The New Zealand Bloodstock Nationwide Weanling Sale could be down on numbers, however Kane Jones insists the standard on supply on the June 20 public sale is at the very least pretty much as good, if not higher than has ever been seen at Karaka beforehand.
Foals by a rising listing of business New Zealand stallions—the confirmed Savabeel and Proisir and the rising Almanzor , Ace Excessive, Satono Aladdin , Ardrossan and Tremendous Seth—are set to supply native patrons and worldwide traders with equine choices to retrade on both aspect of the Tasman.
A catalog of 150 weanlings has been compiled, down from 183 in 2023.Â
“It is only a one-day sale and numbers are barely down on earlier years, however the high quality is pretty much as good, if not larger than ever earlier than, so it is a smaller catalog and large on high quality,” NZB bloodstock gross sales supervisor Jones instructed ANZ Bloodstock Information.Â
“That is what we have seen on farm and right here at Karaka and that is the suggestions we have been getting from different folks as nicely.
“There’s some pinhooking alternatives however not each horse matches that class and there is going to be some beautiful horses to place apart and allow them to develop out.”
Jones expects the Kiwis, each pinhookers and longer-term merchants, to assist their dwelling nation foal sale simply as they’ve on the Australian weanling gross sales over the previous six weeks.
As an example, Nick and Nicky White’s Kaha Nui Farm purchased the 2 highest-priced weanlings on the Inglis Australian Weanling Sale in Sydney, paying AU$575,000 (AU$1=US$0.67, US$379,500) for a daughter of champion Australian stallion I Am Invincible and AU$370,000 for a colt by Capitalist.
On the Magic Tens of millions Nationwide Weanling Sale on the Gold Coast a fortnight later, Kiwi pinhookers included Carlaw Park, Woburn Farm, Kaha Nui, and Mark and Shelley Treweek’s Lyndhurst Farm.
Fellow Kiwi Gary Harding purchased the second-top lot on the latest Nice Southern sale—an AU$525,000 daughter of Frankel  —whereas Kaha Nui purchased two colts, by I Am Invincible and Toronado respectively, for AU$300,000 every on the similar Melbourne providing.
Among the many Australian contingent at Karaka are Merrick Staunton and James Mitchell in addition to expatriate New Zealanders Bevan Smith and Paul Moroney.
“I do know they have been lively on the weanling gross sales to this point, however they are going to be lively at this sale as nicely, for certain, they usually’ll be figuring out those that they suppose they’ll carry again to Karaka subsequent 12 months and there is definitely some there,” Jones mentioned.
“All these pinhookers who’ve been lively will nonetheless proceed to be (Thursday). We have mentioned all alongside that there is good pinhooking alternatives, however by the identical token, there’s some actually good horses to place apart and commerce and even be beautiful racehorses.”
Haunui Farm has a draft of 18 weanlings, together with foals by Proisir and Tremendous Seth.
“We have bought Karaka Million and Oaks winners via our weanling drafts over time, and pinhookers had some wonderful outcomes with the weanlings that we bought eventually 12 months’s sale,” Haunui managing director Mark Chitty mentioned.Â
All horses bought on the weanling sale are eligible for the profitable Karaka Tens of millions race sequence.
