Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Nathan Jack on behalf of the Cluse family paid $270 000 for the top lot of the sale, and who wouldn’t if they had the dough? He’s a gorgeous looking Captain Treacherous colt, from the first crop of the former top-class race mare Carlas Pixel, who won the Ladyship Mile, the Breeders Crown and the […]
There were 128 lots in yesterday’s Nutrien QLD sale. Only 54 of them were sold. That’s a live sale rate of just 42.9%. Or to put it in the alternative, its a pass in rate of a massive 57.1%, Or in other words, an abject failure. Be careful what you wish for breeders, cos you […]
It’s been about seven weeks since Bon-Bon wrote his last masterpiece, and gee we’ve missed him. Just like Tim Tzsyu missed Tony Harrison yesterday. Richard Branson didn’t say if you ‘reach higher than you expect, you could reach higher than you ever dreamed’, as out man Jason claims. What he said was that if you […]
The Ladbrokes Sunshine Stars Yearling Sale, to be conducted by Nutrien Equine at the Magic Millions complex on March 11 and 12, will be the keystone of an iconic weekend at the Gold Coast. The brainchild of the Albion Park Harness Racing Club, the sale has attracted well bred yearlings from leading breeders in Queensland, […]
The Nutrien sale at the Gold Coast is on today, and there are buyers from Africa here, or Kiwis at least. So far I have spotted a couple of Purdons, Regan Todd and Lurch, whose parents call him little Johnny Dunn. There are others too, and plenty of interstaters, a number of non-guaranteed buyer free […]
The number of mares bred each season continues to head in the wrong direction despite the introduction of a Breeding Incentive Scheme last year. While the figures below are incomplete with notably Cobbitty Equine Farm yet to advise the number of mares served by their pacing stallions, the number of individual mares bred is likely […]
The rise and rise of the massive Stonewall Stud operation was the enduring story of the National yearling sales, no more so than in Christchurch where the dual-island operation picked up 22 lots to go with the seven it bought in Auckland. A whopping $1,632,000 (average $74,182) was spent across the three days on the […]
$300 000 – Captaintreacherous x Goodlookinggirl (f) I have one golden rule when doing the pedigrees for yearling sales, and that is to immediately strike out any youngster by a mare whose only successful offspring were trained by the All Stars combination of N. Rasmussen and M. Purdon. If you can’t work out the reasoning behind […]
$240 000 – Bettors Delight x Hartofdixie (c) Full brother to Erupt Stride, the colt that Australian construction giant Emilio Rosati paid $320 000 for at the 2021 yearling sale. This one was 3/4 off that huge price, and so he should be given that his older brother has had 9 starts for 5 wins […]
