R. Listed Magic Millions 2YO Classic, $2,000,000, 1200m
She was favourite for a reason, Coolangatta (Written Tycoon) putting on display not only her class but her determination, the exciting filly remaining undefeated from three starts.
Purchased for $280,000 by Ciaron Maher Bloodstock at last year’s Magic Millions, Coolangatta was bred by Highclere Stud Australia out of their lightly raced mare Piping Hot (More Than Ready {USA}).
Racing just four times, Piping Hot won two races in Sydney. Her first foal is the promising 3-year-old Snitzonfire (Snitzel) (a $425,000 Magic Millions graduate) and she has a Dundeel (NZ) (High Chaparral {Ire}) yearling filly - last spring paying a return visit to Written Tycoon (Iglesia).
He is of course Australia’s reigning Champion Sire - the Yulong-based horse who has been so well-represented by 44 stakes winners.
Piping Hot is a daughter of the G2 Moonee Valley Oaks winner Ribe (Danehill {USA}) whose other seven winners include the G1 Blue Diamond S. winner Reaan (Hussonet {USA}).
Ribe’s grandam is the G3 Colin Stephen H. winner Pontiac Lass (NZ) (Pevero {Ire}).
With his strong Mumtaz Mahal (GB) (The Tetrarch {GB}) influence, Written Tycoon picks up well with further strains and it is interesting to note that Coolangatta’s third dam sire Kaapstad (NZ) (Sir Tristram {Ire}) is a descendant.
R. Listed Magic Millions 3YO Guineas, $2,000,000, 1400m
King Of Sparta (I Am Invincible) looked most royal like as he sprinted clear to this impressive victory, his third from just 11 starts.
Bred by Yarraman Park Stud with the Cope family (who remain in the ownership), King Of Sparta fetched $700,000 at the 2020 Magic Millions Sale - secured by China Horse Club, Newgate Bloodstock and Starlight Racing.
By Yarraman’s star sire, he is out of the G3 Cockram S. winner Octavia (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}) whose grandam is the dual Group 3-winning, G1 Golden Slipper S. placegetter Paklani (Haulpak).
That fast mare - dam of the Group 3 sprinter Real Mak (Brahms {USA}) - is also ancestress of the South African Group 1 winners Stellite (SAf) (Fard {Ire}) and Zirconeum (SAf) (Jallad {USA}) and the local dual Listed winner Jersey Lily (Catbird).
Last spring paying a return visit to I Am Invincible (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), Octavia - who also won the Listed Kevin Hayes S. - has a Zoustar (Northern Meteor) yearling filly and a weanling full brother to King Of Sparta.
Bred on a 4 X 4 cross of Danzig (USA) (Northern Dancer {Can}), King Of Sparta also boasts duplications of the terrific mares Natalma (USA) (Native Dancer {USA}) and Somethingroyal (USA) (Princequillo {Ire}).
R. Listed Magic Millions Cup, $1,000,000, 1400m
Connections of Eleven Eleven (Fastnet Rock) must really love Magic Millions Race Day, their talented 5-year-old securing three of the day’s feature events… in 2020 the Guineas and in 2021 and 2022 the Magic Millions Cup.
Bred by Ian Smith and sold to Greg Hickman for $230,000 at the 2018 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale, the son of Coolmore Stud’s G1 Oakleigh Plate and Lightning S.-winning high-class stallion (183 stakes winners) Fastnet Rock (Danehill {USA}), has proven a most savvy investment!
A full brother to the stakes-placed War Memorial, Eleven Eleven is out of the imported six-time winner Smokin’ Alice (USA) (Smoke Glacken {USA}) whose dam is the Listed winner Daring Alice (USA) (Northern Flagship {USA}).
This is an international family that has enjoyed particularly good success in this part of the world thanks to the likes of the Group 1-winning half-brothers Criterion (NZ) (Sebring) and Comin’ Through (Fastnet Rock).
Served last spring by Zoustar (Northern Meteor), Smokin’ Alice has a yearling colt by Trapeze Artist (Snitzel) and she has also enjoyed sales ring result with her yet to place 3-year-old Ovoid (Exceed And Excel), fetching $1 million at the 2020 Magic Millions.
