Part-owner Katie Carville confirmed with Harnesslink today that the last start winner and brother to former Two-Year-Old of the Year Ohoka Arizona, was more than likely going to head to the Perth stable of Greg Harper.

The likely buyers are Auckland couple Peter and Lorraine Smith, who earlier this season purchased Christian Spirit and sent him to Harper to win the $250,000 Freemantle Cup before being put down after a training accident.

"He hasn't been vetted yet, but the contract has come through," she said of the Tony Herlihy-trained pacer.

"They will be paying for half the horse and then he will race for the current owners and the new owners in the Breeders Crown."

The current owners are Carville and her husband Dave, prominent breeders and operators of ICE Bloodstock, as well as Herlihy stable clients Tim Vince and Janine Browne.

"He will then be vetted again after that, after which time the balance would be paid hand he would head to West Australia."

Ohoka Samson won his second race of the season when a hot $2 favourite at Alexandra Park on Friday night, showing good fight to resist a challenge from the promising Italian Stallion.

"He is just a little bit green at this stage but has got a lot of ability," said Carville.

"Samson is a lovely horse and to be quite honest we've only got one other two-year-old and normally wouldn't sell him."

"If we hadn't had so many injuries we probably would have kept Samson and sold the older ones."

The older ones she speaks of include Ohoka Arizona, who missed his entire three-year-old campaign with a fractured pastern, Ohoka Dallas, another three-year-old who suffered the same fate when winning back in February, and Ohoka Rebel, who resumed after a year off with a win at Addington last week to extend his unbeaten streak to seven.

Added to that list was Ohoka Utah, who suffered a mysterious debilitating problemn earlier in the season, and Ohoka St Louis, who recently failed an offshore sale vet test and has had to be turned out.

Adding to the fairly average season for the Carville's was the fact that they lost three Christian Cullen foals at birth during the last breeding season, leaving them with only ten rising yearlings on the ground.

"All these things happened in the space of about four weeks, it was a really bad time that you just have to go through some times."

Luckily for the Carvilles, things are on the upswing.

"We have a younger brother by Mach Three to Samson and Arizona with Davey Butt and he probably broke in the best of the three of them."

"Ohoka Arizona is back in work and will be trialing in August and Ohoka Dallas is due to come back in to work on August 1."

"Dallas was going to go over to Australia for the Derbies before he broke down."

"Tony (Herlihy, trainer) rung up one day and said we had babied him too much because he was being a sook for a full month after it happened even though in comparison to Ohoka Arizona it was a minor fracture."

In the mean time, the major focus for the Carvilles will be Ohoka Samson, who is due to line up in a three-horse, non-tote Breeders Crown heat at Cambridge on Thursday night.