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16/2/2016 Your Song and Snitzel Colts Top Perth Opener
A
pair of colts shared the top selling honour during a positive opening
day to the 2016 Magic Millions Perth Yearling Sale at Belmont on Monday
night.
The
youngsters by first season sire Your Song and proven champion sire
Snitzel both sold for $135,000 during a session in which slight
increases were recorded across the board.
The
action started early in proceedings when Lot 3, the Your Song half
brother to recent Magic Millions Western Australian 2YO Classic winner
The River was sold to Trevor Andrews.
The
colt offered by Western Breeders Alliance will join the same stable at
The River who is now heading to the Karrakatta Plate after his rich win
at Pinjarra just over a week ago.
"He's
obviously pretty attractive because we've got the half brother and I
like quite a few lots late tomorrow so I thought I better strike early
otherwise I could miss out on a couple of the others."
"He's
an easy horse to sell," Andrews added. "I've pretty much got him sold
now. He'll be an up and running style Magic Millions horse for next year
and I'm pleased to get hold of him."
Later
in the evening Singapore based owner Constance Cheng also went to
$135,000 to secure the Snitzel-Royale Harvest colt from Amelia Park
Racing and Breeding.
Flanked
by trainer Steven Crutchley, Cheng was all smiles after she was able to
secure the colt who is the sixth foal of the stakes performed and eight
time winning High Yield mare Royale Harvest.
Amelia
Park Racing and Breeding also supplied the day's third top seller with
the Sebring colt from New Zealand group winner Madame Shinko who was
knocked down to Morton Racing for $120,000.
"I
just thought he was a cracking colt," trainer Danny Morton said. "He's
off a good farm and we were trying to buy horses like that at the Gold
Coast a few weeks ago and we couldn't get near them, so I'm happy to
have him."
"He's
all there. Sebring is a superstar sire and he's a real athlete and he's
very well grown already. He's just going to make into a lovely athletic
style of horse."
Your
Song wasn't the only first season sire to shine at Belmont. Members of
the first crop of the Yarradale Stud based Gingerbread Man went under
the hammer on Monday and his colt from good producer Morine was
purchased by Astute Bloodstock from the draft of Korilya Stud for
$75,000. The colt will head to the Simon Miller stable.
"He's
a nice style of horse," Miller noted. "The mare throws winners - she's
thrown Man Booker who's won a Guineas and my horse seems well above
average."
"It
doesn't seem to matter who the mare goes to - she throws good running
types and hopefully that is the case here. I liked his attitude and he
he moved so well - he's got a big girth a strong hindquarter so all that
equates to hopefully being fast!"
During
the afternoon and evening session over $3.9 million was traded on 103
lots sold at an average price of $37,981 and clearance rate of 77 per
cent - the latter well up on the 68 per cent achieved for last year's
two day auction.
"It's
been a pleasing start," Magic Millions Managing Director Vin Cox said.
"With the blended results of last year the average was about $37,000 and
we're sitting just above that at about $38,000 and a gross just shy of
$4 million so it's a very good start."
"The
way the cards have fallen means there's some high profile lots coming
in tomorrow so we anticipate we can build on the good numbers already."
"The
(rise in) clearance rate is very pleasing," Cox added. "That was
something we were worried about coming into this sale and to be sitting
around 77 to 78 per cent is a very good start."
Day
Two of the 2016 Magic Millions Perth Yearling Sale will commence at
11am (WA time) on Tuesday at the Belmont Park Sales Complex.
TOP SELLERS
$135,000 - Your Song-Jestceny colt (Lot 3)
Vendor: Western Breeders Alliance / Buyer: Trevor Andrews (WA)
$135,000 - Snitzel-Royale Harvest colt (Lot 117)
Amelia Park Racing & Breeding / Constance Cheng (Singapore)
$120,000 - Sebring-Madame Shinko colt (Lot 38)
Amelia Park Racing & Breeding / Morton Racing (WA)
$110,000 - Universal Ruler-Marascobel colt (Lot 41)
Oakland Park Stud / Grant Williams (WA)
$100,000 - Written Tycoon-Sophia Town filly (Lot 148)
Jingle Holdings Pty Ltd / Morton Racing (WA)
SALE STATISTICS
(new format in 2016)
Lots Catalogued: 150
Lots Sold: 103
Lots Withdrawn: 16
Lots Passed In: 31
Top Price: $135,000
Average Price: $37,981
Median Price: $30,000
Sale Gross: $3,912,000
Sold %: 77