Champion Filly Away Game to Be Offered at MM National

Media Release - Wednesday March 23

Away Game will be the first Australian Champion Two-Year-Old Filly to be offered off the track in well over a decade when she goes under the hammer on May 24 at the Gold Coast National Broodmare Sale.

Connections of the outstanding galloper today have confirmed the daughter of Snitzel will be offered at the Southern Hemisphere's biggest and best breeding stock sale.
Away Game has won over $3.6million! - image Steve Hart

But before she heads to auction Away Game will get her chance to win at racing's elite level when she contests the Group One Robert Sangster Stakes (1200m) at Morphettville on May 7.

A Magic Millions 2YO Classic winner and four time stakes winner at two, Away Game beat all but Farnan in the 2020 Golden Slipper at Rosehill.

She trained on to be a group winning three-year-old and late last month ran a half length second to unbeaten sprinter Marabi in the Oakleigh Plate at Caulfield.

"She has been the most special filly and it will be bitter sweet to be selling her in a couple of months," part owner Hannah Mathieson said from the United States. "She's a gorgeous filly physically, she has a great active family and she's by a top sire - there's a lot to like about her."
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"Right from the start of her career she has shown up in all the big races and always competed at the highest level. She has a great will to win and generally loves racing."

"When we bought her as a yearling she had all the cliches. She really had the x-factor we wanted and we kept going back to see her. She was a big mover and a strong physical and she checked all the boxes that we wanted for Australia."

"We wanted a horse to target the Magic Millions 2YO Classic and the Golden Slipper - she was able to win on the Gold Coast and then run second in the Slipper - she made a lot of dreams come true."

"She has a very active pedigree. Her dam was stakes placed, she's a sister to a stakes winner and her sisters and half sisters are showing they're good producers so early at stud."
 
"We look forward to the Sangster Stakes which will be her next and final race before the sale. I thought her Oakleigh Plate run was one of her best. On Saturday (in the Galaxy) she didn't appreciate the heavy track (when beaten just 2.8 lengths)." 

Mathieson said she was looking forward to coming to the Gold Coast and farewelling her champion at the National Sale.

"I will be coming down with a number of family members. She's been a once in a lifetime horse that you dream of owning. It will be tough to sell her, but the mare deserves every chance and we look forward to her producing lots of fast babies!"  

Away Game will be offered as part of the Newgate/Killora Consignment.

"It is so rare to have the opportunity to offer a champion two-year-old filly, Away Game has all the attributes to attract global attention," Magic Millions Managing Director Barry Bowditch said. "She's been an incredible ambassador for the company and Magic Millions Racing Women."

"She's danced every dance and we can't wait to see her race in the Sangster before she comes back to the Gold Coast for the next chapter of her career."

Entries for the 2022 Gold Coast National Sale, comprising weanlings, race fillies, broodmares and yearlings are closing now. For further information please contact a member of the Magic Millions Bloodstock Department.
 
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