Fancy a two in 15 chance of securing a $25,000 bonus when your horse wins a two-year-old city race? - That is what is on offer in Bloodstockauction.com's upcoming sale of 15 well related youngsters hailing from the paddocks of one of Australia's best thoroughbred farms, Arrowfield Stud.
There is no doubt that the landscape of buying and selling thoroughbreds has changed in recent years with the growing popularity of online sales - something Arrowfield has been embracing.
Whilst the major broodmare sales are still taking place at sales complexes, the others have shifted to the internet whilst the tried horse market is now almost exclusively online.
We have even seen yearling sales - such as the Melbourne Autumn (in recent years known as the VOBIS Gold) disappear, opening up the door for more and more youngsters to be sold online.
"It is a smarter way to sell young horses," said Bloodstock Auction’s CEO, Anthony Gafa.
”They are exposed to a larger local and international audience with reduced costs and risks whilst ensuring best animal practice.”
Currently in the headlines Paul Messara, General Manager and Head trainer at Arrowfield Stud believes that these types of horses are suited to Bloodstock Auction. Paul has gained much success recently after winning The Kosciuszko two years in a row at Randwick Racecourse, this year with Arrowfield homebred blueblood mare Chains of Love.
So confident is Arrowfield in the future of the online sale market for young horses that they have teamed with Bloodstockauction.com to offer lucrative bonuses exclusively offered to the 15 two-year-olds they have in the upcoming auction.
A $25,000 bonuses will be granted to each of the first two horses to win a qualifying race - those races being any metropolitan race in Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane as a two-year-old.
The 15 horses on offer by a mixture of proven high class, in-form stallions such as Maurice and Dundeel as well as the consistent Zousain and the up-and-comers Hitotsu, Native Trail, Lofty Strike and Admire Mars.
Highlights of the sale include…
MAURICE; a stallion in flying form with yearlings selling for up to $1.4 million) - a colt out of the winning Snitzel mare (Maurice's strike rate with Snitzel mares is an excellent 73.3%, already producing three stakes winners) Gentility whose dam is the Gr.1 mare Politeness.
And a filly out of the regally bred winner Reaching, daughter of Deep Impact and Alinghi - the four time Gr.1 winner whose exciting granddaughter Regal Ambition has been in great form this spring and whose great granddaughter Spicy Martini won last year's Stradbroke Handicap.
DUNDEEL whose 2026 yearlings have fetched up to $1.3 million - a filly out of the winning Street Boss mare Kissaki whose first foal, a member of the Archibald stable, fetched $280,000 at the Magic Millions. A 3/4 sister to the stakes placed multiple city winner Fukubana, she can boast the Gr.1 winners Jacquinot and Inference amongst her relations whilst her dam is a full sister to the dual Gr.3 winner Ranier.
And a filly bred on the same Dundeel/Lonhro cross as Gr.1 winner Femminile out of the Lonhro mare Sekiyama who has already produced a smart one by Dundeel - the stakes placed multiple city winner Fukubana. As well as a filly out of the winner Smokin' Crazy from the family of the classy stallion Staphanos
HITOTSU, Arrowfield's up-and comer, the exciting dual Derby and Australian Guineas hero whose yearlings sold for up to $480,000.
He has a filly of the proven (first two foals both winners) Fastnet Rock mare Fast Eva, daughter of the Gr.3 mare Graceful Anna as well as a filly out of the Invincible Spirit mare Networking, a proven broodmare (dam of the Gr.2 placed Invinsible Tears by Hitotsu's sire Maurice) with great sales results - and she is a half-sister to the outstanding Hong Kong galloper Pakistan Star.
NATIVE TRAIL; this undefeated European Champion 2Y0 is represented by a filly out of a winning full sister to the Australian Guineas winner Wandjina - the Snitzel mare Maracas whose two winners sold for $500,000 and $200,000.
ZOUSAIN - Australia's leading third season sire by winners has a colt out of The Autumn Sun mare Miracle Seven whose stakes placed dam Miss Antaeus showed plenty of toe at two. He is one for the pedigree buffs being from the family of Zousain's sire Zoustar.
ADMIRE MARS, whose yearlings have sold for up to $300,000 and who has made an encouraging start in both hemispheres has a colt out of the Deep Impact mare Blue Charm. Line-bred to the great mare Glorious Song, he hails from the immediate family of the Gr.1 mare Alverta.
Admire Mars also has a colt and filly from the families of the international Gr.1 winners Zarkava (unbeaten star mare), Monterosso (Dubai World Cup) and Rail Link (Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe) with the latter being out of the stakes winning Dark Angel mare Vona whose first foal Mount Bona is ready to resume having won three in a row last time in.
LOFTY STRIKE - a very fast regally bred son of Arrowfield legend Snitzel and the Golden Slipper winner Overreach - has a filly out of the dual city winning Sebring mare Eight Diamonds whose Gr.3 winning half-sister Vulpine (currently in foal to Home Affairs) is by Snitzel. What a family this is, her third dam being the prolific mare Leone Chiara.
Anthony Gafa is excited about this sale and about the future of Bloodstockauction.com's place in the selling of young horses.
"We have the largest membership base of over 25,000 which allows you to sell your horse without having to invest in a full preparation. This is a way of selling without having to cut corners, to lessen the costs and the risks whilst having exposure to a large local and international market."
