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Yellow Brick backing up for another Millions celebration

Big weight didn’t hold Yellow Brick back last time and he’s out to do it again this weekend.

YELLOW BRICK winning the RACING QUEENSLAND MAGIC MILLIONS QTIS OPEN at Gold Coast in Australia.
YELLOW BRICK winning the RACING QUEENSLAND MAGIC MILLIONS QTIS OPEN at Gold Coast in Australia. Picture: Michael McInally/Racing Queensland

He is one of the most enduring success stories out of Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale and although he is yet to have a group one victory to his name, Yellow Brick has been nothing less than a legend for father-daughter training partners Tony and Maddysen Sears.

Bought for $20,000 at the Gold Coast sale in 2021, Yellow Brick has earned $3.14 million for the part-family ownership.

The six-year-old's latest win in the Magic Millions QTIS Open (1300m) under lights at the Magic Millions Gold meeting at Gold Coast last Saturday with 61-kilos on his back was as exciting as any of his eight other victories in his 27 starts.

It is all set to continue this weekend in the $2 million Magic Millions Cup (1400m).

"I'm speechless really," Maddy Sears said of the performance on Saturday.

"He did what we expected him to do but to actually do it, yes.

"He has come through it super and you wouldn't even know that he had been around. He bounced onto the track this morning and hasn't missed a grain.

"We were a little but worried with other horses with lighter weights as light weights win races but on his class, he carried nine kilos more than the second and third horses and I think if the race was a little bit further he'd probably have put them away even further."

James McDonald was aboard the gelding on Saturday but Ethan Brown will take the ride this time.

Yellow Brick firmed into $5 and equal favouritism for the race following his latest outing.

The Sears' will also be represented by Steady Ready in the $1 million Magic Millions Snippets (1200m) who finished tenth but beaten by only 2½-lengths in the Listed Bribie Handicap (1000m) at Eagle Farm on December 13.

"He was found late first-up and he had a really good tick-over trial where he went very, very well," Sears said.

"I think he is back to his best," she added of the gelding who is in search of his first win since taking out the last running of the King Of The Mountain (1200m) in March.

Steady rated a $34 chance with the Tony Gollan-trained Hidden Wealth the $3.50 favourite.


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