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Fresh from celebrating Group One glory with Grail Seeker (NZ) (Iffraaj) in the Tarzino Trophy (1400m) at Hastings last weekend, emerging player Jamieson Park is set to have further industry impact with the sale of four well-credentialled mares in the latest fortnightly auction on gavelhouse.com.
Jamieson Park bred Grail Seeker and sold her for $130,000 as a yearling at Karaka in 2022. Her victory in the first Group One race of the New Zealand season increased her earnings to $413,465 from a rapidly improving 10-start, three-win career.
“For Grail Seeker to win the Tarzino the way she did was a fantastic way to kick off the spring for Jamieson Park,” bloodstock agent Dylan Ralph said. “It’s a fitting reward for all the work that James Chapman has been doing in building up the business over the last few years.
“When a good horse like Grail Seeker comes along and does what she did on Saturday, it’s something to celebrate.”
Grail Seeker’s racetrack success is just one source of excitement for the team at Jamieson Park, whose diversifying interests have led to their current online offering of four mares on gavelhouse.com.
“Earlier this year we decided to stand the stallion Mr Mozart in partnership with Highview, and we purchased some mares both from gavelhouse.com and from Australian broodmare sales for the purpose of supporting that new sire,” Ralph said.
“The sale that we’re doing now is simply a case of rejigging our broodmare band a little bit to accommodate those newer purchases.
“The mares we’re offering all have quality pedigrees behind them, so this is a great opportunity for buyers to secure themselves a well-credentialled mare with plenty of upside.”
The Jamieson Park offering opens with Blood Diamond (NZ) (Makfi), who is catalogued as Lot 19. Herself a three-time winner on the racetrack, she is out of a half-sister to the Group One performer and black-type producer La Sizeranne (NZ) (Stravinsky). Other close relatives include Group One Australian Derby (2400m) hero Tavago (NZ) (Tavistock) and Hong Kong’s Group Two Jockey Club Cup (2000m) winner Straight Arron (Fastnet Rock).
Blood Diamond’s sire Makfi is broodmare sire of 19 stakes winners including Kovalica (NZ), McKulick and Belbek at Group/Grade One level.
Lot 21 is Dariana (Redoute’s Choice), who herself was a star on the racetrack with three wins including the Group One Queensland Derby (2400m) and the Group Three Frank Packer Plate (2000m). She also placed in the Group One Underwood Stakes (1800m) in Melbourne.
Dariana’s pedigree page is littered with other black type, including Group One stars and standout sires Oasis Dream and Kingman. Dariana herself is the dam of four winners from six foals to race, and she is being offered in foal to Ocean Park (NZ).
Latin Rose (NZ) (Mastercraftsman) is catalogued as Lot 24. She was a three-time winner and placed in the Group Three Canterbury Breeders’ Stakes (1400m), while her nine winning siblings include Singapore’s Champion 2YO and 3YO Filly Mexican Rose (NZ) (Volksraad) along with the stakes-placed Mexican Tycoon (NZ) (O’Reilly).
Another of Latin Rose’s siblings, the two-race winner Nucleonic (NZ) (Burgundy), is dam of last season’s unbeaten stakes-winning two-year-old Nucleozor (NZ) (Almanzor). Latin Rose is being offered in foal to Ocean Park (NZ).
The final member of the Jamieson Park contingent is Lot 26, Perfect Beat (Magnus). She is a full-sister to two stakes winners and a half-sister to two more, including the Group One-placed Bella Martini (Stratum).
Perfect Beat is the dam of three winners from three foals to race, and she is being offered in foal to Tarzino (NZ).
“They’re four lovely mares, including three being offered in foal,” Ralph said. “The other one is Blood Diamond, who has just been retired off the racetrack this spring. She’s a fantastic young mare by a broodmare sire that can do no wrong in Makfi, and she’ll be ready to breed from straight away this season.
“We’re keen to remain involved with some of these families. Dariana is obviously a Group One winner herself and has already produced four winners. She’s got a two-year-old filly by Per Incanto that we’re going to retain ourselves.
“We’ll also be retaining a Per Incanto filly out of Latin Rose as well.”
The 36-lot auction is open for bidding now on gavelhouse.com, with the first lot closing from 7pm on Monday 16 September.
