On offer is a wide variety of young horses, tried gallopers, broodmares and for the breeder a handful of stallion nominations and with the catalogue live online for five days before the sale there is plenty of time for research.
Throw in a stallion as well, the triple Group winning Dreamscape - a
beautifully bred son of Choisir from the family of influential stallions
Sadler's Wells, Thatching, Nureyev, Fairy King and Northern Meteor.With his oldest runners just three, Dreamscape has it all ahead of him and he is the sire of a number of promising gallopers including the stakes placed Bugatty and the in-form Hammond Lane.
What a better time of year to secure an up-and-coming young stallion?!
Broodmare owners can secure nominations to Hurdy Gurdy Man, Golden Snake and Kempinsky nomination whilst those in the market for a mare are spoilt for choice with catalogue highlights including...
Lot 3 Divine Hope: a multiple city winning Prego mare whose six to race have all been winners including the Gr.3 winning sprinter Commanding Hope. Due September to Darley's Street Cry stallion Carlton House.
Lot 7 Flight Of Dreams: dam of four winners from as many to race including the Gr.3 placed city winner Flight Of Pegasus. This daughter of Flying Spur is a half-sister to the high class Singapore galloper Recast and the local stakes winner Gonski.
Lot 9 Good To Be True: due in September to the mighty Choisir, she is a three times winning Brief Truce half-sister to the Gr.1 Goodwood Handicap winner Smokin' Joey and the dual Group winner Our Smoking Joe.
Lot 16 La Soeur Noir: stakes placed multiple city winning half-sister to the Perth Cup winner Black Tom.
Lot 20 Masked Romance: due late August to Exceed And Excel's four times Gr.1 winning son Excelebration, she is a half-sister to the dual Gr.3 winner Blackrock College.
Lot 21 Miss Matera: a half-sister to the Listed winner Cassis from the family of her grandsire Zabeel, this daughter of Lonhro is due mid-August to Wanted.
Lot 37 Snippets' Jewel: what a great job Snippets mares have done at stud producing 80 stakes winners. This girl has produced five winners from six to race and one of her daughters is the dam of the recently retired dual Gr.1 winner Miracles Of Life.
Lot 44 Thawaabet: city placed juvenile winner in foal to one of Victoria's most popular young stallions, the triple Gr.1 winner Helmet.
Joining those mares are daughters of Danehill Dancer, Encosta de Lago, Johannesburg, Canny Lad, Royal Academy, Montjeu, Choisir, Hussonet, Octagonal, Oratorio, Domesday, Umatilla, Viscount, Written Tycoon, O'Reilly, Falvelon, Rock Of Gibraltar, Flying Spur, More Than Ready, Darci Brahma, Good Journey and Danzero.
Other highlights include the stakes placed five times winner Regal Thunder, the city winner Echo Berry (in foal to Sidereus), four times winner Etoile Rouge (half-sister to the Gr.3 winner Vibrant Rouge), the times winner Hello Hello (in foal to Ustinov), six times winner Kistamon, Monistique (half-sister to stakes winner Umaquest), Newcastle Miss (two times winning daughter of the Gr.3 mare Patterns), Amber Trinket (half-sister to the Gr.2 winner Amberino in foal to Domesday), the city winning Redoute's Choice mare Clasp and the Gr.2 placed Illinois Girl.
Bound to prove popular with buyers are weanlings and yearlings by Star Witness (half-sister to W.S Cox Plate hero Maldivian), Stryker (half-brother to the dam of the multiple Gr.1 winner Appearance), Drumbeats, Strategic Maneuver, Ustinov, Haradasun, Oratorio, Al Maher and Kaphero.
Meanwhile the tried racehorse market continues to thrive and there are plenty of options at the sale including the seven times winner Game Of Shadows, the three times winner L'Uccello Rosso, the lightly raced four times placed 4Y0 Mar Nero, the Any Suggestion 4Y0 My Anahera who ran well at only his second start at Bendigo in May, the three times Sunshine Coast winner Overrule, the six times winner Pointing To Gold, the well related Fastnet Rock mare Rocca Santa, last start Toowoomba winners Serala and Attraction (who broke her maiden by a stunning 6 3/4 lengths on June 12), last start Bathurst winner Abbalac and the Ascot winning Bel Esprit mare Coco Cash.
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