NZB Ready to Run Catalogue Out Today

The 31st annual New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale catalogue has been released today and is available online and on the free ipad application.

The most successful two-year-old Sale of its kind in Australasia, New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run Sale of 2YOs has produced 15 Group 1 winners over the past six seasons.

This year will see 437 well-educated two-year-olds go under the hammer on 19 & 20 November at Karaka, with a selection of 102 of the leading sires in New Zealand and Australia represented.

This year’s catalogue highlights include:

• Over 45 siblings to stakes winners including last season’s Group 1 Easter Handicap winner Viadana (Towkay), Group 1 NZ Derby victor and Hong Kong star Military Move (Volksraad), the promising three-year-old Cauthen (Darci Brahma) and many more.
• The progeny of over 30 stakes winning mares including Group 1 winners Fayreform (Tights), Moire (Crested Wave), Honor Lap (Honor Grades) and dual Auckland Cup winner Prize Lady(Prized).
• 18 Lots already nominated for the Karaka Million Series
• 16 Lots entered in New Zealand’s Pearl Series for fillies
• 60 BOBS eligible Lots
• 15 two-year-olds by champion New Zealand sire O’Reilly including progeny of Group 2 winners Lafluer (Zabeel), Mistrale (Volksraad) and Pulcinella (Stravinsky).
• Two-year-olds by leading Australian and New Zealand sires Commands, Darci Brahma, Encosta de Lago, Exceed and Excel, Fastnet Rock, High Chaparal, Iffraaj, Pentire, Pins, Savabeel, Thorn Park, Zabeel and many more.

New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run Sale has consistently turned out stakes wins all over the world with last season’s tally hitting 23. The last five seasons has produced 99 stakes wins at an average of almost 20 per season.

Three horses provided the Sale with another four Group 1 victories last season, with the successes recorded in both New Zealand and Australia.

The 2011 Group 1 VRC Derby hero Sangster (Savabeel) was named the Champion Stayer at the New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing Awards on the back of winning performances in the Group 1 Waikato International Stakes and the Group 1 Auckland Cup. The son of Savabeel cracked the $2 million milestone when running third in the Group 1 BMW Stakes in Sydney in his season ending run.

Nashville (Darci Brahma) also got his name lit up in lights as he beat a star-studded field in the Group 1 Haunui Farm Classic. The other Group 1 victory was recorded in the Australia with Linton (Galileo) producing a knockout blow in the revered Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap.

The Sale proved triumphant in Hong Kong with Glorious Days (Hussonet) stepping up to the plate as a leading miler with wins in the Group 2 HKJC Jockey Club Mile and the HK-1 HKJC Stewards Cup. He was also the runner-up in the Group 1 Hong Kong Mile, the world’s richest mile race, to Kiwi bred and sold Ambitious Dragon (Pins).

All You Wish (Thorn Park) become another story of success in Hong Kong, winning five of his six starts last season to be named the Champion Griffin and Most Improved Horse at Hong Kong’s annual Champions Awards. He became only the third horse to win the prestigious double, the first horse to do so was champion Silent Witness (El Moxie).

Perpetual Singapore campaigner Flying Fulton (Flying Spur) maintained his classy record with two further stakes success in Singapore. Two black-type wins were recorded in Macau with Sunshine Kingdom (Darci Brahma) and Sunshine Region (One Cool Cat) both landing prized wins.

The new season has kicked off with a bang for the Ready to Run Sale with Super Ninetyseven (Show a Heart) picking up the Spg-3 Committee’s Prize Stakes in Singapore in September and Savvy Nature (Savabeel) landing the Group 3 Spring Stakes at Newcastle’s Spring Carnival meeting last week, with leading Australian three-year-old races on his agenda in the near future.

New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run Sale will be held on 19 & 20 November 2013 with selling starting at 11am each day. Breeze-Ups are set to be conducted at Te Rapa Racecourse on 21 & 22 October. Catalogues are available now and DVD copies of the Breeze-Ups available at the end of October.

To view New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run Sale catalogue online, click here.

To request a catalogue please email receptionist Faye Hunt at reception@nzb.co.nz or call +64 (0)9 298 0055. For further information please visit www.nzb.co.nz