Lady Of Camelot’s half-sister off to Coolmore Stud
A date with Wootton Bassett beckons for Platinum Jubilee after Coolmore won a spirited battle for the half-sister to this year's Golden Slipper winner Lady Of Camelot at Magic Millions on Tuesday.
The daughter of Zoustar got to $3.5 million before being knocked down to Tom Magnier on Day 1 of the National Broodmare Sale.
The 2022 Gimcrack Stakes winner does not turn four until August 1 but Coolmore is keen to get her to stud this year and start producing foals that could one day end up back in the Magic Millions sale ring.
"She was a high-class two-year-old, she's a half-sister to a Golden Slipper winner, there's nothing left for her to do on the track," Coolmore's Tom Moore said.
"She can come back home to Coolmore and get ready for the (breeding) season.
"The intention is that she will go to Wooton Bassett for her first mating and we look forward to offering her progeny in the ring in the future.
"We're trying to breed stallions in the future and she gives us the opportunity to do that."
Platinum Jubilee is the second foal from Fastnet Rock mare Miss Debutante, whose first foal Queen Of The Ball (I Am Invincible) is a four-time Group 3 winner.
Third foal Lady Of Camelot, by Written Tycoon, won this year's Golden Slipper after running second in the Group 1 Blue Diamond and is a leading contender for this year's Australian Champion 2YO award.
Landing Platinum Jubilee gave Coolmore the two highest-priced lots of the sale to that point after earlier going to $2.7m for No Nay Never's Thousand Guineas winner Madame Pommery, who will also visit Wootton Bassett.
Madame Pommery went through five lots after Stakes-winning Justify filly Legacies, who Coolmore also snapped up, for $1.4m.
