Month: January 2025

This week Michael is at the Karaka sales to chat with various people, including Glenn Ritchie, the new owner of the horse that sold for a record $2.4 million. Michael also reflects on the Karaka Millions and looks at where the future may lie for several of the horses involved. Guerin Report – Ep.22 Ft. Karaka Millions & Sales

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Denise Martin hopes the same patient approach that has yielded success with top filly Aeliana (NZ) (Castelvecchio) can be successful with her half-sister, whom she bought for $300,000 at Karaka 2025 on Monday. Martin’s Star Thoroughbreds and Brett Howard’s Randwick Bloodstock combined on the purchase of Lot 351, a bay filly by Proisir out of the Star Witness mare Temolie, whose only other horse to race is Aeliana. A winner of three of her six career starts and narrowly defeated in the Group 1 Thousand Guineas during the spring, Aeliana…

John Sargent will return to Australia from New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale with the half-sister to his Group One-performing filly Powers Of Opal, after securing lot 335 for $700,000. Sargent outlaid $130,000 to purchase Powers Of Opal at the 2023 sale from the draft of Curraghmore, the daughter of Ocean Park going on to finish runner-up in the Gr.2 Wakeful Stakes (2000m) and Gr.1 VRC Oaks (2500m). Curraghmore presented her younger half-sister by Proisir, out of Strada Cavallo, who was a stakes winner and Group One placegetter in the…

John Sargent will return to Australia from New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale with the half-sister to his Group One-performing filly Powers Of Opal, after securing lot 335 for $700,000. Sargent outlaid $130,000 to purchase Powers Of Opal at the 2023 sale from the draft of Curraghmore, the daughter of Ocean Park going on to finish runner-up in the Gr.2 Wakeful Stakes (2000m) and Gr.1 VRC Oaks (2500m). Curraghmore presented her younger half-sister by Proisir, out of Strada Cavallo, who was a stakes winner and Group One placegetter in the…

John Sargent will return to Australia from New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale with the half-sister to his Group One-performing filly Powers Of Opal, after securing lot 335 for $700,000. Sargent outlaid $130,000 to purchase Powers Of Opal at the 2023 sale from the draft of Curraghmore, the daughter of Ocean Park going on to finish runner-up in the Gr.2 Wakeful Stakes (2000m) and Gr.1 VRC Oaks (2500m). Curraghmore presented her younger half-sister by Proisir, out of Strada Cavallo, who was a stakes winner and Group One placegetter in the…

After a formidable career competing at the highest level, Graham Richardson and Rogan Norvall’s star mare Bonny Lass (NZ) (Super Easy) has been retired from racing. A daughter of Super Easy, Bonny Lass made an immediate impression when winning her first start as a juvenile, followed by the first of five Group victories in the Gr.2 Matamata Breeders’ Stakes (1200m). Her two-year-old campaign was completed by placings in the Gr.1 Sistema Stakes (1200m) and Gr.1 Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes (1200m). At three, she won the Gr.3 Cambridge Breeders’ Stakes (1200m),…