The team is back in action at the Gold Coast for the Magic Millions Yearling Sale, with a plethora of quality prospects on offer.
We will once again be partnering with TFI for our purchases, and we will keep this page updated with our colt purchases as they happen.
Lot 54 - Bivouac x Angasi - $200,000
This is a very sharp, precocious looking colt by Bivouac, who we thought was outstanding value at $200,000. Bivouac has already produced the impressive Group 1 Golden Rose winner Beiwacht from his first crop. This colt also comes from a good family, that of the outstanding performer Kermadec. He was secured from Glenbeigh Farm, and prepared by excellent horse people in Denis Griffin and Kerry Stephens.
Lot 58 - Ole Kirk x Antelope - $550,000
This is a strong, forward-looking colt. He’s got a good shape to him, and strides out with nice purpose. He is by Ole Kirk, who has started strongly with his first runners, with an outstanding 8% stakes winners to runners record. This exact cross has already produced a stakes winner - Prestige Forever - while this colt’s dam is also a full-sister to the very precocious and speedy Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes winner Miracles of Life.
Lot 116 - The Autumn Sun x Bollywood - $400,000
This is a powerful colt, with lovely strength and quality. He’s got great substance, and an excellent action to go with it. The Autumn Sun is proving to be a very good stallion, producing a number of top-class fillies, along with Group 1 Caulfield Guineas winner Autumn Boy. This colt also has a good amount of speed running through his pedigree, with Screen and Inquiry being smart sprinters, and this being the further family of Champion 2YO Dracula.
Lot 183 - Snitzel x Complicit - $825,000
This is a quality colt, by Champion sire Snitzel, who continues to be the premier source of 2YO talent in Australia. He’s got great strength, and a nice outlook. He is out of a smart USA mare, whose speed figures translate to an approximate 103 Timeform rating (equivalent to Listed/G3 class in Australia). This is also the exact cross that produced the outstanding Group 1 Coolmore Stud Stakes winner Switzerland. Blame is proving to be a tremendous broodmare sire, running at 9.7% stakes winners to runners out of his daughters.
Lot 429 - Snitzel x Krone - $1,200,000
This is a lovely colt by Snitzel, he’s got great girth and middle, a quality head and walks with nice purpose. He is by Snitzel, who continues to be the premier source of quality 2 and 3YO colts in Australia.
This colt is out of Krone, who was a top-class race mare, winner of the Group 1 Coolmore Classic in a decorated career, and this is also the family of top-class gallopers Universal Prince, Universal Queen and Think It Over.
Lot 545 - Frankel x Miss Alacrity - $1,100,000
This is a very strong, well-bodied son of Frankel, who is much more precocious-looking than this stallion usually produces. Frankel is an outstanding stallion, with an amazing 16.7% stakes winners to runners. This colt’s dam, Miss Alacrity, was a very fast and early 2YO in America, breaking her maiden in May (equivalent to pre-Christmas) by 10 lengths at Belmont, before winning a 1000m stakes race on her next start. She comes from a very good family of 2YO speed, with Just Jenda and Just Cindy being very good 2YOs, and further back is Nyquist, who was a Champion 2YO and is now one of the leading stallions in America.
Lot 680 - Snitzel x Play That Song - $1,200,000
This is a very strong colt by Snitzel, who as mentioned previously, is the best source of top-class sprinting stallion prospects in Australia. He’s got lovely depth, a powerful action, and great presence. His dam was a very good 2YO in New Zealand, and she is by Showcasing, who is starting well as a broodmare sire, with Group 1 winning 2YO Lake Victoria out of one of his daughters. This colt was also born and raised at Newgate, which is one of the best producers of top-class 2YOs in the country.
Lot 739 - Too Darn Hot x Rockaroo - $500,000
This is a strong, well-bodied colt, with good purpose to his action. He is by Too Darn Hot, who has got off to a great start with his runners, he has 9.5% stakes winners to runners in the Southern Hemisphere, heading by multiple Group 1-winning colt Broadsiding. He also has two stakes winners out of Fastnet Rock mares, with Fastnet Rock being one of the best broodmare sires in Australia, with 11 Group 1 winners out of his daughters - and this cross runs at 31.5% stakes horses to runners.
Lot 802 - Written Tycoon x Shines Her Light - $700,000
This is a very nice example of a Written Tycoon colt - he’s well-bodied, with great quality and good, purposeful movement. No Nay Never has started promisingly as a broodmare sire, with Group 1 winning Sprinter Big Mojo, as well as this year’s stakes-winning 2YO Eternal Warrior out of No Nay Never mares.