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Entries for New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run Sale of Two-Year-Olds close on Friday.

The 2015 Ready to Run Sale will be held on Novemberf 18 and 19 with Breeze Ups at Te Rapa racecourse on October 19 and 20.

The 2014 Ready to Run Sale boasted a new record average, aggregate and median for the fourth consecutive year, with a turnover of $19,297,500 and an average of $80,073 – the highest ever at a two-year-old auction in Australasia.

The 2014 edition also saw six horses sold for $300,000 or more, five more than any other comparable sale in Australasia, with New Zealand’s reputation for providing well educated, quality racehorses resulting in sale ring success.

With graduates of the Sale triumphing in both New Zealand and abroad at the highest level, international buyers have been quick to catch on and accounted for 83% of the total spend at last year’s Sale with the domestic market bidding against buyers from eight other countries.

Australian buyers are leading the charge, topping the Sale by spend for the last four years in a row, with Hong Kong and Singapore also having a strong presence over the last five years. Buyers from China, Indonesia, Macau, Malaysia and Thailand also made the trip to Karaka last year.

International buyers have gained confidence from the raft of impressive results being produced by graduates of the NZB Ready to Run Sale.

The Ready to Run Sale celebrated 4 Group 1 wins last season, 12 Group 1 wins over the past three seasons and is the only Australasian sale of horses-in-training to produce a Group 1 winner over that time.

Graduates have also achieved four times the number of Group wins of any comparable sale in Australasia in the past three seasons.

Amongst those 12 Group 1 wins was last season’s dual G1 Derby winner Mongolian Khan (Holy Roman Emperor), winning at the highest level on both sides of the Tasman when he took out the Group 1 New Zealand Derby and the Group 1 ATC Australian Derby.

In New Zealand, Gaultier (Rios) won the G1 Levin Classic and Turn Me Loose (Iffraaj), made it two from two when he won the G1 NZ 2000 Guineas, the second successive Ready to Run Sale graduate to do so after Atlante’s (Fastnet Rock) victory the year prior.

All three horses were sold at the 2013 NZB Ready to Run Sale, achieving G1 success in their three-year-old season, just one year from fall of the hammer.

Further afield in Asia, graduates have accumulated nine stakes wins in the last season alone, including wins by dual stakes winners El Padrino (Mr. Nancho) and Balotelli (My Halo).

Winner of the Singapore G3 Merlion Trophy for the second successive year, El Padrino was also successful in the Singapore G3 Woodland’s Handicap.

This season also saw El Padrino become the first Singapore-based horse to win at Korea’s Seoul Racecourse, winning the Asia Challenge Cup, the first international invitation race in that country.

Standout performances by the Malaysian-based galloper Balotelli can also be noted, highlighted by his victories in the Listed Tunku Gold Cup and the Listed Perak Gold Vase earlier this year.

NZB’s Ready to Run Sale celebrated wins in 35 stakes races in six countries over the last three seasons, victories that include Sale graduate Glorious Days (Hussonet) success in the G1 Hong Kong Mile, Linton (Galileo), winning the G1 BRC Stradbroke Handicap, and Sangster’s (Savabeel) victories in the G1 International Stakes and the G1 Auckland Cup.

Celebrating 35 years of racetrack success, NZB’s Ready to Run Sale is going from strength to strength and has built a reputation for integrity and success that has earned buyers trust.

The Ready to Run Sale is the most successful sale of its kind, in the ring and on the track. Entries close on Friday 14 August and the entry fee for the Sale is $1,200 + GST.