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A full sister to Victoria Derby winner Sangster will be on offer at New Zealand Bloodstock's National Yearling Sales Series at Karaka in January.
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Sangster (Savabeel x Quinta Special, by Spectrum) - trained by Trent Busuttin - became New Zealand's 12th Derby winner since 2010 with his coveted victory at Flemington.
A headline performer throughout the spring, Sangster was a winner of his first Australian start in August which he followed with a stakes placing in the Listed Ming Dynasty Handicap on September 3.
He went on to run a very good third over a mile in the G1 Spring Champion Stakes a month later, and was an unlucky second in the G3 Norman Robertson Stakes at his last outing before the Derby.
Sangster will be represented by a full sister at the Karaka Premier Sale in January, set to be offered by Goodwood Stud.
Sangster is by the Zabeel sire Savabeel (ex Savannah Success, by Success Express) who has well and truly hit his straps in recent months.
Amongst his top performers are the G1 Queensland Oaks winner Scarlett Lady, G2 winners Do Ra Mi, My Emotion and Tullamore, G3 Gloaming Stakes winner Strike The Stars and the Oaks placed filly Dowager Queen.
The second G1 winner by his Cox Plate winning sire, Sangster is the 11th G1 winner from New Zealand Bloodstock's Ready to Run Sale in the last five seasons and the third G1 Derby winner the sale has produced since 2010.
He also became the fifth New Zealand horse to win the VRC Derby in the past six years.
New Zealand claimed a host of success across the Tasman last season winning 86 black-type races - 15% of Australia's stakes races - with only 5.2% of the racing population.
New Zealand bred horses dominated the Group 1 ranks winning over 40% of Australian Group 1 three-year-old events last season.
Sangster is the latest G1 winning three-year-old to come from the Karaka Ready to Run Sale.
The sale has built a profile of producing classic winning thoroughbreds, five of the seven stakes-winning Ready to Run graduates in Australia last season were three-year-olds.
Headlined by the G1 Queensland Derby winner Shootoff (Duelled), the sale also saw Sworn To Secrecy (Keeper) take the G2 Emancipation Stakes and Folding Gear (Johar) win the G2 Autumn Classic.
Since 2000, the Ready to Run Sale has produced 14 G1 winners of 17 G1 races. Among these gallopers are six individual G1 winning three-year-olds.
These G1 winning Ready to Run graduates averaged under $100,000 at sale and have amassed an average of over $1 million in stakes earnings - over 10 times their sale price.