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NZB can facilitate post-sale offers on passed lots with the introduction of its online 'i-Bid' service at today's Ready to Run Sale.

New Zealand Bloodstock's 2009 Ready to Run Sale is all set to take place at Karaka tomorrow, Tuesday 17 November, from 10am.

No three-year-old filly had ever completed the Group 1 NZ 1000 Guineas - Group 1 NZ 2000 Guineas double, but that all changed when Karaka graduate Katie Lee backed up to beat the best of her age...

In a timely boost for the Karaka Ready to Run Sale, King Raedwald, last year's sale topper at $400,000, produced a top performance yesterday at Otaki to win The Edge 97.3 FM Maiden (1400m).

The third-leg of the 2009/10 New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series, the Group 1 New Zealand Bloodstock 1000 Guineas (1600m), is set to take place at Riccarton on Saturday.

Black Mamba, a NZ$120,000 yearling graduate of the 2005 Karaka Premier Sale, fetched US$1,500,000 at Fasig Tipton's Kentucky Selected Fall Mixed Sale yesterday.

New Zealand Bloodstock graduates Wall Street and Coup Align both won their first Group races yesterday during the second day of the Canterbury Jockey Club's Cup Meeting.

The form of the 2009 Karaka Million was further franked by the gutsy display of Katie Lee when winning the $1,000,000 Group 1 New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m) in Christchurch on Saturday.

Te Runga Stud will offer the one and only lot by leading second-crop sire Shamardal at Karaka's upcoming Ready to Run Sale of Two Year Olds (17 November).

Karaka graduate Boundless bounced back to her very best form yesterday in the Group 3 Nicholas Feuillatte Stakes (2000m) at Ellerslie a year to the day after she competed in the 2008 Melbourne Cup.

The win by Monaco Consul in Saturday's Group 1 AAMI Victoria Derby (2500m) gave Karaka graduates Group 1 success number four�at the Victorian Spring Carnival following on from So You Think (Cox...

Big River's win in the first two-year-old stakes race of the season, the Listed Wellesley Stakes (1000m), has seen him regain the leader's jersey in the early stages of the 2010 Karaka Million...

With the rich $1,000,000 Group 1 New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m) set to be contested at Riccarton in less than a fortnight, Labour Weekend saw Karaka graduates sweep all three key lead-ups on...

On Moonee Valley's most important day of the year Kiwis stole the show by winning three esteemed Group races with the highlight clearly produced by three-year-old So You Think in the Group 1 Cox...

Karaka Premier Sale graduate Big Maverick took out the feature race in Singapore over the weekend when winning the Singapore Group 1 Raffles Cup (1800m) in a time just 0.3 seconds off the track...

The Breeze Ups for New Zealand Bloodstock's Ready to Run Sale concluded at Waikato Racing Club's Te Rapa Racecourse today with 265 youngsters successfully filmed and timed over 200 metres of the...

The Waikato turned on some bright, sunny weather for the first day of New Zealand Bloodstock's Ready to Run Sale Breeze Ups today with the track rated a Slow 8. Dormello Stud's Lot 280 provided...

Five-year-old Redoute's Choice filly Allez Wonder made it back to back Group 1 Toorak Handicaps (1600m) for Karaka graduates on Saturday, following Alamosa's (O'Reilly) victory in the same race...

New Zealand Bloodstock's 2009 Ready to Run Sale (17 November)�will see a More Than Ready half-sister to Miss Marielle go under the hammer at Lot 24.

An action-packed weekend of high quality racing saw six Group 1 races take place in Australasia with half of these falling to graduates of the Karaka sales ring.

New Zealand Bloodstock's 2009 Ready to Run Sale (17 November) catalogue can now be viewed online.

Group racing returned to Hong Kong in the new season last night in the form of the Group 3 National Day Cup (1400m) named after the public holiday it falls on.

All six lots offered for tender from the Spring Mixed Bloodstock have successfully found new homes with Lot 2 La Luciole selling for a top price of $20,000 to the bid of Auckland-based Killarney...

Three-year-old filly Masquerade proved she's no pretender when she displayed an impressive turn of foot in the Listed Soliloquy Lodge Stakes (1400m) at Ellerslie on Saturday to grab victory in the...

New Zealand Bloodstock would like to remind all prospective buyers that tenders close today for the six Twin Pines mares (see below) withdrawn from Friday's Spring Bloodstock Sale due to the...

Nine New Zealand Bloodstock graduates won on racetracks across Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia over the weekend.

Less than 12 months after being sold through the Karaka Ready to Run Sale, graduates Jungle Juice and Military Move quinellaed the Listed Bonecrusher Stakes (1400m) at Ellerslie.

A keen crowd gathered at Karaka for the Spring Bloodstock Sale today for an action-packed three hours selling which saw 80 horses change hands for an aggregate of NZ$533,300.

PLEASE NOTE that the following six broodmares catalogued at the 2009 Karaka Spring Bloodstock Sale will not be transported to Karaka due to being so close to foaling. They are however available...

New Zealand's leading three-year-old fillies step up to 1400m in the Listed Soliloquy Lodge Stakes on Saturday, on the path to the New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series crown.

New Zealand Bloodstock's Spring Mixed Bloodstock Sale is all set to start at 1pm�tomorrow (Friday, 25 September).

Supplementary entries for New Zealand Bloodstock's Spring Mixed Bloodstock Sale set for Friday can now be viewed here.

The team at New Zealand Bloodstock is deeply saddened by the loss of their friend and colleague, Lindsay Best. Lindsay passed away suddenly on Tuesday morning (22 September) at the age of 50.

Amongst the potential on offer at NZB's Spring Bloodstock Sale on Friday will be a four-year-old Al Akbar gelding at Lot 65 who yesterday remained unbeaten at the trials when winning his second...

The southern fillies had their first crack at the prestigious New Zealand Bloodstock Southern Filly of the Year Series title on Saturday, with Brown Eyed Grace capturing the Listed Canterbury...

Singapore's champion trainer Laurie Laxon last night quinellaed the Group 1 Panasonic Kranji Mile (1600m), with New Zealand Bloodstock graduates Waikato and Big Maverick.

The hotly contested New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series got off to a flying start on Saturday, with St Germaine's tidy win in the Group 2 Windsor Park Stud Gold Trail Stakes (1200m)...

The New Zealand Bloodstock Southern Filly of the Year Series begins tomorrow at Riccarton with the Listed Canterbury Belle Stakes (1200m).

The first race in the prestigious New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series, the Group 3 Windsor Park Stud & Hawkes Bay Breeders Gold Trail Stakes (1200m), is set to run at Hawkes Bay on...

After an outstanding 2008-09 in Hong Kong, New Zealand-bred horses got off to a great start for 2009-10 with the first meeting of the season seeing them win six of the ten-race card, including a...

Super tough Karaka Premier Sale graduate Zarita got up to snare victory by a nose in the Group 2 MVRC Cleanevent WH Stock Stakes (1600m)at Moonee Valley on Saturday after a rough run saw her...

On the first big day of spring racing, Karaka graduates produced some impressive performances in Melbourne and Sydney on Saturday to hint at an exciting season of racing to come.

The first juvenile race of the season, The Danfive @ Grangewilliam Stud 2YO at Wanganui on Saturday, saw Karaka Million eligible youngsters completing the trifecta with Big River taking top honours.

The race towards New Zealand Bloodstock's $1,000,000 Karaka Million, to be held at Ellerslie on 31 January 2010, begins this weekend with the first two-year-old race of the season set to be staged...

New Zealand Bloodstock's decision to stage the Spring Mixed Bloodstock Sale at Karaka on Friday 25 September has been well rewarded with a quality catalogue of seventy-five assembled.

New Zealand Bloodstock South Island Sale graduate Pentiffic was last night crowned Champion Jumper at Australia's Horse of the Year Awards held at the Palladium in Melbourne.

Over a weekend which saw New Zealand-breds clean-up eleven of twenty-one �races in Singapore the most exciting outcomes came from three exciting three-year-olds, two who remain unbeaten on the...

New Zealand Bloodstock graduates performed with distinction across the Tasman over the weekend with many performances promising further success this spring.

The weekend's racing was highly anticipated with the return of Group 1 racing in the new season and New Zealand Bloodstock could not have kicked 2009/10 off any better as Karaka graduate Tavistock...

New Zealand Bloodstock graduate Trusting, a spring three year old,�showed brilliance�in defeating Group 2 weight-for-age company at just his third start at Randwick on Saturday.