HE may have been represented with many million-dollar yearlings, but Yarraman Park's ever-emerging sire I Am Invincible secured his first $1 million youngster following his nine-month-old son fetching seven-figures at the Magic Millions National Weanling Sale at the Gold Coast last week.
The top colt came on the first day, when the first foal from stakes winning Ocean Park mare Ocean Jewel fetched the huge price, and which sold via Gilgai Farm, Nagambie, to well-known Melbourne trainer Ciaron Maher.
I Am Invincible continued the form the following day when he topped day two of its weanling section with a $625,000 colt. The first foal from Testa Rossa Group winner Ellicazoom, the colt sold via Kitchwin Hills, Scone, to Tony Fung Investments, Queensland.
Records were posted for Book One with 301 lots sold (from 263 offered) for a $105,000 average with gross sales of $31.6 million.
Second top came via the Shadwell Stud Australasia dispersal with its Zoustar-Bulbula colt selling for $700,000 to Rosemont Stud/Bahen Bloodstock, Victoria.
The sale continued this week.
Kinjite recalled
QUEENSLAND lost one of its well-known conditioners following the passing of Noel Doyle due to ill health at the Gold Coast earlier this month.
Before a training career, Mr Doyle was a former top jockey who rode some of the best horses in Brisbane in the 1960s including star galloper Eye Liner, a filly which now lends her name to an annual feature at Ipswich. Mr Doyle never had a big team of horses, however finished third in Brisbane's trainer's premiership title three times, as well as finishing in the top 10 another four times.
His best horse was champion galloper Kinjite, winner of 10 races including the 1992 AJC Epsom Handicap-G1 and $2.2m, a massive sum during that time.
First for Palentino
THE win of Palencia at Townsville would have been of interest to connections of Widden Stud earlier this month, the two-year-old becoming the first winner in the first crop of juveniles by Sadler's Wells great grandson Palentino.
Good news - as Palentino remains among a list of stallions on duty at the former Sun Stud at Riddells Creek, the Victorian property recently changing its banner becoming the southern arm of historic NSW breeding establishment, Widden Stud.
A handsome chestnut, Palentino - by former Galileo shuttling sire son Teofilo, won four Melbourne stakes including two at Group 1 level. Standing at $11,000, Palentino served 550 mares during his first four stud seasons.
Meanwhile in New Zealand, Australian performed Turn Me Loose has come up with his first winner and stakes winner following wins by Turn The Ace, culminating in the Waikato Equine Veterinary Centre Stakes-LR at Te Rapa. Standing at Windsor Park Stud, the dual Melbourne Group 1 winner Turn Me Loose is by GB bred bred Iffraaj, also sire of French Group 1 winner Wootton Bassett.
Vale Reset
RESET - among the foundation stallions to stand at Godolphin's Northwood Park near Seymour in north-eastern Victoria, died earlier this month at age 20.
The Darley stallion son of Zabeel, was an undefeated winner of five career starts culminating with victories in the three-year-old classics VRC Australian Guineas-G1 and MRC Futurity Stakes-G1.
Purchased by his trainer Graeme Rogerson for $190,000 at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, Reset found stud success early with the emergence of first crop VRC Derby-G1 winner Rebel Raider (which himself has sired stakes winners).
Reset can count winners Fawkner (Caulfield Cup-G1), Pinker Pinker (W Cox Plate-G1), Hauraki (ATC Epsom Handicap-G1), and Set Square (VRC Oaks-G1) among his total 34 Stakes winners.
Since his stud retirement at the end of the 2018 season, Reset at lived at Woodlands near Denman in the Upper Hunter Valley.
Last word
BRIAN Russell - founder of the Australian Bloodhorse Review in 1982 before it was re-named Bluebloods, passed away aged 90 at his home in North Richmond last Saturday. I will outline his long journalist life shortly.
