A chance to faucet into the very best trotting genetics within the Northern Hemisphere will greet patrons on the NZB Standardbred Nationwide Yearling Gross sales in New Zealand on February 16 and 18.
Prepared Money
Face Time Bourbon, considered the most popular younger stallion in Europe at the moment, the main American sire Walner and the legendary French trotter Prepared Money all have a number of illustration on the gross sales.
Face Time Bourbon, a twin world document holder and the winner of 17 Group 1’s and $5.4 million in stakes, is taking European trotting by storm with solely 4 crops of racing age.
He has two representatives at Karaka together with a half-brother to the Vicbred three-year-old champion Revelstoke and the a number of NZ Group placegetter Belle Neige (Lot 132). The placing teenager is the primary colt of his dam Miss Manitoba.
A world champion and USA 2YO Colt of the 12 months, Walner was the premier stakemoney sire in each class in North America in 2023 and has completed runner-up to his personal sire Chapter Seven within the final two years.
Standing at Southwind Farms in New Jersey, Walner instructions a full ebook at a charge of $US50,000. In 2025 his yearlings averaged over $130,000 within the gross sales ring, together with 44 that offered for $100,000 or extra.
Three of Walner’s first ‘down beneath’ crop will go beneath the hammer in NZ – two at Karaka and one at Christchurch – all out of mares imported from France by Victorian studmaster Pat Driscoll, the principal of Yabby Dam Farms.
One of many highlights of the Walner contingent at Karaka is a colt out of Hopeful Magnificence (Lot 113), a a number of winner and placegetter at Group stage in Victoria. It’s her first foal.
The opposite Walner kids are Lot 81, a filly from the Victorian nation cups winner Destinee Jenilou and a filly from the a number of Victorian Group winner Egee Cash (Lot 258).
Curiously, Egee Cash’s full brother Je Te Cherche hoisted a brand new monitor document of an distinctive 1:51.3 for 2100 metres profitable the $100,000 Prix de Nancy at Vincennes, Paris final October.
A twin Prix D’Amerique champion and the winner of 4.2 million euros, Prepared Money is arguably the world’s most influential fashionable trotting sire, dominating European breeding for over a decade.Â
The sire of the winners of over $70 million, Prepared Money is represented by two colts at Karaka – each members of his final NZ crop – together with a grandson of the USA Horse of the 12 months Continentalvictory (Lot 76).Â
Ecurie D (1:49.2), the twin USA Breeders Crown champion and Aged Trotter of the 12 months, is represented by a sole filly at Karaka in Lot 97, whose dam is a half-sister to the Nice Southern Star winner Callmethebreeze and final season’s star Italian three-year-old Ginostrabliggi, who scored twice at Group 1 stage together with a monitor record-breaking triumph within the $277,000 Gran Premio Orsi Mangelli at Milan and already the winner of over 700,000 euros.
by Peter Wharton for Harnesslink















