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Monday, July 27, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here MORNING BRIEFING - PAGE 9 SINGAPORE NEWS - PAGE 21 SUPER SIX FOR MAGICAL - PAGE 19 Sunlight the headline Read Tomorrow's Issue For: act at live Gold Coast Stallion Watch What's on breeding stock market Race meetings: Cessnock (NSW), Leeton (NSW), Pakenham Park (VIC) Star of the track to light up the Magic Millions ring on Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Leeton (NSW), day one of National Sale Lark Hill (WA) International meetings: Redcar (UK), Windsor (UK), Galway (Ire), Compiegne (FR) Sales: Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale (QLD) of the world’s biggest thoroughbred breeders and, if the key protagonists elect to go head-to- head, it could see her eclipse the $3.4 million achieved by Listen Here (Elusive Quality) at the same sale in 2016. A new benchmark for Magic Millions could Sunlight KATRINA PARTRIDGE - MAGIC MILLIONS be reached, but whether the competition from winner considered a chance to crack the $3 domestic and international parties will be BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS million mark when the long-awaited Magic strong enough, during the Covid-19 pandemic, unlight (Zoustar) could prove to be Millions National Broodmare Sale starts today. to see the former Tony and Calvin McEvoy- the most desirable and expensive The headline act among a select group of trained sprinter reach the $5 million price mare to head to a southern potential seven-figure race mares who will go tag, the southern hemisphere record held hemisphere public auction in more through the ring this afternoon, Sunlight (Lot by Milanova (Danehill), would appear to be Sthan a decade with the three-time Group 1 80) is likely to command interest from some remote. 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GST) New Zealand: Gordon Calder Tel:+64 218 41612. www.coolmore.com Sunlight the headline act at live Gold Coast breeding stock market | 3 | Monday, July 27, 2020 << Continued from page 1 While Sunlight’s appeal is obvious, fellow high-profile race mares who are expected to hit the million-dollar mark are Australian Oaks (Gr 1, 2400m) winner Unforgotten (Fastnet Rock) (Lot 92) and Invincibella (I Am Invincible) (Lot 12) who was successful in the 2019 Tattersall’s Tiara (Gr 1, 1400m). “Any other year you’d expect Sunlight to break a record. She’s like no other mare we’ve ever offered before,” Magic Millions managing director Barry Bowditch said on the eve of the company’s first public auction since the onset of the pandemic. “Physically, she’s a star and she’s done it all on the racetrack and she’s also got a great pedigree behind her. “We’re expecting her to sell extremely well, but who knows (how much she will make) as she’s going through unreserved, as is Unforgotten and Invincibella.” While the top end of the market is tipped to remain vibrant, the impact of Covid-19 is expected to see the buying bench be cautious and not take unnecessary risks in the current marketplace. 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GST Sunlight the headline act at live Gold Coast breeding stock market | 5 | Monday, July 27, 2020 << Continued from page 3 “Obviously buyers are being extremely specific with their wish list and, as a consequence, I can see a proportion - say the top 20 per cent of the sale - realising towards their worth but then within the larger percentage, there will be incredible buying opportunities with mares being sold at well discounted prices. “With service fees owing on these mares, people like myself have to meet the market and sell to survive.” Bowditch is optimistic that the market at the National sale will remain resilient despite the understandable decline in foot traffic on the ground. “You look at the trend worldwide over the past three months. Most of the sales in the north have held up quite well, the sales in Australia have held up well and, more importantly, racing continued in this country, so the wheel’s kept turning,” he said. Unforgotten MAGIC MILLIONS “Until Covid hit, we were on a record year for yearling sales, so the breeders have got plenty of money in their pocket from the sales earlier “The quality bloodstock here and in the northern hemisphere has in the year and hopefully they seize this opportunity by keeping their lists held up particularly well on the private market and the public market,” long and bid on plenty of mares over the next three days.” Field said. The demand for high-class mares was evident at The Chairman’s Sale “I expect the market here for the better horses will be robust and I in May which was topped by dual Group 1 winner In Her TIme (Time think there will be plenty of competition for the better offerings.” Thief) who made $2 million while the virtual auction averaged $431,769 One of those is the dual Australian Group 1-winning mare Viddora (I (56 lots sold). Am Invincible) who was bought privately from connections in Europe last Newgate Farm principal Henry Field expects that demand for elite year and covered by Lope De Vega (Shamardal) to southern hemisphere level breeding stock to be maintained on the Gold Coast. time. Continued on page 7>> REGISTER TO BID JULY 24-29 ONLINE SALE SALE NOW OPEN Catalogue available at inglisdigital.com Follow us @anz_news | 5 | Brought to you by C A S T E L V E C C H I O G1 CHAMPAGNE 2YO G1 GUINEAS 3YO G1 COX PLATE RUNNER-UP SNITZEL $165,000* CASTELVECCHIO $33,000 WRITTEN TYCOON SHALAA $33,000 DUNDEEL $66,000 PARIAH $16,500 THE AUTUMN SUN $66,000 SHOWTIME $11,000 Sunlight the headline act at live Gold Coast breeding stock market | 7 | Monday, July 27, 2020 << Continued from page 5 Field said: “We’ve been fortunate to consign a number of mares who have sold for north of a million dollars in the last five or six years and every mare we’ve brought to market at that level has been sold with plenty of competition on them. “We’re a selling farm, so we’re here to sell her, but in saying that if by chance the market was very soft then she’s a mare you’d have no issue taking home. “She really reminds me of a mare like Response that Arrowfield and the Yoshida family bought off us a few years ago. She was a top race mare, a multiple Group 1 winner who was beautiful and has gone on to produce (Golden Slipper Stakes winner) Estijaab. “Viddora’s got a Lope De Vega in her belly and I’m sure she’ll produce a magnificent foal.” Shalwa MAGIC MILLIONS Traditionally the largest breeding stock sale in the southern hemisphere, the Magic Millions National Sale was pushed back from its and Rochelle Adams, is one Victorian who made the dash across the normal May-June slot in the hope of being able to conduct a live auction.