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Buyers from Hong Kong and mainland China were an unstoppable force on the second day of the New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale at Karaka on Thursday. Picking up where they left off at the end of Wednesday’s opening session, Hong Kong and Chinese buyers combined to purchase 57 horses on Thursday for a total of more than $13 million. That haul included all of Thursday’s four highest-priced lots, including a sale-topping colt by Zoustar out of the stakes-winning Hussonet mare Hijack Hussy. Offered by Kit Brooks’ KB Bloodstock as Lot 374, the colt was bought by prolific purchaser Kin Man Yeung for $825,000. “Mr Yeung has a very nice Zoustar in Hong Kong (Patch Of Theta) who’s placed at Group level, so he was looking for another Zoustar and he loved this one,” bloodstock agent Willie Leung said. “He looks big and strong and is an early type, so it is likely that we’ll bring him to Hong Kong early.” The sale-topping colt was one of 16 purchases for Yeung, who took leading buyer honours at the Ready to Run Sale for the third year in a row. He spent a total of $3.57 million across Wednesday and Thursday. Mr & Mrs Wong Kwun Keong, Mr & Mrs Yeung Kin Man and Mr & Mrs Manfred Man at Karaka this week Photo: Angelique Bridson “Mr Yeung enjoys the sale very much, because the first year we got two winners and they have won nine races, which was a good result,” Leung said. “And last year we bought more and we already are about to bring 10 new horses to Hong Kong. He wanted to stock up a little bit more and then pick the quality ones to go to Hong Kong for racing.” Yeung’s first leading buyer title came in 2023, when he bought 12 horses for a total of $2.46 million. He followed that up with 24 purchases last year for $4.99 million. James Cummings paid $775,000 on Thursday for Lot 371, a Written Tycoon colt from the Prima Park draft. The colt is a half-brother to My Whisper, the winner of the Gr.3 Tesio Stakes (1600m), Gr.3 Summoned Stakes (1600m) and Gr.3 Auraria Stakes (1800m) and placegetter in the Gr.1 Australasian Oaks (2000m). Lot 371, a colt by Written Tycoon purchased by James Cummings for $775,000 Photo: Angelique Bridson This week marked the first visit to Karaka in close to a decade for Cummings, who is building ammunition as he prepares to join Hong Kong’s training ranks for the 2026-27 season. Cummings came away from the sale with three purchases for a total of $1.43 million. As well as his $775,000 Written Tycoon colt, he also bought a Bivouac gelding for $425,000 and an Exceedance gelding for $230,000. “I haven’t been here since early 2017, so it’s good to be back and seeing some familiar faces,” said Cummings, who won over 50 Group One races during an eight-year tenure as Godolphin’s head trainer in Australia. “This is a very good sale. It’s a good set-up and there’s lots of clients here from Hong Kong. It’s definitely a hunting ground, and a happy one at that, for good quality Hong Kong gallopers.” Shijiazhuang Hongtao Horse Breeding went to $700,000 to secure Trelawney Stud’s Per Incanto colt that was catalogued as Lot 398, while Hongwei Chen paid the same price for Lot 283, BMD Bloodstock’s colt by Hello Youmzain out of Cool Tart. That strong Hong Kong and Chinese market underpinned an enormously successful sale, which achieved an aggregate of over $41 million for the first time in the Ready to Run Sale’s history. Hong Kong buyers alone accounted for more than $17 million of that amount. View the full article

Back-to-back lots through the Karaka sale ring on Thursday’s second day of the New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale produced unprecedented results for a pair of Kiwi sires. Cambridge Stud shuttle stallion Hello Youmzain hit a new high when Lot 283, a colt out of the Zabeel mare Cool Tart, was knocked down to Hongwei Chen for $700,000. The colt was offered by Barry Donoghue’s BMD Bloodstock. It was a new record price not only for Hello Youmzain but also for Donoghue, continuing a remarkable spring in which he also bred his first Group One winner with Globe in Caulfield’s Might And Power Stakes (2000m). “Today’s result with the Hello Youmzain colt was an enormous thrill and very special,” Donoghue said. “We knew we were going into the sale with a really nice horse and we were expecting him to be popular. But we had a reserve of only $150,000, and whatever happened beyond that was a bonus. We couldn’t be happier.” BMD Bloodstock offered 16 horses across the two days of the Ready to Run Sale, selling 14 of them for a total of $2.69 million and an average price of $192,500. Hello Youmzain, whose yearlings have sold for up to $425,000, was New Zealand’s leading first-season sire in 2024-25 and has sired 16 winners to date from his first southern hemisphere crop including three-time Listed winner Platinum Diamond and fellow stakes-winning filly Lucy In The Sky. Lot 285, a colt by Armory fetched $625,000 to the bid of Cameron Cooke and Busuttin Racing Photo: Angelique Bridson With Lot 284 withdrawn, the very next two-year-old through the ring on Thursday morning was Lot 285 – Ohukia Lodge’s colt from the first crop of Mapperley Stud stallion Armory out of the stakes-winning Golan mare Cora Lynn. The half-brother to nine-race winner and Gr.3 Sydney Stakes (1200m) placegetter Weona Smartone was a $625,000 purchase by Cameron Cooke and Busuttin Racing. Armory ran second behind Russian Camelot in the 2020 edition of the Gr.1 Cox Plate (2040m) before retiring to Mapperley in 2022. The Galileo stallion’s first runner, Silhouette, won the Fusion Electrical 2YO (900m) at Trentham on October 26. “As an individual, this colt was one of our picks of the sale,” Trent Busuttin said. “He was always going to be expensive, but you’ve got to buy the ones you like. Cameron Cooke selected him for one of his clients, and we’re lucky enough to get to train him. “Armory has already had a winner. It’s always good to buy off New Zealand farms and support the New Zealand stallions.” View the full article

Buyers from Hong Kong and mainland China were an unstoppable force on the second day of the New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale at Karaka on Thursday. Picking up where they left off at the end of Wednesday’s opening session, Hong Kong and Chinese buyers combined to purchase 57 horses on Thursday for a total of more than $13 million. That haul included all of Thursday’s four highest-priced lots, including a sale-topping colt by Zoustar out of the stakes-winning Hussonet mare Hijack Hussy. Offered by Kit Brooks’ KB Bloodstock as Lot 374, the colt was bought by prolific purchaser Kin Man Yeung for $825,000. “Mr Yeung has a very nice Zoustar in Hong Kong (Patch Of Theta) who’s placed at Group level, so he was looking for another Zoustar and he loved this one,” bloodstock agent Willie Leung said. “He looks big and strong and is an early type, so it is likely that we’ll bring him to Hong Kong early.” The sale-topping colt was one of 16 purchases for Yeung, who took leading buyer honours at the Ready to Run Sale for the third year in a row. He spent a total of $3.57 million across Wednesday and Thursday. Mr & Mrs Wong Kwun Keong, Mr & Mrs Yeung Kin Man and Mr & Mrs Manfred Man at Karaka this week Photo: Angelique Bridson “Mr Yeung enjoys the sale very much, because the first year we got two winners and they have won nine races, which was a good result,” Leung said. “And last year we bought more and we already are about to bring 10 new horses to Hong Kong. He wanted to stock up a little bit more and then pick the quality ones to go to Hong Kong for racing.” Yeung’s first leading buyer title came in 2023, when he bought 12 horses for a total of $2.46 million. He followed that up with 24 purchases last year for $4.99 million. James Cummings paid $775,000 on Thursday for Lot 371, a Written Tycoon colt from the Prima Park draft. The colt is a half-brother to My Whisper, the winner of the Gr.3 Tesio Stakes (1600m), Gr.3 Summoned Stakes (1600m) and Gr.3 Auraria Stakes (1800m) and placegetter in the Gr.1 Australasian Oaks (2000m). Lot 371, a colt by Written Tycoon purchased by James Cummings for $775,000 Photo: Angelique Bridson This week marked the first visit to Karaka in close to a decade for Cummings, who is building ammunition as he prepares to join Hong Kong’s training ranks for the 2026-27 season. Cummings came away from the sale with three purchases for a total of $1.43 million. As well as his $775,000 Written Tycoon colt, he also bought a Bivouac gelding for $425,000 and an Exceedance gelding for $230,000. “I haven’t been here since early 2017, so it’s good to be back and seeing some familiar faces,” said Cummings, who won over 50 Group One races during an eight-year tenure as Godolphin’s head trainer in Australia. “This is a very good sale. It’s a good set-up and there’s lots of clients here from Hong Kong. It’s definitely a hunting ground, and a happy one at that, for good quality Hong Kong gallopers.” Shijiazhuang Hongtao Horse Breeding went to $700,000 to secure Trelawney Stud’s Per Incanto colt that was catalogued as Lot 398, while Hongwei Chen paid the same price for Lot 283, BMD Bloodstock’s colt by Hello Youmzain out of Cool Tart. That strong Hong Kong and Chinese market underpinned an enormously successful sale, which achieved an aggregate of over $41 million for the first time in the Ready to Run Sale’s history. Hong Kong buyers alone accounted for more than $17 million of that amount. View the full article

Back-to-back lots through the Karaka sale ring on Thursday’s second day of the New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale produced unprecedented results for a pair of Kiwi sires. Cambridge Stud shuttle stallion Hello Youmzain hit a new high when Lot 283, a colt out of the Zabeel mare Cool Tart, was knocked down to Hongwei Chen for $700,000. The colt was offered by Barry Donoghue’s BMD Bloodstock. It was a new record price not only for Hello Youmzain but also for Donoghue, continuing a remarkable spring in which he also bred his first Group One winner with Globe in Caulfield’s Might And Power Stakes (2000m). “Today’s result with the Hello Youmzain colt was an enormous thrill and very special,” Donoghue said. “We knew we were going into the sale with a really nice horse and we were expecting him to be popular. But we had a reserve of only $150,000, and whatever happened beyond that was a bonus. We couldn’t be happier.” BMD Bloodstock offered 16 horses across the two days of the Ready to Run Sale, selling 14 of them for a total of $2.69 million and an average price of $192,500. Hello Youmzain, whose yearlings have sold for up to $425,000, was New Zealand’s leading first-season sire in 2024-25 and has sired 16 winners to date from his first southern hemisphere crop including three-time Listed winner Platinum Diamond and fellow stakes-winning filly Lucy In The Sky. Lot 285, a colt by Armory fetched $625,000 to the bid of Cameron Cooke and Busuttin Racing Photo: Angelique Bridson With Lot 284 withdrawn, the very next two-year-old through the ring on Thursday morning was Lot 285 – Ohukia Lodge’s colt from the first crop of Mapperley Stud stallion Armory out of the stakes-winning Golan mare Cora Lynn. The half-brother to nine-race winner and Gr.3 Sydney Stakes (1200m) placegetter Weona Smartone was a $625,000 purchase by Cameron Cooke and Busuttin Racing. Armory ran second behind Russian Camelot in the 2020 edition of the Gr.1 Cox Plate (2040m) before retiring to Mapperley in 2022. The Galileo stallion’s first runner, Silhouette, won the Fusion Electrical 2YO (900m) at Trentham on October 26. “As an individual, this colt was one of our picks of the sale,” Trent Busuttin said. “He was always going to be expensive, but you’ve got to buy the ones you like. Cameron Cooke selected him for one of his clients, and we’re lucky enough to get to train him. “Armory has already had a winner. It’s always good to buy off New Zealand farms and support the New Zealand stallions.” View the full article

Buyers from Hong Kong and mainland China were an unstoppable force on the second day of the New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale at Karaka on Thursday. Picking up where they left off at the end of Wednesday’s opening session, Hong Kong and Chinese buyers combined to purchase 57 horses on Thursday for a total of more than $13 million. That haul included all of Thursday’s four highest-priced lots, including a sale-topping colt by Zoustar out of the stakes-winning Hussonet mare Hijack Hussy. Offered by Kit Brooks’ KB Bloodstock as Lot 374, the colt was bought by prolific purchaser Kin Man Yeung for $825,000. “Mr Yeung has a very nice Zoustar in Hong Kong (Patch Of Theta) who’s placed at Group level, so he was looking for another Zoustar and he loved this one,” bloodstock agent Willie Leung said. “He looks big and strong and is an early type, so it is likely that we’ll bring him to Hong Kong early.” The sale-topping colt was one of 16 purchases for Yeung, who took leading buyer honours at the Ready to Run Sale for the third year in a row. He spent a total of $3.57 million across Wednesday and Thursday. Mr & Mrs Wong Kwun Keong, Mr & Mrs Yeung Kin Man and Mr & Mrs Manfred Man at Karaka this week Photo: Angelique Bridson “Mr Yeung enjoys the sale very much, because the first year we got two winners and they have won nine races, which was a good result,” Leung said. “And last year we bought more and we already are about to bring 10 new horses to Hong Kong. He wanted to stock up a little bit more and then pick the quality ones to go to Hong Kong for racing.” Yeung’s first leading buyer title came in 2023, when he bought 12 horses for a total of $2.46 million. He followed that up with 24 purchases last year for $4.99 million. James Cummings paid $775,000 on Thursday for Lot 371, a Written Tycoon colt from the Prima Park draft. The colt is a half-brother to My Whisper, the winner of the Gr.3 Tesio Stakes (1600m), Gr.3 Summoned Stakes (1600m) and Gr.3 Auraria Stakes (1800m) and placegetter in the Gr.1 Australasian Oaks (2000m). Lot 371, a colt by Written Tycoon purchased by James Cummings for $775,000 Photo: Angelique Bridson This week marked the first visit to Karaka in close to a decade for Cummings, who is building ammunition as he prepares to join Hong Kong’s training ranks for the 2026-27 season. Cummings came away from the sale with three purchases for a total of $1.43 million. As well as his $775,000 Written Tycoon colt, he also bought a Bivouac gelding for $425,000 and an Exceedance gelding for $230,000. “I haven’t been here since early 2017, so it’s good to be back and seeing some familiar faces,” said Cummings, who won over 50 Group One races during an eight-year tenure as Godolphin’s head trainer in Australia. “This is a very good sale. It’s a good set-up and there’s lots of clients here from Hong Kong. It’s definitely a hunting ground, and a happy one at that, for good quality Hong Kong gallopers.” Shijiazhuang Hongtao Horse Breeding went to $700,000 to secure Trelawney Stud’s Per Incanto colt that was catalogued as Lot 398, while Hongwei Chen paid the same price for Lot 283, BMD Bloodstock’s colt by Hello Youmzain out of Cool Tart. That strong Hong Kong and Chinese market underpinned an enormously successful sale, which achieved an aggregate of over $41 million for the first time in the Ready to Run Sale’s history. Hong Kong buyers alone accounted for more than $17 million of that amount. View the full article

Back-to-back lots through the Karaka sale ring on Thursday’s second day of the New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale produced unprecedented results for a pair of Kiwi sires. Cambridge Stud shuttle stallion Hello Youmzain hit a new high when Lot 283, a colt out of the Zabeel mare Cool Tart, was knocked down to Hongwei Chen for $700,000. The colt was offered by Barry Donoghue’s BMD Bloodstock. It was a new record price not only for Hello Youmzain but also for Donoghue, continuing a remarkable spring in which he also bred his first Group One winner with Globe in Caulfield’s Might And Power Stakes (2000m). “Today’s result with the Hello Youmzain colt was an enormous thrill and very special,” Donoghue said. “We knew we were going into the sale with a really nice horse and we were expecting him to be popular. But we had a reserve of only $150,000, and whatever happened beyond that was a bonus. We couldn’t be happier.” BMD Bloodstock offered 16 horses across the two days of the Ready to Run Sale, selling 14 of them for a total of $2.69 million and an average price of $192,500. Hello Youmzain, whose yearlings have sold for up to $425,000, was New Zealand’s leading first-season sire in 2024-25 and has sired 16 winners to date from his first southern hemisphere crop including three-time Listed winner Platinum Diamond and fellow stakes-winning filly Lucy In The Sky. Lot 285, a colt by Armory fetched $625,000 to the bid of Cameron Cooke and Busuttin Racing Photo: Angelique Bridson With Lot 284 withdrawn, the very next two-year-old through the ring on Thursday morning was Lot 285 – Ohukia Lodge’s colt from the first crop of Mapperley Stud stallion Armory out of the stakes-winning Golan mare Cora Lynn. The half-brother to nine-race winner and Gr.3 Sydney Stakes (1200m) placegetter Weona Smartone was a $625,000 purchase by Cameron Cooke and Busuttin Racing. Armory ran second behind Russian Camelot in the 2020 edition of the Gr.1 Cox Plate (2040m) before retiring to Mapperley in 2022. The Galileo stallion’s first runner, Silhouette, won the Fusion Electrical 2YO (900m) at Trentham on October 26. “As an individual, this colt was one of our picks of the sale,” Trent Busuttin said. “He was always going to be expensive, but you’ve got to buy the ones you like. Cameron Cooke selected him for one of his clients, and we’re lucky enough to get to train him. “Armory has already had a winner. It’s always good to buy off New Zealand farms and support the New Zealand stallions.” View the full article

Buyers from Hong Kong and mainland China were an unstoppable force on the second day of the New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale at Karaka on Thursday. Picking up where they left off at the end of Wednesday’s opening session, Hong Kong and Chinese buyers combined to purchase 57 horses on Thursday for a total of more than $13 million. That haul included all of Thursday’s four highest-priced lots, including a sale-topping colt by Zoustar out of the stakes-winning Hussonet mare Hijack Hussy. Offered by Kit Brooks’ KB Bloodstock as Lot 374, the colt was bought by prolific purchaser Kin Man Yeung for $825,000. “Mr Yeung has a very nice Zoustar in Hong Kong (Patch Of Theta) who’s placed at Group level, so he was looking for another Zoustar and he loved this one,” bloodstock agent Willie Leung said. “He looks big and strong and is an early type, so it is likely that we’ll bring him to Hong Kong early.” The sale-topping colt was one of 16 purchases for Yeung, who took leading buyer honours at the Ready to Run Sale for the third year in a row. He spent a total of $3.57 million across Wednesday and Thursday. Mr & Mrs Wong Kwun Keong, Mr & Mrs Yeung Kin Man and Mr & Mrs Manfred Man at Karaka this week Photo: Angelique Bridson “Mr Yeung enjoys the sale very much, because the first year we got two winners and they have won nine races, which was a good result,” Leung said. “And last year we bought more and we already are about to bring 10 new horses to Hong Kong. He wanted to stock up a little bit more and then pick the quality ones to go to Hong Kong for racing.” Yeung’s first leading buyer title came in 2023, when he bought 12 horses for a total of $2.46 million. He followed that up with 24 purchases last year for $4.99 million. James Cummings paid $775,000 on Thursday for Lot 371, a Written Tycoon colt from the Prima Park draft. The colt is a half-brother to My Whisper, the winner of the Gr.3 Tesio Stakes (1600m), Gr.3 Summoned Stakes (1600m) and Gr.3 Auraria Stakes (1800m) and placegetter in the Gr.1 Australasian Oaks (2000m). Lot 371, a colt by Written Tycoon purchased by James Cummings for $775,000 Photo: Angelique Bridson This week marked the first visit to Karaka in close to a decade for Cummings, who is building ammunition as he prepares to join Hong Kong’s training ranks for the 2026-27 season. Cummings came away from the sale with three purchases for a total of $1.43 million. As well as his $775,000 Written Tycoon colt, he also bought a Bivouac gelding for $425,000 and an Exceedance gelding for $230,000. “I haven’t been here since early 2017, so it’s good to be back and seeing some familiar faces,” said Cummings, who won over 50 Group One races during an eight-year tenure as Godolphin’s head trainer in Australia. “This is a very good sale. It’s a good set-up and there’s lots of clients here from Hong Kong. It’s definitely a hunting ground, and a happy one at that, for good quality Hong Kong gallopers.” Shijiazhuang Hongtao Horse Breeding went to $700,000 to secure Trelawney Stud’s Per Incanto colt that was catalogued as Lot 398, while Hongwei Chen paid the same price for Lot 283, BMD Bloodstock’s colt by Hello Youmzain out of Cool Tart. That strong Hong Kong and Chinese market underpinned an enormously successful sale, which achieved an aggregate of over $41 million for the first time in the Ready to Run Sale’s history. Hong Kong buyers alone accounted for more than $17 million of that amount. View the full article

Back-to-back lots through the Karaka sale ring on Thursday’s second day of the New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale produced unprecedented results for a pair of Kiwi sires. Cambridge Stud shuttle stallion Hello Youmzain hit a new high when Lot 283, a colt out of the Zabeel mare Cool Tart, was knocked down to Hongwei Chen for $700,000. The colt was offered by Barry Donoghue’s BMD Bloodstock. It was a new record price not only for Hello Youmzain but also for Donoghue, continuing a remarkable spring in which he also bred his first Group One winner with Globe in Caulfield’s Might And Power Stakes (2000m). “Today’s result with the Hello Youmzain colt was an enormous thrill and very special,” Donoghue said. “We knew we were going into the sale with a really nice horse and we were expecting him to be popular. But we had a reserve of only $150,000, and whatever happened beyond that was a bonus. We couldn’t be happier.” BMD Bloodstock offered 16 horses across the two days of the Ready to Run Sale, selling 14 of them for a total of $2.69 million and an average price of $192,500. Hello Youmzain, whose yearlings have sold for up to $425,000, was New Zealand’s leading first-season sire in 2024-25 and has sired 16 winners to date from his first southern hemisphere crop including three-time Listed winner Platinum Diamond and fellow stakes-winning filly Lucy In The Sky. Lot 285, a colt by Armory fetched $625,000 to the bid of Cameron Cooke and Busuttin Racing Photo: Angelique Bridson With Lot 284 withdrawn, the very next two-year-old through the ring on Thursday morning was Lot 285 – Ohukia Lodge’s colt from the first crop of Mapperley Stud stallion Armory out of the stakes-winning Golan mare Cora Lynn. The half-brother to nine-race winner and Gr.3 Sydney Stakes (1200m) placegetter Weona Smartone was a $625,000 purchase by Cameron Cooke and Busuttin Racing. Armory ran second behind Russian Camelot in the 2020 edition of the Gr.1 Cox Plate (2040m) before retiring to Mapperley in 2022. The Galileo stallion’s first runner, Silhouette, won the Fusion Electrical 2YO (900m) at Trentham on October 26. “As an individual, this colt was one of our picks of the sale,” Trent Busuttin said. “He was always going to be expensive, but you’ve got to buy the ones you like. Cameron Cooke selected him for one of his clients, and we’re lucky enough to get to train him. “Armory has already had a winner. It’s always good to buy off New Zealand farms and support the New Zealand stallions.” View the full article

I heard they had already engraved the Broadsters name on the trophy.