

While the pre sale signs were largely positive it's doubtful even the most optimistic could have predicted the results of this year's Karaka Premier Sale. LA enjoyed a healthy 18 % increase in average price on last year's Premier Sale results selling 10 yearlings this week for an average price of $177,000. The Darci Brahma- Rivertaine and the Elusive City-Shahiid colts both realised $250,000 making them the equal highest priced lots in our draft. It's great to see Bart Cummings, DGR...

A couple of wins in Hong Kong last week and recent back to back listed wins in Australia could not have come at a more opportune time for three LA colts in next month's Karaka Sales. Rivertaine has been a great mare for us on the racetrack and in the matrons paddock Last week's Sha Tin winner High Return (by Dubai Destination) gave the mare her third individual winner in Hong Kong joining group one placed Regency Horse and five times winner O'Reilly Rally. Consequently Rivertaine's yearlings...

It was good to see so many familiar and whole bunch of new faces at our yearling parade on Sunday. Most of the horses behaved perfectly; remembering...

January 2010 2009 was full of highlights for LA . Stakeswinners throughout the year, bred, reared or sold by the farm included Roman Emperor (Group 1 AJC Derby), More Bountiful and Marquardt . Some of the listed and group placegetters in 2009 to have come off the farm include Pachanga, Blonde Bombshell, Aspinal, Special Day's, La Collina and the Classic placed Larry's Never Late and Can't Keeper Down. Looking forward it's just under a month until our next batch of stars are auctioned at the...