RTR SPECIAL Vin de Dance (NZ) (Roc de Cambes x Explosive Dancer) 2018 Group One New Zealand Derby (2400m) 2016 NZB Ready to Run Sale, NZ$70,000 Purchaser: Phill Cataldo Bloodstock # Vendor: Ohukia Lodge SALE OF1 ITS KIND GROUP17 ONE WINS w 117STAKES WINS DERBYS5 MONGOLIAN KHAN GINGERNUTS (NZ) VIN DE DANCE (NZ) TURN ME LOOSE (NZ) READY TO RUN GAULTIER (NZ) /// 2018 DUKEDOM (NZ) HALL OF FAME (NZ) NZB Ready to Run Sale of Two-Year-Olds Sale: 21 & 22 November at Karaka Catalogue online now: www.nzb.co.nz The Sale is a prolific producer of world-class racehorses featuring an impressive honour roll of 17 Group One wins, 117 Stakes wins and five derbys in the last five seasons alone. Join us at Karaka in November to purchase your next champion. www.nzb.co.nz • ph: +64 9 298 0055 • [email protected] www.theinformant.co.nz 2018 Ready to Run Sale Special Edition - Welcome The catalogue assembled for this year’s Ready to Run Sale is fantastic, of the Tasman and even as far as Singapore. Mongolian Khan completed a so we look forward to welcoming buyers to Karaka to view a great line up Derby double in New Zealand and Australia while Well Done made headlines of horses. when he gunned down the field to win the Singapore Derby – a race that saw graduates of the Karaka sale ring finish second, third and fourth as well. The quality of two-year-olds continues to improve each year with breeders, vendors and preparers targeting this Sale with some of their best horses, International buyers have long recognised the impressive feats of the Sale and in such a professional manner. and mark it as one not to be missed on the calendar. We have seen the With each racing season that goes by, a new wave of talented graduates strength of the buying bench come out each year and continue to break hit the racetracks and a consistently high stream of stakes winners are our own records and those of Australasia. In 2017 we set the highest ever uncovered. In the past five seasons there have been 117 stakes wins in the recorded average at an Australasian two-year-old sale and surpassed the main racing jurisdictions of New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore $30 million mark for the first time in history closing at $31,215,000. and Macau. Even more impressively, there have been 17 Group One wins It is great to see the faith we have put into the Sale and the quality of horses by 11 individual horses. offered by our vendors rewarded. This high standard of professionalism is These results really do speak for themselves and I don’t think anyone what buyers from all around the world respect and history shows that there would argue that NZB’s Ready to Run Sale is the most successful sale of are Group One winners to be found at the Sale. its kind in Australasia. We have an optimal size catalogue of 445 two-year-olds set to be auctioned Last season we saw Vin de Dance join the Group One honour roll with in November. The quality of pedigrees and types on offer is second to none, his first black-type win in the $1 million New Zealand Derby. He was the while the Breeze Ups at Te Rapa are being hailed as the best on record. third graduate of the Sale to triumph in the feature in the last four years We look forward to seeing you at Karaka on 21 & 22 November to source with Gingernuts and Mongolian Khan claiming the title in 2017 and 2015 your next selection of racetrack stars. respectively. Andrew Seabrook Our small country is renowned for big success in the classic races and the Derby success from the Sale has been very prominent on both sides Managing Director New Zealand Bloodstock Fortnightly online auctions in Australia and New Zealand. REGISTER NOW AND GET READY TO BUILD A SHORT-LIST AND BID! FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT THE TEAM ON E. [email protected] P. +64 9 296 4436 3 Karaka Ready to Run Sale true to its label Proven record combines with sire power and expert preparation underpinned by a catalogue that this year is being described as the best yet. The reigning champion of New Zealand stallion ranks, Savabeel, is well represented by nearly 20 lots, along with the progeny of proven and sought-after sires Tavistock, Iffraaj, Darci Brahma, Makfi, Pins, Pentire, Per Incanto, Redwood, Reliable Man, Rip Van Winkle, Roc de Cambes, Showcasing and Zacinto. Australian-based ranks also have a strong presence, through headline acts such as Snitzel, Fastnet Rock, Hinchinbrook, Exceed And Excel, Foxwedge, More Than Ready, Not A Single Doubt, Reset, Sebring, Sepoy, Smart Missile, Spirit Of Boom and Written Tycoon. Nor is that forgetting the up-and –coming brigade, young stallions such as Charm Spirit, Dissident, Dundeel, El Roca, Ocean Park, Pierro, Proisir, Sacred Falls, Shamexpress, Shooting To Win and Zoustar. 2017 Ready to Run Sale Statistics 2017 2016 Ready To Run Sale Ready To Run Sale Aggregate $31,215,000 $28,393,000 Dual Derby and Caulfield Cup winner Mongolian Khan is one of many headline graduates from the Karaka Ready to Run Sale. Average $107,638 $96,575 Median $80,000 $70,000 A Group One tally of 17 in the past five years the Year in 2016, proved that at six years of age is a remarkable statistic, one that says everything he was still up to winning at Kranji’s highest Clearance 77% 60% about the quality that has come through the New level. A month after claiming his second Raffles Catalogued 437 552 Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale. Cup, he added the Queen Elizabeth ll Cup with perhaps the most commanding performance of Sold 290 294 When Lot 1, Woburn Farm’s Shamexpress- his 10-win career. Eagle’s Reach colt, enters the Karaka auditorium $460,000 (B. C) $650,000 (Ch.c at 11am on November 21, the buying bench will Top Lot Hinchinbrook (Aus) – Sebring X Joleur) Lot The Kiwi brand of horsemanship behind El Ashb (Ire) Lot 106 280 have again reached the serious part of a sale preparations for the Ready to Run Sale is that has delivered an exceptional number of high-class gallopers to Australasian and Asian racing. Transtasman Derby success followed by a Caulfield Cup victory makes Mongolian Khan one of the standout success stories of the Ready to Run Sale, but the dual New Zealand Horse of the Year is by no means alone. Earlier this year Vin De Dance became the third New Zealand Derby winner to graduate from the Ready to Run ring in four years. The second of those was Gingernuts, who took his Derby form to Rosehill and added another Group One victory as a spring four-year-old. Turn Me Loose is another excellent example, winning Group One races on both sides of the Tasman and, like Mongolian Khan, now getting his full opportunity at stud. Further afield major winners in Hong Kong and Singapore have likewise been par for the course, additional proof of the faith that international judges each year place in the skills that have gone into selecting and preparing the catalogue, along with the integrity and systems under which they are sold. Just last weekend 2014 Ready to Run Sale graduate Debt Collector, Singapore’s Horse of Singapore Horse of the Year Debt Collector is back to his best with feature wins at his last two starts. READY TO RUN SALES 2018 ... WE ARE THERE TO HELP ! 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In the meantime Ellis had returned to Karaka in “It’s proven beyond any doubt that it’s the best sale of its type anywhere in the world.” late 2016, raising the ante with 10 Ready to Run purchases at an aggregate of $1,525,000 and for the first time topping the buyers’ table. Amongst his selection was a big chestnut colt by Rip Van Winkle at $230,000. With scintillating wins at his Ready to Run Sale graduate Te Akau Shark is one of New Zealand’s most exciting young galloper. only two starts this spring, he is now one of our most exciting young gallopers. to the 2018 auction. “It’s proven beyond any doubt are the best.” At last year’s Karaka two-year-old sale Ellis that it’s the best sale of its type anywhere in the Ellis still pinches himself at having taken home matched his 2016 spend, signing for another 10 world, which is a testament to the sales company, lots at a total outlay of $1,585,000 to again top two Group One winners from the 2015 Ready to the quality of the young horses in the catalogue the bench.