Archive for category: Breeding

  • Select Sale follows improved Premier day

    Breeding February 1, 2012 10:45 am

    Breeders head into the first day of the second-tier Select Sale at Karaka on Wednesday hoping the market can continue the momentum from an improved second day of the Premier Sale. New Zealand Bloodstock’s Premier Sale average jumped from $NZ145,985 ($A113,766) at the end of day one to $NZ154,677 over [...]

     
  • $1.75 million colt an investment

    Breeding January 31, 2012 7:06 pm

    David Ellis paid $NZ1.75 million ($A1.36 million) for a half-brother to King’s Rose and then declared he hoped the colt would later be worth “real money”. The head of the Te Akau racing and breeding operation, Ellis bought the Fastnet Rock-Nureyev’s Girl colt from the Cambridge Stud draft at the [...]

     
  • Colt fetches $1.75 million in New Zealand

    Breeding January 31, 2012 11:49 am

    A half brother to Group One winner King’s Rose has fetched $NZ1.75 million ($A1.36 million) at New Zealand’s Premier Yearling sale. David Ellis of Te Akau Stud won out in a bidding duel with Irish conglomerate Coolmore to secure the Fastnet Rock colt out of Nureyev’s Girl. Ellis said he [...]

     
  • National yearling sales begin at Karaka

    Breeding January 30, 2012 12:23 pm

    Buyers from around the world have gathered south of Auckland for the national yearling sales at Karaka. Prime Minister John Key will open New Zealand Bloodstock’s 86th National Yearling Sales Series on Monday. The six-day event offers 1444 horses and a three-quarter brother to So You Think is among the [...]

     
  • Threequarter to So You Think headlines Karaka

    Breeding January 29, 2012 4:39 pm

    A three-quarter brother to So You Think is among the headline horses going up for sale at the Premier Yearling Sale at Karaka, south of Auckland.

     
  • Rachel Alexandra has first foal

    Breeding January 24, 2012 1:50 pm

    A bay colt who was dubbed a super horse before he was ever conceived was born to 2009 United States Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra on Sunday.

     
  • Sales strong at Magic Millions

    Breeding January 15, 2012 7:15 pm

    The first yearling sale of the year has been hailed a success, allaying fears brought on by economic difficulties around the world.

     
  • Sound start for Millions sale

    Breeding January 11, 2012 5:42 pm

    The Magic Millions sale at the Gold Coast got off to a mixed start on Wednesday with Gai Waterhouse’s purchase of two Redoute’s Choice colts among the highlights.

     
  • So You Think siblings to be sold

    Breeding December 20, 2011 12:27 pm

    There will be two chances to buy a sibling of dual Cox Plate winner So You Think next year.

     
  • Makybe Diva delivers Lonhro colt

    Breeding August 16, 2011 8:43 pm

    Makybe Diva gave birth to her fourth foal, a Lonhro colt, on Tuesday, Makybe Stud Farm confirmed.