Karaka 2024 - Book 1

Hot on the heels of a record-breaking Ready to Run Sale, the cream of New Zealand’s yearling crop has been revealed for Karaka 2025.The world-renowned week of selling in late January is the shop...

Singapore racing’s final chapter will be written in the S$1.38m Grand Singapore Gold Cup (2000m) this Saturday, ending a proud history at Kranji that several New Zealanders have enriched with...

Promising filly Tristar (NZ) (Exceedance) earned herself a slice of history with a stylish victory in the $18,500 NZB Mega Maiden Series (1200m) at Taupo on Friday.It was the first of 40 maiden...

After an action-packed six days of trading at Karaka 2024, results have been accumulated from the incredible Book 1 and Book 2 yearling sessions held from 28 January to 2 February at the Karaka...

The curtain came down on the final day of selling at NZB’s Karaka 2024 Book 2 Sale with the third and final day proving to be the strongest day of selling for the third consecutive year.
NZB’s...

Demand for proven sire Proisir was evident on Day Two of NZB’s Karaka 2024 Book 2 Sale, which saw 170 yearlings go under the hammer.
The top lot of the day was knocked down to the successful...

Following a record-breaking Book 1, a quickfire day of selling saw 118 lots go under the hammer at the opening session of NZB’s Karaka 2024 Book 2 Sale.
Book 2 has been a happy hunting ground for...

Day Three of NZB’s National Yearling Sales Series concluded on Tuesday with a record-breaking Book 1 session for the 2024 edition. 
At the close of selling, the Book 1 aggregate reached just...

After a record-breaking opening session, Day Two of NZB’s Karaka 2024 Book 1 Sale rounded off with a late flurry of bids, cementing a strong day of trade.
At the close of selling, the aggregate...

Day One of Karaka 2024’s Book 1 Sale reflected ongoing industry positivity with several records broken and key sale indicators increasing.
At the close of trade for the opening session, the...

The $1.5m TAB Karaka Millions 3YO (1600m) is becoming one of the brightest highlights on the New Zealand racing calendar, and now Roger James and Robert Wellwood have won it twice in a row.
The...

Eleven years after winning the same race with champion two-year-old Ruud Awakening (Bernardini), syndicators Go Racing and trainer Stephen Marsh returned with another top-class filly and achieved...

- By Michael GuerinWhile the young horses are nurtured, prettied and preened before and on their big day, when they enter the sales ring it is with a Lot number stuck to their hindquarters and...

Favoured fillies Velocious (Written Tycoon) and Bellatrix Star (Star Witness) have strengthened their status as headline acts for Saturday’s $1m TAB Karaka Millions 2YO (1200m) after drawing...

The stage is set for another spectacular showdown in the $1.5m TAB Karaka Millions 3YO (1600m) at Ellerslie on Saturday, with a star-studded field of 15 three-year-olds battling it out in New...

A full and high-quality field of 15 plus one emergency has been confirmed for Saturday’s 2024 edition of the $1m TAB Karaka Millions 2YO (1200m) at Ellerslie.
Of this year’s 15 Karaka Millions...

Westbury Stud has an enviable feature race roll of honour with graduates of the farm excelling to the highest level over a wide range of distances.

The Gerry Harvey-owned Karaka nursery has bred,...

Many of the yearlings about to be sold at Karaka 2024 have had their profiles boosted with big-race performances by siblings since the catalogues went to print.
Among the most notable of these...

Love Racing's Paul Vettise writes: A warm early welcome for Little Avondale Stud’s draft at Karaka has further fuelled its New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sale...

In another raft of positive announcements made by TAB New Zealand, Entain and New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing, the Southern Hemisphere will soon be witness to the richest three-year-old race –...

Curraghmore principal Gordon Cunningham is quick to share what drives him as he prepares to present another quality draft at the New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sale when it kicks off at...

NZB’s 98th National Yearling Sale Series is just days away, set to take place on 28 January to 2 February at the iconic Karaka Sales Centre.
Inspections and parades onsite will commence early...

Throughout the 12 months between Karaka 2023 and this month’s Karaka 2024 yearling sales, there has been a long line of graduate Group One successes across major carnivals in Sydney, Brisbane,...

Join Caroline Searcy on Monday night for the biggest and best NZB National Yearling Sale Series  Preview yet – a 90 minute look at feature yearlings by leading global stallions on offer...

Each year, New Zealand Bloodstock's National Yearling Sales Series features a number of quality thoroughbred youngsters that catch the eye of astute pinhookers looking to further their...

Labelled as ‘the best week on the sales calendar,’ New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sales Series is truly a unique experience over six action-packed days of selling, opened by the...

The pages of the Karaka 2024 catalogues are filled with the biggest names among stallion ranks on both sides of the Tasman.
Over 100 different sires will be represented during the Book 1 and Book 2...

One of the most exciting features of the New Zealand thoroughbred industry at the moment is the exceptionally strong crop of up-and-coming stallion talent, and those emerging stars are set to...

While New Zealand is renowned for the lush, natural environment that produces some of the very best thoroughbreds on the planet, buyers are also privvy to a quality Karaka 2024 catalogue littered...

New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sales Series is often the moment when exciting young stallions announce their arrival in the Australasian industry, with huge demand for the debut...

The iconic TAB Karaka Millions raceday will become even bigger with New Zealand Bloodstock (NZB) joining forces with Entain to introduce an additional $400,000 in available bonuses for horses...

New Zealand is renowned as a nursery of world-beating thoroughbred talent, and the catalogues for Karaka 2024 are filled to the brim with those outstanding Kiwi bloodlines.
Even by its own high...

There will be no resting on laurels for New Zealand Bloodstock after last week’s record-shattering Ready to Run Sale. Instead, the release of the catalogues for Karaka 2024 has launched the...

Entries are now open for New Zealand Bloodstock’s Karaka 2024 National Yearling Sales Series, with the Sale to take place in its traditional timeslot at the Karaka Sales Centre from Sunday 28...