NZB Ready to Run Sale Catalogue Now Online

The catalogue for New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run Sale of Two-Year-Olds is now available online and on the free iPad application, with catalogues due to arrive in letterboxes from early next week.

The most successful Sale of two-year-olds in Australasia, NZB’s Ready to Run Sale has celebrated 12 Group 1 wins in the past three seasons - the only Sale of its kind to yield Group 1 success in that time.

Last season alone graduates of the Sale won the Group 1 Caulfield Cup and Group 1 Emirates Stakes during the Melbourne Spring Carnival plus the prestigious Singapore Derby and Singapore Guineas.

A consistent source of racetrack performers, graduates of the Ready to Run Sale have notched up 107 stakes wins in the past five seasons.   

This year’s catalogue has attracted 552 two-year-olds prepared by New Zealand’s best horse educators. A wide range of 123 sires from New Zealand and Australia are represented.

Catalogue highlights include:

• 57 siblings to stakes winners including siblings to Group 1 winners Veloce Bella, Magic Cape, Captivate, Miss Mossman, Ruud Awakening, MacO’Reilly, I Do, Kirramosa, Irish Fling, Peggy Jean and Allez Wonder.
• The progeny of 60 stakes winners including Group 1-winning dams Captivate, Honor Babe, Honor Bound, Prize Lady and Sharvasti.
• 70 horses nominated for the Karaka Million, 24 fillies nominated for the Pearl Series, 144 horses that are BOBS eligible and one VOBIS Gold nominated horse.
• New Zealand sires such as Darci Brahma, Iffraaj, Jimmy Choux, Keeper, Makfi, O’Reilly, Pentire, Per Incanto, Pins, Pour Moi, Power, Reliable Man, Savabeel, Shocking, Showcasing, Swiss Ace, Tavistock and Zacinto.
• Australian sires such as All Too Hard, Americain, Animal Kingdom, Choisir, Encosta De Lago, Exceed And Excel, Foxwedge, Hinchinbrook, Hussonet, I Am Invincible, Manhattan Rain, Medaglia d’Oro, Pierro, Redoute’s Choice, Smart Missile, Snitzel, So You Think, Starspangledbanner, Stryker, Street Cry and Written Tycoon.

There were a number of star racetrack performers last season with 27 stakes races won by 20 graduates of the Ready to Run Sale.

Flying the flag for the Ready to Run Sale were Group 1 winners Mongolian Khan (Holy Roman Emperor), Turn Me Loose (NZ) (Iffraaj) and Dukedom (NZ) (Bachelor Duke).

Dual Derby winner Mongolian Khan triumphed on both sides of the Tasman in his three-year-old season with the Group 1 New Zealand Derby and Group 1 Australian Derby double for Mr Lang Lin’s Rider Horse Group. He then went on to claim the coveted Group 1 Caulfield Cup as a four-year-old last season before being retired to stud at Windsor Park Stud in the Waikato.

Triple Group 1 winner Turn Me Loose won the Group 1 Emirates Stakes at last season’s Melbourne Spring Carnival followed by the Group 1 Futurity Stakes and was crowned New Zealand’s Champion Sprinter and Middle Distance Horse in 2015-16. This followed a three-year-old season in which he won the Group 1 New Zealand Two Thousand Guineas.

Also achieving Group 1 success just one year after the fall of the hammer at the Ready to Run Sale was Dukedom, winning the Group 1 Levin Classic. It was the second consecutive year a graduate of the Sale won the Group 1 three-year-old feature following the win by Gaultier (NZ) (Rios) in 2015.

Star graduates representing the Ready to Run Sale in Singapore are this season’s Sgp-1 Singapore Derby winner Well Done (NZ) (Falkirk) and Sgp-1 Singapore Guineas winner Debt Collector (NZ) (Thorn Park).

Other stakes winners last season include Nashville (NZ), Titanium (NZ), Famous Seamus (NZ), Illuminati (NZ), Flame Hero (NZ), Mabeel (NZ), Puritan and Extra Choice (NZ).

Every horse entered in the Ready to Run Sale has the opportunity to Breeze Up with the last 200m of their work filmed and timed. Breeze-Ups are set to be conducted at Te Rapa Racecourse on 17 & 18 October.

New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run Sale will be held on 16 & 17 November 2016 with selling starting at 10am each day.

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

To request a catalogue or Breeze Up DVD 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.