Ready To Run Clearance Key For Ormsby

Media Release - Monday November 18

had Ormsby has had a phenomenal 12 months with horses he has retained from New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run Sales, but this week at Karaka he is hoping to go home with an empty truck.

Ormsby operates Riverrock Farm out of Cambridge, where he balances training, educating and preparing horses for the sales. In the training role, Ormsby prepared Pulchritudinous to win this year’s Gr.1 New Zealand Oaks (2400m) in March after she failed to meet her $50,000 reserve in 2022. He achieved a similar feat in the Gr.3 Manawatu Classic (2100m) with Outovstock, who was passed in with a $150,000 reserve in the same year.

Chad Ormsby

“We don’t like taking them home, we want these horses to go on and be successful for trainers all around the world,” he said.

“One thing I’d really like is a 100 percent clearance rate, so we’re getting our product out there and hopefully they can go on and do great things.

“We’ve been blessed with a good couple of days so far weather-wise, and looking around the grounds, we’ve been busy and seen a lot of the big buyers. We’re always hopeful, and we’ve got a day or so to go before the sale starts, so hopefully we’ve got the right horses that people are looking for.”

Lot 288 - click to see his page.

Among Ormsby’s nine-horse draft this year is Lot 288, a Churchill colt out of Pierro mare Bagitol. Already a trial winner under the name of Ukinno, Ormsby resisted the temptation to sell him prior to the sale, opting to support his brand with the exciting youngster.

“We started with 12 and have ended up with nine who are all outstanding individuals and have had a great prep,” Ormsby said. “Any one of them I would love to be training myself.

“I’m excited for all of them, but the ones that may be at the top end of the sale would be the likes of Lot 288, a Churchill colt out of Bagitol. He’s breezed in extremely good style and he’s also a trial winner, he won his trial on the first of October.

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“Normally when we buy horses, we buy some with a view to trial and sell them after, but with ready-to-runners, we buy them to go to the sale. This horse was always in the sale but he came up extremely well, he’s a very athletic type with speed to burn, the ability is endless.

“We put him in a trial a little bit underdone, but he was good enough to win that and then breeze-up in very good style. I didn’t have to ask him to extend much at all.

“It was pretty hard not taking the offers for him after that trial, but we’re looking to promote our brand and get him to the Ready To Run Sale, which we’ve done.”

An eye-catcher at the breeze-ups was Lot 118, a Proisir filly closely related to recent Australian metropolitan winner Angland.

“Lot 188, a Proisir filly out of Polson has been very popular since we’ve been up here at the sales and she breezed outstandingly,” Ormsby said.

“I could probably start naming four or five of them and carry on for various reasons, there are some nice horses in there.”

 By Jess de Lautour, LOVERACING.NZ News Desk

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