2013 Yearling Sale Purchases DGR Thoroughbred Services were very active over the Premier Sales in 2013 with the following yearlings secured for clients. Note all yearlings are now fully subscribed: 2013 Magic Millions Yearling Sale Lot 58     bay colt Dane Shadow - Mascara Magic for $35,000 Lot 182   bay filly Myboycharlie - Repenting for $160,000 Lot 245   bay/brown colt High Caparral - Sizzie 'Em for $200,000 Lot 300   bay/brown filly Astronomer Royal - The Divot for $110,000 Lot 512   bay filly Fastnet Rock - De Lollies for $365,000 Lot 536   bay filly Shamardal - Eggs for $120,000 Lot 611   bay filly Fastnet Rock - Hides for $390,000   2013 New Zealand Premier Yearling Sale   Lot 57    bay colt Zabeel - Carib for NZ$220,000 Lot 318  bay colt Street Cry - Rose Of Tralee for NZ$360,000 Lot 395  bay colt Thorn Park - The Glitter for NZ$440,000   2013 Inglis Easter Yearling Sale   Lot 167  bay colt High Chaparral - Lady Of The Desert for $320,000    Return To Top 2010 The 2010 Australiasian Sales Season begins at the Magic Millions on 6th January 2010 then on to The New Zealand Sales series beginning 1st February 2010. We will be attending those sales and the other majors including Inglis Melbourne & Easter Sales. We will make some purchases at all or some of these veunes. Keep posted for any updates about our purchases. We welcome genuine enquiries pre or post sale.  Return To Top Sydney Easter Sales 2009 Whilst are horses and clients were very involved in the 2009 Sydney Autumn carnival, DGR also retained our usual presence at the sales despite the obvious ecomomic enviroment in which we all find ourselves. In fact, while th every top end of th emarket was just as competative as ever, nice horses were able to be secured a levels going back a few years. Our yearling purchases were Lot 172 bay colt Redoute's Choice - Quays for $220,000 Lot 218 bay colt Zabeel - Sequi for $220,000 Lot 316 bay colt Flying Spur - Wetsuit for $130,000 Lot 417 bay colt No Excuse Needed - Clermont Lass for $110,000 Lot 562 brown filly Viscount - Diamond Hill for $62,500 Lot 569 bay colt Flying Spur - Fizzi Lizzi for $42,500 Our purchased were by four current leading champion sires, one by a sire in No Excuse Needed produced his first Australian Group 1 winner a few days after the sale and one by a sire in Viscount who is perhaps "out of fashion" but has produced the Singapore Champion Rocket Man who will severly test Australian Champion Takeover Target in the Gr1 Kris Flyer this month. All these yearlings have been placed with our clients and we thank them for their support and commissions at the sales. DGR also purchased five fillies and mares at the broodmare sales ranging from $8,000 to $62,500. No huge outlays there but every reason to be optomistic about those young mares futures.  Return To Top New Zealand Purchases 2009 We attended the New Zealand Sales again in 2009 as we have done for many years now and came home with what we believe to be some nice horses including two by first crop sire Starcraft, a filly by leading sire O’Reilly and another filly by Champion sire Flying Spur and one by Cox Plate winner Savabeel. Lot 3 gr colt Starcraft – Gazebo for NZ$140,000 Lot 76 b filly O’Reilly – Lady Chantelle for NZ$140,000 Lot 83 b filly Savabeel – Lap Dancer for NZ$42,500 Lot 137 b filly Flying Spur – Mistrale for NZ$230,000 Lot 282  b filly Starcraft – Sursum Corda for NZ$90,000 Adding the favourable exchange rate with the New Zealand dollar, the prices appear realistic to the current market for yearlings which is well documented to be down on 2008 highs. The dearest was the Flying Spur filly from the Group 2 winner Mistrale pictured below. These will all enter training with Bart Cummings who picked up five very nice yearlings himself at Karaka, see www.bartcumings.com.au for details. Lot 137 bay filly by Flying Spur from Mistrale  Return To Top 2008 Yearling Sale Purchases   2008 William Inglis Easter Yearling Sale Index of Buyers DGR Thoroughbred Services Pty Ltd NSW 52   B. c. 2006   Elusive Quality (USA) - Cousins (AUS) V- Princes Farm, Castlereagh. (As Agent) 400000                 5   B. f. 2006   Redoute's Choice (AUS) - Beldarian (IRE) V- Coolmore Stud, Jerry's Plains. (As Agent) 300000                 397   Br. c. 2006   Savabeel (AUS) - Steluta (NZ) V- Little Avondale Stud, Masterton, NZ. 300000     2008 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale Index of Buyers DGR Thoroughbred Services NSW 538   B. f. 2006   Al Maher (AUS) - Biscay Bird (AUS) V- Eureka Thoroughbreds Pty Ltd, Darling Down 270000                 833   B. f. 2006   Flying Spur (AUS) - Jactris (NZ) V- Attunga Stud, Scone, NSW. (As Agent) 130000                 831   B. f. 2006   Elusive Quality (USA) - Ivy League (IRE) V- Darley, Aberdeen, NSW. 100000                 729   Bl. f. 2006   Commands (AUS) - Fair Vanity (AUS) V- Rosari Farm, Warwick, Qld. 90000                 204   B. c. 2006   Al Maher (AUS) - Regal Heights (NZ) V- Stratheden Stud Pty Ltd, Tamworth, NSW. 30000     2008 New Zealand Bloodstock Premier Yearling Sale Index of Buyers DGR Thoroughbred Services NSW 145   B. c. 2006   Zabeel (NZ) - Golden Winds (NZ) V- Cambridge Stud, Cambridge. 410000                 236   B. f. 2006   Fastnet Rock (AUS) - Luna Tudor (AUS) V- Trelawney Stud Ltd, Cambridge. 140000                 424   B. c. 2006   High Chaparral (IRE) - Triassic (NZ) V- Windsor Park Stud Ltd, Cambridge. 110000                 441   B. c. 2006   Al Maher (AUS) - Tycoon Tess (AUS) V- Wellfield Lodge, Palmerston North. 90000    Return To Top New Team Members Pictures, on-line videos and pedigrees of our four purchases from the New Zealand Premier Yearling Sale Session. Click the link to view ALL SOLD (5/02/08) THANKS FOR THE INTEREST Lot 145 bay Colt Zabeel – Golden Winds (Star Way) purchased nz$410,000 His dam a ½ sister to four stakeswinners inc to multiple Gr1 winner GOLDEN SWORD Pedigree & Results Link Lot 236 bay filly Fastnet Rock – Luna Tudor (Military Plume) purchased nz$140,000 Her dam a Group 2 winner herself Pedigree & Results Link Lot 424 bay colt High Chaperral – Triassic (Tights) purchased nz$110,000 His dam a Group 2 winner herself Pedigree & Results Link Lot 441 bay colt Al Maher – Tycoon Tess (Last Tycoon) purchased nz$90,000 His dam a ½ sister to multiple Group 1 winner ARBOREA Pedigree & Results Link  Return To Top Nominations to Pendragon Following the industry crisis of the Equine Influenza outbreak and the effect it had on the 2007 breeding season, a reshuffle of plans led to Dato Tan Chin Nam's quality racehorse Pendragon retired to stud to stand at Think Big Stud, Bowral, New South Wales for the 2007 breeding season. In his debut 2007 season Pendragon attacted the dams of three Group 1 winners and five half sisters to Group 1 winners and three daughters of Group 1 winners giving him a quality book to equal many of his much more costly rivals. The product of these matings will be born in the spring of 2008. Pendragon is the second well-bred race proven racehorse retired to Victoria’s breeding industry by Dato Tan Chin Nam, the owner of three Melbourne Cup winners amongst many top Victorian race winners, after having last year advocated God's Own location to Eliza Park Stud. Pendragon, a handsome bay/brown, is by a first crop son of Danzig, and the Group I winner of the Newmarket July Cup (1200m) in Elnadim. Elnadim, from a daughter of the legendary dam Fall Aspen, carries similar credentials to one of Danzig's other July Cup winning sons in Danehill. He was Champion 3YO and Older Sprinter in England franking his Group wins. In a nine start career cut short by injury, Pendragon shot to prominence on debut with a stakes placing at two over 1200m. At his next two starts he met future Group I winners Racing To Win and Paratroopers, running second to both horses by less than a length over 1200m and 1300m, before running third to Paratroopers and Racing To Win in the now STC Group II Golden Rose (1400m) at Rosehill.  Pendragon went from the Golden Rose to post wins in the STC Group III Gloaming Stakes (1800m) and the MRC Group III Norman Robinson Stakes (2000m) (beating Headturner), and he was placed second as favourite in the AJC Group I Spring Champion Stakes (2000m). Pendragon competed honourably for a fourth in the Group I VRC Derby (2500m), just failing to run out the distance. He only had one more racecourse appearance, when a resuming fifth in the Expressway Stakes, the only the second occasion he did not finish in the first three.  Pendragon’s dam-side breeding is unsurpassed being out of the NZ Oaks winner in Alacrity (by Grosvenor), and he comes from the direct family of the breed shaping stallion Marscay. Like Australasia's current leading sires Redoute's Choice, Encosta De Lago and Zabeel, Pendragon is by an imported sire, and in a similar fashion the established sires he has a proven himself on Australia's race tracks at Group level. Pendragon stands for $10,000 (+GST) with a reduction for the first fifty bookings to $8,000 (+GST), all Live Foal Guarantee. Travel rebates on application. Contact Duncan Ramage on 02 9663 3030 or e-mail dgr@dgrracing.com.au or at the stud Kerry Wisnewski on 0427 446 060 Informative links to pedigree and other information relating to Pendragon include For pedigree and records http://www.stallions.com.au/list/Pendragon.asp http://www.breedingracing.com/pdfs/sires/2007/pendragon.pdf For on-line video footage http://www.stallions.com.au/video/Pendragon.wmv       http://www.stallions.com.au/video/Pendragon_action.wmv          Pendragon, prior to going to stud, taken June 2007.    Return To Top Lot 339 Viking Ruler - Monroe Magic Click here for pedigree.   The 1/2 brother to subsequent 2006 AJC Derby Gr1 winner Headturner.   This colt is SOLD.  Return To Top