Te Akau Thursday Update

David writes from the Gold Coast:

This week I have never been so confident that I have bought another top horse and for fantastic value for money. Each year at this sale I only ever purchase a couple of horses and my record is very hard to fault.  Two NZB Filly of Year winners in Costa Viva and Princess Coup plus Tell a Tale who won the $1,000,000 Group 1 NZ 2000 Guineas. I also bought Minstrel Court here, a fantastic racehorse who was a stakes' winner and Group 1 performer now standing at stud plus one of our very best ever horses called Integrate who won 14 races on both sides of the Tasman before I sold her to Japan.

I paid $100,000 for Costa Viva, she won the $300,000 Group 1 NZ 1000 Guineas at Riccarton before we sold her for very good money to the China Horse Club as a broodmare. While Princess Coup cost $260,000 - she won over $4 million in prize money, before she was sold for $3 million also as a broodmare.

Since these sales, bloodstock values have gone up and up and a good horse today is worth a fortune - look at Gingernuts whose owners were offered $3 million for him.

The two fillies and one colt that I bought are just stunning and you shouldn't miss this opportnity.  I bought these horses very early in the sale and the senior auctioneer sent me a text saying how lucky we were to go early as the sale strengthened as the day progressed.

To think I could buy a beautiful filly by one of the best racehorses ever (Camelot) for just A$100,000 is just amazing. If you ever dreamt about getting involved in racing a top filly with Te Akau that could win an Oaks then a Caulfield / Melbourne Cup then you need to have a look at this filly - great pedigree and a magnificent type - she ticks all the boxes this filly - here she is ...

 

A 10% share in this filly is $14,575 plus GST - this includes ALL expenses including veterinary inspections, sales' expenses at cost, transport back to New Zealand etc until 31 December 2017 - excluding insurance and Magic Million's Series' Entry.

A 5% share in this filly is only $7,288 plus GST.

 

What an unbelievable job our team has done with the horses over here, to have five horses racing in Group and Listed races on Queensland's biggest day is a huge thrill - well done to the team on site Jamie Richards, Kerry Jones and Mason Stevens. Te Akau has the favourite in two of the three Group 1 races -  Melody Belle in the JJ Atkins and Shocking Luck in the Queensland Derby plus we have Heroic Valour in the three year old stakes' race, plus Zambezi Warrior in the Brisbane Cup - all of these horses were purchased by me plus we have Jimmy Rae in the Listed Hinkler Handicap, who was entrusted to us by Kevin Hickman's Valachi Downs, one of the New Zealand's best stud farms.

All of these horses are good chances but we need luck, you always do on such big race days - the very best horses are out to fight for the spoils - and the Australians are always tough competitors.  Regardless of the results on Saturday I am a happy man and very proud of what my team has achieved.

1 - Te Akau and Mark Walker are seven in front on the Trainers' Premiership in Singapore.

2 - Te Akau has won the most domestic stakes of any stable in New Zealand this season.

3 - Te Akau won both of the $1 million races in New Zealand this season.

4 - We have won races this season in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Singapore and Ireland.

5 - This past week Gingernuts was voted the Ellerslie Horse of the Year.

6 - Gingernuts is the highest rated staying 3YO in the southern hemisphere, his time form rating of 123 is four points higher than any other New Zealand horse.

7 - We are all looking forward to Royal Ascot now where we have Torcedor down to run in the Ascot Gold Cup. This is the European equivalent of the Melbourne Cup and is a horse that I bought in Deauville, France for 70,000 euros.

 

But to me the real heroes of this season are my team members who get out of bed at 3am to put the show on, and also our farm and office teams who always dedicate so much time and energy to everything they do - well done team you should all be very proud - I certainly am of you all. 

 

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