Princess Coup Highlights NZB's 2009 National Weanling, Broodmare & Mixed Bloodstock Sale
New Zealand Bloodstock's National Weanling, Broodmare & Mixed Bloodstock catalogue goes online today, with this year's selection boasting the inclusion of champion race mare, Princess Coup.
A quadruple Group 1 winner, New Zealand Bloodstock is honoured to be offering the outstanding daughter of Encosta de Lago, one of the best racemares to be entered for sale over the last ten years (see Lot 456).
A winner at two, three and four, Princess Coup first rose to prominence as a three-year-old in New Zealand. That season she was named New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year and NZ Champion 3YO following seven victories that included the Group 1 New Zealand Oaks.
The next season she captured New Zealand's richest race, the $2,000,000 Group 1 Kelt Capital Stakes, and at her very next start ran a dazzling third to Master O'Reilly and Douro Valley in the A$2,500,000 Group 1 Caulfield Cup, followed by a second placing in the Group 1 Mackinnon Stakes. Later in the season she followed this up with three more Group 1 seconds in Australia, and ended the season as NZ's Champion Middle Distance performer. She came back for a fourth season and picked up her second consecutive Group 1 Kelt Capital Stakes, her final race victory of her career.
Retiring as Encosta de Lago's highest Australasian stakes earner to date with in excess of $4 million from her 33 career starts (12 wins, 7 seconds and 3 thirds), Princess Coup also boasts a top class pedigree, free of Danehill-Danzig. Click here for more information about this outstanding mare.
New Zealand Bloodstock Managing Director Petrea Vela says Princess Coup rates as the best racemare ever offered for sale by New Zealand Bloodstock.
"We are very honoured to have the opportunity to offer such an outstanding mare as Princess Coup. She was truly a champion of her generation, backed up by a top quality pedigree, and offers buyers from all over the world a very unique buying opportunity."
New Zealand Bloodstock's May Sale sees 728 horses entered for sale across three days, with the weanlings (336) being directly followed by the broodmares (323), yearlings (18), two-year-olds (21), unraced stock (10) and finally racehorses (18).
The catalogue is bursting with pinhook, racing, and investment opportunities for savvy investors who recognise the current downturn in the market as presenting great opportunity to upgrade their thoroughbred portfolios with the considerable value to be had in the market place.
The thick green pastures across New Zealand this autumn provide further encouragement for pinhookers looking to grow out weanlings into profitable yearlings over the nine months to January.
Over 300 weanlings have been catalogued including individuals by the most exciting crop of first season sires seen in New Zealand for decades. Exciting Group 1 performers Darci Brahma, Fast N Famous, Holy Roman Emperor and Perfectly Ready are joined by fellow freshman Lucky Unicorn, Royal Gem, Gonski, Danger Looms, Ruff Nipper and Zed.
Proven commercial sires like Elusive City, Faltaat, Keeper, O'Reilly, Pentire, Pins, Postponed, Thorn Park, and Volksraad are also well represented along with many of Australasia's emerging young sires.
The biggest success story from last year's Sale was the filly by Stravinsky - Full Noise consigned by Little Avondale Stud. She was purchased by Marcus Corban Bloodstock for $130,000 and later sold through the Cambridge Stud draft at 2009 Karaka Premier Sale for $320,000 to John Wheeler.
Other significant pinhook successes across price brackets included:
· A Postponed colt purchased by Henley Park for $30,000 and sold at Karaka 2009 for $100,000.
· A Golan colt purchased by Curraghmore Stud for $12,000 and sold at Karaka 2009 for $75,000.
· An Elusive City colt purchased by Oxford Thoroughbreds for $7,500 and sold at Karaka 2009 for $25,000.
For serious breeders now is the time to upgrade your broodmare band, with the market dictating value for investors taking a long term view. A total of 323 broodmares by internationally proven and emerging young sires will be presented for Sale, many with plenty of upside, and many in foal to sires who offer a quick return on investment.
Young Group 1 winning mares Princess Coup, La Bella Dama (Lot 388), Sunlaw (Lot 507), and Group 1 Australian Oaks performed Boulevardofdreams (Lot 574)highlight a very strong broodmare catalogue that features no less than 41 stakes performing or stakes producing mares.
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Princess Coup (Encosta De Lago) - Te Akau Stud
· Quadruple Group 1 winner who has not been to stud
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La Bella Dama (Desert Sun) - Trelawney Stud
The winner of seven races including the Group 1 MacKinnon Stakes, La Bella Dama has left three foals to race, all winners including first foal Macau Causeway (Giant's Causeway), stakes placed in the Group 3 SAJC Sires Produce Stakes and the Listed VRC Gibson Carmichael Stakes.
La Bella Dama is sold infoal to exciting first season sire and outstanding European sprinter Ifraaj (Zafonic). LSD 28/11/2008.
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Sunlaw (Desert Sun) - Windsor Park Stud
The winner of four races including the Group 1 Telegraph Handicap, Sunlaw is a young mare sold infoal to the highly promising Thorn Park (Spinning World). His oldest crop are three and thus far have he has produced 9% stakes winners to runners. LSD 16/11/2008.
* Boulevardofdreams (Daggers Drawn) - Seaton Park
The Daggers Drawn mare is a winner of four races including the Group 2 ARC Championship Stakes and placed third behind Wild Iris in the 2004 Group 1 Australian Oaks before running midfield in the Group 1 Hollywood American Oaks. She is sold infoal to Thorn Park who is doing an outstanding job at stud. LSD 7/11/2008.
As an added attraction this year, both The Oaks Stud and Waikato Stud will offer horses in their drafts on an unreserved basis. The Oaks Stud will sell its entire 72 entries unreserved, including nine racehorses from the outstanding Karreman racing stable, eight of these being fillies/mares who are also sold as breeding propositions.
Waikato Stud will follow on from their successful unreserved sale at Karaka last year with 62 weanlings and broodmares on offer, with all their weanlings being sold unreserved as part of their annual reduction. Waikato Stud's Gary Chittick says this is strategically important to Waikato Stud's business.
"We know that we can adequately prepare 80 yearlings for sale annually, and we know that to adequately support our stallion's futures we need to breed around 150 mares a year."
"That tells us that we need to trade around 30 - 40 weanlings annually, and it is extremely important for us to get the stock of our stallions out there amongst thoroughbred racing and breeding stakeholders."
"We also have ten to a dozen fillies join our broodmare band from the racetrack every year so it is important to keep trading others to make room for them."
"The beauty of buying from us is that it is a double edged sword. We will never sell out of a family so the buyer knows that members of the immediate family are getting every chance at stud, while we benefit by having the family out there for fellow breeders to make a success of."
New Zealand Bloodstock's National Weanling, Broodmare, and Mixed Bloodstock Sale will be conducted at Karaka on 4, 5 and 6 May from 10am each day. Catalogues will go in the post this week. For further information or to request a catalogue visit http://www.nzb.co.nz/ or contact reception@nzb.co.nz.