What a difference two days can make.
That should be the case at Karaka today as the harness racing industry looks certain to bounce back from two difficult days of yearling sales in Christchurch.
Many of the industry's biggest names appear to have have been keeping their powder dry for the Australasian Classic Sale, which will see around 185 lots go through thering.
The Karaka sale has become the shining beacon of Australasian standardbred sales in the past decade, with the catalogue containing more current families as northern breeders have commercialised their businesses.
That has made it so popular with Australian buyers that some South Island vendors now truck their horses north, rather than sell them at the shambolic Canterbury Showgrounds.