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Trelawney Sells Well at Broodmare Sale 8 Aug 2006
The 2006 National Broodmare Sale was completed yesterday at Karaka. 23 horses went through the ring under the Trelawney Stud umbrella with 21 of the 23 finding new homes “We had a number of nice mares in the sale on behalf of ourselves and clients and it was certainly a pleasing result to achieve that sort of clearance rate at what was a pretty tough sale with terrible weather conditions,” said Brent Taylor of Trelawney Stud.

Trelawney accounted for seven of the top 15 lots over the two day sale, heading the list with the imported mare Angel Layne (USA) (Grindstone) who fetched $135,000 to the bid of Stuart Munro who purchased her on behalf of David Bentata. “That mare was owned by a very good client of ours, Debora Ho, so it is a good result for her,” said Brent. From a family of black type producers, Angel Layne is in foal to Trelawney stallion Van Nistelrooy (USA) (Storm Cat) and has returned to Trelawney where she will remain until mating plans for the 2006 season have been finalised.

Other mares to feature in the top fifteen from the Trelawney draft included Lot 149, Dolce Veloce (Aus) (Integra) who was purchased by Peter Lavin of Queensland for $90,000. Peter also purchased Fiordland (NZ) (Stylish Century) for $55,000 with the mares in foal to Elusive City (USA) (Elusive Quality) and Van Nistelrooy respectively. French Resistence (Aus) (Peintre Celebre) also fetched $55,000 to the bid of Dean Thoroughbreds in Victoria while Last Tycoon mare Louvain and Zabeel mare Island Pearl both reached the $50,000 mark. Louvain was purchased by Neil Ridley while Island Pearl was one of two purchases from the Trelawney draft by Korean agency United Bloodstock.

“A number of the mares that we offered were purely in the sale because our broodmare band at Trelawney has increased in size and we want to retain it at between 40 and 50 high quality mares,” said Brent. “We have purchased a number of mares over the last few years and with some of our racing fillies also retiring to stud, the numbers began to creep up from where we want them to be,” he said. “So with this in mind, I am sure that buyers who have purchased from our draft will derive some great benefits in the future with the progeny the mares are carrying and in years to come and we wish them the best of luck,” he said.

With his first southern hemisphere crop of foals just two-year-olds, exciting times are ahead for Van Nistelrooy who has just returned to Trelawney Stud for his fourth season. Nine mares were sold through the sale ring at Karaka in foal to Van Nistelrooy with an average of just under $43,000, the top price being $135,000 paid for Angel Layne. “We have been receiving a number of good reports on Van Nistelrooy’s first crop and we had a number of buyers wanting mares specifically in foal to him,” said Brent. “It was also good to see mares in foal to our other stallion, Elusive City, who we are also involved with, selling well too,” said Brent. The average price for a mare carrying an Elusive City foal was just under $30,000.

Van Nistelrooy stands at Trelawney Stud in 2006 for a fee of NZ$10,000 + GST while Elusive City will stand at Haunui Farm in 2006 at NZ$8,000 + GST.