Lot 270 Per Incanto (USA) – Anaween (AUS) Brown Filly

Lot 270 br. f. Per Incanto – Anaween (More Than Ready) $270,000 (draft: Kilgravin Lodge)

The filly has been bought in conjunction with Ozzie Kheir, Group 1 Bloodstock, and Bruce Perry Bloodstock.

In the colours of major racehorse owner Ozzie Kheir, Te Akau recently had Exuberance (3 f Savabeel – Miss Opulence, by O’Reilly) win on the local course where they have stables at Cranbourne (Victoria).

The navy blue and pale yellow colours of Ozzie Kheir have also been carried by Sir Dragonet (Camelot) to win the 2020 Cox Plate (Gr. 1, 2040m), Verry Elegant (Zed) in the 2020 Caulfield Cup (Gr. 1, 2400m) and 2021 Melbourne Cup (Gr. 1, 3200m), Pier (Proisir) in the 2000 Guineas (Gr. 1, 1600m), also Group One winner Molly Bloom (Ace High), and fellow Kiwi bred Jimmystar (Per Incanto).

A top 10 sire since 2017 in New Zealand, Champion Three-Year-Old Sprinter in Italy, Per Incanto (Street Cry) has been a terrific stallion influence in New Zealand, and continues to leave rich-coloured and athletic thoroughbreds.

Incredibly, world renowned dam-sire More Than Ready (Southern Halo) is the best sire of winners globally, with nearly 2300 individual winners, including over 135 stakes winners as a broodmare sire.

Passing in 2022, aged 25, More Than Ready had been Champion Sire in both hemispheres, proving an outstanding sire of sires, and going from strength-to-strength as a broodmare sire.

“She’s a classy type of filly that showed a terrific length of stride in her breeze up, and from a family that we know very well at Te Akau,” said David Ellis.

“Being out of mare by More Than Ready is always a massive plus. Her grand-dam is by the legendary sire Danehill, and further down the page in her pedigree is the former Cambridge Stud stallion Keeper (Danehill).

“We trained some really good horses by Keeper, none better than Insouciant that Mark Walker trained to win the 1000 Guineas (Gr. 1, 1600m) and she became New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year.

“It is also the family of another New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year, Amarelinha. We bought her at Karaka and trained to win the New Zealand Oaks (Gr. 1, 2400m).”