Racehorse Shares for Sale

Australian Thoroughbred Bloodstock's decision last year to invest in international stayers to tackle Australia's major distance races resulted in ATB, and our syndicate of racehorse owners, being represented by three runners in the 2012 Melbourne Cup at Flemington, including Jakkalberry, Tac De Boistron & Unusual Suspect.

A wonderful result for ATB's Darren & Liz Dance and our owners, Jakkalberry ran a fantastic 3rd placing in the Melbourne Cup, with Unusual Suspect finishing 21st and Tac De Boistron 23rd in the 24 horse field.

A wonderful job by Jakkalberry's trainer Marco Botti, jockey Colm O'Donohue and travelling foreman Alex Cairns.

Brilliant Darren Weir-trained filly Platelet scored an exciting victory in the listed Sir John Monash Stakes at Caulfield on July 14th 2012 where she raced at weight-for-age for the first time and produced a most impressive win.

She returned in the autumn of 2013 to win at Group 1 level in the $400,000 Robert Sangster Stakes at Morphettville to take her earnings to more than $620,000 from 18 starts, including six wins and 10 placings, increasing her value as a broodmare along the way.

A daughter of Strategic, she is such an honest mare. Pings the gates, settles on the pace, kicks when asked, and shows plenty of fight in the run to the line. The perfect galloper some might say, well she is perfect for her ATB owners and appears to have plenty more wins in store.

ATB's exciting three-year-old filly Lohnspresso scored her first black type victory for her owners when taking out the $250,000 Group 2 Centrebet Classic at Morphettville in March 2013.

The Darren Weir trained daughter of Lonhro has exceeded all expectations this preparation and has the overall record of three wins and two seconds from five starts with prizemoney of $209,175 along the way.

ATB purchased Lonhpresso (Lonhro – As Simple As That) for syndication at the 2010 Inglis Weanling and Broodmare Sale.

This ill-fated son of the sprinting racehorse champion Choisir won 7 times from just 13 starts, including 3 wins and a track record in his first 3 starts, and is out of our own mare Shiny Mai. A big, strong gelding who possessed plenty of speed, Uxorious was able to race on the pace and show a tremendous turn of foot to kick away on his rivals.

He won the 2011 Spring Stakes (Group 3) at his final start at Morphettville in Adelaide and the previous spring finished 6^th to the brilliant sprinter Hay List down the Flemington straight in the Gilga Stakes (Group 2).

Unfortunately for Uxorious and his ATB owners, he suffered a career & life ending hoof injury after his Spring Stakes victory and was never to race again. This is a video of him winning at his 3rd race start at Sandown.

Unusual Suspect was ATB's first foray into buying & syndicating an international galloper for owner Darren Dance and he made a nice return on investment for his owners when Unusual Suspect finished 6th in the 2011 Caulfield Cup, earning $75,000 in prizemoney, and 9th in the 2011 Melbourne Cup, picking up $125,000 along the way.

He returned the following year to finish 21st in the 2012 Melbourne Cup and then went on to run a fast-finishing 3rd in the Sandown Cup before winning the 2012 Werribee Cup.

Unusual Suspect injured himself in the 2013 Bagot Handicap at Flemington and has been retired to stud.

Rue Maple, a daughter of Rubiton is building up a great resume on the race track, with 4 city wins to her credit at Moonee Valley (2), Caulfield and Sandown, and has collected more than $388,572 in prize-money to date.

One of ATB's most consistent gallopers, Rue Maple has had 5 wins and 14 placings from 27 career starts and she has an affinity with the Moonee Valley racetrack, and she especially likes the sting out of the ground.

Her best effort was a 2011 Bletchingly Stakes (Group 3) runner-up behind subsequent 2012 Stradbroke Handicap winner Mid Summer Music. This is her in action at Moonee Valley where she was just way too good for her rivals on this day.