The countdown is underway to Australasia's
leading two-year-old sale, with the catalogue now released for the 2019 New
Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale of Two-Year-Olds.
Over the last six seasons,
graduates of NZB's Ready to Run Sale have scored an unrivalled 19 Group One
wins. The next best 2YO Sale in Australasia recorded one.
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The Sale is a remarkable source of Derby winners, with five victories in those
blue-riband events in the last four years alone. Mongolian Khan (Holy
Roman Emperor) won the New Zealand Derby and Australian Derby in 2015, while Gingernuts (NZ)
(Iffraaj) and Vin de Dance (NZ) (Roc
de Cambes) also won the New Zealand Derby and Well Done (NZ)
(Falkirk) captured the Singapore Derby.
The Sale has also unveiled spectacular sprinting talent, with Beat The Clock (Hinchinbrook)
scoring scintillating victories in last season's Group One Centenary Sprint Cup
and Chairman's Sprint Prize.
Fellow alumni (NZ) (Iffraaj) was another star short-course
performer, while Te Akau Shark (NZ)
(Rip Van Winkle) is New Zealand's rising star sprinter-miler and is among the
leading contenders for the Group One Epsom Handicap in Sydney in October.
The Sale has also produced an impressive 13 Guineas victors in the past six
seasons, whose wins include the Group One Rosehill Guineas, Group One Two
Thousand Guineas (twice) and the Singapore Guineas (three-times).
The 2019 edition of the Ready to Run Sale will be held at Karaka on 20 and 21 November,
with a quality catalogue of 414 two-year-olds set to go under the hammer. The
catalogue is now available to be viewed online, with printed catalogues
arriving in letterboxes late September.
Buyers will have the opportunity to secure expertly prepared bloodstock, with
107 of Australasia's finest stallions represented in the catalogue.
Along with 18 two-year-olds by New Zealand's undisputed stallion supremo
Savabeel, there are also the progeny of other leading New Zealand-based sires
such as Darci Brahma, Iffraaj, Ocean Park, Per Incanto, Swiss Ace and
Tavistock, plus the highly successful former shuttle stallions Showcasing and
Makfi.
Star Australian-based stallions featured in the catalogue include Dundeel,
Fastnet Rock, Medaglia d'Oro, More Than Ready, Zoustar and exciting
up-and-comers such as Deep Field, Dissident, Pride of Dubai and Vancouver.
This year's catalogue is stacked with high-class pedigree credentials.
There are siblings to 47 stakes winners, such as last season's champion New
Zealand two-year-old Yourdeel and the Group One-winning stars Sacred Falls and
Werther, plus fellow Group One winners Pondarosa Miss, Boom Time, MacO'Reilly
and Quintessential. There is also a half-brother to Cooga Doon, a recent
nine-length winner of the Wanganui Guineas.The catalogue also
features the progeny of 31 stakes winners, headed by Group One mares Banchee,
Costume and Pondarosa Miss.
Added benefits feature the eligibility to compete for four bonus schemes
including the $1M Karaka Million 2YO and the $1M Karaka Million 3YO Classic.
There are 27Karaka Million
Series eligible horses, eleven fillies nominated for the Pearl
Series, 76 BOBS eligible horses, and 15 Super VOBIS nominated horses.
Every horse entered in NZB's Ready to Run Sale has the opportunity to Breeze Up
with the last 200m of their work filmed and timed. Breeze-Ups are set to be
conducted at Te Rapa Racecourse on 21 & 22 October, with clips available to
view online from 25 October.
To request a catalogue please email reception@nzb.co.nz or call +64 9 298 0055.
For further information please visit www.nzb.co.nz.
IMPORTANT DATES
Monday 21 & Tuesday 22 October – Breeze Ups at Te Rapa Racecourse
Wednesday 20 & Thursday 21 November – NZB's Ready to Run Sale of
Two-Year-Olds at Karaka