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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 role in bringing her back to Australia, after US owner LNJ Foxwoods entered the ownership of the mare, who found her way to the US having been purchased for $1.5 million by John Sikura and Craig Bernick, as part of the Teeley Assets dispersal in 2014. At the Inglis Chairman’s Sale two mares sold from the prolificproducing family, as Meuse (Snitzel) was knocked down in foal to Dundeel (High Chaparral) for $1.2 million, and Visenya (Fastnet Rock) sold in foal to Written Tycoon (Iglesia) for $310,000.
“The plan was to get her in foal to I Am Invincible last year, which we successfully did on the early cover,” said Johnson. “With the market so buoyant after the Chairman’s Sale we thought it was a good opportunity to see how she fared on the open market.
Mitchell Bloodstock’s Bill Mitchell was delighted to take up the rare opportunity to buy into the black-type family.
A Kembla Grange winner in three starts, the rising 12YO mare is the dam of Gr.3 winner Heavenly Curlin (Curlin) in the US, one of four named foals, with her Curlin (Smart Strike) two-year-old filly in training in France under the ownership of Haras D’Etreham.
“We know the mare well and she’s produced a stakes winner and she’s from the best family,” Mitchell continued. “I know they are expensive, but everything is expensive I don’t think we had any more for her, just happy to have her.” Mitchell Bloodstock purchased eight lots outright for a combined outlay of $2.91 million, while, in conjunction with Segenhoe Stud, Mitchell purchased Group 2 winner and Group 1 placegetter Oregon’s Day (Domesday) in foal to Pierata (Pierro) for $1 million.
A half-sister to two further stakes winners, Oregon’s Day saw her first foal by Fastnet Rock (Danehill) sell for $600,000 at the Magic Millions National Weanling Sale last week to Rosemont Stud and Bahen Bloodstock