All Stars team active at the sales

These days there is hardly a harness racing yearling sale that goes bye without the All Stars principals Mark Purdon and Natalie Rasmussen and their big team of owners playing a major role in proceedings.

Yesterday at Karaka, Mark brought five lots including the two most expensive lots of the day.

Mark went to $200,000 for the three quarter brother to Adore Me and Have Faith In Me and went back to the well later in the day and paid $180,000 for the full brother to the same two horses.

It was a bit of a break from tradition for Mark who is not renown for chasing yearlings much past the $100,000 mark but with him having trained a lot of the star horses close up in both yearlings pedigree, that probably swayed him on this occasion.

While Mark was doing his thing, a lot of his owners were also buying up and most of those  purchases will be heading to the All Stars barn at Rolleston.

All up there was another eight lots purchased by his owners and we have listed them all below along with the yearlings Mark brought.

LOT 5  – Filly –  Smiley Sophie – Art Major – Vicario   –  Jim Gibbs –  $35,000

LOT 8  –  Colt –   Praise Be  –   Bettor's Delight  –  Abide With Me  –   Mark  – $200,000

LOT 47 – Filly – Unchanged  –  Mach Three  –  Changedown  –  Mark – $30,000

LOT 51 Filly – Spanish Armada – Bettor's Delight  –  Galleons Supreme  –   Jean Feiss  –  $75,000

LOT 65 Colt – Major Hippie – Art Major  –  Hotinithecitytonite  –   Neil Pilcher  – $70,000

LOT 90 Filly – Casino Belle – Bettor's Delight  –  Lislady – Mark  –  $30,000

LOT 95  Colt – Pacing Major – Art Major  –  Pacing Grace  –  Jim Gibbs –  $75,000

LOT 106 Colt – All About Me – Bettor's Delight – Scuse Me  –  Mark  – $180,000

LOT 112 Colt – Te Mahia –  Somebeachsomewhere  –  Hi Ho Silver Lining  –  Neil Pilcher  –  $42,500

LOT 122  Colt – Brother In Arms – Bettor's Delight  –  Shy Annie  –  Mark  –  $50,000

LOT 123  Filly English Rose – Bettor's Delight  –  Sloane Square – Kennard Bloodstock – $40,000

LOT 129  Filly – Crystal Sparkles – Rocknroll Hanover – Taylor Kate  –  Butterworth Racing –  $50,000

LOT 131 Colt – Thefixer – Bettor's Delight  –  Tosti Girl  –  Kennard Bloodstock – $47,000

With two days to go at Christchurch yet and with the Sydney leg of the Australian Pacing Gold Sales Series also still to be held, many more yearlings will find their way to Rolleston in the next month.

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