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The catalogue for New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run Sale is set to live up to its well-earned reputation as the most successful sale of two-year-olds in Australasia.

NZB’s Ready to Run Sale has celebrated 12 G1 wins in the past three seasons, being the only sale of its kind to yield G1 success in that time.

Last season graduates of the NZB sale won the G1 Caulfield Cup and G1 Emirates Stakes during the Melbourne spring carnival plus the prestigious Singapore Derby and Singapore Guineas.

Graduates of the Ready to Run Sale have notched 107 stakes wins in the past five seasons. Last season 20 graduates won 27 stakes races including the G1 winners Mongolian Khan (Holy Roman Emperor), Turn Me Loose (Iffraaj) and Dukedom (Bachelor Duke).

Star graduates representing the Ready to Run Sale in Singapore are this season’s Singapore Derby winner Well Done (Falkirk) and Singapore Guineas winner Debt Collector (Thorn Park).

Other stakes winners last season include Nashville, Titanium, Famous Seamus, Illuminati, Flame Hero, Mabeel, Puritan and Extra Choice.

On the same day as the catalogue was released online on September 16 high-class stayer Sacred Master (Mastercraftsman) provided a timely demonstration of the value and quality that’s on offer at the sale when he scored a tough win in the $175,000 G3 Newcastle Cup.

Sacred Master was purchased for $65,000 by owners Raffles Dancers at the 2013 Ready to Run Sale. He has already earned more than four and a half times that amount in prize-money, headed by a win in last season’s G2 Avondale Cup and a third in the G1 Auckland Cup.

Sacred Master has now had 17 starts for seven wins, four placings and more than A$320,000 in stakes.

The first two finishers in the Newcastle Cup are graduates of the Ready to Run Sale as runner-up Dee I Cee, placed behind Mongolian Khan and Volkstok’n’barrell in the 2015 New Zealand Derby, sold for $7000 at the 2013 Ready to Run Sale after fetching $1000 as a weanling.

He has earned more than $150,000 in prize-money.

This year’s catalogue has attracted 552 two-year-olds representing a wide range of 123 sires from New Zealand and Australia.

Catalogue highlights include:

• 57 siblings to stakes winners including siblings to G1 winners Veloce Bella, Magic Cape, Captivate, Miss Mossman, Ruud Awakening, MacO’Reilly, I Do, Kirramosa, Irish Fling, Peggy Jean and Allez Wonder.

• The progeny of 60 stakes winners including G1-winning dams Captivate, Honor Babe, Honor Bound, Prize Lady and Sharvasti.

• 70 horses nominated for the Karaka Million, 24 fillies nominated for the Pearl Series, 144 horses that are BOBS eligible and one VOBIS Gold nominated horse.

• New Zealand sires such as Darci Brahma, Iffraaj, Jimmy Choux, Keeper, Makfi, O’Reilly, Pentire, Per Incanto, Pins, Pour Moi, Power, Reliable Man, Savabeel, Shocking, Showcasing, Swiss Ace, Tavistock and Zacinto.

• Australian sires such as All Too Hard, Americain, Animal Kingdom, Choisir, Encosta De Lago, Exceed And Excel, Foxwedge, Hinchinbrook, Hussonet, I Am Invincible, Manhattan Rain, Medaglia d’Oro, Pierro, Redoute’s Choice, Smart Missile, Snitzel, So You Think, Starspangledbanner, Stryker, Street Cry and Written Tycoon.

Every horse entered in the Ready to Run Sale has the opportunity to Breeze Up with the last 200m of their work filmed and timed.

Breeze-Ups are set to be conducted at Te Rapa racecourse on October 17 and 18.

New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run Sale will be held on November 16 and 17.

To view New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run Sale catalogue online click here