Entries open for 2023 Magic Millions Yearling Sales series

Written by Lydia Symonds

Entries for the Magic Millions 2023 Yearling Sale Series are now open, with the auction houses’ Gold Coast Yearling Sale, the jewel in their crown, set to get underway on January 10.

This year’s edition of the Gold Coast sale finished with record numbers, with Book 1 closing with an incredible average of $294,476, while over the course of the sale a total of $228,807,500 was spent on 785 yearlings.

Meanwhile, Magic Millions' other sales in 2022 also experienced impressive growth, with the Adelaide Sale smashing through the $20 million aggregate mark for the first time in its history, while the Perth Sale closed with a huge gross of $13,078,500.

Magic Millions' Managing Director Barry Bowditch said the auction houses’s performance during last year’s yearling sales gives him confidence they can go to another level again in 2023.

"The Gold Coast Yearling Sale is our proven powerhouse in achieving magical results for the breeders of Australasia," Bowditch said.

"In 2023 we invite breeders to sell stock at what is indisputably the biggest and fastest growing yearling sale in the Southern Hemisphere.

"With other top-performing auctions in Perth and Tasmania in February and Adelaide and the Gold Coast in March, there are ideal opportunities for all yearlings to achieve the best possible sale result for vendors.

"Being the innovator of the world's first and richest sales restricted race series, offering stock at the Magic Millions Yearling Sale Series provides exclusive access to the incomparable marketing tool that is the Magic Millions Race Series."

The Magic Millions raceday, which will take place on January 14, and is headlined once again by the $2 million races, the R. Listed Magic Millions 2YO Classic and the R. Listed Magic Millions 3YO Guineas, but the lucrative card will further bolstered in 2023 with the inaugural running of the $1 million ‘The Syndicate’ and $500,000 ‘The Debut’.

"With well over $14 million in prizemoney each year over 23 races, conducted across six states of Australia from 900 metres to 2200 metres, including $835,000 in Racing Women's Bonuses, the value of participating in our series is a selling tool that is priceless," continued Bowditch.

"Magic Millions has skilled bloodstock consultants in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria/Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia and New Zealand who are able to discuss all aspects of the selection process and work with breeders to source the best commercial option from our national suite of sales."

Entries for the aforementioned sales close on Friday, August 12.

Table: Magic Millions Yearling Sale dates for the diary