Karaka Sales

Ellis Buys Top Lot On 2nd Day Of Karaka Yearling Sales

Posted on January 27, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Te Akau's David Ellis has outlasted Sydney trainer John O'Shea to buy the top lot on the second day of the Karaka Yearling Sale in Auckland. Ellis paid $875,000 for a Savabeel colt out of Bayrock who is a sister to Diamond Jubilee Stakes winner Merchant Navy. The colt was the highest-priced yearling Windsor Park[...]

Posted on January 26, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

A Pierro colt has topped the first session of New Zealand's premier yearling sale at Karaka, fetching $900,000. The colt was knocked down to bloodstock agent Garry Carvell who was particularly pleased to get the yearling out of Redoute's Choice mare Our Squeezer, a half sister to Imposingly, the dam of triple Group One winner[...]

Posted on January 18, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Rich Hill Stud, near Matamata, is celebrating its 25th year in operation and managing director John Thompson is looking forward to launching the first crop of yearlings by Vadamos, a Group 1 winning son of Monsun who is well represented at Karaka. The high-class miler has 46 offspring catalogued across the three books of the[...]

Posted on January 15, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Highview Stud Manager Brent Gillovic is looking forward to Karaka later this month where yearlings by resident stallion Wrote will be offered in New Zealand for the first time. Gillovic is heading into the sale buoyed by the feedback he has received from bloodstock agents and trainers. “They are lovely horses and I have been[...]

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