Hot Sires at NZB Ready to Run

Next week's New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale is set to offer a smart selection of two-year-olds by a host of sires making a name for themselves this spring.

A stallion that is sizzling hot this season is Coolmore Stud's Fastnet Rock. Currently Australia's leading sire by individual stakes winners with seven to date, he is second only to Nicobar on Australia's Sires' Premiership (by earnings) due to Dunaden's Melbourne Cup result.

The young son of Danehill has had a dream spring, with his daughters Atlantic Jewel (G1 Thousand Guineas & G2 Wakeful) and Mosheen (G1 VRC Oaks & G2 Edward Manifold) leading the way in Australia.

On Saturday the Group 1 NZ 2000 Guineas saw another rising star for the hotshot stallion, with the $1 million Karaka graduate Rock 'n' Pop producing an electric turn of foot to beat last season's Champion NZ 2YO Anabandana.

Now the sire of 22 stakes winners, seven of these at Group 1 level, Fastnet Rock has three BOBS eligible two-year-olds set to go through the ring next week:

A sire in great form this season, Fastnet Rock has three entries in the Ready to Run Sale

• Last year's leading vendor Lyndhurst Farm will be offering a Fastnet Rock colt at Lot 301 from the winning Fusaichi Pegasus mare Secret Silence, a half-sister three stakes performers.
• The filly from Esker Lodge at Lot 310 out of the Group 3 placed Centaine mare Shimo Star. Centaine mares paired with sire sons of Danehill have proven highly successful at stud with a winners to runners ratio of over 65% and over 10 stakes winners including Rockwood, Zingaling, Kaphero and Hoystar.
• Plus Curraghmore Stud's gelding at Lot 79 from the unraced Dieseis mare Cotton.

Now the sire of 51 stakes winners - with President Lincoln most recently winning the Group 2 NZB Wellington Guineas - O'Reilly is a prodigious New Zealand sire that boasts a winners to runners ratio of 65% and worldwide progeny earnings in excess of $66 million.

O'Reilly has six entries in the Ready to Run Sale including:

• Lot 56 from Haunui Farm, out of the stakes winning Fusaichi Pegasus mare Bonaichi. The gelding's second dam is the Group 1 Emirates Stakes winner Bonanova (Star Way), and is from the family of Group 1 winners Telesto (Star Way) and Fraternity (Star Way).

• Regal Farm will be offering another well bred son of O'Reilly at Lot 41 from Bardot (Bluebird). Bardot is a half-sister to the multiple Group 2 winning mare Staging (Success Express) who is the dam of Group 1 winners Duporth (Red Ransom) and Excites (Danewin), and the Group 2 winner Tickets (Redoute's Choice), all of which are now standing at stud in Australia.

A stallion that has registered Group 1 success on both sides of the Tasman this season, Pentire is the sire of ten Group 1 winners from 1200 - 3200 metres. He has made a good start to the season courtesy of his brilliant son, the Karaka graduate (King) Mufhasa, who has won the Group 1 Makfi Challenge Stakes in Hawke's Bay and the Group 1 Toorak Handicap in Australia.

Pentire also saw his talented son He's Remarkable salute in Melbourne on Saturday after missing a spot in the Group 1 Emirates Stakes.

The Rich Hill Stud based sire has six entries in the Ready to Run Sale including:

• Ardsley Stud's gelding at Lot 193, the half-brother to the stakes winners Brianna (Sudurka) and Centennial (Centaine) from the stakes winning mare Lightning Tree (Blazing Keel).

• The son of Be by Guest also has the colt at Lot 302 from Te Runga Stud, a brother to the Listed Ballarat Cup winner Sentire and a half-brother to the multiple stakes winner Tonic (Blues Traveller).

Australian based Hussonet has sired some smart winners this spring including the Peter Snowden trained Tatra who won his two-year-old debut at Rosehill early last month.

Hussonet has two colts in the Ready to Run Sale including Lot 47 from the Group 1 winning mare Belle Bizarre

Hussonet has also seen the John Size trained Ready to Run graduate Glorious Days remain unbeaten in his Hong Kong debut. Purchased by Ginger and Bryce Tankard, Glorious Days' only start in New Zealand saw the four-year-old bolt in by three lengths, and he won his first start in Hong Kong last weekend by an impressive three-and-a-half-lengths.

With two appealing entries in the Ready to Run Sale, Hussonet is represented by:

• Lot 47 from Diamond Lodge, the precocious colt from the Group 1 winning mare Belle Bizarre (Dauberval).

• Lyndhurst Farm's colt from the stakes winning Danehill mare Chickens at Lot 69. Bred on the same cross as the Group 1 winner Reaan and stakes winners Latin News and Dirty, the colt is a half-brother to last season's Group 3 Bailieu Handicap winner Do You Think (Starcraft) who was Group 2 placed in the Roman Consul Stakes this spring. Do You Think was a $360,000 purchase by DGR Thoroughbreds at New Zealand Bloodstock's 2010 Karaka Premier Sale.

Also included in the top line-up of stallions are sires Bel Esprit, Bernardini, Danehill Dancer, Darci Brahma, Encosta de Lago, Excellent Art, General Nediym, High Chaparral, Iffraaj, Keeper, Lonhro, More Than Ready, Nadeem, Oratorio, Perfectly Ready, Pins, Red Ransom, Savabeel, Snitzel, Stratum, Tale of the Cat, Thorn Park, Volksraad, Zabeel and more.

A preview of some of the other up-and-coming sires that are set to represented at the Ready to Run Sale next week will be featured on the NZB website tomorrow.

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