Ocean Park - New Winner

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.

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

It was only a midweek Class 1 at Sandown on a Wednesday over 1200m, but the two fillies that ran the quinella are by champion Victorian sires Shamus Award and Toronado (IRE) and both hold the promise of stakes potential.

Here is the full list of 35 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

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

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.

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.

The 3-year-old Ocean Park gelding Fabrice earned his purchase price back when making a winning debut in the Sportsbet Fast Form Maiden Plate (1200m) at Sandown-Lakeside on Wednesday.

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.

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.