KARAKA: Pentire Provides The Late Highlight New Zealand Bloodstock's 2012 Select Sale concluded at Karaka on Friday with a Pentire colt providing the late highlight of the successful three-day sale.
KARAKA: Figures Hold Up At Select Sale Solid trade continued on day two of New Zealand Bloodstock's Select Sale at Karaka with figures holding up strongly against last year.
KARAKA: Pentire Filly Leads Select Sale New Zealand Bloodstock's three-day Select Sale at Karaka began on Wednesday with a Pentire filly bringing the top price of $NZ170,000.
Elite Milers By Pentire Say No More became the latest G1-winning miler for top stallion Pentire when she won last Saturday's 1 Thorndon Mile at Trentham.
Half Sister To The Traveling Man At Karaka Karaka Select Sale graduate The Travelling Man burst into Blue Diamond Stakes contention at Caulfield when he ran his opposition into the ground in the Listed Blue Diamond Preview on January 26.
Karaka 3YO MIle Preview Sunday's Karaka Million twilight Meeting at Ellerslie will see the third running of the $100,000 Karaka 3YO Mile and, for the first time in the race's short history, it has been upgraded to Restricted Listed status.
Redoute's Choice's progeny finished with a median Timeform figure of 85, making him the top stallion in 2008-09 (for stallions with progeny 4 years and older).
Filling second place was the legendary Danehill, whose progeny are slowly setting off into retirement, but still showed enough for the great sire to figure in this list.
Elusive Quality, who is now an absentee on the Darley Australia shuttle, is an interesting inclusion on the list, drawing level with Danehill with a figure of 84 fr...
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Almost 19% of Redoute's Choice's progeny attained a triple figure Timeform rating in Australia or New Zealand last year.
Encosta De Lago notched the same figure, but with more runners. He did however top Redoute's Choice in terms of his top 10 runners last season, which averaged 120, as opposed to Redoute's Choice's 116.
Third on the list was Comma...
Trippi Makes An Impact In South Africa Trippi, who finished 23rd on the General Sires List in the US last year, has made a big impact during his short time in South Africa.
Hansen And Union Rags Share Handicap Honours Undefeated champion two-year-old male Hansen and his Breeders Cup Juvenile rival Union Rags, shared the high weight assignment of 126 pounds on US 2011 Experimental Free Handicap issued by the Jockey Club.
Soviet Song Moved To Kentucky Multiple G1 winner Soviet Song has been moved to Kentucky in a bid to change her luck as a broodmare.
Lot Of Appeal At February Sale The Tattersalls February Sale saw an increase in turnover as the Sir Mark Prescott trained Appeal topped proceeding's at 110,000 guineas.
Bernardini Best Since 1973 Shuttle sire Bernardini has had the best start at stud by any American sire since 1973, adding to his great strike rate when his 3YO colt Algorithms pulled off a stunning upset win over last year's unbeaten juvenile champion Hansen in the $400,000 G3 Holy Bull Stakes at Gulfstream Park.
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