A colt by Danehill Dancer (Ire) out of Ballycairn (NZ) (Zabeel {NZ}) brought a final bid of NZ$800,000 to top the opening day of New Zealand Bloodstock's National Yearling Sale in Karaka Monday. Offered by Cambridge Stud, the half-brother to GSW Pure Harmony (NZ) (Stravinsky) was purchased by David Ellis. “He is a very athletic colt, the ideal type of horse for the Karaka Million and we will be aiming him at the race,” said David Ellis. “It would be great to see him running in the New Zealand two-year-old Group 1 races and, if he is successful, perhaps race him in Australia as a three-year-old.” Ellis added, “He's a great colt, the real deal. He is by a hugely successful international sire out of a good Zabeel mare, a fantastic broodmare sire whose daughters are proving valuable and highly successful at stud.”
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