A colt by Exceed And Excel leads the way midway through the opening day of the Magic Millions Yearling Sale at the Gold Coast.
The bay, consigned by Ampulla Lodge, out of the
The transaction represented a healthy profit for Steve and Ceri Jostlear of Ampulla Lodge and Maureen Harvey from New Zealand who purchased the colt last year as a weanling in Melbourne for $300,000.
Moore, standing with father John, said the colt had everything they looked for in a yearling.
"We rate Exceed And Excel - he's the real deal and we've been trying to buy them in Europe as well," Moore said.
"We thought he would bring between six and eight hundred (thousand),"
Moore said he will keep the colt in Australia initially.
"We will keep him here in Australia for the moment, we don't have a client for him yet but someone might well want to take him as a private purchase into Hong Kong," Moore said.
"I think he looks like an ideal 1200 metre sprinter type, a very quick, forward two-year-old which is exactly what we need,
"We'll have him broken-in in New South Wales and we'll educate him and see where we go from there, no fixed plans at the moment."
Moore won the Griffin Trophy at Sha Tin on December 27 with People's Knight, a son of Exceed And Excel, raced by The Hon James Pei-
"People's Knight is a very good horse, owned by the former leader of the Liberal Party in Hong Kong so I might just have to give him a call." Moore said.
