VIC breeders provide formidable backbone to Nutrien Sydney

The strength of the Victorian breeding industry was on full display at the Nutrien Equine Sydney Yearling Sale at Warwick Farm on Sunday.

Vendors from south of the border sold 16 lots for a total of $694,000, an average of $43,375.

The leading Victorian vendor was Bill and Anne Anderson’s Lauriston Bloodstock, who cleared five yearlings for $317,500 including the highest priced filly at $160,000, Lot 140, a lovely Captaintreacherous filly from the Group 1 winner Queen Of Pop.

Pat Driscoll’s Yabby Dam Farms sold four trotting yearlings for a total of $102,500, Harvey Kaplan cleared two for $117,500 including an Art Major colt at $70,000 and Garry Hawthorn and Jenny Gallagher’s Galthorn Farm sold two colts for $38,500.

Victorian breeders to sell single lots were Tim Bunning, who knocked down a Captaintreacherous colt for $80,000, Hugh and Lorraine Cathels received $30,000 for a Huntsville colt and Dennis and Brenda Brice’s Yorkshire Park Standardbreds sold a Poster Boy filly for $8,000.

Victorian vendors will again be out in force at the Australian Pacing Gold Sydney Yearling Sale next Sunday with Gary and Louise Toulmin’s Oakbank Estate, Helen Head and Lyndon Turner each dually represented.

The offering includes siblings to Eureka Jo ($180,000), the Group 3 winner Concealment, the Listed winner Miss Moneybags and last Sunday’s Carrick Cup winner Fleetwood Rock and a filly from the Vicbred and APG finalist Madison Louise ($114,000).

Twenty seven of the 81 lots entered for the Sydney auction are Vicbred eligible.

A parade of yearlings will be held on Friday at 6pm and the sale will be staged on Sunday at 1pm.

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• A feature of the Australian sires’ statistics to date this season is the rise to the top of the two-year-old section by Downbytheseaside, who is more than $70,000 ahead of the second sire Poster Boy

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• Followtheace, an impressive winner at Melton last Saturday, is a third generation member of a line founded by Melbourne breeder John Eichhorn, who races the Art Major gelding

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• Shadow Celt, the track record-breaking winner of the Birchip Pacing Cup, was bred and is raced by former Harness Breeders Victoria committeeman Maurice Hanrahan

 

by Peter Wharton, for Harness Racing Victoria