Queensland enriched by Wyong Millions
Good quality of Queensland breeding and the Gold Coast market.
RESULTS on December 17 of both the races at Wyong open only to graduates of Magic Millions yearling sales, the $100,000 Magic Millions Stakes (1200m, 3 and 4yos), one won by Flippant, and the $200,000 Magic Millions Classic (1100m, 2yos) taken out by Capitalist, reflected again the good quality of Queensland breeding and the Gold Coast market.
Although Flippant, the 3-year-old Hinchinbrook filly who bounced back in Peter and Paul Snowden’s hands at Randwick from cardiac arrhythmia problems to win for the fourth time in seven outings is NSW bred and sired, she is from Lady Beckworth, a mare by Queensland bred and raced Australian champion racehorse General Nedium.
Now deceased but proving an excellent broodmare sire, The General came into prominence as a racehorse when he won the 1997 edition of the rich Magic Millions 2YO Classic at the Gold Coast in 1997. It was a race also won by his Queensland produced first crop daughter Regimental Gal in 2003.
Yearlings at the 2016 Magic Millions sale at the Gold Coast in January out of General Nediym mares appeal as good propositions. One special appears to be lot 365, a filly who is by the Danehill grandson Snitzel (by Redoute’s Choice) and from Lady Beckworth, a Sydney winner by General Nediym. The breeding makes the filly nearly a three-quarter sister to Flippant as she is by another Danehill grandson,Yarraman Park, Scone based Hinchinbrook, a son of Fastnet Rock, and from Lady Beckworth.
Like Flippant, a $220,000 Gold Coast yearling, the 2016 sale filly is being offered through the Ferguson family’s Bell River Thoroughbreds, a highly regarded agistment farm near Wellington in central western NSW.
The other Magic Millions winner at Wyong, juvenile Capitalist, is far more of a showcase for Queensland breeding and Gold Coast sales. A $165,000 yearling, Capitalist and also her sire Written Tycoon, a son of Iglesia, a Last Tycoon product, were bred on the Daandine Stud at Goomburra near Warwick.
They are also breeders of four yearlings in the coming sale catalogue, one of them a Real Saga half-sister to Capitalist.They are from Kitalpha, a 1000m winner by the shuttled Mr. Prospector Kentucky Derby winner Fusaichi Pegasus and from Compulsion, a Danehill Blue Diamond Preview winning sister to Merlene (won Golden Slipper) and half-sister to Miss Pennymoney, a VRC Newmarket and MVRC Australia Stakes winner.
Merlene is the dam of Merlene De Lago, an Encosta de Lago filly sold for $775,000 at the Gold Coast and a Group 2 and 3 winner in South Africa, and grandam of Dear Demi, a Dehere $130,000 Gold Coast buy who has won six stakes, including the Victoria Oaks, and earned over $2.1million.
An early Gold Coast graduate was Bold Promise, the third dam of Capitalist. She was a Luskin Star filly who in 1991 won two Magic Millions Classics at the Gold Coast. She finished fifth when a 9-10 favourite in the Golden Slipper and also won the Reisling Slipper Trial and Tea Rose Stakes.
Like Flippant, the winner of the $100,000 Wyong Magic Millions, Capitalist is trained by the Snowdens, also conditioner of the runner up Niccolance, a $120,000 Gold Coast acquisition bred by Burnewang North Pastoral Victoria using Nicconi (Widden Stud) and Nonchalence, a smart Lonhro winner.
The Wyong Magic Millions Classic was a triumph for trainers born in the Upper Hunter region as the Snowdens originated from Scone and third placed Aghna is with Gabrielle Englebrecht at Warwick Farm. Her father Steve Englebrecht, a Muswellbrook born trainer, is also at Warwick Farm.
A $50,000 buy for Gabrielle at the Gold Coast produced on Newgate Farm, Aghna is from the first crop of their Fastnet Rock sire Foxwedge and is from Moonboat, an Encosta de Lago Sydney winner.
MORE SUCCESS: Written Tycoon added to his laurels as a very good sire when his Magic Millions graduate son Dieters (dam by Sadler’s Wells sire Carnegie) made it two from two with an impressive win in a juvenile race at Doomben on Saturday (December 19). Trained at the Sunshine Coast by Jason McLachlan, Dieters was bred by Queensland located W.C. Kajewski and sold for $100,000 (Slade Bloodstock) through Sledmere Stud, Scone.
The Dieters win came less half an hour after General Nediym had a new dimension added to his influence when Darley bred, Godolphin raced, John O’Shea trained Souchez made a good debut with a win in the juvenile event at Rosehill Gardens. She is by Lonhrop and from Vimy, a daughter of Redoute’s Choice and Regimental Gal. The 2006 foaled Vimy was put down at the age of nine in October.
The 2016 Magic Millions Yearling Sale Collection
WRITTEN TYCOON (7 lots), Nicconi (8), Foxwedge (30), Not a Single Doubt (31) and Choisir (23), the sires in order of finish of the first five home in the $200,000 Magic Millions 2YO Classic at Wyong on December 17, each has good representation in the 1016 lot catalogue covering the yearling sales at the Gold Coast January 6, 7, 8, 9 (6pm) and 10.
Other sires with performers of racing age with five or more lots alphabetically are All American (6), Al Maher (9), Bernardini (USA) (8), Casino Prince (8), Charge Forward (11), Commands (19), Congrats (USA) (17), Denman (13), Dream Ahead (USA) (8), Duporth (7), Exceed and Excel (13), Fastnet Rock (36), Helmet (16), High Chaparral (6), Hinchinbrook (21), Husson (Arg) (11), I Am Invincible (37), Lohro (7), Lope de Vega (Ire) (5), Love Conquers All (5), Magic Albert (7), Manhattan Rain (7), Medaglio d’Oro (13), More Than Ready (USA), Mossman (6), Nicconi (8), Poet’s Voice (5), Real Saga (9), Rothesay (11), Savabeel (6), Sebring (50), Sepoy (41), Smart Missile (37), Snitzel (60), So You Think (69), Starcraft (NZ) (5), Starspangledbanner (6), Star Witness (8), Stratum (16), Street Cry (Ire) (19), Stryker (5), Uncle Mo (USA) (12) and Zoffany (Ire).
The quality of the 2016 Magic Millions catalogue has been enriched by a striking collection of sires with first crop yearlings. Two who are odds on to command widespread respect at the top end of the market are two Aussies who challenged as the most brilliant performers in the world in their time, Black Caviar’s Vinery stud based half-brother All To Hard (by Flying Spur sire Casino Prince) (47 lots) and Coolmore’s Pierro (Lonhro) (41 lots).
In the World Rankings of older performers for 2013, the best Australians were Black Caviar (the World Champion) and All Too Hard (eighth best miler), Pierro (Leading 3YO Male Sprinter) and Atlantic Jewel (Fastnet Rock; World’s third best mare).
Also high up in those World Assessments were Cox Plate winner Ocean Park (NZ) (Thorn Park) (1 first crop yearling in the catalogue), Animal Kingdom (USA) (8), Reliable Man (GB) (Dalakhani Group1 winner France and Australia (5 lots)
Other sires represented by first crop yearling in the catalogue are Delago Deluxe (Encosta de Lago – Succeeding, by Flying Spur) (17 lots), Australian bred South African juvenile champion and Group1 winning sprinter standing at Newhaven Park, Boorowa, NSW; Your Song (29 lots), a Group1 winning sprinter at Widden Stud; Emirates Park shuttler Harbour Watch (Ire) (8 lots), a son of speed prepotent Acclamation who was one of the best juveniles in Europe in 2011; Bullet Train (GB) (10 lots), a talented three-quarter brother by Sadler’s Wells to Frankel visiting Bowness Stud; Coolmore dual hemisphere used Excelebration (Ire) (9 lots), a world class miler got in Ireland by Aussie sire Exceed and Excel; Golden Archer (4), a Rock of Gibraltar winner eight races, five at two, successful five stakes, third to Black Caviar in the Group1 Lightning at Flemington, stands Raheen Stud, Gladfield, Qld; and Emirates Park, Victoria located Mulaazem (2 lots), three wins to Group 2 from seven starts, half-brother by Dubai Destination (USA) to Sepoy.
Vendors with ten or more lots in the catalogue are Amarina Farm (18), Arrowfield (48), Attunga (21), Baramul (79), Bhima (12), Bowness (17), Coolmore (45), Corumbene (15), Edinglassie (15), Element Hill (20), Eliza Park (20), Emirates Park (17), Eureka (10), Fig Tree (10), Glastonbury (13), Glenlogan Park (22), Kia-Ora (10), Kitchwin Hills (23), Newgate Farm (23), Newhaven Park (33), Raheen (18), Riversdale (12), Rosemont (14), Rothwell Park (14), Segenhoe (15), Sledmere (16), Three Bridges (12), Turangga (19), Viera Group (14), Vinery (21), Widden (37), Willow Park (15), Robyn Wise (12), Woodside (13) and Yarraman Park (33).
BROTHER’S SUCCESS: Delago Deluxe, the sire at Newhaven Park with first crop yearlings, is a brother to Bamboo Dance, a performer who was recording his sixth successive win when he won the opening race on the program at Hong Kong on December 19. A son of Written Tycoon finished third.
By Brian Russell Bloodstock Media
