The outstanding results continued on Day 2 at the NZB Ready To Run Sale.
Colts by Zoustar and Written Tycoon helped put an exclamation mark on a successful New Zealand Bloodstock Ready To Run Sale, which wrapped up on Thursday.
The second day of the sale produced the two highest-priced lots of the sale, headed by the KB Bloodstock-prepared colt by Zoustar out of the Stakes-winning Hussonet mare Hijack Hussy.
He sold for NZ$825,000 and was one of 16 lots bought by Yeung Kin Man.
"Mr Yeung enjoys this sale very much, because the first year we got two winners, and they have won nine races, which was a great result," bloodstock agent Willie Leung said.
"He was looking for another Zoustar. This one looks big and strong and is an early type, so it's likely we will bring him to Hong Kong earlier."
The Zoustar colt, who went through as Lot 374, claimed top lot honours from a youngster by Written Tycoon who less than 10 minutes earlier sold for $775,000.
The Prima Park colt, who is from the imported Poet's Voice mare Hersigh, is also bound for Hong Kong after being bought by James Cummings.
Day 2 also saw a couple of colts, one by Hello Youmzain and another by Per Incanto, sell for $700,000, meaning four of the top five lots of the sale went through on the second day.
The top lot from Day 1 was the colt by Per Incanto who sold to Sanxiong Gao for $750,000.
All key sale indicators increased at the close of selling, with the aggregate reaching a record $41,407,500, a record median of $100,000 and record average of $156,255 achieved.
"It's quite remarkable, another record-breaking sale," NZB's bloodstock sales manager Kane Jones said.
"The whole team have put in a massive shift, not just over the last few days, but months out, and even years building relationships for this sale. I'm very proud of the entire team.
"Just a magical number hitting that $41m in turnover, but the average is up, median is up as well which indicates that middle market was particularly strong.
"This sale has gone from strength-to-strength in the last five years. The horses breezed phenomenally, and the type of horses that are brought to this sale improves year on year.
"It's just a credit to the vendors who continue to support this sale and make it what it is."
Riversley Park was the leading vendor for the ninth year running, selling 33 lots for $6,525,000, while Landsdowne Park was leading vendor by average with four lots for an average of $277,500.
