Ranking the Group 1 winners with progeny to be offered on the Gold Coast by rating
Next week's Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale includes 31 yearlings who are products of Group 1 winners, including a number who are the first product out of their high-performing dam.
Among them is the first foal from three-time Group 1 winner Arcadia Queen, who shares the honour as one of the highest-rated mares with progeny in the sale.
Below is a look at the Group 1 winners with sons or daughters to be offered on the Gold Coast, ranked by peak Timeform rating.
Timeform rating of 121
Arcadia Queen: The daughter of Pierro's best figure was 121+ in her win over Russian Camelot in The Might And Power at Caulfield, while she also went 121 when winning the races now known as the Champions Stakes and Northerly Stakes. Her colt by I Am Invincible, being offered by Arrowfield, is therefore expected to be one of the headline lots of the sale.
ENGLISH: The daughter of Encosta De Lago won two Group 1 races, an All Aged Stakes in 120 and Doomben 10,000 in 118, but her career peak came in defeat, when second to Chautauqua in that unforgettable 2017 T J Smith Stakes. Her son of Snitzel that will be offered by Newhaven Park is her second foal with her first, a colt by I Am Invincible who has been named Eton, realising $1.55m at Easter last year.
IN HER TIME: A former sparring partner of English, In Her Time's peak figure came when she defeated that mare in The Galaxy. Her other Group 1 win – the Black Caviar Lightning – earned her a mark of 118, while she went 120 when second in the Champions Sprint at Flemington. Her Yulong-prepared colt by Written Tycoon will be offered on Friday, 12 months after her first foal – a colt by I Am Invincible – sold for $800,000 at the same sale.
LOVING GABY: The first foal from the daughter of I Am Invincible, a filly by Pierata called Just Like Gaby who is in the care of Ciaron Maher and David Eustace, also sold for $800,000 at last year's sale, with her Snitzel filly to be sold by Coolmore late on Day 4. Maher also trained Loving Gaby, whose peak rating was attained in her William Reid Stakes win.
MID SUMMER MUSIC: The fifth lot scheduled to go through at Saturday's night session is a Bivouac filly out of the daughter of Oamaru Force who went 121 to defeat Buffering in the 2012 Stradbroke Handicap. This year's entrant, prepared for sale by Cressfield, is Mid Summer Music's seventh foal with her best to date being Fastest Rock filly Hellfest, who won a Group 3 Typhoon Tracy Stakes.
SEA SIREN: The daughter of Fastest Rock finished ninth as favourite in Mid Summer Music's Stradbroke but had her measure the start prior in the Doomben 10,000, when she put up her career-best mark, while she later went 120 to win the Manikato Stakes. Sea Siren's Camelot colt that will be offered on Day 1 is her first foal to be sold in Australia, having recently been brought back Down Under by Coolmore, and is certain to be popular given the deeds of Warm Heart, a three-year-old filly by Galileo who is a dual Group 1 winner in Europe.
120: Fashions Afield (Wootton Basset filly being offered)
118: Steps In Time (Ole Kirk colt)
117: Absolut Glam (Brutal filly), Dizelle (Pierata filly), Yosei (Fastnet Rock colt)
116: Avantage (Wootton Bassett filly), Devil Moon (All Too Hard colt), Miss Match (Maurice colt), Secret Agenda (Capitalist colt), Tycoon Tara (Hanseatic colt)
115: Allez Wonder (Ole Kirk filly), Diamond Drille (Hellbent filly), I Am A Star (Extreme Choice filly), Invincibella (Wootton Bassett colt)
The 2024 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale begins on Tuesday with Book 1 lots to be offered right through until Saturday night with Book 2 selling across the following Monday and Tuesday.
