APG Sales graduate Follow The Stars winning the Breeders Crown Final.
Australia’s leading yearling sales company, Australian Pacing Gold, has become the first yearling sales company in Australasia to embrace Harness Racing Australia’s new anti-steroid rules that came into effect on 1 May 2014.
The new rules ban the use of "anabolic androgenic steroids" in standardbred horses at any time from birth until retirement.
APG’s General Manager, David Boydell, explained: “As a yearling sales company, we understand the importance of delivering a product that buyers can bid on with confidence. We want buyers to feel confident that when they are inspecting or bidding on an APG yearling, what they see is what they get.
“APG is committed to working with each state’s harness racing authority to ensure that APG yearlings can be included in each state’s out of competition steroid testing program.
"To this end, APG has already written to the various states and provided them with a full list of all yearlings entered for the 2015 APG Sales, along with details of the ownership of those yearlings and the location where those yearlings will be prepared for sale.”
“This will enable the authorities to test the yearlings at any point up to and including on sales day, with any positive tests automatically resulting in the yearling being withdrawn from the APG Sales, and being barred from racing for a minimum of 12 months.”
“APG already offers buyers a number of forms of protection, including scoping services to protect against major breathing issues, and fall of the hammer insurance to protect against death, so we see our pro-active approach to out of competition steroid testing as simply another measure to better protect APG’s buyers.”
Of course, the best way to promote buyer confidence is via the racing performance of the horses that emerge from the APG sales and APG is fortunate to have a proud history of producing a disproportionately large percentage of Australasia’s leading horses.
APG’s 2013 crop of Sales Graduates have just completed their two year old season, and include:
- The New Zealand 2yo C&G of the Year - Follow The Stars
- The New Zealand 2yo Filly of the Year - Supersonic Miss
- Six individual Group One winning two-year-olds (Artistic Flite, Bamako Mali, Follow The Stars, Its Only Rocknroll, Smooth Showgirl and Supersonic Miss) plus $100,000 earners Kept Under Wraps and Soho Tokyo
- Five of the eight highest money earning two-year-olds in Australia in 2013/14
- 10 finalists in the recently conducted 2yo Breeders Crown Finals (four colts and six fillies)
2015 Sales Dates
Sales dates for APG’s 2015 Yearling Sales are as follows:
Melbourne - Sunday, 1 February 2015
Brisbane - Sunday, 15 February 2015
Sydney - Saturday, 28 February 2015
Melbourne Autumn - Sunday, 15 March 2015
For further information, please visit www.apgold.com.au or phone (03) 5275 1999.
