Yarraman Park were always hopeful of starting Magic Millions 2024 on a high with two youngsters by their champion sire I Am Invincible offered in the first 20 lots of the sale and they duly hit the target with the first foal of Outback Barbie selling for $1.2million and then the full brother to Group II winner Shuffle Dancer sold for $1.3million.
A multiple stakes-winner of over $1.5million in prizemoney, Outback Barbie produced a lovely athletic filly that was knocked down to her trainer Tony Gollan and the filly’s breeder Jennifer Acton.
A top class filly by Spirit of Boom that placed in both the Magic Millions 2YO Classic and 3YO Guineas, Outback Barbie has been given every chance to succeed at stud by her owner Jennifer Acton, who raced the mare with her late husband Alan Acton. They purchased her as a yearling at Magic Millions back in 2017 for $210,000 and she’s been a star for them at every turn.
“She’s very similar to her mother as a yearling and a really nice first foal. When we saw her we were happy to buy her,” said Tony Gollan.
“I’ve seen her videos as a foal and all the way through and she has always been a prospect to come to the sales.
“It is great that the (Outback Barbie) family are still happy to be involved. A nice filly like this at a Queensland stable, we’re very privileged.
“She looks like those athletic I Am Invincible fillies and was well mated.”
Outback Barbie has an I Am Invincible colt to follow and is now in foal to Snitzel.
I Am Invincible followed quickly with his second million dollar yearling of the sale when the colt from Palace Talk (NZ) sold for $1.3million to New Zealand buyer David Ellis (Te Akau Racing in partnership with Tom Magnier), who has had some serious luck purchasing I Am Invincible stock from Magic Millions having secured champion sprinter Imperatriz at the Gold Coast in 2020 for $360,000.
“We thought he was a beautiful colt and we bought him for Coolmore Stud and we’re just delighted that we can train these sort of horses at our Cranbourne stable for them,” said David Ellis.
“Tom and MV and their father have been supportive for a long time and they want to take that to the next level now that we’re in Australia full time.
“We thought that he’d make a Christmas, autumn two-year-old and train on and be a very good three-year-old.
“He’s from Yarraman Park and you can’t get better than that.”
The star colt is the fourth foal of Place Talk, whose first three foals to race are all Black Type horses – G2 winner Shuffle Dancer (I Am Invincible), G2 placed Never Talk and G3 placed Forbidden City (I Am Invincible).
Palace Talk had no foal last year, but was one of the first mares covered by I Am Invincible last spring.
