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The catalogue for this year's New Zealand Bloodstock's Ready to Run Sale at Karaka is now available online.

The auction has produced more Group 1 and stakes winning graduates than any other 2-year-old sale.

Over the last six seasons, graduates of NZB's Ready to Run Sale have scored an unrivalled 19 Group One wins. The next best 2YO Sale in Australasia recorded one.

The Sale is a remarkable source of classic winners, with five Derby victories by graduates in the last four years alone.

Mongolian Khan (Holy Roman Emperor) won the New Zealand Derby and Australian Derby in 2015, while Gingernuts (Iffraaj) and Vin de Dance (Roc de Cambes) also won the New Zealand Derby. Well Done (Falkirk) captured the Singapore Derby.

The RTR Sale has also unveiled spectacular sprinting talent with Beat The Clock (Hinchinbrook) scoring scintillating victories in last season's G1 Centenary Sprint Cup and Chairman's Sprint Prize in Hong Kong.

Fellow alumni Turn Me Loose (Iffraaj) was another star short-course performer, while Te Akau Shark (Rip Van Winkle) is New Zealand's rising star sprinter-miler and is among the leading contenders for the G1 Epsom Handicap in Sydney in October.

The RTR Sale has also produced an impressive 13 Guineas victors in the past six seasons, including the G1 Rosehill Guineas, G1 2000 Guineas twice and the Singapore Guineas three times.

The 2019 edition of the Ready to Run Sale will be held at Karaka on 20 and 21 November, with a quality catalogue of 414 two-year-olds set to go under the hammer representing 107 sires.

They include 18 two-year-olds by New Zealand's undisputed champion stallion Savabeel as well as Darci Brahma, Iffraaj, Ocean Park, Per Incanto, Swiss Ace, Tavistock, Showcasing and Makfi.

Star Australian-based stallions featured in the catalogue include Dundeel, Fastnet Rock, Medaglia d'Oro, More Than Ready, Zoustar, Deep Field, Dissident, Pride of Dubai and Vancouver.

There are siblings to 47 stakes winners and progeny from 31 stakes winners, headed by G1 mares Banchee, Costume and Pondarosa Miss.

Sale graduates qualify to compete for four bonus schemes including the $1million Karaka Million 2YO and $1million Karaka Million 3YO Classic.

There are 27 Karaka Million Series eligible horses, 11 fillies nominated for the Pearl Series, 76 BOBS eligible horses and 15 Super VOBIS nominated horses.

Breeze-Ups are set to be conducted at Te Rapa on October 21 and 22.