A half-sister to Black Caviar has stolen the show at the second session of the Australian Easter Yearling Sale in Sydney, selling for $2.6 million. The daughter of Redoute’s Choice was knocked down to BC3 Thoroughbreds and will be trained in Melbourne by Danny O’Brien. Bidding on the filly was [...]
The 2012 Golden Slipper will be run on Saturday 7th April at Rosehill racecourse. The Golden Slipper is the richest 2YO race in the world and has prize money worth $3.5million dollars. We take a look at all of the runners in the race, who purchased the runner and how much the [...]
Zenyatta, US racing’s 2010 Horse of the Year, has foaled a colt sired by 2006 Preakness winner Bernardini. The foal was born at Lane’s End Farm in Versailles, Kentucky, on Thursday and weighed in at 130 pounds. After winning the coveted Breeders’ Cup Classic in 2009, Zenyatta became a crossover [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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.
The first yearling sale of the year has been hailed a success, allaying fears brought on by economic difficulties around the world.