Pedigree Boosters: Inglis Classic Yearling Sale

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The catalogue for the 2025 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale was released on November 18, 2024. Since then, a host of yearlings that will go through the ring at Inglis Riverside have had their pedigrees enhanced, which is important information for vendors and buyers alike.

Lot 256 - Tivaci x Gold Fever (NZ) (Savabeel), colt - on account of Waikato Stud

Another colt from a flourishing family, this is the fifth foal from G2 Matamata Breeders’ Stakes winner Gold Fever (NZ) (Savabeel), whose half-sister Gold Rush (NZ) (So You Think {NZ}) won the same race before producing Listed-winning Gold Bullion (NZ) (Savabeel), who was a $400,000 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale graduate in his day. Another half-sister is dual Listed winner Calaverite (Lonhro), dam of G2 Caulfield Guineas winner Golden Mile (Astern), who recently returned to the track after a brief stint at stud.

It is a half-sister to this lot by Super Seth that is the focus of this particular pedigree bump though. La Dorada (NZ) (Super Seth) caught the eye of David Ellis CNZM (BAFNZ) - who also raced her dam - at the New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sale last year, and came home for NZ$190,000. She was a debut winner at the time this catalogue went to print, but followed that up with a second-placed finish in the G2 Eclipse Stakes on New Year’s Day.

Where she really shined, though, was in the R. Listed Karaka Millions 2YO last month, where she won by a solid 1.8l and took her career earnings to over NZ$615,000. Her win gave Te Akau Racing an incredible double for the night, having also claimed the R. Listed Karaka Millions 3YO Classic with Damask Rose (NZ) (Savabeel). La Dorada is slated to head to the G1 Sistema Stakes next.

Lot 103 - North Pacific x Cavalry Rose (Charge Forward), colt - on account of Blue Gum Farm

This colt comes from a family that has an international appeal across the pedigree. His link to two new stakeswinners comes from his third dame, Kiwi blue hen Straussbridge (NZ) (Straussbrook), a Listed winner herself who is the grandam of Newgate Farm’s Brutal (NZ) and the dam of G2 Matamata Breeders’ Stakes winner Te Akau Rose (NZ) (Thorn Park). Two grandchildren of Te Akau Rose, both of whom were already stakes-placed, elevated their status since the catalogue went to print.

Provence (NZ) (Savabeel), now a 5-year-old mare, took her record to five wins and last month struck at the highest level, winning the G1 Thorndon Mile for trainer Stephen Marsh. She was retained to race by her breeder T V Rider in partnership with the Social Racing Ellerslie Winners Circle Syndicate.

Her full sister, the 3-year-old Damask Rose, was offered by Milan Park at the New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sale, where David Ellis CNZM (BAFNZ) took her home for the Te Akau Racing banner for NZ$200,000. She had run second in the R. Listed Karaka Millions 2YO and returned a year later to go one better, winning the R. Listed Karaka Millions 3YO Classic to take her earning over the $1 million mark. She is expected to line up for both the NZ$4.5 million NZB Kiwi and the G1 New Zealand Oaks next month.

Lot 491 - Stay Inside x Oh My Mimi (Snitzel), filly - on account of Alma Vale Thoroughbreds

This filly already boasts a lovely page, with her dam being a full sister to G3 Gimcrack Stakes-performed $1 million broodmare Diddles (Snitzel) and a half-sister to young sire Barbaric. Her update comes from a little closer to home.

Half-sister To Cap It All (Capitalist) was an Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale graduate for Ridgmont, where she was sold for $280,000 to Marsh Racing and Dylan Johnson Bloodstock over in New Zealand. Stephen Marsh’s customary patient approach to youngstock has reaped the rewards at just her first start last month. Off the back of just one trial, the 2-year-old filly won the Listed Wellesley Stakes on debut. Not a bad start to your career!

Oh My Mimi (Snitzel) was sold in foal to Capitalist on the online Boutique Thoroughbreds sale in April on Inglis Digital, where Matchpoint paid $155,000 for her. This filly is one of the Classic catalogue’s pinhooks, having sold at the Inglis Australian Weanling Sale last year to Blackridge Farm for $170,000.