A colt by Street Cry (Ire), foaled less than a month after the untimely passing of his successful sire due to complications from a neurological syndrome in September 2014, was hammered down to leading Sydney trainer Gary Moore for A$300,000 to top Tuesday's second and final day of bidding at the Magic Millions Perth Yearling Sale on Australia's West Coast.
Moore struck out on last year's Perth sales-topper, an A$340,000 son of Beneteau (Aus)–Zaldivar (Aus) (Honour and Glory), but his luck turned Tuesday afternoon when he signed the winning ticket on behalf of his client Chong Bin Wu. Bred and consigned by Yarradale Stud and catalogued as hip 193, the brown colt is a half-brother to MGSW and G1SP Lamasery (Aus) (Commands {Aus}) from the extended female family of Written Tycoon (Aus).
“I'm very excited,” Moore said. “He's got a great pedigree and he reminds me a lot of the great colts I rode in Europe. He's got a great bottom line. His second dam is a relation of Written Tycoon who's probably one of the hottest sires in Australia.
Moore added, “He'll go back to Sydney and be syndicated among some friends of mine and hopefully one day he will return and run in the Western Australian Derby and if we get to that level he can come back here and stand at Yarradale Stud which I think will be fantastic for the Western Australian breeders.”
Trainer Neville Parnham, who was successful in taking home the aforementioned 2015 topper, had to settle for the second-dearest offering this time around, going to A$210,000 for Dawson Stud's Commands (Aus) filly. The Sept. 22 foal, catalogued as hip 312, is a daughter of GSP Flight Path (Aus) (Bletchley Park {Ire}), herself a half-sister to dual Group 1 winner Scenic Shot (Aus) (Scenic {Ire}). Hip 312 was purchased in utero for A$110,000 out of the 2014 Inglis Easter Broodmare Sale.
“She's a beautiful filly,” Parnham said. “I inspected her on the first inspection day and then I got a couple of clients to come along and have a look and we thought she was one of the star lots of the sale. She's a little bit bum high at the moment, so we can see she's got a fair bit of growth in her and the family's been so good. Flight Path was a pretty handy sort of mare in her own right,” Parnham added. “And then further back on the page you have Scenic Shot–it's just a great Western Australian family and hopefully we can do pretty well with her.”
From a catalogue that was 12% leaner than 2015, Magic Millions reported turnover of A$10,429,000, an increase of 13% from last year with only nine additional sales in 2016. The average of A$41,059 represented a healthy 9.1% bump over 12 months ago.
“It's just been a fantastic result,” Magic Millions Managing Director Vin Cox said. “A lot of hard work has gone into this sale and to finish with a gross of $10.4 million–up $1.2 million on last year – we've sold 80 per cent of horses through the ring.”
Cox added, “Full credit to the industry in Western Australia as a whole. They have got right behind this and recognised that the breeding industry and the racing industry in the state was in a bit of trouble and if they didn't get in and support it, it could have been catastrophic. They way that RWWA really pushed it along, Charlotte Mills and her team, was just fantastic and not to put too finer point on it our own David Houston and Cassie Norris, they worked their guts out to make sure it was the success it has been.”
Magic Millions hosts its Tasmanian Yearling Sale in Launceton Thursday, with 126 lots set to go under the hammer. For full results, visit www.magicmillions.com.au.
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