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Magic Millions – 1st foals from G1 winners
A look at some of the first foals from top mares to be offered on the Gold Coast.
This year's Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale catalogue features 31 youngsters from Group 1 winners, including a handful who are first foals.
Below are the mares who won at the highest level who have progeny being offered for the first time.
LEVANTE (Lot 465, filly by Snitzel)
High-achieving Kiwi mares have made a significant mark on the Gold Coast Yearling Sale in recent years – nine-time Group 1 winner Avantage produced the 2024 sale-topper – and this year four-time Group 1 winner Levante features in the book.
A dual winner of the Telegraph Stakes (1200m), Levante visited Snitzel in her first season at stud and had a bay filly who will be offered by the farm that stood that late champion sire, Arrowfield Stud, early on Day 3.
Levante is a first-crop member of Proisir, a son of Choisir, who ended Savabeel's New Zealand sire premiership streak in the 2022/23 season.
SNAPDANCER (Lot 826, filly by Diatonic)
Speaking of Choisir, his daughter Snapdancer did not race after winning the 2022 Memsie Stakes (1400m), which made it two Group 1 wins from her final three starts after success in the Robert Sangster Stakes (1200m), but it was not until 2023 that she entered the breeding barn for the first time.
A $3.2m buy for Yulong at that year's National Broodmare Sale, Snapdancer was put to Diatonic and produced a filly who will be offered in the second half of Friday's 'Super Session'.
GLINT OF HOPE (Lot 318, colt by Russian Revolution)
Day 2 features three youngsters who are first foals from Group 1 winners with the colt from the 2022 Australasian Oaks (2000m) winner the first to go through.
Newgate Farm, which is the home of the colt's sire Russian Revolution, will offer the youngster from the former Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young-trained filly, a daughter of Deep Impact and Fastnet Rock mare Sacred Sight who was bred in Japan to Southern Hemisphere time.
GRACEFUL GIRL (Lot 330, filly by Zoustar)
Next up is the first of two foals from mares who carried Bob and Sandra Peters' cerise and white colours to victory at the highest level in Perth.
Widden Stud will offer the filly from the daughter of Nicconi, who won the Winterbottom Stakes (1200m) in 2021.
Graceful Girl raced throughout 2022 and was retired after the autumn of 2023 and produced a filly by Widden's superstar resident Zoustar as a first foal.
INSPIRATIONAL GIRL (Lot 383, colt by Alabama Express)
The last of the first foals from a Group 1 winner to be offered on Wednesday is a colt from the 2020 Railway Stakes (1600m) winner.
Runner-up in the G1 Northerly Stakes (1800m) the start after the Railway, Inspirational Girl won a G2 Blamey Stakes (1600m) and was runner-up in a G2 Feehan Stakes (1600m) before being retired in autumn 2023, after which she was offered at the 2023 Chairman's Sale, where Yulong bought her for $1.1m and sent her its star young stallion Alabama Express.
SECOND FOALS
In addition to the Group 1 winners with first foals in the 2026 sale, there are a number of elite-level mares who have second foals to be offered.
ATC Australian Oaks winner Hungry Heart has a colt by Written Tycoon who will be offered by Yulong. He is a brother to the colt who sold to Guy Mulcaster and Chris Waller for $1.25m at Inglis Easter last season, who has been named Pen Or Sword.
Mulcaster and Waller also bought Odeum's first foal, a colt by I Am Invincible for $700,000, and they will have the chance to buy his brother in January, while Coolmore Classic winner Krone has a colt by Snitzel to be offered.
Away Game did not win at the highest level, but the daughter of Snitzel won a Magic Millions 2YO Classic and finished runner-up in a Golden Slipper, Oakleigh Plate and Sangster Stakes and 12 months after seeing her first foal – a filly by Written Tycoon – sell for $1.8m, her brother will be offered at the same sale.
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