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A regular consignor at the annual yearlingsale series, MVL
manager Verna Metcale saysthis years Scone Yearling Sale oers
buyers anopportunity to tap into some solid pedigreesat good
prices.
Te Scone Sale has been split across 2 daysthis year. Its always
a good sale to pick upa well priced horse and we are expecting
agood turn out given the Race Club is host-ing its inaugural 2-day
race carnival this yearincluding a stand alone Saturday meeting.
Wealready know rom the local accommodationbookings just how many
people plan to be inScone across that week and thats good newsor
people wanting their yearlings to be seen.
Te HBA Yearling Sale is a airly smallsale on the annual calendar
but when you sitdown and do the maths the stats. are impres-sive.
Tey become even more so when you
consider that the sale graduates dont comerom phone book sized
catalogues.
Te Scone Sale has produced the recentGroup 1 winners HOT DANISH
andSMALL MINDS. Ten you have graduateslike YOUTHFUL JACK, WELKOM
GOLD,STAR OF OCTAGONAL etc. Its air to sayScone punches well above
its weight!
Our 2011 MVL dra includes yearlings by
proven sires as well as young stallions; all hail-ing rom a good
mix o emale amilies.
We have some quality lots this year and acouple in particular
that I am very excited tobe selling, Verna says.
Details o the ull dra can be accessed via theMiddlebrook
website(www.middlebrookvalleylodge.com.au) withsome eature lots
highlighted on the ollowingpages:
2011 HTBA Scone
Yearling Sale in Focus
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Much interest is expected inLOT 56- the bay fllyout o Gr 3
winner and Gr 1 placegetter CORNWALLQUEEN. A rarity, the flly is
the only yearling byIFFRAAJ to be oered in Australia this year.
Iraaj (by Zaonic, and out o a hal sister to CAPE
CROSS) was imeorms highest rated speed horse oEurope in 2006,
retiring with an International Ratingo 128. At stud Iraaj has been
a sensation: siring more
juvenile winners (including Gr 1 winner WOOTTONBASSETT) than any
European stallion in history. Hisfrst NZ crop yearlings averaged
$101,500 or the 47sold (top price $540,000) and were snared by such
good
judges as Peter Moody, Mark Kavanagh, John Foote,Michael
Wallace, Paul Moroney, Paul Willetts, Ric Con-nolly etc.
LOT 127- a colt by the same sire as ChampionGalloper
STARSPANGLEDBANNER (Choisir), outo the 8-time winner Lyn's Money.
Tis colt has morethan good breeding on his side. He is the hal
brotherto last year's winner o the $101,600 Inglis Challenge -OKANE
- a colt also consigned by MVL.
"Okane has been a great advertisement or the mare," saysVerna.
"He was her rst oal to race and this colt lookseven better at the
same stage. Choisir has done a greatjob at stud and this colt has
done everything right sincecoming in or his prep."
Attitude is an integral part o uture race success and
much is thereore expected o LOT 169 - an eyecatching daughter
oNot A Single Doubt.
"She is a model o her ather and is one o the most proes-sional
llies I have ever worked with. She is all class ," saysVerna.
With the Arrowfeld based son o Redoute's Choiceproducing this
year's Magic Millions winner KARUTAQUEEN plus a slew o other black
type horses one canwell appreciate MVL's enthusiasm at consigning
thisquality flly.
Tis lly is a good type - looks very much like Ifraaj - and has
prepped well. A lot o people looking at buying a lly
also want some residual on the page and this lly can ofer
that.
