{"id":3671,"date":"2012-09-27T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/?p=3671"},"modified":"2012-09-27T11:58:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T11:58:00","slug":"bushranger-tops-september-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/bushranger-tops-september-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"BUSHRANGER TOPS SEPTEMBER SALE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">Eliza Park shuttler, Bushranger, has topped the Tattersalls September Yearling Sale in Ireland when one of his first crop colts was knocked down for 75,000 euro.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">A Champion 2YO of England and France, Bushranger is clearly one of the hottest stallion prospects in Europe with his yearlings selling up to 90,000 pounds at the Doncaster Sales in England earlier this month, while his weanlings were sold up to 70,000 guineas last year.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">Reporting on the sale which has experienced three years of steady growth, Racing Post stated: \u201cThere was no doubting the star of the final day as the Bushranger colt lit up proceedings to provide a terrific dividend on the 12,000 euro that he cost at the Goffs February Sale.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cThe colt is the first foal of a half sister to a North American stakes winner and was the subject of a lengthy battle that went the way of Emerald Bloodstock\u2019s Pauline Marterer after she had seen off the attentions of Ger Lyons and (leading Bloodstock Agent) Ross Doyle.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">(Doyle has been particularly active in terms of Bushranger\u2019s first crop, stating at foal sales last year: \u201cBushranger is the only one that\u2019s got my attention so far. The ones I\u2019ve seen have been strong, good-walking sorts and obviously they have sold very well\u201d).<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">Emerald Bloodstock purchased the colt on behalf of French trainer, Urs Suter, who had snapped up a Bushranger filly and another of his colts earlier in the sale.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">Although Australian yearling sales are still over three months away, Eliza Park\u2019s sales and nominations team has reported solid interest in Bushranger this spring.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cBroodmare owners have obviously been watching what\u2019s been happening overseas,\u201d Eliza Park\u2019s Mark Lindsay points out. \u201cBushranger (<i>below<\/i>) was a top class performer at two and he\u2019s throwing very good types. Very forward.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cNaturally enough, a lot of his bookings in 2012 are repeat business \u2026 they like what they see.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eliza Park shuttler, Bushranger, has topped the Tattersalls September Yearling Sale in Ireland when one of his first crop colts was knocked down for 75,000 euro. A Champion 2YO of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}