A filly by champion sire Fastnet Rock topped the final session of Book One at the 2016 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale on Saturday night when selling for $1million, capping a remarkable day for Newgate Farm.
Emerging Victorian trainer Brent Stanley was delighted to purchase the impeccably bred Fastnet Rock-Ten Carat Rock filly with his Cloud 9 Thoroughbreds operation linking with CB Bloodstock to secure the prized youngster.
“She’s a package racehorse,” Stanley said. “You’re not just buying a page. When you go and look at her she’s a grouse horse.”
“She’s a top shelf horse. She’s a great mover – a great athletic horse with good bone and good muscle – all of the things I look for in a horse.”
“You see a lot of big priced horses who don’t really make it to their next level – most of the time they’re buying the page here the page sold itself but you’ve got to also price the horse and I thought she was well priced after the page,” Stanley added.
The top selling filly, catalogued as Lot 672, was consigned by Newgate Farm and is from Ten Carat Rock, an unraced Rock of Gibraltar sister to Sliding Cube (dam of Rubick), three quarter sister to Redoute’s Choice and Platinum Scissors and half-sister to Manhattan Rain.
She is the second foal of her dam, who was purchased for $750,000 at the Magic Millions Teeley Assets Dispersal in 2014 by Newgate Farm, who earlier in the day celebrated a big win in the Magic Millions 2YO Classic with their unbeaten colt Capitalist.
A $165,000 purchase at the sale last year for James Harron Bloodstock, Capitalist runs for a syndicate that includes Newgate Farm and the star colt will ultimately join our stallion roster in the Hunter Valley.
“To win the Magic Millions with Capitalist and then sell this filly tonight makes for a magic day,” said Newgate Farm principal Henry Field.
“It’s what dreams are made of!
“She was a queen of a physical with an unbelievable pedigree.
“Brent Stanley backed his judgement and will give her every chance. If she can run, she could be worth anything.”