White Robe Ocean Park colt sold for $150,000
WHITE Robe Lodge hit triple figures with each of the three yearlings it offered at yesterday’s premier section of the national yearling sales.
The North Taieri Stud had to wait until the third and final day of the book one section of the Karaka Sale to offer the first of its trio of colts.
The wait was made worthwhile when White Robe Lodge’s first offering, a Ghibellines colt out of Cherry Creek, sold for $100,000 to Cambridge trainer
Stephen
Marsh.
The colt turning his
$6000 service fee into a sixfigure sale was a fantastic outcome for
White Robe
Lodge studmaster Wayne
Stewart said.
“It was a great result. He is a very athletic horse and a lovely colt.
“He has gone to a great trainer in Stephen Marsh.”
Marsh has a close relation to the Cherry Creek colt showing promise in his stable in a Ghibellines colt named Finn McCool.
The 3yrold is from Stage Flash, who is the dam of Cherry Creek.
“For them to come back and buy another one off us is great,” Stewart said.
“Finn McCool is due to race soon. He has won a couple of trials up north.”
Finn McCool was sold by White Robe Lodge at last year’s South Island Sale for $55,000.
The stud made it two $100,000 yearlings in a row when its Ocean Park colt from Girls On Top sold for $150,000.
The yearling was knocked down to astute bloodstock agent Guy Mulcaster, who sources horses for leading trainers across Australasia.
The Ocean Park colt was another case of a White Robe Lodge yearling making several times his initial cost. The yearling was bought for $21,000 out of an online sale by Stewart, his son, Jack, and Waikato Stud business manager Mike Rennie.
“Mike is a good mate of mine and we all bought him together when Waikato Stud sold some of their weanlings online,” Stewart said.
“To sell like he did after buying him for $21,000 — you have got to be happy with that.”
White Robe Lodge’s third and final yearling reached $100,000, but was not knocked down to a successful buyer.
The Savabeel colt from Include was passed in before negotiations started on selling the horse out of the sales ring.
Two yearlings tied for top honours on the final day of the Book One sale.
An Exceed And Excel filly from Gallwitz sold for $500,000 to former leading Victorian trainer Peter Moody, who is rumoured to be eyeing a return to training.
Soon after, a Savabeel colt out of Gold Rocks was knocked down to David Ellis, of Te Akau, for the same price.
The book two section of the Karaka sale starts today.
White Robe Lodge will present Ghibellines colts from Perceptible and Personal Column.