Stud prominent at Karaka sales

DEAL DONE: Veteran trainer Graeme Rogerson and his wife Debbie bought this magnificent Fastnet Rock bay colt for $800,000 on the first day of the Karaka sales. PHOTO/FILE

Masterton's Little Avondale Stud got off to a flying start at the 88th Karaka National Yearling Sales ending the first day on Monday as the sixth leading vendor on aggregate.

The stud sold eight yearlings for an average of $143,750 with its top price being for a brown colt by Pins from Savamour that sold to the Hong Kong Jockey Club for $260,000.

Auckland owners BJ and Mrs J Lindsay paid $250,000 for a brown colt by Savabeel from Luscious Legs offered by the stud and a bay filly by Snitzel from Queen of Fashion fetched $220,000, sold to Lees Racing, New South Wales.

The highly successful Awapuni racing stable of Lisa Latta Racing paid $110,00 for a bay colt offered by Little Avondale.

The Darci Brahma colt was from the former race mare Princess Annaliese.

Other offerings from Little Avondale included:

A colt by Per Incanto from Sound Lover, sold to Michael Freeman and Michael Wallace, Singapore, $100,000; filly by Keeper from Knocknacrea, G N Richardson, Matamata, $80,000; filly by Savabeel from Monte Makemyday, Taylors Bloodstock, $80,000; colt by Rip Van Winkle from My First Fifteen, Paul Moroney Bloodstock, $100,000; colt by Casino Prince from Flying Footsteps, NZB as agent, $50,000.

A bay colt by Darci Brahma from Kalamanda was passed in at $47,000 having not reached the $50,000 reserve but was open for later bids.

Ardsley Stud, Masterton, sold a bay colt by Savabeel from Splendid in Spring to NZB, as agent on behalf of a Hong Kong buyer, for $75,000 and another offering from the stud - a filly by Darci Brahma from Opuatia - was passed in at $17,500.

A reserve of $20,000 had been put on the filly.

Local activity on the first day included the purchase by Bruce Perry Bloodstock, Masterton, of a bay colt by Rip Van Winkle from Medrano, for $250,000.

The colt had been offered by Haunui Farm.

Bruce Perry Bloodstock also bought a bay colt by Pins from Natural Rhythm for $200,000.

The colt was offered by Waikato Stud Ltd.

Top price on the first day was paid by Rogerson Bloodstock who parted with $800,000 for a colt by Fastnet Rock from former glamour racemare Katie Lee, bred at Cambridge Stud by Sir Patrick and Lady Hogan.