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THINKING BIG ABOUT ANOTHER MELBOURNE CUP JO MCKINNON ON THE FAMOUS COLOURS CHASING ANOTHER BIG-RACE WIN - PAGE 11 Wednesday, March 10, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here SALES RESULTS BY SIRE - PAGE 22 MAGIC MILLIONS ADELAIDE YEARLING SALE STATISTICS - PAGE 8 Goldin moment as $525,000 Read Tomorrow's Issue For Fastnet Rock colt sets Magic It’s In The Blood Focus Asia Millions Adelaide record What's on Fillies by Palentino and Merchant Navy also break Metropolitan meetings: Kensington South Australian benchmark (NSW), Sandown Lakeside (VIC), Eagle Farm (QLD), Ascot (WA) Race meetings: Naracoorte (SA), Otaki (NZ) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Burrumbeet (VIC), Warrnambool (VIC), Balnarring (VIC), Naracoorte (SA) International meetings: Happy Valley (HK), Lingfield (UK), Kempton (UK) Sales: Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale Lot 22 Fastnet Rock - Small Minds colt MAGIC MILLIONS STUD NEWS KING’S LEGACY order to secure the best-credentialed yearlings BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS RETIRED TO - a trend experienced throughout the 2021 sales COOLMORE 15-year record was smashed three series so far - also saw a Palentino (Teofilo) filly AUSTRALIA - PAGE 21 times during the opening Magic sell for $370,000 and a daughter of Merchant Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale Navy (Fastnet Rock) make $360,000 on day one. SALES NEWS session yesterday, with a high- The trio of high-priced lots broke the OAKLEIGH PLATE Aprofile Fastnet Rock (Danehill) colt making company’s long-standing Adelaide benchmark WINNER CELEBRITY $525,000 and setting the tone for a stellar day’s of $340,000 when subsequent stakes winner QUEEN UP FOR SALE AT CHAIRMAN’S trade. Victory Chant (General Nediym) was sold in - PAGE 19 Buyers’ willingness to break budgets in 2006. Continued on page 2>> TUE 9TH - WED 10TH MAR 2021 MAGIC MILLIONS ADELAIDE YEARLING SALE SALE LIVE - VIEW HERE Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Yearling market on the rise, will stallion fees follow suit? | 2 | Wednesday, March 10, 2021 << Continued from page 1 The auction got off to a slow start in typical yearling sale fashion, but the action soon heated up with day one’s star attraction coming in the first hour of the session when bloodstock manager Brian McGuire acted for Sydney trainer Annabel Neasham and Hong Kong owner Tony Fung to buy the brother to this season’s Inglis Banner (RL, 1000m) and Golden Gift (1100m) winner Sneaky Five. “He’s in and around with the best colts that we’ve got all year,” McGuire said of the Fastnet Rock acquisition. “He’s by a proven stallion, Fastnet has had three Group 1 winners already this season, the mare was a great producer and a good racehorse Brian McGuire with Adrian Hancock MAGIC MILLIONS herself and, physically, he’s a horse. He’s a really, really top colt.” Adelaide trainer Will Clarken was the under bidder. made to sell the colt in Adelaide rather than sending him to higher profile Catalogued as Lot 22, the colt is the fifth living foal out of Australasian auctions interstate. Oaks (Gr 1, 2006m) winner “It is not as if we’ve got 15 Fastnet Rocks and 20 Redoutes’ and five Small Minds (Canny Lad) Snitzels, we’ve only got the one good colt by a highly commercial sire, THE SISTER DID A who has already produced so we have got to take the risk factor out of it by keeping him at home,” GREAT JOB, WINNING Perth stakes winner Beautiful Gordon said. NEARLY A MILLION Mind (So You Think) as well as “In Sydney (Easter) he could have been swallowed up in a big market DOLLARS IN TWO the Ciaron Maher and David up there. Sometimes they can get overlooked in a place like that. STARTS, AND I THINK IT Eustace-trained Sneaky Five, “At this sale they came from all around to look at him, so it does make IS A FANTASTIC RESULT who is raced by Rosemont Stud. a bit of sense. - JEFF GORDON Goldin Farms manager Jeff “The sister did a great job, winning nearly a million dollars in two Gordon said the decision was starts, and I think it is a fantastic result, really.” Continued on page 4>> Michael Kent Jr NIGHT RAID is now a dual Stakes winner after landing Monday’s SAJC Matrice Stakes-L. over 1200m. at Morphettville. She’s trained by Mick Price/Michael Kent Jr and was bred by Three Bridges Thoroughbreds. Sheamus Mills, yearling purchaser of Night Raid for $160,000 Golden Slipper winning Champion 2YO. First crop also includes dual Gr.2 winner Mount Pleasant, Gr.1 Surround Stakes runner-up Vangelic, Group-placed duo Postcode and Ticket To Ride etc. Colm Santry, John Kennedy, Paddy Oman, Tom Moore, Rob Archibald or Emma Pugsley Tel: 02 6576 4200. New Zealand: Gordon Calder Tel:+64 218 41612. www.coolmore.com Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by Stamped on the shoulder of Stakeswinners, 17 G1 winners & 6 individual Champions, since 2014 Boomer flies in to buy star Merchant Navy filly | 4 | Wednesday, March 10, 2021 Boomer flies in to buy star Merchant Navy filly Balfour in love with high-priced Palentino filly Goldin Farms also sold the Merchant Navy filly after Queensland- based agent, Boomer Bloodstock’s Craig Rounsefell, made a flying visit to Adelaide to give the tick of approval to his Victorian client Peter Murray. By Coolmore’s dual hemisphere Group 1-winning sprinter, the filly carries significant residual value being out of Listed winner Bacchanal Woman (Encosta De Lago), whose three foals to race are all winners, including Group 3 winner Sweet Scandal (Sepoy) and the stakes-placed Sir Bacchus (Sebring). She was offered as Lot 110. “My client Peter Murray picked this filly out quite a while ago in the catalogue. He just loved her pedigree. I wasn’t planning on coming down, but she vetted out and I got on the plane (on Monday) night and I saw her this morning,” Rounsefell said yesterday, Lot 79 Palentino - Wings of Alice filly MAGIC MILLIONS “She’s a filly Pete can race and then add to his broodmare band. He is building up a really impressive line of mares and this one has the pedigree Ryan Balfour has such behind her. unwavering confidence his THE PALENTINO FILLY “The reports from the vet were good and when I saw her she is the best three-year-old Outlaw’s Revenge FRANKS THAT THOUGHT Merchant Navy I have seen this year and, as a type, she has all the things (Reward For Effort) will be a AND THAT’S WHAT WE we are looking for, so it’s really exciting.” major player in Adelaide’s sprint WILL CONTINUE TO DO. The last-minute trip to Adelaide for Rounsefell came after he was races in the coming months that THE A TEAM COMES TO forced to drive from his Gold Coast home to the Inglis Premier Yearling he was not going home without Sale due to Covid-19 border closures. his Palentino half-sister, despite ADELAIDE “This time of year I am normally back in America, but with Covid that commanding a big price tag. - RALPH SATCHELL has restricted me,” he said. The $370,000 gives the filly “There were a few different things with the Melbourne sale. I had the honour as the most expensive filly sold at a Magic Millions sale in to drive down because the Queensland border was shut. I have a three- Adelaide, while she is also the highest-priced yearling by Widden Stud month-old baby, so I had to get home, but Peter Murray is a very good Victoria-based sire Palentino. client of mine and I am happy to travel anywhere for the clients who Balfour had to ward off rival Adelaide trainers Leon Macdonald and support me.” Andrew Gluyas to buy the filly. Earlier, Goldin Farms also sold the Akeed Mofeed (Dubawi) brother to “It was a huge part of it and I’ve got full confidence in the half-brother the stakes-placed sprinter Sunset Watch for $120,000 to Victorian trainer Outlaw’s Revenge. He’s going to the Redelva and then the Euclase and Patrick Payne. he will be making his presence felt, so this filly should have a black type Offered as Lot 3, he is the fifth foal out of the stakes-placed Saramenha brother,” Balfour said. (Snitzel), herself a half-sister to the Singapore stakes winner In Bloom “One thing about her, when I saw her I thought, ‘wow, she’s identical (Brocco). to him’ and I think that’s a really important part when a mare stamps them “He wasn’t a typical Akeed Mofeed. If you have a look at a Biscay horse like that and you know that is going through them. back in the 60s and 70s, you would swear he was one of those. He was a “Palentino is doing a good job for what he has had to the races, but really good colt,” Gordon said. he still has to get out there and prove it. This filly’s been stamped and wait until you see her brother in the autumn.” Offered by Willow Grove Stud as Lot 79, she is the sixth foal out of Wings Of Alice (Testa Rossa), making her a half-sister to the Malaysian stakes winner Violet (Mint Lane) and three other winners including Outlaw’s Revenge. Further back in her pedigree is the exciting three-year- old filly Written Beauty (Written Tycoon) and fellow stakes winners Hi World (High Chaparral), Loveyamadly (Bel Esprit) and Ducimus (Snitzel).