Breeding<\/a><\/p>\nBy Dave Di Somma, Harness News Desk\u00a0<\/p>\n
After a “solid” trading session at Karaka, the NZB Standardbred National Yearling Sale moves to Christchurch today.<\/p>\n
And there are number of strong prospects to fetch big money.<\/p>\n
In Auckland on Monday sales totalled $51.3m on 92 yearlings sold, with a Walner filly leading the way at $220,000, and a Walner colt going for $150,000.<\/p>\n
As a former world champion and a successful sire in North America, Walner’s progeny were one of the major talking points before the sales.<\/p>\n
Today another Walner (Lot 258), a filly out of dual Group 3 winner Egee Money, will go under the hammer. All three have been presented by Aussie powerhouse breeder Yabby Dam Farms.<\/p>\n
After Breckon Farms was the leading vendor at Karaka with 27 yearlings sold for $1.9m, two other \u00a0heavyweights will be out in force today in Taffy Ltd (Todd and Fleur Anderson) and Studholme Bloodstock.<\/p>\n
Among the Andersons’ draft is Lot 289, a Captaintreacherous – Imaginary Bet colt that is a full brother to Captains Mistress and a half brother to Merlin.<\/p>\n
The sale comes after Captains Mistress’ four from four in Australia including her demolition job at Melton last Saturday night.<\/p>\n
With Imaginary Bet also being the reigning Pacing Broodmare of the Year, the colt is a potential sales topper.<\/p>\n
A total of 163 yearlings will go into the ring today.<\/p>\n
Others looking likely to be fetch big money include :<\/p>\n
Lot 170 – a 3\/4 sister to Chase A Dream
Lot 173 – a Captaintreacherous – Spanish Armada filly
Lot 174 – King of Swing – Sucitra Colt
Lot 194 – a Captaintreacherous – True Fantasy Colt
Lot 213 – a Captaintreacherous full brother to Millwood Nike
Lot 231 – a full brother to Jumal \u00a0
Lot 298 – a full sister to Got The Chocolates<\/p>\n
Not that the sale is just about sale-toppers.<\/p>\n
At Karaka Australian buyers were very active, but the clearance rate was around 70% and the middle market was sluggish with the aggregate and average down on last year’s record result.<\/p>\n
There has been speculation that some of the bigger buyers will open their wallets on day 2.<\/p>\n
Whether that transpires or not will be known from 11am.<\/p>\n
To see the Christchurch Sales catalogue click here<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"18 February 2026 , Breeding By Dave Di Somma, Harness News Desk\u00a0 After a “solid” trading session at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-290309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}