Nettoyer and Fiesta latest stars added to Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale
Group 1 performed mares join well-related Taste Of Heaven as supplementary entries for Gold Coast auction
Just 48 hours after announcing the inclusion of outstanding racemare Arcadia Queen (Pierro) as a supplementary entry to the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale, the auction house has further bolstered its star-studded mare and racefillies catalogue with the addition of dual Group 1 winner Nettoyer (Sebring) and Group 1 runner-up Fiesta (I Am Invincible) to the Gold Coast auction.
In what Magic Millions managing director Barry Bowdtich has deemed ‘the highest quality catalogue we’ve ever put together’, the supplemented trio join the likes of the already announced 14-time Group 1 winner Melody Belle (Commands), while Group 1 winners Faint Perfume (Shamardal) and Yosei (Invincible Spirit) were added as supplementaries earlier this month.
Last season’s Doncaster Mile (Gr 1, 1600m) and this campaign’s Queen Of The Turf Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m) winner Nettoyer finds herself in the Magic Millions auction having been withdrawn from last week’s Inglis Chairman’s Sale, lining up a potential swansong for the mare and her ownership group in the Doomben Cup (Gr 1, 2000m) on May 22.
“The sale continues to go from strength, to strength. Our announcements today have obviously added a lot of punch to what is already a very strong catalogue,” Bowditch said yesterday to ANZ Bloodstock News.
“Arcadia Queen being announced on Monday and now having Nettoyer, who’s obviously a fantastic mare, and Fiesta, a high-class racehorse owned by great clients of ours in Star Thoroughbreds, all entered this week.
“We believe it’s probably the highest quality catalogue we’ve ever put together and we can’t wait to get these mares to the Gold Coast and show them off to the market and do them justice when it’s their time in the ring.”
A winner of seven races from 42 starts, five of which at stakes level, Nettoyer has accrued over $2.5 million in prize-money earnings for ownership group, which includes her Kembla Grange trainer Wendy Roche, and will be added to the Widden Stud draft.
Out of Cleanup (Dehere), a producer of five foals to race for five winners, Nettoyer is from the extended family of Group 1-winning sisters Abbey Marie (Redoute’s Choice) and Absolutely, as well as this year’s Sunline Stakes (Gr 2, 1600m) winner Quantum Mechanic (Deep Field) and Japanese Champion sprinter and miler Kinshasa No Kiseki (Fuji Kiseki).
“All the leading breeders and buyers at this sale will be looking at a mare of Nettoyer’s class at this sale because she’s an outstanding prospect. Not many Doncaster winners go to market and we’re delighted to have her in our catalogue,” said Bowditch.
“She hopefully gets to play out her swansong for her ownership group in the Doomben Cup, which will obviously raise a lot of attention, from our perspective, having Melody Belle in the race as well.
“She’s done it all on the track and has very little to prove, and she might go out with a bang just yet.”
The Chris Waller-trained Fiesta, a four-time Group winner, including at two in the Widden Stud Stakes (Gr 3, 1100m), finished runner-up in the Flight Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m) at three, a position she filled in all three of the races making up the Darley Princess Series that year.
“She’s by an outstanding sire, is well pedigreed, and Star buy yearlings that are great physicals who are very well conformed and you’d suspect when you see her at sale she’ll be all of that,” said Bowditch.
The rising six-year-old mare joins a list of successful Star Thoroughbreds-raced mares to embark on their next careers through the Magic Millions broodmare sale and holds entries for both Rosehill and Doomben this weekend.
The Denise Martin-owned syndicators sold fellow I Am Invincible (Invincible Spirit) mare Invincibella for $1.3 million at last year’s sale, and Fiesta, a $150,000 Inglis Classic purchase, will seek to follow suit in recouping seven-figures for the ownership group, having earned over $1.5 million on the track.
“She’s been very well managed by Chris Waller, done it all on the track, and obviously we’ll look forward to following her last start on the weekend,” said Bowditch.
Out of five time-winning mare Now Now (Danehill Dancer), Fiesta saw her half-sister by Justify (Scat Daddy) sell for $300,000 at last week’s Inglis Australian Weanling Sale.
A third, and fascinating, addition to the broodmare sale yesterday was Taste Of Heaven (Encosta De Lago), a winner on the track but, more potently, a sister to Manhattan Rain and half-sister to champion sire Redoute’s Choice (Danehill) who has already produced a Grade 3 winner in America with Heavenly Curlin (Curlin) and is on an early September covering to I Am Invincible.
“The other one we’re really excited about is Taste Of Heaven, who is an outstandingly well related mare and a good producing mare already in her young career and she’s in foal to one of Australia’s best sires in I Am Invincible,” said Bowditch.
“She’s been to America, done a job there and come back, and she’s on a very early cover to Vinnie, so all is in order with her.”
Her three progeny to sell thus far in America (two as yearlings and one weanling), have averaged over US$500,000, after her purchase in 2014 for $1.5 million by James Harron from the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale.
Nettoyer and Fiesta are joined in the latest release of supplementary entries by fellow stakes performed fillies and mares Dismissal (Not A Single Doubt), the First Light Racing-owned I Am Eloquent (I Am Invincible), the lightly-raced Key (Exceed And Excel) – a granddaughter of multiple Group 1 winner Princess Coup (Encosta De Lago) – who will run in Saturday’s Denise’s Joy Stakes (Listed, 1100m) and My Gold Bracelet (Pins).
Meanwhile, the National Weanling Sale catalogue has been boosted by the addition of a Capitalist (Written Tycoon) colt from the international stakes performer My Dinah Lee (Discreetly Mine), who will join the Rothwell Park draft.