Lot 385 - Wootton Bassett (GB) x Semillion (Ire) (Australia {GB}), colt, NZ$240,000
Buyer: The Hong Kong Jockey Club
Vendor: Cambridge Stud
Wootton Bassett (GB) has created a huge impression in both hemispheres. He has sired nine individual Group 1 winners throughout Europe and America, while in Australasia, his progeny have sold for up to $2.1 million.
Not surprisingly, the Coolmore shuttler has again been popular at the 2024 New Zealand Bloodstock Karaka Yearling Sale (Book 1), and on Monday, The Hong Kong Jockey Club via Craig Rounsefell of Boomer Bloodstock (FBAA), got in on the act, securing a colt by the exciting son of Iffraaj (GB).
Lot 385 - Wootton Bassett (GB) x Semillon (Ire) (colt) | Image courtesy of New Zealand Bloodstock
The HKJC paid NZ$240,000 for Lot 385, a colt bred by Brendan and Jo Lindsay.
“We were delighted with the purchase of Lot 385 for The Hong Kong Jockey Club,” Rounsefell told The Thoroughbred Report.
“He was raised on the famed Cambridge Stud and is from the first Southern Hemisphere crop of rags to riches European sire Wootton Bassett.
“He is a very athletic, classy colt with clean limbs and beautiful movement.”
“He (Lot 385) is a very athletic, classy colt with clean limbs and beautiful movement.” - Craig Rounsefell
The colt is the first foal of the unraced Australia (GB) mare Semillon (Ire). She is a half-sister to the Listed winner Baahama (Ire) (Anabaa {USA}) and the stakes performer Opposite (Itre) (Dansili {GB}). Baahama has thrown the stakes scorers Akihiro (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}), who raced in Hong Kong as Stimulation, and Bartaba (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}).
His page also includes the stakes winners Silver Rain (Fr) (Rainbow Quest {USA}), Silver Fun (Fr) (Saumarez {GB}) and Little Wassl (GB) (Wassl {GB}), among others.
“He’s out of a solid Wertheimer family and on a cross that has already produced two Group 1 winners,” Rounsefell added.
Craig Rounsefell | Image courtesy of Waikato Stud
“He will develop into an ideal horse for Hong Kong and will join the team at Limitless Lodge to be educated ahead of going to Hong Kong for the International Sale in 2026.”
