Nicely-known New Zealand proprietor Gary Harding’s funding within the Australasian foal market continued at New Zealand Bloodstock’s Nationwide Weanling Sale June 20 with the acquisition of a NZ$170,000 (US$104,150, NZ$1=US$0.61) daughter of Satono Aladdin .
Coming only a week after Harding outlaid AU$525,000 for a weanling filly by Frankel on the Inglis Nice Southern Sale in Melbourne, the proprietor took residence NZB’s highest-priced lot at its one-day sale on the Karaka gross sales advanced.
Provided by Brighthill Farm and cataloged as Lot 25, the sale-topping Satono Aladdin filly surpassed the NZ$150,000 worth paid for final 12 months’s top-priced colt by Per Incanto . She additionally set a brand new document weanling worth for Wealthy Hill Stud’s high-flying shuttle stallion, surpassing the AU$145,000 price ticket for a filly in Melbourne simply final week.
Thursday’s headline-grabbing filly is the second foal out of the Rip Van Winkle mare Henley Street, who positioned on the racetrack and is a half sister to the a number of group 1-winning Karaka weanling graduate Callsign Mav.
Bloodstock agent John Cameron withstood a spirited bidding battle to safe the filly, who shall be retained by Harding to race in his acquainted white and orange colours.
“She’s a really good filly. We additionally purchased a weanling filly in Australia the earlier week, so I assumed we must always pick a mate for her from this sale as effectively,” Harding mentioned. “We had a great take a look at fairly a number of of the weanlings on this catalog, and he or she’s the one which ticked the bins for us. She’s the one which we wished.
“She’s a beautiful filly with a great stroll and a little bit of presence about her, and he or she’s by a stallion that is doing a great job, so she has a bit going for her.
“We’ll be preserving her and taking her by way of to race. Hopefully she’ll come up effectively. Shopping for weanlings is a higher-risk enterprise than yearlings, so we’ll simply have to attend and see. However she was the one we notably wished right this moment and I am happy that we have her.”
Brighthill Farm offered the sale-topping filly on behalf of Laura Day, who purchased Henley Street for simply NZ$1,850 on Gavelhouse.com.
A complete of 9 weanlings offered for NZ$100,000 or extra at Karaka. NZB bloodstock gross sales supervisor Kane Jones mentioned the sale mirrored what had occurred on the latest Australian weanling gross sales the place patrons targeted on high quality tons. That market sentiment made clearing horses troublesome, with 77 of the 133 provided discovering new properties at a clearance charge of 58% in comparison with 70% in 2023.
As a consequence of the smaller catalog and subdued commerce, the combination of NZ$2,485,000 (US$1,522,423) was down nearly 5% with the typical of NZ$32,273 (US$19,772) up 40% and the median up 50% from NZ$12,000 to NZ$18,000 (US$11,028) 12 months on 12 months.
“There is no shying away from the truth that it was fairly arduous going within the center and in the direction of the decrease finish, however we noticed spirited bidding and nice outcomes for these high quality horses on supply,” Jones informed ANZ Bloodstock Information.
“When a pleasant horse walked into the ring, so did all people else and there have been fireworks on these high quality tons.”
