Chief Stipe Posted 23 hours ago Share Posted 23 hours ago Positive results for the Ready-to-Run Sale 2024. Reasonable clearance rate and mean/median up on past years. The sale topper so far looks a very nice horse. I would have thought a great looking I'm Invincible colt out of a Grp 1 winning Savabeel mare, who broke 10 seconds in the breeze up was a good buy at $1.65m. https://www.nzb.co.nz/sales/24rtr/174 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Chief Stipe Posted 21 hours ago Author Share Posted 21 hours ago In reality how far away are these Ready-to-Run horses from racing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief Stipe Posted 18 hours ago Author Share Posted 18 hours ago I see the shares in the sale topper have all been sold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shad Posted 12 hours ago Share Posted 12 hours ago Deep pockets required, be interesting to see how it runs in the future, no guarantees. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Agent Posted 8 hours ago Share Posted 8 hours ago I suppose each vendor is different but, you'd think once they'd breezed up the trainer/preparer would back off with work on a walker to keep them eating, interested and muscled for the sale ring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huey Posted 4 hours ago Share Posted 4 hours ago 16 hours ago, Chief Stipe said: In reality how far away are these Ready-to-Run horses from racing? According to your idols he is ready to go, will we see him out before Xmas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huey Posted 4 hours ago Share Posted 4 hours ago 22 of top 25 purchases were by Aus Sires or shuttlers, why all the back slapping for the Kiwi product? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief Stipe Posted 3 hours ago Author Share Posted 3 hours ago 33 minutes ago, Huey said: According to your idols he is ready to go, will we see him out before Xmas? You obviously didn't get the memo or listen to the DCE interview. The horse is having a short break and then aimed for racing late summer/early autumn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief Stipe Posted 3 hours ago Author Share Posted 3 hours ago 25 minutes ago, Huey said: 22 of top 25 purchases were by Aus Sires or shuttlers, why all the back slapping for the Kiwi product? It takes a Stallion and a Mare to produce a foal. As always you are only look at one side of the equation. Of course the most influential sire in NZ's breeding history came from Ireland. New blood helps improve the breed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huey Posted 3 hours ago Share Posted 3 hours ago 7 minutes ago, Chief Stipe said: You obviously didn't get the memo or listen to the DCE interview. The horse is having a short break and then aimed for racing late summer/early autumn. Keep up Fan Boy , he clearly says in an interview afterwards the horse is ready to race! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief Stipe Posted 3 hours ago Author Share Posted 3 hours ago 2 minutes ago, Huey said: Keep up Fan Boy , he clearly says in an interview afterwards the horse is ready to race! That's not what he says. Interesting you tuned in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murray Fish Posted 18 minutes ago Share Posted 18 minutes ago perphap$ the be$t re$ult at the $ale$ Ormsby pulls off stunning pinhooking result By NZ Racing Desk - November 21, 2024 Share Lot 288, a colt by Churchill out of the Pierro mare Bagitol Photo: Trish Dunell Chad Ormsby has enjoyed plenty of racetrack success this year with pinhooks that he has been unable to sell at the Ready to Run Sale, but the multi-talented horseman had a very different outcome with the standout member of his 2024 Riverrock Farm draft at Karaka on Thursday. Ormsby trained passed-in 2022 Ready to Run lots Pulchritudinous and Outovstock to win this year’s Gr.1 New Zealand Oaks (2400m) and Gr.3 Manawatu Classic (2000m) respectively, with Pulchritudinous subsequently sold to Australian-based powerhouse Yulong Investments. Rivverock Farm’s Chad Ormsby Photo: Trish Dunell On Thursday, Ormsby struck gold in another role. He secured the highest price of the Ready to Run Sale’s second day with the $775,000 sale of Lot 288, a colt by Churchill out of the unraced Pierro mare Bagitol. Ormsby had paid only A$25,000 to buy the colt from the Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale in March. “We honestly couldn’t believe we were getting such a high-quality colt for that price in Melbourne earlier in the year,” Ormsby said. “We rated him so highly from the moment we first saw him, and he’s turned out exactly how we hoped he would. There’s so many stages where things can go wrong in this business, but all the way through his preparation, he’s just kept on developing. He’s really become the horse we always thought he’d be.” The colt won a trial at Waipa on October 1, after which Ormsby took a big risk and turned down a significant offer to purchase him privately. Lot 288 subsequently impressed in his breeze-up at Te Rapa later that month, in which he clocked 10.42 seconds. “He trialled really well before the breeze-ups, and we knew after that performance that we had a pretty special individual,” Ormsby said. “We turned down good money after that trial. It was a lot of money and not easy to say no to, especially for a small operation like ours with only about 10 horses every year. “But we wanted to promote ourselves and our brand, and we thought the best way to do that was to take the risk, turn down that offer and carry on into the sale. This Ready to Run Sale is our home ground too, it’s our local sale and we believe it’s the best sale of its kind, so we wanted to support the sale as well.” While Ormsby went into Thursday with high hopes of a price above $500,000, he admits to being blown away by the final price of $775,000. The colt was sold to Patella Bloodstock and is destined for Hong Kong. “It’s an amazing result and it’s just a credit to the horse, he’s an absolute weapon of an animal,” Ormsby said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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