Catalogues Online NOW for NZB National Yearling Sales Series

Catalogues for New Zealand Bloodstock’s 90th National Yearling Sales Series are available online now and will be in letterboxes from early next week.

The Premier, Select and Festival Sales have a combined 1378 yearlings entered across the six days of selling, starting on Monday 25 January at Karaka.

The PREMIER SALE catalogue is the centrepiece of the week featuring top class horses and will be presenting some of the world’s best pedigrees among the 447 yearlings entered. The Premier Sale will be held on Monday 25 & Tuesday 26 January.

The SELECT SALE produced five Group 1 winners last season including three-time Group 1 winner Mongolian Khan (Holy Roman Emperor). The Select Sale has 633 yearlings catalogued, selling from Wednesday 27 to Friday 29 January.

The FESTIVAL SALE had two Group 1 winners last season and will once again be a bumper one-day session with 298 yearlings to be offered on Sunday 31 January.

NZB’s National Yearling Sales Series continues to deliver results, having produced 21 Group 1 winners last season, the most of any Australasian auction house for the third consecutive year.

With just 21% of Australasia’s auctioned yearling crop going through the Karaka sale ring, NZB has sold 37% of Group 1 winning yearling graduates, more than any other sales company in Australasia over the past five seasons.

The Premier Sale is the jewel in the crown of Karaka 2016 and the catalogue is littered with international quality, featuring relations to world class racetrack stars including 131 siblings to stakes winners and 96 progeny of stakes winners.

There are 32 siblings to Group 1 winners in the Premier Sale catalogue including Brambles (Lot 22), Lion Tamer (Lot 376), Monaco Consul (Lot 177), Mongolian Khan (Lot 223), Planet Rock (Lot 159), Prince of Penzance (Lot 45), Shamexpress (Lot 133), Suavito (Lot 28), Tarzino (Lot 144), Turn Me Loose (Lot 323) and many more.

Among the 14 Group 1 winning dams with progeny in the Sale are Captivate (Lot 216), Glamour Puss (Lot 306), Keep the Peace (Lot 345), Prize Lady (Lot 27) and more.

NZB’s National Yearling Sales Series offers an extensive selection of sires, both proven and young sires, from across the world with 131 to be represented including 17 first season sires.

Among the 64 sires with progeny in Premier Sale are Bel Esprit, Bernadini, Cape Blanco, Choisir, Darci Brahma, Exceed and Excel, Fastnet Rock, Foxwedge, Frankel, High Chaparral, Iffraaj, Lonhro, Makfi, Ocean Park, O’Reilly, Pentire, Redoute’s Choice, Rip Van Winkle, Savabeel, Sebring, Snitzel, So You Think, Stratum, Tavistock, Teofilo and many more.

The new season has kicked off with a bang with six Group 1 races conquered by National Yearling Sales Series graduates to date. 

The Melbourne Spring Carnival was particularly successful, underlined by Karaka graduate Prince of Penzance (NZ) (Pentire) winning the Group 1 Melbourne Cup and creating history with Michelle Payne aboard. He has a full-brother entered in the Premier Sale at Karaka 2016 at Lot 45.

Other graduates successful at Group 1 level this season include Kermadec (NZ) (Teofilo) after winning the Group 1 George Main Stakes, Mongolian Khan (Holy Roman Emperor) claiming victory  in his third Group 1 race in the Caulfield Cup, Preferment (NZ) (Zabeel) was successful in the Group 1 Turnbull Stakes, Tarzino (NZ) (Tavistock) rose to great heights in the prestigious Group 1 Victoria Derby and Xtravagant (NZ) (Pentire) had a kiwi triumph in the Group 1 New Zealand 2000 Guineas.

These results are the most recent wave to be added to the over 100 Group 1 races won by NZB yearling graduates in the past five seasons.

At Karaka 2016, all yearlings offered at the National Yearling Sales Series are eligible for the Karaka Million Series which now includes two $1 million races. This crop of yearlings will be racing for the $1 million Karaka Million in 2017, the new $1 million Karaka Million 3YO Classic in 2018, plus the $100,000 Karaka Stayers Cup from 2018 and each year thereafter.

KARAKA 2016 SCHEDULE

Karaka Million Twilight Races: Sunday 24 January

Premier Sale: Monday 25 & Tuesday 26 January

Select Sale: Wednesday 27 – Friday 29 January

Festival Sale: Sunday 31 January

Catalogues are also now available on the free iPad application with the Karaka 2016 Handbook, your go-to guide for everything you might need for a great trip to Karaka, available online tomorrow.

New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sales Series catalogues can be requested from reception@nzb.co.nz or can be viewed online. For news and sales information from New Zealand Bloodstock visit www.nzb.co.nz.