Monday, February 19, 2007

Magic Millions Yearling Sales Buy

On a personal basis, I went to last weeks sales and decided to go for quality rather than quantity. I managed to secure what I thought were the best colt and the best filly by Champion Western Australian stallion Bletchley Park. We've got a huge opinion of the stock of Bletchley Park. For a start, we won the Group 1 WA Derby with our chestnut colt Hot Jules, and have a couple of smart BP's in the stable right now. Champion jock Paul Harvey has described Arranbrae as a potential superstar, and trainer Paul Jordan has big wraps on Kilindini who went shin-sore at his only start in a race. Paul is setting him for the WA Guineas-such is the high opinion he has of the horse.

The colt we purchased by Bletchley Park from Lots of Secrets is a full brother to the outstanding juvenile Secret Vault winner of his first 3 starts, and is from a stellar black type family which includes amongst others, the Group 1 Railways Stakes winner Covertly.

I think it's really important to buy horses from families that just keep on producing winner after winner after winner-and this is certainly one of them.

This colt has a strong sprinters pedigree and should run like the wind in anything up to a mile. He's a very athletic young horse and once again, appears to be a nice Guineas prospect-a race we've won before with Devilish Dealer. The colt will be trained at Ascot by Paul Jordan.

The filly I purchased by Bletchley Park from Lady Baleen is just electric. She's a real jump and run two year old type and is just the type of horse we're likely to be bring back this time next year to have a crack at the $250,000 Magic Millions 2yo race-followed by the Karrakatta Plate. She's a 3/4 sister to the exciting Baleen Magic who has run 3rd and 1st at her only two starts, (won at Ascot last Saturday week), and of course, being a filly with two GROUP 1 winners close up in her pedigree, she'll have plenty of residual value as a potential broodmare when we've finished racing her. The filly will be trained at Lark hill by Michael Pateman.

Both yearlings are nigh on impossible to fault from a conformation point of view. Their outstanding physiques are backed up by black type pedigrees, and both have been reared by leading vendors who feed the best from the time the youngsters are weaned from their mothers.

Both the colt and filly will be sold into 10 share syndicates at a price to be released later this week.


- Peter Morley

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