Written by Lydia Symonds
Cover image courtesy of Newgate Farm
The upcoming Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale, which will kick off on May 24, got a little better on Tuesday afternoon with the addition of the dual stakes-winning filly Mac ‘N’ Cheese (Sebring) to the supplementary catalogue.
The South Australian 3-year-old, a winner this campaign of the Listed Clare Lindop S. at Morphettville, will appear in the Sale as part of the Spendthrift Australia Dispersal, and she was one of seven black-type additions to the catalogue in the latest round of supplementaries on Tuesday.
Trained by Tony and Calvin McEvoy in South Australia, Mac ‘N’ Cheese has the respectable record of three wins and three placings from nine lifetime starts to date. She has competed in the Spendthrift silks throughout her young career and, following her win in the Clare Lindop in late March, the filly was third in the G3 Auraria S. before finishing unplaced in Group 1 company last time out.
Mac ‘N’ Cheese is likely to race in the upcoming Queensland winter carnival ahead of her sale, and she will be offered at Magic Millions as an elite racing and breeding prospect.
The 3-year-old is the third surviving foal and first filly from the late broodmare Bonnie Mac (NZ) (Thorn Park), who herself was a stakes winner in South Australia before an extraordinary breeding career.
Bonnie Mac is the dam of the Vinery Stud resident Exceedance, a winner of the G1 Coolmore Stud S. and G3 San Domenico S., and dual Group-winner Oxley Road (Exceed And Excel). By the late Widden Stud sire Sebring, Mac ‘N’ Cheese is a half-sister to both of these outstanding performers and, with Bonnie Mac’s passing at stud in 2020, the family is something of a limited edition.
In 2020, Spendthrift picked up Mac ‘N’ Cheese from the Newgate Farm draft the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale for $300,000.
Magic Millions Manager Director Barry Bowditch told TDN AusNZ that Mac ‘N’ Cheese was a rare offering for breeders, given her pedigree and high-class race record.
“Mac 'N' Cheese is a rare offering. She has got a hell of a lot of racing upside in her, she could go on and be a star on the racetrack,” said Bowditch. “She has an outstanding pedigree and it is very, very current and you would think from a breeding perspective, or someone looking to race her on, she ticks the boxes that needs to be ticked.
"Mac 'N' Cheese is a rare offering. She has an outstanding pedigree and it is very, very current and you would think from a breeding perspective, or someone looking to race her on, she ticks the boxes that needs to be ticked." - Barry Bowditch
“She is out of a mare who was seemingly a blue hen and she is doing it on the racetrack. Bonnie Mac has done her job with Mac 'N' Cheese and I think the sky's the limit with her.”
Joining Mac ‘N’ Cheese in the supplementaries is talented 2-year-old Midnight In Tokyo (Kobayashi), who broke her maiden impressively on debut and further enhanced her record when running second behind Nettuno (I Am Invincible) in the Ken Russell Memorial Classic at the Gold Coast last Saturday.
Bred and raced by Aquis Farm, Midnight In Tokyo is out of the winning mare Orabelle (Casino Prince) who is herself a daughter of Group 1 winner Bel Mer (Bel Esprit), while she also produced Orabelle’s Listed-winning three-quarter brother All Too Royal (All Too Hard).
Midnight In Tokyo | Image courtesy of Newington Farm
Bowditch said there was plenty of upside to the daughter of Kobayashi as both a race filly and future breeding prospect.
“It is always exciting to offer these fillies who have a future in the breeding barn as well as on the racetrack,” said Bowditch. “She’s stakes-performed so early on in her career and that was an outstanding run on Saturday (in the G3 Ken Russell Memorial Classic).
“Speaking to the team at Aquis, they think she has a really exciting time ahead of her at the Queensland Carnival and whoever is the fortunate purchaser has got a serious racing prospect on their hands, which she is only going to improve to make her a really exciting broodmare of the future.”
"She’s (Midnight In Tokyo) stakes-performed so early on in her career and that was an outstanding run on Saturday (in the G3 Ken Russell Memorial Classic)." - Barry Bowditch
Other highlights to the supplementary catalogue include, stakes-winning 2-year-olds She's All Class (I Am Invincible) and Hard Rock Girl (All Too Hard), Group 2 winner So You Assume (So You Think {NZ}) and Group 3 winner Sookie (Casino Prince), the dam of dual Group 1 winner Shadow Hero (Pierro).
Meanwhile, the National Weanling Sale, now with over 400 catalogued lots, welcomes a Dubious colt from a multiple stakes winner, Mullins Beach (Can) (Speightstown {USA}), to the supplementary lineup.
Bowditch said the high-class supplementaries have further strengthened an already deep and star-studded catalogue.
Barry Bowditch | Image courtesy of Bronwen Healy
“I think live Sales first and foremost is where vendors want to sell their quality and I think that is evident in the catalogue. We have a very deep catalogue and consistent catalogue,” said Bowditch. “I think that the race fillies' section of 240 lots is spectacular with the likes of Rubisaki, Tofane, Still A Star and Away Game, Lighthouse and now Mac 'N' Cheese - it is an outstanding day.
“Then we have two outstanding days of broodmares in foal. I don’t think we have ever had a catalogue that has so many Northern Hemisphere covers in it, whether it be Frankel, Lope De Vega or Kingman, you name it, there is something there for the market and that is before you get to the likes of Nettoyer, Madam Rouge and Missile Mantra - it is an outstanding group of mares to offer and we are very excited.
“There has been plenty of heat in the market this year, we know it’s strong and we think we have the catalogue to support what the market has been standing for in 2022.”
