Sires a Hot Commodity at NZB Ready to Run Sale

A broad range of the best sires from New Zealand and Australia are represented at this year’s New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale of Two-Year-Olds with 108 stallions showcasing their progeny.

Pentire

One sire at the forefront of people’s minds following recent success is Pentire, the sire of two Group 1 winners last week.

Pentire is the sire of this year’s Group 1 Melbourne Cup winner Prince of Penzance (NZ) and last Saturday’s dominant 8.5 length Group 1 New Zealand 2000 Guineas victor Xtravagant (NZ).

Those two winners brought the number of Group 1 winners Pentire has sired to 14, leaving winners at the highest level from 1200m to 3200m. Prince of Penzance’s Melbourne Cup is the single biggest race won by the progeny of Pentire but he is also the sire of 10-time Group 1 winner and Karaka graduate Mufhasa (NZ).

Mufhasa (NZ).

Pentire has four two-year-olds catalogued in the NZB Ready to Run Sale.

Another stallion to enjoy Group 1 success last week was fellow kiwi sire Iffraaj with Turn Me Loose (NZ) winning the Group 1 Emirates Stakes at Flemington on Saturday.

Turn Me Loose first won at Group 1 level a year ago as a three-year-old, just one year after being purchased at Karaka, in the Group 1 New Zealand 2000 Guineas.

Iffraaj, last season’s leading sire of three-year-olds in New Zealand, is also the sire of stakes winner Serena Miss (NZ) who finished third in the Group 1 New Zealand 2000 Guineas on Saturday and Magic Artist who ran fourth in the Group 1 Emirates Stakes to Turn Me Loose after another fourth finish in the Group 1 Mackinnon Stakes at his previous start.

The sire of five Group 1 winners, the Haunui Farm stallion has six two-year-olds to be offered at the Sale.

Boom young sire Tavistock is well represented at the Sale with 10 two-year-olds to be offered.

The Cambridge Stud sire’s most recent success also took place at the Melbourne Cup Carnival with three-year-old Tarzino (NZ) taking out the Group 1 Victoria Derby.

Tarzino continued the impressive record of kiwi three-year-olds in Australia – 45% of Derbies have been won by New Zealand bred or sold horses in the past five seasons.

Another Group 1 winning son of Tavistock, Volkstok’n’barrell (NZ) scored at the elite level in Australia last season in the Group 1 Rosehill Guineas, following being runner-up in the Group 1 New Zealand Derby to NZB Ready to Run Sale graduate and now multiple Group 1 winner Mongolian Khan (Holy Roman Emperor).

Last season’s leading New Zealand sire Savabeel collected two of the three sires’ titles at the New Zealand Horse of the Year Awards, the Dewar Stallion Trophy and the Grosvenor Award.

Savabeel is the sire of 10 indivdual Group 1 winners including six last season in Costume (NZ), Diademe (NZ), Lucia Valentina (NZ), Pasadena Girl (NZ), Savaria (NZ) and Soriano (NZ). His most recent Group 1 winner came early this season with his son Kawi (NZ) winning the Group 1 Makfi Challenge Stakes.

Lucia Valentina continued her stakes success this spring in Melbourne, winning the Group 2 Matriarch Stakes at Flemington last Saturday.

There will be 13 two-year-olds by Savabeel at the Sale.

Another leading sire in the Sale is New Zealand’s late Champion Sire O’Reilly with one of the second largest drafts in the Sale, represented by 16 two-year-olds.

The winner of all three sires’ titles in 2013 and 2014, O’Reilly held on to the Centaine Award in 2015 at the New Zealand Horse of the Year Awards.

O’Reilly is the sire of 16 Group 1 winners among his 82 stakes winning progeny. Last season saw his son Sacred Falls (NZ) win for the fourth time at Group 1 level, taking out the Group 1 George Main Stakes before retiring to stud at Waikato Stud, the home of his late sire O’Reilly and Savabeel.

Many of the top Australasian sires will be presenting their progeny at the NZB Ready to Run Sale including Australia’s hottest sire Fastnet Rock. The sire of one colt in this year’s NZB Ready to Run Sale, Fastnet Rock is sought after having sired 22 Group 1 winners including Karaka graduate and last season’s New South Wales’ Champion Horse of the Year First Seal.

Sires to have made a promising start to their stud careers with progeny in the Sale is last season’s leading two-year-old sire Showcasing  and Per Incanto, a leading two-year-old sire by winners in New Zealand.

The sire of this year’s $1 million Karaka Million winner, Hardline (NZ), Showcasing has the largest draft with 17 two-year-olds in the NZB Ready to Run Sale.

Finishing third to Hardline in the $1 million Karaka Million was Dal Cielo (NZ) (Per Incanto), a son of Per Incanto who went on win the Group 1 Diamond Stakes. The Little Avondale Stud stallion has 16 two-year-olds entered in the Sale.

Other sires with progeny in the Sale include Bel Esprit, Beneteau, Bernardini, Choisir, Commands, Darci Brahma, Encosta de Lago, Exceed and Excel, Hinchinbrook, Hussonet, Jimmy Choux, Keeper, Lonhro, Makfi, Mastercraftsman, Pins, Rip Van Winkle, Sebring, Thorn Park and many more.

A full preview of first season sires can be viewed here or in the NZB Ready to Run Sale Handbook. The Handbook is your go-to guide for all things related to your visit to Karaka in November. It contains everything from sire previews and vendor information through to accommodation and restaurant guides.

The 2015 NZB Ready to Run Sale catalogue has attracted 397 two-year-olds. Each horse was given the opportunity to Breeze Up with the final 200m of their work timed and filmed. Breeze up clips can be viewed online.

New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run Sale commences next week on 18 & 19 November at Karaka. Catalogues or a DVD copy of Breeze Ups can be requested from [email protected] or the online catalogue can be viewed on the NZB website.