The catalogue for the 2023 New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale features the progeny of 92 different sires, including some of the cream of the stallion crop from both sides of the Tasman.
New Zealand-based sires
New Zealand stallions had an extraordinary season in 2022-23, with no fewer than 16 of them siring Group One winners in Australia or Hong Kong. The progeny of many of these high-flying stallions can be found in the Ready to Run Sale catalogue.
SAVABEEL
Waikato Stud’s supremo Savabeel needs little introduction, boasting no fewer than eight New Zealand sires’ premierships. His long reign at the top of the domestic table may have been broken by Proisir last season, but he still had another incredible year in his own right.
Savabeel’s progeny amassed a mind-boggling A$20m on Australian racetracks during 2022-23, which earned him third place on the sires’ premiership on that side of the Tasman – trailing only I Am Invincible and So You Think (NZ).
He sired four individual Group One winners during the 2022-23 season and has already continued in the same vein in the early stages of the 2023-24 season with Skew Wiff (NZ) taking out New Zealand’s season-opening Tarzino Trophy (1400m).
The Ready to Run Sale is a proven source of Group One-winning progeny of Savabeel, with Hall Of Fame (NZ) and Sangster (NZ) coming out of this sale in previous years.
The 2023 Ready to Run Sale catalogue features nine sons of Savabeel, including:
- Lot 80, the second foal out of stakes-performed American mare Joyous Thunder (Kitten’s Joy).
- Lot 182, out of dual Group Two winner Platinum Princess (NZ) (Keeper).
- Lot 218, whose dam is a half-sister to the Group One Oakleigh Plate (1100m) winner Shamal Wind (Dubawi).
- Lot 279, a half-brother to the dual Group One winner Tiptronic (NZ) (O’Reilly).
- Lot 383, a half-brother to the three-time Group Two winner Spanish Whisper (Lope De Vega).
PROISIR
Rich Hill Stud’s Proisir claimed his first New Zealand sires’ premiership in 2022-23, and in the process, he did something that had never been done before.
Proisir became the first stallion to ever have total progeny earnings break through the $4m barrier in a single New Zealand season. He had no fewer than five individual Group One winners – Dark Destroyer (NZ), Pier (NZ), Legarto (NZ), Levante (NZ) and Prowess (NZ).
Proisir’s service fee has soared from $17,500 to $70,000 for the 2023 breeding season, and he had eight yearlings sell for $230,000 or more at Karaka earlier this year.
The 2023 Ready to Run Sale catalogue features 12 progeny of Proisir, including:
- Lot 125, a son of the Group Three-winning High Chaparral mare Mangaroa Flo Jo (NZ).
- Lot 210, whose dam Rocknrolla (NZ) (Towkay) won eight races and placed at Group Three level. She is closely related to the Group One performers Spin ‘N’ Grin (NZ) (Spinning World) and Burgundy Belle (NZ) (Burgundy).
- Lot 324, a filly out of a three-quarter-sister to the dam of Proisir’s Group Three-winning daughter Aimee’s Jewel (NZ). Another close relative is the multiple stakes winner Irish Girl (NZ) (El Roca).
- Lot 357, whose unraced dam Cabsav (NZ) is a Savabeel half-sister to the Group One winner Juice (NZ) (Bertolini).
