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Macca Takes Weanlings North With Confidence
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**Weanling Sale Buzz Building Ahead of 2025 Draft —————————————————-
– By Brad Reid (Breeding Matters)
Cam Bray isn’t one to overplay a hand. But as the 2025 NZB Standardbred Weanling Sale approaches, the Head of Standardbred at New Zealand Bloodstock carries a quiet confidence in his voice—and for good reason.
“Going into it, I’m quietly confident,” says Bray. “What’s been really interesting is the added exposure from running the sale alongside the thoroughbreds. We’ve actually had a fair bit of interest from the thoroughbred code, which is a positive and somewhat unexpected byproduct.”
While this dual-code approach hasn’t been tried in earnest since a Christchurch sale years ago, Bray is encouraged by fresh interest from pinhookers in the galloping game. Still, he’s pragmatic about where the bulk of the buying power will lie.
“I think we’ll be relying more on our domestic buying bench. The tailwind from Australia isn’t any stronger than it was at the yearling sales, but I genuinely believe the opportunities in New Zealand have never been greater.”
Bray is the first to acknowledge it hasn’t always been smooth sailing for the weanling sale, but its trajectory is undeniable.
“You look at the results. It really has become a hotbed of opportunity. There are horses out of the sale winning in three or four continents now. And when you consider the size of the catalogue and compare that to the number of group winners it’s produced, it’s arguably one of the most productive sales of its kind anywhere.”
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**Macca Takes Weanlings North With Confidence —————————————————-
Southern harness racing nursery Macca Lodge has twelve weanlings earmarked for this month’s NZB Standardbred National Standardbred Weanling Saleat Karaka.
The weanlings left Macca Lodge for their 1,500 kilometre trip on Saturday morning and arrived in Auckland on Monday.
“We took some up a couple of years ago and the trip went well. We put them two to a box on the truck so they’ve got their mate beside them. We’ve done a fair bit of work with them so they’re pretty chilled out. We’ve got the right tucker and we’ll keep them hydrated,” Brent McIntyre who’s travelling with the draft, said.
The Stud is also buoyed by what some of their weanlings from the 2023 sale have since done on the racetrack.
“We sold a couple of two year old winners last time so it’s given us the confidence to take a batch of young horses up there again to have another go. We’ve got a lot of young mares so we want to promote their progeny, and we also want to get the Perfect Stings around to,” Caine said.
The Macca Lodge 2023 weanling sale winners were Angelic Copy(sold for $7,500) which is unbeaten in her three starts and Rakero Maximus($11,000) which won his first start as a two year old.
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**Weanling Sale Buzz Building Ahead of 2025 Draft —————————————————-
– By Brad Reid (Breeding Matters)
Cam Bray isn’t one to overplay a hand. But as the 2025 NZB Standardbred Weanling Sale approaches, the Head of Standardbred at New Zealand Bloodstock carries a quiet confidence in his voice—and for good reason.
“Going into it, I’m quietly confident,” says Bray. “What’s been really interesting is the added exposure from running the sale alongside the thoroughbreds. We’ve actually had a fair bit of interest from the thoroughbred code, which is a positive and somewhat unexpected byproduct.”
While this dual-code approach hasn’t been tried in earnest since a Christchurch sale years ago, Bray is encouraged by fresh interest from pinhookers in the galloping game. Still, he’s pragmatic about where the bulk of the buying power will lie.
“I think we’ll be relying more on our domestic buying bench. The tailwind from Australia isn’t any stronger than it was at the yearling sales, but I genuinely believe the opportunities in New Zealand have never been greater.”
Bray is the first to acknowledge it hasn’t always been smooth sailing for the weanling sale, but its trajectory is undeniable.
“You look at the results. It really has become a hotbed of opportunity. There are horses out of the sale winning in three or four continents now. And when you consider the size of the catalogue and compare that to the number of group winners it’s produced, it’s arguably one of the most productive sales of its kind anywhere.”
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**Macca Takes Weanlings North With Confidence —————————————————-
Southern harness racing nursery Macca Lodge has twelve weanlings earmarked for this month’s NZB Standardbred National Standardbred Weanling Saleat Karaka.
The weanlings left Macca Lodge for their 1,500 kilometre trip on Saturday morning and arrived in Auckland on Monday.
“We took some up a couple of years ago and the trip went well. We put them two to a box on the truck so they’ve got their mate beside them. We’ve done a fair bit of work with them so they’re pretty chilled out. We’ve got the right tucker and we’ll keep them hydrated,” Brent McIntyre who’s travelling with the draft, said.
The Stud is also buoyed by what some of their weanlings from the 2023 sale have since done on the racetrack.
“We sold a couple of two year old winners last time so it’s given us the confidence to take a batch of young horses up there again to have another go. We’ve got a lot of young mares so we want to promote their progeny, and we also want to get the Perfect Stings around to,” Caine said.
The Macca Lodge 2023 weanling sale winners were Angelic Copy(sold for $7,500) which is unbeaten in her three starts and Rakero Maximus($11,000) which won his first start as a two year old.
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