A quality packed catalogue for the 2025 NZB Ready to Run Sale is now online and in the lead up to the sale we’ll go looking each week for some horses of interest that jump out on pedigree for various reasons.
Kiwi bred gelding With Your Blessing scored a career best win at Randwick last Saturday taking out the $250,000 Group III ATC Bill Ritchie and the 7YO Vadamos (Fr) gelding has now won over $780,000.
An interesting entry for the sale is Lot 318 from KB Bloodstock on behalf of Pamina Lodge, a Vadamos filly from Empress Elect.
This filly is a three-quarter sister-in-blood to With Your Blessing as her dam Empress Elect is a half-sister to his dam Super Trouper.
The official Sydney 2YO trials were held at Randwick on Monday morning and the big news to emerge was the two runners for exciting first season sire Home Affairs that both stepped out as impressive winners for the Waterhouse Bott stable. Read about them here.
The progeny of Home Affairs were in hot demand at the sales this year and there are six entered for this sale so for buyers who fear they have missed out, it might be a timely opportunity to get back into the ground floor of a young sire on an upward trajectory.
His 2YOs are all listed below:
Lot 122 gelding from Sopraffina, by High Chaparral (IRE) – Phoenix Park
Fourth foal of winning grand-daughter of Cups Queen Ethereal and half-sister to Group winners Supera and Elenora.
Lot 158 gelding The Pinnacle, by So You Think – St Kilda Lodge
Fourth foal of G3 winner The Pinnacle, a half-sister to G3 winner Under the Eiffel and SW Tower of London.
Lot 221 colt Anjeo (IRE), by Galileo – Woburn Farm
First foal of unraced sibling to G3 winner Great House and SW Aboulie tracing back to famed Urban Sea female family.
Lot 375 filly Hot Dipped, by Written Tycoon – Woburn Farm
Fourth foal of SW Hot Dipped, a daughter of SW Galvanized.
Lot 387 gelding Inthemidstofbiz (USA), by Fed Biz – Prima Park
First foal of imported G2 winner Inthemidstofbiz.
Lot 480 gelding Mystical Pursuit, by Needs Further – Kilgravin Lodge
Second foal of SW Mystical Pursuit, a three-quarter sister to G1 winning $4million earner Mystic Journey.
Reinforcing its reign as the best sale of its kind globally, Ready to Run graduates have claimed 34 Group One wins and 105 stakes wins in the last five seasons.
The 2025 edition of the Sale will take place at the Karaka Sales Centre on Wednesday 12 & Thursday 13 November with Breeze Ups to be held at Te Rapa Racecourse on Monday 13 & Tuesday 14 October.
