Sentura Colt
Trish Dunell
Pinhookers Mark and Shelley Treweek of Lyndhurst Farm struck early on Day 1 of the New Zealand Bloodstock National Weanling, Broodmare and Mixed Bloodstock Sale, going to $170,000 to secure a son of boom sire Tavistock.
Catalogued as Lot 40, the attractive bay was sold by Gordon Cunningham's Curraghmore on behalf of breeder Greg Tomlinson and is out of the Volksraad mare Sentura, dam of two stakes performers including the Nigel Blackiston-trained Electric Aura which placed in the Tasmanian Oaks this year.
"I obviously like the fact he's by Tavistock and to top it off he's out of a Volksraad mare, which is the same cross as Volkstok'n'barrell," Mark Treweek said.
"He is just a lovely bodied, quality colt, with great markings, a fantastic walk on him and a great attitude. If there's any cold point about him, he's a little bit plain in the head but we just fell in love with him as soon as we saw him and thought he was the horse of the sale for us, so we just wanted him."
Treweek indicated the colt would be re-offered as a yearling at Karaka in January.
Curraghmore's Gordon Cunningham was pleased with the sale.
Catalogued as Lot 40, the attractive bay was sold by Gordon Cunningham's Curraghmore on behalf of breeder Greg Tomlinson and is out of the Volksraad mare Sentura, dam of two stakes performers including the Nigel Blackiston-trained Electric Aura which placed in the Tasmanian Oaks this year.
"I obviously like the fact he's by Tavistock and to top it off he's out of a Volksraad mare, which is the same cross as Volkstok'n'barrell," Mark Treweek said.
"He is just a lovely bodied, quality colt, with great markings, a fantastic walk on him and a great attitude. If there's any cold point about him, he's a little bit plain in the head but we just fell in love with him as soon as we saw him and thought he was the horse of the sale for us, so we just wanted him."
Treweek indicated the colt would be re-offered as a yearling at Karaka in January.
Curraghmore's Gordon Cunningham was pleased with the sale.
Times Remembered Colt
Trish Dunell
"I'm delighted Mark and Shelley have bought him," Cunningham said. "They've had good success buying off us in the past. They've got a great record of pinhooking, but also finding quality future racehorses which is the key with this lad.
"I'm expecting him to do good things on the racetrack and not just be a good sales horse so good on them, I hope they do really well.
"I knew from the moment I entered him in the sale he would be popular and it all transpired well, the breeders have been rewarded which is great."
A short time later a Tavistock colt (Lot 78) from the Viking Ruler mare Times Remembered was knocked down to the bid of bloodstock agent Phill Cataldo for $155,000, seeing off a host of under-bidders including Paul Moroney, Rider Horse and Paul Willetts.
Sold by Brighthill Farm, the colt was bred by the Dowager Duchess of Bedford and is a grandson of her four-time Group One winning mare Snap.
"I bought him for a couple of New Zealand investors and it is more than likely that he will go back through the ring in January," Cataldo said.
"He had a lot of quality and is a great mover and I am sure he will grow into a magnificent yearling.
"The way the Tavistocks have been selling and the way his progeny have been performing, all the international buyers will be looking at them in January, so hopefully there is a profit in him." – NZ Racing Desk.
"I'm expecting him to do good things on the racetrack and not just be a good sales horse so good on them, I hope they do really well.
"I knew from the moment I entered him in the sale he would be popular and it all transpired well, the breeders have been rewarded which is great."
A short time later a Tavistock colt (Lot 78) from the Viking Ruler mare Times Remembered was knocked down to the bid of bloodstock agent Phill Cataldo for $155,000, seeing off a host of under-bidders including Paul Moroney, Rider Horse and Paul Willetts.
Sold by Brighthill Farm, the colt was bred by the Dowager Duchess of Bedford and is a grandson of her four-time Group One winning mare Snap.
"I bought him for a couple of New Zealand investors and it is more than likely that he will go back through the ring in January," Cataldo said.
"He had a lot of quality and is a great mover and I am sure he will grow into a magnificent yearling.
"The way the Tavistocks have been selling and the way his progeny have been performing, all the international buyers will be looking at them in January, so hopefully there is a profit in him." – NZ Racing Desk.
