Stakes-placed
mare Vive La Difference is the highlight of the latest Gavelhouse New
Zealand auction.
Extended to run over an extra two days to cater for the festive season, the auction
will close at 7pm (NZ time) on Wednesday 28 December.
Vive la
Difference is offered to dissolve a partnership with the Te Akau Racing
mare an exciting broodmare proposition. A daughter of Choisir, she has won on
three occasions over distances from 1200m to 1800m and garnered black-type when
running second to Hong Kong Horse of the Year Werther in the Group Two
Championship Stakes. Her dam is the winning Peintre Celebre mare L'Artiste who
has produced three to race with The Justice League (I Am Invincible) a Group
Two winner and Proserpina (Testa Rossa) a winner in Australia.
Breeders looking for well-related mares to store for next year are spoilt for
choice in the catalogue with Rich Hill Stud offering, Mystic Flight, a Flying
Spur mare in foal to their young sire Jimmy Choux while Pencarrow Stud have Secret Moments, a
mare from a big international family offered in foal with an early service to
Burgundy. Also a Pencarrow Stud product, the royally-bred son of Redoute's
Choice stands at Cambridge Stud with his first crop already unearthing two
pre-Christmas winners.
Matamata-based Wexford Stables have an Encosta de Lago daughter from
stakes-winner The Chunkster offered unreserved to dissolve a partnership. The
lightly-tried mare Delta
de Lago is a racing and breeding proposition and of the youngstock on offer
two yearlings from the last crop of O'Reilly hold particular appeal.
Offered on account of Brighthill Farm they are for sale as the owner is cutting
back on numbers and represent two quality families with the colt at Lot 1 from the family of
Gr.1 Golden Slipper winners Merlene and Capitalist. The O'Reilly filly at Lot 2 is from a Zabeel
mare and the family of Gr.1 SAJC Oaks winner Tully Thunder and Gr.1 VRC Oaks
runner up Thunder Lady.
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