Full Sister to Sangster at Karaka 2012

The full sister to last Saturday's VRC Derby winner Sangster (NZ) (Savabeel) will be on offer at New Zealand Bloodstock's National Yearling Sales Series at Karaka in January.

Sangster (Savabeel x Quinta Special, by Spectrum) - trained by Trent Busuttin - became New Zealand's 12th Derby winner since 2010 with his coveted victory on Day 1 of the prestigious Spring Carnival at Flemington.

A headline performer throughout the spring, Sangster was a winner of his first Australian start in August which he followed with a stakes placing in the Listed Ming Dynasty Handicap on 3 September. He went on to run a very good third over a mile in the Group 1 Spring Champion Stakes a month later, and was an unlucky second in the Group 3 Norman Robertson Stakes at his last outing before the Derby contest on 15 October.

Sangster will be represented by a full sister at the Karaka Premier Sale in January, set to be offered by Rex Fell's Goodwood Stud.

Sangster is by the sire-son of NZ champion Zabeel in Savabeel (ex Savannah Success, by Success Express) who has well and truly hit his straps in recent months. Amongst his top performers are the Group 1 Queensland Oaks winner Scarlett Lady, Group 2 winners Do Ra Mi, My Emotion and Tullamore, Group 3 Gloaming Stakes winner Strike the Stars, and the immensely promising filly Dowager Queen.

New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run graduate Sangster (NZ) wins the Group 1 VRC Derby

The second Group 1 winner for his Cox Plate winning sire Savabeel, Sangsteris the 11th Group 1 winner from New Zealand Bloodstock's Ready to Run Sale in the last five seasons and the third Group 1 Derby winner the Sale has produced since 2010.

He also became the fifth New Zealand horse to win the VRC Derby in the past six years.

New Zealand claimed a host of success across the Tasman last season winning 86 black-type races - 15% of Australia's stakes races - with only 5.2% of the racing population.

Further, New Zealand bred horses dominated the Group 1 ranks winning over 40% of Australian Group 1 three-year-old events last season.

Sangster is the latest Group 1 winning three-year-old to come from the Karaka Ready to Run Sale. A Sale that is rapidly building a profile of producing classic winning thoroughbreds, five of the seven stakes-winning Ready to Run graduates in Australia last season were three-year-olds.

Headlined by the Group 1 Queensland Derby winner Shootoff (NZ) (Duelled), the Sale also saw Sworn to Secrecy (NZ) (Keeper) take the Group 2 Emancipation Stakes and Folding Gear (NZ) (Johar) win the Group 2 Autumn Classic.

Since 2000, the Ready to Run Sale has produced 14 Group 1 winners of 17 Group 1 races. Among these gallopers are six individual Group 1 winning three-year-olds:

• Sangster (NZ) (Savabeel) Group 1 VRC Derby.
• Shootoff (NZ) (Duelled): Group 1 Queensland Derby.
• Military Move (NZ) (Volksraad): Group 1 New Zealand Derby.
• Eskimo Queen (NZ) (Shinko King): Group 1 Coolmore Classic and Group 1 Queensland Oaks.
• Magic Cape (NZ) (Magic Albert): Group 1 NZ 2000 Guineas.
• Marju Snip (NZ) (Marju): Group 1 Australasian Oaks.

These 14 Group 1 winning Ready to Run graduates represent outstanding value, averaging under $100,000 at sale and amassing an average of over $1 million in stakes earnings - over 10 times their sale price.

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