Sales

Altomonte’s Corumbene celebrating good day on the Gold Coast

Here’s one you don’t see too often: Lot 311 at yesterday’s Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale was a colt whose grandam is it’s great-grandam.  The colt is by Menari, who’s by Snitzel (Redoute’s Choice) out of Isurava (General Nediym).  And he’s the first foal of a three-time winner in Natalia (Choisir), whose dam Booralee... Read More

Neasham delighted to capture rare sibling to Slipper winner

Nothin Leica Storm (Anabaa) – winner of a Cessnock maiden and a sometimes fertile broodmare – has become a million-to-one horse.  It cost Mackay breeder Paul Maguire just $1,000 to buy the daughter of Anabaa (Danzig), fresh from a not very good 12th of 12 at Port Macquarie, after she’d been passed in at the... Read More

Nichols digs deep for son of his Star I Am Invincible mare

Shane Nichols had his heart set on buying the first foal out of his Group 1-winning mare I Am A Star (I Am Invincible) but he admits the Deep Field (Northern Meteor) colt’s price tag saw him pushed to the limit. “Eight hundred thousand is $800,000,” trainer Nichols said of Lot 125, the fifth highest-priced... Read More

Trilogy Racing welcomed into Newgate-China Horse Club fold

Trilogy Racing is determined to make an impact – and fast – and there’s arguably no better way than doing that than by joining forces with one of the most successful colts partnerships of the past decade.  Not yet 12 months in existence, and already with a rapidly growing bloodstock portfolio under management, the NSW... Read More

First Justify yearling in hands of where it all began for Triple Crown winner

In a touch of sweet irony, the first lot sold in the year completed a full circle. The strapping bay colt who kicked off Magic Millions 2022 was also the debut south hemisphere offering of Coolmore’s shuttling US Triple Crown winner Justify (Scat Daddy), and first foal of former quality mare Eckstein (I Am Invincible). ... Read More

Edinglassie seeing there is power in a union 

The name Edinglassie conjures a joining of two halves. The combination of Scotland’s two largest cities, it was in fact once mooted for a certain settlement not far north of today’s Magic Millions sale complex, until it was decided to honour the then governor of New South Wales, Sir Thomas Brisbane.  Instead, the name has... Read More