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All the indicators were that there would be a hot market at the Magic Millions National Sale after a record yearling sale series and a strong weanling market but, even so, the auction house’s managing director Barry Bowditch was still coming to terms by how much trade had taken place this week. The sale closed with a spend of $142.459 million on 611 mares at an average of $233,157 and a median of ...
The strong start to yesterday’s session saw Widden Stud win the battle for Gr.2 winner Tsartisa (Dane Shadow), the dam of talented 2YO Patton (American Pharoah), for $950,000 in foal to I Am Invincible. Offered by Attunga Stud as Lot 1100, Tsaritsa is a half-sister to Gr.2 winner Ninth Legion (Fastnet Rock) and the stakes-placed Sing A Love Song (Your Song). Tsaritsa’s weanling filly by The Autum ...
An intriguing and stoutly-bred supplementary addition to the Magic Millions National Broodmare sale was Taste Of Heaven (Encosta De Lago), whose pedigree spoke volumes in the ring, as the mare, out of Shantha’s Choice (Canny Lad), making her a sister to Manhattan Rain and a halfsister to Redoute’s Choice (Danehill), sold for $1.6 million to Bill Mitchell. Agent Will Johnson played a significant r ...
The third million-dollar mare for the day was former speedy juvenile Jedastar (I Am Invincible), who will find a new home at Torryburn Stud after John and Brett Cornish decided to make the most of their “last saloon” after drawing a blank earlier in the week. Brett Cornish, who signed for Jedastar, had to go to an even $1 million to get her and defeated Widden Stud in the process. Another star lo ...
Newgate Farm also pulled off another big trade later in the day when it sold Diddles (Snitzel), an ATC Gimcrack Stakes (Gr.3, 1000m) runner-up and half-sister to Barbaric (I Am Invincible), for $1 million in foal to Deep Field (Northern Meteor). Field bought Diddles, a daughter of Gr.2 winner and Magic Millions 2YO Classic (RL, 1200m) winner Mimi Lebrock (Show A Heart), for $300,000 from last yea ...
Investors showed no signs of buyer fatigue on the third and final day of the mares’ sale, instead stepping up the bidding competition with a number of high-profile mares who were offered yesterday, led by Gr.1-winning sprinter Volpe Veloce, the equal fifth highest-priced mare of the sale. Longwood Thoroughbred Farm’s Michael Christian had to go to $1.9 million for Volpe Veloce, his second high-pr ...
A $3.2 million deal for champion Arcadia Queen (Pierro) reached two days after she was initially passed in has brought to a close a frenzied Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale; the culmination of a three-day $142 million bloodstock spending spree, never before witnessed in Australasia. Arrowfield Stud agreed to terms to buy Western Australian owner-breeder Bob Peters’ three-time Gr.1 winner f ...
The Australian Derby winner Levendi (Pierro) will stand as a stallion in Tasmania after topping tonight’s Inglis Digital May (Late) Online Auction, selling to McShane Bank for $365,000. The entire was purchased by Tasmanian trainer Brendan McShane, on behalf of a client, who will stand him at Broadmarsh in Tasmania. McShane himself grew up around the breeding industry his father Walter stood stal ...
Cressfield Stud’s long-time general manager, Wayne Bedggood, is your classic, good old fashioned horseman. He shuns the limelight, preferring to go about his business quietly and let his horses do the talking. Earlier this month he had no choice but to take centre stage, even if it was only for a few minutes, and accept the trophy for the 2021 Hunter Thoroughbred Breeders Association President’s ...
Highview Stud stallion Wrote (High Chaparral) recorded his first New Zealand win as a sire when And We Danced landed the Yara Fertiliser Maiden (1100m) on debut at Hastings yesterday. The Bill Thurlow-trained 2YO got up by a short head over Express Desire (Shamexpress). It was fantastic. I didn’t think she was going to get up, but it was a big effort,” said Highview Stud principal Brent Gillovic. ...