Group 2 winner Aromatic to sell on Gavelhouse
Aromatic (Sacred Falls), a Group 2-winning mare, will be offered on gavelhouse.com next week, with bidding set to close at 7pm (NZT) on Monday.
Purchased by NZ$160,000 at the New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sale, the seven-year-old carried the tangerine colours of Te Akau Racing to three Group wins and another six stakes placings in a career that spanned five seasons.
“She’s been one of the most genuine mares that Te Akau has raced in the last few years,” Te Akau principal David Ellis said. “I bought her for $160,000 as a yearling at Karaka, and she provided so many thrills for her owners throughout her career.
“She showed a lot of ability right from day one, and we were always confident that she’d go on to win some good races. She did that, and one of the best things about her was that she just kept getting better and better with age. She had her best season as a six-year-old.
“She’s a very correct mare with an excellent pedigree – she comes from an outstanding family. She has a lot of quality about her and built up a lot of value with what she did on the racetrack.”
Aromatic was bred by Tony Rider and is out of the Group 3 winner and Group 1-performed Vickezzchardonnay (Don Eduardo), who is also the dam of the stakes-placed O’Reilly (Last Tycoon) mare Splendido.
Initially trained by Jamie Richards and later by Mark Walker and Sam Bergerson, Aromatic had 32 starts for six wins, 14 placings and NZ$419,300 in prize-money.
The mare’s most high-profile victories came during her six-year-old season, winning the Travis Stakes (Gr 2, 2000m), Manawatu Breeders’ Stakes (Gr 3, 2000m) and Counties Cup (Gr 3, 2100m), while she was also placed in the Metric Mile (Gr 3, 1600m), Cuddle Stakes (Gr 3, 1600m), Waikato Cup (Gr 3, 2400m) and Staphanos Classic (Listed, 1950m).