Glenn Williams is on top of the world with his brilliant filly Karuta Queen.  The Sydney businessman bought her for just $30,000 at the 2010 Magic Millions and he returned to the Gold Coast to look for another bargain last week.

Among his buys was Raheen Stud’s filly by Canny Lad from Countess Dehere that sold for $70,000 during Session 5 on Sunday.

Canny Lad continues to sire stakes winners year after year.  His Melbourne based sprinter King Pulse is ready to return to racing after a long spell recovering from an accident at Flemington in March 2010.

King Pulse finished a close-up fifth in the G1 Newmarket Hcp which was run during a freak hailstorm.  He took fright after the race, broke free from his handler, crashed into a running rail and was later diagnosed with a dropped hip and floating bone chips in the shoulder.

King Pulse will be set for another crack at the G1 Newmarket on March 12.

Canny Lad built up a magnificent record at Woodlands before the Darley takeover two years ago.  He has sired 656 winners of 1925 races at a 67% strike-rate.  Among that total are 48 individual stakes winners of 89 stakes races.

The Canny Lad – Countess Dehere filly is the first foal of a mare that won twice at Toowoomba for Raheen’s Nolan family.

She foaled a Not A Single Doubt filly in September and it wouldn’t surprise to see her on the Williams shopping list at the 2012 Magic Millions.  Karuta Queen is by Not A Single Doubt and, not surprisingly, Williams is a big fan of the Arrowfield Stud sire.

Earlier at the Magic Millions sales complex, Raheen sold a Commands filly to Tony Noonan $80,000 during Session 2 last Thursday.

The colt is from Hippy who won a Gosford maiden during a five start career in 2003-04.  He is a younger half-brother to Canny Lad filly Sweet Cherub who won two races at Ipswich.  She retired to stud last year and was covered by Widden Stud sire Dreamscape.

Hippy’s only other foal to race is the Jet Spur colt Oriental Gambler who won at Seymour last month.

Raheen has a great record with Commands yearlings that have graduated from the Magic Millions.  In 2008, studmaster Basil Nolan sold Commands colt Conquered Dream to Markus Jooste and the leading South African owner was rewarded with a Listed victory in the 2010 Derby Trial at Turffontein.