Yarramalong Park

Better Than Ready just keeps going from strength to strength and on the back of another stellar season he continues to prove popular with breeders, owners and trainers. All of whom will be keen to inspect his Magic Millions yearlings, including ten members of the Yarramalong draft. “Our 16 strong draft is full of athletic two…

ByKristen ManningJanuary 3, 20220Comments

MMGC 2022

Tyreel Stud

Tyreel Stud continues to enjoy success both on the track and in the sales ring and another Magic Millions full of highlights beckons. Already showing talent at the trials are last year’s graduates Lalaguna, Narnia and Bridget Wenlock with those and others who went through the ring in 2021 ending up in the capable hands of…

ByKristen ManningJanuary 2, 20220Comments

MMGC 2022

Raheen Stud

The best start to the 2020/21 racing year made by any first season stallion has that been made by Raheen Stud’s high class sprinter Heroic Valour. With 83 two-year-olds on the ground he has not been afforded the same opportunities as some of the more expensive horses but at his fee of $7,700 he is one…

ByKristen ManningDecember 16, 20210Comments

MMGC 2022

Marquee Stud

SONY DSC With G1 winner Redzel (Snitzel) as a headline graduate from Marquee Stud’s Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale drafts, it’s no surprise to see them back at the sale after a few years away. Redzel, who Marquee Stud sold for $120,000 in 2014, won the first two runnings of The Everest as well as…

ByKristen ManningDecember 15, 20210Comments

MMGC 2022

Eureka Stud

Incentivise What a great spring it has been for Eureka Stud, Spirit Of Boom represented by his first Group One winner with a gutsy all the way Manikato Stakes, 1200m victory for Jonker whilst Incentivise from a great old Eureka family has proven himself one of the best stayers in the country. Meanwhile Encryption has his first…

ByKristen ManningDecember 10, 20210Comments

MMGC 2022

Bowness Stud

Media Award Bowness Stud’s John North has plenty to be excited about as the 2022 Magic Millions approaches with his draft shaping as one of the must-sees of the sale. “We had Dr Greg Nash here recently (the second week of November) and he was impressed by how forward our horses were,” North said. “He struggled to find…

ByKristen ManningDecember 8, 20210Comments

Bluebloods Stallion Profile

Savabeel

[Published Bluebloods Nov/Dec 2020] One of the finest representatives of the Sir Tristram sire line via that legendary stallion’s outstanding son Zabeel, Waikato Stud’s 19-year-old Savabeel continues to shine with seven different horses winning stakes races in the first half of the season. Savabeel’s excellent start to 2019/20 was heralded by a barnstorming Rowley Mile-Listed, 1600m victory…

ByKristen ManningOctober 18, 20210Comments

2021 First Season Sires Bluebloods

Wootton Bassett

[published Bluebloods July/August 2021] One of those great success stories of a horse able to prove his upgrading abilities from limited early opportunities (just 23 foals in his debut crop), Wootton Bassett is a welcome addition to the Coolmore Australia roster. One of 80 stakes winners sired by terrific Mr Prospector line horse Iffraaj (who is…

ByKristen ManningAugust 4, 20210Comments

2021 First Season Sires Bluebloods

Time To Reign

[published Bluebloods July/August 2021] Keen to offer breeders access to early speed, Kingstar have secured this dashing sprinter for stud duties this spring and the handsome member of the Redoute’s Choice sire line is bound to have plenty of fans. A $325,000 graduate of the 2018 Magic Millions, Time To Reign was an easy Warwick Farm…

ByKristen ManningAugust 4, 20210Comments

2021 First Season Sires Bluebloods

Sandbar

[published Bluebloods July/August 2021] Described by Kooringal’s Angus Lamont as “a speed horse who is the spitting image of his champion sire,” Sandbar retires to stud as a four times winner who raced in the best of company at two and three. An eye-catching yearling bred by Strawberry Hill Stud, the $650,000 Magic Millions graduate did…

ByKristen ManningAugust 4, 20210Comments

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