Strong entry for Te Rapa Sale

Press, 29 November 1979, Page 22

Strong entry for Te Rapa Sale

PA Wellington A strong entry of 357 vearlings has been made to Dalgety Bioodstock’s New Zealand Yearling Sales at Te Rapa, which open the yearling sales series on Thursday and Friday, January 10 and Of the total entry to the catalogue, 123- yearlings have been nominated for the Breeders’ Preferred Sessions, under which method the onus of “selection” is placed on the breeder, who nominates those of his draft that he considers likely to fetch 85000 or more and guaranees to the auctioneers that he will pay a minimum commission on that amount on all lots sold. Dalgetys have undertaken, to inspect all preferred entries and have allotted the prime time of day to them, beginning at 1 p.m. each day. The catalogues created something of a record by being available in Melbourne for the Cup carnival in the first week of November. Of the top 25 sires on the New Zealand sires’ list for 1978-79 which sired yearlings of the current. season, only Showoff II (fifteent), Lomond (twentieth) and PaPillon (twenty-fourth) are not represented in the sale. Three yearlings sold at last year’s auction stand out in the current season. Summer Haze, which won all five of her starts before being beaten by Yir Tiz in the Welcome Stakes at Ellerslie yesterday, are two particularly precocious two-year-olds. Yir Tiz was a $2OOO purchase. Rayarak, which cost $2240 at Te Rapa last year, has also compiled a good record from few starts, whi’a other two-year-old winners from the sale have been Bright Star and Vintage Ash. From the 1978 sale came several useful now three-year-olds, among them Pay’s Anne, second in the New Zealand One Thousand Guineas. Kahu, which cost a mere $650 at the 1978 sale, was third in the Wellington Guineas and has since won the Blandford Stakes at Ellerslie. He could be a threat

to Little Brown Jug in the Avondale Guineas and New' Zealand Derby. There are many attractive I lots in the catalogue, notab- c ly a colt offered by the lead- \ i’ng vendors at, the 1978 sale,;' Mr and Mrs G. J. Hodgson, of Cambridge, who sold Yir; I Tiz last year. it Their colt by Blarney Kissjf is out of stakes placed Tri- £ ■cadee, whose two previous i s ■ foals are both recent win- £ ; ners. Tricadee is a half-sister; “to the good racemares, Uru- f pukapuka and Dee Dee, the , dam of Prancer. | s One of the most attractive j< fillies is Mr R. Ladd’s three- j -quarter sister to Silver Lad,!; champion New Zealand and;j. Australian three-year-old of j i 1976-77. She is by Silver (Dream out of Our Sunshine. ’! Mr and Mrs Tom Mathie- { son, of Cambridge, have two , ■ lots in the sale, both mem-, ‘ibers of the “Kia” family, a I colt by Barcas from Kia ‘ ! Rere and a colt by Funny , ' Fellow from Kia Tia. Both J 1 were smart racemares and; ! sister or half-sister to Kia!‘ Marea and the Auckland , ! Cup winner, Kia Maia. There were several Aus- , ' tralian vendors: Mr D. Clay-;! • ton, of Adelaide, has two; lots in the preferred section.! • His chestnut filly by Battle- j 1 Waggon out of Allez Vite isj ( only the second filly from:t this great producer, which! 1 t has left seven winners from;l ■ her first seven foals, in- ’ 1 eluding the stakes winners,: l : Waronui and Lellay Vite. i i All in all. the ingredients; - are there for a highly sue- 1 > cessful sale. ’