Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Over the past few years there has been a civil war fought in the Australian standardbred yearling sale industry between the incompetent and corrupt incompetents APG, and the multinational player Nutrien, one of the biggest companies in the world. Nutrien won, but only because of the ineptitude and arrogance of APG, who had become such […]
I’m watching the Nutrien Sydney sales on webcast, because isn’t that what every Australian does on a Sunday? It’s a bit like watching the Bathurst car race. Goes forever, and you get about 3 exciting bits. They haven’t come yet. The sale has been shit. Low prices, big pass in rate. The auctioneers have been […]
$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 […]
Our mail, which is accurate, is that the APG spent $57 000 to hire the Magic Millions complex for yesterday’s yearling sale. It only made $83 000 from commissions on the sales, before expenses. That leavers $26 000 left over. Sadly for the true believers, that wouldn’t even pay the wages and costs to put […]
36 yearlings went through the sales ring at the APG auction at the Gold Coast yesterday. Only 19 of them were sold. None of the 17 others reached their reserve prices, which in most cases were set at dollars they couldn’t possibly achieve. But each of these 17 are deemed to be sold, and are […]
