Spoiled for Choice at Cressfield

Sponsored Content - by Tara Madgwick - Thursday January 4

Hunter Valley nursery Cressfield is renowned for producing quality runners with serious pedigree and this year’s Magic Millions draft will leave buyers seeking elite fillies spoiled for choice.

Passive Aggressive was bred and sold by Cressfield - image Grant Courtney

The CF brand of Cressfield is a familiar one with recent stakes-winning fillies to carry it including Passive Aggressive, Jamaea, Hellfest, Villami and Group I VRC Oaks winner Personal with several of the families that produced these glamour girls featuring again this year.

Hellfest was a $600,000 Magic Millions purchase for Godolphin - image Grant Courtney

The draft of 17 features a mix of proven and promising sires with elite female families gracing every page, click here for the full draft with highlights below:

 

Lot 75 Filly Snitzel x Quilista, by Scandal Keeper

Third foal of multiple Group winning sprinter Quilista, a half-sister to $1.3million earning Group III winner Red Can Man and to the dam of this season’s Group II winner Zipaway. Her first foal is talented 3YO I Am Invincible filly Bonita Queen, who has had two starts for Bjorn Baker for two seconds and she will look to shake the maiden tag in the $250,000 Magic Millions maiden at the Gold Coast this Saturday.

 

Lot 150 Colt Capitalist x Secret Agenda, by Not a Single Doubt

Fourth foal of Group I winning sprinter Secret Agenda, a three-quarter sister to this season’s Group I placed filly Tutta La Vita and full sister to the dam of Group III winner Enthaar. Her second foal is Yvette (3f I Am Invincible), who was a very unlucky and close third at Canterbury on debut last month and will be hard to beat at the same venue on Friday night from barrier one.

 

Lot 347 Filly Lope de Vega x Wake Up (Ger), by Soldier of Fortune

You could just as easily be looking at this pedigree at Tattersalls or Goffs! By Lope de Vega, the leading European based sire of winners in the world for 2023 and is a half-sister to Aussie performed imported stakes-winner Wicklow and Group II placed Waterford. From an elite German female family this girl has a pedigree that makes Aussie buyers travel to the other side of the world in droves.

 

Lot 362 Filly Snitzel x Wild Rain, by Manhattan Rain

Super flashy filly from brilliant Group II winning sprinter Wild Rain and is a half-sister to two winners including Spring Lee (3f Zoustar), a close second at Randwick on Boxing Day and an acceptor for Randwick on Saturday where she is again well fancied. This is the family of Australian Horse of the Year Northerly and Group I winning $5.6million earner Overpass. Has a double cross of blue hen Shantha’s Choice as do 15 stakes-winners headed by G1 winner Jacquinot.

 

Lot 640 Filly King’s Legacy x Epitomise, by More Than Ready (USA)

From the first crop of dual Group I winning juvenile King’s Legacy and is third foal of a winning half-sister to Group I VRC Oaks winner Personal with blue hen Procrastinate her third dam. Bred on similar Redoute’s Choice x More Than Ready cross that has produced G1 winners Shinzo, Miracles of Life, Rediener and Celebrity Queen.

 

Lot 935 Filly Bivouac x Mid Summer Music, by Oamaru Force

From the first crop of Champion 3YO Sprinter Bivouac and is a half-sister to Group III winner Hellfest and Group III placed Euphoric Summer from Group I BRC Stradbroke Handicap winner Mid Summer Music.

 

Lot 966 Filly Wootton Bassett (GB) x Misstook, by Fastnet Rock

From the first Australian crop of well proven G1 shuttle sire Wootton Bassett and is second foal of an unraced sister to Group winners Passive Aggressive and Missrock, who made $2.3million at the 2019 MM Broodmare Sale. Her first foal Overtook(2f Deep Field) has been retained and is in training with Ciaron Maher and David Eustace.

 

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