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Day Two of the three-day New Zealand Bloodstock Select Sale at Karaka was another day of records, highlighted by a new top price of NZ$300,000.

A strong opening session of the New Zealand Bloodstock Select Sale at Karaka has seen 161 of the 218 lots on offer change hands for a new record average and median.

Continuing the incredible success of Day One, another super day's trade at New Zealand Bloodstock's Karaka sales centre saw the 2008 Premier Sale blow previous records away.

It has been a sensational start to the 82nd National Yearling Sales Series at Karaka, with New Zealand Bloodstock's Sale exceeding last year's record figures to post the strongest opening session...

Every lot at New Zealand Bloodstock's 82nd National Yearling Sales Series will be streamed live on the New Zealand Bloodstock website from Monday 28 January.

Yesterday's outstanding winner of the Group 1 $250,000 The Trusts Charitable Foundation Thorndon Mile, was a cracking advertisement for his yearling half-brother at the Karaka Premier Sale on Monday.

The excitement is mounting at Karaka with one day to go until the inaugural running of the richest juvenile race in New Zealand, the�Karaka Million (Res.L) (1200m).

Today's decisive win by Keepa Cruisin (Keeper x Just Cruising by Broad Reach) in the Group 3 Sharp Desert Gold Stakes (1600m) has turned this year's New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series...

New Zealand Bloodstock has announced that it will cover the extra travel cost to buyers from New South Wales of floating their Karaka yearling purchases from Melbourne into the New South Wales...

Live coverage of New Zealand Bloodstock's 2008 Premier�Sale, presented by Karyn Fenton-Ellis & George Simon, will be broadcast from Karaka from Monday 28 January.�

There's just one week to go until selling starts at the the first yearling sale in the southern hemisphere - the 82nd National Yearling Sales Series at Karaka.

Saturday's $100,000 Group 2 Ford Wakefield Challenge Stakes at Trentham provided Karaka graduates with their penultimate�opportunity to win valuable prizemoney and earn a start in the 2008...

Videos clips of over 300 yearlings featured at New Zealand Bloodstock's 2008 National Yearling Sales Series have now gone online on the New Zealand Bloodstock website.

Following advice from the NSW DPI with regard to the importation of horses from New Zealand into New South Wales, New Zealand Bloodstock would like to inform prospective buyers to the 2008 Karaka...

This year the Karaka Premier Sale is the first to put the freshman sires of the season under the spotlight.

A half-brother to the impressive winner of the New Year's Day feature Group 1 Waiwera Mineral Water Railway Handicap (1200m) at Ellerslie will be on offer at the New Zealand Bloodstock Premier...

The heat has gone on two-year-olds around the country as they jostle to make the starting line-up in the first one million dollar Karaka Million at Ellerslie on Sunday 27 January.

Backing up after her Boxing Day victory, Stravinsky filly Satinka put herself within striking distance of the New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series leader with a hard fought win in the...

The $125,000 Group 2 Cambridge Stud Eight Carat Classic (1600m) at Ellerslie on Boxing Day saw Stravinsky filly Satinka seal the fifth leg of the prestigious New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the...

The $125,000 Group 2 Cambridge Stud Eight Carat Classic (1600m) at Ellerslie on Boxing Day will see the country's leading three-year-old fillies do battle in the fifth leg of the New Zealand...

With Waikato Stud's smart young sire Pins already claiming Cox Plate champion El Segundo amongst his winning progeny this season, his run of success continued at the weekend with more eye catching...

The Mark Walker trained Insouciant (Keeper x Loudenne by Palace Music) strengthened her lead in the New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series with an overwhelming four-length victory in the...

There are just�over six weeks until the inaugural running of New Zealand Bloodstock's new one million dollar incentive race, with three-time winner Vincent Mangano heading the order of entry for...

Karaka graduates Alamosa (O'Reilly x Lodore Mystic by Centaine) and Prince Kaapstad (Kaapstad x Brilliant Princess by Spectrum) combined to take the quinella in the Group 2 H.S. Dyke Avondale...

The catalogue for the first of the big three southern hemisphere yearling sales in 2008, New Zealand Bloodstock's 2008 National Yearling Sales Series, is now online.

With catalogues for the 2008 National Yearling Sales Series due to go in the post next week, Hallmark Stud's 2008 Karaka Premier Sale Lot 344 received a timely boost on Saturday.

Karaka Select Sale graduate Irlanda (O'Reilly x Cenphic by Centaine) clinched her third stakes victory on Saturday, when she produced a commanding performance to win the Group 2 Auckland...

Strong trade was the order of the day at the second session of the 2007 Ready to Run Sale, with New Zealand Bloodstock posting new record results at the conclusion of the Sale.

New Zealand Bloodstock's 2007 Ready to Run Sale of 2YOs�got off to a strong start today at Karaka with the half-way results showing even further growth on last year's record Sale.

Karaka Select Sale graduates raced into the spotlight at Riccarton on Saturday, winning four of the day's events including the feature Group 1 First Sovereign Trust Two Thousand Guineas (1600m) by...

There are just days to go until selling starts at New Zealand Bloodstock's Ready to Run Sale of two-year-olds.

Insouciant (Keeper x Loudenne by Palace Music) lived true to her name, showing blithe disregard for the rest of the field with an all-the-way victory in the Group 1 New Zealand Bloodstock One...

Riccarton Park on Saturday will set the stage for the running of the third race in the New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series, the Group 1 New Zealand Bloodstock One-Thousand Guineas (1600m).

Efficient (Zabeel x Refused The Dance by Defensive Play) outclassed all others to take out the 2007 running of the Emirates Melbourne Cup (3200m) at Flemington yesterday, continuing the dream run...

On what most racing purists call the greatest day of racing in the Southern Hemisphere, Derby Day at Flemington, New Zealand bred horses came to the fore, winning five of the ten races on the day.

Breeze Up clips for horses entered in New Zealand Bloodstock's 2007 Ready to Run Sale of 2YOs are now live on New Zealand Bloodstock's website.

Two of Saturday's standout performers at Trentham's Gr.1 Captain Cook Stakes meeting will be represented by half-brothers at the National Yearling Sales at Karaka in 2008.

New Zealand horses are cutting a sensational winning streak across the Tasman, taking the recent Geelong Cup, Caulfield Cup, Moonee Valley Cup and now the most coveted WS Cox Plate.

Two blustery days at Te Rapa Racecourse set the stage for the Breeze Ups of a well prepared group of juveniles entered in New Zealand Bloodstock's Ready to Run Sale on 20 & 21 November at Karaka.

New Zealand Bloodstock's South Island Sale of Two-Year-Olds bathed in the spotlight at Caulfield on Saturday, as its super-impressive graduate Master O'Reilly (NZ) (O'Reilly x Without Remorse)...

New Zealand Bloodstock's upcoming Ready to Run Sale, scheduled for the 20 & 21 November, received a further boost on Saturday in the form of Listed MRC Winning Presentation Cup winner Vandalo (Van...

New Zealand Bloodstock continued their prolific support of New Zealand racing with their annual sponsorship of three races at Waikato Racing Club's Labour Day meeting at Te Rapa yesterday.�

In response to the outbreak of Equine Influenza in parts of Australia, New Zealand Bloodstock would like to advise all prospective buyers to New Zealand for the forthcoming NZB Ready to Run...

New Zealand Bloodstock's South Island Sale graduate Master O'Reilly (O'Reilly x Without Remorse) produced a commanding performance to win the Group 2 Winning Edge Presentation Stakes (2400m) on...

New Zealand Bloodstock has announced the addition of a $200,000 3YO Mile for graduates of its 2008 National Yearling Sales Series at Karaka.

New Zealand Bloodstock Insurance's generous sponsorship of Hawkes Bay Racing's Kelt Capital Stakes day on Saturday saw a number of people reaping the benefits.

Karaka Premier Sale graduate Alamosa (O'Reilly x Lodore Mystic) exhibited grit and determination to emerge the victor of the Group 2 Golan Hawkes Bay Guineas (1400m) at Hastings on Saturday.

New Zealand Bloodstock Insurance continues their prolific sponsorship of New Zealand racing tomorrow with the running of the New Zealand Bloodstock Insurance Premier at Hastings.

Zabeel is renowned in Hong Kong as the sire of champion stayer Vengeance of Rain, but he has a new star on the rise in the shape of Karaka Premier Sale graduate Packing Winner, who set a new...

New Zealand Bloodstock Airfreight is once again offering its popular charter flight from Auckland to Christchurch for horses running in the New Zealand Cup Meeting.