TROTTING Australian Buyers Could nominate

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30678, 18 February 1965, Page 5

TROTTING Australian Buyers Could nominate

Australians have prov/ many times in tbL last few years that they are not afraid to sppd freely to secure the best of New Zealand-bred stock. With/any hundreds of \iisitors from all States of Australia atten/ng the twenty-first. New Zealand National Sales of Standafl-bred Yearlings in ’ Dunedin next Monday it will not surpris/d new record figures *ire created.

Australians were large# responsible for the record sale in 1961. Tift year, when the sales were held in conjunct/n with the InterDominion Championships 81 lots realised 29,715 guineas, a average of 3661 guineas, and Australians dent 20,090 guineas, an average of 410 to secure 49 lots. This will be the fi» occasion that the sales have been held ou/de of Christchurch. The change this year If* been made for the convenience of the marf overseas buyers who will be attending the fcter-Dominion Championships series whichpgips at Forbury Park Raceway on SaturdayF'ening.

During the last year the# has been an increase in tJ interest shown by Australr owners in New Zeal»i horses. This has been iiju•enced by the fact that hagy la meeting goes by in A liraIlia without at least oneyinner claiming some conryion

'with this country. This influence is particularly noticeable in New South Wales where it is not uncommon for New Zealand-bred horses to win more than half of a programme. Although legalised offcourse betting is only in its

infancy Jin New South Wales, owners-in that State are hopefult that it will not be long hjefore stakes increase, as has* been the case since the inteeption of off-course betting rin Victoria. Australian buyers have usually 4 dominated the yearling sales, and this year will, no doybt, be no exception. At the* 19(54 sales they took 30 of the 70 lots sold for an average! price of 388gns. The ’previous year they took lots at an average price rtif 348gns, while in 1962 they took 32 of 78 lots sold _ at an overage price of 356gns ’ Last tyear whan there was a ' catalogue of 126 lots, of which J 110 were offered and 70 were

‘ sold fw 22,565gn5, an average of B22gns. The previous ' year .7(6 lots were sold for an average of 3ffBgns, a worth- ’ while increase over the 1962 ’ average of 275gns. The record average for the sales of. 366jgns was recorded in 196i1, when the sales were held ija coajunction with the Inter-Dominion Championship series at Addington Raceway. This year.' 116 lots have been itncluded in the catalogue, ;10 fewer than 12 months) ago. Seven lots have been withdrawn so far, but their iiinrit>ers do not include any of tthis considered choice lots. ■’ Sixty L eBg’!it colts and 48 fillies are listed for sale, compared -wi|h 71 colts and 49 fillies lasfi year, and 71 colts and 54 fillies the year before. In 196.2 numbered 72 and colt® 74. Not Represented This yi >ar’s catalogue is the first for years in which U. Scott, tbp sire of the winners of morfi than £1,000,000 in stakes, 1 /ill not be represented. Th* ■ progeny of U. Scott were visually among the highest-priced youngsters each ye ar and more often than rapt they topped the sales. Light Brigade, which will be appearing in the yearling catalogu e for the second last time, vW ill be represented by five col :s and two fillies, all of whic i are certain to meet with a keen inquiry. Imported stallions will be represented by 44 colts and 36 fillifes, while colonial-bred sires vzill have 24 colts and ‘ 12 fillies. | Johittiy Globe, with seven colts and six fillies, is the most widely-represented sire in tlto-catalogue, followed by Stormywiay with seven colts I and ffflur fillies, and Thurber Frost I' with seven colts and . threi /fillies. I Ch ef Rainbow, Goodland, I Hal il’Matic, Hi Do’s Forbes, ' Killa (ney Hal and King Cree I are imported stallions appe ring for a first time in the atalogue. Th -re will be nine lots by Goodpnd, three of them beta; ieolts. | Th i Orari breeder, J. M. - Conn who until last sprin | had the Volomite horst Stormyway, at the k stud, : lis again the most I wide ?-! represented vendor. | He wMil have 12 lots, three g less tan last year. I Established the Australian reis in the pacing the Inter-Domin-pionships—Blazing less and Palpitate of Stormyway, c has done excep--11 in Australia. Lodge Stud, Ltd., one of the leading iss studs in the ill have nine lots icluding a filly by ade from Aileen dam of Samantha, 1, Highland Don, including Rising ScottQ winner of the West Australian Derby last season. Rising! Scott was the topprice® yearling -in 1961. Besl de the Light Brigade filly, | he Roydon Lodge Stud draft, includes a half-brothe*. to tin derby winner, Student I Prine ; a half-brother to I Axis; a brother to Red Chase B and J i half-sister to Garcon a d’Or, These youngsters are certai i to be among the toppric« lots. Thi re will be two lots by Card ?an Bay’s sire, Hal Trya. . One is a colt out of Mata Grattan, and the other is a’ illy out of Ardent. Th ise are but a few of the well >red youngsters in the catai >gue from mares, which bavie already left winners or wend outstanding winners the® selves. T e mares in this category indj ide Rustic Lady, Rowan Stas Alcove, Audacity, Heathdi Dew, Dauphine, Vanity Seal ; Atone, Dora Patch, Sou rette,, Queen Rani, Mac im Tryax, Admiration, Peti lus, Te Tuarau, Malabell, Reno’s Lass, La Mignon Uranium, Blizzard, Foilight Romarin. Cadenza, Dais y Bar, Fairfield, and Lad Diane. ’’ Sale On Tuesday B yers will have arr attractive catalogue at the special said of brood mares, twoyea« olds, three-year-olds and naci ig stock next Tuesday aftii noon. Thirty-nine brood ma: s, four two-year-olds, two? :hree-year-olds and three raci g horses are included in t is catalogue. The mares 1 inch ie some proven pror duo* s with foals at foot by lead ig sires and mated again