Karaka 2010 – NZTM and Bluebloods Special Edition.
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Click on the link below to read the special Karaka 2010 preview produced as a joint initiative by New Zealand Thoroughbred Marketing and Bluebloods magazine.
THE KARAKA 2010 YEARLING SALES PREVIEW
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THE KARAKA 2010 YEARLING SALES PREVIEW
The NZTM and Bluebloods Teams.
Horray, Foaling safely over for another Season... Full List of 2009 Brighthill Foals
"Hooray, Horray, Foaling all safely over for another Year!!"
Star Anise finally foaled (5 weeks overdue) this gorgeous Patapan colt for her owners Peter and Joan Donnison.
First time mother, Star Anise is absolutely besotted with her new charge!
Click here for our full list of Brighthill 2009 Foalings
OAKS BECKONS FOR NAARA
MELBOURNE - MORE Than Ready filly Run For Naara catapulted herself into outright favourtism to win next month's VRC Crown Oaks after her dazzling victory in Saturday's 3YO Sportingbet Plate (2000m) at Caulfield.
The Patinack Farm owned filly charged passed her rivals to score by a widening 2.8 lengths under her big weight.Two starts ago, the flashy chestnut stretched top colt Denman to a 0.8L second in the G2 Stan Fox Stakes.
``On that win she deserves to be the Oaks favourite,'' winning rider Hugh Bowman said, ``She had 59kg and gave weight to all her rivals and still won with ease.''
The VRC Crown Oaks will be run at Flemignton on November 5.
There are also some more Patapan Foal photos up on our 2009 foaling details.
Patapan - Leaving some 'Cracking' types..
We currently only have 3 Patapan Foals here on the farm, with lots of mares 'holding on' in the foaling paddock. However from the first few Patapan foals born, certainly worth the wait!
Scroll down for updated pictures of Not A Word's Patapan Colt...
This Patapan Colt foal is from our Volkstraad mare Dubbe. Here he is at only 3 days old! We are delighted with the foal and she will be going back to Patapan this season.
This photo is showing Sue Harty's lovely bay Patapan Filly, from her mare Flying Spray. Here she is 6 days old.
First steps for Not A Word's Patapan colt, here he is pictured at only a few hours old! Owner Philip Smyth is delighted with Not A Word's first foal.
Below is Not A Word's Patapan colt 2 weeks later....! Updated photos sent through by proud father!!
More Than Ready 3YO Sets Sandown Track Record
Vinery Stud shuttler More Than Ready (Southern Halo-Woodman's Girl, by Woodman) who has sired the last 2 Gr1 Golden Slipper winners Sebring & Phelan Ready, added a track-record to his progeny highlights when boom 3YO gelding Definitely Ready (More Than Ready-Defiant, by Danehill) scored over 1000m on Sandown's Hillside course in Melbourne yesterday for trainer Mark Kavanagh. Definitely Ready (a $140,000 yearling at the 2008 Gold Coast Sale) clocked 55.07sec to notch his 2nd victory from his only 2 starts (following a debut win by 7-lengths over 1050m at Morphettville on August 19). (Sep 17)
Phelan Ready Tops 2YO ANZ Ratings
The Classifications committee concluded the Gr1 Golden Slipper (1200m) produced the best performance of the season, with the winner Phelan Ready (More Than Ready-Nancy Eleanor, by Blevic) rating 115 in his dominant victory over a high quality field; Phelan Ready was a $150,000 yearling consigned by Kitchwin Hills at the 2008 Premier Sale on the Gold Coast. Gr1 winners Manhattan Rain & Onemorenomore were next on 114, ahead of Reward For Effort & Real Saga on 112. The leading 2YO filly was Headway on 107 (when runner up to Phelan Ready in the Golden Slipper), followed by fellow fillies Black Caviar & More Joyous on 106. The best performance by a New Zealand trained 2YO was produced by The Heckler, achieving a rating of 106 in winning the Gr1 Manawatu Sires Produce Stakes (1400m).
