The 92 yearlings catalogued for New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2023 National Online Yearling Sale are the progeny of 41 different sires, representing a wide range of stallion talent – from proven stars to exciting newcomers and everything in between.
Proven Quality
PROISIR
No content surrounding stallions in New Zealand at the moment could start anywhere other than Proisir. The Rich Hill Stud superstar has opened up a massive lead on the 2022-23 Kiwi sires’ premiership with 37 winners from 78 runners, eight individual stakes winners and over $3.6m in stakes – more than $1.4m ahead of his nearest challenger, reigning champion sire Savabeel.
Proisir has sired five individual Group One winners this season. He achieved the rare New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m) and 1000 Guineas (1600m) double with Pier (NZ) and Legarto (NZ) respectively – and Legarto later became the first New Zealand-trained three-year-old to ever win the Australian Guineas (1600m) at Flemington.
Prowess (NZ) took out this autumn’s Bonecrusher New Zealand Stakes (2050m) at Pukekohe and the Vinery Stud Stakes (2000m) at Rosehill, along with the $1m Karaka Million 3YO Classic (1600m). Dark Destroyer (NZ) captured the Tarzino Trophy (1400m) at Hastings in the spring, while Levante (NZ) won the Telegraph (1200m) and the Otaki WFA Classic (1600m).
Proisir has also made his mark in Australia, where his progeny have earned in excess of A$3.3 million. The Group One victories by Legarto and Prowess have been backed up by 20 other winners, headed by Tapildoodledo (NZ) in the Group Two Tulloch Stakes (2000m).
Proisir is the sire of four yearlings in the National Online Yearling Sale.
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Lot 21 is a half-sister to four winners, including this season’s Group Two Wellington Guineas (1400m) runner-up Duncan Creek (NZ) (Super Easy).
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Lot 22 is out of Devour (NZ) (Bachelor Duke), who was a winner at two years old and placed in the Listed Great Northern Foal Stakes (1400m). Devour is the dam of three foals to race, headed by four-race winner Sir Beets (NZ), who is also by Proisir.
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Lot 39 is out of Khaseeb (New Approach), herself a two-time winner and dam of I Can Fly (NZ) (Iffraaj), who won two out of three starts in New Zealand this season before relocating to Hong Kong. The pedigree page features Group One winners Rewaaya (Singspiel) and Sense Of Occasion (Street Sense).
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Lot 70 is a filly from the family of Hall of Fame racehorse and successful sire Starcraft (NZ) (Soviet Star).
Proisir is joined in the National Online Yearling Sale catalogue by three other members of Rich Hill Stud’s high-flying stallion roster.
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Shocking, who has sired 10 black-type performers this season including Group One winners I’m Thunderstruck (NZ) and Defibrillate (NZ), is the sire of Lot 52.
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Lots 32, 78 and 89 are all by Vadamos, who has sired seven stakes performers this season, headed by high-class Group One winner La Crique (NZ).
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Promising youngster Ace High is the sire of Lots 19, 47, 64, 65, 71, 73 and 81.
OCEAN PARK
Waikato Stud’s Ocean Park was a five-time Group One winner on the racetrack, including the Cox Plate (2040m), and he has gone on to prove himself as a versatile and high-quality sire.
His 19 individual stakes winners include Tofane (NZ), who won four Group One races over 1400 metres in Australia, along with triple Group One-winning sprinter-miler Kolding (NZ), while the likes of Ocean Billy (NZ), Oceanex (NZ) and High Emocean (NZ) have starred over much longer distances. High Emocean was a placegetter in this season’s Melbourne Cup (3200m).
Ocean Park’s yearlings have sold for up to $450,000 at Karaka, and he has four yearlings in the catalogue for the National Online Yearling Sale.
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Lot 6 is a filly out of the unraced Savabeel mare As You Please (NZ), who is a full-sister to the multiple stakes winner and Group One-placed Milford (NZ). This filly is also closely related to the four-time Group One winner and successful sire Sacred Falls (NZ).
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Lot 45 is a son of the winning mare Mandalong Belle (Choisir), whose half-brother Spanish Bay (Nadeem) was a multiple stakes winner in Singapore.
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Lot 46 is a filly from the family of Group One VRC Oaks (2500m) winner Bulla Borghese (Belong to Me) and numerous other black-type performers.
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Lot 51 is a half-sister to five-race winner and Group Three Summoned Stakes (1500m) placegetter My Pendant (NZ) (Pins).
