“Prospective buyers are in for a treat this January,” said Magic Millions Managing Director Barry Bowditch with 1,273 yearlings selling at the Gold Coast from 10-16 January.
“The finest youngsters are presented by the best breeders from Australia and New Zealand, with a range and selection that will be the finest offered in the Southern Hemisphere in 2023.”
“Graduates of Gold Coast Yearling Sales are starring on the track including the likes of Alligator Blood, Coolangatta, Ellsberg, In Secret, Jacquinot plus Madame Pommery and Manzoice.”
“Again, there’d join by outstanding graduates as Forbidden Love, Golden Sixty, Hitotsu, Montefilia, Snapdancer and Wellington, and in addition to recent winners at the elite level.”
“The first progeny of crack mares including Group One winners Booker, In Her Time, Loving Gaby, Sunlight and Viddora are also to go under the hammer on the Gold Coast from Tuesday.”
Again, Books 1 and 2 that feature the progeny of 108 individua stallions, while Castelvecchio, Blue Point, Exceedance, Magna Grecia, Too Darn Hot, Yes Yes Yes highlight 24 first season sires.
With Yes Yes Yes having his first foals sell up to $260,000, $150,000, his 29 yearlings are highlighted with a half-sister to stakes-placed Italia Belle and Hey Mighty from Gr1 winner Pear Tart.
There is also a half-sister to dual Gr2 winner Yes Baby Yes from Exabelle, a colt of SW Savacool, a colt from SW Parriwi, colt from SW Tina Melina and a half-sister to SW Theanswermyfriend.
In running a Randwick 1200m record time of 1:07.3 for taking out the $14m The Everest as a 3yo, Yes Yes Yes also won the Todman Stakes in record time, and second in the Golden Rose Stakes.
As a $200,000 MM Yearling graduate, he’s the grandson of multiple champion sire Encosta de Lago, by the super slick Rubick and is the family of The Galaxy and Lightning winner In Her Time.
Always considered an Australian iconic family, Yes Yes Yes is from the winning Fantastic Light mare Sin Sin Sin, a half-sister to the dam of In Her Time, the family of Hot As Hell and Flaming Hot.
Being somewhat of a purists’ notoriety, In Her Time has her first yearling, a I Am Invincible colt, selling on Day 5 along with fellow family-members Harlem, River Harlem Shuffle and Hell It’s Hot.
In fact, this is the family of John Cobcroft’s five non-stud book mares whose progeny were successfully re-instated by the International Stud Book Committee into the Stud Book as Vehicle Mares.
Crowned the WTR Equal Leading Older Female Sprinter in 2018 and a $2.2m broodmare purchase by Yulong Investments, In Her Time was passed-in for $38,000 at the 2014 Classic Yearling Sale.
As last season’s Champion Sire with earnings of $19.8m and Home Affairs winning the Coolmore Stud Stakes and the Newmarket, I Am invincible had In Secret last win the Coolmore Stud Stakes.
Earlier on Day 5 its In Her Time’s winning Zeditave dam Hell It’s Hot, that has her Too Darn Hot colt being offered by Corumbene Farm, and is a half-brother to seven winners from 9 runners.
There is no doubting that Too Dar Hot will be popular, for as Europe’s Champion 2yo, 3yo Colt his Turrett Rocks colt, by Fastnet Rock, made 600,000 Gns at the Tattersalls October Yearlings.
Also on Day 5 is the stakes winning Fastnet Rock mare Harlem River, who has her Brutal colt selling as her fifth foal, a half-sister to three winners including the stakes placed winner Lady Harlem.
Consigned by Newgate Farm, and in the first crop of their Doncaster Mile and Premier Stakes winner Brutal, by O’Reilly, he was purchased by Hawkes Racing for $220,000 at Karaka in 2017.
Finally, as the next lot from Goodwood Farm, is Harlem River’s winning Oratorio sired daughter Harlem Shuffle, with her half-brother to two winners being by Gr 1 winning first season sire Pierata.
