Magic Millions

 2019

Gold Coast March Yearling Sale

390 Lots

18 - 19 March

 It is fitting that Eureka Stud will open proceedings, seeing they have the largest draft of 42 lots, bred on the Darling Downs of sunny Queensland.

Often the opening lot can be the cheapest, but surely not in this case, Lot 1 has a lot going for him, he has a very sound interesting pedigree to open proceedings.

He is out of an unraced daughter of Mannerism, there are a lot of winners in the family, his dam Nakedindaspa has left six winners and is a three quarter sister to Dandify, and Manner Hill.    

Bel Esprit, who spent some time in Queensland and is still getting winners, has 13 lots and there are some nice horses among them.

It will be interesting to see how Spirit of Boom is received, he had a bumper sale result, he is getting winners, he has had 87 runners so far with 34 winners, he is doing the job and has had a Black Type success in his first crop already.

Better Than Ready is certainly doing the job, he is currently a strong candidate for champion first season sire.

He stands where Smokey Eyes stood, and before that The Buzzard, the greatest sire of stayers we have known, they came no better than him.  

There could be a sleeping giant in the sale in the form of Spill The Beans, he is by Snitzel, he has been well promoted and well represented with 35 lots.

Spill The Beans is a highly promising sire with all the qualities that make a sire, he was unbeaten as a two year old, had eleven starts, in all winning five races, only out of the money three times.

There is a strong case for the lightly raced sires and possibly mares, we will have to wait and see if Winx can turn that around.