Kiwi Vendor Celebrating Sales and Racetrack Success

Media Release - Monday November 25

Vendor Barry Donoghue enjoyed a lucrative two days at New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run Sale last week and he’s now celebrated a significant result in another role.

Under his BMD Bloodstock banner, his draft was highlighted by a Toronado colt who was knocked down for $625,000 and hot off the heels of his Karaka success came homebred Globe’s victory in Saturday’s Listed Cranbourne Cup (1600m).

Globe (NZ) wins the Cranbourne Cup - image Racing Photos

“I was delighted, I don’t breed many so to be a black-type breeder now is fantastic,” Donoghue said.

Globe was initially sold through Cambria Park’s draft at the National Yearling Sale for $22,000 and following a trial win at Taupo from the stable of the late Toby Autridge, was purchased by Roll The Dice Racing in a deal brokered by bloodstock agent Phill Cataldo.

The son of Charm Spirit has now won five of his nine starts for Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr, but sadly Donoghue lost the dam Bonnie Doon earlier this year.

She was an unraced Don Eduardo mare whose brother Booming won twice at Group One level.

“At the end of her last pregnancy we were struggling with her feet and we got her right and in foal to Contributer, but she lost the foal and started going backwards again and unfortunately she died,” Donoghue said.

“We have got an Ace High colt out of her going to the yearling sale next year. He’ll be in Book 1 and is a gorgeous horse.

“He will go through Fraser Jones’ Cambria Park draft, he owns half of the colt with me.”

Donoghue’s focus is on the Ready to Run Sale and was thrilled with last week’s results.

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“We had a great sale, we’re going in the right direction and that’s very pleasing,” he said.

“We had a lovely draft and I was very happy with the product we took there, some got more than expected and some sold to what we expected.

“We took home a couple we did think would sell, but that’s all part and parcel of it.”

$625,000 Toronado (IRE) colt from Attractive.

The son of Toronado who topped the draft is out of the Zabeel mare Attractive, a half-sister to the Gr.1 Goodwood Handicap (1200m) winner Velocitea and to the dam of the multiple top-flight winner Loving Gaby.

“He was definitely the stand-out, he was always going to be the headline horse for us,” Donoghue said.

“He was a gorgeous type and moved really well. He had a good attitude and was by the right stallion to fetch the Hong Kong money.

“He was always going to shine for us and we just didn’t know to what extent. It was very rewarding for the clients, it’s important that when they send up these quality horses that we get them to perform to their best so it was very pleasing.”

BMD Bloodstock also sold a Wootton Bassett gelding to Victoria’s Lucky Dip Investments for $280,000 while a Per Incanto colt was purchased by Lindsay Park Racing for $260,000 and Hong Kong trainer Ricky Yiu went to $220,000 for a son of Capitalist. – LOVERACING.NZ News Desk

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