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Bloodstock Agent Paul Moroney knew he had found an elite specimen when he identified Lot 954, a daughter of exciting young stallion Turn Me Loose, in the Book 2 session of the New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sales. It seems others shared that opinion, with the astute judge having to
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Waikato Stud reclaimed the mantle as leading Book 1 vendor by aggregate at this week’s New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sales. The Matamata farm sold 39 yearlings in the premier session for a healthy $7,860,000 to edge out last-year’s leading vendor Cambridge Stud, who sold 34
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Rich Hill Stud stallion Proisir created one of the major highlights on day five at Karaka on Friday when his son out of the Pins mare Knockout was sold to the bid of Alex Oliveira for $150,000. Consigned as Lot 894, the athletic colt comes from an extended family
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After a buoyant Book 1 Sale, selling continued steadily on Day One of Book 2 at New Zealand Bloodstock’s Karaka 2022 National Yearling Sales Series. Domestic trainers were active in the sale ring with strong demand for New Zealand’s quality line up of emerging sires, who accounted for
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Rich Hill Stud stallion Vadamos provided two of the star turns during the opening day of the Book 2 session of New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sales at Karaka on Thursday. With the oldest New Zealand crop of the son of internationally acclaimed sire Monsun just three-year-olds and featuring
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Shaune Ritchie is hoping lightning will strike twice after he added a new chapter in the Jennifer Eccles story by purchasing her full brother during the Book 1 sale at Karaka earlier this week. Jennifer Eccles was the outstanding filly of her year, winning the Gr.1 New Zealand Oaks
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International bloodstock agent Paul Moroney was unable to attend last year’s New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sale in the flesh, but he was pleased to be back this year as the border opened up to Kiwis returning home. After purchasing 11 yearlings out of the Book 1 session, Moroney
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Regal Farm principal Shane Crawford was an active participant during the first three days of the National Yearling sale at Karaka and on Thursday he was at it again on the first day of the Book 2 sale. Crawford, along with Bond Li of Legend Bloodstock and Ross Lao and
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Novara Park principal Luigi Muollo is over the moon with the debut performance of his stallion Staphanos at New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale at Karaka this week. Muollo offered three fillies by the sire in the Book 1 session of the sale, with two exceeding the $200,000
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The Karaka 2022 sale ring was alight with activity during the final afternoon of Book 1 selling, with a surge in buying carrying momentum through to the close of the Sale. New Zealand Bloodstock Managing Director, Andrew Seabrook, was thrilled with the remarkable results at the conclusion of trading. “We
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The fireworks continued late on day three at Karaka when returning buyer Kevin Walls fought off the attention of an international audience to secure a Pierro colt that had plenty of admirers keen to secure him. Consigned by Cambridge Stud as Lot 621, the colt is the second foal out
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It took trainer Roger James several moments to compose himself after he set the auction ring alight at Karaka on Wednesday when he went to $900,000 to secure a ‘once in a lifetime’ colt at the National Yearling Sale. One of the most experienced and respected judges of young