As the New Zealand Bloodstock Yearling Sales Series nears it’s time to remind buyers of our buyers’ guides. The guides are designed to help identify those yearlings which offer excellent value for money in terms of their pedigrees: we specialize in finding yearlings with pedigrees that are better than a casual reader of catalogues might suppose.
Clients purchasing our guides in the past have used them to help select SWs Focal Point, Star Affair, Superjet, Brown Eyed Grace and SP Shamabelle, Outtatimitz and Align to Infinity – to list only our black type performers.
All the indications are that the 2011 sales are going to provide excellent returns for breeders in general. Apparently there has been strong interest in yearling parades with some vendors reporting record numbers of attendees. However, the Select fillies and the whole Festival catalogue seem to offer considerable opportunities for domestic buyers. In particular, the progeny of stallions which have not set Australia on fire but which have achieved quite respectable results in Godzone might well offer outstanding value.
2010 produced record results for Cloughmore. 27 horses linked to our business in some way won 48 races worldwide and gathered stakes of over NZ$2.06 million, the star performers being Race Ahead, Tinseltown and Showcause. It was particularly pleasing that one third of our winners were either SW (4) or SP (5). The majority of these winners were the result of our mating recommendations, with 8 winners of 14 races being chosen by clients using our buyers’ guides.
On a somewhat different subject, I had the opportunity to inspect Roc de Cambes at The Oaks yesterday. Wow!
