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.
G1 racing in Australia last weekend had a distinctly Kiwi flavour. There were three brand new first time G1 winners in Globe (NZ), who was bred in New Zealand as well as Autumn Boy and Transatlantic, who are both from mares bred in New Zealand.
All three G1 winners have champion sire Zabeel in their pedigree as detailed in this story (read here) and there is no better place to go seeking horses bred along similar lines than in New Zealand.
There are no fewer than 174 2YOs in this year’s sale that have at least one line of Zabeel in their pedigree which equates to a little over a third of the catalogue.
Autumn Boy is the eighth G1 winner for Savabeel as a broodmare sire and there some 17 entries for the upcoming sale out of mares by the Waikato Stud stalwart champion sire as well as 11 youngsters by the sire himself.
Globe is the third G1 winner as a broodmare sire for Zabeel’s blue-blooded Australian Derby winning son Don Eduardo joining Prowess and Seabrook.
There are two entries from mares by Don Eduardo and they include Lot 248, a colt by Ace High from Bonnie Doon that is a half-brother to Globe and will be offered by BMD Bloodstock.
Also from a Don Eduardo mare is Lot 312 from Ohukia Lodge, a colt by El Roca from Eddie Monsoon, a half-sister to SW Belthazar.
This colt is bred on a very similar cross to previously mentioned G1 winner Seabrook, who like this colt is also by a son of Fastnet Rock in Hinchinbrook from a mare by Don Eduardo.
Transatlantic is the third G1 winner for blueblood Danehill sire Darci Brahma, a son of Zabeel’s Group I Australasian Oaks winning daughter Grand Echezeaux. The other G1 winners for Darci Brahma as a broodmare sire joining Transatlantic are Ozzmosis and Pier with all three of them having a double cross of Danehill.
There are eight entries for the sale from daughters of Darci Brahma and Lot 3 from Kilgravin Lodge has a 4 x 3 double cross of Danehill.
He is a half-brother by Eminent (IRE) to G3 winner Wolfgang from good producer Navy Beach, who has also left stakes-placed Navy Fleet.
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.
