Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Hi AB Your coverage of the yearlings sales is interesting. I used to buy a yearling every year but will no longer be doing that. The sport is at deaths door although I am not sure the officials have realised that. Why would they? Their competence and vision has been absent for 30 years – […]
The New Zealand standardbred yearling sales kick off today at Karaka and it shapes to be a cracker, with a catalogue filled full of quality bred, well-related youngsters from beginning to end. What’s striking about it otherwise is that there are only 7 stallions out of 13 with entries in the sale that have sired […]
The Annebel Neasham trained 2yo colt Deputize that ran 2nd last in a Maiden on the kenso at Randwick yesterday was bought by Aquis Farm owner, president and top dog Justin Fung for $500 000 at last year’s Magic Millions yearling sale. On its pair of poor performances on the track to date it’s not […]
With post-sale purchases now included, the numbers from the APG Gold Coast sale a couple of weeks ago have changed markedly since I last looked and wrote about it. The clearance rate has risen from being in the low to middle 50’s up to a much more impressive 66.27%. Sadly however the average sale price […]
Steve Stockman (pictured) and his Stonewall Stud operation have burst onto the scene as major yearling buyers in the past three years, but it doesn’t mean that they are any good at it. In fact on the evidence of their 6 figure or more buys since 2020, they are bloody useless. Thank god it’s a […]
With a few rare exceptions yesterday’s APG Melbourne yearling sale was a massive fail, with a vast swathe of the draft going unwanted and unsold. The clearance rate – the percentage of lots sold – was just 65.49 percent, meaning that over 3 in 1o yearlings that entered the ring left it under new ownership, […]
Based on the evidence of last night’s Hunter Cup meeting there are only three sires whose offspring any smart, results driven buyer at today’s APG Melbourne sale would be loo0king at. They are: Captain Treacherous, the world champion sire who threw the first 4 placegetters in the Group 1 4yo Bonanza Bettors Delight, who sired […]
With all the hoopla and hype about Moody Racing’s $1.6 million purchase of the top lot this week from the Karaka yearling sales, we thought it an opportune time to look back at the top priced lots from the previous 5 years and see where they are now and where they’ve been. Sadly the news […]
We tipped that Arbit Each Way and Chantal McMullen’s single lots would attract interest. Both did. McMullen’s didn’t sell, but that’s because she had a massive $80 000 reserve on it, which suggests that they are interested in keeping it at home. Arbit Each Way’s one went for $34 000, which was well above the […]
Media personality and harness racing licensee Brittany Graham presented three yearlings to the sales yesterday, and each of them looked an absolute picture of glowing health and success. Her Bettor’s Delight filly didn’t reach its reserve, which was understandably high, but both her her Captain Midnight filly and her Sweet Lou colt went for the […]
