Million Dollar Colts for Snitzel

Tara Madgwick - Thursday January 7
Street Cry (IRE) still leads the sires by average list at the 2016 Magic Millions Yearling Sale after two sessions with nine youngsters averaging $369,444, but it was Snitzel that put the star power into the day with a pair of colts selling for upwards of $1million.

John Singleton's Strawberry Hill Stud produced the showstopper when their colt from 2006 Magic Millions 2YO Classic winner Mirror Mirror fetched $1.6 million to the bid of Jadeskye Racing / Gerald Ryan.

The star colt is the third living foal of Dehere (USA) mare Mirror Mirror, whose first foal, stakes-winning Redoute's Choice filly No Looking Back, won the Magic Millions 2YO Classic in 2012, before losing the race on protest to stablemate Driefontein.

Strawberry Hill Stud purchased Mirror Mirror as a yearling at Magic Millions back in 2005 for $120,000, so she's proven to be an outstanding investment!

Also selling for $1.1 million earlier in the day was the Snitzel colt from Flidais. A full brother to Group I winner Sweet Idea, he was bought by Dean Hawthorne Bloodstock.

2016Gold Coast Yearling Sale
SIRE AVERAGES

Sire

Sold

Aggregate

Average

Top Price

Street Cry

9

3,325,000

369,444

725,000

Snitzel

28

10,300,000

367,857

1,600,000

Fastnet Rock

17

5,560,000

327,059

800,000

Redoute's Choice

10

2,690,000

269,000

500,000

Exceed And Excel

8

2,105,000

263,125

800,000

Animal Kingdom

3

750,000

250,000

310,000

Starspangledbanner

3

705,000

235,000

540,000

All Too Hard

21

4,730,000

225,238

510,000

More Than Ready

4

885,000

221,250

400,000

Sebring

25

5,125,000

205,000

500,000


Click here for the full list of sire averages.

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