The sales season rolls into Adelaide for the Magic Millions Yearling Sale next week and Ian Smith of Edinburgh Park has four lovely fillies that are right up to the standard we expect from this top-class nursery.
“Not everything fitted into Santa’s sack for Magic Millions January delivery, so for the lucky ones buying at Adelaide in 2023 we have four well bred fillies that would hold their own at Australasian sales,” said Smith.
“Like all of our horses they are here to be sold and we couldn’t be happier with how they have travelled across and settled in.
“We love the Magic Millions Adelaide Sale and it’s a privilege to showcase this small and select draft at a sale that continues to grow and prosper.”
Capitalist is one of the hottest young sires in the country and few broodmare sires are going better than Exceed and Excel and when you put them together you get Lot 306.
An athletic chestnut filly in the mould of her sire’s Golden Slipper contender Lazzago, this girl is the first foal of Royal Expectations, a placed full sister to Group II VRC Danehill Stakes winner Kinglike and half-sister stakes-winner Royal Haunt.
Group winners Red Colossus, Nediym’s Glow and General Beau are also on the page which is packed with winners and Black Type performers.
Royal Expectations is being given every opportunity at stud and has a Street Boss (USA) filly to follow and was covered by Pinatubo (IRE) last spring.
Ian Smith comments - One word “SPEED”. This filly has it , looks like she has it and her pedigree says she will be running faster than Santa’s reindeer before Christmas. The filly looks exactly what you want to see in a fast pre Christmas 2yo, her page is littered with 2yo stakes winners and there is no reason why this filly won’t turn into a Magic Millions cash bonanza. This filly has thrived in her yearling preparation and we are very excited to be presenting such a quality filly. The stallion Capitalist is white hot and so is the 2yo speed and precocity on the pedigree page. Bid up and win.
Lot 406 holds plenty of interest as the only filly in the sale from the first crop of Not a Single Doubt’s brilliantly fast sire son Dubious, whose yearlings have sold this year for up to $500,000.
She is from good metro winner Whitten’s Delight, who has the perfect record of four foals to race all winners and comes from the family of Group III winner Buddies and stakes-winner Relentless.
Ian Smith’s comments - This filly isn’t stamped with the IKS but she comes with the IKS stamp of approval. Purchased out of the paddock with a view that Dubious progeny would be well sought after in the yearling sales rings throughout Australia. Well what best describes this filly is “BOOM”. Where did you come from !!!!!! She was always a little behind the early January MM fillies, but she has sprouted wings in the last 3 months and she has turned into a magnificent yearling. This is full of tough city winners and her 3yo half sister Street Delight who was sold out of this sale in 2021 (100k) has her foot on the stakes winning till. A filly that walks with purpose , strong and powerful. She is a great representation of a stallion that has buyers of Dubious progeny quietly excited about what lies ahead. This filly is a diamond in the rough no more, she turns your head.
Lot 45 is a Puissance de Lune (IRE) filly (first foal) from Despacito, a young mare metro winning mare from a progressive female family on the up that produced a new stakes-winner last weekend.
Despacito is a half-sister to stakes-winner Diamonds and to the dam of Group III winner Written Dash and her sister Ty Dash, the dam of promising Toronado (IRE) three year-old The Intimidator, who won the Listed Waikato RC Mufhasa Stakes in New Zealand. Group and stakes-placed twice previously, The Intimidator has missed a place only once in seven starts!
Ian Smith’s comments - : This is the first foal of a quality dual city winner in Despacito. This family continues to flourish and has recently added new stakes winners THE INTIMIDATOR and DIAMONDS. This filly is all quality and is an excellent cross Shamardal/Red Ransom. A filly that walks with purpose, tough and a ready made racehorse. This type of yearling is what has produced our best racehorses. It may not be the most flavoursome and trendy sireline, but this filly looks ready made for success, free of Danehill and what price a filly like this if she performs on the track?
Lot 412 rounds out the draft and she’s a speedy looking chestnut as you would expect being by Star Witness from Wonderbabe, a fast metro winning daughter of champion sire Snitzel.
She is the second foal of Wonderbabe, a sibling to Edinburgh Park bred and sold Group III placed Miss Wonderland and stakes-placed Spencer from a family that has delivered huge success for the farm producing $3.1million earning stakes-winner Eleven Eleven and Group II winner Glenfiddich.
The first foal from Wonderbabe is a Written Tycoon filly that sold for $220,000 at Inglis Premier last year and she produced another filly by So You Think last year before going back to him again, so there is good potential of more to come on the pedigree page for this lovely filly.
Ian Smith’s comments - This filly is another where the sireline might not be the flavour, but the female line we have made our own. And in this filly we see a quality race filly with huge upside if she performs on the track. The filly presents as a ready made racehorse. Tough and with a pedigree page. She is closely related to some of our best bred horses and perhaps her best is the closely related Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott 2yo Introducing (2c Trapeze Artist), who runs in the G3 Pago Pago Stakes on Saturday. This filly represents the opportunity to buy into a family that is impossible to buy unless you have deep pockets. A filly with upside wherever you look.
