Perth’s Winter Sale is a happy hunting ground for bargains and Magic Millions has catalogued another 50 yearlings and 27 weanlings plus supplementary entries for buyers after value in the Swan Valley this Sunday, June 22.
Winning Winter Yearling Sale graduates offered by TBWA members this season include Order Online (Gingerbread Man), Kay Tee Why (Nicconi), Cocktail Party (A Lot), Sinful Living (Safeguard), Rally The Troops (Blue Point), Mood Swings (War Chant), Miss Flirtacious (Safeguard) and Rommeo (Demerit).
They were knocked down for prices that ranged from $6,000 to a $50,000 bid that secured Rally The Troops in 2023. He has already doubled up at Pinjarra and Northam this prep for Pearce Racing who bought him from Willow Dale Farm (as agent) for Amelia Park.
Four fillies and a colt by Champion WA Sire Playing God highlight the Yearling Sale. Yarradale leads vendors with 14 lots and among its consignment is the filly from Copper Queen (War Chant) who is a half-sister to South African Group 2 winner Honorine (Redoute’s Choice).
It’s a Group 1 classic family nurtured by the Aga Khan that includes French Derby winners Almanzor (Wootton Bassett) and Darsi (Polish Precedent), French Oaks winner Daryaba (Night Shift) and French 1000 Guineas winner Darjina (Zamindar).
Catalogued as Lot 43, she shares the Playing God – War Chant cross with multiple black-type winner Baby Paris. Owner-breeder Gary Bowen told www.tbwa.net.au this week Baby Paris will be set for inaugural $1 million Golden Saddle (1100m) at the Kalgoorlie Cup meeting in October.
Yarradale also leads Weanling vendors with 7 lots and the Playing God – War Chant cross is to the fore again with the colt out of unraced mare Just Like Silk (Lot 84). There are six black-type winners under second-dam Saddler’s Silk (Barathea) topped by G1 ATC Galaxy Hcp (1000m) winner Zapateo (Brazen Beau).
Most recent of those half-dozen is Yarradale-bred graduate Cashel Palace (Street Boss) who won the LR Sir Ernest Lee-Steere Classic (1400m) at Ascot in November. Yarradale’s Winter Sale consignment at the sale grounds is located in Barns K & L.