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When trainer Natalie Young first saw Tagaloa in Arrowfield’s 2019 Magic Millions Gold Coast draft she wrote one word on his catalogue page: Mine!. A few days later Natalie and Trent Busuttin stood in Australia, and with a pedigree to match.
A few days later Natalie and Trent Busuttin were rapt to buy the colt for $300,000. Little more than a year after that, they celebrated his tenacious victory in the $1.5 million Blue Diamond S. G1 and a stallion deal believed to be worth $25 million.
Tagaloa is one of Arrowfield’s 17 Group 1-winning sale graduates since 2014. Most significantly for buyers, the Stud out-performs the black type success rate of every major yearling auction where it is a vendor.
The Australian thoroughbred industry has shown remarkable resilience in a year of global crisis and the team led by John and Paul Messara cannot wait to present their 67-strong Magic Millions 2021 consignment.
It features 16 yearlings by four-time Champion Sire Snitzel, sire of the last two Magic Millions 2YO Classic winners Away Game and Exhilarates. There’s a quartet by fast-rising Group 1 sire
Tagaloa is one of Arrowfield’s 17 Group 1-winning sale graduates since 2014. Most significantly for buyers, the Stud out-performs the black type success rate of every major yearling auction where it is a vendor.
Dundeel and a trio of outstanding colts from the final crop of Redoute’s Choice.
Shalaa, already the sire of Breeders’ Plate G3 winner Shaquero, will be represented by 10 second-crop yearlings in Arrowfield’s barns at the Gold Coast. Lord Kanaloa, Maurice, Mikki Isle and Real Impact have 18 lots for sale under the Stud’s banner - one of the best collections of Japanese-sired yearlings ever presented outside Japan.
Arrowfield will offer a pair of fillies from the penultimate crop of current General Sires’ Premiership leader Not A Single Doubt, sire of Arrowfield’s Group-winning Magic Millions graduate Anders (reportedly syndicated for $14 million) and Everest winner Classique Legend. Fans of Not A Single Doubt will be impressed with the eight first-crop yearlings by the stallion poised to succeed him, 2YO and 3YO Group winner Pariah.
It’s a draft that reflects the many highlights of Arrowfield’s year which opened when Alabama Express – yet another multi-milliondollar stallion prospect sold as a yearling by
Arrowfield - won the weight-for-age C.F. Orr S. G1 in February. He and 2YO colt King’s Legacy took Redoute’s Choice’s tally of Group 1 winners to 38 and are among the legendary sire’s 14 new stakeswinners since his death in March 2019.
Dundeel, Not A Single Doubt and Snitzel compiled a rare Group 1 treble on a necessarily crowdless Golden Slipper day, when graduate Castelvecchio’s Rosehill Guineas and I Am Excited’s Galaxy bracketed the Farnan-Away Game quinella in the Slipper.
Real Impact recorded his first Group 1 winner, Lauda Sion in the Tokyo NHK Mile, and his first Australian winners include stakes-placed Outburst and Real Peace, third in the $1 million Bondi Stakes – both of them Arrowfield Magic Millions graduates.
Mikki Isle followed suit with dual Group-winning Japanese juvenile Meikei Yell, and his first winner downunder, the Arrowfield-bred-and-sold 2YO Oriental Princess. Mel O’Gorman’s smart $82,500 buy from Arrowfield’s 2020 Magic Millions draft became the $500,000 2YO Sale-topping Mikki Isle-In the Clear colt.
Maurice headed Japan’s First Season Sires’ list with 27 winners including Group-placed Infinite, and Lord Kanaloa consolidated his status as Japan’s leading active sire with 15 worldwide stakeswinners in 2020, including superstar Almond Eye.
At the end of the 2019/20 season, Snitzel joined an elite group of six great Australian stallions with his fourth consecutive General Sires’ Premiership and claimed his third Champion 2YO Sires’ title for good measure. Ten Group winners in 2020 confirm he’s at the top of his game, and his best bred crops are still coming on stream.
The same can be said of Group 1 sire Dundeel whose ferociously talented 3YOs include Victoria Quay (Wakeful S. G2), two-time Listed winner Ain’tnodeeldun, VRC Derby G1 runner-up Hit The Shot, stakes performers Azaly and Let’s Karaka Deel, Derby trial winner Cetshwayo & promising winners Leeward, Maid of Iron, Miss Guggenheim and Pure Deal.
At the end of the Melbourne Spring Carnival, Missile Mantra underlined the value that can be found at Arrowfield. Purchased from the Stud’s 2018 Magic Millions draft for just $30,000 by Triple Crown syndicators Chris and Michael Ward, she took her career earnings close to $500,000 with victory in the Summoned S. G3.
2021 draft
5 F/ B. Siyouni (FR) Zerkela (FR) 16 F/ B. Maurice (JPN) Adamina 19 C/ B. Shalaa (IRE) Adviso (USA) 25 C/ B. or Br. Redoute’s Choice Al Jasrah (IRE) 36 F/ B. Lord Kanaloa (JPN) Almandine (JPN) 69 C/ B. or Br. Shalaa (IRE) Aurora’s Star 77 C/ B. Maurice (JPN) Bacarella 176 F/ B. Snitzel Colorado Claire 224 F/ B. Pariah Desert Flower 238 C/ B. Shalaa (IRE) Double Ranga 244 F/ Ch. Snitzel Dream Tiara (JPN) 295 C/ B. Pariah Farsight 320 C/ Ch. Snitzel Flidais 360 F/ Br. Written Tycoon Grito 371 F/ B. Maurice (JPN) Helena Girl 382 C/ B. Shalaa (IRE) Honesty Prevails 402 C/ Br. Redoute’s Choice Inishowen 403 C/ B. Pariah Insinuating (USA) 405 F/ B. Shalaa (IRE) Intiba (USA) 427 C/ B. Dundeel (NZ) Just Divine 438 F/ B. Shalaa (IRE) Kebede 454 C/ Ch. Snitzel La Velata (JPN) 461 C/ B. Lord Kanaloa (JPN) Laguna Azzurra (JPN) 466 F/ B. Snitzel Later Gator (NZ) 496 F/ B. Pariah Lundi 503 F/ B. Snitzel Madame Andree 505 F/ B. Dundeel (NZ) Magic Belle (NZ) 545 C/ Br. Snitzel Miss Dodwell 553 C/ B. Snitzel Miss Match (ARG) 556 F/ Ch. Siyouni (FR) Miss Super Quick (USA) 576 C/ B. Redoute’s Choice Mount Zero 593 F/ B. Not A Single Doubt Networking (GER) 603 C/ B. Snitzel Nocturnelle 637 C/ B. or Br. Dundeel (NZ) Petworth House 662 C/ Br. Maurice (JPN) Prima Klaire 684 C/ B. Shalaa (IRE) Rationality 735 C/ B. Snitzel Saavoya (NZ) 740 F/ Br. Snitzel Sananda (IRE) 772 C/ B. Snitzel Sewreel (NZ) 793 F/ B. Shalaa (IRE) Shwaimsa (IRE) 795 C/ Br. Snitzel Silent Sedition 797 C/ Br. Snitzel Silla Regalis 839 C/ Ch. Pariah Streep 855 C/ B. Real Impact (JPN) Sussuro 868 F/ B. Not A Single Doubt Tango 895 F/ Ch. Snitzel Time Check (USA) 896 C/ B. Real Impact (JPN) Timeless Choice 904 C/ B. or Br. Snitzel Traceability 933 C/ B. Shalaa (IRE) Villa Rosa 975 C/ Ch. Mikki Isle (JPN) Le Regine’s 1009 F/ B. Olympic Glory (IRE) Moon Candy 1010 F/ B. Scissor Kick Moonlight Hussey 1063 C/ B. Real Impact (JPN) Roseito 1079 F/ B. Mikki Isle (JPN) She’s Magical 1107 F/ Ch. Pariah Sultry Dreamer 1136 F/ B. Shalaa (IRE) Watchme 1145 C/ B. Maurice (JPN) Zabelka 1163 F/ B. Real Impact (JPN) Aspen Summit 1169 C/B. Real Impact (JPN) Battle Queen 1174 C/ B. Pariah Besame Mucho 1192 C/ Br. or Blk. Mikki Isle (JPN) Cat Woman 1222 C/ B. Mikki Isle (JPN) De Lovely Lady 1229 F/ B. Maurice (JPN) Double Deel 1231 C/ B. Dundeel (NZ) Dual Star 1252 F/ Br. Pariah Golden Statue 1256 F/ Ch. Maurice (JPN) Heavenly Mum 1263 F/ Ch. Scissor Kick Hussy Miss
www.arrowfield.com.au Paul Messara: 0438 248 258 Jon Freyer: 0408 583 888 Sally Gordon: 0421 080 021 Alison Brassil: 0439 338 630 Peter Jenkins: 0408 667 876 Adam Brandwood: 0412 332 202 Scone, NSW