Highview Offers Young Mares by 'Hot' Stallions

Highview Stud's Deplenishing Sale on 29 March will see the auction of thirty broodmares by Australasia's leading sires, with young mares by More Than Ready, General Nediym, Zabeel, and Montjeu already attracting considerable interest.

New Zealand Bloodstock will conduct the Sale which features mares by proven Group 1 producing broodmare sires in Bletchingly (19 Group 1 winners as a broodmare sire), Kaapstad (13), Last Tycoon (17), Marauding (4), Marscay (21), Rory's Jester (5), Royal Academy (5), Semipalatinsk (6), Sir Tristram (31), Tights (3) and Zabeel (9).

The next generation of young broodmare sires will also be represented with mares by 'hot' young sires More Than Ready and General Nediym, and by internationally proven Group 1 sires and exceptional racehorses, Montjeu and Peintre Celebre.

More Than Ready 1997 (Southern Halo - Woodman's Girl, by Woodman)

A winner of the Group 1 Saratoga King's Bishop Stakes (1400m), More Than Ready was shuttled to Australia by Vinery Stud in 2001 as the answer to their industries Danehill flooded market, and the answer he is proving to be.

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�More Than Ready (Southern Halo)��������� photo: Joy Gilbert

Standing at $110,000 in 2008/09, More Than Ready has sired four Australian Group 1 winners, three of them out of Danehill, or Danehill line mares, and all three have entered stud duty including 2008 Group 1 Golden Slipper winner Sebring (x Purespeed, by Flying Spur) who will join the Widden Stud roster in 2009, Vinery Stud's Group 1 Victoria Derby winner Benicio (x Mannington, by Danehill), and Brighthill Farm's young Group 1 Goodwood Handicap winner Perfectly Ready (x Elle Duccio, by Danehill).

This season More Than Ready has�been�most impressive through his two year olds who include Phelan Ready, winner of the Magic Millions 2YO Classique, Colour, winner of the Group 2 SAJC Breeders' Stakes, and Blue Sky Thoroughbreds' very exciting prospect Common Interest, a colt�who blew his rivals away on the weekend in the Listed Festival of Racing Stakes and looks to follow Sebring's path through the�Sydney Autumn Carnival

Highview Stud will sell two More Than Ready mares at their Deplenishing Sale, and both of them are free of Danzig/Danehill blood, making them easy propositions to mate.

Lot 20 - Readymore (More Than Ready - Luminia, by Semipalatinsk)

��������� Three-year-old Readymore is out of eight time winner and double Listed stakes winner Luminia. This makes Readymore a half-sister to three winners including six time winner Illuminar (Last Tycoon) and two time winner Storm and Tempest (Thunder Gulch), both mares who are currently being bred in Australia to the likes of Danzero, More Than Ready, Elusive Quality and Dehere, giving them every chance of providing increased upside to the pedigree page in the near future.

��������� Readymore will be auctioned infoal to emerging young sire star Danroad, with the resulting foal being her first. LSD 08/10/2008.

Lot 35 - Country Dancer (More Than Ready - Corner Kicker, by Geiger Counter)

��������� Five-year-old Country Dancer is the first foal of a two time winning Geiger Counter mare, Corner Kicker. Corner Kicker is a half sister to Group 1 TJ Smith Classic and Group 1 Sires' Produce Stakes winner Juanmo (Flying Spur). Corner Kicker has produced offspring by More Than Ready, Dash for Cash, and Cape Cross since leaving Country Dancer.

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General Nediym 1994 (Nediym - Military Belle, by Without Fear)

General Nediym's passing earlier this year dealt a blow to Australasia's thoroughbred industry. From the same family as Horlicks, General Nediym was Champion Australian Sprinter at three in capturing both of Victoria's feature Group 1 sprints, the Newmarket Handicap and the Lightning Stakes, and his progeny have shown a similar aptitude for the shorter distances.

�At just fourteen years of age "The General" has left twenty-three stakes winners including Group 1 VRC Lightning Stakes winner Regimental Girl, last season's Group 2 Pago Pago Stakes winner Sidereus, and this season, Paprika, winner of the Listed Tommy Smith Slipper before finishing runner-up in the Magic Millions 2YO Classique.

A broodmare sire of just ten runners given his age, 'The General' has left five winners and the stakes placed Power of George (Falvelon) in this capacity.

Highview Stud will offer Swit on 29 March.

Lot 26 - Swit (General Nediym - Holdin' Back, by Sackford)

��������� Six-year-old Swit won two races at 1000m for trainer Tom Hughes, Flemington. Swit hails from an outstanding two-year-old family that includes juvenile stakes winners Worth, Sudden, Tenant's Tiara, and Group 1 winning juveniles Burst and Victory Prince. Swit's grand-dam Crab Apple, a stakes placed two-year-old, is a full sister to Sudden, the dam of Golden Slipper winning Burst.

��������� Swit is sold with her first foal by exceptional sprinter Danroad in utero. LSD 01/09/2008

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Montjeu 1996 (Sadler's Wells - Floripedes, by Top Ville)

An impeccable international sire of classic horses, Montjeu has sired some fifty nine stakes winners worldwide since commencing stud duties at Coolmore, Ireland, and Windsor Park Stud, New Zealand in 2001. Eleven of these have been Group 1 winners including two in the Southern Hemisphere, AJC Derby winner Nome De Jeu and Avondale Cup winner Sharvasti.

The son of Sadler's Wells has taken a while to hit his straps Down Under but he now has a plethora of promising horses including Group 1 Auckland Cup placegetter Mr Tipsy, Harris Tweed, Roman Emperor, Emperor Bonaparte, The Meista, Lord Tavistock, and Old Jock.

His success has seen him reach a Private stud fee at Coolmore Stud in Ireland this season, and he has not shuttled to the southern hemisphere�since 2004. With just four Southern Hemisphere crops there is little doubt that his broodmare daughters will be in hot demand.

Highview Stud will offer a daughter of Montjeu with international appeal.

Lot 16 - Moonlight (Montjeu - Shine On Me, by Machiavellian)

��������� Four year old Moonlight is out of French stakes placed Machiavellian mare Shine On Me, the dam of three winners including promising Anabaa mare Shine on Anna, a winner of three in Melbourne including two this season. Moonlight's first three dams all won races and the family is full of blacktype including Group 1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud winner Shaka.

��������� Moonlight is a maiden mare and is sold infoal to Danroad. LSD 18/10/2008.

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Peintre Celebre 1994 (Nureyev - Peinture Bleue, by Alydar)

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�Peintre Celebre (Nureyev)���� photo: Coolmore Stud

A magnificent racehorse and winner of the Group 1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, Peintre Celebre has performed amicably at stud continually leaving top flight performers worldwide, year in and year out.

Twelve Group 1 winners in Australia, France, Hong Kong, Great Britain, the USA, Germany, South Africa, and Italy, with top sprinting males like Bentley Biscuit and outstanding staying mares like Pride, Peintre Celebre as a sire has proven himself versatile at the elite level of racing.

Hailing from a wonderful female family, his first three dams are stakes winners, and have left fifteen stakes performers between them. Peintre Celebre is already carving a name for himself as a broodmare sire, a role his own sire Nureyev was crowned champion in. His daughters have already left five stakes performers including 2008 Group 2 Gimcrack Stakes winner and Group 1 placed Shaweel (Dansili), while in Australia, from only a handful of starters he has left Gathering (Tale of the Cat) who placed in the Group 2 VRC Sires produce Stakes behind Rostova.

Highview Stud will offer two young mares by Peintre Celebre at their Deplenishing Sale.

Lot 18 - Peinbird (Peintre Celebre - Kicking Bird, by Pompeii Court)

��������� Eight year old Peinbird,� a winner over 1200m for Paul Harris, hails from a wonderful stakes producing family which includes her dam's half brother Shiva's Revenge, winner of the Group 1 South Australian Derby and placed second in both the Group 1 Melbourne Cup and Australian Cup.

��������� She has produced two colts at stud, the oldest being a two-year-old son of Danroad in training with Brad Peterson who comments, "he is currently spelling after coming through his first prep well, and with his 16hh frame we expect him to develop into a nice three-year-old for us next season". Peinbird is sold infoal to Fully Fledged's sire Align. LSD 07/10/2008.

Lot 31 - Bedelia (Peintre Celebre - Plaisir d'Amour, by Danehill)

��������� One of the most exciting prospects in the Sale is eight year old Bedelia. A winner over 1400m for Chris McNab, Bedelia has a mouth watering pedigree being out of a full sister to Europe's Champion 2YO sire of 2008 and Group 1 racehorse Danehill Dancer, in Plaisir d'Amour.�Plaisir d'Amour is by Danehill and the winner of four races while her six progeny to date has produced five winners including Bedelia's full brother Cezanne, the winner of six in Australia. Plaisir d'Amour has produced four Encosta De Lago's over the past four years, with the oldest just three, leaving space for a lot of upside in the future considering her yearlings have sold up to A$450,000.

��������� Bedelia has left two progeny by Breeder's Cup winner Johar, a yearling colt and a two-year-old filly in training with Mike Breslin who comments, "she shows speed and will have a start later this season all going to plan." Bedelia is sold infoal to Group 1 AJC Sires Produce winner Align. LSD 26/11/2008.

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Catalogues for Highview Stud's Deplenishing Sale are now available upon request from New Zealand Bloodstock�or Click here for the Highview Stud online catalogue

Featuring 51 catalogued entries including weanlings (11), yearlings (7), broodmares (30), two-year-olds (2) and a racehorse, the sale conducted by New Zealand Bloodstock Ltd will take place on Sunday 29 March at Highview Stud's property at 1544 Kakaramea Road in�Hamilton from 2pm.� Gates will open at 10am.

For further information or to arrange inspections contact Highview Stud principal Brent Gillovic (07) 825 2649, or New Zealand Bloodstock (09) 2980055