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A yearling colt’s untimely slip before he was set to be auctioned has provided Cambridge horseman Kit Brooks with a potential opportunity for a nice re-sale at Karaka next week.
Brooks, who runs KB Bloodstock, produced the sale-topper at last year’s NZB Ready to Run Sale, selling a Zoustar-Hijack Hussy colt for $825,000.
He isn’t talking up his chances of repeating the dose this year, but he is very positive about the Written Tycoon-Lost Impact colt catalogued as Lot 353.“
He’s a beautiful, lovely, dark horse,” Brooks told RaceForm. “Written Tycoon is obviously a great sire, and he’s out of a Deep Impact mare, so that’s an interesting sort of a cross.
“He’s a lovely horse, so fingers crossed everyone likes him as much as I do.”
Brooks sourced the colt in somewhat unusual circumstances from the Yulong draft at the Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale in March this year.
“He was parading in front of me when he slipped over,” Brooks said.
“He just took a bit of skin off his leg and they had to put a big bandage up his leg, and as a result they withdrew him from the sale.
“I wasn’t worried about what happened to him at all, I knew it was very superficial, so I went and saw them later on, and so we’re selling him at Ready to Run.”
Lost Impact was a winner of three in Australia, with one coming at Moonee Valley in Melbourne. She hails from a good family that includes European Group One winners Ali-Royal, Sleepytime, Taipan (by Last Tycoon, not to be confused with the successful New Zealand-based sire of the same name of the 1970s by Bold Ruler), and Croco Rouge.
The colt breezed in a quick 10.45 seconds when partnered by a Zousain-Lucy Mae colt from the KB draft that ran 10.41 seconds.
Lucy Mae was a Group Two winner in Australia and comes from the family of Universal Prince, Universal Queen, Krone, and Think It Over.
“He came from Magic Millions,” Brooks said. “He’s the ultimate professional, just so correct. If you had a racing stable full of them, you’d think you were very good at training horses. It’s hard to find one that’s been easier to produce than that guy.”
KB Bloodstock has 23 juveniles to sell at Karaka next week. Aside from the Written Tycoon colt and Zousain colt, 15 of the others have been on the sale grounds previously; of these, six were passed in, and the other nine bought for between A$20,000 and A$130,000.
The most expensive of these was a Toronado-Sizzling Ace gelding bought from the Inglis Great Southern Weanling Sale in June 2025, whose purchase was something of a departure for Brooks.
“He’s the first weanling I’ve bought for the sale, though I’ve bred a couple myself. He’s a nice, strong Toronado, a really straightforward gelding that’s a real nice horse.”
The horse Brooks bought for the least amount of money was the A$20,000 colt by Home Affairs, who has since become one of the hottest young sires in Australia thanks to the deeds of an outstanding first crop that included Golden Slipper winner Guest House.
“We got him just before the Home Affairs juveniles started winning everything, so it was very good timing.”
Also timely for Brooks to have in his draft are two by star Japanese miler Maurice, whose stocks have risen this spring with the emergence of Cox Plate hero Cosmic Crusader and Caulfield Thousand Guineas runner-up Icelady.
“I think they are the only two boys in the sale by Maurice. They’re both lovely horses and the timing’s very good again with them,” he said.
“The timing is also good with our St Mark’s Basilica colt – it looks like there’s some good ones around – while the Satono Aladdin gelding is a lovely horse.”
KB Bloodstock has now been selling at Ready to Run for seven years, though Brooks had prepared juveniles for the sale prior to then for other vendors.
“We’ve got a couple more than usual in this draft. We’re about half and half between client horses and horses of our own.”
The buying bench for the sale looks set to be high-class, and Brooks is looking forward to a good market, especially with current foreign exchange trends.
“They tell me everyone’s coming, and fingers crossed, the state of the New Zealand dollar should encourage overseas buyers.
“They should be keen to buy as many as they can, because the way the dollar stands at the moment, they will be saving money buying from us.”
