Lot 174 - Home Affairs (AUS) – Orinda (NZ), bay or brown colt

Karaka Yearling Sales 2025

  • Lot 174 - Home Affairs (AUS) – Orinda (NZ), bay or brown colt
  • Lot 174 - Home Affairs (AUS) – Orinda (NZ), bay or brown colt
  • Lot 174 - Home Affairs (AUS) – Orinda (NZ), bay or brown colt
  • Lot 174 - Home Affairs (AUS) – Orinda (NZ), bay or brown colt
  • Lot 174 - Home Affairs (AUS) – Orinda (NZ), bay or brown colt
  • Lot 174 - Home Affairs (AUS) – Orinda (NZ), bay or brown colt

Born

29 September, 2023

$340,000.00

55% Available

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Lot 174 bay or brown colt Home Affairs – Orinda (O’Reilly) - draft: Highview Stud

The colt is by an I Am Invincible (Invincible Spirit) sire son, Home Affairs, standing at Coolmore Stud, who provided a highlight at the recently completed Magic Millions Yearling Sale on the Gold Coast, as Leading First-Season Sire with a sale average of $383,298. 

I Am Invincible is the sire of Imperatriz, whom David Ellis purchased in 2020 at the Gold Coast. The winner of 10 Group One races, the most for her sire, Imperatriz is the reigning New Zealand Horse of the Year and Champion Sprinter in Australia. 

Retired and sold in June last year for $6.6 million, she became the highest priced filly or mare ever sold in the Southern Hemisphere. Ellis purchased three yearlings by Home Affairs at Magic Millions. 

Home Affairs won the Silver Slipper Stakes (Gr. 2, 1100m) as a two-year-old at Rosehill, and became Champion 3YO Colt in Australia, after winning the Coolmore Stud Stakes (Gr. 1, 1200m) and Black Caviar Lightning (Gr. 1, 1000m), both at Flemington.  

Adding to his stallion credentials, the dam of Home Affairs, Miss Interiors (Flying Spur), is a half-sister to Group One winner and the Leading First Crop Sire for 2021/22 in Australia, Russian Revolution (Snitzel), as well as Group Three winner Turbo Miss (Sebring). 

Dam Orinda, by NZ Champion Broodmare Sire O’Reilly (Last Tycoon), was a dual winner over 1400 metres, and notably the dam of sire Jon Snow (Iffraaj), winner of the Australian Derby (Gr. 1, 2400m) and Tulloch Stakes (Gr. 2, 2000m), among four wins from 1200m – 2400m. 

She also produced Princess Rhaenys (Iffraaj), six-time winner from 1600m – 2100m, including stakes win and Group Three runner-up. 

The colt is from one of the best families in the New Zealand stud book, known by some as the Moore family, with third dam Solveig (Imposing) who won 14 races, being out Soliloquy (Sobig), the foundation mare for Richard Moore. 

Among the history of top sales graduates from 100 years of yearling sales in New Zealand, the name Soliloquy and her subsequent lineage continue to show up. It really is a fabulously talented family with oodles of class and quality. 

“He’s a fast looking two-year-old type and we love that Home Affairs is really stamping his yearlings as quality types,” Ellis said. 

“Anytime we see something in the catalogue from the Soliloquy family that takes our eye it’s exciting, and we were thrilled to be able to buy him. 

“We had him down as one of the best colts in the sale, on type and pedigree, so we’re very happy to get him for 340k.” 

The colt carries a bloodline cross to Champion Sire Nureyev (Northern Dancer), a racehorse with immense turn of foot, Champion French 3YO, and sire of more than 20 champions. While Home Affairs is bred on the Danehill sire line. 

Share price includes pedigree research/analysis & sale expenses at cost, as well as full pre purchase veterinary inspection & x-ray examination. Your share of post-sale transport, Karaka 2YO and 3YO Millions' entry, Pearl Bonus Series entry (fillies only),insurance, post-sale shoe removal & drench  additional. Ongoing costs per month approx. $500 +GST per 10% share. Full disclosure document is available on request. Prices quoted are NZD and GST exclusive. 

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