Isotope to be sold at Magic Millions
Stakes-winning Deep Field (Northern Meteor) mare Isotope, a breeding prospect with an ever improving international pedigree, will be offered at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale, by her owners headed by Black Soil Bloodstock.
Isotope, who was a $170,000 purchase from the 2019 Magic Millions Yearling Sale by Black Soil Bloodstock’s Brian Siemsen, trainer Tony Gollan and agent John Foote, returned $1.26 million in prize-money from 19 starts, winning six races, three of them at Listed level.
Arguably unlucky in a number of starts during her career, most notably when losing the rider when a short-priced favourite in the $2 million Magic Millions 3YO Guineas (RL, 1400m), she was also placed twice at Group 2 level and ran fourth in a Stradbroke Handicap (Gr 1, 1400m).
Isotope’s dam Great Dansaar (Choisir) is a half-sister to Yankee Rose (All American), the Australian Group 1 winner who is making a huge impact as a broodmare in Japan, producing brilliant dual Grade 1-winning filly Liberty Island (Duramente), who stunned her rivals and the racing public with her victorious display in the Oka Sho (Gr 1, 1600m) last Sunday.
“I would say there would be interest to a level (from Japanese buyers),” Black Soil Bloodstock principal agent Harry McAlpine told ANZ Bloodstock News.
“She’s a freak (Liberty Island). That win on Sunday was something else.”
A banner mare for Black Soil Bloodstock, Isotope punished her rivals on debut in a Doomben two-year-old maiden (1100m) by ten lengths before going on to beat 12 Group 1 winners across her career, and contest against some of Australia’s premier thoroughbreds.
“She was a precocious two-year-old. She won debut by ten lengths and went on to split Rothfire and Wild Ruler in the Champagne (Classic),” McAlpine said.
“That Arrowfield Stakes (second placing) where Wild Ruler beat her, she was in front a bound before and a bound after the post. That race you could say should be a Group 1 given the graduates to come out of it.
“She actually beat home 12 individual Group 1 winners across her 19 starts – she was very much contesting with the elite for the entirety of her racing career.”
Isotope’s juvenile half-sister Mighty (Spirit Of Boom), who is trained by Gollan and raced by Black Soil Bloodstock, Brae Sokolski and Ozzie Kheir, is back in work after winning one of her two starts prior to Christmas.
“With Isotope being sold, it’s great that we still have a hold on the family with the promising two-year-old coming through, so it would be nice to see her reach stakes level,” McAlpine said.
With Magic Millions close to finalising the catalogue for next month’s National Broodmare Sale, managing director Barry Bowditch was delighted that rising six-year-old Isotope will go under the hammer at the Gold Coast.
“Isotope is an outstanding prospect. Her race record represents her quality and I don’t think we got to the bottom of her on the racetrack and when you look at her pedigree, it’s becoming an international pedigree, a very commercial pedigree here in Australia. I think of all the stakes-winning mares in our catalogue, she is one of the major highlights,” Bowditch told ANZ Bloodstock News yesterday.
“She has got a sibling who is a highly promising two-year-old. Whether it’s Yankee Rose and what she’s achieving on the international stage as a broodmare, it’s a pedigree that’s going places and I think will continue to be an upgrader given the commercial appeal and the amount of fillies that will be working for the pedigree in the years to come.”
Isotope joins four-time New Zealand Group 1 winner Levante (Proisir), Forbidden Love (All Too Hard), Snapdancer (Choisir) and Coventina Bay (Shamexpress) as high-class mares who will be offered through the Magic Millions sale from May 23 to 25.