Cambridge Bloodstock agent Stuart Hale lay awake on the eve of New Zealand
Bloodstock's Ready to Run Sale with a Savabeel colt running through his mind and he decided then and there he was going to buy him.
Hale did just that yesterday, going to $500,000 to secure lot 84, a Savabeel colt out of Group Three winner Lady Chaparral.
"He was the best horse of the sale with the best pedigree. He jumped over my bed all night," Hale said.
"By Savabeel out of a Group-winning High Chaparral mare, where can you go wrong?"
The colt's new owner, Wong Shing Ngai of Regency Stables, resides in Hong Kong and that is where the colt's future lies after an initial stint with Cambridge trainer Brendon Hawtin, who was suitably impressed with the colt. "He's an outstanding colt with a great pedigree," Hawtin said. "He was the pick of the sale for us.
"We had a budget to spend and were willing to go a little bit higher if we had to. We're just rapt for the owner, he's had success with purchases in the past and no doubt this will be another one."