Monday, February 13, 2012
Saturday, January 21, 2012
NZ unveils another future star
Anyone who saw the three year old Wellington Stakes yesterday knew they saw something special. Ocean Park to my eye last start was just a certainty beat but today Omsby was leaving nothing to chance by settling near the tail but at the 600 circled the pack led at the 400 and just strolled away like a derby horse in the making. Watch out Australia in April !!
Friday, January 20, 2012
Rawiller another smash n crash effort
What is it with Nash the bigger the prizemoney the bigger the trouble! I hope the Nz stewards hit him harder than the soft c... Qld stewards
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Magic Millions 2008 session 6 a First For Me
Well i never thought i would see the day when a filly with absolutely nothing to write about in a pedigree until the 4th dam would sell for $62000.
But at 4pm on a lazy Monday afternoon sinking a couple of cold crownies (and NO i wasnt drunk) watching the sales progress meakly an mildly away this very thing happened.
Lot 1373 a Brown Sequalo filly paraded around the parade ring without a doubt a good walk to her and a nice animal but with no hint of the sales surprise to come. Spirited bidding quickly had her over priced at $35000 but to continue to see her star rising was just blowing my mind away. At $54000 i was at the bar grabbing another 6 beers for the table because we all needed reassurance that this was a filly and NOT a colt, as one fella suggested "the book must have it wrong".
As all good journalists do i checked my source for the buyer and found it was purchased by John Brocklebank an American bloodstock agent known for pin hooking, but surely he didnt miss the Australian fact that fillies dont make you money at breeze up sales?
This is going to make interesting research for sure. Come October at the breeze up sales this filly and her pageless family will again go to sale BUT this time with "time" to beat also.
But at 4pm on a lazy Monday afternoon sinking a couple of cold crownies (and NO i wasnt drunk) watching the sales progress meakly an mildly away this very thing happened.
Lot 1373 a Brown Sequalo filly paraded around the parade ring without a doubt a good walk to her and a nice animal but with no hint of the sales surprise to come. Spirited bidding quickly had her over priced at $35000 but to continue to see her star rising was just blowing my mind away. At $54000 i was at the bar grabbing another 6 beers for the table because we all needed reassurance that this was a filly and NOT a colt, as one fella suggested "the book must have it wrong".
As all good journalists do i checked my source for the buyer and found it was purchased by John Brocklebank an American bloodstock agent known for pin hooking, but surely he didnt miss the Australian fact that fillies dont make you money at breeze up sales?
This is going to make interesting research for sure. Come October at the breeze up sales this filly and her pageless family will again go to sale BUT this time with "time" to beat also.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
X-Ray or NOT to X-Ray
Really what is all the fuss about? Some people like having the security and some buyers (punters) like to spend blindly. As both a buyer and breeder i love the X-rays, my only problem is that as a vendor/breeder i get no sling back from the vets who make a poultice out of my X-Rays.
And let me tell you, YES I OWN THE X-RAYS BUT THE VETS PAY ME NOTHING FOR THE MONEY HE MAKES FROM THEM!
It is like using Microsoft Software without a licence or any other ownership privileges without getting the licence details.
The sales yards assume them for the vendors and love them because it encourages buyers to spend higher on the lots without any problems and just alleviates them of any buyer comebacks.
I believe many more breeders would be party to the X-Rays without moaning if they were to get a commission back on the X-Rays reports, and why not they do own them. It doesn’t have to be exorbitant but even if we got the costs of the X-Rays back it is something.
It is similar to the vets charging the same price for the same review for every different client. They tell you the price is discounted originally and they relay on multiple report requests per horse to cover their actual costs.
The poor vets! I am yet to see one driving a rust bucket Toyota or any other brand for that matter.X-ray or not to X-ray the true cost is whether you are over capitalising on the horse you have bred in the first place.
At Karaka, a lot of vendors in the select sessions did not X-Ray the fillies but did the colts.To appease buyers’ needs i assume. I would love to see a report on whether horses sell better with or without X-Rays let alone the racing factor.
It appears the conditions of sale in the front of the sale catalogue mean little these days when it comes to disclosure now we have X-Rays. The buyer beware clause is now all in the suppository sorry, repository.
And let me tell you, YES I OWN THE X-RAYS BUT THE VETS PAY ME NOTHING FOR THE MONEY HE MAKES FROM THEM!
It is like using Microsoft Software without a licence or any other ownership privileges without getting the licence details.
The sales yards assume them for the vendors and love them because it encourages buyers to spend higher on the lots without any problems and just alleviates them of any buyer comebacks.
I believe many more breeders would be party to the X-Rays without moaning if they were to get a commission back on the X-Rays reports, and why not they do own them. It doesn’t have to be exorbitant but even if we got the costs of the X-Rays back it is something.
It is similar to the vets charging the same price for the same review for every different client. They tell you the price is discounted originally and they relay on multiple report requests per horse to cover their actual costs.
The poor vets! I am yet to see one driving a rust bucket Toyota or any other brand for that matter.X-ray or not to X-ray the true cost is whether you are over capitalising on the horse you have bred in the first place.
At Karaka, a lot of vendors in the select sessions did not X-Ray the fillies but did the colts.To appease buyers’ needs i assume. I would love to see a report on whether horses sell better with or without X-Rays let alone the racing factor.
It appears the conditions of sale in the front of the sale catalogue mean little these days when it comes to disclosure now we have X-Rays. The buyer beware clause is now all in the suppository sorry, repository.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
PASSED IN - My Magic Millions Ready to Run Sale 2008
49 of the 130 Lots up for grabs today changed hands and went to new homes. This represents a 38% Sold ratio or if you deduct the extra 46 withdrawn lots a 58% Sold ratio of the 84 horses there. A marked difference thanks to EI of the original 481 catalogued.
Leaving some 35 passed in lots and seemingly vendors who had over rated stock for this sale.
Hardly something to crow about and the vendors really should have a long hard look at themselves. Either that or they love paying fees to the sales company.
I spotted a couple of great colts who breezed up good and looked like with a bit more education could be something to win races with but come sale time the vendor must have had some Golden Slipper aspirations because they wanted to keep them just as much as I thought they were for sale.
Passed in at $74,000 (Lot 113) and $48,000 (Lot 444) respectively, on pedigree these figures were well and truly over inflated but i still couldn't arrest them off the vendors. Another marker I use for valuing my stock is the service fees paid and the figures above represent 3.5 and 8 times those fees in 2004. How much do they want on a humid sultry showery day with not many people in attendance. Oh well good luck to them!
I suppose if they win the slipper the passed in amounts mean nothing, but then again has a breeze up horse ever won a Magic Millions let alone a Slipper, in short NO.
So my odds are improving rapidly.
Anyway I left empty handed but my friends (who had originally summoned me to the sale to assist) walked away with a mare to put on their farm and happy as "Larry".
Thank Goodness mare owners aren't as hard to buy from as others?
DD
Leaving some 35 passed in lots and seemingly vendors who had over rated stock for this sale.
Hardly something to crow about and the vendors really should have a long hard look at themselves. Either that or they love paying fees to the sales company.
I spotted a couple of great colts who breezed up good and looked like with a bit more education could be something to win races with but come sale time the vendor must have had some Golden Slipper aspirations because they wanted to keep them just as much as I thought they were for sale.
Passed in at $74,000 (Lot 113) and $48,000 (Lot 444) respectively, on pedigree these figures were well and truly over inflated but i still couldn't arrest them off the vendors. Another marker I use for valuing my stock is the service fees paid and the figures above represent 3.5 and 8 times those fees in 2004. How much do they want on a humid sultry showery day with not many people in attendance. Oh well good luck to them!
I suppose if they win the slipper the passed in amounts mean nothing, but then again has a breeze up horse ever won a Magic Millions let alone a Slipper, in short NO.
So my odds are improving rapidly.
Anyway I left empty handed but my friends (who had originally summoned me to the sale to assist) walked away with a mare to put on their farm and happy as "Larry".
Thank Goodness mare owners aren't as hard to buy from as others?
DD
Monday, January 14, 2008
KARAKA purchases CAN return to Australia
The mis-information going around in Sydney newspapers about the importation of horses back into Australia from New Zealand Karaka sales one would think is timely. Given that most of Sydneys trainers attend Karaka one could also be sceptical about who or how the information one journalist printed was received.
Marketing of these sales cost millions and with one major January sale being postponed and not having first crack at the money in 2008 it could seem likely that a conspiracy is at work to attempt to hurt the 2008 Karaka Sales series.
Another scenario is breeders in NSW and VIC could certainly be hurt by a better than expected Karaka series especially seeing it has no competition for this time of the year. A first and most probably, definately the last time this will happen. Lets face it can Australian racing support the two biggest sales within 3 weeks of each other, i think one of them if not both of them could suffer at each others peril. I mean 1800 horses for Easter Magic Millions and 1200+ for Inglis in April.
Another positive for the Karaka buyers is that they get the chance to have the yearlings broken in earlier, see a stable earlier and most probably a race track first. Experience in racing is everything in million dollar races.
NZB have been quick to act and have posted the information buyers will need to be aware of to purchase with confidence at the sales series.
Read the full article here: -
http://www.nzb.co.nz/news.cfm?content_id=32814
Marketing of these sales cost millions and with one major January sale being postponed and not having first crack at the money in 2008 it could seem likely that a conspiracy is at work to attempt to hurt the 2008 Karaka Sales series.
Another scenario is breeders in NSW and VIC could certainly be hurt by a better than expected Karaka series especially seeing it has no competition for this time of the year. A first and most probably, definately the last time this will happen. Lets face it can Australian racing support the two biggest sales within 3 weeks of each other, i think one of them if not both of them could suffer at each others peril. I mean 1800 horses for Easter Magic Millions and 1200+ for Inglis in April.
Another positive for the Karaka buyers is that they get the chance to have the yearlings broken in earlier, see a stable earlier and most probably a race track first. Experience in racing is everything in million dollar races.
NZB have been quick to act and have posted the information buyers will need to be aware of to purchase with confidence at the sales series.
Read the full article here: -
http://www.nzb.co.nz/news.cfm?content_id=32814
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