Very pleased to see Day 1 in Christchurch held up well, but interesting to see some statistical details of key commercial sires. I’m pleased for the vendors’ sake that Bettor’s Delight had such a good sale and superb averages. Art Major fared better in Christchurch, with fewer being passed in and a better average. American Ideal performed consistently well on Day 1 from small numbers but his average was quartered for the same number sold on the difficult Day 2 – but they all sold.
I’ve done these in the same format as for the blog on the Australasian (Karaka) Sale so it’s easier to compare – just scroll down to that blog or click here. But because Day 1 and Day 2 in Christchurch are such different types of sales I have not merged the statistics. The top sires are under-represented on Day 2, and many unproven or middle-of-the-road sires get their day. The top lot on Day 2 was by Art Official.
All the results are available on the PGG Wrightson website and well displayed so people like us can sort according to columns.
In my next blog I will have look at trotters overall, and the blog after that will touch on some of the newer sires at the sales and hopefully some comments from Nevele R on Changeover’s debut, Highview Standardbreds on Justa Tiger, and Alabar on some of their newer sires).
It was remiss of me not to include Christian Cullen in my initial analysis of the Australasian sale’s pacing sires, so I will add him in retrospectively in the earlier blog.
Don’t take my figures as gospel, I’m a plodder when it comes to numbers, but hopefully they are 97.748% accurate (lol)
Day 1
Bettor’s Delight
44 lots offered.
39 sold (88%)
Buyers total spend on the day: $1,588,500
Price range $3,000-$122,000
Average price: $40,730
Average price without top lot: $34,902
Number of lots <$20,000 = 6 (15% of his lots sold by auction)
Art Major
23 lots offered.
20 sold (86%)
Buyers total spend on the day: $810,500
Price range $3,000-$122,000
Average price: $40,525
Average price minus lots $100,000+): $33,710
Number of lots <$20,000 = 6 (30% of lots sold by auction)
American Ideal
8 lots offered.
6 sold (75%)
Buyers total spend on the day: $170,000
Price range: $15,000-$52,000
Average price: $28,416
Number of lots <$20,000 = 2 (33% of lots sold by auction)
Mach Three
7 lots offered
6 sold (86%)
Buyers total spend on the day: $187,000
Price range: $11,000-$55,000
Average price: $31,166
Number of lots <$20,000 = 2 (33%)
Christian Cullen
17 lots offered
15 sold (88%)
Buyers total spend on the day: $492,500
Price range: $9,000-$60,000 (but one passed in for $97,500 with reserve of $100,000)
Average price: $32,833
Number of lots <$20,000 = 4 (26%)
Day 2
Bettor’s Delight
5 offered
3 sold ($13,000-$20,000)
Average: $16,333
Art Major
1 offered, passed in.
American Ideal
6 offered
6 sold
Average: $7,416
Mach Three
4 offered
4 sold
Average: $10,125
Christian Cullen
3 offered
1 sold for $21,000
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