If you were unsuccessful at first, try again, and for Arrowfield Stud the third time was cheerful to secure Oakleigh Plate (G1) winner Jobs ((I am invincible ) for $ 2.4 million ($ 1,628,856, $ 1 = US $ 1 = 0.68) August 27th at the first edition of the Virtual Sale of August Magic Millions.
After the leading kindergarten Hunter Valley came at least twice this year this year to land a top -class mare Line ((Nordmetor to strengthen his breeding tape.
Marabi, the Magic Millions' flagship for the virtual sale of Magic Millions, won her first seven starts for Ciaron Maher and his former training partner David Eustace, including Caulfields Premier Group 1 Sprint, the seven -digit offer that should be sold 27th August 27th . Nine other properties that were sold for $ 100,000 or more during a tiny and acute sale, in which buyers were selectively and reserved in their budgets.
However, Arrowfield was able to win the nine-bid fight for Marabi, which was cataloged as Lot 34.
“She is a handsome mare, she was very quick, who comes from a great father, a Sire champion and from a great family that goes back to one that Percy Sykes developed, and then John Muir and then Greg”, Arrowfield Bloodstock Manager Jon said Freyer.
“Look, we were cheerful to get them and evaluate them very high.”
Nakaaya ((Tiger Hill ) and a half sister of the VRC Oaks (G1) Spreder Aristia ((Lonhro ), which was also placed in the Reich Rose Stakes (G1) and Vinery Stud Stakes (G1).
Marabi's breeder Greg Perry, who recently solved his interest in Vinery Stud, where his mares remain, retains the possession of Aristia, but made the decision to part with her three -time half -sister.
“I sold Vinery and reduced my commitment to breeding to a certain degree, but I still have a number of mares that I am at home this season, including her half -sister,” Perry told Bloodstock News.
Arrowfield is waiting for the birth of Marabis Zoustar foal before deciding on her second pairing.
Barry Bowditch, Managing Director of Magic Millions, said that the buyer interest was led to sale, but admitted that he admitted to his disappointment with the fact that 18 of the 45 horses did not find any novel houses.
The clearance rate was 60%, with the view of a few deals achieved in the coming days.
“If you look at the number of people who were engaged to be online and by phone, there were many people who had participation in participating, but the reality was that we expected to sell a few more, And that is probably the most disappointing “, Bowditch” said Anz Bloodstock News.
“We would have hoped that the free gaols would have been a little higher. But if you asked me a month ago whether we had had a sale that invented 5 million US from an outstanding mare in Marabi.”
Bowditch is of the opinion that the virtual sales concept organized in the run -up to the breeding season has the legs and Arrowfields Freyer agrees and said Magic Millions “did a good job with the sale”.
“There is nothing wrong with the purely online version, but virtual sale feels more interactive and I think it's a good concept,” said Freyer.
