Sword Of State’s progeny in demand at Karaka

Second crop representatives of our resident sire Sword Of State found favour with Australasian buyers during New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Weanling Sale.

A quality selection of youngsters by the Group 1 winning son of Snitzel were on offer at Karaka and sold up to $120,000.

Lot 129 from Curraghmore’s draft was a popular colt and eventually knocked down to the final bid of Waikato operation Kaha Nui Farm.

Out of the Helmet mare Goldilicious, he is a half-brother to the G3 Easter Cup winner Torranzino with the third dam Showella, the Group 1 winner of the New Zealand Stakes and South Australian Derby.

“He was a very late foal so we forgave him for being on the lighter side than what I would normally look at, but he is just a baby, and he will furnish pretty well, I hope,” Kaha Nui’s Nicky White said.

Victorian Bloodstock agent Cameron Cooke also joined the Sword Of State fan club when he went to $90,000 for Lot 36 from the draft of Elsdon Park.

The colt is a half-brother to multiple Group placegetter Sedaka with their dam the Rip Van Winkle mare O’Carol and the family of international stakes winners Tale Of A Champion, Ilusora, Bandua, Olympic Flue and Mr Roary.

Cooke later paid $55,000 for Lot 77 from Curraghmore, a grandson of the two-time Group winer Lady Kipling also a multiple placegetter at the highest level.

Meanwhile, our own Sword Of State youngster, Lot 69, was knocked down to Auckland-based company Lordof Wingrove for $55,000.

His dam is the Street Cry mare Solar Cry who is a half-sister to three-time elite level winner Sunlight and her siblings Sisstar and Clean Energy were the respective G3 winners of the Red Roses Stakes and Typhoon Tracy Stakes.

The family has also enjoyed updates from the recent Brisbane juvenile winner and stakes performer Susstainable.

Lordof Wingrove also successfully secured Lot 110 from our consignment, a colt by Spirit Of Boom and the first foal of the Snitzel mare Chenzel.

The second dam is the G1Auckland Cup winner Chenille, whose half-sister Chintz was a multiple Group winner and top-flight placegetter whose son Not An Option won twice at Listed level in Australian in our colours.

It’s a pedigree page that also features Mo’unga, the two-time Group 1 winner of the Winx Stakes and Rosehill Guineas.

Waikato buyers GST Bloodstock took a shine to our son of Savabeel, Lot 25, and secured him for $56,000.

The colt is out of the winning So You Think mare Meghan, who also placed in the G3 Sunline Vase, and her half-brothers Devildom and Reevederci were also stakes performers.

It is also the family of champion sire Last Tycoon with international form added by Group winners Mon Petit Cherie, Ice Queen and Rabah.

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