Sales
Barhams take home $230,000 mare Hold Me Closer after Inglis Digital auction
The headline mares in yesterday’s Inglis Digital auction will be retained by their owners after failing to meet their reserves but the bumper late June sale still saw turnover of $6,428,750, pushing trade through the company’s online platform to more than $93 million for the financial year. Chris and Jane Barham, the breeders of dual... Read More
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Kennewell swoops on Watch Me Dance for record $600,000
Watch Me Dance (I’m All The Talk), a three-time Group winner, yesterday set a record price of $600,000 for a thoroughbred sold at public auction in Western Australia after being purchased by eastern state interests for the new benchmark figure at the Magic Millions Perth Winter Sale. The Steve Wolfe-trained rising five-year-old mare, a winner... Read More
NZB National Weanling Sale at Karanka sees surging prices with Valachi Downs dispersal horses and Tarzino progeny attracting top prices
88 per cent clearance rate for one-day sale as international buyers return Buyers took advantage of the Valachi Downs dispersal at the New Zealand Bloodstock National Weanling Sale yesterday, with two foals bred by Kevin and Jo Hickman topping the one-day Karaka auction, as pinhookers also threw their support by rising sire Tarzino (Tavistock). Demonstrating... Read More
Australians fly in for New Zealand Bloodstock National Weanling Sale
New Zealand Bloodstock will go against convention and conduct the Valachi Downs dispersal sale at Karaka this morning, prior to the start of the 112-lot National Weanling Sale, the company’s late autumn live auction offering. The decision by Kevin and Jo Hickman to sell their Valachi Downs property and training operation at Matamata, and disperse... Read More
Weanlings to sparkle at NZB sale
A compact-yet-quality catalogue of weanlings go under the hammer this Friday at NZB’s National Weanling Sale at Karaka – and on the back of some outstanding results across the Tasman, it will be no surprise to see some serious bidding for some quite tasty lots. Perhaps the stand-out is Lot 1005, in the Valachi Downs... Read More
Waterhouse, Bott and McKeever team up on Derby runner-up Hoo Ya Mal
The Andrew Balding-trained Hoo Ya Mal (Territories) will do his future racing in Australia after trainers Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott and agent Johnny McKeever went to a session-high £1.2 million at the Goffs London Sale on Monday evening. Fellow three-year-old Drombeg Banner (Starspangledbanner) also enticed southern hemisphere interest at the prestigious 26-lot sale, which... Read More