Lot 374 Fledgling
Trish Dunell
Overseas interests claimed the top lot during Tuesday's New Zealand Bloodstock Broodmare Sale.
Offered by Windsor Park Stud, the four-time winning Captain Rio mare Fledgling (Lot 374) was sold to Ric Wylie Bloodstock for $87,500.
"I bought her for Australian clients. The price was fair, but that was my last bid. Bassett is a serious racehorse, so she's doing the job right," Wylie said.
A half-sister to Group winner Fully Fledged and the dam of Listed winner Bassett, she carries a foal to Windsor Park's multiple Group One-winning sire Charm Spirit.
The second highest-priced broodmare of the sale was for Grandissima, offered by the Matamata farm Millfield Stud. In foal to Contributer, the mare was knocked down to the successful $85,000 bid of Murray Hardy, on behalf of The Sunlight Trust.
The Broodmare Sale closed with receipts totalling $1,303,300 for 109 Lots sold, a clearance rate of 75 per cent. The average price for the day settled at $11,957 and the median was just $500 shy of the 2016 figure at $4,000.
At the end of the Weanling Sale, 232 horses were sold for receipts of $3,752,800 and the clearance rate remained strong throughout to finish at 87 per cent.
The highest price paid during the Weanling Sale was $175,000 for a son of Holy Roman Emperor out of placed mare Phocis. Offered by the champion vendor Dan Myers, the colt was secured by leading purchaser of the sale, Andrew Williams Bloodstock.
Andrew Seabrook, NZB Managing Director, was happy with the sale results.
"We've seen good interest from Kiwi buyers and put that down to confidence in the domestic racing industry starting to build again off the back of recent NZRB stakes increase announcements and the new sale format for Karaka 2018," NZB managing director Andrew Seabrook said.
"We look forward to many of these weanlings returning to Karaka in January to make the most of the extended Sale week and new-look catalogue structure."
Offered by Windsor Park Stud, the four-time winning Captain Rio mare Fledgling (Lot 374) was sold to Ric Wylie Bloodstock for $87,500.
"I bought her for Australian clients. The price was fair, but that was my last bid. Bassett is a serious racehorse, so she's doing the job right," Wylie said.
A half-sister to Group winner Fully Fledged and the dam of Listed winner Bassett, she carries a foal to Windsor Park's multiple Group One-winning sire Charm Spirit.
The second highest-priced broodmare of the sale was for Grandissima, offered by the Matamata farm Millfield Stud. In foal to Contributer, the mare was knocked down to the successful $85,000 bid of Murray Hardy, on behalf of The Sunlight Trust.
The Broodmare Sale closed with receipts totalling $1,303,300 for 109 Lots sold, a clearance rate of 75 per cent. The average price for the day settled at $11,957 and the median was just $500 shy of the 2016 figure at $4,000.
At the end of the Weanling Sale, 232 horses were sold for receipts of $3,752,800 and the clearance rate remained strong throughout to finish at 87 per cent.
The highest price paid during the Weanling Sale was $175,000 for a son of Holy Roman Emperor out of placed mare Phocis. Offered by the champion vendor Dan Myers, the colt was secured by leading purchaser of the sale, Andrew Williams Bloodstock.
Andrew Seabrook, NZB Managing Director, was happy with the sale results.
"We've seen good interest from Kiwi buyers and put that down to confidence in the domestic racing industry starting to build again off the back of recent NZRB stakes increase announcements and the new sale format for Karaka 2018," NZB managing director Andrew Seabrook said.
"We look forward to many of these weanlings returning to Karaka in January to make the most of the extended Sale week and new-look catalogue structure."