Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Have you ever seen a worse looking yearling than this one by Jilliby Kung Fu out of Coralie Joy? This thing looks like a back-blocks mule. It is as ugly as hell. Someone too pity on it. W. Kent threw in bid of $250 to win the right to take it home to make all […]
Yesterday’s Nutrien yearling sale in Melbourne will no doubt be trumpeted as a success, with three lots topping the $200 000 mark, a further three bringing over $100 000, a gross sale volume of $3.3 million, and an average of $33 040. That’s the good news. Now for the bad. The lots that attracted a […]
The best performed graduates – sorted by group status. Outstanding results from Magic Millions graduates, with 27 of these top 30 winning a group race Four of these graduates from the 2021 crop are Group 1 winners. 18 of these 30 winning graduates have already earned more prize money than money than their purchase […]
Australian Pacing Gold (APG) returned to Adelaide for the first time in a long time yesterday to hold a standardbred yearling sale. The way the sale went they might have been better off staying at home. Only 29 lots were presented for sale, and of these only 17 sold. Given that at least half a […]
The Nutrien yearling sale in Sydney is on today, and one of the youngsters sure to attract a lot of interest from buyers is Lot 96, a bay colt by Stay Hungry out of Cinco Amigos. https://portal.nutrienequine.com.au/catalogues/92/nomination/21938?from=lots&tab=pedigree This colt – the third live foal produced by the unraced mare – is a half-brother to last […]
Hi Archie, For many of the run of the mill breeders, the Perth APG Sale was a disaster. Of course, the blue bloods sold well to the blue blood owners who threw plenty of money around as they usually do, chasing the sales series cash as they have done for years. But some breeders took […]
Double Westbred is a terrible program that perpetuates the breeding of horses for the bottom shelf and widens the divide between the haves and the have nots, is it any wonder people don’t want them. Merv did miss out something very significant from the top end of the sale, two usually very prolific buyers, Team […]
There is some conjecture about our story yesterday regarding the Lot That Disappeared from the Nutrien Sunshine Stars sale. People in the know are telling me that Lot 90 was withdrawn two weeks before sale day. They don’t believe that the lot paraded on Sunday bearing the number 90 was the same filly listed in […]
This is an observation only, although it was shared by a number of people who attended the Nutrien yearling sale yesterday. A number of the lots on offer – particularly those prepared or offered by former APG executive Dean Baring – looked doped. By doped we mean sedated. Many of these lots were paraded around […]
90 horses went through the auction ring at yesterday’s Nutrien Sunshine Stars sales (91 if you count Dean Barings disappeared Lot 90 filly). Only 50 of the 90 (or 91) were sold. That’s a clearance rate of just over 50%. Meaning almost half of the yearlings went home with their breeder. I always thought sales […]
