Updates For NZB Ready To Run Sale

A number of horses catalogued for the 2015 edition of the NZB Ready to Run Sale have received pedigree updates with siblings winning over the weekend.

New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run Sale of Two-Year-Olds - the most successful sale of its kind in Australasia - boasts four times the number of Group wins of any two-year-old Sale in the last three seasons. With 12 G1 wins, it is the only sale of its kind to produce a G1 winner in that time.

The Ready to Run Sale had a fruitful weekend with graduates winning across New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore, including two promising young horses that were purchased at last year’s sale.

Winning less than a year from the fall of the hammer, Peer Gynt (Per Incanto) and Nova Strike (Red Giant) were the first two NZB Ready to Run Sale graduates to succeed over the weekend at Singapore’s meeting on Friday night.

Purchased by trainer Michael Clements, last year’s leading buyer at the Sale, Peer Gynt was the race-favourite, with only two trials previous to his debut on Friday night, running strongly to the line to win by three-quarters-of-a-length.

Clements secured the son of Per Incanto at New Zealand Bloodstock’s 2014 Ready to Run Sale of Two-Year-Olds for $180,000 from Lyndhurst Farm, last year’s leading vendor by aggregate.

Friday night was fellow NZB Ready to Run Sale graduate Nova Strike’s second win since debuting three starts ago, now recording two wins after finishing runner-up in his first start.

The three-year-old son of Red Giant was sold to Singapore through Kiltannon Stables’ draft at NZB’s 2014 Ready to Run Sale for $60,000 to NZB as agent.

Singapore buyers feature regularly at the Sale and last year represented the third largest buying bench behind Australia and Hong Kong, taking home 47 two-year-olds for a total of $3,463,000.

Other NZB Ready to Run Sale graduates to win over the weekend include Sacred Master (Mastercraftsman), winning an undercard race on the final day of the Hawke’s Bay Carnival, Forseen (Danroad) winning in Western Australia and Regency Darling (Guillotine) breaking maiden status in his fourth start in Hong Kong.

Another NZB 2014 Ready to Run Sale graduate, Deadly Shadow (Savabeel), will be looking to go one better in his next start, after being runner-up in the Listed Poseidon Stakes at Flemington for trainer Bryce Heys who purchased him for $460,000 from Diamond Lodge.

The Sale will be held on 18 & 19 November at Karaka with selling commencing at 12pm each day.

Breeze Ups are scheduled to run on 19 & 20 October at Te Rapa Racecourse, commencing at 10am.