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10/1/2016 Another Million Dollar Lot as Records Tumble
A
filly by champion sire Fastnet Rock topped Day Four of the Magic
Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale on Saturday night and played a part in
a record breaking auction.
Selling
for an even $1 million the filly became the sixth at the auction to
sell for seven figures - a new record for the auction in its 31st year.
The Book One gross, average and median prices were also records with impressive lifts across all sections of the auction.
Emerging
Victorian trainer Brent Stanley was delighted to purchase tonight's top
seller - the impeccably bred Fastnet Rock-Ten Carat Rock filly - with
his Cloud 9 Thoroughbreds operation linking with CB Bloodstock to secure
the prized youngster.
"She's a package racehorse," Stanley said. "You're not just buying a page. When you go and look at her she's a grouse horse."
"She's
a top shelf horse. She's a great mover - a great athletic horse with
good bone and good muscle - all of the things I look for in a horse."
"You see a lot of big priced horses who don't really make it to their
next level - most of the time they're buying the page here the page sold
itself but you've got to also price the horse and I thought she was
well priced after the page," Stanley added.
The
top selling filly, catalogued as Lot 672, was consigned by Newgate Farm
and is the second foal of Ten Carat Rock, an unraced Rock of Gibraltar
sister to Sliding Cube (dam of Rubick), three quarter sister to
Redoute's Choice and Platinum Scissors and half sister to Manhattan
Rain.
Well
over $12 million was traded on 72 lots sold on Saturday night to help
push the Day One to Four sale average price to a record of $195,618. The
gross was the highest ever achieved at the auction and the clearance
rounded at an a near record 89 per cent.
China Horse Club retained its place as the leading buyer of the auction
on spend with 21 lots purchased for $6.69 million. Gai Waterhouse and
Julian Blaxland led the way on individual lots with 23 purchases at an
outlay of $5.945 million. This year's 2YO Classic winning buyer James
Harron was successful on eight lots at a spend of $4.08 million.
Exceed
and Excel rounded out the Book One sale as leading sire (ranked by
average for three of more sold). His 11 lots sold averaged $364,545.
Other in demand sires included Snitzel (48 sold at $329,688), Fastnet
Rock (30 sold at $328,333), Street Cry (14 sold at $323,214) and
Redoute's Choice (16 sold at $272,500).
Former star sale graduate Pierro was the leading first season sire on
average (three or more sold). Some 37 of his 38 lots sold at an average
of $262,568. Animal Kindom ($250,000 for 3 lots) and All Too Hard
($221,842 for 31 lots)
"It's
been a fantastic four days," Magic Millions Managing Director Vin Cox
said. "After the night session tonight we're closing out at $115,806,000
which is the highest grossing yearling sale in the Southern Hemisphere
since 2008."
"The
sale is up 26 per cent which in anyone's business is a tremendous
result. The average is over $195,600 which is up 15 per cent on last
year. It really has been a very, very good sale."
"The Fastnet Rock-Ten Carat Rock filly was our sixth million dollar for
the sale which we are over the moon about. It is a sale now that we can
prove we can get well and truly into the seven figure mark and also
have multiple numbers of them."
"The confidence the breeders showed us by giving those quality horses
and to be able to turn around and sell them as we have is very
satisfying from a Magic Millions point of view."
Book
Two of the Gold Coast Yearling Sale will commence at 10am (Qld time) on
Sunday with a quality line up of youngsters set to go under the hammer.
To view the results and to make an offer on a passed in lot click here. To see a review of Saturday's $10 million Magic Millions Raceday click here and to see a review of Day Four of the Gold Coast Yearling Sale click here.
DAY 1-4 STATISTICS
(2015 stats in brackets)
(2015 stats in brackets)
Lots Catalogued: 746 (692)
Lots Sold: 592 (539)
Lots Passed In: 76 (90)
Lots Withdrawn: 78 (63)
Sale Gross: $115,806,000 ($92,022,500)
Top Price: $1,600,000 ($1,200,000)
Average Price: $195,618 ($170,728)
Median Price: $150,000 ($130,000)
Sold %: 89 (86) .