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Magic Millions First Season Sires - Castelvecchio

Tara Madgwick - Tuesday January 3

Breednet’s popular First Season Sire Gallery pages are now created offering a fast and easy way to compare yearlings by the new wave of sires on type, so let’s take a look at Arrowfield Stud’s young gun Castelvecchio.

Castelvecchio

Castelvecchio was bred by Arrowfield and sold as a yearling at Inglis Classic for $150,000 before retiring to his birthplace to stand alongside his sire Dundeel.

Fast and precocious at two, he won his debut over 1200m in January and followed up to win the Inglis Millennium at his next start and closed out his juvenile season beating Loving Gaby to win the Group I ATC Champagne Stakes (1600m).

His Classic season produced second placings in the Group I MVRC Cox Plate and ATC Spring Champion Stakes, plus a well-deserved win in the Group I ATC Rosehill Guineas (2000m) and he retired with earnings just shy of $3million.

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Castelvecchio beat champion filly Loving Gaby by a length and a half in the G1 Champagne - image Steve Hart

On the pedigree front, he is the first son of Dundeel to stand at stud in Australia and is a half-brother to Group I winner Maid of Heaven and Group III winner Mirrasalo from a prolific Black Type family, also he is interestingly Danehill free.

He has 19 yearlings catalogued in Book 1 with images below.

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