Te Akau's 10 Karaka Reasons

Recently New Zealand Bloodstock published 10 reasons why you should be at Karaka - and we have 10 reasons too why we will be there, buying for our Te Akau owners new and existing!

Te Akau's David Ellis has been the top buyer at Karaka for over a decade.

This year the "buying brains" for Te Akau will be David Ellis, Mark Walker, Stephen Autridge and Jamie Richards - a formidable team with a great eye for a horse, each and every one of them.

Te Akau Racing will be buying yearlings across ALL price ranges - while the media may only focus on our top priced purchases, there will be plenty of opportunities to get involved at a cost that suits you.

This sale Te Akau will be hunting down the next Darci Brahma, the next King's Chapel, the next Rock 'n' Pop, the next Xtravagant - and will be putting a colt syndicate together to buy the best colts from the sale.

Te Akau will also be purchasing the next Clutha Lad (cost $36,000, stakes to date $263,216), Spellbinder (cost $60,000, stakes $190,435), Flaming ($60,000, stakes to date $67,550), Fine Choice (cost $22,000, stakes to date $84,000) and many others.

Te Akau makes racing fun and owners come first so we will be purchasing at Te Akau with shares available for new owners and our long term owners too.

Join our priority list and David or Karyn will call you immediately the sale is complete and discuss options available with you - be the first - email Karyn - [email protected]

New Zealand Bloodstock provides just 21% of Australasia's auctioned yearling crop, the smallest of all sales companies in Australasia, yet accounts for 37% of Group 1 winning yearling graduates in Australasia - the best record of all auction houses and has provided 7 Group 1 winners already this season including the Melbourne Cup, Caulfield Cup, Victoria Derby, Turnbull Stakes, George Main Stakes and Emirates Stakes in Australia AND the Group 1 NZ 2000 Guineas at Riccarton with Xtravagant winning in RACE RECORD time!

Buyers have 1378 yearlings from New Zealand and Australia to choose from with 130 of the best sires from Australia and New Zealand are represented plus the first yearling by Frankel to be offered in the Southern Hemisphere. Also 146 progeny of stakes winners with 18 yearlings out of Group 1 winning dams.

Te Akau Racing will be there (also sponsoring the TV coverage of the premier sale again) and we will make you very welcome indeed - come and sit with us and savour the atmosphere of the selling arena with us!