Missy Cummings, the favourite to win the Inglis 3YO Guineas, has been sold a couple of days out from the $500,000 race.
Trainer Anthony Cummings, who paid $80,000 for the Magnus filly as a yearling and kept 100 per cent ownership of the now unbeaten three-year-old, revealed that for an undisclosed sum he has sold out to the breeder who offered her at public auction in 2011.
“Just in the last day I’ve sold her to Robert Crabtree,” Cummings told AAP.
“He bred the filly and he’s bought it back. He knows the pedigree and he still owns a piece of Magnus and he knows how good they can be.
“I buy them to sell them … it’s just that some take longer to sell than others.”
Crabtree runs Dorrington Farm in Victoria and has enjoyed recent success with Cummings through the Sydney autumn wins of Scandiva, a close relation to the recently retired champion sprinter Black Caviar.
Missy Cummings has won each of her three starts and added considerable dollars to her residual value with a stakes win at Randwick on the final day of the Sydney autumn carnival.
She heads into the Scone race on Saturday as a well-found commodity in early trading and after $5 was bet about her chances she now heads the Guineas market at $4.20.
