Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Gold Coast March Yearling Sales

Spirit of Boom progeny sets the Gold Coast Magic Millions March Sale alight. At last years sales we saw an excellent 8,500 million gross paid for stock but this year with a $430,000 sales topper by Spirit of Boom and an amazing 6.2 million paid for his progeny overall lifted the sales gross to $13,784,000.
 This is the $430,000 filly sold to Lyndhurst Stud 

Spirit of Boom as a racehorse was a tough high class galloper who may have only one twice at group one level in the Doomben Ten Thousand and William Reid Stakes but its his toughness that saw him place in another five over 52 start career.
  The Sequalo stallion is out of a Special Dane mare, Temple Spirit who is of the Danehill
/Bletchingly cross. Tony Gollan who trained Spirit of Boom and his brother Temple of Boomhas fond memories of his mum, Temple Spirit. "She changed my life. I may have given the game away but she changed everything, when she won 8 of her 16 starts. I was a bit of a gypsy back then not knowing where i was going. She set me up for a racing career" said, Tony.

Spirit of Boom at Eureka Stud just recently with Tony Golan


Friday, March 16, 2018

This Not A Single Doubt-Heaven Beneath who is a More Than Ready broodmare has sold for HK $7.2M A$1.167 at the sales last night. He is also a Magic Millions graduate.


Snitzel-Good Weekend horse, knocked down for HK$7M (A$1.13M). Good Weekend is a full sister to Weekend Hussler. He also came from the Magic Millions sales.


A quartet of 3YOs by Not A Single Doubt and Snitzel were among the top-priced lots at the record-breaking Hong Kong International Sale held at Sha Tin Racecourse on Friday evening.The four horses were bought by the Hong Kong Jockey Club out of the 2016 Magic Millions Gold Coast Sales for a total of $1,035,000 and re-sold for almost four times that figure. The Sale's second-highest price of $HK7.2 million ($1.167 million) was paid by Din Kerm for the strapping chestnut gelding by Not A Single Doubt from Heaven Beneath (by More Than Ready). He was originally offered by Segenhoe Stud and bought for $210,000.Wong See Sum Jackie paid the third-highest price of the Sale, $HK7 million ($1.134 million), for the easy-walking Snitzel-Good Weekend gelding. Out of a full sister to Horse of the Year Weekend Hussler, he was a $475,000 buy from Arrowfield at the Magic Millions Sale$HK6 million ($972,000) was the price paid by Tang Kui Ming for the Not A Single Doubt gelding out of the Snippets mare Aringarosa. He was a $200,000 yearling purchase from MacQuarie StudGlenlogan Park was the original vendor of the Snitzel-Highland Daughter gelding, selling him for $150,000. Two years later he has been knocked down for $HK4.7 million ($761,000) to Ng Yau Sing. The 26 lots offered at this year's Hong Kong Sale sold for an aggregate of $HK135.3 million, achieving an average of $HK5.2 million. Both figures are up on 2017, when 29 lots were offered, and both are new records for the event.From limited representation in Hong Kong, Not A Single Single Doubt and Snitzel have compiled 30 winners of more than $15 million.