Four More Stakes-Winning Mares Entered
20 July 2010
New Zealand Bloodstock's Winter Mixed Bloodstock Sale has received another boost with the entry of four stakes-winning broodmares in the supplementary, book two, session.
Being offered through Gordon Cunningham's Curraghmore Stud draft, the mares are former successful gallopers for Christchurch-based owner Ray Coupland.
Coupland, whose biggest thrill to date has been racing the outstanding mare Princess Coup, commented on the decision "I've got a lot of horses around me now and my passion is racing. I'm looking to concentrate on that side of my involvement by offering the breeding stock for genuine sale".
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�Lot 127, Group 2 winner Te Akau Coup. |
The Thorn Park mare Te Akau Coup will be offered at Lot 127. The Group 2 Matamata Breeders' Stakes winner will be offered in foal to promising young son of Danehill, Darci Brahma. The winner of five Group 1 races, �his first crop were well received at Karaka earlier this year, selling up to $480,000 while finishing up the leading first season sire overall, averaging $118,439. Being from the Gone West mare Beyond the Sunset, Te Akau Coup is a half-sister to the strapping stakes-winner Don Garcia.
Also in foal to Darci Brahma is Lot 128, the 2001 NZB South Island Filly of the Year, Besty Coup. The dual-stakes winning mare won seven races from 1000m up to a mile.
Listed Canterbury Belle Stakes winner Flying Coup will be offered at Lot 129. Herself a winner of six she is in foal to the 2007 champion European sprinter and Group 1 July Cup winner, Sakhee's Secret.
Completing the supplementary line up for Coupland is another dual-stakes winner at Lot 130. Kims Coup is from the four-time winning Centaine mare Marcastle and is in foal to Darci Brahma's Stravinsky half-brother, Saperavi.
Also in the Curraghmore draft, but in the main catalogue, are two mares in foal to High Chaparral who is now set to stand at Coolmore Australia this season for A$88,000. At Lot 42 is Jay Dee Coup, a young Danehill Dancer mare while Lot 10, Star Gem, is a granddaughter of Eustaci, the dam of Smiling Like, Nimue and Sirstaci.
One earlier at Lot 9 is the well-bred Spectralia, her dam�is a half-sister to the multiple Group 1 winner and successful sire Spinning World. Spectralia has two fillies already on the ground, one by Redoute's Choice and the other by Encosta de Lago and is carrying a foal by Stravinsky this term.
Commenting on the 13-strong Curraghmore draft, Cunningham said "We have a very well-credentialed broodmare offering that would hold its own at any sale. Of Ray's mares that have had foals, there are some nice offspring being grown out or in training and on top of that we have three genuine pin-hook prospects for the yearling sales."