It's a big week ahead for Bhima with a quality draft of Magic Millions yearlings by a variety of proven and up-and-coming stallions.
The stud's best families are well represented - including close relations to a number of recent Bhima winners.
Lot 626 - So You Think (NZ) x Elusive Nature (brown or black filly)
Her dam's 2023 $300,000 Magic Millions colt Southby - also by So You Think (NZ) - is a member of the Peter G Moody and Katherine Coleman stable. Line-bred to the wonderful mares Fairy Bridge (USA) (Bold Reason {USA}) and Lalun (USA) (Djeddah {Fr}), she is out of dual city winner from a high-class family most recently represented by All That Pizzazz (Spirit Of Boom).
Lot 703 - Super Seth x Garden of Swans (GB) (bay colt)
Out of a half-sister to the G1 Eclipse S. winner Mukhadram (GB) from the family of the Group 1 gallopers Kirklees (Ire) (Jade Robbery {USA}) and Mastery (GB) (Sulamani {Ire}), he boasts crosses of the Kentucky Oaks heroine Lalun (USA) (Djeddah {Fr}) - one of the great modern day line-breeding forces.
Lot 732 - Snitzel x Gresset (bay colt)
A three-quarter brother to the Group 1-placed multiple city winner Military Expert (Redoute's Choice) and the South African Group 2 winner Honorine (Redoute's Choice) he is by Snitzel out of Hussonet (USA) mare - a cross which boasts an impressive 81.0% strike rate.
Lot 797 - Dundeel (NZ) x Is What It Is (bay colt)
Is What It Is' Pierro colt sold at this sale last year for $200,000 to Hong Kong, and this fellow's 3-year-old full brother Medical Autocrat is in the Anthony and Sam Freedman stable.
Is What It Is is a full sister to Stratum Star, a three-quarter sister to Prague and a half to the stakes-placed Serenade (Star Witness) whose promising 2-year-old son Wolfgang (Exceed And Excel) has won his last two. All five Dundeel (NZ) runners - including the dual Group 3 winner Entente - out of Stratum mares are winners.
Lot 882 - Lonhro x Love Freedom (brown or black colt)
Hailing from the penultimate crop of his sire, he is line-bred to the great Mr Prospector (USA) as are nine Group 1 winners from the Lonhro sireline. This colt's grandam is the durable (10 wins, 14 placings from 60 starts) triple-stakes-winner Unchain My Heart (Al Maher).
Lot 907 - Lonhro x Maiya Nova (brown or black filly)
A full sister to the talented dual city winner Ebony King, this granddaughter of the Group 1 mare Bonanova (NZ) (Star Way {GB}) hails from same wonderful Klairessa (GB) (Klairon {Fr}) family as Lonhro's sire Octagonal (NZ) - providing for crosses of Klairessa and her daughter Eight Carat (GB) (Pieces Of Eight {Ire}).
Lot 926 - I Am Invincible x Melba Avenue (bay colt)
Street Sense (USA) has a number of things I Am Invincible picks up brilliantly on - and all seven of the runners bred on this cross are winners. This fellow's half-brother Valour Road (Frost Giant {USA}) won two Group races last year and he has won another seven stakes races.
Lot 956 - So You Think (NZ) x Miss Promiscuity (bay or brown filly)
Her G3 Sir John Monash S. winning dam's first two to race were both 2023 winners. Hailing from the family of the speedy stakes winners Amtrack (Flying Spur) and Furio (Testa Rossa), she is bred on a 4 X 5 cross of the great Nijinsky (Can) as are so many of the better So You Thinks... 20 (36.3%) of his 55 stakes winners, five (45.4%) of his 11 Group 1 winners.
Lot 972 - Bivouac x Moet Belle (NZ)(bay colt)
First foal for a lightly raced half-sister to the star mare Melody Belle (NZ) (Commands) and full sister to the dual Listed winner Tutukaka (NZ) (Tavistock {NZ}). Bred on a 5 X 5 cross of Gone West (USA) via Elusive Quality (USA) and Zafonic (USA) - noting that of the 109 winners whose pedigree combine those two, 11 are stakes winners (two at Group 1 level).
