The Magic Millions 2YO’s in Training Sale is a proven source of high class winners and stakes horses and when success is all about identifying talent and transforming that into racetrack success there are few better conditioners than licenced trainer Melanie O'Gorman, whose past Australian breeze up drafts include $600,000 plus earner Trumbull.
A brilliant Group III winning sprinter that has won seven of 20 starts for the Kim Waugh stable, Trumbull is the shining example of an athletic yearling selected by O’Gorman and then readied for re-sale that has gone on to achieve spectacular success.
The O’Gorman Racing Stables draft for Magic Millions will be offered next Tuesday November 10 and features eight terrific young colts that have all breezed in sub 11 seconds, so let’s go through them:
Lot 35 Colt Vancouver x Plastic Fantastic, by Fastnet Rock - Breeze 10.72 seconds
Colt with a good pedigree update as he is now a half-brother to smart Brazen Beau four year-old Augmentation, who has won two of three starts winning at Kyneton and Kilmore.
Bred on the exact same cross as Vancouver’s best horse Mount Pleasant, an undefeated Group II winning three year-old in South Africa bred from a daughter of Fastnet Rock.
Lot 43 Colt Shalaa (IRE) x Riva Romance, by Encosta de Lago- Breeze 10.58 seconds
From the first crop of a hot young sire that has already given us Listed ATC Breeders Plate winner Shaquero and is first foal of a winning full sister to Group II winner Riva de Lago and half-sister to smart glaloper Do You Reckon, winner of the $500,000 VRC Country Championship Final on Thursday, read about him here..
His dam is by champion broodmare sire Encosta de Lago whose daughters this season have already left Everest winner Classique Legend and brilliant Group II winner Libertini among six stakes-winners that also include previously highlighted sprinter Trumbull.
Lot 64 Colt Hinchinbrook x Silent Eyes (GB), by Montjeu - Breeze 10.49 seconds
By the sire of reigning Hong Kong Champion Sprinter Beat the Clock and dam has done a perfect job with three foals to race all winners.
Pedigree offers a great mix of Australian speed and European stamina with his dam a half-sister by Montjeu to Group I winner Ice Breeze and Group II winner Snow Sky.
Lot 65 Colt Super One x Simply Fantastic, by Fantastic Light (USA) – Breeze 10.59 seconds
By a proven sire of winners in Super One that was the Champion 2YO in Singapore and is a half-brother to five winners so dam has the runs on the board.
From a versatile Black Type family that has produced stakes-winning sprinters and stayers including Whitlam, Dirty and Etymology, who was second in the Group I Victoria Derby.
Lot 125 Colt Under the Louvre x Cool Choice, by Redoute’s Choice – Breeze 10.91 seconds
From the first crop of Group I BRC Stradbroke Handicap winner Under the Louvre and is from a daughter of legendary sire Redoute’s Choice.
Comes from an international Black Type family that has achieved great success in Australia with Group I winner Snowland and Group II winners Portillo and Ghisoni, while proven Group I sire Myboycharlie is also from this same family.
Lot 137 Colt Starspangledbanner x Doncella (GB), by High Chaparral – Breeze 10.45 seconds
First foal of a winning half-sister to French Group I winner Fidelite, the dam of stakes-winner Extremis and comes from the family of Group I Irish Derby winner Winged Love.
Bred on the exact same cross as Group I winning 2YO The Wow Signal, also by Starspangedbanner from a daughter of High Chaparral, who is sire of the da of 32 stakes-winners, eight of them Group I winners.
Lot 169 Colt Starcraft (NZ) x Hannah Jane, by Anabaa (USA) – Breeze 10.80 seconds
Rare grey son of Starcraft, a proven Group I sire from a winning half-sister to Magic Millions 2YO Classic winner Mirror Mirror, the dam of stakes-winner No Looking Back, who was second in Group I MRC Blue Diamond Stakes.
From the famed ‘Tennessee’ family that has produced Group I winners Malaguerra, Seabrook, Cool Aza Beel and Aloha, the dam of current sprint star Libertini.
Lot 181 Colt Mikki Isle (Jpn) x In The Clear, by Redoute’s Choice – Breeze 10.26 seconds
A colt with a good pedigree update as he is a half-brother to promising Dundeel 3YO Azaly, now a winner and stakes-placed having finished second in the Listed Geelong Classic.
From the first crop of Champion Japanese Sprinter Mikki Isle, who has already sired his first Australian winner and is from an unraced daughter of Group I New Zealand Thousand Guineas winner Clean Sweep.