MAIDEN IN OFTHE CONGO (AUS) THE - PAGE 23 WEEK Friday, May 21, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here END USERS DOMINATE TOP END OF STARTLING MAGIC MILLIONS WEANLING SALE - PAGE 1 MAIDEN IN OFTHE CONGO (AUS) THE - PAGE 23 WEEK Friday, May 21, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here SALES RESULTS BY SIRE - PAGE 27 2021 SYDNEY WINTER RACING PROGRAM - PAGE 24 STALLION FEES 2021 - PAGE 34 End users dominate top What's on Race meetings: Coffs Harbour (NSW), end of startling Magic Geelong (VIC), Cranbourne (VIC), Mackay (QLD), Canberra Acton (ACT) Millions Weanling Sale Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Coffs Harbour (NSW), Rosehill Gardens (NSW), $1 million I Am Invincible colt bought to race as market Flemington (VIC), Kilmore (VIC), Canberra skyrockets on day one Acton (ACT) International meetings: Haydock (UK), Goodwood (UK), Bath (UK), Catterick (UK), Fairview (SAF) Sales: Magic Millions National Weanling Sale, Inglis Digital May (Late) Sale International sales: Hidaka/Iburi/Tokachi Chiba Thoroughbred Sale Lot 109: I Am Invincible ex Ocean Jewel colt MAGIC MILLIONS MORNING BRIEFING dispersal, a Rick Jamieson-bred I Am Invincible Eight for Sooboog BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS (Invincible Spirit) colt cracked the seven-figure The Darryl Ward-trained Dublin De Quo (2 f ex uyers seeking quality racing mark when purchased by trainers Ciaron Jibina by Northern Meteor) made the perfect prospects have dominated a Maher and David Eustace as end-users sought start to her racing career when winning on debut dramatic and at times emotional some refuge from a runaway yearling market in at Warwick yesterday, earning first season sire day’s trade at the Magic Millions order to secure racing propositions. Sooboog (Snitzel) his eighth individual winner. BGold Coast National Sale in a session which A further seven weanlings made $500,000 Ridden by Anthony Allen in the 800-metre two- saw a $1 million weanling sold in the southern or more with at least six of the eight highest- year-old maiden, Dublin De Quo beat Miss hemisphere for just the second time. priced foals are set to be retained to race rather Piper (Starspangledbanner) by a head, with In a stunning six hours of selling yesterday, than being reoffered through a yearling sale Bold Ransom (Real Saga) another length back which featured the Shadwell Stud Australasia next year. Continued on page 2>> in third. Morning Briefing page 16 >> THU 20TH - FRI 21ST MAY 2021 MAGIC MILLIONS NATIONAL WEANLING SALE SALE LIVE - CLICK HERE Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by End users dominate top end of startling Magic Millions Weanling Sale | 2 | Friday, May 21, 2021 << Continued from page 1 At the end of day one, 160 weanlings had changed hands at an average of $112,178, a median of $51,000 and an aggregate of $17,948,500. The clearance rate was 85 per cent. Remarkably, the measures were up 87, 71 and 78 per cent respectively on the 2019 Magic Millions National Sale, the last non-Covid-19 impacted sale, which continues the almost insatiable appetite for stock experienced at this year’s sales. Yesterday’s top lot, whose price tag is only bettered by a Redoute’s Choice (Danehill) three-quarter brother to champion two-year-old Dance Hero (Danzero) who sold for $1.15 million at the 2007 Magic Millions National Sale, was an important result for Gilgai Farm owner Jamieson. Victoria-based Jamieson, who operates the Harry The Hirer business, paid $1 million for the I Am Invincible colt’s dam, stakes-winning Perth filly Ocean Jewel (Ocean Park), when she was retired from racing as a four-year-old in a private deal negotiated by agent Damon Gabbedy of Belmont Bloodstock. An emotional Gilgai Farm manager Kelly Skillecorn was lost for words after the seven-figure result, one that means a lot more to the studmaster than just the money. “I am surprised at that. They said he was the best colt at this sale, but it’s still amazing. It helps a lot,” Skillecorn said. “His business is in a bad way at the moment, so he told me that we’ve got to stand on our own two feet for the next three years. The business can’t help us any more. It’s up to us. “I must thank Damon Gabbedy for this horse because he could have sold her to anyone but he sold her to us.” Skillecorn also praised the team at Cressfield where Gilgai Farm sends its mares to foal down each season and are then housed for three months ON THE to be covered by Hunter Valley-based stallions. Catalogued as Lot 109, the I Am Invincible colt is the first foal out of the former Simon Miller-trained Ocean Jewel, making him a three-quarter GOLD COAST? brother to Yulong’s dual Group 3-winning juvenile filly Catch Me. "He was off a really good farm, and I had seen the horse up there. Kelly and Rick, they just keep producing winners,” Maher said. Come out and have a look “We'd hoped we wouldn't have to go quite that dear, but the yearling at our breeding facility and prices are going up and up this year, and we thought it was a good inspect our stallions. opportunity. “That's a yearling price, but he's a colt that is clearly a standout, out of We have limited agistment availability a good mare and by the right stallion in I Am invincible.” this season. Maher revealed the colt would be allowed to grow out at Gilgai Farm near Nagambie in Victoria before being broken in early next year with a Inspections by Appointment view to having him ready for the early season two-year-old races in 15 months’ time. Contact Jono Davies on 0423 033 858 or “Physically, he has got the movement and strength to think he should Paul Knight on 0410 683 469 if you would go early,” the trainer said. like to see our stallions or have a farm tour. “Someone said to me, ‘it’s the best weanling they have seen at this sale ever’ and they have been coming here for a number of years. “Obviously, you have to pay for a horse like that.” Ocean Jewel missed to Deep Field (Northern Meteor) but will return AQUISFARM.COM this year to the Newgate Farm-based sire, who has earned a service fee increase to $88,000 (inc GST). Continued on page 4>> Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by The sires offer real value! ROCHA CLOCK wins the Coolmore Dark Jewel Classic-Gr.3 at Scone on 14th May to become the 24th Stakes winner from the first 3 crops of PIERRO Leading Sires in Australia (by 2021 Fee, 4 or more Group winners sired) PROVEN SIRES GSWS %GW/R 2021 FEE I Am Invincible 42 5.45% $220,000 Fastnet Rock 82 5.80% $165,000 Snitzel 66 5.88% $165,000 Written Tycoon 27 3.17% $165,000 Zoustar 15 4.75% $154,000 Exceed And Excel 55 4.95% $132,000 Pierro 18 4.90% $110,000 Deep Field 5 1.78% $88,000 So You Think 21 4.45% $77,000 Lonhro 46 4.25% $66,000 Dundeel 10 4.22% $66,000 Street Boss 11 2.94% $55,000 Brazen Beau 6 3.87% $49,500 Toronado 4 2.27% $49,500 Source: Arion Pedigrees, 19th May 2021 REALM OF FLOWERS is a 4.8 length winner of the Andrew Ramsden Stakes-L. at Flemington on 15th May becoming the 12th Stakes winner by SO YOU THINK in Australia this season 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 Field hoping lightning strikes twice | 4 | Friday, May 21, 2021 Field hoping lightning strikes twice Gilgai Farm also sold an Extreme Choice (Not A Single Doubt) colt for $650,000 on day one to the China Horse Club-Newgate Farm partnership, who will add the half-brother to Group 1-placed juvenile The Drinks Cart (Unencumbered) to their racing team. “The last Extreme Choice we bought out of this ring two years ago we liked equally as much and he cost $60,000 and he’s won a Golden Slipper in Stay Inside,” Henry Field said. “When we saw an Extreme Choice who was the model of Stay Inside, off a great farm, by a very special young sire, he was a horse who was a must-have. “He will join our racing team and hopefully he will be as successful as the last Extreme Choice weanling colt I bought, but we will see. “He is a very sharp colt and, to be honest, the best Extreme Choice physically I have ever seen and he’s out of a good mare and off a great farm. Lot 181: Extreme Choice ex Snipzu colt MAGIC MILLIONS “We think the stallion is something very special and to get a colt as good as this we had to push for him. He is an outstanding horse, he’s an He will be raced by similar interests to those who bought into Stay awesome colt. He’s the one we thought was out of the box.” Inside after he won the Pierro Plate (1100m) in February, two starts before The $650,000 colt, catalogued as Lot 181 and the most expensive he landed the Slipper. publicly auctioned horse by Extreme Choice, is the sixth foal out of the They include Field, S F Bloodstock, China Horse Club, Sir Owen four-time winner and stakes-placed Snipzu (Snippetson), whose four Glenn’s Go Bloodstock, Matthew Sandblom, Grant Lowe Bloodstock and foals to race are all winners.