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More record prices were achieved on Day 2 at the NZ Ready To Run Sale.
It only took 24 hours for Wednesday's record price for a two-year-old at New Zealand Bloodstock's Ready To Run Sale to first be equalled, then bettered, with a youngster by Star Turn setting a new top mark at the famed sale.
The KB Bloodstock-prepared colt, who went through in the final 30 minutes of the sale, got to $825,000 before being knocked down to Pato Leung.
That was $25,000 more than Kilgravin Lodge's Harry Angel colt went for midway through Wednesday's opening day, while a Riversley Park gelding by All Too Hard equalled that mark on Day 2.
Young vendor Kit Brooks struggled to comprehend what the star lot of his draft, who had the second-fastest breeze-up time of 10.24 seconds, had achieved.
"It's unbelievable really, I'm pretty stoked and happy for the team and all involved," Brooks said.
"He's a lovely big horse, we've always liked him and knew he'd be worth a bit, but certainly not that much so we're pretty ecstatic."
Brooks' Star Turn colt is from the Foxwedge mare Commonwealth, who is out of a half-sister to Group 1 winners Criterion and Comin' Though plus a host of other Black Type performers.
Not long after he sold, a Deep Field colt from Ohukia Lodge sold to HY Investments for $750,000, which took to 12 the number of two-year-olds who sold for at least $500,000 – five more than the same sale last year.
Thursday's second day also included the highest-priced filly sold in the sale's history, a daughter of Super Seth who is a half-sister to Queensland Derby winner and Epsom Handicap runner-up Kovalica who sold to Laming Racing and John White for $700,000.
The top lots of the sale were:
$825,000 (Star Turn x Commonwealth colt): A son of Vinery the stallion who is out of a Foxwedge mare who is closely-related to globe-trotting multiple Group 1 winner Criterion, Doomben Cup winner Comin' Through. He was bought by Pato Leung.
$800,000 (Harry Angel x Monrecour colt): Tartan Meadow and Andrew Williams bought the son of the Darley shuttler and a Zacinto mare who is a half-sister to well-performed Hong Kong galloper Fifty Fifty from Kilgravin Lodge.
$800,000 (All Too Hard x Tuscany Lady gelding): Riversley Park sold the gelding, a $100,000 Magic Millions yearling who is from a Mossman mare whose two to race are both winners, to KM Yeung.
$750,000 (Deep Field x Criquette colt): Ohukia Lodge offered the son of the successful Hong Kong stallion with the youngster out of a half-sister to Champion's Way, who was a multiple Group winner in Hong Kong. He was bought by Malaysia's Magnolia Bloodstock.
$725,000 (Written Tycoon x Fromparis Withlove colt): Another from the Kilgravin Lodge who is from a Smart Missile mare who was placed at Listed level as a two-year-old and is a half-sister to Group 3 winner Yattarna. Andrew Williams again bought, this time in partnership with Blandford Bloodstock.
$700,000 (Super Seth x Vitesse filly): Not a half-sister to Kovalica, the Kilgravin Lodge filly is out of a half-sister to The Bostonianwho also counts dual NZ Horse of the Year King Mufhasa as a close relation. Laming Racing and John White Bloodstock were the buyers.
$580,000 (I Am Invincible x Lope De Lope colt): One of only two I Am Invincibles in the sale, the Ohukia Lodge colt is the first foal from a Lope De Vega mare who won three races and found a new home with the N&P Bailia Family Trust.