As always, the only opportunity for buyers to access this season’s crop of yearlings from internationally respected nursery Pencarrow Stud will be at the Karaka Sales Centre, where another quality draft of 26 yearlings is catalogued for Book 1 of Karaka 2025.

Pencarrow will present an exclusive and high-quality offering of 16 colts and 10 fillies during the three-day sale, which runs from Sunday January 26 to Tuesday January 28 in the Sir Patrick Hogan Auditorium.

The draft will get off to a strong start with its very first yearling to go through the ring, Lot 12. The colt is by last season’s champion New Zealand first-season sire Super Seth and is a half-brother to the triple Group One winner and successful sire Turn Me Loose (NZ) (Iffraaj).

Super Seth is also the sire of the next Pencarrow yearling, Lot 17, whose winning dam Ipso Facto (NZ) (More Than Ready) is a half-sister to the Group Three winner and Group One-placed Pearl Of Alsace (NZ) (Tavistock), along with the Group Two winner Zourion (NZ) (Zoustar).

Lot 101 brings quality European bloodlines to the Karaka sale ring. The filly is by exciting shuttle stallion Hello Youmzain out of the Camelot mare Marsden Cross, whose half-sister Many Colours (Green Desert) is dam of the Group One English 1000 Guineas (1600m) and Prix Rothschild (1600m) winner Mother Earth (Zoffany).

Lot 236 is a colt by promising young Australian sire Anders out of the unraced Medaglia d’Oro mare Rapidamente (NZ). Her dam Il Quello Veloce (NZ) (Captain Rio) won the Group One Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m). Il Quello Veloce’s half-sister Miles Of Krishnan (Snitzel) is dam of exciting Australian three-year-old Growing Empire (Zoustar), whose eight-start career has produced two Group Three wins, two Listed wins and placings in the Group One The Everest (1200m), Manikato Stakes (1200m) and Coolmore Stud Stakes (1200m).

Lot 237 is a filly from the first crop of Home Affairs, who was part-owned by Pencarrow principal Sir Peter Vela and won the Group One Coolmore Stud Stakes (1200m) and Lightning Stakes (1000m). The dam of this filly is Pencarrow homebred Rasa Lila (NZ) (Darci Brahma), the winner of seven races including the Group Two Travis Stakes (2000m) and Group Three Cuddle Stakes (1600m). She was also a dual Group One placegetter. Rasa Lila’s only foal to race is the winner Toa Haka (NZ) (Iffraaj).

The colt catalogued as Lot 274 is by nine-time champion New Zealand sire Savabeel out of one of the prized members of Pencarrow’s broodmare band, Scintillula (Galileo). Herself a Group Three winner in Ireland and Group One-placed, Scintillula has had five previous yearlings go through the Karaka sale ring and secured prices of $400,000, $800,000, $800,000, $600,000 and $230,000. Scintillula is the dam of four winners from four foals to race – stakes winner Waikato Girl (NZ) (Savabeel), Group Two placegetter Butter Chicken (NZ) (Savabeel), six-race winner Our Birdsong (Snitzel) and four-race winner Stella Splendida (Zoustar).

Lot 281 is a colt by Proisir and is the first foal out of Seraphim (NZ) (Rip Van Winkle), who won four races including the Listed Marton Cup (2100m). Seraphim is a daughter of the four-time Group One-winning champion Pencarrow mare Ethereal (NZ) (Rhythm), who is the dam of Group One placegetter Uberalles (NZ) (Giant’s Causeway) and fellow stakes performers Duquesa (NZ) (Encosta De Lago) and Imperium (NZ) (Encosta De Lago). Ethereal is also the granddam of stakes winners Pericles (NZ) (Rubick), Supera (NZ) (Savabeel) and Eleonora (NZ) (Makfi).

Lot 312 comes from the same family as Lot 281, being by Home Affairs out of Sopraffina (NZ) (High Chaparral), a four-race-winning half-sister to Supera and Eleonora.

The Proisir filly going through the ring as Lot 365 is the first foal out of the winning mare Topkapi (NZ) (Tavistock), who is a daughter of Group Two winner Dolmabache (NZ) (Redoute’s Choice). She comes from the outstanding family of Group One winner Grand Echezeaux (NZ) (Zabeel) and her stallion sons Darci Brahma (NZ) (Danehill) and Burgundy (NZ) (Redoute’s Choice).

The All Too Hard colt catalogued as Lot 465 comes from that same family, being out of Dolmabache’s unraced daughter Aveiro (NZ) (O’Reilly). Aveiro is the dam of two winners from two foals to race, with the promising Pencarrow three-year-old filly Sesimbra (NZ) (U S Navy Flag) winning two races since the catalogue went to print.

Lot 372 is a colt by Too Darn Hot, who heads the Australian second-season sire standings with 18 winners this season including no fewer than five individual Group and Listed winners. This colt is the first foal out of Tulip (NZ) (Tavistock), an unraced half-sister to stakes winners Amaryllis (NZ) (Red Ransom) and Papilio (NZ) (Redoute’s Choice).

Lot 408 is a Toronado filly out of Wildflower (NZ) (Keeper), who won the Listed Rotorua Challenge Plate (1950m) and placed in the Group One Herbie Dyke Stakes (2000m) and Group Two Avondale Cup (3200m). Wildflower is the dam of one foal to race, three-time winner Boomtown Boy (NZ) (Caravaggio).

The filly catalogued as Lot 455 comes from the first crop of St Mark’s Basilica, whose nine-start career produced six Group One victories across Ireland, the UK and France. The top-class son of Siyouni was Europe’s Horse of the Year in 2021, Champion 2YO Colt in 2020 and Champion 3YO Colt in 2021. This filly is out of the Group Three-placed Asama Blue (Fastnet Rock), whose only foal to race is the Australian winner Blue As Blue (NZ) (Savabeel).

Lot 601 is a filly by So You Think (NZ) out of Fair Isle (NZ) (Fastnet Rock). Herself a winner in Australia, Fair Isle is the dam of four winners from four foals to race including the Group Three winner Star Of Justice (NZ) (Justify).

Pencarrow invites all prospective buyers from New Zealand and abroad to visit the farm, inspect our yearling draft, or contact us for further information about the horses that we are breeding, racing or selling. We are honoured to have our horses in your stables, and on your walls, and we continually strive to make your association with Pencarrow a long and fruitful one.