Pinhook Winners Karaka Book 1

Tara Madgwick - Thursday February 1

With record breaking results at the 2024 NZB National Yearling Sale Book 1 this week there were plenty of successful pinhooking stories so let’s check them out with the best six produced by either Riversley Park or Kaha Nui Farm.

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$500,000 Per Incanto (USA) colt from She's Apples (IRE)

Riversley Park hit a home run with their Per Incanto (IRE) colt from She’s Apples (IRE), a Northern Hemisphere bred daughter of champion sire Redoute’s Choice from the family of Group I winning and Group I producing sire Tavistock.

He topped the 2023 NZB Weanling Sale.

He was bought by Jamie Richards / Andrew Williams Bloodstock for $500,000 realising a big profit on his initial purchase price of $150,000 from the Brighthill Farm draft at the NZ National Weanling and Broodmare Sale last year where he topped the sale.

Interestingly, the second highest priced weanling at that sale was a filly by Proisir from Jazamour that was bought by Kaha Nui Farm for $140,000, but they elected to re-offer her in Australia at Magic Millions and they too had a big result from that decision when she sold for $450,000.

$500,000 Deep Field colt from Californiasurprise

Kaha Nui Farm had the second best pinhook result at K1 when their Deep Field colt from Californiasurprise sold for $500,000 to Jamie Richards / Andrew Williams Bloodstock.

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They sourced the colt from the Middlebrook Valley Lodge draft at the Inglis Australian Weanling Sale for $255,000.

$260,000 King's Legacy filly from Fatal Rendezvous

King’s Legacy had a strong sale achieving 100% clearance with all eight of his yearlings selling at an average $134,063 to be the third leading first season sire by average. His top seller was a colt out of well related mare Fatal Rendezvous caught the eye of renowned judge David Ellis, who bought her for his Te Akau Racing out of the Riversley Park draft for $260,000.

She provided a sensational return for Riversley Park, who bought the stylish filly from Fairhill Farm at the Inglis Weanling Sale for just $40,000.

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