MVL Sales Talk

May 2011
 2011 HTBA Scone
Yearling Sale in Focus
A regular consignor at the annual yearling
sale series, MVL manager Verna Metcalfe says
this year’s Scone Yearling Sale offers buyers an
opportunity to tap into some solid pedigrees
at good prices.

“The Scone Sale has been split across 2 days

this year. It’s always a good sale to pick up
a well priced horse and we are expecting a
good turn out given the Race Club is host-
ing its inaugural 2-day race carnival this year
including a stand alone Saturday meeting. We
already know from the local accommodation
bookings just how many people plan to be in
Scone across that week and that’s good news
for people wanting their yearlings to be seen.”

“The HTBA Yearling Sale is a fairly small

sale on the annual calendar but when you sit
down and do the maths the stats. are impres-
sive. They become even more so when you
consider that the sale graduates don’t come
from phone book sized catalogues.

“The Scone Sale has produced the recent

Group 1 winners HOT DANISH and
SMALL MINDS. Then you have graduates
like YOUTHFUL JACK, WELKOM GOLD,
STAR OF OCTAGONAL etc. It’s fair to say
Scone punches well above its weight!”

Our 2011 MVL draft includes yearlings by

proven sires as well as young stallions; all hail-
ing from a good mix of female families.

“We have some quality lots this year and a

couple in particular that I am very excited to
be selling,” Verna says.

Details of the full draft can be accessed via the

Middlebrook website
(www.middlebrookvalleylodge.com.au) with
some feature lots highlighted on the following
pages:
 LOT 127 - a colt by the same sire as Champion
ne Galloper STARSPANGLEDBANNER (Choisir), out
of the 8-time winner Lyn's Money. This colt has more
than good breeding on his side. He is the half brother
us to last year's winner of the $101,600 Inglis Challenge -
OKANE - a colt also consigned by MVL.

"Okane has been a great advertisement for the mare," says

g Verna. "He was her first foal to race and this colt looks
e says even better at the same stage. Choisir has done a great
rs an job at stud and this colt has done everything right since
rees coming in for his prep."

ays
p
a
t- Attitude is an integral part of future race success and
year much is therefore expected of LOT 169 - an eye
g. We catching daughter of Not A Single Doubt.
tion
e in "She is a model of her father and is one of the most profes-
ews sional fillies I have ever worked with. She is all class," says
een.” Verna.

With the Arrowfield based son of Redoute's Choice

u sit producing this year's Magic Millions winner KARUTA
res- QUEEN plus a slew of other black type horses one can
u well appreciate MVL's enthusiasm at consigning this
me quality filly.

es Much interest is expected in LOT 56 - the bay filly

LD, out of Gr 3 winner and Gr 1 placegetter CORNWALL
ay QUEEN. A rarity, the filly is the only yearling by
IFFRAAJ to be offered in Australia this year.

y Iffraaj (by Zafonic, and out of a half sister to CAPE

hail- CROSS) was Timeform’s highest rated speed horse of
Europe in 2006, retiring with an International Rating
of 128. At stud Iffraaj has been a sensation: siring more
a juvenile winners (including Gr 1 winner WOOTTON
d to BASSETT) than any European stallion in history. His
first NZ crop yearlings averaged $101,500 for the 47
sold (top price $540,000) and were snared by such good
a the judges as Peter Moody, Mark Kavanagh, John Foote,
Michael Wallace, Paul Moroney, Paul Willetts, Ric Con-
with nolly etc.
wing “This filly is a good type - looks very much like Iffraaj - and has prepped well. A lot of people looking at buying a filly
also want some residual on the page and this filly can offer that.”
European Horse of the Year, 6-time Gr 1 winner and
first season sire Dylan Thomas will be represented by
LOT 139 - a bay colt out of the Gr 3 placegetter
Moonboat. Dylan Thomas was a popular choice at the
recently concluded 2011 Inglis Australian Easter Year-
ling Sale with nine of his stock averaging $137,222.

“This colt is by a first season sire and he has the consid-

erable upside of also being from the same family as this
season’s Gr 1 Blue Diamond S. and Gr. 1 Golden Slipper
winner SEPOY,” comments Verna.