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Two-year-old purchased by Perry at Ready To Run Sale
A colt by the late Cambridge Stud-based sire Tavistock (Montjeu) was one of the standout lots late on during day two of the New Zealand Bloodstock Ready To Run Sale on Thursday with Bruce Perry going to NZ$450,000 to secure the colt from the Curraghmore Stud draft.
Catalogued Lot 305, the colt - who stopped the watch at 11.92 seconds for his breeze - is destined for the stable of Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott and has been bought for owner Sam Kelt.
Bred by Sir Owen Glenn’s Go Bloodstock, the two-year-old is out of the stakes-placed Shirocco (Monsun) mare Mourasana, who is herself a half-sister to Group 2 scorer Mouramama (Kahysai).
Mouramama is the dam of Sydney Cup (Gr 1, 3200m) winner Mourayan (Alhaarth) and Listed winner Mourilyan (Desert Prince), who finished third in the 2009 running of the Melbourne Cup (Gr 1, 3200m).
The colt also hails from the same family as Group 2 scorer Endless Time (Sea The Stars), Group 3 winners Skins Game (Diktat) and Volkan Star (Sea The Stars) as well as Listed winner Epatha (Highest Honor).
Tavistock - who died at Cambridge Stud last December - was provided with a new Group 1 winner this season when Johnny Get Angry landed the VRC Derby (Gr 1, 2500m) last month and Perry told Racing & Sports Bloodstock he expected this colt to also be a Derby type horse.
“He is a lovely horse,” said Perry. “He is not a big heavy horse, but he is very well balanced with a lot of quality and he moves very well. He just looked a ripper. For me he was the pick of the colts in the sale and he has been bought as a middle-distance Derby horse.
“He will stay in New Zealand and he was bought for Sam Kelt and he will be trained by Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott.”
Perry was very impressed with the results over the two-days of trade and said the strong sale gave the industry a much-needed boost.
“I thought it was a wonderful sale and it was very timely for our industry, it showed that you can have a strong sale without all the participants being physically at the sale,” said Perry.
“Historically the sale has been a great source of winners and a lot of really good horses have come out of that sale and there was a lot of information for overseas buyers and the overseas buyers did utilise the New Zealand agents as well, which was good. The horses sold well and everyone was very surprised by the depth of the buying bench and there were a lot of bidders there - it was amazing.”
Curraghmore’s Gordon Cunningham was delighted to see the colt realise that price-tag.
“It was a really pleasing result, he was a quality colt, very athletic by a top sire and his physique reflected his pedigree,” said Cunningham. “He was extremely popular with people on the ground at Karaka but we also had several overseas enquiries about him.
“I’d really love him to fulfill his new owner’s dreams by winning a Derby in a couple of years.”
Meanwhile, Perry said he thought the vendors reaped the benefits of setting their reserves more conservatively during this year’s sale.
“I think the vendors set their reserves a lot more conservatively and you can’t get beat getting a horse on the market and giving buyer confidence,” said Perry
“There is nothing worse than doing the homework on a horse and you have the buyer all ready to go and you’ve told them what you think the horse will make and then you find out it’s got a silly reserve, so I think the reserves they set gave buyers confidence to participate and as a consequence the vendors reaped the rewards.”
The agent also said the buoyant market would only add to everyone’s confidence ahead of next year’s yearling sales.
“With it being such a good sale it will have instilled a lot of reassurance in the pinhookers ahead of the yearling sales,” said Perry. “The worry was that there was going to be very little money coming back into the system, but I think it has been very timely.
“The last year has been very tough for a lot of people and it has given the backbone of the industry a real boost. I think people have realised that even though the stakes in New Zealand aren’t great it’s still a great place to rear and source a good horse.”
Perry purchased three lots over the three days of trade and the second most expensive of the trio was a colt by Arrowfield Stud-based Dundeel (High Chaparral), paying Lyndhurst Farm NZ$200,000 for the two-year-old.
Catalogued as Lot 274, the colt was purchased by Lyndhurst Farm for $150,000 at the Inglis Great Southern Weanling and Bloodstock Sale from the Diamond Park Breeding and Racing draft and he breezed in time of 10.81 seconds.
The colt is eighth foal out of four-time Redoute’s Choice (Danehill) mare Lodore Falls, meaning his bred on the same cross as last season’s Caulfield Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) winner Super Seth, who is covering his first book of mares at Waikato Stud.
Lodore Falls has already produced two winners and she is out of Group 2 winner Lodore Magic (Kingdom Bay) who is herself also the dam of Crystal Mile (Gr 2, 1600m) winner Sonic Quest (Quest For Fame), while she is also the dam of Group 2-winning duo Chase The Rainbow (Dash For Cash) and Ms Funovits (Reset).
“We really liked him,” said Perry, who purchased the colt for Kelt and he will also be trained by O’Sullivan and Scott. “He had so much quality and a lot of presence. Very typically of Dundeel he wasn’t a big horse, but he was very athletic.”
Lyndhurst Farm’s Shelley Treweek said the colt had taken the sale process well.
“He is lovely,” Treweek said. “He had a lot of people look at him and of course Dundeel has been a very proven cross with Redoute’s Choice.
“He is a very confident horse and presented very well. He had a lot of interest and that was his money on the day and I wish them all the best with the horse, because he is a very determined horse and he always puts his best foot forward and hopefully he will continue to do that for his new owners.”