Lies, Lies and Damn Statistics ~ The
FACTS speak for themselves:
Why buy a middle distance horse from NZ ?
45% of Australian Group 1 races at 2000m and above in the past five seasons have been won by NZ bred or sold
34% of Group 1 filly races in Australia in the past five seasons have been won by NZ bred or sold fillies
7 OF THE LAST 8 Group 1 Doncaster Handicaps have been won by NZ thoroughbreds
7 OF THE LAST 9 Group 1 Australian Derbies have been won by NZ bred or sold horses
3 OF THE LAST 4 Group 1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes have been won by NZ horses.
1/2 of all the Group 1 races run at The Championships have been won by NZ bred or sold horses.
NZB has sold the most winners of
Group 1 races at The Championships of any sales company
Kiwi’s Prince Win G1 Melbourne Cup
Kiwi bred stayer Prince of Penzance (NZ) (by Pentire) outclassed a star-studded international field to take out the $6 million Gr1 Emirates Melbourne Cup (3200m) at Flemington.
Prince of Penzance is the
24th NZ bred winner in the past 50 years of the great race - a strike rate of 48%.
The staying prowess of New Zealand horses is what attracts agents in his search for a top-class staying prospects.
New Zealand has always produced great stayers and still does and there is great value to be found across all the sales.
It proves time and time again
buyers don’t have to go to Europe and pay huge money to find good stayers, there is plenty of quality to be found in New Zealand.
We don’t know why so many Australians buy these
over-rated, over-priced older tried horses with wear and tear issues in Europe when there is quality, at great value, on our door step in New Zealand.
Again the overseas horses were good this year but found the kiwi horses too hot to handle.
Trainer Darren Weir paid just
$50,000 for Prince of Penzance at the 2011 Karaka Premier Sale from Rich Hill Stud.
Kiwi bred horses ran 1st and 3rd in this year’s event (Prince of Penzance and Criterion) whilst the only mare in the race – the kiwi bred mare GUST OF WIND finished 6th.
Add in the fact that the two Gai Waterhouse runners ran 7th and 8th and the fact WHO SHOT THE BARMAN was badly hampered in running and was nosed out of 10th spot it highlights the strength of the Southern Hemisphere when it comes to the Melbourne Cup.
The horses from New Zealand are very good over middle distances.
Australia doesn’t breed stayers as well as New Zealand does. In Australia, our emphasis is on juvenile speed.
SAVABEEL CAPE BLANCO
New Zealand has good sires that produce quality stayers such as SAVABEEL as well as some really nice up and coming sires like progeny of CAPE BLANCO.
Kiwi bred or sold horses similarly dominated the Sydney Autumn Carnival this year,
winning half of the Group 1 races at The Championships through
Mongolian Khan, Kermadec, Gust of Wind and Criterion.
Back in Melbourne,
Tarzino became the seventh New Zealand bred or sold horse to have won the Group 1 Victoria Derby in the past 10 years. An outstanding staying performance by three-year-old Kiwi Tarzino saw him take out the $1,500,000 Group 1 AAMI Victoria Derby (2500m).
45% of Derbies in Australia have been won by New Zealand bred or sold horses in the past five seasons.
Tarzino continued the impressive record of kiwi three-year-olds in Australia. Last year’s race was won by
Preferment (Zabeel) following Sangster (Savabeel), Lion Tamer (Storming Home), Monaco Consul (High Chaparral), Kibbutz (Golan) and Efficient (Zabeel).
Knowing these facts and figures is a huge advantage for professional buyers. It’s not a fashion parade. The due diligence work involved in selecting horses to be Classic and Cups contenders is paramount when wanting success on the racetrack.
Therefore it’s no surprise for our Dynamic owners that
Dynamic Syndications and Gai Waterhouse combined to purchase 2 outstanding Kiwi Bred fillies to aim at the Classics and Cups.
The first was a daughter of
CAPE BLANCO from the Zabeel mare ATHENRI. (Sold Out)
SAVABEEL x SWAROVSKI 2yo Filly
Our second filly to aim at these same Classics and Cups is
by SAVABEEL – the Cox Plate Winner and now Champion NZ Sire who stands at $100,000 service Fee has sired 43 Stakes Winners with 10 at Gr1 Level.
From the Pins mare
SWAROVSKI, our 2yo filly is bred on the identical cross to 3 stakes winners including
Gr1 Queensland Derby winner BRAMBLES.
5% Shares in our SAVABEEL / SWAROVSKI 2yo filly with GAI are $7,250.
We have Sold 90% of this filly as at Thursday 19/11.
