Forbidden Love Confirmed for Magic Millions National

Media Release - Wednesday February 8

The stars continue to align for May's 2023 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale with confirmation that triple Group One winner Forbidden Love will go under the hammer on the Gold Coast.

Earlier this week it was announced that outstanding sprinting mare Snapdancer was an early confirmed entry for the Southern Hemisphere's leading breeding stock sale and now another of the country's best multiple Group One winners will join her.

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TRiple Group I winner Forbidden Love will be offered for sale at the Gold Coast - image Steve Hart

The daughter of All Too Hard will return to the sale ring she graced as a yearling to prepare for the next step of her career as a broodmare.

Forbidden Love was a star on the track - a debut win, three wins at racing's elite level, three other black type feature victories and over $2.2 million in earnings.

Across her career Forbidden Love met and defeated many of the country's best sprinters and milers and established herself as one of the finest of her generation.

Forbidden Love was purchased by her former co-trainer Richard Freedman from the Bhima Thoroughbreds draft at the 2019 Gold Coast Yearling Sale and across her career gave connections plenty to cheer about.

"She's an incredibly tough mare," Richard noted. "Always willing in every aspect of her work and always fronted up on race day to give her all, in all types of conditions."

"While she may not have won every start, you know she was giving everything she had to give every time she stepped out on the track." 

"Her temperament was her best attribute and everyone loved having her in the stable."

"I went to the sale with a budget, working off a limited criteria, and she was the filly that ticked all the boxes. She not only fit the physical criteria, she is a lovely colour and had the temperament of a good filly. All Too Hard was starting to do well with his fillies and More Than Ready was already well established as a successful broodmare sire."



Among Forbidden Love's eight wins are victories in a Surround Stakes, Canterbury Stakes and George Ryder Stakes - all at Group One level.

"She was a great mare to have, a very tough mare," co-trainer Michael Freedman noted. "This time last year she was at the peak of her powers. When she was at her best she had this amazing acceleration. The kind of horse you love to train."

"The George Ryder (was my favourite Group 1 win), weight-for-age, over 1500 metres, which was probably at her outer distance range, but every Group One win of hers was great, but if I had to single one out that would be it."

"The fact that she had the ability to race up on speed, which she did in just about all her runs, and she had the ability to really accelerate off that."

"She is a big, strong mare with a beautiful deep girth on her, large hind-quarter, from a physical point of view she had all the attributes of what you look for in a good racehorse."

Forbidden Love will be a member of the Newgate Consignment - who last year teamed up with Killora Stud to sell Away Game for $4 million.

"We’re pleased to be consigning such a high-class race mare, a triple Group 1 winner, that would have been competitive at the top level in any racing jurisdiction in the world," Newgate's Henry Field said.

"To be able to sell these elite breeding prospects is what the Newgate breeding consignment is all about."

The 2023 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale will be held from May 23-25 on the Gold Coast and the early entries are outstanding.

"Forbidden Love is another wonderful race mare to be catalogued," Magic Millions Managing Director Barry Bowditch said. "It will be an honour to have her back in the Gold Coast sale ring in May."

It is not often a triple Group One winner comes up for sale - Forbidden Love would be a standout mare on any farm around the world."

Entries are now open for National Broodmare Sale. To enter, please follow the link here.

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