Sires With Winners - Sunday December 17

Off the back of a lucrative result at Karaka, Mark and Jane Corcoran’s Grangewilliam Stud will be chasing another top outcome on the track this weekend.

Following a strong Book 1, the momentum continued into NZB’s National Yearling Sales Series Book 2 session where 122 yearlings sold on Wednesday.

Fresh from a pair of million-dollar successes at Ellerslie and another leading buyer title in Book 1, Te Akau Racing’s David Ellis remained in the headlines with some Book 2 fireworks at Karaka on Wednesday afternoon.

The $2million Inglis Millennium (1100m) will be run at Randwick on February 8 and while top contenders North England and Within the Law have been tuning up at the trials it was impressive debut winner Open Secret that was a big mover from last weekend’s racing with her connections immediately announcing their intention to target the race.

It was a strong renewal of the NZB National Yearling Sale Book 1 and while the key metrics were down slightly on last year’s record breaking sale it was still a very satisfactory result and there were a number of first season sires that left a good impression with Coolmore shuttler St Mark’s Basilica (Fr) heading his peers on average, while Cambridge Stud’s Sword of State led the

Castelvecchio made swift progress last spring with a string of impressive three year-old stakes-winners and he had a very promising maiden winner at Kembla on Wednesday that looks well capable of winning better races.

Haunui Farm have been crowned leading vendor of New Zealand Bloodstock’s Book 1 Yearling Sale at Karaka for the first time this week following a pleasing set of results, led by the $2.4 million sale of the full-sister to glamour mare Orchestral.

Here is the full list of 38 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Roger James and Robert Wellwood experienced a whirlwind of highs across the Karaka Millions and Yearling Sales series this week, a trend they hope to continue back at Ellerslie on Saturday.

There is plenty of evidence to suggest that if a mare is going to produce a stakes-winner, she’s going to do it within the first four foals she delivers, but there are always exceptions to every rule and we saw a high profile one last Saturday.