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Welcome On behalf of the Board and management of Magic Millions, we welcome you to the 2016 Jeep Magic Millions Carnival, Sales and Raceday. To say 2015 was a good year would be a colossal understatement.

Real results in the sale ring. At our yearling sale series in 2015, Magic Millions achieved an overall increase of 15.6% in gross sales – up a staggering $17.4 million on 2014. Our flagship Gold Coast Yearling Sale broke through the $100 million barrier with the average purchase price for a yearling from Book 1 rising to $167,470 (up 18.4%) and Book 2’s average of $54,472 climbing 14.3%. Over the last financial year Magic Millions has auctioned $264.4million in bloodstock, the most of any thoroughbred sales company in the Southern Hemisphere.

Real results on the racetrack. Gerry Harvey & Katie Page-Harvey

We have the racetrack results to back up our marketing. If you’re not buying at Magic Millions – this is what you’re missing. Magic Millions is proud to be the number one source of stakes winners in Australia over the last three racing seasons. During this period graduates of Magic Millions sales have won 49 Group One races and 501 stakes races including this year’s Golden Slipper winner in Vancouver and the emerging superstar mare Winx. To win a Queensland Oaks, Epsom Handicap and Cox Plate in the same year is nothing short of extraordinary for Australia’s best daughter of the late champion Darley stallion Street Cry.

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Vancouver’s victory in the world’s richest race for two-year-olds means that nine of the last 12 Golden Slipper winners to have been offered for sale as yearlings, were sold by Magic Millions on the Gold Coast. A record that cannot be matched.

But we at Magic Millions are about the future and real innovation in 2016 and beyond. That represents our future as we grow a strong and sustainable breeding and racing industry together. As such, it is with great pleasure that we invite you to join us for the 2016 edition of our showcase Gold Coast Yearling Sale and the inaugural running of Australia’s richest raceday, with $10 million in prizemoney over nine races at the Gold Coast Turf Club. Ten days of exciting sales, racing and carnival action.

The thoroughbred industry is indeed a global industry and there is no better place to experience it than in summer on Queensland’s exquisite Gold Coast. Join us in January for a uniquely Gold Coast experience. At no other time or no other place can you work and holiday so effortlessly. Within minutes of our sales complex are endless beaches, hinterland adventures, golf courses, amusement parks and world-class dining and entertainment options. To assist us run what we believe is Queensland’s number one event and Australia’s best sales and raceday carnival, we gratefully acknowledge the support of our principal partners Tourism and Events Queensland, Racing Queensland and Jeep. With sales to international buyers increasing by 51% over the last three years and prizemoney for the Gold Coast Raceday more than doubling, this is something Magic Millions could not achieve without the ongoing support of our principal partners. Their support assists us create important new investment, attract new visitors and grow the thoroughbred industry we all love. In 2016 Magic Millions sincerely acknowledges the support of major partners Jewel, Betfair, Moet & Chandon, Seven West Media, Etihad Airways and Myer, as well as official partners Sky Racing, James Boag’s, Surfers Paradise Marriott Resort & Spa and Calleija. On behalf of the Magic Millions team and our valued breeders, we are honoured to present to you our catalogue for the 2016 edition of the Gold Coast Yearling Sale. We hope you can join us on the Gold Coast this January for a celebration of the thoroughbred. Our promise to you is real fun in the sun as you search for your next real champion in the sale ring or applaud the next real superstar of the turf. Now what is more magical than that?

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Welcome from the Minister Welcome to the Gold Coast for the internationally renowned thoroughbred racing and carnival experience – the 2016 Magic Millions Carnival. Celebrating the 30th anniversary of its raceday in 2016, the Jeep Magic Millions is a signature summer event on Queensland’s It’s Live! events calendar, supported by the Palazsczuk Government through Tourism and Events Queensland, which showcases the best the Gold Coast has to offer visitors. Events such as Magic Millions play an important role in promoting a destination, driving visitation, generating jobs and fostering community pride.

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Last year the Magic Millions Carnival generated more than 30,000 visitor nights for the Gold Coast, providing a real boost to the State’s tourism economy. Magic Millions has been a significant visitor drawcard over the past 30 years and in 2016 becomes Australia’s richest race day, with $10 million in prizemoney over nine races. I congratulate the event organisers and all those involved in hosting this year’s event on the Gold Coast The Hon. Kate Jones, MP Minister for Tourism, Major Events and Small Business

Message from the Mayor It is my pleasure to welcome you to the Magic Millions Carnival, Sales and Raceday. This year the Magic Millions Raceday celebrates its 30 year anniversary, continuing to combine the perfect mix of business, entertainment and leisure right here on the Gold Coast. For the first time ever, the 2016 Raceday will have $10 million in prize money, making it Australia’s richest raceday. The Gold Coast Yearling Sale also maintains its reputation as the premier place to source a future stallion and establish itself in global racing circles. As a city which is ‘open for business’, I have no doubt you’ll appreciate the dynamic business environment on offer here, with the Gold Coast offering a work-life balance lifestyle unachievable in most of the world’s major cities. Famous for this enviable lifestyle, the city boasts world-renowned beaches and a majestic hinterland, all of which produce a place that is uniquely Gold Coast. While you’re making the most of the many social events and activities held as part of the ten-day Magic Millions Carnival, make sure you also take the time to enjoy the rest of what the Gold Coast has to offer.

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Whether it’s the city’s vibrant mix of shopping, accommodation, theme parks, restaurants or entertainment there is never a shortage of things to do. The Gold Coast is a city like no other, inspired by lifestyle and driven by opportunity. Thank you for joining us here on the Gold Coast for an event renowned for showcasing worldclass thoroughbreds and an array of entertainment, both on and off the track. And remember - it’s about the sales, it’s about the races and it’s about enjoying summer on the Gold Coast. I hope you pick a winner! Tom Tate Mayor, City of Gold Coast

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CONTENTS REGULARS

MM welcome

MM news

Katie, Gerry & Vin welcome you to what will be an exciting new year in and out of the sale ring

The latest news and updates on a fantastic year for MM

82 Dinning guide

7 Government welcome

Our most comprehensive Gold Coast culinary guide ever

Minister for Tourism and Mayor of the Gold Coast

88 Ambassadors

10 Calendar of events Your guide to an action packed week of events on the Gold Coast

Learn more about these two active professionals from the equine industry

94 2016 dates/contacts All the important dates for another busy year and whom to contact

FEATURES

18 X - marks the year

Snippets...to riches

A look at some of the standout MM graduates from the 2014/15 season

From our inaugural winner to the first $10m raceday in Australia

Best of the best

Racing women

The best sons and daughters of the best stallions and mares are sold at MM

This MM initiative in Kentucky

26 Industry Q&A Insights from some of our industry leaders

PICTURE GALLERY

Barrier draw/launch party

Raceday

Sale socials

National sale

72 Kentucky stars From the Kentucky Derby to the Gold Coast

76 A career born of love

The million dollar makeover

Each year teams of young people travel from across the country to be at MM

Follow two farms as they prepare yearlings for the 2016 sale

Jewel of the coast

48 Phelan Ready

90 The Gold Coast’s next property star

A true MM hero starts a new career overseas

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January 2016 EVENTS

Calendar Friday, 1st - Sunday, 3rd January Magic Millions Yearling Sale Inspections Where: Magic Millions Sales Complex from 8am

Monday, 4th January Magic Millions Yearling Sale Inspections Where: Magic Millions Sales Complex from 8am

Women in Racing Inc Australia Luncheon About: Women In Racing Inc is proud to host the inaugural luncheon featuring a special guest speaker and exceptional presentation of millinery on display and for purchase from Queensland’s leading Milliners, this is an event not to be missed! Where: Horizons Restaurant, Sheraton Mirage, Main Beach from 12noon. Tickets: $115.00 - luncheon and beverage package Dress: Race wear Bookings: Baslyn Beel 0411 698 484 before 29 December,2015 Please book early as this luncheon will sell-out!

BMD Northcliffe Sportsman’s Luncheon About: This fun and entertaining afternoon featuring a variety of special guests. Where: BMD Northcliffe SLSC, Surfers Paradise from 11.30am Tickets: $150 per person includes fresh seafood buffet and beverage package Bookings: Lee Vrolyks (07) 5539 8091 or lvrolyks@northcliffesurfclub.com.au Book early as availability is limited.

Tuesday, 5th January Magic Millions Yearling Sale Inspections Where: Magic Millions Sales Complex from 8am

Magic Millions Barrier Draw (free event) About: Join racing identities on Surfers Paradise foreshore for the 2016 Jeep Magic Millions Barrier Draw. Times: 6am Outside Radio Broadcast & Channel Seven Sunrise Live Weather crosses 7.30am VIP Guests arrive 8.15am Magic Millions horses sprint along the beach 8.45am Official Jeep Magic Millions 2YO Classic Barrier Draw commences 9.00am Official Gold Coast 3YO Barrier Draw Commences 9.15am Event Concludes Times subject to change, check website for more details Where: Surfers Paradise Foreshore (opposite Trickett Street) Tickets: Free to public, family friendly, includes sausage sizzle

Carbine Club Luncheon About: Join The Carbine Club for this fun and entertaining afternoon as they explore the business of racing. Special guest speakers will take a light hearted look at the racing industry and delve into past successes, before reviewing the race hopefuls for the 2016 Jeep Magic Millions Raceday. Where: Jupiters Casino Broadbeach, 12noon Tickets: $160 per person includes luncheon and beverage package Bookings: Peter Gwynne 0415 887 788 or carbineclubqld@gmail.com

Moët & Chandon Magic Millions Launch Party About: Hosted by Moët & Chandon, the Launch Party brings together the who’s who of the racing world as they gather on the Gold Coast to celebrate the opening of the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale week. Where: Surfers Paradise foreshore (Opposite Trickett St) from 6.30pm BY INVITATION ONLY

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Wednesday, 6th January Magic Millions Yearling Sale – Day 1 About: Magic Millions has gained a world class reputation for its consistent supply of champions not only to Australasian racing, but the racing world. The Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale will again feature the cream of the crop of Australia’s yearlings and host a range of industry elite as they vie for a chance to purchase their next champion. Where: Magic Millions Sales Complex, Bundall from 10am. Tickets: Free event Ringside dining available, bookings essential and numbers strictly limited. Phone: 07 5504 1200, info@magicmillions.com.au or www.magicmillions.com.au

Magic Millions Sparkling Ladies Luncheon About: This premier luncheon in the grand Surfers Paradise Marriott Resort & Spa Ballroom is infused with an atmosphere of glamour, high society and fashion. Join us for arrival cocktails, two course divine luncheon experience, premium wines, sensational entertainment, fashion and door prizes. Featuring over $6,000 in prizes for Best Dressed Magic Millions Lady, Best Headpiece and the Best Dressed Gentleman. Where: Surfers Paradise Marriott Resort & Spa Tickets: Tickets just $160 or Tables of 10: $1,500. Bookings: Online at Stickytickets.com.au/30681

Thursday, 7th January Magic Millions Yearling Sale - Day 2

Where: Magic Millions Sales Complex from 10am

Friday, 8th January Magic Millions Yearling Sale - Day 3

Where: Magic Millions Sales Complex from 10am

Magic Millions Hats and High Tea Party About: A sophisticated morning of elegance and with a touch of Moët Ice glamour and High Tea stunning temptations from multi-award winning chef, the renowned Steve Szabo. Limited tickets available so don’t miss out! Where: Seaduction - SOUL, Surfers Paradise Gold Coast Time: 10:30am – 12:30pm Price: $99 + booking fee Where: Seaduction - SOUL, Surfers Paradise Gold Coast Tickets: Online: www.stickytickets.com.au/21818 Phone: (07) 5504 6055

Saturday, 9th January Magic Millions Yearling Sale Inspections

Where: Magic Millions Sales Complex from 8am

2016 Jeep Magic Millions Raceday About: The Jeep Magic Millions Raceday is Australia’s first $10 million raceday, offering $10 million in prizemoney over nine exciting races at the picturesque Gold Coast Turf Club. Features the renowned $2,000,000 Jeep Magic Millions 2YO Classic plus the $500,000 Racing Women’s Bonus, and the $2,000,000 Gold Coast Magic Millions 3YO Guineas, exclusively for Magic Millions yearling sale graduates. This inaugural $10 million raceday will have the racing world at a stand-still as trainers and jockeys from all over Australia compete for the prize, with seven races worth $1 million or more. Highlights: 11.00am Myer Magic Millions Fashions on the Field registrations open 11.30am Myer Black Carpet arrivals – celebrity and racing identities entertained in the Jewel VIP Marquee 1.00pm Myer Fashions on the Field Women’s Racewear winner announced 1:45pm Myer Fashions on the Field Men’s Racewear winner announced Nine races commencing - 11.30am Times subject to change due to race schedule, check www.magicmillions.com.au for updates. Where: Gold Coast Turf Club, Bundall, Queensland Tickets: www.magicmillions.com.au or www.gctc.com.au

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Where: Magic Millions Sales Complex from 6pm

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Sunday, 10th January Magic Millions Yearling Sale - Day 5

Where: Magic Millions Sales Complex from 10am

Monday, 11th January Widden Stud Golf Day About: Take a break and relax on the spectacular RACV Royal Pines Golf Course as Widden Stud hosts its annual golf day. Enter as an individual or create a team and enjoy a great day on the green! Time: Registrations from 11am Shotgun start from 12noon Presentations from 5.00pm in Tees Clubhouse Tickets: 4 person Ambrose- $130 per person Includes: Green fees with electric cart, prizes, drink vouchers and BBQ luncheon and presentations Where: RACV Royal Pines Benowa Bookings: Laura (02) 6549 9999 or laura@widden.com

Tuesday, 12th January Magic Millions Yearling Sale - Day6

Where: Magic Millions Sales Complex from 10am

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New Sponsors Another Slipper Magic Millions’ record as the premier shopping ground for Golden Slipper winners was further enhanced when Australia’s champion juvenile Vancouver swept the 2015 edition of the race at Rosehill. A $185,000 Gold Coast Yearling Sale purchase from the draft of Coolmore Stud, Vancouver completed an unbeaten twoyear-old season when he won the world’s richest juvenile race for Gai Waterhouse and Tommy Berry in emphatic style. Vancouver was bred by the Camilleri family’s Fairway Thoroughbreds and that nursery completed a massive 2015 when fellow Gold Coast Yearling Sale graduate Winx scored a record breaking win in the WS Cox Plate at Moonee Valley. Winx was a $230,000 Gold Coast purchase for Magic Bloodstock.

Magic Millions is delighted to have formed new and exciting partnerships with Jewel and Etihad Airways. Jewel is the Gold Coast’s latest luxury hotel, residential, shopping and fine dining development and was recently announced as the new naming rights sponsor of Magic Millions’ exclusive VIP Marquee. The Jewel VIP Marquee will host the who’s who of the racing scene, who will once again converge on the Gold Coast for the Jeep Magic Millions Raceday, to be held on Saturday 9 January 2016. The event, comprising Australia’s richest raceday, is set to sparkle like never before as the Magic Millions Carnival also celebrates its 30th year. Etihad Airways, one of the world’s leading and respected airlines, has joined with Magic Millions as a sponsor of the Gold Coast Yearling Sale in 2016. The airline operates more than 1,000 flights per week to over 120 destinations in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas. Etihad Airways has around 18,000 employees and carries around 15 million passengers every year.

Graduates Honoured

New Stables The Sales Complex has been a hive of activity since the highly successful 2015 Gold Coast 2YOs in Training Sale. The complex now houses a new stables area with a further 100 boxes built to boost capacity to 990 boxes, thus assisting vendors and buyers present their stock for auction.

Horse of the year - Dissident During the second half of 2015 a swag of awards and honours were bestowed on Magic Millions graduates. Dissident was crowned Australian Horse of the Year as well as Sprinter of the Year and Vancouver the Champion Two-Year-Old. State Horse of the Year honours also went to Buffering (Queensland), Dissident (Victoria), Hucklebuck (South Australia) and The Cleaner (Tasmania). At the Queensland Awards it was fantastic to see our inaugural 2YO Classic winner and champion sire Snippets inducted into the Hall of Fame - a deserved honour for a horse that meant so much to Magic Millions. PAGE

The new stables are situated to the right of the entrance area off the carpark, adjacent to Racecourse Drive. Below: Andrew Augustine Augustine’s family owned the Hall of Fame inductee Snippets, winner of the first Magic Millions 2YO Race in 1987.

CHECK OUT THE BEST LIVE EVENTS ON THE GOLD COAST

Whether it’s an exhilarating swim at one of the many golden surf beaches, an energising hike through the hinterland, an action-packed day at some of the world’s best theme parks or simply enjoying the entertainment, the Gold Coast is Australia’s fun capital. ITU World Triathlon Gold Coast and Gold Coast Triathlon – Luke Harrop Memorial 9-10 Apr

Quiksilver Pro and Roxy Pro Gold Coast 10-21 Mar

Bleach* Festival 4-20 Mar

Gold Coast Film Festival 31 Mar–10 Apr

See the full event calendar at queensland.com/events

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marks the year by CASSANDRA SIMMONDS

In pop culture, the expression ‘X factor’ is often cited to describe that unique quality that makes an individual stand out. If one can be so bold to translate this to the world of thoroughbred auction houses, results on the racetrack in 2015 have demonstrated graduates of Magic Millions yearling sales to not only stand out from the crowd, but accelerate to the lead. Some have the X factor, some don’t. As the number one sales company source of Gr1 winners and Gr1 wins in Australia over the 2014/15 racing season, Magic Millions has it in spades. To put some context around this inimitable quality, during the last season there were 37 individual Gr1 winners in Australia that were sold at public auctions around the world. These horses were sold across twelve different sales – with Magic Millions on top of the leader-board with 13 individual Gr1 winners and a total of 16 Gr1 wins. It would be easy to provide a long list of statistics to support what a remarkable year it was for the achievements of Magic Millions sold horses at elite level but statistics are not the driver of the thoroughbred industry. Dreams are. To sell, or to own, or to train, a Horse of the Year is every sales company, breeder, owner and trainer’s dream. In 2015 the honour of selling the Australian Racehorse of the Year went to the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale thanks to five-time Gr1 winner Dissident (Sebring-Diana’s Secret, by Anabaa). Sold by Widden Stud in 2012 to Peter Moody Racing for $210,000, Dissident was also crowned Australia’s Champion Sprinter for 2014/15. Having raced at elite level his entire career, from his debut win the in Blue Diamond Preview as a two-year-old, Dissident proved an exceptional racehorse displaying an enviable trifecta of versatility, toughness and brilliance. As a three-year-old Dissident won the Randwick Guineas and ran second in the Golden Rose, but it was as a spring four-year-old that he really blossomed into a genuine Gr1 heavyweight. In 2014/15 Dissident triumphed in the first two Gr1 races on the Australian calendar – the Memsie Stakes over 1400m and the Makybe Diva Stakes over 1600m, followed by being beaten a neck in the Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes. Brought back for the autumn, Dissident won the CF Orr Stakes over 1400m, then ran third in the Futurity Stakes before concluding his career with a famous victory over The Championships in the All Aged Stakes, defeating Gr1 winners Wandjina and Chautauqua.

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X - MARKS THE YEAR GRADUATE SUCCESS

The honor roll

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Vancouver - 2015 Gr1 Golden Slipper winner With four Gr1 wins last season from his career tally of five, Dissident unquestionably earned his crown as Horse of the Year. The Gold Coast Yearling Sale buy provided his ownership group and trainer Peter Moody with a once in a lifetime experience on the racetrack with earnings of $2,021,200 – almost ten-times his purchase price – and now the dream continues for this entire in the breeding barn. Dissident retired to Newgate Farm for the 2015 breeding season, standing for $38,500. Given the stallion’s connection with the Gold Coast Sale, it is likely that plenty of his youngsters will be available there in 2018. Dissident’s link to the Magic Millions Gold Coast Sale is deeper than just his own sale. Both his sire – Golden Slipper winner Sebring (More Than Ready-Purespeed, by Flying Spur) – and his dam – stakes placed Diana’s Secret (Anabaa-Palace Scandal, by Western Symphony) – were sold at the Gold Coast Sale. As well as Australian Racehorse of the Year, the Gold Coast Yearling Sale provided Australia’s Champion 2YO in Vancouver (Medaglia d’Oro-Skates, by Danehill). Sold for $185,000 to Gai Waterhouse and James Harron Bloodstock in 2014, Vancouver remained unbeaten in four starts as a two-year-old, winning the Breeders Plate, Canonbury Stakes, Todman Stakes and the Gr1 Golden Slipper. Further adding to the remarkable Magic Millions sold Slipper tally of being the source of nine of the last 12 winners to have been offered at auction as a yearling. After an extraordinary two-year-old season winning four black type races including the world’s richest juvenile race, the imposing Vancouver was sold as a stallion prospect to a syndicate headed by Coolmore Australia and the China Horse Club. History has shown the Gr1 Caulfield Guineas as one of the most important stallion making races on the Australian racing calendar each year. Now you ask – where could you have purchased last season’s winner? None other than the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale. Shooting to Win (Northern Meteor-Listen Here,

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by Elusive Quality) bought himself an instant ticket to a commercial stallion career by winning the Caulfield Guineas in 2014/15. The chestnut colt, who won his Gr1 race under the care of Peter & Paul Snowden, was sold by Edinglassie Stud to John O’Shea Racing for $160,000 in 2013. The colt commenced stud duties at Darley Australia this year as one of the hottest and most exciting additions to the Darley roster, standing for a fee of $38,500. Amicus (Fastnet Rock-Gold Chant, by El Moxie) was one of the headline sales of a filly at the Gold Coast in 2013, making $500,000 to the bid of Chris Waller Racing. She has proved to be worthy of that price-tag and some. Out of a stakes placed half-sister to multiple international Gr1 winner Starspangledbanner, Amicus lived up to the family expectations in her three-yearold season with victory in the Gr1 Thousand Guineas, providing a classic winner and rich return for her purchasers. Surely, the nation’s most deserving horse to achieve Gr1 success last season was the Gai Waterhouse trained ultra-consistent mare, Sweet Idea (Snitzel-Flidais, by Timber Country). A Golden Slipper and Magic Millions placegetter at two, Sweet Idea ran Gr1 placings on four occasions before breaking through with victory in the Gr1 The Galaxy, which would be her final race start. Purchased for $240,000 by Gai Waterhouse and James Harron on the Gold Coast in 2012, Sweet Idea amassed prizemoney earnings of more than $2.4 million and has since joined Her Majesty The Queen’s broodmare band. Notably Lucky Hussler (Husson-Talaq Dancer, by Black Hawk) and Boban (Bernardini-Kenbelle, by Kenmare) are two more Magic Millions Gold Coast graduates to achieve Gr1 wins during last season. Lucky Hussler triumphed in the William Reid Stakes, whilst now five-time Gr1 winner Boban took out the Doomben 10,000. Significantly, both Lucky Hussler and Boban have already achieved Gr1 wins in early 2015/16 with victories in the Toorak Handicap and Memsie Stakes respectively.

Lucky Hussler

Shooting To Win

Sweet Idea

Boban

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Whilst Dissident is undoubtedly last season’s king, the real pin-up girl and heir apparent of racing superstardom has to be Winx (Street Cry-Vegas Showgirl, by Al Akbar). Sold by Coolmore Stud at the 2013 Gold Coast Sale to Magic Bloodstock for $230,000, Winx has an electric style of racing that is exhilarating to witness. A dual winner as a two-year-old, Winx was pitted against the best three-yearolds during her spring campaign. She won at Gr2 level, then ran second in both the Gr2 Tea Rose Stakes and the Gr1 Flight Stakes, finishing behind First Seal twice. However it was during the ensuing Brisbane Winter Carnival, a mature and dramatically improved Winx emerged. Winner of the Gr3 Sunshine Coast Guineas,

Winx followed up with an emphatic first Gr1 in the Queensland Oaks. A winner of her last five starts from 1300m to 2200m, this spring Winx evolved into a Gr1 big shot beating the boys under both handicap and weight-for-age conditions. The mare breathtakingly demolished her opposition in the Gr1 Epsom Handicap (by 2.3 lengths) and WS Cox Plate (by 4.8 lengths) – in course record time. Now as Australia’s best performed daughter of Street Cry and with autumn campaign riches ahead, Winx is in line to earn her own Horse of the Year crown. With Gold Coast graduates such as Boban, Lucky Hussler and Winx already following up

their 2014/15 Gr1 victories with another early in 2015/16, plus new Gr1 winners like VRC Derby victor Tarzino and Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes winner Stratum Star, Magic Millions looks set for another stellar racing season for its yearling sale graduates. They say the X factor is indescribable but last season’s results on the racetrack by Magic Millions graduates evidence an unmistakable clue to its origin. The search for that unique and individual quality must start at the Gold Coast. You can dream of finding a Gr1 star of the turf – you can dream of finding the next commercial stallion prospect – or you can legitimately dream of both, just like the achievements of Dissident, Vancouver and Shooting to Win in 2015

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The best version of “Better than all the rest” features Tina Turner and Jimmy Barnes, check it out on YouTube. For the best yearling sale check out Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale starting on the 6th of January 2016. Beautiful weather, endless golden beaches, a fantastic choice of restaurants and bars, an exciting horse sale to start the action for serious horseplayers in 2016. What could be better? Perhaps only Tina and Jimmy singing live on the beach. That is a beautiful fantasy, but an equally beautiful reality is the long list of “bests” that the Magic Millions has produced over the years. The list includes an impressive four Golden Slipper winners, Vancouver (best son of Medaglia d’Oro), Pierro (best son of Lonhro), Sebring (best son of More Than Ready at stud) and Stratum (one of the best sons of Redoute’s Choice at stud along with Snitzel another Magic Millions graduate). Their respective yearling prices were $185,000, $230,000, $130,000 and $320,000 (with Snitzel $260,000). Solid prices certainly, but within reach of a very wide range of buyers and the cost of these five horses pales into insignificance compared to their capital value as stallions and to the rivers of gold they are delivering for their owners at stud. Lifechanging in many cases. The good news doesn’t end there, because other “bests” to go through the Magic Millions ring include current Australian “Horse Of The Year” Dissident (best son of Sebring, $210,000 yearling), the best son of Northern Meteor at Stud, Zoustar ($140,000 yearling), Fastnet Rock’s best daughter Atlantic Jewel ($320,000 yearling), the best son of Bernardini, six time Gr.1 winner and $2.8 million earner Boban ($100,000 yearling), Al Maher’s best son Gr.1 winner Almalad and the best daughter of prolific sire Commands to go through a sale ring as a yearling Gr.1 1000 Guineas winner Commanding Jewel ($205,000). For an outstanding bargain it is hard to go past Lovely Jubly who was a $36,000 Magic Millions yearling purchase before going on to win the Magic Millions 2YO Classic plus two Gr.1 races as a 2YO (QTC Sires, T J Smith Classic) and then becoming the dam of crack current Gr.1 sprinting star Chautauqua. And then there’s Winx. The mighty Winx, winner of her last five starts culminating in a course record breaking win in the 2015 WS Cox Plate. She is rapidly establishing a reputation as one of the elite mares of the Australian Turf. Her finishing sprint is something to behold. Purchased for $230,000 at the 2013 Magic Millions January Sale she is the best daughter of outstanding

Atlantic Jewel sire Street Cry from his southern hemisphere duties on the shuttle to Darley, with arguably her best still to come. Winx’s reappearance in the Autumn will be eagerly awaited. Space doesn’t permit mention of all the Magic Million success stories, the sale produces winners every year that are the “best” for their lucky connections. Whether it’s the 2YO Classic or the 3YO Guineas which will both be worth $2m plus trophies in 2016 or any of the other five races worth $1m plus trophies and a $250,000 maiden and $250,000 Country Cup which will be run on Saturday January 9th on Australia’s first $10 million raceday, someone is going to be very happy. Lots of someones actually.

Space doesn’t permit mention of all the Magic Million success stories, the sale produces winners every year that are the “best” for their lucky connections.

Yet if you look at the summary of “best” horses that were mentioned earlier, none of them required a budget of over $320,000 to buy. That’s a respectable sum to be sure, but well within reach of many owners, trainers and syndicators, with the trend these days being to split the ownership among a group of friends or associates. It all begins in January, all you need is a dream, a good plan, a budget you can live with and you’re all set to be better than all the rest. Before I go can someone please go backstage and notify Tina and Jimmy that they’re on next!

Opposite page: Sebring Right: Pierro

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SECRETS Katrina Partridge When you need to uncover the real secrets of the Magic Millions in January: what constitutes the colour â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;blackâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, whose Bucks party outdid them all, how to stop people from lying on the ground when inspecting a horse, and what makes the Gold Coast the destination everyone just keeps flocking back to - who better to ask than a select group of industry experts. Read on!

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and proceed to lift his tail as if to check everything was ok underneath... Fair to say that parade didn’t end well! The most fun Gold coast experience? That can be published? No. Next question! What makes the MM Sale in January special? Being the first sale of the year, the Magic Millions is always an exciting sale to attend. It is the first major sale that the public can view the first crop yearlings of the new season sires in addition to determining a market trend for the rest of the sales year. As a vendor it is extremely important we offer the right product, the first sale of the year sets the tone and with a large local and international buying bench we want to make a good first impression and build momentum for sales later in the year. Widden in a heartbeat: Home of Champion Sire Sebring and in 2016 the farm will offer the first progeny of Gr 1 winner Your Song (Fastnet Rock)

Secondly, who wouldn’t like going to the Gold Coast for two weeks in January!

What is the strangest thing you’ve seen a potential purchaser do when inspecting a horse at a sale?

Wow, that is a tough one. To be in the brains of an innovator like Gerry Harvey, or feel the energy & passion of Gai Waterhouse? Perhaps Khalid Abdullah given his incredible success as a breeder & owner

We did have one international buyer casually walk up to a nervous yearling colt

If you could be anyone else in the industry for a day, who would it be and why?

probably yearning to pen his biography but they’ll be warned off as too many people will need to die first! The most fun Gold coast experience…..that can be published….. Meeting my partner Bridget in The Avenue one night after the sales 6 years - and 2 children - ago; luckily she had imbibed enough to overlook my obvious flaws and Beauty and The Beast have lived happily ever since. What makes the MM Sale in January special? The venue and holiday atmosphere, obviously, play a big part at that time of the year; the excitement of the races and athleticism of the sale yearlings (and their record of subsequent racetrack success) make it a ‘must attend’ sale. In a heartbeat: A comedic articulate genius who has been in the industry a lifetime and who is respected by all. Someone is

If you could be anyone else in the industry for a day, who would it be and why? Gerry Harvey, so that I could transfer his assets to James Bester; only kidding! or

In a heartbeat: THE industry news service providing daily thoroughbred news from Australia, Singapore, South Africa with international racing from Hong Kong, England, Ireland, Japan and Dubai. www.thoroughbrednews.com.au What is the oddest question you’ve heard from an owner querying a horse’s training regime or race performance? Why don’t they win every time? The most fun Gold coast experience? The beach walk, a must do each morning. What makes the MM Sale in January special?

(and the fact he has a handy horse named Frankel he gets to look at every day!) Best business decision at the MM Yearling Sale at the Gold Coast? Well, the buyers would tell you the Ice cream freezer in the Widden barn was one of our best decisions! The difficult decisions however are largely made in the spring when we are determining which horses are best suited to the Gold Coast. Widden have enjoyed great relationship & success with the Magic Millions and pleased to have sold some fine young horses over the years in particular last season’s Australian Racehorse of the Year, Dissident. This season’s Group One winner Stratum Star is another recent Widden graduate that we felt was best suited to an earlier sale like Magic Millions. Best experience on a race track anywhere? To be at Randwick for Black Caviar’s last race with my children Amy & Sam. It was a special moment. The roar of the crowd was like nothing I have ever heard before. Obviously seeing Zoustar win the Coolmore Stud Stakes so dominantly given we purchased him the week prior was an incredible experience (and a relief!)

am I? How about Chris Waller or Hugh Bowman, to experience training or riding all those Group One winners, especially that Cox Plate feeling with Winx. Best business decision at the MM Yearling Sale at the Gold Coast? Buying Virage de Fortune at her pass-in price of $70,000 and opting for a share in her in lieu of commission; she earned a million on track and set a new Australian sale-ring record of $3.4 million as a broodmare prospect out of training. Best experience on a race track anywhere? Virage de Fortune’s Group One Australia Stakes victory at Moonee Valley pretty much ties with Baryshnikov’s Australian Guineas win at Flemington, Kenbelle’s AJC Oaks win at Randwick and all Hips Don’t Lie’s and Dante’s Paradiso’s wins - all were cheap(ish) buys in which I managed to retain a meaningful percentage.

The entire Gold Coast’s, and Queensland in general, input to the week - the community lives and breathes the sale and raceday, the back drop of the city to the racecourse and sale complex, the summer weather. If you could be anyone else in the industry for a day, who would it be and why? Zac Purton winning at Sha Tin. Weight, ability and many other factors are a problem with this wish but rocking to 70,000 patrons would be fun. Best experience on a race track anywhere? Winning a race with a horse trained by Bart Cummings … treasured.

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routine a trainer was discussing alternative feed options to assist with stress. The next day a case of exquisitely expensive steak arrived at the stables with a note suggesting that this might help the horse’s appetite. I guess it’s fair to say that at least the trainer ate well for the next few weeks! What is the strangest thing you’ve been asked by a potential purchaser at a sale? I had one buyer whose sole wish was to own a black horse. So I found him one. Great type too and good pedigree. Not an easy task as you would well appreciate. The buyer rejected the horse though as he discovered the horse had a tiny white spot under the back of one fetlock. Anyway, the ultimately ‘not quite black’ horse has since gone on to become a winner; at least it could run. The most fun Gold coast experience? Hitting the GC restaurants with Vin Cox, Tubba Williams and Antony Thompson. What makes the MM Sale in January special? In a heartbeat: Former successful jumps jockey in England then TV broadcaster in HK. Current Executive Manager HKJC International Sales What is the oddest question you’ve heard from an owner querying a horse’s training regime or race performance? After a horse failed to settle into the HK

Best experience on a race track anywhere?

Hidden Kisses. Based in Qld’s Darling Downs.

Best business decision at the MM Yearling Sale at the Gold Coast?

What is the oddest question you’ve heard from an owner?

Sell and regret but always sell. I keep learning this one the hard way.

There was a buyer who I have not seen for a while who would ask you to stand the horse as square as possible and then he would lie on the ground at different angles around the horse to see how level its feet were. I had a fiery filly that helped him get over these idiosyncrasies. What makes the MM Sale in January special?

Being trusted and given the backing of the HKJC to buy a colt by a first season sire at the first sale I was the HKJC International Director of Sales at. This went against HKJC policy as we normally don’t buy progeny of first season stallions. The horse was out of an outstanding dual Gr 1 winning mare who had already produced a HK Gr 3 winner and 2 other black type horses and as an athlete this yearling was a standout. I was so grateful for the Jockey Club backing me and fortunately the horse backed us all. Bullish Friend has had 7 wins, finishing third in the HK-2 HKJC Sprint Cup, has earned HK$7,681,500 in prizemoney, and is still racing.

There isn’t actually anyone else I want to be. There are many people who find their jobs, in a word - labour - but I’m incredibly fortunate

If you could be anyone else in the industry for a day, who would it be and why?

What is the strangest thing you’ve seen a potential purchaser do when inspecting a horse at a sale?

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Best business decision at the MM Yearling Sale at the Gold Coast?

My first winner at Aintree (I rode in 7 Grand Nationals all up) and the double I rode at Cheltenham - Duke of Monmouth and Repeat The Dose - on Gold Cup Day in 1992. Alas my father didn’t get to see my ride my double at Cheltenham as he had passed away with cancer by the stage but it would be fair to say that Aintree and Cheltenham are a part of me.

It’s the first sale of the New Year so everyone is in a great mood and very upbeat. Great atmosphere.

This is almost impossible to answer, just too many. An owner called to ask if his horse would be fed, boxed, rugged and exercised during preparation. My answer “no mate I am just going to drop it off at the next door neighbours and pick it up on the way to the sale”. Deeply traumatized the gentleman put his horse in a different draft!

In a heartbeat: one of the nation’s most successful vendors, having prepared - on behalf of clients - a wave of top class performers including Viva Pronto, Hollowlea, Honest Truth, Al Dhafra and

to have the job that I do, I love what I do, and that is what it needs to be about.

The Magic Millions as a whole is a great experience every year. Sun, surf, horses … what’s not to like? If you could be anyone else in the industry for a day, who would it be and why? George Smith and find a way to store all of that knowledge in a day.

Best experience on a race track anywhere? Ethereal winning the Caufield Cup/ Melbourne Cup Double 2001. In particular the Caufield Cup. The funniest day at the races I will ever have. Scott and Louise Seamer are great mates of mine and anyone who knows Lou and I know that we can talk under wet cement. We almost missed the horses going out onto the track because we were having a quick chat and a champers. We race out and grab a position as close as we can which involves squeezing in between two burly men. The horses jump and when it becomes clear that Ethereal can win this race Lou is hitting this big guy in front of us with every crack of Scotty’s whip and we are screaming the house down. The race ends, Ethereal has won, Lou’s $600 hat goes flying and the big guy in front says to Lou “I hope you had a lot of money on that horse” and Lou with a grin from ear to ear says “try my husband love”. Ethereal gets into the Melbourne Cup and the rest is history.

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In a heartbeat: Son of one of New Zealand’s most successful trainers Murray Baker. Spent eight years as a pharmacist before coming back to the thoroughbred industry. Trained 2014 MM 2YO winner Unencumbered.

If you could be anyone else in the industry for a day, who would it be and why?

What is the oddest question you’ve received from an owner querying your training regime or a horse’s race performance?

Best business decision at the MM Yearling Sale at the Gold Coast?

What is the lawnmower effect? The most fun Gold coast experience? Unencumbered winning the MM 2YO Classic and MM being kind enough to give me a table with beer. What makes the MM Sale in January special? Horses, people, timing and ATMOSPHERE!

In a heartbeat: 40+ years in the industry of which 10+ were spent with MM prior to joining Newgate in 2012. You’ll hear Tubba before you see him. His laugh is well known by all. What is the oddest thing you’ve heard from an owner in regard to a race performance? Many years ago in discussing one particular owner’s horse which ran last and in his summation he said it ran last but it was a good last! What is the strangest thing you’ve seen a potential purchaser do when inspecting a horse at a sale? A gentleman who shall remain nameless lifted a horses tail inspected its rear end turned and said “no good, no good– I don’t want! His toilet is too small” The most fun Gold coast experience…..that can be published. James Harron’s bucks party – legendary! What makes the MM Sale in January special? No doubt it’s the holiday atmosphere.

In a heartbeat: Colourful & flamboyant. Cocktails, anyone?! What is the strangest thing you’ve heard a potential purchaser say when inspecting a horse at a sale? That horse must be 15.4 hh high! and Can you guarantee me this horse will win the Melbourne Cup? The most fun Gold Coast experience…..that can be published….. A girls night out at Melbas with Alice Minter (pre-Messara), Georgie Mitchell, Sue Begg, Megan Kelso, Sue Anderson - amongst others - where I learned some interesting dance moves and more about husbands

Steve Davis during the MM Sales so I can drop the hammer quicker, faster and more efficiently. And tell a funny joke!

Buying a Testa Rossa colt for $70,000 when I had $700 and the numerous people I have met which makes the Gold Coast Sales so great! Best experience on a race track anywhere? Every day at Warwick Farm is the best and very suited to all MM purchases.

In Australia it can’t be replicated. Most participants are there, the weather, the buyers, trainers, owners, farm owners all bring their families which makes for a relaxed atmosphere, no one’s worried about their partners spending money, the kids are happy and generally everybody is relaxed. There is always something for non-racing members of a family to do which takes the pressure off everybody. Nobody feels left out. Best business decision at the MM Yearling Sale at the Gold Coast? In 2003 accepting David Chester’s kind offer to work for MM – Obviously I have moved on however it elevated me in the business and created an acceptance for me that is difficult to achieve and importantly exposed me to people that you only dream of meeting. Best experience on a race track anywhere? Riding a winner at my first ride, training a winner with my first starter and breeding a Group 1 winner. Unbelievable experiences.

than I’d care to share! What makes the MM Sale in January special? Wet ‘n’ Wild, Movie World and of course the fun of the surf. If you could be anyone else in the industry for a day, who would it be and why? James Bester in his heyday. That day (and night) would be a very long one and I would get to experience some things I have never experienced before! Best experience on a race track anywhere? Winning two Gr 1’s with Solzhenitsyn at Caulfield - it doesn’t get any better than that.

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by Katrina Partridge Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s raining at Segenhoe Stud in the Hunter Valley. If they were in a nearby paddock every yearling in this group would no doubt be paddling in a rare spot of mud but when there is a handler walking alongside and no equine friends rushing up behind to challenge them to a race this thing called a puddle - and having to walk through it - suddenly seems rather more problematic.

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tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lesson No. 22, Day 2 of Magic Millions 2016 Yearling Preparation. Horses that go on to win major races across this country, and indeed the world, owe much to the unfailing dedication of yearling preparation staff across Australia whose horsemanship, patience, an ability to educate young horses, and a disciplined eye for what is required in evolving an un-muscled rough coated long maned youngster into a star of the sale ensures that a basically unhandled and highly strung thoroughbred can adjust to stabling, being rugged, handled, wear a head collar and have a bit in its mouth, be paraded and stand still for periods of time, shod, led by a handler, and transported. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t kid yourself. This is not easy work. Days start well before the sun is up and finish in the twilight hue.

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40 degree temperatures, tempestuous yearlings who can be no different to naughty children when it comes to learning things, mud and rain, flies, hours (and hours and hours) of hand walking horses, unwanted injuries, last minute disappointments on x-rays ... but when a horse makes its entrance into the auction ring looking (and sometimes even making) a magical million dollars all that effort pays off. The team at Segenhoe know this all too well. Of its 2015 draft of 17 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearlings the colt by first season sire Sepoy out of Sister Madly topped the sale selling to Spendthrift Farm (USA) for $1.2m whilst two other headline acts were the More Than Ready (USA) x Chinchilla Rose colt that sold to Gai Waterhouse for $600,000 and the Sepoy x Florentina colt that sold to Peter Moody for $520,000.

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Tom cannot empathise strongly enough the importance of hand walking in preparing a yearling for the rigours of parading for potential buyers as well as physically developing muscle tone.

Segenhoe Stud’s Yearling Manager Tom Hughes says that a Magic Millions horse is a specific one: “A speedy type with a precocious pedigree,” he says. “You want a horse with plenty of scope, a good hip which is typical of a sprinter, a horse that is quite low to the ground, streamlined and athletic in its looks.” It’s no understatement to say that a yearling preparation is a huge shift in gears for a young horse who has spent the first 14 -17 months of its life living in a grassy paddock, eating, sleeping in the sun, and playing with its friends. “The biggest challenge for a yearling coming in for a 9 week yearling prep is being confined and getting used to a limited turn out time compared to what it is used to,” says Tom. “Getting a horse used to

its environment and getting it to relax is therefore all that Week 1 is about.” By Week 2 horses will have a rug on for the first time, find out what a hose plus water equals when combined with that all important bottle of shampoo and a curry comb, be introduced to the horse walker and as Tom says “slowly learn everything that’s required of them for the coming weeks. The strangest sensation of all can be the introduction of a bit in their mouths and how life transforms as a handler slots in alongside their nearside shoulder when they have to walk anywhere – and restrains them if required. The process of placing a bit in a horse’s mouth – known as ‘mouthing’ takes a great deal of time and must be done with sensitivity and patience. Like children attending school however, Tom says that

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“Grooming is also a great desensitising tool for a young horse as they get used to people touching them everywhere,” says Tom.

during the prep “most horses thrive, some love the extra daily feeds, others just love being busy.” At Segenhoe the day starts at 5.15 am when the yearlings receive their first feed. “We turn out all the colts or all the fillies at 6am,” says Tom. “We then hand walk or put on the horse walker what horses are left in the barn. The horses are left out in their paddocks for between 2 -3 hours. We swap them over then start the same routine. We then groom each horse, take them for practices on the parade area, do daily treatments and engage in further education. We do make a point of leaving the horses alone for 2 hrs in the middle of day for important down time. Later in the afternoon we then get them back out of their boxes and put them on the walker for 10-15 mins whilst their boxes get done to give them a change of scenery.” Exercise, feed and maintaining the coat of a horse are integral to the ‘look’ of a yearling come sale time. “The amount of exercise a horse needs is entirely dependent on the individual horse,” says Tom. “Some horses hold good natural muscle tone and may only need 30-45 minutes on the horse walker plus hand walking each day. We alternate our routine between hand walking and the horse walker. We occasionally add a very small amount of time for some horses in the round pen but it’s very little with a January draft as the horses are still young.” Tom cannot empathise strongly enough the importance of hand walking in preparing a yearling for the rigours of parading for potential buyers as well as physically developing muscle tone. “Hand walking is the most important thing we do. It also puts manners into a horse so when we do it we simulate as much of the sale environment as possible. We put obstacles out for them to walk past and anything they are going to encounter at the sales we try and get them to practice it at home to make the sales seem like not so much of a shock.” “Grooming is also a great desensitising tool for a young horse as they get used to people touching them everywhere,” says Tom. “They learn to stand whilst it is done

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so they develop patience and the more they are groomed the more the shine in their coat comes through. We also pick their feet out daily. It’s important to ensure there are no stones in their feet but again it’s good for desensitisation.” With a focus so firmly on the smallest elements of a horse’s everyday life to maximise sale success it is perhaps no surprise to hear Tom say that the importance of the people he works with is integral to the farm’s success. “The biggest thing we encourage with our staff is horsemanship. If they are experienced - wonderful, but you can take someone who doesn’t know that much and teach them, and if you teach them

correctly and they are willing to learn then they will teach the horses the way you want them taught so inexperience in itself is not a bad thing. The build of a person is also really important as we need to measure people against a yearling draft and see what person looks ideal next to a horse in terms of size for when a horse is presented to a client.”

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654kms north in Warwick in the heart of Queensland’s lush Darling Downs lies Rosari Farm owned by Ged and Jan Nolan. Same product: thoroughbreds. Same sale: Magic Millions January Yearlings. Pound for pound given the size of the farm, number of horses, staff, and the fact that Ged just looks puzzled when you mention the words ‘social media’ in the same sentence as ‘marketing’, Rosari achieves sales results on par with a number of much larger commercial farms. The farm consigned seven yearlings in the 2015 Select session highlighted by the colt by Exceed and Excel x Quack It (NZ) purchased by Blue Sky Bloodstock/Gai Waterhouse Racing for $380,000, the colt by Not a Single Doubt x County Mayo purchased by the Hong Kong Jockey Club for $240,000 & the colt by Encosta de Lago x Quack purchased by Paul Perry Racing for $200,000. This year the farm will consign five yearlings in the select session. The commercial appeal of the Nolan broodmare band and the progeny that result from the stallions such mares are mated with obviously play a crucial role in yearling selection. What of the yearling preparation process itself though in terms of how it differs from the ‘Big Boys’ down south? “Our horses have an eight rather than a nine week prep and come in on Oaks Day each year,” says Ged. “Every yearling we prep was born and raised on the farm and I have a rule that every horse must walk up to me in the paddock. Brad Riddle does a lot of foal

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handling to ensure they are all happy around humans. As a result there’s no big dramas when they have to come in to the barn. Sure there will be some calling out and a few ‘I don’t like this! I want to go outside!’ comments from a few of them at this time of year, but they take it in their stride, get their rug on and it all starts.” Ged explains that at Rosari the formal January yearling prep is actually an extension of what happens back in March when the farm readies the weanlings that are heading to the National sale. All farm weanlings come in at the same time so the January horses get a month to five week mini-prep at the same time as the National sale horses to accustom them to the rigours of what lies ahead. “The weanlings are allowed out during the day to play, have fun, eat grass and do what horses do but they come in at night. At that stage they are taught to go on the walker, we hand walk them, they become used to head collars, they learn about rugs, and their legs are hosed. In a sense it desensitizes them before they get so big that it can harder to manage them.” There are a number of other differences between the farms that come down to more than climate (Queensland having more humid conditions to contend with) and the fact that Rosari is able to bale its own hay and indeed its own straw. “I don’t use sawdust in my stables,” says

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As a father of six Ged smiles a wry grin and says that there is much to the saying that there is little difference between raising children and raising horses.

Ged. “Yearlings love to lie down as they are growing so much at this stage of their lives. Sawdust is a lot less work and a straw box is harder to clean but we think the horses enjoy it a bit more.” Ged also firmly believes in allowing his yearlings to be given outside grazing time at night. “They are stabled during the day and we have nice yards that we put them out into at night unless it’s going to storm or be wet. If it’s safe weatherwise we have them out all night with rugs and we feed them as well.” Ged says that no matter what farm you work at the whole process of prepping yearlings is one fraught with challenges - from staffing, to horses getting injured (“typically two weeks before you’re due to head to the sale”) and the fact that “yearlings simply won’t read the text book on what they are not supposed to do and they do it anyway!” As a father of six Ged smiles a wry grin and says that there is much to the saying that

there is little difference between raising children and raising horses. “If you don’t have discipline and they don’t comply with you you are behind the 8 ball from the start. Horses understand love and affection and so do children but they also understand that right is right and wrong is wrong and horses do especially. You have to be kind but when you say no you have to mean it - particularly with the colts. Children must comply with parents. So should horses.” Like Segenhoe, Ged continually comes back to the importance of hand walking but the fine line that is required with balancing feed and managing joints. Lesson 25 (Segenhoe, Rosari - indeed all farms): It’s all down to detail! Ged says “A yearling prep may take eight, nine or in some cases 10 or more weeks plus the sale but it’s full on and if something goes wrong it snowballs if your attention to detail isn’t spot on.” That may well be the million dollar difference

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SALE DAY FACES

David Payne & Dr Shalabh Sahu

Darren Weir

Colm Santry, Michael Kirwan & Clem Murphy

Ciaron Maher Adam Sangster, Brent Thompson & Paul Kepitis

Criquette Head-Maarek & Gilles Maarek

Mark Richards

Damion Flower, Gerald Ryan & David Raphael

John Moloney

Alan Bell

Gerry Harvey, Demi Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Byrne & John Moynihan

Anthony Mithen & Robert DiPierdomenico

Andrew Baddock

B Wayne Hughes & Patricia Whitcraft Anthony Cummings

Basil Nolan Andrew Noblet

Bede Murray

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Bill Mitchell

Anthony Cavanagh

Anthony Freedman

James Cummings & Duncan Ramage

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Bjorn Baker

Brad Spicer

Cheng Ting Kong

Buddy England

Top lot 2015 $1.2m (Sepoy - Sister Madly) Vendor: Segenhoe Stud

Cassandra & Paul Perry

David Hayes

Henry Dwyer

Melanie Vallejo

Adam Watt

Clarry Conners

Bruce Slade

Danielle & Adriaan van Vuuren

Christopher & Gary Moore

Bryce Heys

Danny Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien

Chris & Michael Ward

Darren Dance

Mick Talty

Cliff Brown, Shane Nichols & Jamie Edwards

Cindy Alderson

Adam White

David Brideoake

Damian Yap

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Damon Gabbedy & Paul Willetts

David Vandyke

Cathy Hains

Dean Hawthorne

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SALE DAY FACES

Denise Martin & Chris Waller

Short Lists

Mick Price & Bill Frost

Gai Waterhouse Bought: 23 Top Lots: 153 - $600,000 553 - $400,000 530 - $400,000 Francis & Christine Cook

David Chester & Tsuneo Namba

Elaine Lawlor & Anna Seitz

Dennis Loh

Duncan Grimley

Dermot Farrington

Zara Phillips

Demi O’Byrne

James Harron Bought: 17 Top Lots: 678 - $550,000 483 - $460,000 271 - $400,000

John Hutchins

Gary Portelli

George Altomonte

Gillian & Hoss Heinrich

Eric Hoyeau

Paul Perry Rod Craig & Oliver Koolman

Glyn Schofield & Chris Munce

Grant Morgan

Barley Ward-Thomas, Scott Irwin & John Sutherland

Guy Mulcaster

Glenn Fraser, Melissa & Matthew Smith

Harry Mitchell

Bought: 11 Top Lots: 432 - $340,000 203 - $330,000 156 - $262,500

Helen Page

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Mike Azzie

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John Meagher & Wade Burridge

Jane Gollan

Joe O’Neill

John Cornish

Bought: 15 Top Lots: 42 - $185,000 640 - $175,000 463 - $175,000

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John Camilleri & Peter Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien

Jason Warren

James Clarke & Stu Boman

Short Lists

China Horse Club Bought: 3 Top Lots: 566 - $1,050,000 143 - $850,000 260 - $130,000 James Bester & Paul Lafferty

John & George Moore

Harry Perks

John Holloway & Wilf Mula

Graham & Linda Huddy and Debbie & Paul Kepitis

Peter Moody

John Hutchinson

Bought: 8 Top Lots: 626 - $675,000 252 - $520,000 227 - $250,000

Murray Murdoch

John Warren

Justin Bahen

Kelly Schweida

Kris Lees

Chris Waller Trevor Robertson & Chris Watson

Liam Birchley

Lindy Maurice & Amy Austin

John Messara Alan Jones

Louis Le Metayer

John Singleton & Dean Watt

Louis Mihalyka

Bought: 9 Top Lots: 195 - $600,000 113 - $350,000 282 - $230,000

Luke Murrell

John Hawkes

Merrick Staunton

Yoo Jae Hyung

Mike Moroney & Nick Columb

Marc Antoine Berghgracht

Mark Alati

Bought: 7 Top Lots: 485 - $700,000 634 - $350,000 233 - $200,000

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SALE DAY FACES

Tom & MV Magnier

Joe Pride & Paul Whelan

Henry Plumptre

Tom Ryan & Henry Field

Willie Leung, Keith Lam & Patrick Lee

Tony Williams

Marcus Corban & Gene Tsoi

Dean Hawkes & Ricky Yiu

Wylie Dalziel

Tony Rogers and Adam Sangster

Tim Bodle

Tim Stakemire

Tommy Wong

Kieran & Tom Moore

Tony Fung

Tony Gollan

Tony McEvoy

Troy & Leon Corstens

Michael Freedman

Tony Noonan

Trevor Lobb

Wayne & Michael Hawkes

Wayne Alchin

Wez Hunter

Wayne Cook

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SALE DAY FACES

Lee Freedman, Jon Kelly & Reg Inglis

Peter Robl

Kevin, James & Tanith Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien

Patrick & Hamish Esplin

Paul Messara

Paul Moroney

Peter Horwitz

Peter Morgan

Peter Orton

Peter Snowden

Phillip Stokes

Rick Worthington

Rob Price

Robbie Griffiths

Michael Sissian & Kevin Maloney

Luke & David Henderson

Lea Stracey & Gai Waterhouse

Murray & Matt Tillett

Peter Ng & Joseph Choi

Neil Werrett & Lena Attebo

Robert Heathcote

Rod Northam

Ron Maund

Robert Roulston

RonWanless

Russell Cameron

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SALE DAY FACES

Ned Toffey

Peter O’Brien & Apollo Ng

Rob & Gai Waterhouse

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Ryan McEvoy & Tim Wilson

Sam Hayes

Ren Ningning, David Chester & Zuo Tingting

Scott Darby

Sebastian Hutch & Shane McGrath

Robbie Laing & Family and Ron Quinton

Seo Beomsuk

Shane Nichols

Tan Maruyama & Kazutaka Hosaka

Sheamus Mills

Shunsuke Yoshida

Charles & Benno Yung

Siobhan Miller

Stuart Ramsey & Sir Patrick Hogan

Teresa Poon & David Kobritz

Sylvia & Rob Crabtree

Michael Long

Terry O’Sullivan & Kingsley Peach

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New in 2016

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IMAGINE finding a horse that could win the two richest juvenile races in the country, race at stakes level for the next six seasons without winning and then break his drought as a veteran eight-year-old. by Nathan Exelby

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won on him two starts later at Doomben. “It’s quite amazing, he won those two big races at two and was still going good enough to win at eight. “He always had a few little back and feet issues, but he was a wonderful horse to train. He was a bit of an enigma there for a while, but I never worried about people saying that because he won nearly $4Million in prizemoney. “He made an appearance at the Magic Millions day five times. He loved the Gold Coast. A couple of years ago I thought he got up on the line and won the Magic Millions Cup, but Chris Waller’s horse (Velrosso) beat me. “When you’ve got one of them sitting in your stable I don’t care what people say about him. “He was a remarkable old horse. I would love to have another one like him.” Of course, Jason McLachlan made up only one half of the Phelan Ready story in his two-year-old season. Training partnerships are common nowadays, but back in 2009, they had only just been given the green light by Australian authorities even though New Zealand had them in place much earlier. The father-son team of Bruce and Jason McLachlan were one of the trailblazers in Australia and their success in preparing a Golden Slipper winner paved the way for others to do the same. Bruce McLachlan was synonymous with Magic Millions success. His star colt St Jude was one of the early flagbearers for Magic Millions graduates and he won the race a second time when Our Fiction was successful three years later. Each year his stable was seen as the benchmark for the local two-year-olds trying to beat the southern raiders.

helan Ready will never be remembered as the greatest Magic Millions or Golden Slipper winner, but few, if any horses on those honour rolls can match his longevity. In the five years between wins, Phelan Ready was placed in the Group 1 Manikato, twice at Group 2, once at Group 3 and six times at Listed level. He wasn’t winning, but he was banking the kind of money that most owners can only dream of, pushing his bank roll to a retirement figure of $3,772,350. Even so, it had always irked trainer Jason McLachlan that Phelan Ready was described as a non-winner. So when the drought breaking win finally came in August 2014, it was one of the Sunshine Coast based trainer’s most memorable days at the races. “It was satisfying and relieving in the one go,” McLachlan remembers. “I was relieved because he finally won again and it was satisfying because a lot of work had gone into getting him there. We had been taking him to the beach and he was loving it. “He wasn’t the soundest horse and keeping him going was always a bit of a problem, but he loved being in work. He loved being in work more than he liked being in a paddock. “Absolutely it was a satisfying day and good for everyone involved, then Luke Tarrant

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Phelan Ready, a $150,000 Magic Millions purchase, was pegged early as the new training partners’ big juvenile hope. “He was a lovely moving horse and he looked a real athlete,” Jason said of inspections they made at the sales. “Dad never had a budget for anything. He used to buy them if he liked them. He just bought and clients went with him.” Those clients chose wisely in taking up the Phelan Ready offer, although any ambitions of having a multi-million dollar stallion prospect were dashed early. “He was going to be a handful. He had a few little bad habits. We made the decision early to geld him,” McLachlan said. Two trial wins were followed by two – unexpected by the stable – defeats on race day. “He showed us plenty and we thought he would be winning on debut. Then he got beaten again. He only just scraped into the Magic Millions field,” Jason recalls. “He hadn’t quite shown us in races what he had shown us on the track. “We galloped him with older horses and he won a couple of jumpouts convincingly and he was showing a lot of ability for a horse of that age. “But we still gave him a chance in the Magic Millions. We knew if he could produce his best, he would be right in the race.” Few others gave him a chance. At $51, Phelan Ready is the longest priced winner in Magic Millions 2YO Classic history. “He didn’t have a long time off at all after the Millions,” McLachlan said. “He went down to Sydney and ran second to Real Saga in the lead-up race and I thought ‘geez, he might be a chance in the Slipper.’ “It was a heavy track and we were unsure how he would handle it. He’d

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drawn awkward but the horse fired on the day and it was a great ride by Brad (Rawiller) too. “He’s never been a noted wet tracker since. Everyone assumed he was because of that race, but it turned out he wasn’t really.

Ready for a new life

The Magic Millions and Golden Slipper successes had come within six months of the McLachlans signing the papers on their training partnership. They were on their way. Bruce’s decades of dominance in Queensland were set to have many new chapters written in partnership with his son. But then tragedy struck. Less than two months after Phelan Ready won the Slipper, Bruce McLachlan died of a heart attack at the age of 66. “We’d only been in partnership not quite six months and we won the Magic Millions and the Slipper. They were two of the best days of my life because I was there with Dad,” Jason said. “It was great. We were very, very close as everyone knows. “He passed away, but you keep going on, that’s all you can do. “When I think of Dad now, the first thing that comes to mind is Golden Slipper day and me and Dad being there together. They are priceless memories. “As soon as I walk into my stable each day, he’s the first thing I think about when I switch the lights on and the last thing I think about when I shut the gates.” McLachlan says the Phelan Ready story was made more special with his mum Lorraine being involved in the ownership group. “It was great that mum was there the whole way through. She loves the horses and it was a good ride for her too. She’s just a wonderful lady and she’s been an amazing support for me,” he said. With his dad gone, Jason had to fend for himself and he has savoured some big successes of his own. “I have always been my own man. Even when we were in partnership I would give my own idea, Dad would give his and then we would work it out together,” he said. “But sometimes I go back to the basics. “I went back and won the three-year-old Magic Millions myself with Saluter and I’ve got a nice two-year-old called Dieters I’m getting ready this year. “He had three weeks off after he won the first two-year-old race and he’s really developed and strengthened. He looks great.” There’s now a next generation McLachlan, although his father is unsure whether five-year-old Riley will follow in the family footsteps. “He loves his iPad and computer,” McLachlan says when asked if Riley takes an interest in the horses. “I am very close to my son. He’s the apple of my eye. “I would love him to go into racing, but I would never push him to. “It’s just a shame dad wasn’t alive to see him, he died before he was born.” Phelan Ready is now enjoying retirement just north of Brisbane, not far from where Bruce McLachlan built his Thornhill Park empire, before he jets off to the UK next March. “The decision to retire him from racing came easy because in his last couple of runs he wasn’t as competitive as he always had been,” Jason said. “Even though he hadn’t been winning, he was always competitive. “He just lost that competitive edge and I felt it was time to retire him so I spoke to Bill Harris and my mother Lorraine and they both agreed. “He was only a little horse and was being asked to carry big weights, I’m sure that affected the number of races he won. “It would be nice to find another one. We look every year.”

Bill Harris will bring Phelan Ready to the UK in 2016 for a new start in dressage PHELAN Ready has a huge fan base in a little village in the United Kingdom and next March he will cross the equator to meet them as he embarks on the next phase of his career. UK-based part-owner Bill Harris wants Phelan Ready and his Group 1 placed stablemate Facile Tigre to become dressage horses now their racetrack careers have finished. Harris’ other owners, including Lorraine McLachlan, have given their blessing for the pair to make the trip north. “Dressage is a nice sport for retired horses. It keeps them active and mentally switched on,” Harris said. “We’re looking at bringing Phelan Ready and Facile Tigre here in March next year. “I decided to let them have a nice summer in Australia. It wouldn’t have been very nice bringing them here for our winter, so they will arrive in the spring and begin their new life.” Harris, a property developer, commuted for business between his homeland and Australia between 2001 and 2012. He developed a strong association with the late Bruce McLachlan, but it was a function speech made by John Singleton which made him want to invest more heavily in thoroughbreds. “I went to a lecture John was giving and his attitude was pretty much ‘just do it.’ Unbeknown to him, that was what convinced me to start investing more,” Harris said. “I was sitting in a bar one day looking at all the famous horses on the wall and it was then I

rung Bruce and said ‘let’s do this properly and invest some serious money.’ “We went to the Magic Millions sale with a good budget and bought quite a few and fortunately we have had some great success.” Harris was able to see Phelan Ready race numerous times during his career, but never on one of his winning days. “Bruce told me I had to stay away because they just didn’t win when I was there. I saw him lose by a nostril in Brisbane one day, but that was as close as he got,” Harris said. Instead, Phelan Ready’s greatest successes were watched from afar, where Harris had no shortage of friends, from the Hampshire village Soberton, cheering him on. “There have been some big parties back here because of Phelan Ready,” Harris said. “When he won the Magic Millions, the local pub had free beer for the entire weekend. “It’s only a small village but there was about $25,000 in bets won on him. “I watched it from the UK. We had a breakfast party and I think about half the village turned up to my house. “When he came storming down the outside we were in a state of disbelief and it was some party. “Then we did it all again after the Golden Slipper.” Harris is now hoping he can strike gold again, preparing to return to January’s Magic Millions in his quest to find another Phelan Ready. And perhaps his next dressage acquisition.

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From Snippets... to riches Australians love their racing. It’s a country where the answer to the phrase ‘the race that stops a nation’ – aka the Melbourne Cup – should form part of a citizenship test.

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FROM SNIPPETS...TO RICHES AUSTRALIA’S FIRST $10 MILLION RACEDAY

ith more than AU$557,000,000 in prizemoney and breeder bonuses distributed annually across some 19,000 races, Australia is also one of the most lucrative and enjoyable places to race a horse. More importantly, the dream of racehorse ownership is real and reachable for every individual. Yes, the Melbourne Cup is indeed the most famous race in Australia and arguably the world, but in the state of Queensland the foremost racing event is categorically Magic Millions Raceday at the Gold Coast Turf Club.

In 1985 when Magic Millions founder and breeder Carl Waugh came up with the novel idea to hold an unreserved yearling sale at the Gold Coast, which the resulting purchases would be eligible to race for $1 million in a two-year-old race a year later, no one could have predicted the subsequent evolution of the race. Magic Millions was the first thoroughbred auction house in the world to conduct sales restricted racing and this January marks the 30 year anniversary since Snippets won the inaugural Magic Millions 2YO Classic by four lengths in 1987. Snippets means to Magic Millions, what Phar Lap means to the Melbourne Cup. That win three decades ago by the future breedshaping Snippets is still admired by many, including Magic Millions Managing Director Vin Cox. “Even at that time the Magic Millions concept excited me. To watch Snippets win the race and then go on to win the Gr1 Sires’ Produce at Randwick three months later – it was something,” Cox commented. Cox also admired Snippets from the breeding barn, selling nominations on behalf of the stallion’s shareholders during his early career at stud. To say that the Magic Millions Sales and Raceday Carnival has evolved considerably in the ensuing 30 years would be somewhat of a gross understatement. Innovation breeds success and on Saturday 9 January 2016, Magic Millions Raceday will become a very different landscape again. With the support of Racing Queensland, the world’s richest sales-based incentive raceday becomes Australia’s first $10 million raceday, with seven races worth $1 million plus over a nine race card.

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FROM SNIPPETS...TO RICHES AUSTRALIA’S FIRST $10 MILLION RACEDAY

2016 JEEP MAGIC MILLIONS RACEDAY PROGRAM $2m Jeep Magic Millions 2YO Classic plus $500,000 Racing Women’s Bonus – 1200m (RL) $2m Gold Coast Magic Millions 3YO Guineas – 1400m (RL) $1m Magic Millions Cup – 1400m (RL) $1m Magic Millions Sprint – 1100m $1m Magic Million Fillies & Mares Hcp – 1300m $1m Magic Millions Trophy – 1800m $1m Magic Millions QTIS Open – 1300m $250,000 Magic Millions Country Cup – 1200m $250,000 Magic Millions Maiden Plate – 1200m

As well as prizemoney increases, there are two exciting new additions to the program – the $1 million Magic Millions QTIS Open (1300m), restricted to horses registered for Magic Millions and the Queensland Thoroughbred Investment Scheme, and the $250,000 Magic Millions Country Cup (1200m). “Jeep Magic Millions Raceday in 2016 becomes the centrepiece of the Queensland Summer Racing Carnival,” said Ross Gove, Racing Queensland’s Thoroughbred Racing Operations Manager. Gove revealed that the Summer Carnival program has been structured to allow horses to progress through the November and December period to arrive in peak condition for Australia’s first $10 million raceday. This includes a key Magic Millions Preview Day at the Gold Coast on 26 December that sees two Gr3 lead up races for the Magic Millions 2YO Classic (BJ McLachlan Stakes) and Gold Coast Magic Millions 3YO Guineas (Vo Rogue Plate) plus three of four available wildcard races are also programmed at this meeting. The wildcard races are an exciting new concept that could, subject to conditions, earn the winners of four designated races during the Summer Carnival automatic entry into the applicable $1 million race on Jeep Magic Millions Raceday. Participation is expected from all over Australia from trainers, owners and jockeys vying for the unprecedented prizemoney which includes the ground-breaking $500,000 Racing Women’s Bonus on offer to the first four all female owned or leased horses in the $2 million Jeep Magic Millions 2YO Classic. For Queensland and the national thoroughbred racing industry, a $10 million raceday is an extraordinary event to be a part of. “Not only will we be delivering the first $10 million raceday ever conducted in Australia, we – Magic Millions, Racing Queensland and the Gold Coast Turf Club – are all working towards delivering a spectacle that complements its status,” Vin Cox explained. By winning the very first race in 1987 Snippets became a fundamental part of Magic Millions history. The future winners on the inaugural $10 million Jeep Magic Millions Raceday in 2016 will create new history, and a new era in the evolution of what is now an iconic raceday

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In September, building on the success of last year’s Magic Millions Racing Women Dinner in London, Katie Page-Harvey took her initiative to the US for the first time, hosting a dinner which was attended by some of the North American thoroughbred industry’s most successful and influential women. Magic Millions teamed up with Keeneland, the largest thoroughbred auction house in the world, to deliver the 2015 Magic Millions Racing Women and Keeneland Dinner in picturesque Lexington, Kentucky, bringing together these accomplished women to explore ways that they can continue to work together on a global stage and champion for other women to enter into the sport. Held at The Apiary, an old industrial

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Sue Masson, Jenine Sahadi & Donna Shively

Deborah Hancock, Patrica Whitcraft, Sally Humphrey & Venessa Merrin building recently transformed into a sophisticated event venue in the heart of Lexington’s emerging restaurant district, the event embodied Southern Kentucky charm and timeless elegance. Guests were welcomed by a string trio as they arrived which carried through into The Apiary’s opulent courtyard where guests enjoyed a glass of Moët & Chandon before a three course dinner. Katie, Gerry and Vin Cox were joined by Magic Millions Ambassadors, Hamish McLachlan, Francesca Cumani and Venessa Merrin, the US Representative for Magic Millions Racing Women. Among the group of outstanding women who attended the evening was Patricia Whitcraft of Spendthrift Farm, founder of Pin Oak Stud Josephine Abercrombie, Barbara Banke of Stonestreet Farms, Deborah Hancock of Claiborne Farm, Helen Alexander of Middlebrook Farm, media identity and former jockey Donna Barton Brothers, Donna Shively of Dixiana Farm, Jenine Sahadi, Sue Masson of Green Lantern Stables and Helen Groves of King Ranch, along with her two daughters, Helen Alexander and Emory Hamilton.

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It reads like a movie synopsis: a pair of ambitious horseman born outside the United States and a syndicate of mostly novice owners take a tilt at history with a spectacular colt in America’s greatest race.

That’s the true story of this year’s special guests at Magic Millions, both visiting the Gold Coast Sale for the first time, US Hall of Fame jockey Johnny Velazquez and the distinguished Maryland-based trainer Graham Motion. In 2011 Velazquez, affectionately known as “Johnny V”, and Motion combined to make history in the Kentucky Derby with Animal Kingdom, whose first yearlings sell this coming sales series. Over the last decade Velazquez, born in Puerto Rico in 1971, has emerged as the leading big- time jockey in the United States. Since 2012 he’s also the Leading All-Time Money-winning rider, with a staggering US$337 million prizemoney. Inducted to the US Racing Hall of Fame three years ago, Velazquez has twice received the prestigious Eclipse Award as Champion Jockey. He has ridden the winners of more than 5400 races – more even than Australia’s own

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winningest rider, Hall of Famer Robert Thompson. Among his most famous mounts are two-time Horse of the Year Wise Dan, Eclipse Champions Speightstown, Lemon Drop Kid, Ashado, Rags to Riches & Storm Flag Flying, dual Breeders’ Cup winner Da Hoss, and leading US & Australian sire More Than Ready. With more than 100 Group 1 victories, including thirteen Breeders’ Cup successes, two wins at Royal Ascot and a Dubai World Cup as well as the Kentucky Derby, Velazquez sits easily in the company of Australian legends like George Moore & Roy Higgins. Equally impressive is his strike rate. Across 26 seasons Velazquez has achieved a top-three finish in 45% of his rides, winning 18% of them – and he will be available for rides on Magic Millions Day at the Gold Coast. Velazquez lives in New York with his wife Leona, their daughter Lerina and son Michael Patrick.

Below: Sheikh Mohammed, Graham Motion & John Messara celebrate their 2013Dubai World Cup victory

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KENTUCKY DERBY STARS - VELAZQUEZ & MOTION

Graham Motion’s pedigree made a career in racing more likely than not, but his path to it was a little unusual. Born in England in 1964, he’s the son of international bloodstock agent Michael Motion, who was very well known in Australasia and responsible for the 1980 transaction which eventually took blue hen mare Eight Carat to Cambridge Stud. Michael and his wife Jo also managed Herringswell Manor Stud, a boarding farm near Newmarket where the young Graham spent his childhood. He might have joined the training fraternity there, but his life took another direction when his family moved to upstate New York in 1980. Graham’s parents neither held him back nor pushed him into racing, but the bug had bitten and in 1985 he began a five-year stint with Hall Of Fame trainer Jonathan Shepherd in Pennsylvania, followed by a year with Jonathan Pease in France, where he met his future wife, Anita. He returned to the United States to an assistant’s role with veteran Maryland trainer Bernie Bond and in 1993 took over the stable when Bond died. Two of Bond’s owners stuck with the quietly spoken young Englishman to get him going and he made the most of his opportunity with 21 wins in his first year, including his first three stakes successes. He’s now based on his own property, the 350-acre Herringswell Stables at Fair Hill, in north-east Maryland, where he and Anita live with their children Jane & Marcus. Renowned as a horseman’s trainer in the European style, Motion has achieved elite success with horses such as Better Talk Now (Breeders’ Cup Turf), Shared Account (Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf), Film Maker, Bullsbay, Photo Call and the 2014 Eclipse Award winner Main Sequence. More than 2000 wins, total prizemoney in excess of US$100 million and a lifetime “in the money” percentage of almost 50% mark him as exceptional. Their origin outside America is something Velazquez and Motion share with Animal Kingdom whose sire Leroidesanimaux was born in Brazil of French and English heritage, while his dam hails from the best German stock. Curiously, it was only through a quirk of fate that Velazquez rode Animal Kingdom in the Derby, notwithstanding his long-time friendship with Motion. Johnny explains, “As the main rider for trainer Todd Pletcher I had a commitment to his horse Uncle Mo but when he went wrong I was without a ride. Fortunately, Graham hadn’t committed to a jockey as he wasn’t certain to run Animal Kingdom until he worked the horse on the dirt the week before. The rest as they say is history.”

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Each year innumerable teams of young people travel from thoroughbred studs across the country to the Magic Millions complex to ensure the hundreds of horses on the grounds are looked after, paraded for potential purchasers, and presented in the sale ring come auction day by KATRINA PARTRIDGE

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Who are these youngsters with backgrounds as varied as the stamps in their passport? No matter what their family ties with racing, their country of birth, education level or the hierarchy/size of stud farm they work at these are individuals united by the words to a common hymn - the love of the thoroughbred. Their passion flows fiercely through every interview whether I speak to a Bachelor of Science Graduate from Canada (currently working at Edinglassie) or a 16 year old school leaver who just happens to also have 4 Australian Campdrafting titles to her name (currently working at Cressfield). As a group their work history and passport status so readily encapsulates the global nature of breeding and racing and its ability to allow young people the opportunity to work and further educate themselves not just around Australia but internationally. Each of the yearling prep staff were asked the following: 1. What led you to work in the thoroughbred industry? 2. What’s your background with horses? 3. If you could be anyone else in the industry for one day who would it be and why? 4. Favourite place or thing to do on the Gold Coast and/or what makes the Magic Millions January Sale so great to work at?

Johnny McConnell, Glastonbury Farm 1. Con Collins in Ireland. Started with him as a 12yo. He got me riding after I started mucking out boxes. Then moved across to stud work. Came to Australia in 2011 on a working holiday visa. 2. My grandfather used to foal down all the mares for the Aga Khan at Sheshoon Stud and my Uncle was stud groom at Gilltown. My father loves horse racing but is afraid of them and my mother is terrified of them full stop but my mother worked for a trainer and that’s how I got involved with the Collins family as she did the cooking and cleaning for them 3. Henry Field at this point in time. He has lots of new and up and coming stallions, they are getting bigger and challenging the big farms. It’s not going to be just Arrowfield/Darley/ Coolmore anymore. Now they have to worry about Newgate. So that’s the sort of position I’d aspire to be in if I were ever to set up my own place in the future perhaps 4. Koi for dinner, Moo Moo’s for a few drinks first. It’s a special sale, the first sale of the year. Usually our best horses, our better types, go to Magics in January.

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Melissa Jordan, Newgate (Ast. Stud Mger/Yrlg Mger) 1. I needed a job after finishing high school, I always wanted to be a Police Officer so I took a job with the horses until I could do that, fast forward 13 years & I’m still working with horses, it’s taken me to NZ, UK, Ireland & America 2. I had horses all my life and went to pony club every weekend. I don’t have a horse now as they are too expensive 3. Gai Waterhouse, she’s a strong successful hard working woman in a male dominated sport, and she always looks the part, who doesn’t want to be a Golden Slipper and Melbourne Cup Winner for a day! 4. Bugsy’s Seafood Restaurant at Broadbeach

Anna Pesek, Edinglassie Stud 1. I’d been involved in the industry since the age of 13 but then went and got my Bachelor of Science. After I graduated I wanted a break and am currently away from Canada on a sponsored work visa 2. I grew up on small hobby farm and my Dad bred a couple of thoroughbreds each year 3. Ryan Moore. As a child all I wanted to be was a jockey. Ryan just won 2 Breeders’ Cup races in the past few weeks and he’s won the Canadian International 3 years in a row 4. The Gold Coast has such a social atmosphere. Yes you work hard but it’s still quite casual. I’d recommend The Avenue, Moo Moo’s and Liars Bar

Denis Griffin, Arrowfield Stud (Yearling Manager) 1. I grew up with horses. My family were involved with pony racing in Ireland. I’ve been in Australia for the past 7 years, initially on a work visa and I’m now a permanent resident 2. Hunting and pony racing 3. John Foote. He has a super eye for picking a good horse for not a lot of money. He selected the 2015 Melbourne Cup winner for $50,000 for example 4. If you’re heading out - Teppanyaki. The sale itself is a highlight as it produces real 2YO types and early runners and there is also a great middle market in the sale.

Andrew McDonald, Segenhoe Stud 1. My Dad owns a small place at Wangaratta in Victoria and he got me my first job at Eliza Park after I left school. I stayed there for a few years ‘til I met Segenhoe’s current yearling manager Tom and he asked me if I wanted to come and work in the Hunter and I did 2. No, I came straight into thoroughbreds 3 James McDonald as I’d like an opportunity to ride top class horses at top class race meetings all over the world 4. The atmosphere is great particularly the night sale. You see some fantastic horses go through ring. Surfers Paradise is my pick for going out

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Alicea Peterson, Willow Park Stud 1. I went to TOCAL in 2007 and wanted to pursue a career with horses and thought thoroughbreds would be the best career option. My first job was at Woodlands 2. I didn’t get involved with horses until high school and didn’t break my first horse in until I was at TOCAL. I show an Australian Stockhorse now but that’s a recent thing 3. I can’t actually pick one person but it would be in the area of breaking and pre training. I really enjoy the process of breaking in my own horses and I find it so rewarding seeing a horse change through the education process and it would be great seeing them go on to win on the track 4. Georges seafood restaurant at Broadbeach. I’d have to say that the sunshine makes the sales at the Gold Coast so great

Jenna Teague, Middlebrook Valley Lodge 1. My love of horses 2. Pony club, show jumping and I still do campdrafting 3. I’d like to be a leading vet for the day such as Dr Joan Carrick, the vet who does the autopsies on problem breeding mares as I find it fascinating to see what goes wrong 4. Anywhere in Broadbeach. I love the atmosphere of the Coast and the January Sale itself

Kyle Wilcher, Edinglassie Stud 1. The thoroughbred industry runs in my family. My grandfather was a jockey, my other grandmother grew up on a farm and both her brothers were trainers who went on to work on studs and even on the other side of the family both those grandparents were involved in racing so I caught the bug as well 2. I rode a bit of trackwork in Victoria then also in Tasmania 3. Chris Waller. All the success he’s having. Must be a really smart man and know what he’s doing. I know he’s probably a pretty obvious person to pick but it would be really interesting to be inside his head for a day and see how it all works 4. I love the beach - it’s one of the best beaches in Australia. Go to Broadbeach for the nightlife!

April Langridge, Cressfield 1. I was just out of school looking for my first job in the horse industry. Cressfield were willing to give me a job and a place to stay when I was only 16 which I am extremely thankful for. I now have a fulltime job with the farm working with their yearlings which I thoroughly enjoy. 2. I started riding when I was about 7. I started at pony club then a year later as an 8 year old I started campdrafting. In the past 5 years I have won 4 Australian titles and I prep my own Australian Stockhorses for sale 3. Michelle Payne on Melbourne Cup Day 2015. I believe she has become an icon for women working in a male dominated workplace. I’m sure in the last few days Michelle has had an influence on driving women to reach their full potential especially women in the equine industry where there is a long held belief that men are better horse people. 4. Freshening up at the beach after a big day at the sales complex.

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Your culinary adventure awaits While the Gold Coast is renowned for its white sandy beaches and vibrant entertainment precincts, in the past couple of years the most exciting growth has been the development of the food scene in the villages that line the coast. Creative culinary entrepreneurs have been opening quirky cafes, unique restaurants, trendy bars and hip coffee houses. To make the most of your downtime at Magic Millions, we asked The Weekend Edition Gold Coast to curate its top picks from Surfers Paradise right down to Burleigh Heads. The buzz of Surfers Paradise is always a drawcard for tourists, and with the influx of new eateries and watering holes, locals are flocking there too. The rejuvenation of the old bus transit centre to The 4217, an urban micro village, has been the catalyst for this change. The Broadbeach precinct has become synonymous with culinary prowess, with seven restaurants awarded a chefs hat in The Brisbane Times Good Food Guide 2016 awards. Add to this contemporary bars, coffee nooks and brunch hotspots and you have everything you need to satisfy your appetite. A couple of minutes down the highway sits the hip new hangout for gourmet aficionados, Mermaid Beach. Taking up residence in old shops, warehouses and alleys is PAGE

a mix of the trendiest new food and drink havens that you have to try. Head south a few kilometres and you reach Burleigh Heads, the nucleus of the food revolution on the Gold Coast. Bakers, coffee roasters, chefs, providores and mixologists have all converged to create establishments that cater to the new local food movement, sourcing local produce and producing simple food that focuses on hearty flavours and healthy alternatives. However you want to indulge your culinary whim, the top places weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve selected across these villages will keep you nourished throughout Magic Millions.

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// Moo Moo Breaking down the barriers of the overtly masculine traditional steak house, Moo Moo has a stunning contemporary interior with natural stone finishes, sleek organic curves and a state-of-the-art lighting system. Since opening in 2005, Moo Moo has built up knowledge and relationships within the Australian beef industry to provide beef of the highest quality for its menu, with some cuts even exclusive to the Moo Moo Restaurant Group. The chefs work with quality boutique suppliers to deliver award-winning menus that celebrate the freshest of seasonal flavours and also cater to lovers of seafood, poultry and game plus vegetarian options. The Moobar, with its cowhide facade, has become one the Gold Coast’s hotspots, serving up amazing cocktails and award-winning wine. // 2685 Gold Coast Highway, Broadbeach p: 07 5539 9952 // w: moomoorestaurant.com

// Elk Espresso Located on a seemingly quiet neighbourhood street in the middle of Broadbeach, Elk Espresso has carved out a reputation for fine food and coffee. With an earthy feel, the quirky cafe features an elk mural across one wall and nature-based installations throughout. Packed with locals and tourists alike, it serves up Single O and Killerbee blends from Single Origin Roasters that can be paired with any number of delights from its delicious food menu. Open seven days from 6:00 am until 4:00 pm, Elk offers a welcome escape from the confines of the major shopping plazas in the immediate area. Make sure you try one of the decant signature shakes – the peanut butter chocolate thickshake, Nutella thickshake and Oreo thickshake are definitely our top picks. // 16 Chelsea Avenue, Broadbeach p: 07 5592 2888

// Mamasan Kitchen + Bar Mamasan Kitchen + Bar offers a traditional-yet-modern dining experience that is peppered with Southeast Asian influences. The sophisticated new venue offers a mix of traditional and modern cuisine with small bites through to banquet-style dining. The kingfish sashimi and half-shell scallops are popular along with Peking duck pancakes, sweet and spicy glazed lamb ribs and king crab ravioli dumplings. If you’ve still got room left, the crispy chicken with pickled ginger with Indonesian satay sauce is a standout. Finish your feast with a Mamasan chocolate brownie served with toasted sesame ice-cream and a salted-caramel fortune cookie. Mamasan also shakes up a delicious range of specialty cocktails and offers an extensive selection of international wines, beer, spirits and sake. // 3 Oracle Boulevard, Broadbeach p: 07 5527 5700 // w: mamasanbroadbeach.com

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YOUR CULINARY ADVENTURE AWAITS GOLD COAST DINING GUIDE Broadbeach continued // Room81 What do you get when a passionate young chef named Sam Moore takes the helm of an established restaurant? Award after award, including a chef’s hat in the latest The Brisbane Times Good Food Guide 2016 awards. room81 has quickly built a reputation of top-level service and exceptional cuisine over and above its moderate price tag. The intimate setting offers views into the open kitchen, so you can watch the culinary team prepare your degustation menu of two, five, seven or nine courses. Each creation is individually served with the story of its inception imparted to you by the knowledgeable wait staff. Should you wish to complement your degustation adventure with matching wines, the sommelier will know the perfect accompaniment to enhance the flavours in each dish. // 81 Surf Parade, Broadbeach p: 07 5592 2250 // w: room81.com.au

// The Cardamon Pod Sometimes being away from home means overdoing the eating and drinking. If you need to lighten the burden on your body for just one day, The Cardamom Pod is your answer. This vegetarian restaurant exemplifies a marriage between healthy and tasty food. Here they are one in the same, which has made it a favourite among carnivores, vegetarians and vegans alike. The recipes are based on Hare Krishna-style cooking and offer a revolving selection of hearty vegan lasagne, flavourful Asian curries, fresh seasonal salads and an enticing array of raw and gluten-free sweets. All produce is sourced locally and is organic where possible. // Shop 1/2685 Gold Coast Highway, Broadbeach p: 0452 218 108 // w: cardamonpod.com.au

// Kiyomi Named after a rare Japanese citrus fruit that exists somewhere between a mandarin and sweet orange, Kiyomi is one of the latest gastronomic offerings at Jupiters Hotel & Casino. Kiyomi serves a modern yet distinctly Japanese menu created by internationally recognised executive head chef Chase Kojima. Being awarded a chef’s hat only a few months after opening is a reflection of the cutting-edge Japanese cuisine he and his team create. Featuring unique yet simple flavour combinations, Kiyomi celebrates the experience of shared dining with an exciting food and beverage menu including a wide variety of Japanese tap and bottled beers, sake, shochu cocktails and Japanese whiskies. Enter the serene and perfectly detailed interiors for a truly spectacular experience. // Broadbeach Island, Broadbeach p: 1800 074 344 // w: jupitersgoldcoast.com.au/dining/

// Social Eating House Centred around the idea of share plates and tapas, Social Eating House + Bar is just as the name describes it – a place to meet, interact and break bread. Another chef-hat-awarded restaurant on the Gold Coast, Social’s menu has bakery items, a broad selection of meats from the charcuterie cabinet, bar snacks including braised lamb empanadas, small plates like spiced soft-shelled crab and larger plates to share including salt bush lamb shoulder. The understated elegant interior invites diners to relax and celebrate what’s important – friends and food. Salads, sides, sweets and of course cheese complete the food offering, perfectly paired with the drinks menu. All you need now is some dining pals and good conversation! // 3 Oracle Boulevard, Broadbeach p: 07 5504 5210 // w: socialeatinghouse.com.au

// JåMm JåMm offers a sophisticated experience that invokes all of your senses. Prelude your meal with a selection of biodynamic organic wine alongside a fanciful selection of cocktails in the lounge bar out back that has been decorated by two local tattoo artists. You can then choose from a variety of seating options for the main meal, including a carousel-style table that has chairs suspended from chains from the ceiling. The fare at JåMm is made from predominantly organic seasonal produce and underpins a philosophy of getting back to basics in terms of its preparation, and the plating is another story entirely. The dishes are served in an unexpected way that will intrigue and delight. Whatever you decide, make sure you leave room for dessert. // 135 Oracle Boulevard, Broadbeach p: 07 5538 8529 // w: jammbar.com.au PAGE

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// Mermaid Beach // Bon Bon BonBon bar transformed a narrow space next door to popular Mexican eatery Bonita Bonita to offer diners a fantastic option for a pre- or post-dinner cocktail. The new hole-in-the-wall bar offers a selection of the restaurant’s favourites alongside an inviting new assortment of drinks and aperitivos (bar snacks). Get your evening off to a splendid start with a Tequila Tea Party comprised of hickory-smoked Espolon Reposado tequila with BonBon-made apple tea, or perhaps a Rum Blazer – flamed Kraken rum, star anise, cinnamon quill and orange peel. If cocktails aren’t for you, there’s a fine selection of cerveza (Spanish beer) to keep you hydrated along with Brooklyn Lager and Little Creatures Pale Ale on tap. // 2460 Gold Coast Highway, Mermaid Beach p: 07 5575 2669 // w: bonitabonita.com.au

// Etsu Isakaya Etsu Izakaya is a traditional Japanese izakaya den intriguingly positioned on the Gold Coast Highway behind a set of old barn doors. At night, a red lantern is hung outside to indicate it’s open for business, and within, the frenetic atmosphere and warm ambience truly draw from the origins of izakaya bars in Japan, where people gather after work to talk, eat, drink sake, and escape from the outside world. Etsu’s dishes have been designed to be shared and are served steadily during the course of the evening. Pick at some spicy edamame and beautifully fresh sashimi before moving on to yakitori from the robata grill, pillowy gyoza and soft-shell crab. Etsu offers an extensive selection of Japanese whisky, sake, craft beers and wine. Reservations are a good idea as this communal meeting place is a favourite with locals and visitors alike. // 2440 Gold Coast Highway, Mermaid Beach p: 07 5526 0944 // w: etsu.com.au

// Vivre a Vie Meaning ‘my life to live’, Vivré a Vie celebrates the human experience of coming together to enjoy good food. The all-day breakfast and lunch menu presents an impossible choice including brioche French toast with vanilla glaze, mixed berry and CocoLuscious ice-cream or the indulgent organic breakfast platter that comprises bacon, poached eggs, beef and caramelised onion kofta, roasted tomato and sauteed baby spinach served with organic sourdough. A constantly changing list of weekly specials only adds to the difficult nature of the decision. The artisan bakery and cafe makes and bakes absolutely everything on site using fresh, top-quality organic ingredients, some of which are grown in the vegetable garden out the back. // Shop 1-2, 2364 Gold Coast Highway, Mermaid Beach p: 07 5526 1920 // w: vivrebakery.com

// BSKT Cafe A hive of activity from early morning, BSKT Cafe lives up to its mission of serving unadulterated, nutrient-rich foods, using the highest quality organic and gluten-free ingredients. The health key at the top of its menu caters to conscious diners, with protein, antioxidants, gluten-free and vegetarian referenced across the various options available. Flavour jumps off the menu, with Super Berry Cacao Pancakes, the Navajo Native Breakfast, or the BSKT Healthy Benny just a few of the breakfast options. Moving on to lunch (and dinner Friday and Saturday nights), you can choose between smaller or larger dishes to tame any appetite. The interior is as fresh as the food, with white walls adorned with hand-drawn illustrations, timber tables and chairs scattered throughout, and solid timber-topped bar tables out the back for communal dining. // 4 Lavarack Rd, Mermaid Beach p: 07 5526 6565 // w: bskt.com.au

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// Burleigh Heads // The Fish House If you’re looking for a beautifully unpretentious restaurant that invests everything into making your short time there a truly memorable experience, then look no further. The Fish House, Gold Coast’s most treasured seafood restaurant and recently awarded two hats by the prestigious The Brisbane Times Good Food Guide, passionately crafts a simple yet spectacular lunch and dinner menu with roots firmly entwined with Southern Europe. Guests have the opportunity to partake in the menu of the day (chef’s selection), and can also add the caviar course, cheese and dessert course and accompanied wine matches. With an extensive wine collection and a sommelier team that takes pride in its craft as much as the chefs, your time at The Fish House will be firmly ingrained in your memories of Magic Millions 2016. // 50 Goodwin Terrace, Burleigh Heads p: 07 5535 7725 // w: thefishhouse.com.au

// Cavalier Bar & Italian Behind the wide, solid timber entry door is a traditional-style bar, Cavalier Bar and Italian, complete with marble benches, timber panelling and old leather armchairs. Jewels of multi-colour liqueurs fill the back-lit bar wall, and complement the golden metal-clad panelling lining the staircase up to the tradition Italian restaurant beyond. Handmade pasta is preciously prepared daily, along with the bases and sauces that lay the foundations to the traditionally inspired dinner menu. If you are keen to settle in for a long evening of good food and wine, then share a selection of antipasti before proceeding to seared scallops then relishing every mouthful of the potato gnocchi with burnt butter and sage. Finish off with the house-made tiramisu and a liqueur coffee for the full effect. // Shop 1, 1710 Gold Coast Highway, Burleigh Heads p: 07 5538 9220 // w: cavalierbaranditalian.com.au

// Burleigh Social Hidden away off the highway running through Burleigh is the much-loved breakfast eatery, Burleigh Social. But breakfast from 7:00 am is only the start. Burleigh Social offers a simple, rustic menu for breakfast, brunch, lunch and whatever comes after lunch but before dinner. With the focus on locally sourced produce, the selection ranges from healthy and guilt-free to obscenely decadent. From also pouring delicious, pure, single-origin brews for those seeking a much-needed caffeine fix, to collating cool tunes to keep the vibe relaxed, the crew at Burleigh Social has got your mornings to mid-afternoons covered. P.S. You’ve got to try the Barbecue Pulled Pork Roll loaded with 12-hour slow-cooked pork and house-made slaw on a brioche roll ... delicious! // 2 Hibiscus Haven, Burleigh Heads p: 0421 460 739

// Commune Located on the lower end of the Gold Coast Highway, Commune is one of Burleigh Head’s best-kept local secrets. Decorated with an eclectic mix of local vintage-cumbeach-cum-retro furnishings and artwork, it’s a comfy home away from home and reflective of the Gold Coast urban vibe. The kitchen serves up some great inexpensive fare for breakfast and lunch with a healthy and organic twist. Enjoy cold-pressed juices, acai bowls and salads or try its selection of burgers, sandwiches, muffins and savoury breakfast options. If you are up for a snack, a sit-down meal or just a quick cup of Campos coffee, you can’t go past Commune. // 1844 Gold Coast Highway, Burleigh Heads p: 07 5520 3377

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// Surfers Paradise // Seaduction Restaurant + Bar The award-winning and elegant Seaduction Restaurant + Bar provides the perfect backdrop for a celebration of fine food. By sourcing only the highest quality and freshest produce from niche providores around the country, the culinary team creates technically daring dishes that transform traditional flavours into masterworks in taste and texture. If you are looking to extend your dining experience and soak up the breath-taking ocean views, the fivecourse degustation dinner menu is an option worth exploring. The resplendent interiors and extensive wine list complement the lunch and dinner menus superbly. Seaduction’s intimate wine-tasting room and private dining room are also available if you are looking for a secluded experience with friends. // Soul, 8 The Esplanade , Surfers Paradise p: 07 5635 5728 // w: seaduction.com.au

// Cocoon Ultralounge Bar Dining What do you get when one of the Gold Coast’s most awarded restaurateurs joins forces with a renowned nightclub tycoon? Swing by Cocoon Ultralounge Bar Dining to see for yourself. Lined with crisp white cabanas draped with sheer white curtains, this waterfront watering hole resembles something you might stumble upon in Ibiza or the Greek Islands. Cocoon Ultralounge has upped the ante to deliver a sophisticated venue that offers a plentiful menu of molecular cocktails, craft beers and share plates. The deck offers magnificent views over the Nerang River and provides the perfect place to while away a sunny afternoon from Wednesday to Sunday, while inside, the marble-clad establishment and sunken bar offer a refined and sophisticated setting for your evening enjoyment. // 58 Cavill Avenue, Surfers Paradise p: 07 5526 2033 // w: cocoongoldcoast.com

// Oliver Brown Belgian Chocolate Cafe Australian chocolatier Oliver Brown Belgian Chocolate Cafe is a dessert-lovers dream. Browse the cabinet chock-full of beautiful baked goods or indulge in something from the decadent menu. If you can bear to share, the Classic Fondue for Two makes for an indulgent feast with sides of marshmallow, pretzel and strawberries among other tempting delights. Baked churros, made fresh to order and sprinkled with cinnamon and icing sugar, are among the delicious temptations. For a true Oliver Brown dessert experience, try the Belgium Waffles that are served with either milk or dark chocolate, caramel sauce or maple syrup and piled high with your choice of sides including sliced bananas, ice-cream, crushed nuts, popping candy or crushed Oreos. // Soul, 8 The Esplanade, Surfers Paradise p: 07 5526 8813 // w: oliverbrown.com.au

// Paradox Coffee Roasters If you’re passionate about your coffee, a visit to Paradox Coffee Roasters at The 4217 - the old bus terminal - is a must. A far cry from churn-and-burn style coffee shops, Paradox is a place to sit and savour the experience. The establishment’s signature house blend brings together specialty-grade Nicaraguan and Ethiopian Sidamo beans and is roasted fresh in house by the master roaster and served within a week to ensure the output is consistently fresh. Open from 7:00 am, there is also a steady supply of drip and filter coffee brewing to remedy your caffeine craving. Beyond coffee, Paradox Coffee Roasters offers a mouth-watering selection of light snacks from the counter as well as an extensive breakfast and lunch menu. // The 4217, 7/10 Beach Road, Surfers Paradise p: 07 5538 3235 // w: paradoxroasters.com

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Ambassadors Both Hamish McLachlan and Tegan Harrison have been involved with horses from a young age and continue to represent the industry they love.

The Jeep Magic Millions Carnival and Raceday will in 2016 celebrate a milestone year with Australia’s first $10 million Raceday on Saturday January 9, and 30 Years of the Raceday. Gerry Harvey and Katie-Page Harvey are thrilled to welcome presenter for the Seven Network, Hamish McLachlan as the Jeep Magic Millions Carnival and Sales Ambassador who will be joining Zara Phillips MBE, Patron of Magic Millions Racing Women as she returns to the Gold Coast Carnival in January. Hamish’s role is an extension of his relationship with Magic Millions which has spanned a number of years; his history and love for horses making him the perfect choice. “I grew up around horses and have always been passionate about them, and I’ve been involved in racing for as long as I can remember, so to be a Jeep Magic Millions Carnival and Sales Ambassador is a thrill and a privilege. The Magic Millions in January is a racing experience like few others. Gerry and Katie Harvey have taken a raceday and turned it into a week-long Carnival, which in 2016 becomes Australia’s first $10 million raceday. It’s great for the Gold Coast, great for Queensland and terrific for the Australian racing industry,” McLachlan said. With a strong family history of racing, Hamish has always felt at home around horses and was an Australian representative for polo during the 1990s. Hamish also reports extensively on racing for the Seven Network and will form an integral part of its broadcast of the Jeep Magic Millions Raceday on Saturday 9 January, 2016. Queensland’s leading female jockey Tegan Harrison, who at the 2015 Magic Millions Raceday rode Endless Shadow to victory, was also recently announced as the 2016 Jeep Magic Millions Carnival Local Ambassador. Like Zara and Magic Millions Spokesperson, Francesca Cumani, Tegan exemplifies just what is possible for women in the industry and is a true reflection of the important role Katie Page-Harvey’s pioneering concept, Magic Millions Racing Women, is playing in recognising the participation and development of women in the thoroughbred horse-racing industry. “I am thrilled to be working with the Jeep Magic Millions as a Carnival Ambassador, particularly as a Queenslander. I have had a relationship with Magic Millions for years now as a jockey and enjoyed a career highlight at the 2015 January Raceday. Working alongside women like Katie Page-Harvey, Zara Phillips and Francesca Cumani, who are all so accomplished, and share the same vision to help pave the way for other women in the industry is a real privilege.” Magic Millions co-owner Katie Page-Harvey said, “Hamish and Tegan join our other long-standing Magic Millions Ambassadors Zara Phillips MBE, Patron of Magic Millions Racing Women and Seven’s racing expert Francesca Cumani. How lucky we are to have these amazing individuals representing our business”.

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Raine and Horne Rural Brisbane View

By appointment

Price

Offers over $5million

Agent

Danny Bukowski 0427 007 116 daniel.bukowski@rural.rh.com.au

100 Oaky Creek Road, BEAUDESERT QLD A premium equine facility with a reputation for producing champions including Mossman, Staging, Gold Edition, Buffering and Zoustar 291 acres in 7 titles to be sold in one line or as 3 separate parcels

• PROPERTY ONE - 207 acres, majority is irrigated, 5 bdm homestead (4 bathrooms, ducted air con, formal living areas, 3 car garage + carport), 2 staff houses, extensive vet & foaling facilities, serving barn with covered round yard, yearling barn with 24 stables, A/C office, 4 stallion runs, 18 main paddocks, 2 horse walkers

• PROPERTY TWO - 33 acres, 3 bdrm house, 21 steel horse yards (17 with shelters), 3 spelling paddocks, loading ramp and wash bay, 1 bore

rh.com.au/ruralbrisbane/8317506

• PROPERTY THREE - 49 acres, 2 bdrm house with dble garage, 7 paddocks, 15m round yard, flood lit Olympic size dressage arena, shed, 3 stables, 1 bore

rh.com.au Every care has been taken to verify the accuracy of the information contained in this document, but no warranty (either express or implied) is given by Raine & Horne or its agent, as to the accuracy of the contents. Purchasers should conduct their own investigations into all matters relating to the proposed purchase of the property.

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Precocious good looks and impeccable pedigree. Raw, majestic beauty mixed with soaring ambition and limitless potential. It’s a heady mix that only a small number of very discerning buyers will ever experience. For it takes a special insight, a special prescience, to look at the basic elements and to see future greatness. For astute buyers, Jewel represents just such an opportunity – a chance to claim a prized piece of Gold Coast luxury, and to be part of a story that will be told for many generations to come. Rising from the world-famous Surfers Paradise sands, the Jewel development will become a symbol of the Coast – as bold and inspiring as the stunning beaches and crystal blue waters that lie at its door. Jewel will be the Gold Coast’s first absolute beachfront location in 30 years, and when completed it will become Australia’s largest hotel, apartment and retail complex with unfettered beach access. A place where luxury living extends right onto the beach. The three golden towers have been developed through a global design contest. The winning design was modelled on three smoky quartz crystals formed deep beneath the earth’s crust, when the Gold Coast was the heart of one of history’s largest volcanoes. They capture the spirit of the land, and will become an iconic part of this ocean city – as familiar as Dubai’s Burj al Arab or Kuala Lumpur’s Petronas Towers. A visual masterpiece and the height of contemporary sophistication, Jewel’s unique and inspiring architecture will make it instantly recognisable and highly sought after. But it is inside the 512 residential apartments where Jewel’s heart is truly revealed. Each of the one, two or threebedroom residences will feature luxury fittings and appointments unprecedented in the Gold Coast market. Step inside and experience true luxury, from the raw beauty of timber or stone flooring through to kitchens and

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bathrooms graced by beautiful marble and onyx surfaces and the most modern tapware, basins and fittings – all designed exclusively for Jewel.

are a permanent resident or an occasional visitor, Jewel will offer a superb luxury lifestyle, through unparalleled design, amenities and service.

Residents will enjoy fine dining on the absolute beachfront as an everyday luxury, while some of the world’s most exclusive retailers in the ground-floor will make Jewel a high-end retail destination in its own right.

On the ground level, an extravagant outdoor podium will emulate a lush, tropical oasis, complete with soaring, open-air crystal corridors surrounded by tropical landscaping and sparkling lagoon pools – all leading directly to the beachfront and surf.

When complete in 2018, the dazzling Jewel development will also house a five-star, fully-serviced hotel, operated by the Dalian Wanda Group – China’s largest developer. This means the Wanda Group will hold a vested interest in the development for a lifetime, ensuring it always remains a destination of the utmost quality. It will also give apartment owners the service and amenities of a five-star luxury hotel, from in-room fine dining to housekeeping and concierge. It also opens up the opportunity for vacant apartments to be managed and serviced through the Wanda hotel. Whether you

Early investors in Jewel will create a lasting legacy for themselves and their families. It will truly be a destination for today, and tomorrow. A place you will always return to, enriched and refreshed. As an equity-led venture, construction on Jewel has been underway since early 2015 – effectively a $1 billion vote of confidence by developers Wanda Ridong in the economy of the Gold Coast and the region’s future as a leisure and lifestyle destination. Now is the time to secure a piece of this rare development. Visit: www.jewelgc.com to register.

A once in a generation opportunity to live on absolute Gold Coast beachfront. Now is your opportunity to secure an investment that will last generations, from $675,000.

Visit jewelgc.com or call 1800 799 889.

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SALE DATES Over 25 sales are held annually by Magic Millions, including yearling sales, breeding stock sales, two year olds in training sales and racehorse sales at the Gold Coast, Adelaide, Perth and Launceston. Outstanding racetrack success comes from all of our sales, and while a large number of lots sell through the Gold Coast sale ring each year, the quality of the stock sold through our interstate sales cannot not be ignored. GOLD COAST YEARLING SALE 6-12 JANUARY GOLD COAST SUMMER RACEHORSE SALE 12 JANUARY

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Just 5 minutes down the road from the sandy beaches of Glenelg, the annual Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale brings together a quality line up of potential racetrack stars at an auction renowned for the vast variety on offer and top quality success. All Adelaide Sale yearlings are eligible to nominate for over $11m prizemoney through the national Magic Millions Race Series, which in 2016 includes the running of the $200,000 Magic Millions Adelaide 2YO Classic at Morphettville.

PERTH YEARLING SALE 15-16 FEBRUARY TASMANIAN YEARLING SALE 18 FEBRUARY ADELAIDE YEARLING SALE 14-16 MARCH GOLD COAST MARCH YEARLING SALE 21-22 MARCH PERTH AUTUMN RACEHORSE SALE 15 APRIL GOLD COAST NATIONAL WEANLING SALE 25-27 MAY GOLD COAST NATIONAL BROODMARE SALE 30-31 MAY, 1-2 JUNE GOLD COAST NATIONAL YEARLING SALE 7-9 JUNE GOLD COAST NATIONAL RACEHORSE SALE 10 JUNE PERTH WINTER YEARLING & THOROUGHBRED SALE 24-26 JUNE GOLD COAST 2YOs IN TRAINING SALE 11-12 OCTOBER PROVISIONAL DATES AT TIME OF PRINT – SUBJECT TO CHANGE

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Happy Trails Superstar Happy Trails was purchased for $11,000 from the 2009 edition of the sale, and has gone on to earn over $3m in prizemoney, having won multiple group races including the VRC Emirates Stakes Gr1, Turnbull Stakes Gr1 & the LKS Mackinnon Stakes Gr1. In fact, in recent years this sale has had an affinity with the Emirates Stakes Gr1, as Hucklebuck (purchased for $50,000 from the sale in 2012) also won the race in 2014. In the 2015 Spring Carnival, the Adelaide Sale again produced a good horse in Mahuta, purchased from the sale for just $35,000 who made it 4 wins from 6 starts by winning the Sandown Guineas Gr2 in impressive style. In all, the sale has been very successful for buyers, as graduates from the last five years have collected 70 stakes wins, including 24 group wins! The 2016 sale will be held over three days – March 14 to 16 – commencing on Monday 10th in the evening following the running of the Adelaide Cup and Magic Millions Adelaide 2YO Classic at the adjacent Morphettville Racecourse. T +61 (08) 8297 8055 | adelaide@magicmillions.com.au

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PERTH The Perth Yearling Sale has a proud history of producing world class gallopers at value prices. Past graduates include Group One winners Scenic Blast, Luckygray, Moment Of Change, Eagle Regiment, Playing God, Barely a Moment, Scenic Shot and Magnifisio. Crowd favourite Luckygray

MVRC JRA Cup Gr3. He was purchased from the sale in 2009 for just $10,000 and has taken connections all over the country collecting over $1.3m.

was purchased from the sale in 2009 for just $46,000 and has now won over $2.6m in prizemoney for his owners, while the popular Peter Moody trained Moment Of Change was knocked down in the ring for $50,000 and collected $1.6m for connections. The Magic Millions WA Raceday, held just prior to the Magic Millions Perth Yearling Sale, showcases the rich prizemoney on offer for graduates of Magic Millions yearling sales in WA. $400,000 in exclusive Race Series

The Cleaner The catalogue brings together the best Tasmanian bred yearlings as well as a select group from the mainland, all to go under the hammer at Launceston’s Inveresk Showgrounds on February 18. The Magic Millions Racenight in Launceston complements the Magic Millions Tasmanian Yearling Sale, being held the evening prior to the sale. Magic Millions, in conjunction with Tasracing, is proud to support the state with two races offering a total of $100,000 in prizemoney. Both races are highly contested, as shown by the winner of the 2015 Brooklyn Park Magic Millions 2YO Classic, Gold Busker, who won the Listed Gold Sovereign Stakes at his following start. These two races form a part of the national Magic Millions Race Series where over $11m is on offer. T +61 (0) 401 307 918 | timb@magicmillions.com.au

Luckygray prizemoney is available across two races in February, and an additional race worth $40,000 is held in Kalgoorlie later in the year. Both the Magic Millions WA 2YO Classic and the Magic Millions WA 3YO Trophy have been recognised with Restricted Listed black type due to the high quality fields and winners to have contested past runnings of these races, which includes the likes of Lucky Street, Night War, and Playing God. T +61 (08) 9477 2455 | perth@magicmillions.com.au

TASMANIA An exclusive sale that is restricted to only 100-120 lots, the Tasmanian Yearling Sale appears like the quiet achiever, but when it comes to quality it competes with the best. Over recent years the sale has established itself as one of the greatest producing with graduates including stakes winners The Cleaner, Palantino, Lady Lynette, Triple Asset and Like A Carousel. In particular The Cleaner, dubbed in social media as The Longford Lion, is a true people’s horse having amazed crowds with tough front running wins in the MVRC Dato’ Tan Chin Nam Stakes Gr2 (both in 2014 & 2015) and Magic Millions head office is based on the Gold Coast, and has offices in Adelaide and Perth, and representation in New South Wales and Victoria. Internationally, Magic Millions has agents based in China, Europe, Korea, New Zealand and South Africa, and representatives for North America and Europe. See website for full details.

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Hunter Valley frontage along with well-presented paddocks and infrastructure gives Amarina Farm a distinct edge when it comes to producing quality bloodstock.

Amarina Farm A quality draft with buyer appeal

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UNTER RIVER frontage along with wellpresented paddocks and infrastructure gives Amarina Farm a distinct edge when it comes to producing quality bloodstock. The Craig and Sue Anderson-run operation takes to the Gold Coast a strong well rounded draft. Colts by Fastnet Rock, Lope de Vega, Love Conquers All, Master of Design, Poet’s Voice, Sepoy, Smart Missile, Snitzel, Star Witness, and Stratum are complemented by fillies by Artie Schiller, Congrats, I Am Invincible, More Than Ready, Sepoy, Stratum, and Your Song. “It’s a good draft and one which we expect to sell well,” said Craig. Leading out the Amarina charge is lot 94 a colt by Master of Design from the Rubiton mare Charming Ruby. He is a half-brother to the Gr.2 winner Fontein Ruby and his dam is a half-sister to Gr.2 winner Infinite Grace and a three-quarter sister to Fields of Omagh. “A nice, strong, balanced colt” said Craig. Next along is lot 100, the Fastnet Rock colt from Cherishing (Johannesburg). His dam is a half-sister to SW’s Chanting and Cherokee Chief and his grandam is Golden Reef (Mr Prospector). Lot 103 is a colt by Love Conquers All from the Commands mare China Road and is the first foal of a half-sister to SP Bejewelled. “Very typical of his sire – good shoulder, deep girth. A nice horse.” The Lope de Vega – Fairly Feline (Mr Greeley) colt, lot 209, is from a three-quarter sister to Santa Anita Okas-Gr.1 winner Crisp and to Belmont Futurity Stakes-Gr.1 winner Whywhywhy. “Well- proportioned with good balance,” said Craig. The Star Witness colt from Flawless (Zabeel), lot 231, is a half-brother to five times Macau winner Sandtop and his dam is a sister to SW Zabene, and half-sister to SW Knight’s Command. His grandam is Gr.1 winner Emerald Dream (Danehill). “Scopey, good length, and being out of a Zabeel mare gives him classic potential”. Lot 284 is a Smart Missile colt from Hamsa (Fusaichi Pegasus) whose dam is a Gr.1 placed winner and three-quarter sister to SW Srumdiddlyumptious. “A leggy individual with a great attitude.” The first of Amarina’s fillies is next into the ring and lot 299, is by I Am Invincible from the Exceed and Excel mare High Achiever, and her grandam is a half-sister to the dam of Shooting To Win and Deep Field. “Neat filly, fairly typical of what the sire presents.” The first foal of ATC Gimcrack winner Hussousa follows, a More Than Ready, and lot 315 is described as “A very

good first foal, good length and balance. A nice filly.” Another filly, lot 435, this time by Stratum from Miss Judged (Volksraad) is the second foal of a half-sister to dual Gr.2 winner Bird Of Fire. “An athletic leggy individual, with a common sense approach to her work during her prep.” More fillies follow and the next is lot 447 by Sepoy from Gr.2 winner Moccasin Bend (Eternity Range). “Typical of the sire – strong, muscular type.” Lot 489 a filly by Artie Schiller from Our Serena (Fantastic Light) is the second foal of a SP winner from the family of Alverta. “A nice filly and will furnish into a lovely individual in time.” Back to the colts and lot 542 by Sepoy from the Exceed and Excel mare Riptide, is the third foal of a three-quarter sister to Headwater and Kulgrinda, as well as being a half-sister to Cross Current. Closely related to River Dove, First Command and Oneworld, he is described by Craig as “A good colt with a great attitude.” Lot 557, “A muscular type with a smart attitude” is by Stratum from Rosmarino (Langfuhr) and is a half-brother to Gr.3 winner Va Pensiero and his third dam is Gelsomino. The Poet’s Voice colt, lot 570, from Salix Caprea (Catbird) is a threequarter brother to the very well-performed Catkins and two other winners, giving his dam the perfect score of three to race, all winners. “Good length and scope, a good walking horse.” Rounding out Book 1 for Amarina is lot 704, the colt by Snitzel from Very Cherry (Anabaa) a stakes placed winner. He is closely related to Simonstad and Dothraki. “A great walking horse with a kind attitude,” said Craig. Book 2 the Sunday session, sees the three final lots for the draft. Lot 779, a filly by Congrats from Minnastar (Black Minnaloushe) is a halfsister to two winners and her dam is a half-sister to Dance on Wood (dam of Dance To The Stars). “Nice scope and good balance” is how Craig portrays her. The penultimate lot is a colt by Love Conquers All from Silverscreen Queen (Exceed and Excel), lot 846, and is the first foal of his winning dam. “A strong horse and again fairly typical of what his sire presents” he is closely related to Gamine, Sun Classique, Fouardee, etc. The last lot on offer is lot 913 a filly by first season sire Your Song from the Pins three times winning mare Bondarenko. This is the family of Ocean Park and Critic, both Gr.1 winners. “A good effort for a first foal and although not tall, is a well-conformed individual.” “We are really looking forward to the Gold Coast sales and this draft has great variety and buyer appeal.”

Denman NSW 2328 t: 02 6547 1261 www.amarinafarm.com.au e: office@amarinafarm.com.au

2016 DRAFT Lot

Col/Sex Sire

Dam

Br. C

Master Of Design (AUS)

Charming Ruby (AUS)

100 B. C

Fastnet Rock (AUS)

Cherishing (USA)

103 B. C

Love Conquers All (AUS)

China Road (AUS)

209 B. C

Lope De Vega (IRE)

Fairly Feline (USA)

231 B. C

Star Witness (AUS)

Flawless (NZ)

284 B. C

Smart Missile (AUS)

Hamsa (USA)

299 B/Br. F

I Am Invincible (AUS)

High Achiever (AUS)

315 Br. F

More Than Ready (USA)

Hussousa (AUS)

435 B. F

Stratum (AUS)

Miss Judged (NZ)

447 B. F

Sepoy (AUS)

Moccasin Bend (AUS)

489 B. F

Artie Schiller (USA)

Our Serena (AUS)

542 B. C

Sepoy (AUS)

Riptide (AUS)

557 B. C

Stratum (AUS)

Rosmarino (AUS)

570 Br. C

Poet's Voice (GB)

Salix Caprea (AUS)

704 B. C

Snitzel (AUS)

Very Cherry (AUS)

779 Br/Gr. F Congrats (USA)

Minnastar (NZ)

846 B. C

Love Conquers All (AUS)

Silverscreen Queen (AUS)

913 B/Br. F

Your Song (AUS)

Bondarenko (NZ)

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Aquis Farm New player hits the ground running

QUIS FARM located in the picturesque Gold Coast hinterland has set itself up for success in the Australian thoroughbred breeding and racing industry. Situated on 447 hectares of fertile, rolling land, the farm is home to state of the art facilities. There is a fully irrigated 1800m grass track, a 1750m all-weather sand track, a recently refurbished water-walker, stables for up to 80 horses and green pastured paddocks for the farm’s broodmares and racehorses. The former Patinack Farm was purchased by Aquis Farm’s Fung family in 2015 and has undergone considerable renovations and upgrades since their acquisition. These major restoration works have already attracted one of the Gold Coast’s leading trainers, Bryan Guy, who has relocated his training operations to Aquis Farm. Guy will continue to operate his own business for his own clients and will also take exclusive control and responsibility for the Aquis Racing team managed by Justin Fung, son of Aquis Chairman, Tony Fung. A new player in the Australian thoroughbred breeding scene, Aquis Farm already have thirty well-bred mares who in the 2015 breeding season have been covered by leading Hunter

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Valley sires including Fastnet Rock, Pierro and other big name sires with a small number of mares also serviced by top Queensland sires. This has been a huge undertaking and one that Aquis Farm’s Kacy Fogden is excited about.

Liberator (by Encosta de Lago), a full brother to this colt’s dam, Pink Siris. The third dam is also stakes-placed and produced an impressive three stakes-winners, two of them going on to produce stakes performers themselves.

An active participant in recent weanling and “ready to run” sales as buyers and sellers, the Aquis Farm team is excited to be offering its first draft of yearlings at the 2016 Magic Millions Yearling Sale on the Gold Coast. Headlined by a very impressive colt by first season sire All Too Hard, the farm is offering five colts and a lovely filly by Golden Slipper winner Sebring, one of the hottest young stallions in Australia.

Mares in foal to All Too Hard averaged $352,000 at the 2014 Magic Millions National Sale and his first crop of yearlings at the 2016 Magic Millions Yearling Sale is expected to be very popular. Being such an impressive type, we can understand Aquis Farm’s excitement surrounding this colt.

Although very happy with all six of their yearlings, Kacy is quick to point out their All Too Hard colt is a “bit of a stable favourite”. Described by Kacy as a nice big yearling who could be mistaken for a two-year-old, this son of the 2012/13 Australian Champion 3yo is from a very successful family. He’s out of a winning daughter of Encosta de Lago who has already produced the multiple stakes-placed Echo Gal, making him a half-brother to that mare – a winner of over $300,000 in stakes so far. The second dam is a Listed winner in Ireland who produced Champion Hong Kong Stayer

The farm’s Sebring yearling filly is out of a stakes-winning Danehill Dancer mare Danedina who has had one foal to race for one winner. Danedina’s half-sister is Adelaide speedster Obsidian Dragon, a multiple stakes-placed mare who performed consistently in Melbourne and Adelaide. This filly is bred on a 4 x 3 Danehill cross and has a “good rein and is nice and correct”. The Bel Esprit x Ausmade (by Elusive Quality) colt is described by Kacy as a little powerhouse - a really well-built horse who has a big, strong hind-quarter, a nice rein and a lovely walk. He is out of an unraced Elusive Quality mare who has the impressive record for a young mare of two foals to race for two winners.

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above // colt by All Too Hard ex Pink Siris

Another yearling by an exciting first season sire is Aquis Farm’s Pierro colt. Out of the Encosta de Lago mare Cloud Song, who is a half-sister to recent MRC Caulfield Classic-Gr.3 winner Sacred Eye (by High Chaparral), this colt “gets around like he is the best horse in the stable” says Kacy. She adds “he is a touch smaller than our other colts but is very well-built, muscular and has a lot of scope”. The Choisir colt being presented by Aquis Farm in January is a “typical Choisir” suggests Kacy. He’s a chestnut with a white face and socks and is very well-bodied and also moves nicely. From the Giant’s Causeway mare First Blossom (USA) who is a three-quarter-sister to Del Mar Oaks –Gr.1 winner Internallyflawless, this colt comes from a family littered with black type winners. His third dam produced three Gr.1 winners including Champion French 2yo Hector

above // colt by All American ex Gibraltar Moon

Protector (by Woodman) – a successful sire in Japan, Champion 3yo and 4yo filly and mare Bosra Sham – also by Woodman and a winner of three Gr.1 races in the United Kingdom, and Shanghai (by Procida) a Gr.1 winner in France. Last but not least for Aquis Farm is the colt by All American out of Gibraltar Moon (by Rock of Gibraltar). Bred on the same cross as Gr.3 winner Bachman (by All American), this colt stands over quite some ground. He is a half-brother to the promising Starovsky who is trained by Gerald Ryan. The colt’s dam was a $400,000 yearling and won five metropolitan races in a row in Melbourne and Adelaide.

above // colt by Bel Esprit ex Ausmaid

January 2016 will be an exciting time for Aquis Farm as it offers its very first Magic Millions draft and we look forward to seeing their brand on the Gold Coast for many years to come.

Canungra QLD 4275 t: 0404 336 143 www.aquisfarm.com Kacy Fogden: 0417 838 489 e: kacy@aquisfarm.com

2016 DRAFT Lot

Col/Sex Sire

Dam

119 Br. C

Pierro (AUS)

Cloud Song (AUS)

142 B/Br. F

Sebring (AUS)

Danedina (AUS)

224 Ch. C

Choisir (AUS)

First Blossom (USA)

507 Ch. C

All Too Hard (AUS)

Pink Siris (AUS)

900 B. C

Bel Esprit (AUS)

Ausmaid (AUS)

987 B. C

All American (AUS)

Gibraltar Moon (AUS)

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Arrowfield Stud Leading Group 1 breeder has new kingdoms to conquer

F THE collective dreams of Magic Millions buyers could manifest as a single horse, the result would surely be Sweet Idea.

Bought by Gai Waterhouse and James Harron from Arrowfield’s 2012 Magic Millions draft, the indomitable daughter of Snitzel and Flidais returned ten times her $240,000 purchase price in prizemoney, raced almost exclusively in black type company and won or placed in 16 of her 19 starts. She signed off her three-season career with a very popular Group 1 victory in the ATC Galaxy H. G1 and then returned to the Magic Millions sale-ring to realise $1.6 million for her owners. As Gai wrote after Sweet Idea’s retirement, “She was the perfect mare for racing; she held her form for an entire preparation, she gave her all over a variety of distances and on any surface.” She sits inside the top 20 on the all-time list of highest earning Australian racemares, and that’s without contesting a Melbourne Cup, Queen Elizabeth Stakes, Doncaster Mile or Cox Plate. Sweet Idea headlined a milestone season for Arrowfield in 2014/15, joining stablemate Wandjina (Snitzel), champion South African filly Majmu (Redoute’s Choice) and BTC Cup winner Hot Snitzel (Snitzel) to give John Messara and his team the coveted title of Australia’s leading Group 1 breeder. The next wave of Arrowfield graduate success is already well underway. “Buy this January to run next January” is the Magic Millions mantra, but those who bought from the Stud’s 2015 draft

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didn’t have to wait even that long to see their colours carried by stakes performers. On the first Saturday in October, Arrowfield graduates Detective and Slumber Party, both by Snitzel, earned black type on debut in the Breeders’ Plate and Gimcrack Stakes at Randwick. History shows their owners can look forward to plenty of fun over the next few seasons too. The Gerald Ryan-trained Perignon (Snitzel), a Group 2-placed Sydney winner at two, progressed to a close third in this season’s ATC Flight S. G1. Another Ryan buy from Arrowfield above // Gai Waterhouse celebrates with Sweet Idea’s owners after her Group 1 Galaxy victory below // Arrowfield Magic Millions graduate Sweet Idea wins the 2015 ATC Galaxy H. G1

at the same 2014 sale, King’s Troop (Redoute’s Choice) has starred in quality company as a three-year-old this Spring, narrowly beaten by subsequent Group 1 winner Japonisme in the ATC San Domenico S. G3. Earlier in 2015 Amorino (Snitzel), a city winner at two, added Melbourne Group 3 and Listed wins to his CV, and has earned more than $760,000 for his owners, the Galante family. The Melbournetrained fillies Wild Rain (Manhattan Rain) and Secret Agenda (Not A Single Doubt) have both gained black capital status at three, Wild Rain in Adelaide, and Secret Agenda storming to victory in the VRC Red Roses S. G3 on Oaks Day at Flemington. The list of graduates from the Arrowfield Magic Millions barn over the past five years also includes Group winners Oakleigh Girl, Bachman and Havana, Group 1 Guineas-placed Traveston Girl, Listed winners Hijack Hussy, Assail, Express Power, Members Joy, Smoko and Urban Groove and Group-placed juvenile Regatta Rebel. Established in the same era as Arrowfield, the Magic Millions Sale is the natural launch-pad for first-crop yearlings by almost every significant Australian stallion. That includes Arrowfield’s champion and Group 1 sires Redoute’s Choice, Flying Spur, Danzero, Snitzel, Not A Single Doubt, Hussonet, Charge Forward and, of course, Danehill whose early Group 1 winners Nothin’ Leica Dane and Magic Of Sydney were both sold by Arrowfield and bought by Gai Waterhouse at Magic Millions.

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below // King’s Troop (left) runs a close second to Japonisme in the Gr.3 San Domenico Stakes

Scone NSW t: 02 9909 5555 (Sydney) 02 6545 3999 (Scone) www.arrowfield.com.au John Messara: 0419 220 774 Jon Freyer: 0408 583 888 Paul Messara: 0438 248 258 Andy Williams: 0437 167 258 e: arrowfield@arrowfield.com.au

bottom // Not A Single Doubt filly Secret Agenda is a Flemington Group winner this season

The 2016 Magic Millions Sale marks the launch of Arrowfield’s next challenger in the stallion stakes, Dubai World Cup and Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom. Described by internationally respected pedigree analyst Bill Oppenheim as “a seriously, seriously good racehorse”, Animal Kingdom ended his racing career as the world’s highest-rated entire with a figure of 126. His multi-national outcross pedigree, world-class performance and spectacular turn of foot on all surfaces make him an exceptional sire prospect, especially after the success of Street Cry who had a very similar profile.

Arrowfield’s 48-strong consignment is one of the largest it has ever offered at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Sale, and its size is matched by quality.

Arrowfield’s 48-strong consignment is one of the largest it has ever offered at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Sale, and its size is matched by quality. Likely highlight lots include Sweet idea’s full brother, the Snitzel-Flidais colt; Secret Agenda’s half-sister by Smart Missile; and the Redoute’s Choice colt from Phantom Queen, a half-sister to Sweet Idea. The Snitzel-Flame of Sydney colt, a half-brother to Melbourne and Hong Kong Group winner Not Listenin’tome will also attract attention.

2016 DRAFT Lot

Col/Sex Sire

Dam

B. F

Animal Kingdom (USA)

Alexandrova (AUS)

Br. C

Charge Forward (AUS)

Alverta (AUS)

Charge Forward’s yearlings are always sought after at Magic Millions and Arrowfield will present a colt from Group 1 winner Alverta, and a half-brother to recent Hong Kong Group 2 winner Contentment, out of the Commands mare Jemison.

Ch. F

Animal Kingdom is represented by seven yearlings in Arrowfield’s Magic Millions draft, including a filly out of US Group 2 winner Cat By The Tale (dam of Group 2-placed Raphael’s Cat), and a half-brother to Regatta Rebel, from Line Honours, a daughter of champion filly Alinghi.

Animal Kingdom (USA)

Cat by the Tale (USA)

105 B. F

Charge Forward (AUS)

Choice Blend (AUS)

131 Ch. C

Snitzel (AUS)

Covertly (AUS)

159 B. F

Smart Missile (AUS)

Distinctive (AUS)

160 Br. C

Smart Missile (AUS)

Ditas (NZ)

166 Ch. C

Starcraft (NZ)

Double Ranga (AUS)

171 B. F

Snitzel (AUS)

Driven Snow (USA)

201 B/Br. C Snitzel (AUS)

Estatuilla (ARG)

202 B. C

Redoute's Choice (AUS)

Evasion (USA)

228 Ch. C

Snitzel (AUS)

Flame of Sydney (AUS)

233 Ch. C

Snitzel (AUS)

Flidais (AUS)

260 B. F

Redoute's Choice (AUS)

Glamour Stock (JPN)

261 B. C

Smart Missile (AUS)

Glendelvine (AUS)

269 B. C

Snitzel (AUS)

Good Weekend (AUS)

294 Br. C

Animal Kingdom (USA)

Helena Girl (AUS)

316 Br. C

Redoute's Choice (AUS)

Hussta la Vista (AUS)

319 B. C

All American (AUS)

Illusionary (AUS)

341 Br. C

Charge Forward (AUS)

Jemison (AUS)

345 Br. C

Redoute's Choice (AUS)

Judged (AUS)

353 Ch. C

Sebring (AUS)

Kimillsy (AUS)

373 B. F

All American (AUS)

Lahana (AUS)

380 B. F

Redoute's Choice (AUS)

Lieserl (AUS)

382 Ch. C

Animal Kingdom (USA)

Line Honours (AUS)

429 Ch. F

Animal Kingdom (USA)

Mirovaya (AUS)

441 B. F

Not a Single Doubt (AUS)

Miss Sharapova (NZ)

456 Br. C

Charge Forward (AUS)

Morton (AUS)

470 B/Br. F

Smart Missile (AUS)

Negotiate (AUS)

476 Br. C

Snitzel (AUS)

Nocturnelle (AUS)

477 B. F

Animal Kingdom (USA)

North Flower (AUS)

480 Gr. C

Smart Missile (AUS)

Ocelot (AUS)

502 B. C

Redoute's Choice (AUS)

Phantom Queen (AUS)

523 Br. C

Smart Missile (AUS)

Pyrography (AUS)

567 B. C

Snitzel (AUS)

Sabanci (AUS)

589 B. F

Redoute's Choice (AUS)

Serenade Lily (NZ)

605 B/Gr. F

Smart Missile (AUS)

Simply Carina (USA)

629 B/Br. C Smart Missile (AUS)

Stormy Hussey (AUS)

636 Br. F

Smart Missile (AUS)

Strictly Personal (AUS)

694 B. F

Animal Kingdom (USA)

Tumble Turn (AUS)

744 B. F

Manhattan Rain (AUS)

Zing and Swing (AUS)

769 B. C

Smart Missile (AUS)

Lunasong (AUS)

812 Br. C

Snitzel (AUS)

Power O'Raylee (AUS)

871 Ch. C

Starcraft (NZ)

Vortex (AUS)

890 B. F

Starcraft (NZ)

Amalie (AUS)

894 B. F

Charge Forward (AUS)

Any Other Day (AUS)

920 B. C

All American (AUS)

Catalina Winemixer (AUS)

927 B. F

Snitzel (AUS)

Clean Sweep (NZ)

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Attunga Stud Stakes success the best advertisement

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TTUNGA STUD is a brand familiar to racing fans, with many brilliant graduates over the years, including last season’s Gr.1 winner Sacred Star (Flying Spur – Irish Nova, by O’Reilly). Currently it has Listed Alinghi Stakes winner Vezalay (Shamardal – Tactfully, by Flying Spur) representing the farm, as well as several horses stakes placed this season including Gr.3 Caulfield Guineas Prelude placed Tulsa (Sebring – Morning Dews, by Peintre Celebre); Gr.3 placed Mighty Maverick (Snitzel – Thunder Belle, by Thunder Gulch) and Listed placed Son of Maher (Al Maher – Dance Hit, by Tights). Brian Nutt, principal of Attunga Stud, told Bluebloods that Attunga’s draft for the 2016 Magic Millions Gold Coast sale is the biggest he has ever presented at a yearling sale. “For a small farm we are proud of the number of high quality racehorses produced at Attunga, and they include horses such as Devil Hawk, and although Press Statement was born in Victoria, he spent many months growing out at Attunga before breaking in.” Smart Missile bagged his first stakes winner in November with Smart ‘n’ Sassy, and Attunga has three yearlings to present by him. Lot 129 is the first foal of winning mare Couredge (Show a Heart), while Lot 559 is from two year-old stakes winner Royal Babe (Rory’s Jester) who has left four winners already. Lot 679 is from winning mare Thunder Belle (Thunder Gulch, dam of two stakes placed horses and herself out of Gr.1 winner Ruffles (Zeditave), giving this filly plenty of residual value. Nutt said “I must admit I am a great fan of the Smart Missile progeny, they remind me a lot of the Northern Meteor progeny......tough with scope to go on.” Sepoy’s first crop are also two year-olds, and he is represented here by Lot 138, a colt first foal of tough stakes winning racemare Dance With Her (Al Maher) who is a full sister to the aforementioned Son of Maher. Both are out of stakes winner Dance Hit (Tights). Another sire whose oldest progeny are two year-olds is Foxwedge, and his son Lot 534 is the first foal of winning mare Ready as Elle (More than Ready), who is a half-sister to Gr.1 place Emperor Max (Holy Roman Emperor).

“For a small farm we are proud of the number of high quality racehorses produced at Attunga, and they include horses such as Vezalay, Devil Hawk, and although Press Statement was born in Victoria, he spent many months growing out at Attunga before breaking in.” Three yearlings by first season sires include two by boom horse Pierro. Lot 402 is a colt out of Mae Gone West (Gone West) from a strong American family. Nutt said “This colt is particularly sharp. Could be a two year old, and looks to have “train on” written all over him.” The other Pierro, Lot 963 is a half-brother to stakes placed Zellindi (Bel Esprit) from winning mare Emilydelago (Encosta de Lago). Lot 578, by freshman Excelebration, is from Gr.1 winner Encounter’s half-sister Saucy Nell (Marauding). The proven brigade make up the majority of this draft with 13 yearlings headlined by Lot 147 a colt by sire of sires Redoute’s Choice from stakes winner and Gr.1 placed Dashing Granada (Keltrice). She is the dam of stakes winner

Celebrity Girl (Starcraft) whose first foal sold for $850,000 last year at this sale. Dashing Granada has also left two other stakes horses including a full sister to this colt, Albaicin, who is now the dam of Gr.3 winner and Gr.1 placed Generalife (Lonhro). Redoute’s Choice son Stratum has Lot 951 here, a colt out of Discretion (Canny Lad), dam of Gr.3 winner Royal Discretion (Royal Academy), stakes winner Roulettes (Flying Spur) and stakes placed Tactfully (Flying Spur) who is the dam of Vezalay (Shamardal).

Scone NSW t: 02 6545 9509 www.attungastud.com Brian Nutt: 0418 264 012 e: attungastud@bigpond.com

2016 DRAFT Lot

Col/Sex Sire

Dam

Ch. F

Sebring (AUS)

Catalan Bay (AUS)

Ch. F

Choisir (AUS)

Champalou (AUS)

Br. C

Commands (AUS)

Chaste (AUS)

129 B/Br. C Smart Missile (AUS)

Couredge (AUS)

138 Ch. C

Sepoy (AUS)

Dance With Her (AUS)

147 B. C

Redoute's Choice (AUS)

Dashing Granada (AUS)

225 Br. C

Hinchinbrook (AUS)

First Land (NZ)

402 B. C

Pierro (AUS)

Mae Gone West (USA)

459 B/Br. C High Chaparral (IRE)

Moussaieff (AUS)

462 B. C

Denman (AUS)

Mulu Miss (AUS)

534 Br. C

Foxwedge (AUS)

Ready as Elle (AUS)

559 B. C

Smart Missile (AUS)

Royal Babe (AUS)

578 B. C

Excelebration (IRE)

Saucy Nell (AUS)

679 B. F

Smart Missile (AUS)

Thunder Belle (AUS)

692 B. C

Sebring (AUS)

Truly Elegant (AUS)

703 Ch. C

Written Tycoon (AUS)

Verkko (AUS)

732 B. F

Charge Forward (AUS)

Xandretta (AUS)

897 B. F

Charge Forward (AUS)

Arrogantly (AUS)

911 Ch. F

Star Witness (AUS)

Bleveeka (AUS)

951 B. C

Stratum (AUS)

Discretion (AUS)

963 B. C

Pierro (AUS)

Emilydelago (AUS)

Hinchinbrook’s first crop of three year-olds look exciting, and Lot 225 is a colt out of unraced First Land (Generous), who is already the dam of Gr.3 placed Family Crest (Fastnet Rock). His second dam is Gr.1 winner True Devotion (Beau Sovereign). Nutt said “He looks to be a colt that will benefit from a bit of time but don’t be surprised if he makes the race next year.” Charge Forward has two yearlings in this draft, both bred on the same cross as his Gr.1 winner Headway (Charge Forward – Chatelaine, by Flying Spur). Lot 732 is a filly, the first foal of winning mare Xandretta (Flying Spur) who is a half-sister to Gr.1 winner Carry on Cutie (More Than Ready). The other is Lot 897, from winning mare Arrogantly (Flying Spur) who is a half-sister to Gr.2 two year-old winner Catnipped (Rory’s Jester). Sebring made headlines last season as the sire of Horse of the Year Dissident, and buyers have two by him to inspect in this draft. Lot 83 is a filly out of city winner Catalan Bay (Rock of Gibraltar) whose dam is Gr.1 winner Kim Angel (Serheed). This is a young family on the rise. The other is Lot 692, a colt from winning mare Truly Elegant (Scenic), already dam of three winners. Nutt said “Both look to have potential to run as two year olds and then go on as three year olds.” Other sires represented are High Chaparral (Lot 459), Written Tycoon (Lot 703), Choisir (Lot 92), Commands (Lot 96), Denman (462), and Lot 911 a filly by Star Witness out of stakes winner Bleveeka (Blevic).

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Bell River Thoroughbreds A reputation for selling runners - and winners

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UYERS go to the Magic Millions Gold Coast sale to buy two year-old types, and Bell River Thoroughbreds sold the perfect example in 2014. From a draft of just eight yearlings that year, they sold dual Listed two year-old winner Flippant (Hinchinbrook – Lady Beckworth, by General Nediym) for $220,000. Proprietor Andrew Ferguson told Bluebloods “We started out pinhooking a few and we’ve built our reputation on selling runners. Over the last nine years, we have been slowly building our broodmare band and now have 25 mares, but it is very difficult to acquire quality mares in the current economic climate as desirable mares are very expensive. I think the main reason that our farm produces racehorses is the land itself. We are hidden away in a little valley about two and a half hours drive from Scone on the Bell River. The farm is a little pocket of gorgeous country, about 323ha (800 acres) of river flats surrounded by limestone hills. With my wife Georgie looking after the horses and my sons involved with the farm, this is a real family business.” This year, Bell River Thoroughbreds will present a draft of seven yearlings, including Lot 365, a three-quarter-sister to Flippant by Snitzel. This filly has huge residual value, as her dam, Lady Beckworth, is a winning half-sister to Regard (Zabeel – Nanshan, by Nashwan) who is best known as the dam of Gr.1 stars Atlantic Jewel and Commanding Jewel. Other stakes horses in this family include Gr.1 winner and Champion Two Year-old Filly in Ireland, Pass the Peace (by Alzao) who is the dam of Gr.1 winner and Champion Two Year-old Filly Embassy (Cadeaux Genereux). With the number of early maturing classy types in this family, Flippant’s dual Listed wins as a two year-old are hardly surprising. Add Snitzel to the mix, and this filly is definitely worth inspecting.

above // Flippant - Hinchinbrook-Lady Beckworth sold for $220K MMGC 2014 by Bell River - won on 16/5/15 Scone RC Woodlands S-L ($85,200) below // Faraway Town - Not A Single Doubt-London Calling sold for $200K at MMGC 2015 by Bell River - won on 14/11/15 at Rosehill Cellarbrations Penrith 2YO-P ($68,750) bottom // She’s A Bop Girl - I Am Invincible-Dashie Diva sold for $50K and MMGC 2014 - won on 12/11/15 at Gosford RC TAB.com.au Maiden-P ($17,250)

Ferguson says “She is very much a Snitzel filly, neat and correct, an early running type which is also typical of family. She has phenomenal broodmare potential and we are very excited about taking her to this sale, as we think this is the right sale for a horse with this pedigree.” Another filly with excellent residual value is Lot 514, the Not a Single Doubt from Possessed (Scenic). Unraced Possessed is a full sister to the Gr.1 winning Episode, dam of Gr.1 winner First Seal (Fastnet Rock), and Possessed has been a superior broodmare leaving four winners including Listed Morphettville Guineas winner Becerra (Al Maher) who ran second in the Gr.1 Queensland Oaks. Episode has also left Gr.2 winner Book of Kells (Rock of Gibraltar) and both Episode and Possessed are half-sisters to Gr.3 winner Macquarie Prince (Best Western). Ferguson said “We were fortunate enough to purchase Possessed before First Seal arrived on the track, and this is a lovely filly that we are proud to offer. We are keeping the next filly from this mare making this a good opportunity to buy into a top family.” The other yearling, Lot 723, in this draft by Not a Single Doubt is a colt from Wilde Irish Song (Magic Albert), a winning half-sister to Gr.1 Australian Oaks winner Once Were Wild (Johannesburg) and stakes placed Testa Key (Testa Rossa). Other Gr.1 winners in this family include WA Oaks winner Contwig (Twig Moss) and NZ Ellerslie Sires’ Produce winner Do Si Do (Take Your Partner). “This colt is a running type, not overly big, but typical of the sire and ready to go. We have supported Not a Single Doubt from his first season and he has become a great sire to start off a young broodmare,” said Ferguson.

‘BELL RIVER’ Wellington, NSW t: 02 6846 7270 Andrew Ferguson: 0428 649 475 e: fgms@bigpond.com

2016 DRAFT Lot

Col/Sex Sire

120 B. C

Denman (AUS)

Dam Coco Kerringle (AUS)

122 Bl/Br. C High Chaparral (IRE)

Come Sunday (AUS)

365 Ch. F

Snitzel (AUS)

Lady Beckworth (AUS)

514 B. F

Not A Single Doubt (AUS)

Possessed (AUS)

723 Ch. C

Not A Single Doubt (AUS)

Wilde Irish Song (AUS)

821 B. F

Wanted (AUS)

Radiant Star (AUS)

924 Bl. F

Denman (AUS)

Cheeky Order (AUS)

To add to the tally of fillies with ready residual value is Lot 821, by Wanted from Radiant Star (Success Express). She was a good racemare, winning four in the city and was stakes placed, and has been equally as successful at stud. Her best foal, a half-brother to this yearling, is Gr.1 placed Scratch Me Lucky (Snitzel) who ran second to Peggy Jean in 2014’s ATC Sires’ Produce. All up, Radiant Star’s four winners have won 15 races. To complete the picture, Radiant Star is a half-sister to Gr.3 winners Red Colossus (Testa Rossa) and Nediym’s Glow (General Nediym), and to the dam of this season’s Gr.2 winner Kinglike (Exceed and Excel). “Coolmore have just bought a half share in Kinglike and this is a family on the move. This filly is a great opportunity to buy into a pedigree with a lot of depth, and she is a big strong filly to boot.” The draft includes two yearlings by Denman. Lot 924 is a filly, the first foal of placed mare Cheeky Order (Commands) who is from the family of Gr.3 winner Explicit (Bletchingly), and Listed winners Shouq (Danewin) and Acorns (Secret Savings). Ferguson says “An eye-catching filly, perhaps lacking substance in her pedigree up close, but she looks the part of a real racehorse and has a good walk with plenty of scope.” The other Denman yearling, Lot 120, is a colt from Coco Kerringle (Exceed and Excel) who won three races up to 1200m and ran fourth in the Gr.2 Silver Slipper behind Melito. As you’d expect with a precocious racemare, her first foal Classy Chanel (Starspangledbanner) was a winner as a two year-old last season. Coco Kerringle is a halfsister to Gr.1 Vinery Stud Stakes winner Mirjulisa Lass (Danasinga). Ferguson said “This colt is an absolute stunner, a deadset early running type with tremendous strength and length. He is a real eye-catcher. His full sister has just turned two, and won a jumpout in mid October for trainer Ciaron Maher.” To round out the draft is Lot 122, a High Chaparral colt from Come Sunday (Redoute’s Choice), an unraced half-sister to stakes winners That’s a Good Idea (Flying Spur) and Kneeling (Encosta de Lago). Come Sunday’s third dam is a half-sister to Danehill, and we all know how good that family is. Ferguson said “This colt is big and strong, more like the family than the sire, and should be seen out as an autumn two year-old. He has already been getting a lot of attention in our paddocks, and we expect that to continue at the sale.”

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Berkeley Park Stud A well-related draft packed full of early power

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ERKELEY PARK Stud has only been selling yearlings since 2011, and already has a massive headline horse among its graduates. Neale Bruce spoke to Bluebloods about Chautauqua and the farm’s draft of nine yearlings for the Magic Millions Gold Coast Sale. “It has been a huge thrill to watch Chautauqua mature and furnish into the horse he is today. Every stud master dreams of having a Gr.1 winner amongst the yearlings they prepare every year. Chautauqua is now the Flagship for Berkeley Park Stud”. Berkeley Park’s 2014 Magic Millions Gold Coast draft of just six yearlings has already produced a stakes horse in Senso (Street Sense) who sold for $75,000 and was a Listed placed two yearold winner last season. The 2016 draft of nine yearlings opens with a very rare filly, Lot 32 is the only live foal from Gr.1 winner Asia (Danehill), who is a half-sister to Gr.1 winner and sire Dr. Grace and out of Gr.1 winner English Wonder. Bruce purchased Asia as an older mare who had missed seven times, slipped once, and had a dead foal. “Given her record, we feel very lucky to have bred a foal from Asia, and this filly is a typical first foal who looks a lot like her mother. She is a good tough filly that bosses everything in the paddock about.” This filly is by Dream Ahead whose oldest foals are two year-olds, and has already left a couple of group winners in Europe in his first crop there.

“It has been a huge thrill to watch Chautauqua mature and furnish into the horse he is today. Every stud master dreams of having a Gr.1 winner amongst the yearlings they prepare every year. Chautauqua is now the Flagship for Berkeley Park Stud”.

a city winner as a two year-old last season, so this mare has precocious form on the board to give buyers confidence. Bruce said “Another strong filly that is a forward type. Her brother sold well last year and he was also typical of this family.”

Also in this draft by Dream Ahead is Lot 452, a colt from More Than Royal (More than Ready), a good city class racemare who won five times and who is a half-sister to Listed winner Jersey Lily (Catbird). Their dam is out of Gr.3 winner and Gr.1 placed Paklani (Haulpak).

above // filly by Dream Ahead (USA) ex Asia

First season sire All Too Hard has a nicely bred filly, Lot 333, from Isla Canela (Gone West), a winning daughter of Champion 3YO Filly in GB, Islington (Sadler’s Wells), who won four Gr.1 races and is from a top European family that includes Melbourne Cup winner Fiorente (Monsun). Bruce said “She is a real classic style of filly, typical of her European family. All Too Hard has added some muscle and strength. Her dam, Isla Canela was a US$2.4million weanling which shows the depth of the family.” Uncle Mo’s first crop has just turned two, and his first American crop has produced five stakes winners, two at Gr.1 level. Berkeley Park has Lot 268, a colt from Gonski Girl (Gonski) who is a stakes placed winner. This is her first foal, and she is a half-sister to Gr.3 Bletchingly Stakes winner Thiamandi (Street Boss). Bruce said “He is a good size for a first foal, a correct, solid athletic type.” Fellow second season sire Zoffany has had five stakes winners in his first European crop and his first Australian crop has just turned two. He is represented here by Lot 596, a filly out of She’s Sirius (Galileo) who is a young winning halfsister to Listed two year-old winner Spectrolite (Stratum). Her first foal, Coys (Dylan Thomas) was

590 Timor Rd Blandford, NSW, 2338 www.berkeleyparkstud.com.au Donal Riedy: 0400 455 900 Neale Bruce: 0427 764 254 e: neale@berkeleyparkstud.com.au

2016 DRAFT Lot

Col/Sex Sire

Dam

Br. F

Dream Ahead (USA)

Asia (AUS)

268 B. C

Uncle Mo (USA)

Gonski Girl (AUS)

333 B. F

All Too Hard (AUS)

Isla Canela (USA)

452 Ch. C

Dream Ahead (USA)

More Than Royal (AUS)

596 Ch. F

Zoffany (IRE)

She's Sirius (AUS)

759 B. C

Star Witness (AUS)

Leopard Skin (AUS)

793 B. C

I Am Invincible (AUS)

Nachtanz's Secret (AUS)

954 Br. F

Teofilo (IRE)

Dshizzl (AUS)

1009 B. F

I Am Invincible (AUS)

Isadora (AUS)

Star Witness was a top grade two year-old himself, and he did the job with his first crop last season getting three stakes winners. A colt from his third crop, Lot 759, is the first foal of Leopard Skin (Tale of the Cat), an unraced daughter of Listed winner La Chasseuse (Lion Hunter), giving this colt a 3x3 cross to Lion Hunter. “This is a typical Magic Millions colt,” said Bruce. “Strong, forward, a real power pack that should go early.” He is from a solid Australian family. Kermadec’s sire Teofilo (Galileo) has a filly, Lot 945, here out of city winner Dshizzl (Marju) from the family of Sir Pentire (Pentire) and Gr.1 winner Fair Sir (Sir Tristram). Bruce said “This filly is a more classic type. Magic Millions have increased the prizemoney across all their races now, and a horse of this style has plenty of options.” This draft is rounded out by two yearlings by boom sire I Am Invincible (Invincible Spirit). Lot 793 is a colt first foal of Nachtanz’s Secret (Encosta de Lago), a winning daughter of a sister to stakes winner Coy (Danehill) and Il Warrd (Pivotal). The other yearling by I Am Invincible is Lot 1009, a filly from Isadora (Gold Fever), a winner whose first foal is Gr.3 placed Thin Red Line (Redoute’s Choice). This is a good Australian family that produces plenty of two year-olds and includes Gr.1 winners like Blue Diamond winner Paint (Raami) and Hay List (Statue of Liberty). “They are both typical of the sire who is doing really well with the likes of Brazen Beau,” said Bruce.

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Ready For Victory

Bhima Thoroughbreds Ready for more success under new name

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ELLING under the Bhima Thoroughbreds banner for the first time, Mike and Kate Fleming, formerly of Broadwater Thoroughbreds, are really excited by their class offering for January’s Magic Millions Yearling Sale on the Gold Coast.

four being fillies including the stakes performers Allergic and Memorial. Part of the famed Dancing Show family of Redoute’s Choice, Al Maher, Manhattan Rain, Umatilla, Hurricane Sky and Gathering, this filly is the first foal from the mare and is sure to carry plenty of appeal.

First season sires often sell very well at the Magic Millions, with a colt from the first crop of Sepoy leading the way last year, topping the sale at $1.2 million. With a host of top class stallions represented with their first yearlings in 2016, Bhima will be offering colts by the 2012 Group 1 Caulfield Guineas one-two of All Too Hard and Pierro as well as a filly from that year’s Cox Plate winner Ocean Park. The second foal from the multiple stakes-winning More Than Ready mare Augusta Proud, the colt by Champion 2YO Pierro is a half-sister to last year’s $450,000 yearling graduate Thyme For Roses (Redoute’s Choice). Having had one start for a win, Thyme For Roses is a likely candidate to head to the 2016 Magic Millions 2YO Classic, and with Gai Waterhouse her conditioner, you couldn’t want a better trainer heading into the lucrative $2 million race.

Another graduate flying the flag from the 2014 Magic Millions yearling draft is I Am Invincible colt Super One, whose full sister will be offered in 2016. Unbeaten in all four starts in Singapore, winning twice at stakes level, Singapore’s Champion 2YO elect has since been purchased privately by various partners including the China Horse Club, Newgate Farm, Yarraman Park Stud as well as America’s WinStar Farm and transferred to the Melbourne stable of Lee and Anthony Freedman. With a draft of 12, five fillies and seven colts by a mix of proven stallions as well as first crop sires All Too Hard, Pierro and Ocean Park, the draft also contains yearlings from the final crops of Street Cry and Commands.

Recent graduate success has further buoyed the team with Ready For Victory proving a top colt of his generation, winning at stakes level on debut, before an outstanding fourth in the Group 1 Golden Slipper. Returning at three for his spring campaign, the More Than Ready colt’s highlight performance was his placing in the Group 1 Caulfield Guineas behind Press Statement. A filly by Champion Sire Fastnet Rock out of the Woodman mare Suitely could prove to be the leading light in a draft jam-packed with outstanding quality. A full sister to the Listed Talindert Stakes winner Casquets as well as a half-sister to the Listed-winning, Group 1 Oaks performer Ballet Suite (High Chaparral), the Danehill x Woodman cross that this filly is bred on has produced six individual Group 1 winners, five of which are fillies highlighted by Champion Miss Finland. Responsible for 22 individual Group 1 winners, 12 of which are fillies including this season’s NSW Horse of the Year - First Seal, the progeny of Fastnet Rock sold up to $1,050,000 at last year’s sale. Another yearling to get the pedigree purists excited is the Street Cry filly out of Encosta de Lago mare Demonstrable. From the final crop of Darley’s Street Cry, the sire of this year’s record-breaking W.S. Cox Plate winner Winx as well as Thousand Guineas winner Stay With Me, the Street Cry x Encosta de Lago cross has been represented by a relatively small sample size of seven runners. Five of which are winners,

A half-brother to Black Caviar, Champion 3YO All Too Hard was the winner of four Group 1 races and joins the likes of Starspangledbanner, Lonhro and Redoute’s Choice as a winner of the Caulfield Guineas. Being offered is his bay colt out of the Listed winning Fasliyev mare Fasline, herself a daughter of the Group 2-winning, Group 1 placed Umaline. From the first crop of Champion and multiple Group 1 winner Ocean Park, the bay filly is the fourth foal of the juvenile stakes performed Exceed And Excel mare Miraculous Miss, already the dam of two to race; Avisto and Celtic Tiger, both Listed winners. Another filly from the draft who has “Champion” written all over her is the Lope de Vega filly out of Ladyofdistinction, an unraced daughter of Darci Brahma. The filly is the second foal of Ladyofdistinction, a half-sister to New Zealand Champion Sprinter Miler Gee I Jane as well as Group 3 winner Miss Jessie Jay, who is in turn the dam of a pair of Champions; Katie Lee, New Zealand’s Champion 3YO and Banchee, New Zealand’s Champion 2YO. Renowned for his ability to produced high class juveniles, Exceed And Excel will be represented by a colt in the Bhima draft, while his triple Group 1-winning son Helmet will also have a single entry. The Exceed And Excel colt is the second foal of the winning Dubawi mare Dubai Me Diamonds, a half-sister to Group 3 winner Outlandish Lad. The Helmet colt is the third foal of Seeking The Gold, half-sister to dual Group 3 winner Cloud Scapes, from the family of Group 1 Test Stakes winner Missed The Storm.

3 Moobi Rd, Scone NSW 2337 t: 02 6545 1000 www.bhima.com.au Mike Fleming: 0448 254 365 e: mikefleming@live.com.au Kate Fleming: 0409 311 794 e: kate@bhima.com.au

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Col/Sex Sire

Dam

Br. C

Pierro (AUS)

Augusta Proud (AUS)

153 B. F

Street Cry (IRE)

Demonstrable (AUS)

A yearling sure to command plenty of attention is the I Am Invincible x Tails Wins filly. A full sister to Super One, who won his first four starts in Singapore by a combined margin of over 15 lengths including victories in the Aushorse Golden Horseshoe and Juvenile Championship. Super One is the leading contender to be crowned Singapore’s Champion Juvenile.

173 Ch. C

Exceed And Excel (AUS)

Dubai Me Diamonds (AUS)

214 B. C

All Too Hard (AUS)

Fasline (AUS)

371 B/Br. F

Lope de Vega (IRE)

Ladyofdistinction (NZ)

428 B. F

Ocean Park (NZ)

Miraculous Miss (AUS)

586 B. C

Helmet (AUS)

Seeking Sunshine (USA)

642 B. F

Fastnet Rock (AUS)

Suitely (AUS)

All in all the first offering under the Bhima banner is a great draft of yearlings that will have appeal to all sectors of the market with both Mike and Kate looking forward to having the draft head to the sale.

662 B/Br. F

I Am Invincible (AUS)

Tails Wins (AUS)

685 B. C

Commands (AUS)

Top of the Rock (AUS)

711 Ch. C

Choisir (AUS)

Volcada (NZ)

715 Ch. C

Duke of Marmalade (IRE)

Walk in the Park (NZ)

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t is little wonder that Bowness Stud’s Bullet Train has proven so popular at his first two years at stud, with the regally bred son of Sadler’s Wells ticking all the boxes. “It would be hard to manufacture a better pedigree for a stallion,” said Bowness’ John North of the Group Three winning 3/4 brother to superstar Frankel. Also a 3/4 brother to Royal Ascot Group One winner Noble Mission, Bullet Train is letting down into a magnificent stallion with North noting that the good-looking bay has many great qualities. “It is pretty hard to find any faults in him, there is no chink in that armour,” he said, noting that Bullet Train has inherited desirable characteristics from his sire and his dam sire Danehill. There is a lot of Sadler’s Wells about him though he is bigger and stronger boned than many of the breed. And he has that great laidback Danehill temperament.” North is looking forward to showcasing eight members of Bullet Train’s debut crop at the Magic Millions kicking off with a bay colt out of the Cape Cross mare Faille. His dam is a 3/4 sister to stakes winner Crossover from the prolific Fanfreluche family. Also very nice is a colt out of In The Neaux whose dam is the dual stakes winner Crazy Neaux. Bred on a 3f X 3m Danehill cross, he hails from the family of stakes winners Galvanized, La Bella Dame, Le Bonsir and Damselfly. There is also a filly out of Isabel Street, a Dubawi mare whose dam, the stakes placed Ninth Street Nine, is a half-sister to stakes winners On The Scent, Open And Notorious, Aroma and Petal Power. This girl boasts an interesting 6m X 6f cross of terrific mare Where You Lead. The first foal of Lonhro mare Lacey Lonhbreak has as her grandam a half-sister to stakes winners Faithful Son, Always Fair, Asaasy and to the dam of the Champion GB Filly Lailani. She carries crosses of influential Danzig, Natalma, Special and Lalun. Five times winner Mezmar has a strong bay colt. Mezmar is a half-sister to the Listed winner Dorf Command from the family of dual Group One winner Coco Cobanna. Montaza is a two times winning daughter of the stakes winner Tycoon Tango and she has a very nice Bullet Train filly from the family of stakes winners Oasis Bloom, Purpose, Lady Purpose, Underestimation, Hadaaf, Hemisphere and Cockade. Also to like is a colt out of Shanghai Sally, daughter of a city winner whose dam is a half-sister to the Gr.3 winning juvenile Western Ace. He is a descendant of the prolific mare Democratie from the same branch of this family as Gust Of Wind. His pedigree combines Sadler’s Wells and Perugino, providing for a cross of wonderful mare Fairy Bridge. Another with a Fairy Bridge cross is a colt out of Kinder Surprise, half-sister to Group winners De France and Whistler and to the dam of South African Group One winner Strategic News. He is a descendant of one of the greats in Somethingroyal. North is thrilled with how each of the Bullet Train yearlings is shaping, describing them as “proper horses,” adding that “they have to be good to get into this sale.” Bowness’ Magic Millions draft also consists of a nice selection of yearlings by outside stallions, the highlight of which is a Pierro half-brother to Caulfield Guineas-Gr.1 (1600m) winner Long John and Listed winning juvenile Ribald out of Hosiery, a two times winning half-sister to Hong Kong Group One winner Perfect Partner. Bred on the successful Lonhro/Night Shift cross, he is a horse North has “great hopes” for. “His dam has been a great producer and on Melbourne Cup day she produced another lovely colt, an outstanding type by Fastnet Rock.”

The first foal for Fastnet Rock mare Andromeda is a chestnut colt by Star Witness. Bred on a 4m x 3m Danehill cross, this descendant of famed matriarch Frizette has as his third dam the Group Three winner Julie La Rousse, dam of stakes winners Mariensky and Rousing Victory. Uncle Mo has made an encouraging start and he has two colts in the draft, the second foal of Charlotte’s Star, a winning half-sister to the South African Group Three winner Flying Tristram from the family of Dance Hero, and a half-brother to two winners out of Indalama from the family of the Group One stars Triscay, Defier, La Baraka and Demerger.

Bullet Train has inherited desirable characteristics from his sire and his dam sire Danehill. There is a lot of Sadler’s Wells about him though he is bigger and stronger boned than many of the breed. And he has that great laid-back Danehill temperament.” Bowness also has a pair of Medaglia D’Oros, a son of the city placed Isn’t She Fabulous, a halfsister to the Group One winner Pear Tart and a half-sister out of Mayneda to the stakes placed gallopers Mayneda Strategy and Goluana. I Am Invincible has the final foal for excellent broodmare Lucys Loot,a half-sister to the Group One sprinter Sound The Alarm and dam of the Group Three winner Royal Smile. Stratum is always in great form and his colt out of Pan’s Flute is a half-brother to two times winner Billy Vee. His dam is a winning daughter of Lonhro and Group Two mare Syrinx whose Listed winning dam Whistling produced stakes winners Whistle Up and Noise. The first foal for General Nediym mare Piccadilly Place is a filly by Foxwedge. Her dam is a halfsister to the stakes placed multiple city winner Shadow Minister and she boasts an interesting pedigree with duplications of Northern Dancer, Ribot, Sir Tristram, Damascus and Secretariat supported by crosses of the excellent mares Natalma and La Mirambule. Amongst that tally are twelve winners including the Group One winner Notoire, the Listed winner Well Known, the stakes placed Livigno and Tullamarine and the city winners Bramada, Primrose Penny and Violet Tints as well as the dams of the stakes winners Sino.

Murringo via Young NSW 2586 t: 02 6382 4473 www.bownessstud.com.au John North: 0428 846 270 e: john@bownessstud.com

2016 DRAFT Lot

Col/Sex Sire

Dam

306 Br. C

Pierro (AUS)

Hosiery (AUS)

325 B. C

Uncle Mo (USA)

Indalama (AUS)

332 B. F

Bullet Train (GB)

Isabel Street (AUS)

335 B/Br. C Medaglia D'oro (USA)

Isn't She Fabulous (AUS)

364 B. F

Bullet Train (GB)

Lacey Lonhbreak (AUS)

419 B/Br. F

Medaglia D'oro (USA)

Mayneda (AUS)

504 Ch. F

Foxwedge (AUS)

Piccadilly Place (AUS)

768 B. F

I Am Invincible (AUS)

Lucys Loot (AUS)

777 B. C

Bullet Train (GB)

Mezmar (AUS)

782 B. F

Bullet Train (GB)

Montaza (AUS)

805 B/Br. C Stratum (AUS)

Pan's Flute (AUS)

837 B. C

Bullet Train (GB)

Shanghai Sally (AUS)

893 Ch. C

Star Witness (AUS)

Andromeda (AUS)

923 B. C

Uncle Mo (USA)

Charlotte's Star (AUS)

970 B. C

Bullet Train (GB)

Faille (AUS)

1007 B. C

Bullet Train (GB)

In The Neaux (AUS)

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Coolmore Australia An exciting draft with quality in great quantity...

oolmore Australia, based at Jerrys Plains in the fertile Hunter Valley of NSW has made an emormous contribution to the Australian bloodstock industry since the 1980s. The farm has shuttled a stellar list of the world’s great racehorses from both Europe and America and has offered large, high quality drafts at the major Australian yearling sales for buyers’ competition. Coolmore has been a strong supporter of the Magic Millions concept and the farm’s offering for the 2016 January sale continues this tradition with an emphasis on quality. Coolmore general manager Michael Kirwan has spent most of his working life in Australia, his knowledge of the local industry is second to none and his insight into the Coolmore draft is worth careful consideration. Michael, is this the best line-up of yearlings that Coolmore Australia will have offered for sale on the Gold Coast?

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Yes, I believe so. 25 of the draft are the progeny of mares that are either black-type runners themselves or black-type producers, so that in itself tells you plenty about the quality of the offering. It includes siblings to the likes of Foxwedge, Zoustar and Miracles Of Life, as well as the progeny of elite mares like Monsoon Wedding, Irish Lights, Born To Rock, Paprika and Graceful Anna. Needless to say, as a team we’re incredibly excited to be bringing a draft of this standard to a sale that we all have very high expectations for.

Produce, Coolmore Stud Stakes and Epsom Handicap in the last year, which speaks volumes for the calibre of horse that is being developed and produced from the farm. As I speak, the number of stakes winning graduates of the farm for the year tallies an incredible 24. Combine this with a total of 11 individual group one winners or performers produced since the start of the year and I’m sure you can understand the sense of pride there is amongst the team and the confidence there is in the quality of horse that is being bred on the farm.

While Vancouver and Winx have been star performers amongst the Coolmore ‘raised and grazed’ in 2015, who are some of the other significant performers from the year just gone with a Coolmore association?

Pierro is something of an icon of the Australian turf given his remarkable racecourse success, so you must be hugely excited at the prospect of his first yearlings being offered for sale in 2016?

In 2015 Coolmore Australia has produced the winners of more group one races in Australia than any other Australian farm. Graduates of our system have won 8 group ones including the Golden Slipper, Cox Plate, Blue Diamond, Sires’

He was an unbelievable racehorse and is rightly considered to be everything one could want in a speed horse. He’s the highest-rated Australian two year-old since 1977 and he progressed further at three to the extent he was rated the best three year-old sprinter in the world in

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3367 Golden Highway, Jerrys Plains NSW 2330,Australia p: (02) 6576 4200 e: info@coolmore.com.au www.coolmore.com.au

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above Pierro | opposite page Excelebration

“Needless to say, as a team we’re incredibly excited to be bringing a draft of this standard to a sale that we all have very high hopes for.” 2013. He’s got an awesome physique and justifiably covered some of the best mares in Australasia in his first season. When you look at him and then appraise his progeny, the mechanics just make sense in terms of what you look for in potentially elite athletes. He’s proven very dominant in many respects, with his stock looking strong and athletic, possessing strong hind-parts and his same, purposeful action. He obviously had a great mind, showing an amazingly determined attitude in his races and while it’s too early to tell whether his stock will also demonstrate this on the racecourse, the early signs are positive. We are incredibly bullish about his prospects as a sire. Excelebration has been lauded as the highest rated sprinter/miler from the Danehill line, but what can buyers expect of his progeny? Make no mistake, Excelebration was a racehorse of rare quality. He was a touch unlucky to have been around in the Frankel era, but it takes a pretty special horse to win three group one mile races at weight for age and earn a Timeform rating of 133. His yearlings in Europe have sold to many of the very best judges, averaging approximately AUS$140,000 and realising in excess of AUS$1m, so that gives you an idea of the regard in which he is held in Europe. He’s a very good-looking horse with great balance and it wouldn’t surprise me if he made a similar impression with his first two year-olds to what Zoffany has done this year. He’s by a proven sire of precocious horses and generally speaking his stock look sharp, so we’re enthusiastic about him. Given this season’s offerings will be the ninth crop of yearlings by Fastnet Rock, how do you expect them to be perceived by the market? He is the reigning champion sire and

definitively the best sire in Australia in my view, having consistently proven himself one of the best sires in the world. He has now sired 47 group one horses and 25% of his stakes winners are group one winners. He’s one of the best sires of two year-olds in the country having bred at least one stakes winning two year-old from each of his eight Australian crops of racing age and of course his stock generally show dramatic improvement as they mature, as is demonstrated by his tally of 19 individual group one winning three year-olds. He’s a brilliant stallion capable of getting a diverse range of versatile horses and we have some lovely yearlings by him in the draft. It tends to be a good sale to come to buy a nice horse by him and it’s worth remembering that Atlantic Jewel, Super Cool, Nechita, Lone Rock, Driefontein and Amicus were all sold as yearlings at this sale, so I expect demand for his progeny to be as strong as ever! What are the standout yearlings in your draft this year? I don’t like to nominate specific yearlings. The reality is that both the farm and the stallions are enjoying a stellar run of success of late, so it wouldn’t surprise were quality racehorses to emerge from anywhere within the draft. Eighteen Coolmore-owned stallions have sired stakes winners in Australia so far this year and the likes of Choisir and the sadly deceased High Chaparral are churning out high-class performers with enviable regularity. Couple this with the promise being shown by the early runners of both Uncle Mo and Zoffany who are assured champion status with their first northern hemisphere crops and the future looks very bright indeed. Just for good measure, the number of stakes races won by those raised and/or sold by Coolmore Australia is now in excess of 400, which includes 68 group one races, which is a great endorsement of our focus on continuing to breed and develop racehorses of the very highest-class.

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Col/Sex Sire

Dam

Fastnet Rock (AUS)

Allez France (AUS)

Pierro (AUS)

Aqua D'amore (AUS)

Pierro (AUS)

Ballerina Girl (AUS)

Sepoy (AUS)

Born To Rock (AUS)

Star Witness (AUS)

Buymore (NZ)

Fastnet Rock (AUS)

Cats Whisker (AUS)

102 F

Pierro (AUS)

Chickens (AUS)

110 C

Fastnet Rock (AUS)

Chrisalice (GR)

114 C

Uncle Mo (USA)

Citirecruit (AUS)

132 C

Fastnet Rock (AUS)

Crimson Dawn (GB)

141 F

Pierro (AUS)

Dane Ripper (AUS)

148 F

Not A Single Doubt (AUS)

Dazzling Gazelle (AUS)

152 C

Pierro (AUS)

Delta Girl (NZ)

203 F

Fastnet Rock (AUS)

Evolve (AUS)

242 F

Fastnet Rock (AUS)

Forest Native (USA)

273 F

Fastnet Rock (AUS)

Graceful Anna (AUS)

275 C

Zoffany (IRE)

Green Mirage (AUS)

280 F

Fastnet Rock (AUS)

Gypsy Chimes (USA)

331 C

Pierro (AUS)

Irish Lights (AUS)

394 C

Pierro (AUS)

Lucky Angel (AUS)

448 F

Pierro (AUS)

Monsoon Wedding (AUS)

454 C

So You Think (NZ)

Morning Light (AUS)

492 F

Pierro (AUS)

Paprika (AUS)

512 C

Choisir (AUS)

Polite (USA)

529 F

Fastnet Rock (AUS)

Randaroo (USA)

551 C

Fastnet Rock (AUS)

Ronan's Bay (USA)

563 F

Sepoy (AUS)

Royal Pageant (AUS)

564 C

Smart Missile (AUS)

Rubinacci (AUS)

568 F

Choisir (AUS)

Sacred Witness (AUS)

577 C

Excelebration (IRE)

Satirical Lady (AUS)

594 C

Pierro (AUS)

Shania Dane (AUS)

604 F

So You Think (NZ)

Silver Sparks (USA)

610 C

Foxwedge (AUS)

Sister Havana (NZ)

618 C

Uncle Mo (USA)

Snake Mary (AUS)

638 F

Pierro (AUS)

Subtitle (AUS)

688 F

Fastnet Rock (AUS)

Triple Asset (AUS)

729 F

Your Song (AUS)

Woodala (AUS)

745 C

All Too Hard (AUS)

Zouzou (AUS)

750 F

Excelebration (IRE)

Lacada Siren (AUS)

763 F

Uncle Mo (USA)

Lolita Star (AUS)

814 C

Choisir (AUS)

Primarose (AUS)

869 F

Excelebration (IRE)

Vereza (NZ)

892 F

Poet's Voice (GB)

Ambitious Lady (GB)

932 C

Lope De Vega (IRE)

Count Your Fingers (AUS)

978 C

Choisir (AUS)

Folk Music (AUS)

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Corumbene Stud Renowned Group 1 breeders offer a draft to suit everyone

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ORUMBENE Stud is situated near the township of Dunedoo west of Scone. Established in 1980 by George Altomonte, the stud is part of a large 5000 hectare property that runs approximately 2000 head of cattle, 14,000 sheep and 200 horses. The immaculately set out horse stud is selfsufficient in terms of feed, with both hay and oats grown and harvested. The farm is constantly being improved and maintained to provide premium facilities for breeding and to ensure the wellbeing of valuable thoroughbreds. No stranger to success, Corumbene Stud has bred some of Australia’s most well-known thoroughbreds including 2013 Golden Slipper winner and Champion 2YO Overreach (by Exceed and Excel), Blue Diamond-Gr.1 heroine True Jewels (by Brief Truce), and the Gr.1 staying Marscay mare Heart Ruler, a winner of the Metropolitan Handicap-Gr.1. The farm also bred Gr.2 winners Wager, Benetta and Ichihara and continues to breed countless other stakesperforming race horses such as Mahara and Nayeli.

left // Champion 2YO Overreach and Tommy Berry after winning the Gr.2 Moet & Chandon Stakes

Perhaps the most recognisable of all graduates to come off Corumbene Stud in recent years is the Golden Slipper winning son of More Than Ready, Sebring. Sebring was sold through the Magic Millions Yearling Sale in 2007 for $130,000. Winning the Gr.1 Golden Slipper of his year, the Champion Two-year-old of the 2007/2008 season is out of Corumbene Stud’s Flying Spur mare Purespeed and is now a successful sire in his own right – crowned leading Second Season Sire in Australia in 2014.

No stranger to success, Corumbene Stud has bred some of Australia’s most well-known thoroughbreds including 2013 Golden Slipper winner and Champion 2YO Overreach (by Exceed and Excel), Blue Diamond-Gr.1 heroine True Jewels (by Brief Truce), and the Gr.1 staying Marscay mare Heart Ruler, a winner of the Metropolitan Handicap-Gr.1.

In 2002 Corumbene Stud purchased a Snippets yearling filly who was sent to the Randwick stable of Gai Waterhouse and named Hasna before going to on to become a dual Gr.1 winner and Champion 2YO filly of her season. Hasna has been a grand producer for the farm with all of her progeny performing with aplomb at the sales. With the 2016 Magic Million Gold Coast Yearling Sale approaching George Altomonte and his Stud Manager Toby Frazer took some time out to tell us about their draft for the upcoming sale in January. “Some years you have good crops and other years not so good, but this year’s crop is a good one” said George. Toby agreed suggesting they “have a horse in their draft for everyone”. Both gentlemen couldn’t have spoken more highly of their Sepoy filly out of the Redoute’s Choice mare Brothers Dream. Bred on a 3 x 3 Danehill cross from the family of successful sire Charge Forward (by Red Ransom) George describes her as “a very, very nice filly” with Toby referring to her as an “outstanding type that buyers will love”. Other standouts in the Corumbene draft include two Snitzel colts. The first is out of a stakeswinning General Nediym mare who is a sister to Gr.2 winner Ichihara and multiple listed winner Au Chocalat, from the family of Champion stayer Tie The Knot. Toby says he is a lovely mover, nice and correct, well-bodied and has a white face like Apache Cat, so you won’t miss him coming around the home turn”. The second of the Snitzel colts is out of a half-sister to Blue Diamond winner True Jewels and Gr.2 winner Wager and is bred on a 3 x 3 Danehill and 4 x 3 Lunchtime cross. George speaks fondly about this colt describing him as a “very good colt from a great family” which he has enjoyed success with for a long time. The farm’s Not A Single Doubt colt out of More Than Ready mare Cheetara is also highly regarded. “He’s a very very nice colt – a great mover and well-bodied” says Toby. This colt is also bred on a

Dunedoo NSW 2844 t: 02 9418 5556 (Sydney Office) www.corumbenestud.com.au Toby Frazer: 0418 115 528 e: tfrazer@alto.com.au

2016 DRAFT Lot

Col/Sex Sire

Dam

Br. F

Brothers Dream (AUS)

B/Br. C Not a Single Doubt (AUS)

Sepoy (AUS)

Cheetara (AUS)

162 B. F

Snitzel (AUS)

Donnica (AUS)

252 Br. F

High Chaparral (IRE)

French Script (NZ)

259 B. F

Hinchinbrook (AUS)

Gamble (AUS)

323 Ch. C

Stratum (AUS)

Inchita (AUS)

337 B. C

Snitzel (AUS)

Isurava (AUS)

386 Ch. F

Stratum (AUS)

Longlea (AUS)

392 B/Br. C Snitzel (AUS)

Loveday (AUS)

445 B. F

Not a Single Doubt (AUS)

Misshiraz (AUS)

649 Br. C

So You Think (NZ)

Surpassing (AUS)

701 B. F

Stratum (AUS)

Venture (AUS)

916 Br. F

Casino Prince (AUS)

Business Day (NZ)

952 B. F

Choisir (AUS)

Donna's Appeal (AUS)

953 B/Br. C Congrats (USA)

Double One (AUS)

3 x 3 Danehill cross and his second dam is Dashing Eagle, two-time Gr.1 winning daughter of Danehill who was trained by the great Bart Cummings. A second Not A Single Doubt yearling being offered by Corumbene in January is the filly out of the fivetime city-winning Secret Savings mare Misshiraz. Both Toby and George described her as a quality filly who is sure to be in demand at the sales. For those looking for value, George was quick to point out Lot 916 by Casino Prince. In the Sunday session of the sale, he is “an excellent type”, and being by the sire of All Too Hard out of a four-time winning Zabeel mare from the family of Gr.2 winner and Gr.1 placed Alpine Eagle, he is one to check out. An interesting filly is the yearling by Stratum out of the Encosta De Lago mare Inchita. She is a daughter of VRC Oaks-Gr.1 winner Arborea and a half-sister to the dam of Drumbeats and other stakes performers including Tai Tai Tess and Amalfi Dreams. This is a very productive family. Lot 259 by Leading First Season Sire Hinchinbrook is a “strong filly that looks an early-going type”. Bred on a 3 x 4 Danehill and 4 x 4 Lunchtime cross, this filly is out of an unraced daughter of Encosta de Lago from the family of Gr.1 Winner True Jewels (Blue Diamond Stakes) with the speedy Gai Waterhouse trained Wager (by Flying Spur) her second dam. George and Toby are both excited to be offering such a nice draft of horses at the 2016 Magic Millions Yearling Sale. When we asked Toby for his parting advice on buying a yearling he started by saying “You’ve got to be there. If you’re not there you won’t get one” and then followed up with “a horse has got to make you turn your head’.

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Davali Thoroughbreds The Davali dream

AVALI may only be 18 months old, but it’s a name that may resonate with thoroughbred investors in years to come. Based in the lower Hunter Valley on 250 acres of Twin Palms Stud located on the Hunter River at Luskintyre, Alison and David Hush are living the dream as they busily prepare and educate yearlings, manage broodmares and their foals and look after spelling racehorses.

Irish Lights and stakeswinners Burgeis, Liesele and Panzer Division.

so I can’t see why his stock can’t show the same early speed as he did,” enthused Alison.

While Davali is too new to experience racetrack success yet, the farm’s biggest off-track achievement thus far is the unwavering support from clients, as Alison explained.

Below is a further breakdown of Davali’s draft with special commentary from Alison.

Top racehorses led by Reset, Fast n Famous, Merlene, Charge Forward, Miss Pennymoney and Danendri have come off the property they are now leasing from the Johnson family, who established Twin Palms Stud in 1982; so there’s a proven track record in this neck of the woods waiting to be extended by Davali.

“Our biggest success so far would probably be the support we have received from some long time clients who have been with us for many years, and also the many new clients, including larger stud farms, who have sent us broodmares and also trusted us to prepare and consign their yearlings. “We’re just looking forward to seeing our 2015 yearlings offered begin to emerge on the track.”

With decades of experience working with thoroughbreds, standardbreds and warmbloods between them, Alison and David bit the bullet 18 months ago to operate under their own name, quite literally – DAV ALI, after spending 11 successful years setting up Lustre Lodge where they produced Group 1 winning mare

This year Davali is offering six yearlings at the famous Magic Millions Gold Coast Sale with one by Triple Crown winner Pierro. “Pierro has been supported by some outstanding mares, so he has every chance to make a statement in the sale ring and also when this first crop hit the track. Our Pierro filly is a very strong precocious type,

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PIERRO x O’PERFECT ONE filly She is a precocious filly with lots of substance, a good mover with a great attitude, all the attributes buyers look for in a 2yo type. From the family of Universal Prince and Universal Queen, she has the right credentials for racetrack success. HELMET x ELIZA PARK filly This filly has a big walk, taking effortless ground covering strides. She is an athlete with plenty of scope. Her page has loads of black type including Kate’s Myth, a New Zealand 3yo champion filly, who in turn produced Mythical Play, a South African 3YO champion filly.

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SO YOU THINK x ISLE OF GIBRALTAR colt

SEBRING x KABUKI DOLL colt

Stamped in the image of his sire, this well grown colt has loads of presence. He has a big loose walk and a ‘can do’ attitude. His prolific black type family starts at the top of the page with his mother being a full sister to Offenbach and continues to 2002 European horse of the year, Rock Of Gibraltar.

This strong colt is mature enough to run early but also has enough scope to go on with later. His city winning dam is a half-sister to stakes winning Delirious.

SNITZEL x YOU’RE DREAMIN colt He is a compact type, stamped by his sire. A very neat package with a willing attitude. You’re Dreamin has a habit of producing winners and this colt could add to her tally sooner rather than later. MORE THAN READY x FLIGHT OF DREAMS colt Out of a three quarter sister to Gonski and half-sister to Recast, this colt is a very athletic type who’s full of scope. He has a big frame with good bone and will mature into an imposing individual.

The 2015 yearling sales circuit produced some healthy results in terms of buyer spend, depth of buying bench and overall clearance rates; and Davali believes that trend is set to continue for 2016. “I believe the positive bloodstock trends will continue. The yearling producers are continuing to supply a quality product to the market while the sales companies continue to attract a bigger buying bench with new interest all the time. The energy being put into the development of the Australian racing product is also spurring the sales trends. “Magic Millions are a great example of this, investing into their carnival with a view to making their raceday bigger and better all the time - who wouldn’t want to be a part of it!”

above // Davali owners David and Alison Hush

117 Pywells Road Luskintyre NSW 2321 David Hush: 0407 452 202 Alison Hush: 0418 238 235 e: davali@outlook.com.au

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Col/Sex Sire

Dam

186 B. F

Helmet (AUS)

Eliza Park (AUS)

234 Ch. C

More Than Ready (USA)

Flight of Dreams (AUS)

334 B/Br. C So You Think (NZ)

Isle of Gibraltar (AUS)

479 B. F

Pierro (AUS)

O'perfect One (AUS)

734 B. C

Snitzel (AUS)

You're Dreamin (AUS)

747 B. C

Sebring (AUS)

Kabuki Doll (AUS)

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Edinburgh Park Select seven sure to impress

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MAGIC MILLIONS draft that is “100% Edinburgh Park Stud bred, born and raised” is one that the stud’s Ian Smith is justifiably proud of. It is a select group of seven well related yearlings by a mixture of proven and up-and-coming young stallions from in-form families and all have pleased Smith with their sale preparations.

Oaks-Gr.1 (2400m) runner up Becerra. This filly’s grandam is a sister to dual Group One winner Episode, dam of Flight Stakes-Gr.1 (1600m) winner First Seal and Tulloch StakesGr.2 (2000m) winner Book Of Kells. Aside from the Danehill line-breeding, she also carries crosses of that great stallion’s close relations Northern Dancer and Halo.

Sending his stakes placed city winning General Nediym mare Fortune Of War to Snitzel having noticed the success of the first runner bred on that cross, the Group One winner Sizzling, Smith has been delighted with the outcome, describing her chestnut filly as “one of the nicest fillies we have ever had at the farm.”

Boasting crosses of speed influences Danehill, Biscay and Lunchtime as well as duplications of the excellent mares Natalma, Mixed Marriage and Flower Bowl is a handsome chestnut colt by Sepoy out of the speedy multiple city winning Choisir mare Miss Independent. “He is a really good-looking colt, a neat athlete with very good bone. He is a typical early running type,” Smith said of the descendant of the influential matriarch Belle Rose. Miss Independent is a sister to stakes placed dual city winner Malambo out of a Last Tycoon mare whose dam is the dual Listed winner Palm Beach Babe. This family has produced the dual Group One winner Tempest Morn.

A Magic Millions draft that is “100% Edinburgh Park Stud bred, born and raised” is one that the stud’s Ian Smith is justifiably proud of. “She is outstanding. She has a strong girth and hindquarter with a lovely walk on her. She was in hot demand from both sales companies but she is a definite Magic Millions type.” Fortune Of War is a daughter of terrific broodmare Pretty Penny, a Group Three placed Encosta de Lago mare who has been represented by four stakes performed winners from as many to race including the dual Group winner Sertorius (the only Australian bred galloper to make the field in this year’s Melbourne Cup-Gr.1 3200m) and the Group Three winner Clifton Red. She hails from the family of Golden Slipper Stakes-Gr.1 (1200m) winner Tontonan and the stakes winners Mihalic, Prodromus, Savoy, Starclosure, Strait From Above, Moatize and Beltrois. A Snitzel colt also impresses Smith, a bay out of the imported Beat Hollow mare Sweet Hollow described as “a typical Snitzel. He is a nice, compact, athletic colt who looks like an early two-year-old type.” Sweet Hollow is a winning half-sister to five winners including the French 2000 Guineas-Gr.1 (1600m) winner Victory Note and the stakes placed Treble Hook, grandam of the Listed winners Petronella and Velvet Rope. This is a strong international family whose members include the South American Group One winners Girlie, Lorde Ache and Davsoyan, the French Group Two winner Welsh Flame, the UK two times Group winner Orchestration and local Listed winner Dead Or Alive. Outstanding young stallion Sebring has sired the stakes winners Scratchy Bottom, Kiss A Rose and Pressing line-bred to Danehill and a filly out of the Al Maher mare A Quiet Shandy is described by Smith as “a big, strong, scopey filly with a lot of presence. She is a very attractive filly who stands over a lot of ground and she will have plenty of admirers.” A Quiet Shandy is a city winning sister to Listed winning Queensland

The first foal for the Listed winner Miss Marx is a brown colt by highly regarded first season sire Pierro. Bred on the same Lonhro/Anabaa cross as stakes winners Fitocracy, Great Sight and Sainthood, he is “a good quality colt with plenty of scope. A great mover, he is one of the nicer colts we have bred in the last few years.” Miss Marx is out of the Listed winning Bite The Bullet mare Daijobo, sister to the stakes winning juvenile Let’s Compromise. Tough stakes winners Sahara Zed, Loud Speaker and Helter Skelter (between them the winners of 35 races) also hail from this running family. Boasting multiple Never Bend strains, he is also line-bred to that fine stallion’s Kentucky Oaks-Gr.1 (9f) winning dam Lalun. Another grandson of Lonhro is a colt by Denman out of Danehill mare Quilt. A 3/4 brother to four times Group winner Pinwheel and the multiple city winners Shilo and Counterpane, he is also a half-brother to Amish, the metropolitan winning dam of Listed winner Meidung. His city placed dam is a sister to the Stan Fox Stakes-Gr.2 (1400m) winner West Point and half-sister to the Hong Kong Champion Sprinter Charming City. This is a prolific black-type family whose members include the Group One sprinter Kenvain and the stakes winners Take Your Partner, Rigoletto, Expressage, Imperial Baron, Cinq Rouge and Nevada Desert. He carries crosses of the speed influences Vain and Biscay. “He is a very nice, well put together colt with a good pedigree.” Described as “a big strong colt who is just the type to meet the Magic Millions market” is a first crop son of All Too Hard out of the city placed Viscount mare Stammer. That mare is a half-sister to the dual Listed winner Dysphonia out of the multiple city winning Night Shift mare Stutter from the family of the Group One winning miler Sir Kinloch and the stakes winners Jeremiad, Scarf, Sir Ivory, Live The Reality and Classique Ivory.

Wingham NSW 2429 & Taree NSW 2430 t: 02 6553 0096 www.edinburghpark.com.au Ian Smith: 0419 637 892 e: info@edinburghpark.com.au

2016 DRAFT Lot

Col/Sex Sire

Dam

B/Br. F

Sebring (AUS)

A Quiet Shandy (AUS)

245 Ch. F

Snitzel (AUS)

Fortune Of War (AUS)

434 Ch. C

Sepoy (AUS)

Miss Independent (AUS)

438 Br. C

Pierro (AUS)

Miss Marx (AUS)

527 B. C

Denman (AUS)

Quilt (AUS)

624 B. C

All Too Hard (AUS)

Stammer (AUS)

654 B. C

Snitzel (AUS)

Sweet Hollow (GB)

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Edinglassie Stud Quality goes deep

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PRING time at Edinglassie Stud in the Hunter Valley is beautiful. It’s a busy time of the year for Stud Manager Mick Talty and his team as their mares foal down and are placed in foal for the following season. It’s also yearling preparation time as the farm’s Magic Millions draft is trained and schooled ahead of January’s big sale at the Gold Coast. November through January is dedicated to the yearlings with Mick pointing out “even Christmas is a training day”. The past eighteen months has been an extremely fruitful period for Edinglassie thanks in a large way to 2015 Australian Broodmare of the Year Listen Here. Listen Here is a winner of three races including the Pewsey Vale – LR in Morphettville, however she is best known for her deeds in the breeding barn. The 11-year-old daughter of Elusive Quality has so far produced both Shooting To Win and Deep Field. Deep Field won five of his eight starts including the Linlithgow Stakes-Gr.2 at Flemington and Lightning Handicap-LR at Randwick, while Shooting to Win’s four career wins include the Caulfield Guineas-Gr.1 and Stan Fox Stakes-Gr.2. Both horses were retired to stud in 2015 and Edinglassie are already proudly supporting the two sons of Northern Meteor with their mares. Listen Here has a lovely Zoustar filly at foot and is currently in foal to Medaglia d’Oro.

Given the success of recent years, Mick is looking forward to offering this January’s draft of 15 well-bred colts and fillies. They are by well-credentialled sires including Denman, Al Maher, I Am Invincible, Hinchinbrook, Charge Forward, Choisir, Snitzel and Mossman, as well as fashionable first season sires Helmet, Sepoy and Foxwedge.

It hasn’t all been about Listen Here, Deep Field and Shooting to Win, as Sebring Sun (Sebring-Soleil Royale by French Deputy (USA)) won the Rosebud Stakes-LR and was placed in the Golden Rose-Gr.1 and his career has been keenly followed by Edinglassie. Another promising filly, who Edinglassie sold on behalf of Kia Ora Stud at the 2014 Magic Million Yearling Sale, is Bannatyne (Rothesay- Zalila by Zabeel).

produced 11 foals for 10 to race and 9 winners, including two Hong Kong stakes performers. Of the colts in this year’s Magic Millions draft for Edinglassie, Talty is hard pressed to pick his stand-outs. He nominated the Helmet colt out of stakes winner Parriwi (Mossman-Sevillano by Octagonal) as a colt with substantial scope and one he expects to command a lot of attention. Another expected to be popular with buyers is the Foxwedge-Permission to Land colt. Permission to Land was a quality race mare who was placed at Gr.3 level. Her first foal named Falco (by High Chaparral (IRE)) is showing a lot of promise – with a win and three placings from his first five starts.

From Edinglassie’s 2015 Magic Millions draft, Mick suggested it is early days, but added that their sale-topper ($350,000) by Foxwedge out of Xaar’s Jewel has impressed in early jump-outs and may be one to watch out for. The un-named colt is a half-brother to Gr.2 winner Ninth Legion and is trained by Bryce Heys at Warwick Farm. Given the success of recent years, Mick is looking forward to offering this January’s draft of 15 well-bred colts and fillies. They are by well-credentialled sires including Denman, Al Maher, I Am Invincible, Hinchinbrook, Charge Forward, Choisir, Snitzel and Mossman, as well as fashionable first season sires Helmet, Sepoy and Foxwedge. The draft includes an Al Maher half-sister to the promising Invincible Heart (by I am Invincible) – she’s a “very athletic filly” out of the Show a Heart mare Bella Heart whose family includes Gene’s Interest, a versatile winner of four takes races including the Weetwood Handicap-LR and Toowoomba Cup-LR. Another filly Mick Talty is excited to be offering at the Magic Millions is the Sepoy filly out of Fastnet Rock mare Kissame Mucho. “She’s a nice filly and her dam is a sister to recent Sydney winner Frespanol (Choisir-Besame Mucho by Encosta de Lago)”. Being by the in-demand Sepoy, this filly is sure to have admirers. A yearling expected to be popular amongst those searching for value is the brown filly by Champion First Season Sire Hinchinbrook out of the Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) mare Tipsy Lane. This filly is described as “very nice and athletic” and although from a young mare, the grand-dam

Muswellbrook, NSW 2333 www.edinglassie.net.au Mick Talty: 0412 045 694

The second Foxwedge colt in the draft is out of Hush Up. He is a strong colt, and a perfect type for the Magic Millions sale and race.

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A horse Mick Talty describes as “a really nice colt” is the Your Song half-brother to the talented filly Stream Ahead (by Dane Shadow) who boasts a close-up second to dual stakes winner Petits Filous and Talty said this colt is a strong horse, much in the same mould as his sire.

Lot

Col/Sex Sire

Dam

B. F

Al Maher (AUS)

Bella Heart (AUS)

198 B. C

Hinchinbrook (AUS)

Equivalence (AUS)

314 B. C

Foxwedge (AUS)

Hush Up (AUS)

356 B. F

Sepoy (AUS)

Kissame Mucho (AUS)

494 B. C

Helmet (AUS)

Parriwi (AUS)

499 Ch. C

Foxwedge (AUS)

Permission To Land (AUS)

608 B/Br. C Your Song (AUS)

Siphon (AUS)

682 Br. F

Hinchinbrook (AUS)

Tipsy Lane (AUS)

730 B. C

I Am Invincible (AUS)

Woodstock Hussey (AUS)

791 B. C

Choisir (AUS)

My Amelia (AUS)

827 B. F

Snitzel (AUS)

Refugee (IRE)

847 Br. F

Dream Ahead (USA)

Sing for Us (NZ)

853 Ch. F

Mossman (AUS)

Starry Light (NZ)

884 B. F

Charge Forward (AUS)

Zuzichka (NZ)

891 Br. F

Denman (AUS)

Amazoom (AUS)

Other highlights of the Edinglassie draft of fillies for this year’s Magic Millions sale include a Denman filly from Amazoom - a half-sister to the Chris Waller trained Gr.3 winner Mamwaazel, a bay filly by Snitzel out of a Montjeu mare, a strong-moving chestnut Mossman filly whose dam was stakes-placed, a neat Charge Forward filly out of a winning Zabeel mare and a lovely scopey filly by Dream Ahead - she’s out of a dual-winning Danasinga mare from a family full of quality middle distance horses including Zazzman who ran third behind Makybe Diva and Vinnie Roe in the 2004 Melbourne Cup-Gr.1. Strong colts by Hinchinbrook, I am Invincible and the very consistent Choisir round out the Edinglassie draft. It is a particularly strong crop of horses and one which Edinglassie and Mick Talty hope can emulate the feats of their recent Magic Millions graduates.

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Element Hill Breeding of the highest calibre

UEENSLAND’S Element Hill Horse Stud is offering twenty well-bred horses at the 2016 Magic Millions Yearling Sale on the Gold Coast. Their exciting draft includes yearlings by champion sires Redoute’s Choice and Fastnet Rock, two out of the family of Fastnet Rock, four colts and fillies by exciting freshman sire Pierro, and a colt and a filly from the family of 2009-10 Australian Racehorse of the Year Typhoon Tracy - a five-time Gr.1 winner who was herself bred by the owners of Element Hill. Lot 65 on day one of the sale will see the farm’s draft off and running with a Pierro colt from the outstanding mare Bonanova. The dam won the Emirates Stakes-Gr.1 and finished second in a further four Gr.1 races. From four winners to date she has produced two stakes winners herself, including Bonaichi - dam of 2015 Geelong Classic winner Extra Choice. She’s also a sister to two other Gr.1 winners in Fraternity and Telesto. Next up for Element Hill is their colt by Magic Albert. He is a three-quarter brother to champion two-year-old Meurice (by Strategic) and on physical appearance Josh says he would be “surprised if he didn’t make a 2yo like his brother”. He’s out of Danehill mare Espadon who as well as producing Meurice, produced a Zabeel filly named Crillon who is probably better

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known as the dam of stallion prospect Ready for Victory (by More Than Ready). The dam is a halfsister to top sires Rubiton and Euclase. From the same family as the Espadon colt, Lot 217 is a Manhattan Rain colt with “a good deep girth, great overall shape and action”. “He loves being worked and licks his feed bin dry every night, which is a great indication going forward” says Josh. The first filly in Element Hill’s draft should be extremely well-received. “The family is built for speed” says Josh. She is by champion sire and broodmare sire Redoute’s Choice and is a sister to dual stakes winner Come Hither who won two races at 2 years of age and a half-sister to Listed winner Fun in Flight (by Fusaichi Pegasus). This filly’s dam is a half-sister to Not a Single Doubt and is herself Gr.2 placed. Adding further value to this filly’s pedigree is the fact that both Hokuspokus (by Red Ransom) and Come Hither have exciting 2yo prospects this season – the Gai Waterhouse trained Slumber Party (by Snitzel from Hokuspokus) ran third in the Gimcrack-LR in the Spring and the John O’Shea trained Goldolphin Lonhro colt, Cohesion (out of Come Hither), ran fourth in the Breeders PlateLR. “This filly is definitely one of our highlights on pedigree and type. She has a big, strong chest and a nice girth and I look forward to watching her progress throughout her career” said Josh.

“If I had to pick a favourite this would be him”, says Josh as he describes Lot 322, a brown colt by Champion 2yo Pierro out of Redoute’s Choice mare In the Future. He has a great forearm, is closed in at knees, has a lovely walk and looks like he will make a 2yo runner. This colt is a half-brother to successful sire and Gr.2 winner Domesday and is from a family rich in black type headed by Xaar (Head of the 1997 European 2YO Classification and Champion 2yo colt in France and Great Britain). Lot 399, the farm’s Fastnet Rock x Madam Tracy (by Encosta de Lago) filly will be very popular. Although a smaller foal, typical of a first foal, Josh says she “just keeps improving during her yearling preparation and is a very nice, neat horse”. This filly “parades with arrogance” as if she knows she comes from a great family. From the family of Fastnet Rock, Lot 443 is lovely, strong colt that “oozes quality”. By Magic Albert from the unraced Snitzel mare Miss Twiggy, this colt “may give buyers with a lower budget the opportunity to get a good horse from this amazing family of Fastnet Rock at a reasonable price” said Josh. Consigned on behalf of Evergreen Stud, Lot 468 is by Sepoy out of two-time city winning Fantastic Light mare Mysterious Light. Similar to the Miss Twiggy colt, this chestnut colt is also

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Lot 65 on day one of the sale will see the farm’s draft off and running with a Pierro colt from the outstanding mare Bonanova. The dam won the Emirates Stakes-Gr.1 and finished second in a further four Gr.1 races.

from the family of Fastnet Rock. Lot 431 again offered on behalf of Evergreen Stud is by Smart Missile out of winning Woodman mare Miss Alabama. The filly is a half-sister already to three stakes performers, all from the Danehill line. Perfect Truth is a very exciting mare for Element Hill. The Galileo mare’s first foal, Magicool, is a Gr.1 winner and his full brother by Fastnet Rock, Perfect Dare, is showing plenty of ability having won his maiden as a 2yo by two lengths and showing every sign of being a very promising horse. Josh described Lot 498 as a filly who is “great-bodied with a strong shoulder and a monster walk”. From a British and Irish family full of stakes performers this filly by Snitzel is sure to have her admirers. It’s not often you will find a colt whose close family includes two Gr.1 Oaks winners, both trained by the great Bart Cummings. Lot 526 is by Pierro out of Elusive Quality mare Queens Plaza. His dam is a half-sister to Gr.3 winner Zingham as well as to Zona, the dam of VRC Oaks-Gr.1 winner Faint Perfume. His second dam is the leading 3yo and AJC Oaks-Gr.1 winner Danendri. “This colt would probably be the best mover in our draft” says Josh. Lot 537 is a well-grown, big, strong Snitzel colt out of stakes-winning Unbridled’s Song mare Regrowth who has had seven to race for five winners including the Gr.3 winner Colour. From the family of Snippets, Not a Single Doubt and Zizou, this colt is very well-related and sure to be popular. On the Saturday night session of the sale Element Hill is offering an exciting filly by

Husson out of Danehill mare The Golden Dane. “This is a lovely filly and she will run” said Josh. The dam is a dual stake-winning mare who has already produced a stakes winner as well as the promising Golden Falls. She has had six to race, all winners, and is from a very successful family featuring many black type winners including Oakleigh Plate-Gr.1 winner Eagle Falls. Described by Josh as a “great physical specimen”, Lot 686 by Pierro will also go under the hammer in the Saturday night session of the sale. He is out of a winning daughter of Redoute’s Choice who is a blood-sister to Master of Design and a half-sister to Typhoon Tracy and Red Element. “Whoever buys this colt is going to need a wheelbarrow to haul all the prize money he is going to earn” said Josh with a laugh. Other lots being offered by Element Hill during the Saturday and Sunday sessions of the sale include fillies by Bernardini, Husson and Choisir as well as colts by Reset, Red Element and Husson. This group of horses are all great types and will offer value to buyers.

Innisplain Qld 4285 Josh Hutchins: 0424 135 848 e: josh@hutchinstb.com

2016 DRAFT Lot

Col/Sex Sire

Dam

B. C

Pierro (AUS)

Bonanova (NZ)

200 Ch. C

Magic Albert (AUS)

Espadon (AUS)

217 B. C

Manhattan Rain (AUS)

Fauchon (AUS)

286 B. F

Redoute's Choice (AUS)

Hanky Panky (AUS)

322 Br. C

Pierro (AUS)

In The Future (AUS)

399 B. F

Fastnet Rock (AUS)

Madam Tracy (AUS)

431 B/Br. F

Smart Missile (AUS)

Miss Alabama (NZ)

443 B. C

Magic Albert (AUS)

Miss Twiggy (AUS)

468 Ch. C

Sepoy (AUS)

Mysterious Light (AUS)

498 Ch. F

Snitzel (AUS)

Perfect Truth (IRE)

526 B/Br. C Pierro (AUS)

Queens Plaza (AUS)

537 B. C

Snitzel (AUS)

Regrowth (AUS)

676 B. F

Husson (ARG)

The Golden Dane (AUS)

686 B/Br. C Pierro (AUS)

Tracy's Choice (AUS)

724 B. F

Bernardini (USA)

Wildesong (AUS)

950 Ch. C

Reset (AUS)

Direct Flight (AUS)

972 B/Br. C Red Element (AUS)

Fairy Flight (IRE)

990 Ch. F

Husson (ARG)

Glorious Show (AUS)

995 Ch. C

Husson (ARG)

Greenmount Belle (AUS)

1014 Ch. F

Choisir (AUS)

Joey Jo Jo (AUS)

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Emirates Park Dream start to a stud career

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EADING to the sale with “one of the best overall drafts we have taken to the Magic Millions,” Emirates Park has plenty to look forward to with Al Maher, Dream Ahead, Harbour Watch and Mulaazem well represented. The stud’s Bryan Carlson is delighted with the start Dream Ahead has made in Europe, the Cartier award winning sprinter being represented by 16 debut crop winners including the Group winners Donjuan Triumphant and Final Frontier. “He is the leading first season sire on strike rate and by the Timeform ratings of his progeny,” he said. Emirates sold five Dream Ahead yearlings at the 2015 Magic Millions including one at $380,000. And he has a very nice group for 2016, one of which is a son of the Group Three winning Danehill mare Faiza. “He is the best foal the mare has had, he is outstanding, a cracking colt who looks an early type.”

of Fall Aspen, has four yearlings in the Emirates draft including a colt out of the Redoute’s Choice mare Dubayy. Line-bred to Best In Show, Natalma and Almahmoud, he is the second foal of a half-sister to triple Group One winner Shamekha. “He is a strong, good sized colt with plenty of bone.” “Very much like her sire on type, a quality filly” is a daughter of the Giant’s Causeway mare Magestique who has produced the stakes placed Distant Rock. Her dam is the stakes placed Cirque de Soleil, sister to Fastnet Rock.

The stud’s Bryan Carlson is delighted with the start Dream Ahead has made in Europe, the Cartier award winning sprinter being represented by 16 debut crop winners including the Group winners Donjuan Triumphant and Final Frontier. “He is the leading first season sire on strike rate and by the Timeform ratings of his progeny.”

Bred on a 7f x 6f cross of his own sixth dam Best In Show, a Harbour Watch colt out of the Encosta de Lago mare Salma is described by Carlson as “a cracking colt, the pick of the draft.” The first foal for a half-sister to the Listed winner Big Time, he is from the immediate family of Redoute’s Choice. “Not overly big but a lovely moving horse who will attract a lot of bids” is a son of Strathspey. From the family of, and line-bred to, Mr Prospector, he is out of a winning half-sister to Group Three winner Alzora and he is also line-bred to Best In Show, Glamour, Natalma and Almahmoud.

Dream Ahead’s filly out of Freewheel (half-sister to stakes winner Le Mans) is another to impress Carlson who describes her as “a very nice, early two-year-old type. She has good bone and she will sell very well.” “A forward, strong nice moving” filly for Dream Ahead is the second foal for Cheyne Walk, daughter of South Australian Oaks-Gr.1 (2400m) winner Lady Liberty. Line-bred to the excellent mares Where You Lead and Special, a “scopey colt” out of Muscatels hails the family of stakes winners Scarf, Jeremiad, Dysphonia, Ivory, Sir Kinloch, Live The Reality and Classique Ivory. Another good looking colt with interesting linebreeding is a son of Samra. Bred on a 6m, 7m x 5f cross of his own fifth dam Natalma (dam of Northern Dancer and third dam of Danehill), he is out of a half-sister to Group Three winner Al Samer. “He is not overly big but he is all quality.” Emirates stalwart Al Maher has a couple of imposing Magic Millions yearlings, the first of which is a filly out of Double Crossing from a speed family. “He is the sort of Al Maher who could go early,” Carlson said, noting that he is out of a dual city winning half-sister to the stakes winners Kulgrinda and River Delta from the family of Oakleigh Plate-Gr.1 (1100m) winner River Dove. “A quality filly who will mature into a lovely three-year-old,” is a daughter of Fortunato, halfsister to the stakes placed Fort ‘N’ Won and full sister to triple metropolitan winner Star Of Zena who “sadly died young before showing what she was really capable of.” Boasting crosses of the prolific mares Natalma, Almahmoud and Lalun, this filly hails from the family of popular stayer Red Cadeaux. The regally bred Harbour Watch, descendant

Murrurundi NSW 2338 p: 02 6546 6550 www.emiratespark.com.au Bryan Carlson: 0415 275 885 e: bryan@emiratespark.com.au

Harbour Watch has stamped his progeny and another like him is a colt out of city winner Viator who has produced the two times Group placed metropolitan winner Fleet Command and the city winners Misshiraz and Dats Ma Gal. “This is very much a two-year-old family and he is an early coming type.”

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Speaking of good types, Mulaazem impresses all who see him and Emirates have been delighted with his first progeny, two of whom head to the Magic Millions.

Lot

Col/Sex Sire

Dam

101 B. F

Dream Ahead (USA)

Cheyne Walk (USA)

165 B. F

Al Maher (AUS)

Double Crossing (AUS)

210 B. C

Dream Ahead (USA)

Faiza (AUS)

249 Ch. F

Dream Ahead (USA)

Freewheel (AUS)

404 B. F

Harbour Watch (IRE)

Magestique (AUS)

572 B. C

Harbour Watch (IRE)

Salma (AUS)

776 B. F

I Am Invincible (AUS)

Mercia (AUS)

789 Ch. C

Dream Ahead (USA)

Muscatels (AUS)

810 B. F

I Am Invincible (AUS)

Plenty Of Glamour (AUS)

832 B. C

I Am Invincible (AUS)

Salila (IRE)

833 B. C

Dream Ahead (USA)

Samra (AUS)

855 B. C

Harbour Watch (IRE)

Strathspey (AUS)

870 B. C

Harbour Watch (IRE)

Viator (AUS)

918 Ch. C

Mulaazem (AUS)

Canzero (AUS)

955 B. C

Harbour Watch (IRE)

Dubayy (AUS)

966 Ch. C

Mulaazem (AUS)

Ensejaam (AUS)

979 B. F

Al Maher (AUS)

Fortunato (AUS)

Bred on a 3f x 3m Danehill cross is a half-brother to the promising two-year-old Rather Sweet. His dam Canzero is a half-sister to the Listed winner Spectrolite.”Another two-year-old type, he is a very nice, very strong athlete.” Mulaazem’s second yearling is a colt out of the city placed Ensejaam who has produced four winners. She is a granddaughter of the French stakes winner Pink Valley, dam of the stakes winners Pink, Ring Pink and Lypink. “He is a lovely moving colt who covers a lot of ground.” A stallion who, says Carlson “upgrades his mares” is I Am Invincible and Emirates take two of his youngsters to the sale. Bred on a 3m x 3m cross of Green Desert is a daughter of Plenty Of Glamour, dam of 12 times winner The Gallows and multiple city winner Leichtenstein. “She is the best foal the mare has produced, a filly with nice quality.” “And again a very nice type” by I Am Invincible is a half-brother to the city winner Salerio out of Salila, a three times winning Sadler’s Wells sister to the Group Three winner Gypsy King.

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Eureka Stud Ten reasons to visit Eureka at MM 2016

UREKA Stud on the Darling Downs in Queensland has been a prolific producer of well-bred athletic and successful racehorses for many years since the farm was established by the McAlpine family in 1935. They have bred many a good horse over the years and fresh from recent success with the likes of Gr.1 winners Tinto (Queensland Oaks), Temple of Boom (Galaxy Stakes), and Spirit of Boom (William Reid Stakes and Doomben 10,000) some breeders may have been prepared to keep on doing as they were. Eureka’s managing owner Scott McAlpine and his team at Eureka Stud, however, have not been willing to rest on their laurels. Eureka has continued to support their resident stallions Spirit of Boom and Red Dazzler as well as other leading Queensland sires, but have also been prepared to send some of their good mares to the Hunter Valley where they’ve been covered by a number of Australia’s leading sires including Snitzel and Hinchinbrook, proven sires Nicconi and All American, as well as first season and freshman sires such as Smart Missile and Eurozone, just to name a few.

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The fruits of this decision to diversify are evident in Eureka Stud’s Magic Millions draft entered for the 2016 Gold Coast Yearling Sale in January. Their draft of ten well-bred yearlings includes six fillies by I am Invincible, Nicconi, All American, Hinchinbrook, Wanted and Sidereus, as well as four athletic colts by Snitzel (2), Zoffany and Captain Sonador.

are very nice horses. The first is a half-brother to Queensland Guineas-Gr.2 winner Express Air and he is a “nicely proportioned horse with a good rein and is well put together”. His dam’s half-brother is the stakes-winning Diamondsondinside, a winner of 15 races. The McAlpines have enjoyed plenty of success with this family.

Scott McAlpine is very happy with his draft and believes Eureka will offer something for everyone. Their two colts by Snitzel are early in the sale on Day 1 - lots 7 and 22, and both

The second of the Snitzel colts being offered by Eureka is out of the Rory’s Jester mare Angel Girl. Angel Girl was twice stakes-placed and won or placed eleven times from just twentytwo starts. She’s also the dam of Gr.1 winner Southern Lord (by Stratum) with this colt and Southern Lord both bred on a 3 x 3 Danehill cross. “He looks a readymade sprinter – he’s short-coupled, correct and a good size” said Scott.

Eureka Stud’s draft of ten wellbred yearlings includes six fillies by I am Invincible, Nicconi, All American, Hinchinbrook, Wanted and Sidereus, as well as four athletic colts by Snitzel (2), Zoffany and Captain Sonador.

The next of the farm’s colts is Lot 877 - Zoffany x Wisp O’ Will (by Red Dazzler). He’s a big, well-grown horse. “He was a 72kg foal and just continues to grow and develop. He’s not a giant but has strong hind quarters, a good shoulder and torso and is well-boned with good knees”

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Spirit Of Boom

ex Miss Liebert

ex Passara

ex Kinka Rhode

ex Regal Tier

ex Tossit About

opposite page // Three generations of Eureka (l-r) Angus, Colin & Scott McAlpine

over the ground”. This filly is by first season sire Sidereus (by General Nediym) whose first runners have started off well in the early 2yo races. Her dam Truly Brave was a seven time winner by Eureka’s champion sire Brave Warrior and has already produced a Gr.1 winner. Having performed admirably but without luck in the Coolmore Stakes-Gr.1 in the Sydney Autumn carnival, Tinto is now on a path towards the Villiers Stakes-Gr.2 this summer.

above // Spirit of Boom’s first foals 2015 right // Eureka-bred Queensland Oaks winner Tinto who will have a half-sister (lot 691) on offer

said Scott. This colt is out of a two-time winning Marauding mare - this is her first foal. He’s bred on a 3 x 4 Danehill cross from a family that features many black type winners including Dances on Stars and Miss Margaret. The final colt being offered in January, by Eureka, is by Captain Sonador out of Johannesburg (USA) mare Goodlookin Gambler – a winning half-sister to Gr.1 winner Scenic Peak. The dam had a win and a second from just two race starts and has produced one foal to race for a winner. That winner is Redsson who is by Eureka’s stallion Red Dazzler. He’s a handy three-year-old with two wins and two seconds from his first six starts, including a close-up second to the talented Tony Gollan trained filly Secret Saga. “He is a neat, strong horse who looks like he will run early like his brother” suggested Scott. The six fillies in Eureka’s draft are all nice horses. Lot 467 by I Am Invincible out of the city-winning Show a Heart mare Myalla Gold is the first to go through the ring and Scott says “is probably the pick of the whole draft”. He adds “She’s a lovely, very well-grown filly with plenty of length and rein and nice legs”. She’s out of a good-sized mare and Scott says the cross has worked great – she’s very well- balanced and correct. Her dam won four races from just eleven starts and is from the family of Over, winner of the Gr.1 Doncaster Handicap where he defeated the mighty Sunline. A half-sister to Queensland Oaks-Gr.1 winner Tinto is next up. Aside from being Tinto’s half-sister, what excites Scott about this filly is her enormous stride. Scott says she “waltzes

EUREKA STUD Cambooya Qld t: 07 4696 1204 www.eurekastud.com.au Scott McAlpine: 0408 700 724 Jenny McAlpine: 0411 504 803 Angus McAlpine: 0417 745 347 e: eurekastud@bigpond.com

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Col/Sex Sire

Dam

Ch. C

Snitzel (AUS)

Air's Precious (AUS)

B. C

Snitzel (AUS)

Angel Girl (AUS)

467 B. F

I Am Invincible (AUS)

Myalla Gold (AUS)

691 Ch. F

Sidereus (AUS)

Truly Brave (AUS)

858 Ch. F

Wanted (AUS)

Suite Lioness (AUS)

876 B. F

Hinchinbrook (AUS)

Winning Recipe (AUS)

877 B. C

Zoffany (IRE)

Wisp O' Will (AUS)

904 B/Br. F

Nicconi (AUS)

Baroque Pearl (AUS)

986 B. F

All American (AUS)

Gentle Spirit (AUS)

993 Ch. C

Captain Sonador (AUS)

Goodlookin Gambler (AUS)

A filly by Wanted is Lot 858 for Eureka. She is nicely proportioned, has a good hind-quarter and girth and Scott believes she “should run early”. The mare’s first foal, Suite Mover (Jet Spur), made a very encouraging debut when narrowly beaten on the line to run third in October 2015. This filly’s dam is a half-sister to three stakes winners including Ballet Suite. Lot 876 is a Hinchinbrook filly. She’s the first foal from a Snitzel mare called Winning Recipe. Although not a big horse, Scott describes her as a really powerful, correct filly that should get up and run early. The dam is from a family of stakes winners including the siblings Gai’s Choice, Atmospherical and Peron, as well as The Golden Dane, Mahara and Gr.1 winner Eagle Falls. A filly with plenty of rein and length, Lot 904 is by Nicconi and out of the large Piccolo mare Baroque Pearl. “We’ve got size, length and height and she’s quite a forward filly” says Scott. She is out of a two-time winning mare and her half-brother Watch Me Dazzle Em ran third on debut recently. This filly is from the same family as Eureka’s Queensland Guineas-Gr.2 winner Express Air. Last but certainly not least for Eureka’s Magic Millions draft of fillies is their All American x Gentle Spirit yearling. Out of a half-sister to the “Boom Brothers” - Spirit of Boom and Temple of Boom, she is a lovely, compact and powerful filly. “She’s short-coupled, very much like Spirit of Boom and Temple of Boom at the same age” says Scott, who thinks she is likely to be an early runner.

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“We are confident that the sale is the right place for each of these yearlings. It is a good, solid draft with a nice cross section of different pedigrees.”

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IA ORA means “welcome”, but it is synonymous with “champion thoroughbreds”, the Hunter Valley pastures having been grazed by mighty Shannon, Amounis, Evening Peal, Windbag and Delta among others. Now under the ownership of Malaysian businessman Ananda Krishnan whose passion for the thoroughbred is reflected in his long involvement in Australian racing and breeding. Kia Ora is home to some of the finest bloodstock in Australia and under the capable leadership of stud manager Alex Kingston has been making headlines at Australian sales for all the right reasons in recent years. The 2015 Magic Millions was an important sale for Kia Ora with great results enjoyed, five yearlings selling for up to $430,000 with the fifth highest average at the sale. The farm was extremely happy with that draft but feels its 2016 group is even more targeted to the sale. Alex Kingston noting that “we have been more selective regarding which horses have the right level of maturity for the Magic Millions.” “We are confident that the sale is the right place for each of these yearlings. It is a good, solid draft with a nice cross section of different pedigrees.” A daughter of champion stallion Fastnet Rock is highlighted by Kingston as “our stand-out filly. She is just outstanding. She is muscular, toned and balanced with a big hindquarter.” Bred on the same Fastnet Rock/Storm Cat cross (one that provides for the duplication of the excellent mare Crimson Saint) as six of her sire’s stakes winners including the Group One gallopers Irish Lights and Foxwedge, she is out of an imported Group Two winner who has already produced this filly’s Group Two winning brother Zululand. Kingston is also impressed by Kia Ora’s Fastnet Rock filly out of the imported Group One winner Mani Bhavan. Also line-bred to Crimson Saint, her dam is a half-sister to the stakes winners Hear The Ghost and Closing Bell from the family of US Champion Sprinter and successful stallion Speightstown. “She is a lovely big filly with plenty of scope and athleticism.” At last year’s sale a So You Think colt out of the New Zealand 1000 Guineas-Gr.1 (1600m) and Captain Cook Stakes-Gr.1 (1600m) winner Dorabella topped Kia Ora’s draft and his sister is another highlight. “She is a beautiful strong filly. She has a quality head and a big walk.” Bred on a 4m x 5m cross of Nijinsky II, she is also line-bred to the excellent mare Milan Mill, dam of Mill Reef. Her dam is a half-sister to the Singapore Group Three winner Crusoe from the family of another NZ 1000 Guineas-Gr.1 (1600m) winner in Insouciant. Another success last year was a More Than Ready filly out of the stakes placed Fastnet Rock mare Rock Of Fortune who sold for $260,000. Her brother goes through the ring in 2016. “He is a very compact colt, well balanced and precocious.” His dam is a half-sister to the Listed winner Chic Choice from the family of the Group Two winner Twiglet, dam of the Hong Kong star Fairy King Prawn, the local Group One winner Easy Rocking, the Group Three sprinter Facile and the triple Listed winner Crevette, in turn dam of dual Group One winner Cosmic Endeavour. Also by More Than Ready is a filly out of the Listed winning Blue Diamond Stakes-Gr.1 (1200m) placed Burgeis whose first two to race are both talented, the easy debut winner Stay In Vegas (now in Hong Kong) and the lightly raced city placed Tiffany Cash Man. Hailing from the family of Golden Slipper Stakes-Gr.1 (1200m)

winner Stratum, she is “a very attractive strong filly with a nice walk.”

below // colt by Casino Prince ex Hancora

The Pierros are being enthused over by several farms and Kia Ora is very happy with their colt out of the Fastnet Rock mare Fast Shanti, a winning sister to the two times Group winning emerging sire Rothesay. Hailing from the prolific Group One family of Canny Lass, Canny Lad, Sepoy, Guelph, Camarilla and Camarena, he “has thrown very much to Fastnet Rock. He is a big strong colt who looks very forward.” Exceed And Excel colts are always in demand and his son out of Rosetta Stone is bred on the same Exceed And Excel/Sadler’s Wells cross as Group One winners Helmet and Outstrip. A 3/4 brother to the metropolitan winners Cast In Stone and Danestone, he is out of an imported daughter of the Group Three winner Eva Luna who produced six winners including the dual Group One winning stayer Brian Boru, the triple Group Two winner Sea Moon, the Group Two galloper Moon Search and the Listed winner Kitty O’Shea. One of Eva Luna’s daughters in Soviet Moon is dam of the Epsom Derby-Gr.1 (12f) and Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe-Gr.1 (2400m) hero Workforce. A descendant of famed matriarch Pretty Polly from the Sister Sarah branch that produced Northern Dancer’s sire Nearctic, he is “an athletic well balanced colt with a lovely head.” By a sire (All Too Hard) out of a mare (Scenario) bred on the same Northern Dancer/Mill Reef/ Northern Dancer cross is a half-brother to dual city winner Alysiana. Described by Kingston as “a very nice moving colt,” he is out of an imported half-sister to the Listed winner Sahool and to the dam of seven times Group winner Maraahel. By Casino Prince is a colt out of the imported stakes winner Hancora whose five to race are all winners including the metropolitan winners Emila, Coram and Katzenpfoetchen. Her grandam is the Canadian Group Three winner Heretic, daughter of the Italian Group Three winner Heresty. “He is a big strong colt with definite quality.” Another hailing from a strong international family is a colt by Snitzel out of the Galileo mare Gopana, a multiple city winning daughter of the high class European Honorifique, a winner at Group Three level in Italy and in Listed company in France. “He is a nice colt with a fantastic walk,” Kingston said.

Scone NSW 2337 t: 02 6543 7105 www.kiaorastud.com Alex Kingston: 0447 264 718 e: alex@kiaoraestates.com.au

2016 DRAFT Lot

Col/Sex Sire

Dam

Ch. F

More Than Ready (USA)

Burgeis (AUS)

163 B. F

So You Think (NZ)

Dorabella (NZ)

168 B. F

Fastnet Rock (AUS)

Dream Play (USA)

215 B. C

Pierro (AUS)

Fast Shanti (AUS)

271 B. C

Snitzel (AUS)

Gopana (AUS)

285 B. C

Casino Prince (AUS)

Hancora (FR)

411 B. F

Fastnet Rock (AUS)

Mani Bhavan (USA)

544 B. C

More Than Ready (USA)

Rock Of Fortune (AUS)

555 Ch. C

Exceed And Excel (AUS)

Rosetta Stone (GB)

579 B/Br. C All Too Hard (AUS)

Scenario (GB)

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Kitchwin Hills Hills that just keep producing

“T

HE best Magic Millions draft we’ve had in years” said Kitchwin Hills’ Michael Malone, buoyant regarding the prospects of the stud’s outstanding selection. Three yearlings by Kitchwin resident Duporth hail from excellent families including a brown colt out of Redoute’s Choice mare Baby Boom from the family of Burst whose grandson Eclair Choice won the Linlithgow Stakes-Gr.2 (1200m) on Derby Day. “He is a really nice colt, very typical of Duporth on type with that beautiful Redoute’s Choice head.” Another carrying a Bletchingly cross is a filly out of Queenin Caper, a city winning Exceed And Excel half-sister to Victory Vein. “She is bred on the same cross as Duporth’s Group One placed Cornrow and she is a really nice, neat filly.” Malone is excited about the prospects of the Tony Gollan trained Dee Nine Elle who has been impressive winning her last couple. Her brother out of the Wellington Boot (1100m) winner Sin Sin Sin will attract attention. Built very much in the mould of his sire Dane Shadow is a colt (“a sharp looking two-year-old type”) out of Sonette, a half-sister to the Group Three winner Castlethorpe from the family of New Approach. Star Witness has “a very nice” grey filly out of Barangaroo, a two times winning Fastnet Rock mare from the family of Racing To Win. Testa Rossa’s colt out of Bella Vedera is 3/4 brother to Group Two winner Twilight Royale. “He is a

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very athletic colt with a beautiful head and eye.” A filly with “great length and a beautiful hip” is a bay by Stratum out of the Group Three placed multiple city winner Benatar. Charge Forward has sired ten stakes winners out of Danehill line mares so his filly out of Cinquante Cinq, a half-sister to Group One winner Carmine Lake, will have plenty of fans. “She is very much a forward type and it would be no surprise to see her lining up in next year’s Magic Millions.” Malone is also impressed by a first crop son of Excelebration, a half-brother to the city winners Endless Shadow and Endless Puzzle out of Endless Maize. “This mare has done a great job for us and this fellow is a stand-out of our draft, he is a star!”

“The best Magic Millions draft we’ve had in years” said Kitchwin Hills’ Michael Malone, buoyant regarding the prospects of the stud’s outstanding selection.

Another first season sire admired by Malone is Your Song who has a “very strong, athletic” colt out of Leica Savant, sister to Group Two winner Leica Falcon. The reliable Magic Albert has a filly out of Geblitzt, 3/4 sister to stakes winner Deledio from the same branch of the prolific Courtessa family as Golden Horn. “This is a hard family to buy into and she is a lovely filly.” Snitzel has two yearlings in the draft, the first being a filly out of stakes winner Les Ry Leigh. “She is a really big strong Snitzel with massive bone.” Meanwhile a chestnut out of Ravenswood, dam of Group One mare Hurtle Myrtle, is “a cracking colt who we think will be in the top ten or so colts at the sale. He is a lovely horse who has the best action.” Pierro’s colt out of November Flight is “one of the stars of our draft.” Bred on a 4m x 3f cross

of Zabeel, he is out of Group Three winner November Flight who has produced Group Three winner Ashokan (an $810,000 yearling). “This colt reminds me very much of Ashokan, the same shape with a lovely deep girth, a big hip and hindquarter. He has a great action, he just drops his head and gets on with the job.” A second Kitchwin Pierro is a filly out of Steps To The Beat, a half-sister to Group One mare Steps In Time. “She is a two-year-old type, the perfect Magic Millions yearling with a short cannon and back.” Hinchinbrook is in great form as are Zabeel mares and a colt out of Marinov combines them. A half-brother to the promising Countess Marinov, his third dam is Blue Diamond StakesGr.1 (1200m) winner Midnight Fever. “He has a good action and a lovely head and eye.”

Scone NSW p: 02 6545 8065 e: kitchwin@bigpond.com www.kitchwin.com.au Michael Malone: 0428 458 065

2016 DRAFT Lot

Col/Sex Sire

Dam

Gr. F

Star Witness (AUS)

Barangaroo (AUS)

“Very much a Sepoy type, a really sharp colt with a short back, a big hip and a large jowl” is out of Secret Indulgence. Bred on a 3f x 3m Danehill cross, he is out of a half-sister to VRC DerbyGr.1 (2500m) winner Amalfi.

Ch. C

Testa Rossa (AUS)

Bella Vedera (AUS)

B. F

Stratum (AUS)

Benatar (AUS)

113 B. F

Charge Forward (AUS)

Cinquante Cinq (IRE)

195 B. C

Excelebration (IRE)

Endless Maize (AUS)

A Manhattan Rain filly is out of Shibuya, 3/4 sister to Group Three winner Miss Darcey. “She is a very nice filly with good length and a great shoulder.” Bred on the same Bernardini/Danehill cross as Go Indy Go and Ruud Awakening she is a “really good sort” out of dual city winner Smash Hit.

378 B. F

Snitzel (AUS)

Les Ry Leigh (USA)

414 Br. C

Hinchinbrook (AUS)

Marinov (NZ)

417 Br. F

Duporth (AUS)

Maskhara (AUS)

478 B. C

Pierro (AUS)

November Flight (AUS)

531 Ch. C

Snitzel (AUS)

Ravenswood (AUS)

583 B. C

Sepoy (AUS)

Secret Indulgence (NZ)

599 B/Br. F

Manhattan Rain (AUS)

Shibuya (AUS)

607 Br. C

Duporth (AUS)

Sin Sin Sin (AUS)

617 B. F

Bernardini (USA)

Smash Hit (AUS)

620 B. C

Dane Shadow (AUS)

Sonette (AUS)

628 B. F

Pierro (AUS)

Steps To The Beat (AUS)

631 B. C

Exceed And Excel (AUS)

Strawberry Field (AUS)

660 Br. C

All Too Hard (AUS)

Tabasco Kitten (AUS)

706 Ch. F

Husson (ARG)

Viennese Lass (AUS)

758 B. C

Your Song (AUS)

Leica Savant (AUS)

819 B. F

Duporth (AUS)

Queenin Caper (AUS)

901 Br. C

Duporth (AUS)

Baby Boom (AUS)

985 Ch. F

Magic Albert (AUS)

Geblitzt (AUS)

Described as “outstanding” is a colt by Exceed And Excel out of the Listed winner Strawberry Field. “He has more substance and strength than many of the breed, a massive shoulder, forearm, gaskin and hindquarter.” Meanwhile a colt by All Too Hard out of Tabasco Kitten is “a ripper.” “From the day he hit the ground he has been a star to look at.” Bred on a 4m x 3m Danehill cross with duplications of Natalma and Best In Show, he is out of a winning Redoute’s Choice mare whose dam is Group One sprinter La Baraka, a daughter of Triscay. “A really neat filly” by Husson out of Viennese Lass is a half-sister to the promising Static Lift out of a 3/4 sister to the Group One winning successful stallion Snitzel from the family of emerging stallion Hinchinbrook.

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DEALLY located “in the heart of Australia’s thoroughbred horse capital,” Middlebrook Valley Lodge has had some extremely talented horses grace its paddock in recent years. And judging by the strength of its 2016 Magic Millions draft, the best is still to come with the Scone stud busy preparing six well related yearlings. “We have a cracking draft,” said Middlebrook’s Verna Metcalfe who has been cheering on a number of the farm’s graduates, the likes of Kimberley Star (three times stakes placed this preparation), Sure And Fast, Surfin’ Safari and Bengal Cat racing in fine form. Recent VRC Oaks-Gr.1 (2500m) heroine Jameka is also a Middlebrook graduate as is South African Champion 2Y0 Harry’s Son, the dual Group Three winner Big Money, the South African stakes winner Wild Ash, the Magic Millions winner Military Rose, the multiple Group One winner All Too Hard, the Group Three galloper Proisir, the Listed winners The Huntress, Jacquinot Bay, Rom Baro and Terror Force as the three times Group placed three-year-old Kimberley Star. Metcalfe is looking forward to taking Middlebrook’s six to the Magic Millions, very much taken by the attitudes of the three fillies and three colts.

South African stakes winner Wild Ash is a Middlebrook graduate as is the Magic Millions winner Military Rose, the multiple Group One winner All Too Hard, the Group Three galloper Proisir and the Listed winners The Huntress, Jacquinot Bay, Rom Baro and Terror Force. “They have been a great bunch to work with, they have all got a brain,” she said. “They are making our job easy, we don’t have to work particuarly hard with them and they are going to impress at the sales.” Metcalfe is especially happy with a couple of “outstanding” colts by in-form stallions Exceed And Excel and I Am Invincible. The first is a bay son of Exceed And Excel and the Brocco mare Filming, a horse Metcalfe describes as “just an outstanding yearling with great balance, a lovely individual. A half-brother to the Group Three winner Octavia, he is out of a multiple city winning daughter of the dual Group Three winner Paklani, a Golden Slipper Stakes-Gr.1 (1200m) placed dam of six winners including the Group Three sprinter Real Mak. Paklani is also the second dam of the South African Group One winners Stellite and Zirconeum and she is ancestress of the stakes winners King Neptune, Jersey Lily and True Valour. The I Am Invincible colt is out of Blumarju, a city winner whose four to race are all winners including the stakes placed Couldn’t Agreemore and the metropolitan winner Big On Bling. Blumarju is a half-sister to four winners and her grandam is the Group Three winner Bolt From The Blue, also second dam of the 2007 Champion US Sprinter Midnight Lute. “He is a well grown, athletic colt and another youngster with a great attitude.” Metcalfe is also pleased with a third colt, a son of

Foxwedge and the Fasliyev mare Starlevie. Bred on the successful Fastnet Rock/Nureyev cross, he is out of a two times winner whose first three foals are all winners including the promising three-year-old Stella di Notte. Starlevie is a half-sister to seven winners including the stakes placed Palace Glow, dam of the Group Three winners Red Colossus and Nediym’s Glow and grandam of this season’s Group Two winner Kinglike. Bred on a 6m x 3f cross of Sir Tristram with crosses of the fine mares Natalma and Somethingroyal, he hails from the family of the New Zealand Oaks-Gr.1 (2400m) winner Starline and the stakes winners Royal Haunt, Peach Cove, Starry Way, Star Lot and Pentathon. “He is a big strong colt who does everything right.” There is bound to be demand for the progeny of Snitzel and Middlebrook have a filly out of Airways bred on the same Snitzel/General Nediym cross as the Group One winning stallion Sizzling. She is out of a two times winning daughter of the stakes placed These Days whose dam is the excellent broodmare Tanaquil. A daughter of Marscay, she was represented by eight winners including the Listed winner Pottinger (in turn dam of the Singapore Group Two winner Pitstop) and the dams of the Group One mare Sky Cuddle and the stakes winners Bassillique, Highly Recommended, Sky Love, Hint, Undeniably and Adamantium. Carrying Northern Dancer, Nijinsky II, Biscay and Sir Ivor duplications, she is described by Metcalfe as “ a really forward running type.” Relations to Magic Millions winners are always a highlight and Middlebrook have a Pierro halfsister to the 2010 winner Military Rose. Her dam Bella Maddelena is a city winning halfsister to six winners including the stakes placed Zedazest. And her grandam is a mare who has a race run in her honour on Sandown Classic day, the wonderful Summoned. What a great influence she has been, producing 13 winners including the high class sprinter and sire Zeditave, the Group Three winners Alannon, Square Deal, Zedagal and Pampas Fire. Summoned has proven an influential matriarch, her descendants including the Group One winners Zac Spirit, Melito, Greys Inn, Smart Call and Norzita as well as the stakes winners Unison, Zac Influence, Flying Alpha, Cambiaso, Cloister, You’re So Good, Furnaces, Shikoba, Verocative, Jet Spur, Generous Tycoon, Mystic Prince, Real Charm and Hollows. “She is a very nice athletic filly,” Metcalfe said. A grey daughter of Sebring and another Magic Millions success story rounds up Middlebrook’s draft, a filly out of the Magic Millions 3Y0 TrophyLR (1400m) winner Tempest Tost.

Scone NSW 2337 t: 02 6545 0270 www.middlebrookvalleylodge.com.au Verna Metcalfe: 0488 762 923 e: vernametcalfe@bigpond.com

A daughter of Statue Of Liberty, she is out of the terrific broodmare Lady Violet who holds the Australian stud book record for number of consecutive foals, an amazing 18! Amongst that tally are twelve winners including the Group One winner Notoire, the Listed winner Well Known, the stakes placed Livigno and Tullamarine and the city winners Bramada, Primrose Penny and Violet Tints as well as the dam of the stakes winners Sino Brilhante and Happy Hippy. Carrying crosses of the excellent mares Natalma and Somethingroyal, she can also count amongst her relations the stakes winners Prizefighter, River Mist, Plain Magic and Celtic Dancer. “She is a lovely filly, very athletic with a good outlook.”

2016 DRAFT Lot

Col/Sex Sire

Dam

B. F

Snitzel (AUS)

Airways (AUS)

Br. F

Pierro (AUS)

Bella Maddelena (AUS)

B. C

I Am Invincible (AUS)

Blumarju (NZ)

223 B. C

Exceed And Excel (AUS)

Filming (AUS)

625 B. C

Foxwedge (AUS)

Starlevie (AUS)

671 Gr. F

Sebring (AUS)

Tempest Tost (AUS)

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Milburn Creek A good reputation does not just happen - it must be earned

OHN MUIR’s family’s success has been from selling cars and lots of them. Holden - Kia - Peugeot. But he understands that when it comes to selling high class Thoroughbreds, horses are not machines, and yearlings are an unknown quantity that make the business of selling challenging. With this in mind, Muir is always working ahead of the game to keep on top of trends and that strategy is reflected in Milburn Creek’s lineup for 2016. “When you breed it’s hard to predict what buyers will want in two years. If you have the right quality yearling with an appealing page it will sell well and we think this bunch will appeal to the buyers on page, correctness and physique,” said Muir. Milburn Creek will present two of their own at the 2016 Magic Millions whilst the remainder of the draft has been prepared on behalf of longstanding clients including famed owner and

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breeder Tony Santic. “Tony has been a great client of ours and I really enjoy working with him. We have quite a few for Makybe Stud this year. They have some very nice horses,” said Muir. One of the standout, in vogue types representing Milburn Creek this year is the Sepoy (Elusive Quality) x Leamington colt. Leamington (Pleasant Tap) his dam, won in England and won a stakes race in the USA at Churchill Downs. “He is a very nice colt that reads well on paper and I think they buyers will really like him in the flesh.” The Sepoys have been hot property at Australia’s major yearling sales of far. 68 have been offered for sale with 48 selling for an average of $278,563. So far the Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m) winner has had two horses make the track and both have shown promise. His highest profile son son, War Hero out of Group 1 wining mare Ancient

Song, fetched $1.6 million as a yearling in 2015 and made an impressive debut in the Group 3 Maribyrnong Plate (1000m) at Flemington during Melbourne Cup week by finishing 4th. “Sepoy is a little unknown but his yearlings have been popular. They are all in the right stables and the trainers I have talked to do like them.” Another fashionably bred youngster in the Milburn Creek draft is the Sebring filly (More than Ready) x Cymbal. Sebring is producing high class horses and his greatest flag bearers have been international performer and Melbourne Cup (3200m) place getter Criterion as well as Victorian and Australian Racehorse of the Year Dissident. “She is from a beautiful Woodlands family. She’s a nice quality Sebring and I think she will be liked. It says in the catalogue that her dam Cymbal has had two foals but the first by Authorized unfortunately died in a paddock accident so really the mare’s oldest and only

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other foal is by Denman that we sold at the Magic Millions last year and she has gone to the Waller stable.” The “big” pedigree horse of the draft is a Fastnet Rock (Danehill) x Gold Anthem colt. Aptly Muir describes him as a “baby stallion”. “He would be a sire in the making with that outstanding pedigree.” Gold Anthem (Made of Gold) is best known as the dam of four time Group 1 winner Starspangledbanner who has returned to stud in Australia. A chestnut colt by Starspangledbanner (Choisir) out of Octagonal mare Mutate will feature in Milburn’s Gold Coast offering in 2016. This horse is considered a “chip off the old block” with many of the same distinctive markings.

The 2016 draft that the Southern Highlands’ boutique farm will present boasts a mix of young horses by some of the hottest sires in the country as well as the tried and true legends of the Australian stallion ranks. “He’s out of a nice Blacktype family and he is the spitting image of Starspangledbanner being chestnut with white socks. He is a really nice big colt.” Starspangledbanner, now standing at Victoria’s Rosemont Stud, has some promising horses on the racetrack at the moment including stakes performers Mr Individual and Surfin’ Safari. One of the more intriguing members of the Milburn Creek draft is the Delago Deluxe (Encosta De Lago) x Flamingo Sky colt. Delago Deluxe, now standing at Newhaven Park Stud in NSW, was unbeaten as a two-year-old in South Africa and won the time honoured Group 1 Golden Horse Casino Sprint (1200m) which

is considered the equivalent of the VRC’s Newmarket Handicap (1200). Delago Deluxe is a stunning individual and himself commanded $550,000 at the Magic Millions Gold Coast sale. Delago Deluxe’s good looks have passed on to this colt and Muir is expecting him to do well in the sale ring. “His progeny are selling for the first time and I truly think they will do well. Like him, they are very nice types.” Stallion icon Redoute’s Choice (Danehill) also has a presence in the Milburn Creek draft with a colt out of Life In a Metro (Fastnet Rock). Life in a Metro is out of Catshaan, the dam of Group 1 AJC Oaks (2400m) winner Absolutely. “He is a very nice colt,” said Muir. Of the remaining fillies, one of Muir’s early picks on type is the Helmet (Exceed and Excel) x Little Artist. Helmet, standing at Darley’s Kelvinside in Victoria, has only had (at time of writing) one runner hit the track so the Group 1 Caulfield Guineas (1600m) winner remains an unknown quantity as a sire. “There’s a lot to like about this filly.” Milburn Creek’s Snitzel (Redoute’s Choice) x Crystal Choir boasts an appealing international pedigree. The Singspiel (In the Wings) mare is from a wonderful blacktype family and she has already thrown a Stakes winner and numerous individual winners. “She’s a very nice English type of filly,” said Muir. The nine horses that Milburn Creek will offer at the 2016 Magic Millions are an interesting mix and look certain to have relevant broad appeal. “It’s as nice a group of horses that we have ever taken up there. They are precocious types of yearlings and we would not be taking them if they were not all sound.” “Ourselves and clients are realistic and we will meet the market. I think they are a great crosssection of horses and will present at the sale hopefully as well as their pages do.”

Wildes Meadow NSW 2577 t: 02 4886 4025 www.milburncreek.com.au John Muir: 0418 232 546 e: john@milburncreek.com.au

2016 DRAFT Lot

Col/Sex Sire

Dam

134 Ch. F

Snitzel (AUS)

Crystal Choir (GB)

137 B/Br. F

Sebring (AUS)

Cymbal (AUS)

229 B. C

Delago Deluxe (AUS)

Flamingo Sky (AUS)

264 B. C

Fastnet Rock (AUS)

Gold Anthem (AUS)

375 B. C

Sepoy (AUS)

Leamington (USA)

381 Br. C

Redoute's Choice (AUS)

Life In A Metro (AUS)

384 B. F

Helmet (AUS)

Little Artist (AUS)

465 Ch. C

Starspangledbanner (AUS) Mutate (AUS)

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HERE are so many Gr.1 winners produced on the pastures of Mill Park Stud in South Australia that there isn’t room to cover them all. The renowned producer has sold three Caulfield Cup winners in the last decade. More specifically, their Magic Millions Gold Coast drafts have produced Rebel Raider (Reset – Picholine, by Dehere) and bargain buy Epsom winner Captain Sonador (Shamardal – Pushing Daisies, by Kenny’s Best Pal) who sold for just $30,000. Another good racemare, Angel of Mercy (Hussonet - Pieta, by Clay Hero) who was Gr.1 placed in 2014’s Tattersall’s Tiara and is a Gr.3 winner, also came out of this draft. General Manager Chris Watson talked to Bluebloods about their 2016 draft of seven yearlings, “We have a lot to look forward to in coming years with some lovely horses selling off the farm. Last year we sold a Redoute’s Choice from Dances on Waves for $575,000 at this sale. He is with Gerald Ryan and is going well at this early stage. We hope to continue to produce the same racetrack successes and it has already been an exciting spring with Fawkner picking up another Gr.1. His longevity is great for our industry.”

The renowned producer has sold three Caulfield Cup winners in the last decade. More specifically, their Magic Millions Gold Coast drafts have produced Rebel Raider (Reset – Picholine, by Dehere) and bargain buy Epsom winner Captain Sonador (Shamardal – Pushing Daisies, by Kenny’s Best Pal) who sold for just $30,000.

third foal from Gr.2 winner Dances on Waves (Anabaa), who is a half-sister to the dam of dual Gr.1 winner Preferment (Zabeel) and Gr.3 winner Rezoned (Zabeel). This is the family of Gr.1 winner Ancient Song (Canny Lad). “Probably the leading light of our draft, this colt simply oozes quality. He is an attractive colt with an enormous athletic free-flowing walk. We are quite excited about him, especially after the deeds of Winx this spring,” said Watson.

Lot 257, by All Too Hard, is a filly from Furline (Tale of the Cat), a city winning stakes placed daughter of Gr.2 winner, Gr.1 placed Umaline (Umatilla) who also left two year-old stakes winner Fasline (Fasliyev). This is the family of Gr.1 winner Captain Sonador. Watson said “This filly is the epitome of a Magic Millions style of horse – great size, strength, all power and muscle. She is well balanced and we have retained the mare’s first foal, the older halfsister to this filly, who looks like an autumn two year-old at this early stage. ” Second season sire Sepoy provided Mill Park with a thrill last year when they sold a filly out of Celebrity Girl (Starcraft) for $850,000 at this sale. This year, they present another filly, Lot 683, by Sepoy from Tobouggie Woogie (Tobougg). The third foal from this seven race winning mare, this filly’s dam is a half-sister to Gr.2 winner Magestic Music (Al Maher) from the family of Gr.1 Serious Speed (Royal Academy). Watson says “She is a leggy style of Sepoy with lovely strength and scope. She has a good strong forearm and gaskin.” Second season sire Helmet is represented by Lot 118, a half-brother to Listed winner, and placed in the Gr.3 Blue Diamond Prelude (c&g), Victory Chant (General Nediym) and is out of the winning mare Classic Status (Marscay), who is a half-sister to Gr.1 winner Serious Speed (Royal Academy) and also to the dam of Gr.2 winner Majestic Music (Al Maher). “This family has been good to us over the years,” said Watson. “This colt is pretty typical of the sire from others I’ve seen. He is heavily muscled, a lovely size with plenty of strength and a good length of barrel. Peter Moody has the two year-old half-sister by Magic Albert.” The remainder of the draft is by proven sires. Winx’s sire Street Cry has Lot 139, a colt, the

Dalakhani has several Gr.1 winners in Europe and presents his first Australian crop this year. Lot 444 is a colt from Miss With Attitude (Galileo) who was a tough city winning two year-old that went on to be stakes placed. This is her first foal, and she is from a strong European family that includes 2012’s Champion 3YO Stayer in Europe Encke (Kingmambo) who is a son of Champion 3YO Filly in Ireland Shawanda (Sinndar). Watson said “There are very few Galileo mares that can win at two, and Miss With Attitude had a lot of brilliance. We thought she could have emerged as a strong middle distance horse later in her career if she hadn’t been injured. This is her first foal, and we have bred the family back to the European influences in the pedigree. He is a classic colt that deserves a big audience. He has a huge shoulder and girth, yet is a nicely balanced athletic colt.”

Meningie SA 5264 t: 08 8575 6033 www.millparkstud.com.au Chris Watson: 0417 838 489 e: info@millparkstud.com.au

2016 DRAFT Lot

Col/Sex Sire

Dam

Ch. F

Sebring (AUS)

Celebrity Girl (AUS)

118 Ch. C

Helmet (AUS)

Classic Status (AUS)

139 B. C

Street Cry (IRE)

Dances On Waves (AUS)

189 B. F

Snitzel (AUS)

Elusive Wonder (AUS)

257 Ch. F

All Too Hard (AUS)

Furline (AUS)

444 Br. C

Dalakhani (IRE)

Miss With Attitude (AUS)

683 Ch. F

Sepoy (AUS)

Tobouggie Woogie (AUS)

Snitzel needs no introduction this year, his horses do the talking for him. Lot 189 is a filly out of Elusive Wonder (Elusive Quality) who is a stakes placed two year-old winner. Her first two foals are already winners, so she is a young mare with runs on the board. This is a family with a strong two year-old bias, and includes horses like Blue Diamond Prelude winner Gr.3 Freedom Fields. “Our draft this year is very even in quality and this filly fits in nicely. She has plenty of scope, yet also has the huge strength that people look for. She has good bone and is very correct. We have retained the three year-old More Than Ready filly from Elusive Wonder, and she won on debut for us the other day.” Once again, Mill Park Stud have plenty for buyers to pick from, with the added bonus that this farm churns out Gr.1 winners.

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Newgate A mouth-watering menu of exceptional pedigrees

EWGATE is still a fresh face in the industry having been established only five years ago. In that time, it have sold plenty of stakes class horses including Gr.1 South African Nursery Plate winner Willow Magic (Dubawi) for only $40,000 at the 2012 Magic Millions Gold Coast Sale. Other good horses sold at the Gold Coast include Gr.3 winner Prompt Return (Beneteau), stakes winner Awesome Rock (Fastnet Rock) and stakes placed horses like, Echo Gal (Stratum) and Purrific (Dane Shadow). Director of Stallions and Sales, Bruce Slade told Bluebloods “Our core focus is breeding and raising racehorses. From our raw feed and high protein diet designed by Dr John Peatfield, to

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our large undulating paddocks which encourage exercise by our young stock, everything we do enhances the chances of our stallions and broodmares producing top drawer athletes.” Newgate will present a big draft of 22 yearlings at the 2016 Magic Millions Gold Coast sale and some mouth-watering pedigrees are represented. Four yearlings are by their own Foxwedge, including relatives of Gr.1 winners Scintillation, and Group winners Shania Dane, Trusting, Musidora, and Saint Anddan. Slade says the colt, Lot 722, out of Wild Soiree (Fusaichi Pegasus) is “very flashy and racy”. He is from the famous Fanfreluche family that has given us Champion Sires Flying Spur and Encosta de Lago. The other Foxwedge

yearlings are Lots 57, 175, 297 and 451. Lot 672 is a filly from Australia’s greatest family. By Champion Sire Fastnet Rock, this filly is the second foal of the unraced mare Ten Carat Rock (Rock of Gibraltar) who is a half-sister to Gr.1 winners Redoute’s Choice, Manhattan Rain and Platinum Scissors. Slade says “This is a filly that you could build your Thoroughbred business around from a family that is held by only a few select breeders. She matches her pedigree on type and will demand attention.” If that isn’t enough to get you started, Newgate has Lot 179, another Fastnet Rock filly, this time a half-sister to three stakes horses. Her dam El Laoob (Red Ransom) is a stakes placed

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half-sister to Champion Three Year-old Sprinter in Singapore, Big Maverick (O’Reilly). She has already left five foals to race, all winners including Gr.3 winner Pachattack (Pulpit), La Mina (Mineshaft) and stakes placed Absolute Crackers (Giant’s Causeway). Successful sire Snitzel has Lot 590, a colt that Slade says is “speed, speed, speed from one of the most precocious families in the book.” He is out of the winning mare Serious Impact (Fasliyev) who has already left Gr.3 placed winner Extreme Impact (also by Snitzel) and three other winners. Serious Impact is a halfsister to two year-old stakes winner Balcanny (Canny Lad), herself dam of Gr.3 winner Blur (Flying Spur) and Gr.3 winner Shrewd Rhythm (Danehill Dancer).

“Our core focus is breeding and raising racehorses. From our raw feed and high protein diet designed by Dr John Peatfield, to our large undulating paddocks which encourage exercise by our young stock, everything we do enhances the chances of our stallions and broodmares producing top drawer athletes.” Newgate stands Sebring’s best son Dissident, and has two colts by Sebring in this draft, as well as one by his sire More than Ready. Lot 698, the Sebring colt out of Gr.2 winner Varenna Miss (Redoute’s Choice) has a massive pedigree, being a three-quarter brother to four-time Gr.1 winner Criterion (Sebring). Plenty of other stakes winners fill this page. About Lot 107, Slade says “The colt from Chordata is sharp looking, a real two year-old type who will be well found.” This colt’s winning dam by Fusaichi Pegasus is out of Gr.1 winner Dashing Eagle (Danehill), herself out of Gr.2 winner La Caissiere (Luskin Star). Lot 140 by More Than Ready, a colt from Dandesha (Dansili) is “everything you expect from the sire”. His dam is a winning half-sister to Gr.1 Prix du Jockey Club winner Darsi (Polish Precedent). Other proven sires represented here include Winx’s sire Street Cry, whose yearling colt, Lot

403, from winning mare Mafia Miss (Mossman), who ran second in both the Listed Gimcrack and Listed Widden Stakes, is “compact and immediate looking, another sharp type”. Manhattan Rain has been kicking goals as a sire lately and he has Lot 253, a filly in this draft from a Gr.2 winner of nine races, and twice Gr.1 placed, Fritz’s Princess (More than Ready), a half sister to Gr.1 two yearold Align (Night Shift). The first foal of Fritz’s Princess is a winner this season.

Scone NSW 2337 t: 02 6543 8395 www.newgate.com.au Bruce Slade: 0400 505 238 e: bruce@newgate.com.au Tony Williams: 0428 932 663 e: tony@newgate.com.au

2016 DRAFT Lot

Col/Sex Sire

Dam

B. F

Foxwedge (AUS)

Bellevue Girl (AUS)

Br. C

All Too Hard (AUS)

Cariad (AUS)

107 Br. C

Sebring (AUS)

Chordata (AUS)

130 B/Br. F

Pierro (AUS)

Courting Destiny (IRE)

140 B. C

More Than Ready (USA)

Dandesha (FR)

179 B. F

Fastnet Rock (AUS)

El Laoob (USA)

191 B. C

Love Conquers All (AUS)

Emerald Knight (AUS)

239 Ch. C

Sepoy (AUS)

Follonica (AUS)

253 Ch. F

Manhattan Rain (AUS)

Fritz's Princess (AUS)

262 B. F

Your Song (AUS)

Glogirl (AUS)

297 Ch. F

Foxwedge (AUS)

Hides (AUS)

311 B. C

Smart Missile (AUS)

Hula Here (AUS)

403 B. C

Street Cry (IRE)

Mafia Miss (AUS)

451 Ch. F

Foxwedge (AUS)

Moral Suasion (USA)

475 B. C

Pierro (AUS)

No Looking Back (AUS)

490 B. C

Sepoy (AUS)

Our Tigress (AUS)

503 B. C

Dream Ahead (USA)

Pharonia (AUS)

548 Ch. C

Sepoy (AUS)

Rocksan (AUS)

590 B. C

Snitzel (AUS)

Serious Impact (AUS)

672 B. F

Fastnet Rock (AUS)

Ten Carat Rock (AUS)

698 B. C

Sebring (AUS)

Varenna Miss (AUS)

722 Ch. C

Foxwedge (AUS)

Wild Soiree (USA)

As expected with a big draft there is a good selection of first crop sires to choose from, including racetrack rivals Pierro (2) and All Too Hard. Pierro’s colt, Lot 475, from No Looking Back (Redoute’s Choice) is a type that befits a mare who was the sale topping filly at Magic Millions in her year, selling for $500,000 and ran up to that expectation as a stakes winner who ran second in both the Gr.1 Blue Diamond and Magic Millions 2YO Classic. This is her first foal, and Slade says “he has an awesome profile and is going to develop into a serious physical horse.” The other Pierro is Lot 130, a filly that Slade says “is very feminine, ladylike with lots of quality and refinement.” She is out of Courting Destiny (Noverre) who is an unraced half-sister to Gr.1 Frizette Stakes winner Balletto (Timber Country). Both her dam and second dam are group winners and it is the family of Green Desert among many others. Lot 79 by All Too Hard colt from Cariad (Sequalo) is a horse that Slade says “is hard knocking, powerful and no nonsense. He looks like he could run through brick walls and the more work you give him the more he wants.” The toughness should be no surprise given his sire’s race record and his dam is equally as tough; a winner of five races, two at stakes level, and is a half-sister to Gr.3 winner Seligi (King of Danes). Ortensia (Testa Rossa) and her globetrotting success is still fresh in people’s memories, and her half-sister Glogirl (General Nediym) has Lot 262, a filly by first season sire Your Song (Fastnet Rock) here. Slade says “She is a big strong filly that has those lovely big ears, eyes and nostrils typical of Fastnet Rock.” Newgate also has three yearlings by second season sire Sepoy who sold well last year, plus colts by Love Conquers All and Dream Ahead. Slade says that the three colts (Lots 239, 490 and 548) by Sepoy “should all be out of their boxes a lot”.

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Newhaven Park Deluxe draft from noted producers of speed

REEDING has been in the blood of the Kelly family for four generations, yet each and every one will tell you the secret to their prolonged success is checks and balances. The past few years for Newhaven Park have been enormously successful with multiple Group 1 winners overseas and a host of horses winning at the highest level in Australia. The Sydney Autumn Carnival saw English take centre stage as the best 2YO filly of the season winning the Group 2 Reisling Stakes on her second start, followed by a gallant second in the Group 1 Golden Slipper. Another very promising mare Peeping has also been making headlines winning the Listed Sebring Stakes in the autumn and the G2 Golden Pendant in the spring beating Catkins. Eclair Choice is another graduate who blossomed over the spring carnival winning the Group 2 Caulfield Sprint and the Group 2 Tab.com.au Stakes at Flemington on Derby Day.

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top of page // Blake Shinn with Gr.2 winning 2YO English

Newhaven Park will take a draft of 33 yearlings to the Magic Millions January sale on the Gold Coast and this year there is something new for buyers to consider, with the first crop of yearlings by resident stallion Delago Deluxe on offer.

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Others worth mentioning are a colt by sire of the moment Street Cry out of Sistine Angel, a colt by champion sire Fastnet Rock out of Sweet Sanette, a colt by Golden Slipper winning champion 2YO Pierro out of Cadazzle and fillies by Sepoy out of Elfina and by Snitzel out of Hairpin. The 2016 Newhaven draft for the 2016 Magic Millions represents the accumulated wisdom of four generations of leading breeders, a tradition that John Kelly is excited to be representing in the new year.

above // Eclair Choice wins the Group 2 Tab.com.au Stakes at Flemington left // Delago Deluxe

Boorowa NSW 2586 t: 02 6385 8335 www.newhavenpark.com.au John Kelly: 0412 654 620 e: newhavenpark@bigpond.com

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The Kelly’s saw enough in the son of Encosta De Lago during his days on the track as an unbeaten Group 1 winning Champion 2YO Sprinter and Group 1 winning 3YO to pursue the $550,000 Magic Millions yearling, for his post racing days. “I think the thing we try to make as strong as possible in our bloodlines is speed,” John Kelly said.

And is it any wonder why? Newhaven Park graduates have won four Golden Slippers, six Sires’ Produce Stakes and eight Champagne Stakes – a remarkable record in the autumn carnival two-year-old Triple Crown races in Sydney as well as the 2014 Magic Millions 2YO Classic winner Unencumbered. “You try not to get carried away when you’ve got a new stallion, I just hope the market thinks Delago Deluxe is as good as we do because we think he’s a bit special,” Kelly said. “His progeny are as good a looking young horses as we’ve ever had on the farm. They are spectacular”.

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Col/Sex Sire

Dam

B. F

Delago Deluxe (AUS)

Alezan Thunder (AUS)

Gr. F

Sebring (AUS)

Approve (AUS)

B/Br. C Delago Deluxe (AUS)

Bella Lago (AUS)

B. F

Not A Single Doubt (AUS)

Budapest (AUS)

B. C

Pierro (AUS)

Cadazzle (USA)

Ch. F

Sepoy (AUS)

Candy Vale (AUS)

112 B. C

Sebring (AUS)

Cinnamon Bells (AUS)

146 B. C

So You Think (NZ)

Dark Vision (AUS)

“The response we’ve had from the two sales companies when they’ve come to see his progeny has been very positive. He won the equivalent of South Africa’s Golden Slipper at two and the Newmarket Handicap at three and was an unbeaten two-year-old, it’s exactly what the Australian market appreciates.”

150 B/Br. C Your Song (AUS)

De Puivert (NZ)

183 B. F

Sepoy (AUS)

Elfina (AUS)

243 B. F

Delago Deluxe (AUS)

Forever The Chill (AUS)

274 Br. C

Delago Deluxe (AUS)

Graphic (AUS)

281 Br. F

Redoute's Choice (AUS)

Hades (AUS)

Kelly pinpointed three Delago Deluxe yearlings which will headline Newhaven Park’s draft; the colts out of Morning Swim and Tuchuzy and a filly from Alezan Thunder.

282 Bl/Br. F Snitzel (AUS)

Hairpin (AUS)

290 B. C

Redoute's Choice (AUS)

Harrow (AUS)

324 B. C

Delago Deluxe (AUS)

Increase (AUS)

“And breeders who have sent mares to Delago Deluxe have also said how impressed they are with his progeny,” Kelly said. “I suppose that’s the goal to go to the sales and have the market view him like that. And if it does, we’ve set out what we achieved to do – which is trying to breed some good race horses. If they look like athletic horses they can usually run.”

339 B. F

Not A Single Doubt (AUS)

It's Fun (AUS)

354 Br. F

Smart Missile (AUS)

Kinder (AUS)

361 Ch. F

Manhattan Rain (AUS)

La Lagune (AUS)

388 B. C

Delago Deluxe (AUS)

Lounge (AUS)

415 B. C

Exceed And Excel (AUS)

Maritime (AUS)

455 B. C

Delago Deluxe (AUS)

Morning Swim (AUS)

“Our philosophy has never been about production lines. We don’t just simply breed the best with the best ... we endeavour to breed the best racehorse with the right nicks and crosses. And then we draw on our experience and knowledge through successes and failures to rear each foal in the best possible way.

460 Br. C

Snitzel (AUS)

Movie (AUS)

517 B. C

Smart Missile (AUS)

Prim (AUS)

532 Ch. F

Sebring (AUS)

Raw Edge (AUS)

535 B. C

Excelebration (IRE)

Red Roses Too (AUS)

611 B. C

Street Cry (IRE)

Sistine Angel (AUS)

In addition to the Delago Deluxe crop, there are some other lovely yearlings which Newhaven Park will offer which are worth keeping an eye on; an Exceed And Excel colt out of Maritime making him a half brother to Group 2 winner Charlie Boy, and a Redoute’s Choice filly out of Hades who is by very successful broodmare sire Encosta de Lago out of champion 2YO Hasna.

658 B/Br. C Fastnet Rock (AUS)

Sweet Sanette (SAF)

687 Ch. C

Helmet (AUS)

Tricolore (AUS)

693 Br. C

Delago Deluxe (AUS)

Tuchuzy (AUS)

757 B. F

Delago Deluxe (AUS)

Lapse (AUS)

760 B/Br. C Delago Deluxe (AUS)

Lilitai (AUS)

888 Gr. F

Allow (AUS)

Sebring (AUS)

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IVERSDALE FARM is a family owned and operated thoroughbred stud in the Hunter Valley. Founded by Peter and Alison Hodges more than thirty years ago, the stud today is managed by their son Nick. The farm has been selling yearlings at the Magic Millions complex since the Gold Coast Yearling Sales became the Magic Millions back in 1986 and is looking forward to the 2016 sale at the Gold Coast in January. During the past two editions of the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale, yearlings out of Riversdale Farm’s star broodmare, Academy Idol, have led the way for the farm. In 2014 the mare’s Exceed And Excel filly was sold to David Hayes and Lindsay Park for$180,000 while in 2015 that filly’s half-brother by Sepoy fetched an impressive $460,000. Academy Idol is a half-sister by Made of Gold (USA) to Gr.3 winner Cosmic Strike and is out of the New Regent (Can) mare National Star.

Riversdale are selling a Not A Single Doubt colt who is out of 2YO city-winning More Than Ready mare Gosetgo. The farm’s filly by Australian Champion 3YO (2012/13) All Too Hard out of the General Nediym mare Empress Wu is sure to be very popular with buyers. A nice type, whose dam is a half-sister to the Gr.1 winner Royal Descent (by Redoute’s Choice). Other Group performers in the family include Mulan Princess (second dam), Falkirk, Madam Valeta and Gold Sword – winner of the Toorak Handicap-Gr.1 and Epsom Handicap-Gr.1. Also by All Too Hard, Lot 457 is out of a daughter of multiple Gr.1 winning Private Steer. This filly is bred on a 4 x 4 Danehill cross.

The Exceed and Excel filly races as Miss Idyllic and is already stakes-placed. She ran second on debut in one of the first two-year-old races in 2014 - the Debutante Stakes-LR, before going on to run in the 2015 Magic Millions 2YO Classic where she had no luck. A recent winner at Moonee Valley in October 2015, the now three-year-old filly is a winner of two races and a five-time runner-up from just thirteen starts. Miss Idyllic’s half-brother by Sepoy is an exciting prospect for David Raphael and his fellow owners. Upon buying the colt at Magic Millions in January 2015 David said “this colt is one of the best Sepoys in the sale and I bought the horse I wanted. It’s the same partnership that was in Rubick and Gerald Ryan will train. We even paid the same money for this colt as we did for Rubick.”

Another well-bred filly in the Riversdale draft is Lot 915 by Star Witness. This filly is out of a winning daughter of champion sire Hussonet (USA) from the family of Champion Sire Thunder Gulch and his half-brother Battleline - a Gr.1 performer in Japan and also a sire. The filly’s third dam Shoot a Line was Joint Top Filly on The 1980 English 3YO list and was the winner of the Yorkshire Oaks-Gr.1 and Irish Oaks-Gr.1.

In January the farm is offering twelve yearlings - six colts and six fillies. Headed by a Redoute’s Choice colt out of stakes-winning Shamardal (USA) mare Femina Fashion, the draft also includes well-bred yearlings by leading sires such as I Am Invincible, Not a Single Doubt, Zoffany, Star Witness and Husson, as well as by first season and freshman sires including Sepoy, Smart Missile, Poet’s Voice, All Too Hard and Your Song.

In January the farm is offering twelve yearlings - six colts and six fillies. Headed by a Redoute’s Choice colt out of stakeswinning Shamardal (USA) mare Femina Fashion, the draft also includes well-bred yearlings by leading sires such as I Am Invincible, Not a Single Doubt, Zoffany, Star Witness and Husson, as well as by first season and freshman sires including Sepoy, Smart Missile, Poet’s Voice, All Too Hard and Your Song.

On Behalf of Robrick Lodge, Riversdale Farm’s first filly to be offered in 2016 is by I Am Invincible. This filly hails from the family of Triscay. Triscay was a champion mare – winner of six Gr.1 races and Head of The 1990-91 Australasian 3YO Classification as well as Top filly on The 1989-90 Australasian 2YO Classification. She was the winner of fifteen races including seven at two years of age, and she won over trips ranging from 1000 metres to 2400 metres. Also on behalf of Robrick Lodge,

An impressive type much in the mould of his young sire Your Song, Lot 116 is a strong colt bred on a 4 x 3 Mr Prospector and a 4 x 4 Danzig cross and is out of a four-time winning Fusaichi Pegasus mare.

Scone NSW 2337 t: 02 6545 2498 www.riversdalefarm.com.au Nick Hodges: 0410 310 296 e: riversdale@hunterlink.net.au

2016 DRAFT Lot

Col/Sex Sire

Dam

B. F

I Am Invincible (AUS)

Bindiya (AUS)

116 Br. C

Your Song (AUS)

Classic Model (AUS)

193 Ch. F

All Too Hard (AUS)

Empress Wu (AUS)

219 B. C

Redoute's Choice (AUS)

Femina Fashion (AUS)

272 B. C

Not A Single Doubt (AUS)

Gosetgo (AUS)

457 B. F

All Too Hard (AUS)

Mountain Laurel (AUS)

601 B. C

Sepoy (AUS)

Shiroko (AUS)

852 B. F

Smart Missile (AUS)

Star Of Pyrmont (AUS)

914 Ch. F

Zoffany (IRE)

Bowmiss (AUS)

915 Ch. F

Star Witness (AUS)

Bullion Bay (AUS)

977 Ch. C

Husson (ARG)

Florestans Match (GB)

1010 Br. C

Poet's Voice (GB)

Iwannabelucky (AUS)

Lot 914 is a strong, forward filly and is out of a dual-winning daughter of stakes-placed Miss Bowie from the family of Gr.1 winner Imananabaa. She is also bred on a 4 x 4 cross of Danzig. Being by Zoffany (Ire) whose first crop in the UK are going great guns, this filly could be an early runner and may appeal to those looking for value. Zoffany was arguably the fastest and most precocious two-year-old by champion sire Dansili. He was the winner of five races at two years of age including the Phoenix Stakes-Gr.1 at the Curragh in Ireland and was runner-up to the champion Frankel in the St. James’s Palace Stakes-Gr.1, beaten under a length. Riversdale is proud of this draft and looks forward to following the careers of all twelve yearlings in the future, much the same as it has with the Riversdale-bred half-brothers Black Jag (by Excites) and Longeron (by Lonhro). The sons of Thunder Gulch mare I’m a Showoff are both graduates of the Magic Millions Yearling Sale and have done a great job for their connections. Black Jag is a winner of nine races for champion trainer Chris Waller and has filled the placings a further twenty-one times for over $500,000 in stakes, and at seven years of age is still going strongly, having led all the way at Flemington in June 2015. His younger half-brother Longeron is following in his footsteps. The Hawkes Racing trained son of Lonhro has won over $250,000 from his six wins and nine placings. Black Jag was a $75,000 yearling in 2010 and Longeron fetched $85,000 the following year.

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Segenhoe Stud Born to run early

HEN talking to Segenhoe’s Peter O’Brien about the stud’s Magic Millions draft several words just kept popping up, namely “quality,” “scope,” “balance,” “strength,” and “attitude.” Pretty much all the attributes buyers will be looking for and first stop for many will be the Segenhoe barn, home to 14 yearlings by “sires firing at the moment” out of “current families.” With only yearlings best suited to the Magic Millions taken to the Gold Coast, O’Brien said that each member of the draft is “a forward, precocious, fast two-year-old type.” One group he is particularly looking forward to parading are three sons of Pierro, a horse who reminds him of a past great. “He is like Danehill in that you can walk into a paddock and spot the Pierros a mile away. They are great types who just look like runners.” A sale highlight is Pierro’s colt out of Skates whose ten to race are all winners including Golden Slipper-Gr.1 (1200m) hero Vancouver

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and Robert Sangster Stakes-Gr.1 (1200m) winner Juste Momente. “He is a ready-made two-year-old,” O’Brien said, “a horse with unbelievable strength. He is strongly built with a huge hip and a terrific action. We would be surprised if he is not one of the top lots of the sale.” Also described as “a two-year-old type, a lovely low slung horse with loads of quality” is a Pierro colt out of Alessandra, half-sister to the Queensland Derby-Gr.1 (2400m) heroine Dariana from one of Europe’s finest families. Pierro’s colt out of Group One mare Hurtle Myrtle is another eye-catcher, a horse with “plenty of scope, terrific balance and a particularly good action.” The Danehill line continues to thrive and Segenhoe has several of its members for sale including two Fastnet Rock fillies. “A shortcoupled, quality filly” bred on the same Fastnet Rock/Peintre Celebre cross as Group One winners Nechita and Rock Classic is the second foal of the Group Three placed Hifalutin from the family of Special Harmony. A filly out of the

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“He is like Danehill in that you can walk into a paddock and spot the Pierros a mile away. They are great types who just look like runners.”

Group Three winner Necessary Evil is bred on the successful Fastnet Rock/Storm Cat cross that results in the duplication of the latter’s grandam Crimson Saint. “She is quality, quality!” O’Brien said, adding that he has noted that it is the “low slung, short-coupled Fastnet Rock fillies who go early.” Two Exceed and Excel fillies are highly regarded, the first being out of the stakes placed Houston Benefactor, a half-sister to recent Bill Stutt Stakes-Gr.2 (1600m) winner Sovereign Nation from the family of Princess Coup. “She is a beautiful filly who really puts her head down, she would walk through walls for you.” A daughter of three times Group Two winner Set For Fame from the family of Bletchingly is “a big strong filly like her dam. She has plenty of scope and we are delighted with her.” Redoute’s Choice colts are hot property at the Magic Millions and Segenhoe’s is out of Costa Serena, a beautifully bred mare who sadly died young. A daughter of Encosta de Lago, she was out of the Golden Slipper Stakes-Gr.1 (1200m) star Merlene, dam of South African dual Group winner Merlene de Lago and grandam of the ill-fated juvenile stakes winner Burnstone. Bred on a 2mx3f cross of Danehill from the family of VRC Oaks-Gr.1 (2500m) winner Dear Demi and

recent two-year-old stakes winner Capitalist, he is “a bonny colt who is a very similar type to Burnstone. Probably the best moving colt we have in the sale.” An All Too Hard colt is another to impress O’Brien, to the extent that he describes him as “one of the top three colts on the farm.” A son of the Listed winner Custard, he is a half-brother to recent Thoroughbred Club Stakes-Gr.3 (1200m) winner Serene Majesty.

Aberdeen NSW 2336 t: 02 6543 9777 www.segenhoegroup.com.au Peter O’Brien: 0411 852 149 e: peter.obrien@segenhoegroup.com.au

“A particularly good looking Snitzel with plenty of leg and a great action” is a colt out of Gymea Lily, sister to Group One winner Floral Pegasus. More Than Ready mare Heaven Beneath was a highly regarded racehorse before her career was cut short due to injury. “She was a fast mare who was far better than her record suggests,” O’Brien said, hopeful that her destiny lies as a broodmare, her Not A Single Doubt colt an eyecatcher. “If you want a text-book Magic Millions type this fellow would be your top pick.” Whilst a filly by Winx’s sire Street Cry has a Cox Plate type pedigree, hailing from the family of Kingston Town, O’Brien thinks the colt out of the Group Three winner Deer Valley will go early. “He has the substance of his sire and dam and he is precocious for a Street Cry. He is not a big horse but he doesn’t know it!” “A stunning filly” who all the sales companies were keen to secure,” is a daughter of Sebring and the Listed winner Hooness. Star Witness has been in great form of late and his filly out of the stakes winner La Fantastique is described as “an especially good looking filly who exudes quality, one of the nicest Star Witnesses we have seen.”

2016 DRAFT Lot

Col/Sex Sire

Dam

B. C

Pierro (AUS)

Alessandra (AUS)

128 B. C

Redoute's Choice (AUS)

Costa Serena (AUS)

136 Ch. C

All Too Hard (AUS)

Custard (AUS)

151 Br. C

Street Cry (IRE)

Deer Valley (AUS)

279 B. C

Snitzel (AUS)

Gymea Lily (AUS)

292 Ch. C

Not A Single Doubt (AUS)

Heaven Beneath (AUS)

298 B. F

Fastnet Rock (AUS)

Hifalutin (AUS)

304 Br. F

Sebring (AUS)

Hooness (AUS)

309 B. F

Exceed And Excel (AUS)

Houston Benefactor (AUS)

313 B/Br. C Pierro (AUS)

Hurtle Myrtle (AUS)

360 B. F

Star Witness (AUS)

La Fantastique (AUS)

469 B. F

Fastnet Rock (AUS)

Necessary Evil (USA)

592 B. F

Exceed And Excel (AUS)

Set For Fame (AUS)

612 B/Br. C Pierro (AUS)

Skates (AUS)

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Sledmere Stud Large draft boasts a depth of sire talent

NE OF the biggest stories of the spring was Gr.1 winner Politeness (Street Sense – Berengaria, by Commands) and her cancer fighting co-owner Phil Sly. The five yearold mare proved her obvious talent this spring, winning three of four starts, highlighted by the Gr.1 Myer Classic before just getting beaten into second in the Gr.1 Emirates Stakes on the last day of the carnival. The other owner of Politeness is Japanese owner/breeder Katsumi Yoshida who was keen on taking her north, but she will now stay for at least the autumn in Australia. Every great story must have a beginning, and Sledmere is where the Politeness tale begins. Bred by Sledmere’s founder Ann Raymond, Politeness spent her early years under the care of proprietors Catriona and Royston Murphy. Royston Murphy spoke to Bluebloods about the farm and the exciting changes since he took over management of the property. “Over the last few years we have been revitalising Sledmere,

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investing in new fencing, pasture improvements and creating efficiencies on the property. Our redevelopments have helped us to produce Politeness, which has been a great boost for the farm. We hope to build on that achievement and produce more top drawer horses.” The benefits have been wider reaching than one good horse, with other stakes winners like Pane in the Glass (Testa Rossa), Ready to Attack (More than Ready) and Buckinghampshire (Lonhro) being sold off the farm in the last few years. Gr.1 Greyville Premier’s Champion Stakes placed Anjaal (Lonhro) is also a recent graduate and is still racing in South Africa adding to his record. Sledmere’s draft of 15 yearlings has a good depth of sires represented from the recently crowned NZ Champion Sire Savabeel and Redoute’s Choice’s heir apparent Snitzel through to freshman sires All Too Hard, Pierro and Your Song. “We have been lucky to get great support from

clients who have given us the opportunity to sell their yearlings, and this year’s draft includes yearlings from Haunui Stud, Waikato Stud and Little Avondale Stud among others. It is probably the largest draft we’ve ever prepared and a nice group of horses,” said Catriona in commenting on the yearlings they will take to Magic Millions. Both the Snitzel yearlings have standout pedigrees. The colt from city winner Gussy Godiva (Last Tycoon), Lot 278, is a half brother to Gr.1 winner Roman Emperor (Montjeu) and Gr.2 winner Rios (Hussonet). This is the family of Gr.1 winner Black Mamba (Black Minnaloushe) and Gr.1 winner Glorious Days (Hussonet). The other Snitzel, Lot 665, has residual value as a half sister to stakes winner Upstaged (In the Wings); dam of stakes placed Miss Outshine (Darci Brahma); and also a half sister to Gr.2 placed El Pauji (Flying Spur). Their dam, Tambara (Thunder Gulch) is from the family of Gr.1 winner Isolda (Sir Tristram).

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“Over the last few years we have been revitalising Sledmere, investing in new fencing, pasture improvements and creating efficiencies on the property. Our redevelopments have helped us to produce Politeness, which has been a great boost for the farm.”

Champion Sire Savabeel has four yearlings in Sledmere’s draft. Lot 266 is a filly out of Gold Rocks (Oratorio), winner of the Gr.2 Karrakatta Plate and her first foal, Calaverite (Lonhro) won the Listed Gimcrack Stakes last season. Lot 433 is a colt from five race winner Miss Caruso (Pins) from the family of Champion mare Wenona Girl. A colt, Lot 40, is the first foal of Baby Shacks (O’Reilly) who is a sibling to three stakes winners – Gr.2 winner Vigor (O’Reilly), Gr.2 winner Joey Massino (O’Reilly) and Vincent Mangano (No Excuse Needed). Baby Shacks is also a half sister to the winning dam of Gr.2 winner Sea Lord (Street Cry). The other colt, Lot 484, is the second foal of On Broadway (Pins), a half sister to two stakes placed racehorses, including the dam of Gr.1 placed Dowager Queen (Savabeel). “As a group, the four Savabeel yearlings are strong, imposing types. The On Broadway improves every day and has a lot of presence, while the Baby Shacks is a really good effort for a first foal, very strong with a great action,” said Murphy. Proven sire Commands always has a tough horse racing, and Lot 420, a filly from winner Medrano (General Nediym) provides an opportunity to buy into a strong family. Medrano’s dam On The Rise has left three stakes winners. Murphy said “She is a nice bodied filly with lots of quality. She should be well received at the sale, and has an active loose walk.” Sledmere is excited to present Lot 565, by last season’s Champion First Season Sire Hinchinbrook (sire of Gr.1 winner Press

Scone NSW 2337 t: 02 6545 2039 www.sledmerestud.com.au Catriona Murphy: 0409 369 965 e: treen@sledmerestud.com.au Royston Murphy: 0428 418 926 e: royston@sledmerestud.com.au

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Col/Sex Sire

Dam

Br. C

Savabeel (AUS)

Baby Shacks (NZ)

B. C

Your Song (AUS)

Cathie's Lane (AUS)

207 B/Br. C O'Reilly (NZ)

Fabulist (NZ)

266 Br. F

Savabeel (AUS)

Gold Rocks (AUS)

278 B. C

Snitzel (AUS)

Gussy Godiva (NZ)

347 Ch. C

Pins (AUS)

Just be Cos (NZ)

348 Ch. C

All Too Hard (AUS)

Kakakakatie (AUS)

420 B. F

Commands (AUS)

Medrano (AUS)

433 Br. C

Savabeel (AUS)

Miss Caruso (NZ)

484 B. C

Savabeel (AUS)

On Broadway (NZ)

565 B. F

Hinchinbrook (AUS)

Russian Caravan (AUS)

609 B. C

Pierro (AUS)

Sirani (AUS)

665 B. F

Snitzel (AUS)

Tambara (USA)

903 B. C

Helmet (AUS)

Ballykisheen (AUS)

919 Br. F

Real Saga (AUS)

Cascada (AUS)

992 B. C

Zoffany (IRE)

Goddess Of Wisdom (USA)

Statement). She is out of stakes winner Russian Caravan (Dehere) who is a half sister to Listed winner Custard (Lonhro), dam of Gr.3 winner Serene Majesty (Fastnet Rock). “From a family on the up,” said Murphy, “she has an amazing attitude, easy to handle with a good work ethic. She has great scope and walk, a real pretty filly with plenty of quality.” Three yearlings by high profile freshman sires make up the draft. The colt by Your Song (Fastnet Rock), Lot 85, is out of Cathie’s Lane (Tertian). She has left six winners, including Listed placed Destined to Be (Danehill Dancer) and Kadena Lane (Black Hawk). Murphy said “He has a fair bit of Fastnet Rock about him, a very strong nice colt with good bone, a powerful hindquarter and great forearm.” All Too Hard (Casino Prince) has Lot 348, a colt from Listed winner Kakakakatie (Zeditave) who has left seven race winner Smooth Talker. This colt has a stallion’s pedigree being from the Eight Carat family. “A classy colt,” said Murphy. “He is a real running type, sharp looking, extremely powerful, well conformed with good balance.” Sledmere’s draft overview opened with a half brother to Gr.1 Roman Emperor, and so we round it out with another lovely colt from the same family. By Pierro, Lot 609, is from city winning mare Sirani (Galileo), who is a half sister to Gr.1 Black Mamba and the dam of Gr.1 winner and now successful young sire Roman Emperor. Murphy said “A beautiful walking colt with a fantastic brain, he is simply outstanding.”

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OUTHERN CROSS Breeders formed as a partnership ten years ago to enable boutique farms to sell under a larger banner.

In that time, their Magic Millions Gold Coast drafts have produced many excellent racehorses including current racemare $1million earner Eloping (Choisir – Runaway Jesse, by Rory’s Jester) that they sold in 2013 for $120,000 and $435K earning Gr.3 winner Wouldn’t It Be Nice (Choisir-Mia Cat Dancer by Tactical Cat) who sold for $40K in 2012 as well as numerous other black type winners. Their draft in 2016 includes seven yearlings from Ashleigh Thoroughbreds and two from Byerley Stud. Ashleigh Thoroughbreds Principal Senga Bissett spoke to Bluebloods about their horses. “This is a lovely even draft of yearlings, all in the first book. We are very happy with them. The increased prizemoney to the Magic Millions races is welcome news to vendors as it should help find buyers. In addition, sales around the world are holding up well and we are hopeful that this will continue into the New Year.” Bissett said that Ashleigh were proud to present two yearlings for renowned breeder Catherine Remond. “She has bred so many great horses, Schillaci, Fairy King Prawn, Easy Rocking, Cosmic Endeavour and many others. She has recently invested in some nice young mares, and we have two first foals in our draft on her behalf.”

Southern Cross Breeders formed as a partnership ten years ago to enable boutique farms to sell under a larger banner. The first of those is Lot 352, a Smart Missile colt from Kawanishi (Commands). She won twice and is a daughter of Gr.2 winner and Gr.1 placed Seika (Canny Lad), dam of stakes horses Clothilde (Danehill), Clown Master (Lonhro) and Huit (Octagonal). It is also the family of dual Gr.1 winner Sports (Zeditave). Bissett said “This colt is outstanding, a very strong, forward looking colt and a good size.” The other yearling bred by Remond is Lot 197, a filly by Choisir, the first foal of winning mare Enjoyment (Snitzel), herself a sister to the dam of Gr.1 Golden Slipper winner Mossfun (Mossman) as well as a half-sister to stakes winner Cat d’Antibes (Tale of the Cat). Bissett said “A very nice filly, medium sized who is strong and athletic.” Clients Randwick Bloodstock have two yearlings in this draft, highlighted by Lot 635, a colt by Choisir, from stakes placed mare Street Sign (High Yield), who is a half-sister to three USA stakes winners. Bissett said “He is a big strong, scopey colt, typical of what you expect from a Choisir. A second foal, and the first foal of the mare Right of Way (Denman) is already placed as a two year-old last season.” The other yearling for Randwick Bloodstock has plenty of residual value as she is a half-sister to Gr.1 Epsom winner Captain Sonador (Shamardal). By Snitzel, Lot 522, she is out of the winning mare Pushing Daisies (Kenny’s Best Pal), who is herself a half-sister to Gr.2 winner and Gr.1 placed Umaline (Umatilla), dam of stakes winner Fasline (Fasliyev). Bissett said “A very typical Snitzel, this filly is owned by and was reared at Randwick Bloodstock and is a well balanced, strong type.” Also in this draft are two yearlings by sires that have their first runners this season. Gr.1

winner Foxwedge was sought after last year, and Southern Cross present a filly, Lot 222, with a strong Japanese pedigree here. Her dam, Figure of Eight (Octagonal) is the dam of two stakes winners; Eight Street (Street Cry) and Ottimo (Oratorio), both Gr.2 winners in South Africa, while another daughter has left stakes winner Caduceus (Lucky Unicorn). Bissett said “A lovely, big strong filly that is well balanced.” Bissett was enthusiastic about Lot 237, a filly by Pluck from Flying First Class (Flying Spur). “An outstanding black filly, she is the only Pluck in the first session. A well balanced filly with a good action, she is exceptionally nice.” The first foal of her winning dam, she is from the family of Gr.1 winners Brambles (Savabeel), and Slight Chance (Centaine), dam of group winners Dane Shadow (Danehill) and Salgado (Danewin). I Am Invincible is the sire of Lot 135, a colt from unraced mare Curtsey (Viscount) who is out of stakes winner Greeting (Canny Lad) who has left three stakes horses to date. Curtsey’s first foal Rainy Day Woman is a full sister to this yearling and is already placed twice as a two year-old this season, running creditable seconds at Doomben in her most recent two starts. Bisset said “A lovely colt, medium sized who is very forward. His dam has had a great start with her first foal already showing promise in Brisbane this season.” The two yearlings in the draft from Byerley Stud are both by proven sire Sebring, and both from the family of emerging sire I Am Invincible, as well as Gr.1 winner Diamond Drille and stakes winners Mamzelle Pedrille, O’Lonhro, etc. Lot 461 is a filly from Mrs Slocombe (Tale of the Cat), an unraced half-sister to I Am Invincible’s dam. Byerley Stud Manager Kelvin Williams told Bluebloods “Gai bought Mrs Slocombe’s So You Think yearling last year from our draft for $240,000 and he has been named Lebron. We hope he gives us a good pedigree update soon and lives up to Gai’s comment that he is a ‘glorious colt’. Mrs Slocombe’s Sebring filly this year is a good opportunity to buy into the I Am Invincible family.” The other Sebring, Lot 581, is a colt from five times city winner Sea Eye Pea (Commands). Her son Giuliani (Manhattan Rain) showed promise as a two year-old running fourth in the Gr.2 Skyline Stakes. Williams said “The full brother to this colt sold out of our draft last year to Portelli Racing and has been named Cool in Black. He won a two year-old trial on the 1st of November and followed with a very close third at Rosehill on Saturday 14th November at his initial race appearance. Watch this space for more pedigree upgrades from Cool in Black!”

www.southerncrossbreeders.com.au Ashleigh Thoroughbreds Scone NSW 2337 Senga Bissett: 0410 588 200 e: sengaB@bigpond.com Byerley Stud Sandy Hollow NSW 2333 Kelvin Williams: 0428 880 276 e: byerleystud@bigpond.com

2016 DRAFT Lot

Col/Sex Sire

Dam

135 Br. C

I Am Invincible (AUS)

Curtsey (AUS)

197 Ch. F

Choisir (AUS)

Enjoyment (AUS)

222 B/Gr. F

Foxwedge (AUS)

Figure Of Eight (FR)

237 Bl. F

Pluck (USA)

Flying First Class (AUS)

352 B/Br. C Smart Missile (AUS)

Kawanishi (AUS)

461 Ch. F

Sebring (AUS)

Mrs Slocombe (AUS)

522 B. F

Snitzel (AUS)

Pushing Daisies (AUS)

581 B. C

Sebring (AUS)

Sea Eye Pea (AUS)

635 Ch. C

Choisir (AUS)

Street Sign (USA)

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Strawberry Hill Seven sweet strawberries

HE advertising guru and successful media owner John Singleton, universally known as Singo, was bitten by the thoroughbred bug many more years ago than he probably cares to remember. Among his most notable early successes as a racehorse owner was the Cox Plate winning champion Strawberry Road (by Whiskey Road) whose memory lives on in the beautiful 180 acre property named after him at Mt White north of Sydney on the way to Newcastle and the Hunter Valley. Strawberry Hill, as the farm is known, is a beautifully appointed property where the care and attention to detail are reflected not only in the quality thoroughbreds roaming the paddocks, but also in the pastures, lawns and various appointments. The 20 plus broodmare

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band also has a fair share of “strawberries” among its distinguished members to maintain the tradition and the farm’s distinctive brand, as you would have guessed by now, features a strawberry. The cream is in the bloodstock though, Strawberry Hill has established a wonderful reputation for producing high class stakes winners, Gr.1 winners such as Dear Demi and More Joyous being two recent star performers raced by Singo. John’s involvement in the industry grew to the point where he became a part-owner of Magic Millions in 2007 along with Gerry Harvey and Rob Ferguson, the trio helping to set the organisation on the road to growth and success that has ensued. Although Gerry and his wife Katie are now the sole owners of

Magic Millions Singo has remained a regular vendor of high class yearlings at the Gold Coast. The Strawberry Hill offering for the 2016 Magic Millions is a septet featuring three colts and four fillies by Australia’s leading commercial sires from Singo’s quality broodmares, you don’t have to look hard for the thick black type on any of their catalogue pages. The three colts are by Snitzel, Not A Single Doubt and More Than Ready, they could hardly be better suited to the purpose of winning the big prizemoney on offer. The first into the ring might as well have “Magic Millions winner” as his brand under the famous strawberry. He is Lot 430 by crack sire Snitzel out of the Magic Millions 2YO Classic winner Mirror Mirror making him a ¾ brother to her earlier produce,

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The Danehill/Galileo cross and its variants, is producing the world’s finest racehorses (Frankel is the reverse cross) and Strawberry Hill’s first filly into the ring is from the first crop of the crack performer All Too Hard, a quadruple Gr.1 winner descend from Danehill through the very successful Flying Spur/Casino Prince branch, out of the winning Galileo mare Dreams and Wishes. The second dam Procrastinate was a multiple Gr.3 winner and multiple Gr.1 producer, whose stakes winning descendants require more ink in the printer to finish the page!

Strawberry Hill has established a wonderful reputation for producing high class stakes winners, Gr.1 winners such as Dear Demi and More Joyous being two recent star performers raced by Singo.

the Magic Millions 2YO Classic runnerup (won the race but relegated on protest!) No Looking Back. Buyers can look forward to a lot of fun with this colt, surely. The next colt offered will be Lot 632 by Not A Single Doubt, currently one of the hottest and most sought after sires in the land, proven as a Magic Millions sire with his flying filly Karuta Queen (Magic Millions 2YO Classic winner) and current sprint sensation Fell Swoop demonstrating his ability to throw colts as well as fillies. His dam is a stakes placed daughter of Singo’s globetrotting champion Strawberry Road who has gone on to distinguish herself as a truly exceptional broodmare, dam of four individual stakes winners and a stakes placegetter. Two of her stakes winning sons have already starred at previous Magic Millions racedays with Tippitaka winning the 3YO Magic Millions trophy (lifetime earnings $631K) and Strawberry Boy being runnerup in the Magic Millions Cup (winner of 9 races and $657K). Another son bred on a similar Danehill sireline cross to this lot was Gr.2 winner Danroad who is in turn sire of winners of over $10 million including Gr.1 Qld winner Rockdale. Completing the trifecta is the brown colt Lot 664 by multiple Magic Millions race winning sire More Than Ready out of the Gr.3 winning Street Cry mare Tallow, herself a Magic Millions 3YO trophy runnerup. It is hard to imagine a more exciting Magic Millions pedigree than this, the dam by current leading Australian sire Street Cry whose Cox Plate winning daughter Winx is arguably the best horse in the country and being by the sire of two previous Magic Millions 2YO Classic winners, the filly Augusta Proud and the colt Phelan Ready. The four fillies are all great racing prospects, with such attractive pedigrees that buyers looking for fillies that will have a future at stud when they finish racing, should certainly have them on the “must inspect” list.

Second filly from the farm is Lot 439 from the first crop of Golden Slipper winner Pierro, Lonhro’s magnificent five times Gr.1 winning son out of the stakes winning Redoute’s Choice mare Miss Mooney Mooney. There is no better young broodmare sire in the country than Redoute’s Choice whose affinity for the Sir Tirstram/ Zabeel line that this cross provides is well established. To put the icing on the cake, this filly is from the family of Randwick course record breaking sprinter Better Than Ready. The third filly on offer Lot 640 is by Golden Slipper winner Sepoy and is the first foal of a sister to crack South African 2YO filly Merlene de Lago whose half-sister is the dam of Singo’s VRC Oaks-Gr.1 winner Dear Demi, winner of over $2.1 million. The second dam is top Australian 2YO Merlene (Golden Slipper, ATC Sires etc) who is by the great Danehill from Magic Millions 2YO Classic winner, the flying Bold Promise. Mt White NSW 2220 Duncan Grimley: 0411 173 217

2016 DRAFT Lot

Col/Sex Sire

Dam

170 F

All Too Hard (AUS)

Dreams And Wishes (AUS)

430 C

Snitzel (AUS)

Mirror Mirror (AUS)

439 F

Pierro (AUS)

Miss Mooney Mooney (AUS)

632 C

Not A Single Doubt (AUS)

Strawberry Girl (USA)

640 F

Sepoy (AUS)

Sucker Punch (AUS)

641 F

More Than Ready (USA)

Sugar Babe (NZ)

664 C

More Than Ready (USA)

Tallow (AUS)

To fill up the basket of seven strawberries the More Than Ready filly out of the Exceed and Exce’s Gr,3 winner Sugar Babe will enter the ring as a full sister to two winning fillies including Sydney Metro winner of four Sugar Rush ($179,660). The racing and breeding potential of this filly seems obvious, not one to be missed during pre sale inspections. Strawberry Hill’s bloodstock manager Duncan Grimley commented on the 2016 draft, “We’ve carefully chosen seven yearlings with precocious pedigrees, real Magic Millions types. They are the forward yearlings we feel buyers will like, I invite everyone to inspect our draft. I’m sure there is something there to suit all buyers. Hopefully another Magic Millions winner.” Your next strawberry could be the sweetest of the lot.

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Turangga Farm Another high quality draft from the breeders of Able Friend

URANGGA Farm is situated in some of the most sought after thoroughbred breeding real estate in the country, with near neighbours including Arrowfield, Glastonbury, Vinery, Kia Ora, Segenhoe, Darley and Newgate. An elite property club you could say. Farm principal Stuart Ramsey has always strongly maintained that the best horses come out of this locale – the renowned Segenhoe Valley and surrounds. With another strong season under their belt, Stuart and his son John have worked hard to keep the standard of excellence up to their own high benchmark. The Magic Millions draft is another highly appealing collection and warrants more than close inspection. Stuart walked me through the yearling barn and we discussed each one. There is quality here in spades. Lot 21, an Encosta de Lago x Andallthatjazz (Bianconi) filly is from the SAJC Morphettville Guineas - LR winner Andallthatjazz who is a half-sister to the stakes placed Mr Jazz Man. “She is a scopey Encosta filly who really fills the eye” Stuart said. A second Encosta de Lago filly, Lot 720, is from the Flying Spur mare Who’s Lucky by Kreisler. Who’s Lucky is a half-sister to the stakes placed Anna Lizzie from the immediate family of Universal Ambition, Mighty King, In Joyment and Thrive. Described as “a quality Encosta filly showing all the attributes of

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With another strong season under their belt, Stuart and his son John have worked hard to keep the standard of excellence up to their own high benchmark. The Magic Millions draft is another highly appealing collection and warrants more than close inspection.

Encosta de Lago’s best fillies” she is sure to have appeal. Sebring has a chestnut colt from the Coronado’s Quest mare Classic Quest (USA). As lot 117 he is a half-brother to the stakes placed Quest For Peace and two other winners. “A quality Sebring colt with enormous scope and wonderful balance”. Following only 10 lots later is the Manhattan Rain filly out of the half-sister to Headway, Convene. “A magnificent filly” said Stuart. Two Sepoys and two More Than Readys are next through. The first Sepoy, lot 226, is a filly from the unraced More Than Ready mare Fitness. Fitness is a daughter of the stakes placed Dane Tryst from the family of SW’s Leica Western, Leica Smile, Éclair Mystic, Dansino, Zagreb,

Redding, etc. “A scopey Sepoy filly from the great Leica family” said Stuart. Lot 302 is the first of the More Than Ready yearlings, this one a filly from Hint of Glory (Honour and Glory) from the family of Sky Cuddle, Highly Recommended, Sky Love, etc, and is a half-sister to Fast Clip (ATC Tulloch Stakes – Gr.2). “A quality More Than Ready who is a half-sister to Fast Clip. A running type.” The other Sepoy is from the Commands mare Midnight Fantasy and is the second foal of a half-sister to Listed winner Tampiko and to well performed five times winner Classics. Their grandam is the VRC Salinger Stakes – Gr.1 winner Ancient Song. “A magnificent colt displaying all the quality you would expect from his breeding. His three quarter brother sold for $1.6million in Sydney.” The other More Than Ready, lot 472 is going to be popular. He is a full brother to Elite Falls (Joint Top Filly of 2010-11 Australasian 2YO Classifications) from the very good race mare and now producer, Niagara Falls. “A magnificent colt displaying all the qualities of his full sister Elite Falls.” Lot 613 is a filly by Not A Single Doubt from the Gr.1 winning mare Sky Cuddle (Snippets). Boasting a 3m X 3f cross of the influential Easy Date, she is described by Stuart as, “a true Not A Single Doubt type, much in the mould of his best fillies, Karuta Queen (a Turangga product herself) and Miracles of Life.” The lone Hinchinbrook in the draft is lot 725, a colt from

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the Forestry mare Wildly Entertained (USA) an unraced half-sister to Gr.2 and Gr.3 winner Sovereign Kitty. He is a half-brother to three Australian winners and two USA winners. According to Stuart he is “the star of the sale - a really good type.” The All Too Hard colt, Lot 733, from Yolane is from a daughter of the Gr.1 winner Sky Cuddle and from a great family. “An intelligent colt of magnificent quality.” Lot 808 is a Denman colt from the Commands mare Permission. His 3rd dam is the very talented Wrap Around who is also the grandam of dual Gr.1 winner and Golden Slipper 2nd placegetter Fashions Afield. “Well balanced colt with a great get up and run attitude.” On to Book 2 of the sale and lot 818 is the colt by Nicconi from Queen of the Falls (General Nediym) and is a full brother to two winners in Tuscan Falls and Walker, the only other progeny of the mare to date. Their grandam is Niagara Falls making their dam a half-sister to Elite Falls. “A scopey colt from a half-sister to Elite Falls.” Zizou is represented by a colt, lot 838, out of the Redoute’s Choice mare Shantha’s Choice, herself a daughter of Sky Cuddle. “A quality Zizou colt from one of our best families. A real runner.” Another from the same Turangga family is lot 848, a Myboycharlie colt from Sky Love. This colt is a half-brother to four winners from six to race for their Gr.3 winning dam.

Myboycharlie is kicking goals with VRC Oaks winner Jameka the standout in the spring. “A quality Myboycharlie colt from the dual Gr.3 winning mare Sky Love.” According to Stuart, the next one into the ring is one well worth inspection. Described as “a horse of outstanding quality” and “a real trainer’s horse and a cracking type” we refer to lot 859, the colt by Excites from Superb Lady (Canny Lad). He is a half brother to nine winners from eleven to race including the very good racemare Fritz’s Princess (AJC Shorts Gr.2 and Gr.1 placed). This is also the immediate family of the AJC Sires winner Align and Hong Kong stakes winner Contentment. Another quality offering is the Congrats filly from the stakes winning Tenant’s Tiara (Beautiful Crown) making this girl a half-sister to Wyong MM winner Zoutenant, and the winners Tiarazou and King Kazou. “A beautiful athletic filly with plenty of scope.” The final two offerings are a filly by Reset from the Gr.2, Gr.3 and Listed winner Countess Christie (Marscay) making this filly a half-sister the Listed winner I Have No Fear and two other winners. “A racy Reset filly – an early maturing type.” The final member of the Turangga draft is lot 976 the second in the draft by Manhattan Rain. From the Umatilla mare Floral Brook a halfsister to Chlorophyll, she is “a quality Manhattan Rain filly from a superior female family.”

top // Top 2YO sprinter Elite Falls - her full brother will be offered at MM 2016 (lot 472) above // Gr.2 winner Fast Clip has a half-sister (by More Than Ready) in the Turangga draft (lot 302)

Scone NSW 2337 t: 02 6545 3862 www.turanggafarm.com.au John Ramsey: 0427 847 685 e: office@turanggafarm.com.au

2016 DRAFT above // winner Tiarazou is a half-sister to lot 861

Lot

Col/Sex Sire

Dam

below // Zoutenant, winner of the Wyong Magic Millions and 2nd to Exosphere in the Gr.2 Roman Consul Stakes, is also a half-sibling to lot 861

B. F

Encosta De Lago (AUS)

Andallthatjazz (AUS)

117 Ch. C

Sebring (AUS)

Classic Quest (USA)

127 Ch. F

Manhattan Rain (AUS)

Convene (AUS)

226 B. F

Sepoy (AUS)

Fitness (AUS)

302 B. F

More Than Ready (USA)

Hint Of Glory (AUS)

425 B. C

Sepoy (AUS)

Midnight Fantasy (AUS)

472 Br. C

More Than Ready (USA)

Niagara Falls (AUS)

613 Ch. F

Not A Single Doubt (AUS)

Sky Cuddle (AUS)

720 Ch. F

Encosta De Lago (AUS)

Who's Lucky (AUS)

725 B. C

Hinchinbrook (AUS)

Wildly Entertained (USA)

733 B. C

All Too Hard (AUS)

Yolane (AUS)

808 Br. C

Denman (AUS)

Permission (AUS)

818 B. C

Nicconi (AUS)

Queen Of The Falls (AUS)

838 B. C

Zizou (AUS)

Shantha's Girl (AUS)

848 Br. C

Myboycharlie (IRE)

Sky Love (AUS)

859 Ch. C

Excites (AUS)

Superb Lady (AUS)

861 B. F

Congrats (USA)

Tenant's Tiara (AUS)

933 Ch. F

Reset (AUS)

Countess Christie (AUS)

976 Br. F

Manhattan Rain (AUS)

Floral Brook (AUS)

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Tyreel Stud Going from strength to strength

NE YEAR ago Bluebloods spoke with Linda Monds ahead of presenting her first ever draft at the highly competitive Magic Millions yearling sale on the Gold Coast. Naturally she was slightly uncertain and anxious about stepping straight up to the elite level of Thoroughbred selling. Testament to her highly regarded professional background in management and her character, Linda handled the daunting challenge with aplomb. With a strong team of loyal staff in place Tyreel has

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produced another group of high class horses for the 2016 Magic Millions Yearling Sale. “It could not be any better, this year we have gone from strength to strength,” Linda said. “Last year being our first year here we were all getting used to how we work and operate and now we have really blended well. We all have this fantastic balance of strengths in different areas and over the last 18 months taken command of our own areas. It has evolved

that way which is great. We still have the same original staff here and clients have supported us very well throughout the breeding season.” Tyreel will offer four colts on the Gold Coast in January. One of the most impressive types is a powerfully built Foxwedge (Fastnet Rock) colt out of Pinocchio an extremely fast daughter of Encosta De Lago and Surrealist (Kenny’s Best Pal). Pinocchio showed brilliant speed as a two

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Times have changed at Tyreel in recent years and under its new ownership the boutique farm is maintaining its usual high standards.

year old before a training injury ended her highly promising career after just eight starts under the care of the late Guy Walter. Her dam Surrealist has produced some top liners on the track including Purrealist (Tale of the Cat) and five time Group 1 winner Racing to Win (Encosta De Lago). “If this colt is an example of what is to come the future is bright for the family. He’s a sharp good looking chestnut colt, has great power and natural muscle tone. He has the very punchy walk of a sprinter. He’s all muscle and a tough boy.” Linda said. Since commencing stud duties at Newgate in the Hunter Valley Group 1 winning sprinter Foxwedge has been one of the most popular young stallions in the country. His spectacular good looks, which made him a $925K yearling, are clearly being passed on to his sons and daughters. Foxwedge has so far had 116 yearlings offered for sale across Australia. 79 of them sold at an average of $145,456 and grossed more than $11 million. Another impressive member of the Tyreel Magic Millions lineup is a quality colt by Choisir (Danehill Dancer) x Elsewhere (Lonhro). Season in season out Choisir (Danehill Dancer) never fails to produce a champion sprinter. This colt’s dam Elsewhere, a sister to Group 1 winner Long John, hails from one of the classic Woodlands families that yields success year after year. “Elsewhere oozes quality from her sire Lonhro and this has come through in her first colt yearling to be offered. This colt is imposing and immediately takes the eye with a purposeful walk. Physically he is outstanding.” Linda said. The Tyreel Magic Millions draft also offers a strong international flavour in 2016 with a colt by outstanding miler Excelebration (Exceed and Excel) out of the Irish bred mare String of Pearls (Danehill Dancer). Excelebration is now standing his second season at Coolmore Australia. He recorded elite level wins at Ascot, Longchamp and Deauville and was second placed to the all conquering Frankel on four

occasions during his career. His Timeform rating reached a peak of 133 at three and four years of age. “This colt he has produced is masculine. The family has already bred a Group 2 winning 2 year old by Exceed and Excel in Europe (Infamous Angel) and so being bred on the same lines this colt has all the makings of a Magic Millions two year old.” “He’s a smart, athletic colt that stands over plenty of ground. He has a nice loose walk and is very balanced,” Linda added. One of the most striking types in the Tyreel Magic Millions draft is a colt by Europe’s Harbour Watch (Acclamation) out of unraced mare Enduja (Encosta De Lago). Harbour Watch has stood at Emirates Park (NSW) since 2013 and is a very well credentialled stallion. The Timeform champion two-year-old is by champion sire Acclamation and his half-sister is dual Group 1 winner Europa Point. Harbour Watch is out of a grand daughter of the legendary Fall Aspen, the dam and grand dam of 13 Group 1 winners including seven champions. The family of this Tyreel yearling hails back to Margot Did, a former champion three-yearold filly in Great Britain and multiple winner Floral Dynamite. “This family has consistently produced speed on speed which exudes through this colt. He’s athletic and well balanced and has come to hand very quickly.” Justifiably, the Tyreel team is approaching the upcoming Magic Millions sale with a degree of confidence. The draft offers pedigree depth and, most importantly at this crucial stage of their development, the yearlings are robust, athletic types that perfectly fit the mould of this sale. “We are really looking forward to offering these horses and could not be happier with how they have developed so far.” All four members of the Tyreel draft are ideal representatives for the boutique brand and reflect the hard work of Linda’s loyal and dedicated staff on the farm that have worked passionately to get the horses ready for sale in January.

Agnes Banks NSW 2753 t: 02 4776 1142 www.tyreel.com Robert Sims: 0419 974 104 e: rob@tyreel.com

2016 DRAFT Lot

Col/Sex Sire

Dam

187 B. C

Choisir (AUS)

Elsewhere (AUS)

196 Br. C

Harbour Watch (IRE)

Enduja (AUS)

508 Ch. C

Foxwedge (AUS)

Pinocchio (AUS)

637 Ch. C

Excelebration (IRE)

String of Pearls (IRE)

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Vinery Stud Vinery’s proven formula

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INCE establishing their Australian roots in 2000, the lush pastures of Vinery Stud have produced endless Group 1 winners, including recent Spring Carnival star Delectation. On their 2300 acre farm in the famous Segenhoe Valley champion stallions Red Ransom, Testa Rossa, Mossman and current flagship resident More Than Ready, have stood the test of time. While the elder statesmen have long held their positions among Australia’s most popular sires, the challenge for any stud farm is to constantly source and stand the next champion, and if progeny looks are anything to go by, Vinery Stud may have found their next pin up boy in All Too Hard. A half-brother to the world’s most famous sprinter, Black Caviar, All Too Hard hails from one of the most prolific broodmares in recent history, Helsinge and is by Vinery’s own Casino Prince. All Too Hard was a Champion racehorse in his own right, winning four Group 1s and the title of Champion 3yo Colt in 2012/13. His first crop of yearlings will make their sale ring debut in 2016 with 47 due to go under the hammer at the Gold Coast. Eight of them feature in the 21-strong draft from Vinery and the stud’s sales and nominations manager Adam White looks forward with great anticipation.

above // Champion 3yo colt All Too Hard

mare Atlantic Jewel, her Group 1 winning halfsister Commanding Jewel and popular young stallion Rubick.

“Magic Millions have done a tremendous job promoting this sale with such a wide variety of buyers both locally and internationally.

Scone NSW 2337 t: 02 6543 8333 www.vinery.com.au Peter Orton: 0418 276 454 e: peter@vinery.com.au Adam White: 0414 800 918 e: adam@vinery.com.au Conor Phelan: 0437 842 852 e: conor@vinery.com.au

“In 2015 we offered 25 yearlings at Magic Millions and sold every single one of them. A tough clearance rate to match I know, but I believe we have the draft to do it. “We are very excited to be presenting the first crop of All Too Hards; they’re such a good, even bunch of horses and I believe they’ll make a great impression on buyers,” said White.

“We are very excited to be presenting the first crop of All Too Hards; they’re such a good even bunch of horses and I believe they’ll make a great impression with buyers.” “I really like the All Too Hard colt from Group 1 winning mare Devil Moon as he is a lovely balanced colt with great quality, and being from that mare he will only continue to develop as he gets older. “Another eye catching All Too Hard colt is from the American mare Roman Treasure, who was a very talented sprinter having won three stakes races and being Group 1 placed. He is one of the more forward types by All Too Hard and should go early.” Another well-bred yearling colt by the son of Casino Prince is from former talented juvenile Night War, who herself scored five wins between 1000m to 1400m in a relatively short career; her biggest success being the Group 2 Karrakatta Plate (1200m) at Ascot. “This is a great speed family as Night War is a half-sister to our 2012 Blue Diamond Stakes winner Samaready. He is typical of the family and looks a real early type as well.” Some of Vinery’s biggest successes in recent years have come out of the Magic Millions Gold Coast yearling sale, highlighted by champion

Reflecting on the star mare as a youngster, White noted “Atlantic Jewel was certainly a stand out and handled herself really well. She was a high-quality filly who paraded the most of any Magic Millions yearling we’ve had that I can remember.” While Atlantic Jewel set a formidable record on the racetrack with 10 victories from 11 starts (seven stakes wins - with three at Group 1 level), White hopes Vinery can offer more fillies to follow in her illustrious footsteps.

2016 DRAFT Lot

Col/Sex Sire

Dam

Br. C

Casino Prince (AUS)

Ambitious Princess (NZ)

B. C

All Too Hard (AUS)

Assertive Sound (AUS)

B/Br. F

More Than Ready (USA)

Bad Romance (AUS)

B. C

All Too Hard (AUS)

Chakvetadze (AUS)

133 B/Br. C Commands (AUS)

Crossyourheart (NZ)

156 B. C

All Too Hard (AUS)

Devil Moon (AUS)

182 B. F

All Too Hard (AUS)

Element of Danger (AUS)

366 B. C

Smart Missile (AUS)

Lady Hepburn (NZ)

396 B/Br. C Smart Missile (AUS)

Luminova (NZ)

409 B. C

Smart Missile (AUS)

Malapert (AUS)

440 Ch. C

All Too Hard (AUS)

Miss Rangoon (USA)

473 Ch. C

All Too Hard (AUS)

Night War (AUS)

515 B. C

More Than Ready (USA)

Potential Princess (AUS)

521 B. C

Congrats (USA)

Purrpurrlena (AUS)

540 Ch. C

All Too Hard (AUS)

Rightly So (USA)

549 B/Br. C All Too Hard (AUS)

Roman Treasure (USA)

571 B. F

More Than Ready (USA)

Sally's World (AUS)

626 B. C

More Than Ready (USA)

Starwish (AUS)

653 Ch. C

More Than Ready (USA)

Sweet Cheeks (AUS)

669 B. C

More Than Ready (USA)

Tartufi (USA)

709 B. F

More Than Ready (USA)

Vintage Blend (AUS)

“We have two very nice and athletic fillies from a family rich in Vinery tradition. A More Than Ready filly from Bad Romance and an All Too Hard filly from Element Of Danger, the dam of Bad Romance. “Element Of Danger is a sister to Typhoon Tracy who was born and bred at Vinery before her famed racetrack career resulted in her becoming the 2009-2010 Australian Racehorse of the Year. “We also have a nice bunch of More Than Readys again including an outstanding colt from Group winning mare Sweet Cheeks and three fillies, with one being a full sister to young Queensland-based stallion Better Than Ready.” While All Too Hard will no doubt be a significant talking point among buyers, Vinery’s draft also features progeny out of seven individual stakes winning mares led by Group 1 winners Devil Moon and Rightly So. When asked what makes a farm like Vinery so successful in producing great quality bloodstock time and time again, White responded: a proven formula. “I think it’s a combination of things which has led the farm to having such a rich history of producing tough, sound racehorses. “In addition to being able to employ and retain great staff, this particular countryside and property in the Hunter is ideal for growing out young horses, which mostly leads to racetrack success and in turn keeps the buyers coming back to a proven formula that works.”

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GROUP ONE winner in both hemispheres, handsome grey Reliable Man is represented by his first yearlings at the Magic Millions and Westbury Stud is looking forward to their sale debut. “We could not have wished for Reliable Man to have received a better start to his stud career,” said Westbury’s Russell Warwick. “He served 130 mares in his first season and has increased on that number from year to year resulting in a full book of 150 in 2015. The support he has received is testament to the quality of foal he has produced and we are very excited about presenting the first crop of yearlings in 2016.” Warwick is understandably excited about Reliable Man’s prospects, noting what a high class galloper he was, highlighting his defeat of the likes of It’s A Dundeel, Happy Trails and Silent Achiever in the Queen Elizabeth StakesGr.1 (2000m).

Russell Warwick is understandably excited about Reliable Man’s prospects, noting what a high class galloper he was, highlighting his defeat of the likes of It’s A Dundeel, Happy Trails and Silent Achiever in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes-Gr.1 (2000m).

opposite page // Reliable Man at Westbury Stud above // Reliable Man wins the Gr.1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes below // yearlings by Reliable Man

Fellow Westbury resident Swiss Ace is already proving himself at stud and Westbury takes a colt and a filly to the Magic Millions. The filly, who is bred on a 6f X 5f cross of Nijinsky II, is a sister to the promising three-year-old Wawrinka out of the multiple city winning Show A Heart mare Notre Amour, a half-sister to the durable multiple stakes winners Funtantes and Excellantes. Carrying Northern Dancer/Natalma and Mr Prospector duplications is a bay colt out of the unraced Bacio de Vinto, a daughter of Encosta de Lago and the dual Group One winning Redoute’s Choice mare Lotteria. This is the prolific blacktype family of Chiming Knight, Starzaan, Rocket Racer, Theatre Of Dreams, Over Quota, Taatletail and the wonderful stayer Lord Reims.

“He stamped himself as one of the best weightfor-age performers of the season with his time for the Randwick 2000m the fastest posted in 19 years.” Westbury takes five of Reliable Man’s yearlings to the Gold Coast, kicking off with a grey colt out of the Marauding mare Marlo Waters. Bred on a 5f X 5m cross of the wonderful mare Special via Sadler’s Wells and Nureyev, he is a half-brother to four winners including the Listed winning juvenile Jumlah. Marlo Waters is a half-sister to the Group Three winner Way West and this fellow’s third dam is the multiple Group One winner Annoconnor from the family of At Talaq. Another grey colt from a good family is that out of the winning More Than Ready mare Ready And Able, daughter of the Group One winning Danehill mare Danglissa, dam of two city winners and grandam of the Listed winner Euryale from the family of speedy stakes winners Marveen, Pampelonne, Rockshaft and Danzippo. Line-bred to Never Bend and his influential dam Lalun is a colt out of the winning Anabaa mare Miss Juventus, a half-sister to the Group Three placed Show Of Force, dam of the dual Group One winning sprinter Atomic Force. His city winning grandam Reinforce is a half-sister to the multiple Group One winner Encounter. A filly with similar line-breeding (Never Bend and Lalun again) is a grey filly out of the city placed Black Minnaloushe mare Black Cat. Already dam of the metropolitan winners Correio and Federer, she is out of New Victoria, a half-sister to the stakes winners Distinctly North, Our Guest and Break The Mold from the family of US star Nashua. A city placed winner at two, Rosey Dane is faring well at stud with her first three to race all being winners and she has a lovely grey filly by Reliable Man. Rosey Dane’s grandam is the Listed winning Danehill mare Rose Of Dane, also grandam of Listed winner Rose Of Choice from the family of South African Group Two winner Razzle Dazzle Rose and the Singapore stakes winner Rising Empire. “The five Reliable Man yearlings bear a strong resemblance to their sire and each are very

fluent walkers with good attitudes, attributes possessed by Reliable Man himself,” Warwick said.

“The Swiss Ace yearlings all hail from good Australian families and he has made a wonderful start to his career with three Group winners and a number of very promising three-year-olds about to hit the track.”

Karaka, Papakura NZ t: +64 9 292 7070 www.westburystud.com Russell Warwick: +64 21 367 252 e: info@westburystud.com

2016 DRAFT Lot

Col/Sex Sire

Dam

321 B. C

I Am Invincible (AUS)

Impinge (NZ)

416 Gr. C

Reliable Man (GB)

Marlo Waters (AUS)

437 Gr. F

Reliable Man (GB)

Miss Juventus (AUS)

533 Gr. C

Reliable Man (GB)

Ready and Able (AUS)

556 B/Gr. F

Reliable Man (GB)

Rosey Dane (AUS)

717 B. F

Savabeel (AUS)

Wednesday Rocks (NZ)

799 Ch. F

Swiss Ace (AUS)

Notre Amour (AUS)

902 B. C

Swiss Ace (AUS)

Bacio del Vinto (AUS)

910 Gr. F

Reliable Man (GB)

Black Cat (NZ)

Westbury also have a couple of very nice Magic Millions yearlings by outside stallions including a bay colt by hot young sire I Am Invincible. He is a half-brother to the Group Three placed dual city winner Jalan Jalan out of the stakes placed Impinge, a Generous half-sister to the Group Three winner That’s Not It. He hails from the high class international family of the Group One winning successful stallion El Prado. “He is a good style of colt by a sire doing a sensational job at stud. He is a well balanced, athletic individual who is sure to be of great interest for buyers.” Savabeel has been in great form as usual and he has a bay filly out of the well related Encosta de Lago mare Wednesday Rocks. Line-bred to four outstanding mares within seven generations (Special, Natalma, Oceana and Hildegrade; ancestress of both Savabeel and dam) and carrying a 4f X 4f cross of Semipalatinsk, she is a half-sister to metropolitan winner Platinum Command. Her third dam is the dual Group Two winner Palatious, dam of the Group One winning outstanding broodmare Danelagh, dam of the Group One gallopers Vengeance Of Rain and Dizelle, in turn dam of the stakes winner Dizlago. “She is a lovely scopey filly from a family that can produce a high class performer. And Savabeel has established himself as one of Australasia’s most successful stallions with his ability to produce a Classic horse proven beyond doubt.”

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Widden Stud No wonder they call this The Valley of Champions

N ALMOST 150 years of breeding thoroughbreds, the results from the last 12 months of those representing the distinctive Widden JT2 brand have been nothing short of phenomenal and highlights why many call this Australia’s number one source of Group One winners. In the last racing season alone, an amazing 10% of Group One races run in Australia were won by horses that were born and raised at Widden. There are some 17,000 foals born in Australia each year and to produce winners of 10% of the Group One races is a great achievement. Additionally last season, Widden also had sales graduates win the $2million Magic Millions 2yo Classic and enjoyed Group One success abroad. Never has the saying “there must be something in the water” been more evident. At Widden we pride ourselves on producing horses with a foundation to compete at the highest level.

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For example, in the 2015 Group 1 Oakleigh Plate at Caulfield, Widden had 4 runners representing the brand and they ran 1st, 3rd, 5th and 6th - the race of course won by the Love family’s SHAMAL WIND. Flemington Group One winners BONARIA and HUCKLEBUCK were season highlights however it was the multiple performances of the eventual Australian Racehorse of the Year / Australian Champion Sprinter of the Year, DISSIDENT which we were particularly proud of. A Widden bred, born and raised colt, Dissident is a first crop member of our Champion young stallion Sebring and was of course presented at the Magic Millions sale in 2012 where he was purchased by Peter Moody. Dissident went on to win the WFA Group One events, the Memsie Stakes, Makybe Diva Stakes, C.F Orr Stakes and All Aged Stakes in a stunning season of dominance and consistency.

The performance of the Widden raised thoroughbred is unquestionable. In the early stages of the new racing season we have seen VANBRUGH win the Spring Champion Stakes Gr.1, STRATUM STAR win the Rupert Clarke Stakes Gr.1 and LIZARD ISLAND, a fast finishing runner-up in the Caulfield Guineas Gr.1. Widden will present a quality draft of 37 yearlings at the upcoming Magic Millions sale and as Widden’s Antony Thompson describes, the draft is a reflection of the outstanding quality the stud has become renowned for. “The 2016 Magic Millions draft is an unbelievable group of young horses. Dissident, Driefontein, Stratum Star and last season’s $2m Magic Millions 2yo winner LE CHEF have been recent Widden graduates at Magic Millions so we’ve carefully considered the right type of horse for January’s sale.”, said Thompson. Importantly, Magic Millions 2016 will be the launching pad for Widden’s exciting young

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opposite page // Dissident - Australian Racehorse of the Year (2014/15) left // resident stallion Your Song will have his first yearlings presented at Magic Millions 2016

Valley of Champions Widden Valley, NSW 2328 t: 02 6549 9999 www.widden.com Antony Thompson: 0427 470 507 Derek Field: 0408 492 495 Ryan McEvoy: 0439 802 837 e: info@widden.com

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left // 2015 Magic Millions 2YO Classic winner Le Chef right // Group 1 Spring Champion Stakes winner Vanbrugh

sire YOUR SONG, the most dominant son of Champion sire and emerging sire of sires Fastnet Rock. “He was a freakishly fast sprinter who dominated the older sprinters at Group One level. Given the early success of sons of Fastnet Rock at stud I’m sure buyers will recognise the opportunities here with Your Song. History says that Group One winning sprinters by Champion stallions generally succceed so we’re quietly confident as to his chances given the appearance of his stock. Eye-catching, strong types that move well much like their sire. The Moon De French colt is an example of this quality. From a daughter of Malibu Moon who ran third to ZENYATTA at Group One level in the US, this colt is a beauty and his pedigree reflects the success Fastnet Rock has enjoyed with American bred mares here in Australia” There is arguably no hotter stallion than Golden

Slipper winner SEBRING right now and among his large representation are two quality colts from the black type performers PEACH TREE (Bel Esprit) and FAST TALKER (Fastnet Rock). “We have some lovely Sebrings going to the Gold Coast and these two particular colts are as good you will see - strength, atleticism, attitude. They’ll certainly have plenty of admirers as will the colt by our leading 2nd season sire STAR WITNESS out of the Fastnet Rock mare Hilton Head. It makes this colt a 3/4 brother to this season’s highly impressive 2yo winner STAR TURN who was sold by Widden at the 2015 Magic Millions and purchased by Alan Bell. “Overall we couldn’t be happier with the group of yearlings to present in January. We’re certainly confident we’ve raised these horses with a base that will see them comfortably handle the tough and competitive nature of racing in Australia and abroad”. Thompson said.

In the last racing season alone, an amazing 10% of Group One races run in Australia were won by horses that were born and raised at Widden. There are some 17,000 foals born in Australia each year and to produce winners of 10% of the Group One races is a great achievement.

Lot

Col/Sex Sire

Dam

B. F

Foxwedge (AUS)

A Material Girl (AUS)

B. F

Sepoy (AUS)

Absolute Dream (AUS)

Ch. C

Harbour Watch (IRE)

Apollo's Pride (AUS)

Ch. F

Sepoy (AUS)

Bacchanal Woman (AUS)

B. C

Your Song (AUS)

Ceol Na Sraide (IRE)

B. F

Your Song (AUS)

Champagne Sisters (AUS)

144 B/Br. C Pierro (AUS)

Dare To Dance (NZ)

149 B. C

Exceed And Excel (AUS)

De Jetcat (AUS)

158 B. C

Star Witness (AUS)

Dinkum Diamond (AUS)

212 B. F

Snitzel (AUS)

Fashion Rocks (AUS)

216 Br. C

Sebring (AUS)

Fast Talker (AUS)

255 B. F

Your Song (AUS)

Fun Flight (AUS)

301 Ch. C

Star Witness (AUS)

Hilton Head (AUS)

318 B. C

Charge Forward (AUS)

I'm Mary Too (AUS)

329 Br. F

Sebring (AUS)

Intuit (AUS)

330 Ch. C

Star Witness (AUS)

Involve (AUS)

372 Ch. F

Star Witness (AUS)

Ladys Angel (AUS)

377 Ch. C

Sepoy (AUS)

Leone Chiara (AUS)

383 B. C

Pierro (AUS)

Lipari (AUS)

405 B. F

Your Song (AUS)

Maghreb (AUS)

413 B. F

Sebring (AUS)

Marchelle Belle (AUS)

449 Bl/Br. C Your Song (AUS)

Moon De French (USA)

496 Ch. C

Sebring (AUS)

Peach Tree (AUS)

497 Ch. F

Not A Single Doubt (AUS)

Peahen (GB)

513 B. F

Sebring (AUS)

Polska (AUS)

520 B. C

Not A Single Doubt (AUS)

Princess Layla (AUS)

576 B. F

Fastnet Rock (AUS)

Satinka (NZ)

595 B. F

Sepoy (AUS)

Shanzero (AUS)

597 Ch. F

Star Witness (AUS)

Sheeznodoubt (AUS)

598 Ch. C

Star Witness (AUS)

Sherrin (AUS)

675 Br. C

Your Song (AUS)

That's Amore (AUS)

695 Gr. C

Sebring (AUS)

Valentine Miss (AUS)

822 Br. C

Hinchinbrook (AUS)

Rain Special (AUS)

835 B/Br. F

Your Song (AUS)

Search For Fame (AUS)

864 B/Br. C Sepoy (AUS)

Tresor (AUS)

947 Ch. F

Star Witness (AUS)

Desert Symphony (AUS)

969 Ch. F

Star Witness (AUS)

Exacta Factor (AUS)

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Woodside Park Capitalising on racetrack success

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T IS the sale where all the buyers want to be so it is where we want to be,” said Woodside Park Stud’s Matt Tillett who is looking forward to showcasing the Tylden property’s 2016 Magic Millions draft. The Magic Millions is a great sale, they are very accommodating and we have been endeavouring to improve upon our draft every year.” To this end Woodside have a “lovely” group of twelve yearlings ready for the sale highlighted by five by their in-form resident Written Tycoon. “There is a strong chance that Capitalist will be favourite for the Magic Millions so we thought it timely that we take some of his best yearlings to the Gold Coast.” A $165,000 yearling at last year’s Magic Millions, Capitalist raced away to a three length victory in the Breeders Plate-LR (1000m) in early October. He is the 12th stakes winner for Written Tycoon, a horse who boasts excellent statistics including a 67.9% winners-to-runners strike rate. His strike rate with mares who carry a second Marscay strain is an even more impressive 73.7% and his colt out of Dexcellent is bred on a 4fx3f cross.

above // Capitalist, the 12th stakeswinner for Written Tycoon

Two fillies by Sepoy are also highlights including a chestnut Tillett says is the “glamour filly of our draft.” A half-sister to the stud’s bestseller in 2015, a $420,000 Northern Meteor filly, she is the second foal for the Storm Cat mare Ryzhkina. “She is one of the best looking fillies you’d see,” Tillett said, noting that her dam is out of Group Three winning Sadler’s Wells mare Lucky, a sister to the dual Group One winner King’s Theatre. A second Sepoy filly is out of Zarzuela, half-sister to Mackinnon Stakes-Gr.1 (2000m) winner Glass Harmonium. Bred on a 3f x 3m cross of Danehill and closely related to multiple Group One winner Conduit, “she is not overly big but she is a typical Sepoy, a ball of muscle and the perfect filly to take to the Gold Coast.”

Woodside have a “lovely” group of twelve yearlings ready for the sale highlighted by five by their in-form resident Written Tycoon. “There is a strong chance that Capitalist will be favourite for the Magic Millions so we thought it timely that we take some of his best yearlings to the Gold Coast.” Out of a winning sister to triple Group winner Sir Dex, he hails from the family of Group One winners Donegal Mist, Secret Admirer and Mr Illusion and is described by Tillett as “a lovely big strong colt very much stamped by his sire.” A dashing black colt out of Hayley’s Thunder is also highly regarded, Tillett noting that “he is a really nice type who has just kept improving.” Written Tycoon has sired stakes winners linebred to Vain and Better Boy and this fellow boasts duplications of both. Also line-bred to the excellent mares Lalun and Oceana, he is from the family of Group One winners Black Mamba and Roman Emperor. The Written Tycoon/Redoute’s Choice cross has produced five winners (two stakes winners) from just seven runners and is an extension of the success story that is the combination of Last Tycoon and Redoute’s Choice that results in a duplication of Best In Show. Bred on this cross is a half-brother to the smart Hong Kong galloper Graceful Kingdom out of Rate The Choice from the family of Skating and Vancouver. Also well related is a grey colt out of True Seduction. A half-brother to the Group Three placed Nato out of a half-sister to the Caulfield Cup-Gr.1 (2400m) winner Cole Diesel, he boasts a close link to Australia’s greatest, his fifth dam a sister to Phar Lap. “He is a big, scopey colt who looks a real runner.” The sole Written Tycoon filly in the draft is a chestnut out of the stakes placed Bequia Beauty, half-sister to Listed winner Hammers Bullet. Hailing from a prolific northern hemisphere family whose members include the big race winners Bob And John, Exceller, Capote and

Gordon Lord Byron, she is “a strong filly with size and scope.”

Tylden VIC 3444 t: 03 5424 8166 www.woodsideparkstud.com.au Murray Tillett: 0419 985 921 e: admin@woodsideparkstud.com.au

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Col/Sex Sire

Dam

B. C

Adulterer (NZ)

Commands (AUS)

157 B/Br. C Written Tycoon (AUS)

Dexcellent (AUS)

208 Ch. F

All Too Hard (AUS)

Factor Of Safety (AUS)

308 Ch. F

Not A Single Doubt (AUS)

Hot Summer Night (AUS)

566 Ch. F

Sepoy (AUS)

Ryzhkina (IRE)

575 Ch. C

Starspangledbanner (AUS) Sassy Minx (USA)

689 B/Br. C Lonhro (AUS)

Trisara (AUS)

690 Br/Gr. C Written Tycoon (AUS)

True Seduction (AUS)

824 B. C

Written Tycoon (AUS)

Rate the Choice (AUS)

883 B. F

Sepoy (AUS)

Zarzuela (IRE)

907 Ch. F

Written Tycoon (AUS)

Bequia Beauty (USA)

998 Bl. C

Written Tycoon (AUS)

Hayley's Thunder (AUS)

The final crop of Commands is bound to attract attention including a colt out of the Group Three placed Adulterer whose dam is the Group One winner It’s My Sin. “He is a really nice colt who looks an early type who should prove popular.” As should a Starspangledbanner colt out of Sassy Minx, a sister to US Group Two winner Springside from a strong American family. “We bought him as a weanling and he has just kept improving and improving.” Another eye-catcher is a Not A Single Doubt filly who boasts an interesting pedigree with her grandsire Redoute’s Choice and grandam Unspoken Choice being half siblings. “Chestnut Not A Single Doubt fillies sell really well at the Magic Millions and she is a really nice type who should find a home pretty easily.” As will a filly by All Too Hard out of Factor Of Safety. A 3/4 sister to recent easy maiden winner Wahng Wah out of a half-sister to Group One miler Gathering from the family of Redoute’s Choice, she is bred on a 4m x 4f cross of the excellent mare Rolls and a 7f x 6f cross of her own sixth dam Best In Show. “She is a really strong, muscular, fast looking filly who looks like she will go early.” Tillett remembers the handsome Pierro being sold at Magic Millions and thinks that Woodside’s Lonhro colt out of Trisara “has a real look” of that star. “This is a great sale for him and he will sell well.” His dam is a stakes placed daughter of the Listed winner Tagine from the family of W.S Cox Plate-Gr.1 (2040m) placegetter Highland Reel and big race winners Elvstroem, Haradasun, Starspangledbanner and Circles Of Gold.

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CHANGE in its business model five years ago has paid dividends for Yarraman Park Stud.

A decision to concentrate on supporting its own stallions came at the perfect time, just as Yarraman welcomed to their roster two horses who are now the envy of other farms, I Am Invincible and Hinchinbrook. Both have sired Group One gallopers in their debut crops, Brazen Beau for I Am Invincible and Press Statement for Hinchinbrook. Not surprisingly their 2015 books filled early and Yarraman’s Harry Mitchell is excited about the future. “We could not be happier with the early achievements of I Am Invincible and Hinchinbrook who look to be on their way to becoming serious stallions.”

“We could not be happier with the early achievements of I Am Invincible and Hinchinbrook who look to be on their way to becoming serious stallions.” Also proud of the continued good form of stalwart Magic Albert, Mitchell is looking forward to his 2016 Magic Millions draft, one which consists mainly of I Am Invincible and Hinchinbrook yearlings. “We have decided to have faith in our own stallions and it seems to be working.” Eleven of Yarraman’s Magic Millions yearlings are by I Am Invincible with Mitchell unable to select an absolute stand-out. “I Am Invincible throws a very good type and this is a lovely, even group of yearlings.” One who is likely to be keenly inspected is a colt out of the Flying Spur mare Rivers Secret with his brother fetching $750,000 at Easter last year. That horse, Julius Caesar, has trialled well for the Snowden stable whilst Rivers Secret has also produced by I Am Invincible the promising three-year-old Lanikai and by War Pass the Group Three placed Peace No War. A colt from the family of Raise A Native is also of interest, a bay out of Sunset Boulevard whose four to race are all winners including the Group Three winner Meliora. Also in the draft is a brother to the promising Most Important out of Orange Marmalade, a daughter of the Group Three winner Majestic Angel. The fourth of Yarraman’s I Am Invincible colts is a brother to the impressive Doomben debut winning two-year-old Criquette. Hailing from the family of Canny Lad, he is bred on a 3f x 4f cross of that successful stallion. I Am Invincible’s fillies will also be in demand and Yarraman has an excellent selection including a daughter of the three times Group

winner Bridie Belle and a bay from the family of Mahogany. Out of Chickasaw, a mare bred on the same Danzig/Sir Ivor/Bletchingly cross as I Am Invincible, is a brown filly from the speedy “Tennessee” family. Line-bred to Danzig, Canny Lad and Lunchtime is a daughter of Love In Spring, a city winning juvenile from the family of Snitzel and Hinchinbrook. The influence of I Am Invincible is two-fold in a filly out of M’Lady Pedrille, this one bred on a 4f x 3f cross I Am Invincible’s third dam Sister Pedrille. Romany Flyer’s first two foals are both winners and she is a half-sister to four times Group winner Viking Hero. Her filly hails from the family of the Group One winners Innocent King, Unearthly and Invest and it is interesting to note that both her sire and dam are descendants of the influential Chelandry. Rounding up Yarraman’s group of I Am Invincible fillies is another line-bred to Canny Lad, a daughter of Set To Unleash closely related to multiple Group One winner Sun Classique. Six Hinchinbrooks will be sold under the Yarraman banner including two colts, the first of which is a half-brother to the promising three-year-old Elle Snitz whilst the second is the first foal for the stakes winner Tai Tai Tess, granddaughter of dual Group One winner Arborea. Four Hinchinbrook fillies go under the hammer. A bay out of Karalee is a half-sister to the stakes placed Princeton Miss out of a Group Three placed O’Reilly mare whose dam is the dual Group winner Moralee. Another line-bred to Danehill, a brown daughter of Morinda is a half-sister to the stakes placed city winners Prix du Sang and Happy Hussy from the Denise’s Joy family. There is also a bay filly out of Sweet Revenge, a three times Group placed multiple city winning half-sister to the Listed winner Coin Collection. And then there is a bay out of Whenever, half-sister to the stakes winners Whoever and Speedy Bell, dam of the Group Three winner Speedy Natalie who is in turn dam of this season’s Group Three winner Sweet And Speedy. The Magic Alberts are very much trainers horses and a daughter of the dual city winner Shine On Anna will have fans being from the family of Contributer. Whilst concentrating on their resident stallions, Yarraman still support commercial sires at other farms with other highlights of their draft including an All Too Hard filly out of the classy Skyerush, a Not A Single Doubt sister to the Listed winner Cruden Bay, a Snitzel colt out of stakes winner City of Song, a Snitzel colt out of a daughter of dual Group winner Lady Mulan, a Your Song colt out of triple stakes winner Hoss Amour, a Stratum filly from the family of Golden Horn, an Exceed And Excel colt closely related to I Am Invincible, a Fastnet Rock filly out of a half-sister to Criterion, a Sebring colt out of a half-sister to Sea Siren, a Sepoy colt out of a daughter of Polar Success and a Pierro colt out of a stakes placed daughter of Shalt Not.

Scone NSW 2337 t: 02 6545 1961 www.yarramanpark.com.au Harry Mitchell: 0412 280 576 Arthur Mitchell 0412 495 687 e: studoffice@yarramanpark.com.au

2016 DRAFT Lot

Col/Sex Sire

Dam

I Am Invincible (AUS)

Bridie Belle (NZ)

115 C

Snitzel (AUS)

City of Song (AUS)

184 C

Pierro (AUS)

Elimbari (AUS)

277 C

I Am Invincible (AUS)

Greta's Yarn (AUS)

307 C

Your Song (AUS)

Hoss Amor (AUS)

340 F

Stratum (AUS)

Jade Diva (AUS)

349 F

Hinchinbrook (AUS)

Karalee (AUS)

390 F

I Am Invincible (AUS)

Love in Spring (AUS)

397 F

I Am Invincible (AUS)

M'Lady Pedrille (AUS)

401 C

Exceed and Excel (AUS)

Madame Pedrille (AUS)

408 C

Hinchinbrook (AUS)

Makemeasupermodel (AUS)

453 F

Hinchinbrook (AUS)

Morinda (AUS)

486 C

I Am Invincible (AUS)

Orange Marmalade (NZ)

488 F

Fastnet Rock (AUS)

Our Pride and Joy (AUS)

543 C

I Am Invincible (AUS)

Rivers Secret (AUS)

546 C

Sebring (AUS)

Rock Success (AUS)

550 F

I Am Invincible (AUS)

Romany Flyer (AUS)

569 C

All Too Hard (AUS)

Saint Minerva (AUS)

615 F

All Too Hard (AUS)

Skyerush (AUS)

619 C

Sepoy (AUS)

Snow Blitz (AUS)

647 C

I Am Invincible (AUS)

Sunset Boulevard (AUS)

657 F

Hinchinbrook (AUS)

Sweet Revenge (NZ)

661 C

Hinchinbrook (AUS)

Tai Tai Tess (AUS)

718 F

Hinchinbrook (AUS)

Whenever (AUS)

743 F

Not a Single Doubt (AUS)

Zimaretto (AUS)

751 F

Scandal Keeper (USA)

Ladies Dancing (NZ)

829 C

Snitzel (AUS)

Rose of Mulan (AUS)

836 F

I Am Invincible (AUS)

Set to Unleash (AUS)

841 F

Magic Albert (AUS)

Shine on Anna (AUS)

857 F

Not a Single Doubt (AUS)

Sugar Bay (CAN)

921 F

I Am Invincible (AUS)

Cathead (AUS)

925 F

I Am Invincible (AUS)

Chickasaw (NZ)

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