a kind of magic Your ultimate guide from our team of experts Friday, January 15, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here Lot 330 Russian Revolution x French Fern filly Bred by China Horse Club Sold for $425,000 Lot 584 Russian Revolution x My Conquestadory (USA) filly Bred by SF Bloodstock & Matthew Sandblom Sold for $425,000 MULTIPLE GROUP 1-WINNING star sprinter From the stallion family of ENCOSTA DE LAGO and FLYING SPUR “He’s absolutely one of the QUICKEST HORSES we have ever trained.” –Trainer Peter Snowden Snitzel – Ballet D’Amour (USA), by Stravinsky a kind of magic Your ultimate guide from our team of experts Friday, January 15, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here (02) 8913 1640 TODAY'S SALEShqinsurance.com.au DATA TABLES - PAGE 9 EXCLUSIVE GUARANTEED RENEWAL MOTW - PAGE 17 SALES RESULTS BY SIRE - PAGE 20 Not A Single Doubt about What's on Metropolitan meetings: Moonee Valley (VIC) Fung and Phoenix’s love Race meetings: Ballina (NSW), Gosford (NSW), Geelong (VIC), Townsville (QLD), Esperance (WA), Tauranga (NZ) affair with Farnan’s sire Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Rosehill $1.8 and $1 million colts added to growing collection as demand holds (NSW), Flemington (VIC), Esperance (WA), strong on day three at Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale Strathalbyn (SA) International meetings: Fairview (SAF), Newcastle (UK), Southwell (UK) Sales: Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale INDUSTRY NEWS Vadamos purchased by Lot 612 Not a Single Doubt - One More Honey colt MAGIC MILLIONS Coolmore day of the Magic MIllions Gold Coast Yearling Coolmore have flexed BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS Sale. their might once more CONTACT TIM AT THE SALES @ROWE_TIM As the demand for blue-blooded youngsters as the 2021 northern e might not be signing under continued at a record pace, putting the auction hemisphere breeding the Aquis Farm banner, but house on track to break the $200 million barrier season gets underway, with Hong Kong owner Tony Fung across the seven-day run, Fung and Phoenix the purchase of Rich Hill Stud shuttler Vadamos demonstrated his intent to Thoroughbreds’ Dubai-based Amer Abdulaziz (Monsun) from Tally-Ho Stud in Ireland. remainH a significant investor in the Australian Salman went to $1.8 million for an Emirates Park- Industry News page 16 >> industry with two seven-figure colts by Not A bred son of Group 2-winning mare One More Honey Single Doubt (Redoute’s Choice) on the third (Onemorenomore). Continued on page 2>> DAILY PINHOOKING RESULTS - PAGE 28 TUE 12TH - MON 18TH JAN 2021 MAGIC MILLIONS GOLD COAST YEARLING SALE SALE LIVE - VIEW HERE Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Fung and Phoenix’s love affair with Farnan’s sire | 2 | Friday, January 15, 2021 << Continued from page 1 The duo earlier went to an even $1 million for a Baramul Stud-bred colt by the same pensioned Arrowfield Stud sire, a day after landing a $1.1 million son of Not A Single Doubt from Torryburn Stud. So far, Fung and Phoenix have bought six out of the seven colts offered by Not A Single Doubt at this sale for a total of $5.19 million. The attraction to Not A Single Doubt is more than understandable given their success with Group 2-winning sprinter Dubious and, more recently, Golden Slipper (Gr 1, 1200m) hero Farnan, as well as another powerful colt in Anders. On their highest-priced acquisition to date, Aquis Farm managing director Shane McGrath said: “They are a limited edition, the Not A Single Doubt colts, and he (the $1.8 million colt) comes off a great nursery and is out of a very good racemare.” Lot 612 Not a Single Doubt - One More Honey colt MAGIC MILLIONS After McGrath successfully bid on Baramul Stud’s Lot 529 from a corner table at the auditorium, bidding for the $1.8 million colt, who was “Each horse we have discussed, we have talked through what we catalogued as Lot 612, was left to Abdulaziz Salman, who was calling the wanted to spend on them.” shots online from Dubai. Emirates Park general manager Bryan Carlson put the colt on the “Unfortunately, he (Abdulaziz Salman) can't be here at the sale. market from the opening $600,000 bid, noting the pre-sale interest had Everyone in the industry likes to be part of the atmosphere and likes being him confident of a big result. part of the process,” McGrath said. “He was a lovely colt. Even back at the farm, he's been very popular, I “We’ve been fortunate that he's allowed the team to collect the list of horses. didn't think he was going to make that much, but I knew he was going to We just thought on a horse like this, it was nice for him to do the bidding. make over a million,” Carlson said. Continued on page 4>> Buy from the vendor of the 2020 Golden Slipper winner, FARNAN & the 2019 Magic Millions 2yo Classic winner, EXHILARATES. Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by Like father, like son. Strong demand for their progeny at the Gold Coast… CONSIGNOR SEX/DAM PURCHASER PRICE Coolmore Stud C. ex Ciarlet David Ellis/Andrew Williams $825,000 Strawberry Hill Stud F. ex Dreams and Wishes Ciaron Maher Bloodstock $800,000 Coolmore Stud F. ex Blue Blue Sky David Ellis/Andrew Williams $600,000 Strawberry Hill Stud F. ex Joy of Joys David Ellis/Andrew Williams $600,000 Bhima T/breds F. ex Anchor Bid Busuttin Racing/Jim Clarke $550,000 Coolmore Stud C. ex Ballet Suite Waller Racing/Mulcaster Bloodstock $375,000 Strawberry Hill Stud C. ex Happy Hannah Tom Magnier $360,000 Bhima T/breds F. ex Berimbau Magic Bloodstock & Associates $300,000 Valiant Stud C. ex Maglissa Bjorn Baker Racing/Clarke Bloodstock $300,000 Multiple champion sire & a proven sire of sires CONSIGNOR SEX/DAM PURCHASER PRICE B2B T/breds C. ex Brugal Reward Belmont Bloodstock Agency $500,000 Bhima T/breds C. ex Dee Nine Elle Black Soil/John Foote/Gollan Racing $400,000 Edinburgh Park F. ex Alice's Smart Moody Racing $340,000 Coolmore Stud C. ex Face of the Earth Laming Racing $180,000 Cressfield C. ex Epitomise Mick Price Racing $170,000 Ashleigh T/breds F. ex Delaluna Portelli Racing $165,000 Rheinwood Pastoral Co C. ex Elegant Air Star T/breds/Randwick Bloodstock $150,000 Milburn Creek C. ex Kissed by the Sun Moody Racing/Dalziel Bloodstock $150,000 The heir apparent to sire of sires Fastnet Rock 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 Fung and Phoenix’s love affair with Farnan’s sire << Continued from page 2 “He's been very popular and has been out of his box the whole time. It’s a fantastic result. He's always been a relaxed, well-moving colt. He does tick every box.” One More Honey has a Zoustar (Northern Meteor) colt at foot and is in foal to Snitzel (Redoute’s Choice). The $1 million lot from Gerry Harvey’s Baramul Stud also fitted “all the cliches”, according to McGrath. “He’s a lovely, fast, sharp two-year-old and we hope he is back here next year,” he said. “He fits our profile of what we are trying to do. We've got great partners in Phoenix who are willing to back our judgment. The proof will be in the Lot 576 Redoute's Choice - Mount Zero colt MAGIC MILLIONS pudding on the racetrack.” Regarding Not A Single Doubt, who was pensioned in January 2020 “They have had a huge fill-up out of this sale. When you think about and has 44 live foals in his second-last crop being offered to the market, it, they bought Dubious, three years ago and two years ago they’ve taken McGrath added: “He leaves a great type, he's a phenomenal sire. There are home Farnan, Anders and Prague, so It works, doesn’t it?” Bowditch said. only a handful of colts there, and we are keen to secure them. “They have bought some huge horses out of this sale which have been “The market has shown there is a huge appetite for the stallion, and great on the racetrack, but they have also sold them well to stud. The he's a huge loss.” recipe obviously works.” The colt is the second foal out of the winning Medaglia D’Oro (El Prado) At the current rate of trade, Magic Millions is on track to break the $200 mare Medaglia Valore, while his second dam is the Magic Millions 2YO million barrier and another record sale, a possibility almost unthinkable Classic (RL, 1200m) and Group 2 winner Military Rose (General Nediym). only months ago. Built in the mould of his sire, a powerful sprinting type, McGrath says There have been eight million-dollar lots across the three sessions so there is no reason to stray from a proven formula. far at an average of $257,471, up more than $5,000 compared to the same “We have had a lot of success in recent times from purchases out of stage last year. the Magic Millions sale ring and it’s nice to give a bit of money back to The $180,000 median is holding steady, but the most stunning feature Gerry (Harvey, owner of Magic Millions and Baramul Stud). God knows of the sale so far is the clearance rate of 88 per cent, a statistic that was he needs it,” he joked.