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First-Season Sires on Show at Karaka 2023

Media Release - Wednesday December 21

The catalogues for Karaka 2023 feature a quality cross-section of some of Australasia’s finest sire talent, including a strong representation of the latest crop of well-credentialled newcomers to stallion ranks.
 

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SUPER SETH 

Super Seth

Super Seth stands at Waikato Stud for a service fee of $35,000, and he is the first Group One Caulfield Guineas (1600m) winner in more than three decades to stand at stud in New Zealand.

By champion kiwi-bred racehorse and quality sire Dundeel (NZ), Super Seth is a half-brother to Group One performer Wild Planet (Animal Kingdom) and is out of a Redoute’s Choice mare.

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Super Seth won five races in a short career on the track, headed by a spectacular come-from-behind performance in the Caulfield Guineas in October of 2019, where he lowered the colours of the previously undefeated Alligator Blood (All Too Hard).

Super Seth also won the Group Three HDF McNeil Stakes (1200m) and Group Three Manfred Stakes (1200m), and he finished second in the Group One Futurity Stakes (1400m) against older horses.

Super Seth had weanlings sell for up to $85,000 at the 2022 National Weanling Sale in June, and he is represented by 48 yearlings at Karaka 2023 – 43 in Book 1 and five in Book 2.

  • Lot 91 is a half-brother to Group One Rosehill Guineas (2000m) and Winx Stakes (1400m) winner Mo’unga (NZ) (Savabeel), who has earned over A$2.8m and placed in another three Group One races during the 2022 Melbourne Spring Carnival.
  • Lot 123 is out of Daffodil (NZ) (No Excuse Needed), who won three Group One races including the Australian Oaks (2400m). She is the dam of stakes performers Grand De Flora (NZ) (Savabeel), Grand Bouquet (NZ) (Savabeel) and Snowdrop (NZ) (Pins).
  • Lot 475 is a half-sister to the undefeated Group Three VRC Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1200m) winner Ruthless Dame (NZ) (Tavistock).
  • The dam of Lot 616 is Valpolicella (NZ) (Red Ransom), who herself won three races and placed at Group Three and Listed level. But she has made a much greater impact at stud, producing Group Two winners Vavasour (NZ) (Redoute’s Choice) and Vilanova (NZ) (Commands), Group Three winner Celebrity Dream (NZ) (Thorn Park) and multiple Group One placegetter Rondinella (NZ) (Ocean Park).

Click to see the full list of first season sires with progeny on show at Karaka.

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