Photo: Trish Dunell
Super Seth’s move across the Tasman to command a six-figure service fee at Coolmore leaves limited opportunities for buyers to secure his New Zealand-bred progeny, so it was no surprise to see him play a starring role in the NZB National Weanling Sale.
Nine members of Super Seth’s penultimate Kiwi weanling crop went through the Karaka sale ring on Thursday. Eight of them sold for a total of $965,000, with an average price of $120,625.
A pair of Super Seth colts fetched $180,000 each, the equal third-highest prices of this year’s sale. The first of them was Lot 16 and was offered by Waikato Stud, where Super Seth stood until his blockbuster sale to Coolmore earlier this year.
Lot 16 is out of the twice-winning Savabeel mare Popular, whose three foals to race are all winners and include the talented Melbourne galloper Wolfy along with NZB Kiwi (1500m) fourth placegetter Sought After.
The colt was the highest-priced of three purchases on Thursday for Paul Pertab.
“I like the sire, but couldn’t afford one of his progeny until today,” he said. “As well as being by such a good sire, this colt has good legs and nice balance.
“They change so much between now and when you put a saddle on them, but you’ve just got to go with your gut instinct. I thought this was a tidy horse.
“Whether he goes towards the Ready to Run Sale or whatever else we do with him, it’s just going to depend on what mould he fits into at the time.”
Later in the day, Haunui Farm offered Lot 121, whose unraced dam Incanto Rose is a Per Incanto half-sister to the stakes winner Rose ‘N’ Power. The colt was bought by Bleakley Bloodstock Ltd.
“He was a really nice colt,” Libby Bleakley said. “We came here a few weanlings short at the end of the Australian series, so we just needed a couple of really nice standouts by good sires to fill out the draft for January. We are very happy to get our top-ranked one, very happy to get him.
“It’s also significant that he’s out of a Per Incanto mare. He’s having great success as a broodmare sire, obviously headed by Ka Ying Rising in Hong Kong, so I’m happy to add this colt to the band.”
Super Seth will stand for A$137,500 in his debut season at Coolmore next spring, having produced Group One winners Feroce, Linebacker, Maison Louis and La Dorada from his first two crops.
Coolmore representative Tom Moore purchased Lot 133 for $160,000. The Super Seth colt is the first foal out of the Shocking mare Loquita, who won four races and is a half-sister to the Group Three winner Mary Shan.
Other notable Super Seth results on Thursday included Lot 95, a colt out of the stakes-performed Date Night, who was bought by Milan Park for $150,000.
