NZB Confirms Future Sale Dates

Karaka graduates are triumphing both in New Zealand and abroad, with 21 Group 1 winners from the National Yearling Sales Series last season, and four from NZB’s Ready to Run Sale.

The NZB Sale Ring.

Amongst those 25 Group 1 winners were Group 1 Melbourne Cup victor Prince of Penzance (NZ) (Pentire) and Mongolian Khan (Holy Roman Emperor) winner of the Group 1 Caulfield Cup.

As a subscriber to NZB’s News Desk, we would like to give you advance notice of upcoming sale dates:

National Yearling Sales Series – South Island Sale	15 April 2016
National Weanling, Broodmare and Mixed Bloodstock Sale	9-11 May 2016
Winter Mixed Bloodstock Sale	29 July 2016
Ready to Run Sale of Two-Year-Olds	16 – 17 November 2016
National Yearling Sales Series	30 January – 5 February 2017

2016 National Yearling Sales Series – South Island Sale on the 15 April, 2016

Entries close on Friday 5 February, for NZB’s National Yearling Sales Series: South Island Sale. The Sale will be held at the new venue of the RDA Building, Canterbury Agricultural Park in Christchurch on 15 April.

Click here for the South Island Sale Entry Form.

As part of the National Yearling Sales Series, yearlings sold and passed in at the South Island Sale are eligible to be entered in the lucrative Karaka Million Series, including TWO million dollar races:

• $1m Karaka Million 2YO in 2017
• $1m Karaka Million 3YO Classic in 2018
• $100,000 Karaka Stayers Cup from 2019

All graduates of the New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sales Series are eligible for a start in both races.

South Island Sale graduates include multiple Listed winner and runner-up of the Group 1 Waikato Sprint and Group 1 Otaki Maori WFA Stakes, Natuzzi (NZ) (Coats Choice).

2016 National Weanling, Broodmare and Mixed Bloodstock Sale on the 9 - 11 May, 2016

Buyers seeking breeding, investment and pinhooking opportunities should be at Karaka in May for this Sale.

 “We would buy more weanlings if they were on offer, and I know Australians are the same. We know people from Australia who would come across and buy weanlings of better quality” commented Bruce Harvey – Ascot Farm, leading buyer at the 2014 NZB National Weanling Sale.

Zarzino (NZ) (Zabeel), the dam of this season’s Group 1 Victoria Derby winner Tarzino (NZ) (Tavistock), was purchased at the 2014 National Weanling, Broodmare and Mixed Bloodstock Sale for only NZ$1,500. Her yearling colt was purchased at the 2016 Karaka Premier Sale for NZ$400,000, which shows the huge potential this Sale has to offer to pinhookers.

Nick King of Brighthill Farm, has had strong results from past Sales. “We have taken better weanlings to the Sale in the past few years and have had great success.”

2016 Winter Mixed Bloodstock Sale on 29 July, 2016

The annual Karaka Stallion Parade will be conducted prior to the Winter Mixed Bloodstock Sale, featuring stallions available to breeders this season. Last year’s Winter Mixed Bloodstock Sale saw 82 lots go under the hammer, with 57 sold. The clearance was recorded at 79% compared to 72% the previous year. The top lot was purchased by Cambridge Bloodstock agent Dean Hawthorne for NZ$250,000 for Group 1 producing mare Amathea (NZ) (O’Reilly). Amathea is the dam of last year’s Group 1 New Zealand Oaks winner Savaria (NZ) (Savabeel). 

2016 Ready to Run Sale of Two-Year-Olds Sale on the 16 & 17 November, 2016

NZB’s Ready to Run Sale of Two-Year-Olds celebrated 4 Group 1 wins last season, the only sale of its kind to yield Group 1 success. Dual Group 1 Derby winner Mongolian Khan, was successful at the highest level on both sides of the Tasman when he took out the Group 1 New Zealand Derby (2400m) and the Group 1 Australian Derby (2400m) before he won the Caulfield Cup. Turn Me Loose (NZ) (Iffraaj) won the Group 1 Emirates Stakes (1600m), at this season’s Melbourne Carnival.

NZB’s Ready to Run Sale graduates celebrated wins in 35 stakes races in six countries over the last three seasons, victories that include Sale graduate Glorious Days (Hussonet) success in the Group 1 Hong Kong Mile.

2017 National Yearling Sale Series on the 30 January – 5 February, 2017

There were 21 individual Group 1 winners from the National Yearling Sale Series last season, the most of any auction house in Australasia.

As well as Prince of Penzance, another Karaka graduate includes Hong Kong superstar Aerovelocity (NZ) (Pins), the first Hong Kong-trained horse to win a Group 1 race in three different countries, with his Hong Kong Sprint victories followed by Group 1 victories in Japan and Singapore. Purchased for NZ$120,000, he has gone on to global stardom and winning over NZ$5.7m.

If you didn't buy a horse at Karaka at the recent National Yearling Sale Series, but would still like a chance to race for one million dollars in just 12 months time, you can be in to win by purchasing any horse that was passed in and entering it in the Karaka Million Series. Click on the following links to view the Passed Lots from Karaka 2016 (Premier Sale, Select Sale, Festival Sale).

* Conditions apply. See the Karaka Million Conditions of Entry for details.