The Times are a Changing

Tara Madgwick - Thursday April 13

The Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale was interesting for many reasons, but for someone that has been working in bloodstock in this country for more than 20 years it delivered something I’ve not seen before.

And that was a pair of fillies topping the sale, which has never happened in the past 20 years and probably rarely beyond that, if at all.

$1.8million The Autumn Sun filly from Via Africa

Fillies by The Autumn Sun and Pierro topped the sale selling for $1.8million and $1.7million and if you had come out prior to the sale tipping that result, you’d have been politely told to get back in your box.

The only time a filly has topped Inglis Easter in the past  20 years was in 2012 when the Redoute’s Choice half-sister to Black Caviar from Helsinge topped the sale at $2.6million.

She was one of three yearlings from Helsinge to top the sale in consecutive years with All Too Hard (Casino Prince) topping it the year before in 2011 when selling for $1,025,000 and a Redoute’s Choice colt topping it the year after in 2013 for $5million, which remains the record for the most expensive yearling sold in Australia at auction. (For those who remember, he later died before he could be tested).

Given that fillies topped Inglis Easter this year, you might be entitled to ask, where were the top colts? And the answer to that would be Magic Millions.

$2.7million I Am Invincible colt from Anaheed

The highest priced yearling sold this year was the I Am Invincible colt from Anaheed that topped Magic Millions at $2.7million and he was one of four yearlings sold at the Gold Coast for $2million plus, while at Inglis Easter there were none this year.

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Traditionally Inglis Easter has been the place to sell your absolute very best yearling and that is reflected in the history of the sale.

In the table below going back to 2003, only four times have Magic Millions sold the most expensive yearling of the year.

This year 2023, then 2020 when Inglis copped the brunt of the Covid fallout when forced to split the sale into two online versions which was hardly ideal. The other two occasions we have to go back to 2011 when MM sold the half-brother by Redoute’s Choice to current champion mare of the time More Joyous and 2009 when they sold the full brother to champion miler of the time Racing to Win.

Top Two Lots at Inglis Easter and Magic Millions

Fillies in italics / highest price of year in Bold

2023

INGLIS

F The Autumn Sun x Via Africa, $1,800,000

F Pierro x Ennis Hill, $1,700,000

MAGIC MILLIONS

C I Am Invincible x Anaheed $2,700,000

F Zoustar x Solar Charged $2,600,000

2022

INGLIS

C Zoustar x Solar Charged, $3,000,000

C Snitzel x Response, $2,250,000

MAGICMILLIONS

C I Am Invincible x Suspicieuse, $1,900,000

C Not a Single Doubt x Miss Admiration, $1,700,000

2021

INGLIS

C Snitzel x Rising Romance, $2,500,000

C Exceed and Excel x Peace Force, $2,100,000

MAGIC MILLIONS

C Snitzel x Bonny O’Reilly, $1,900,000

C Not a Single Doubt x One More Honey, $1,800,000

C Kingman x Florentina, $1,800,000

2020

INGLIS

C Snitzel x First Seal, $1,800,000

C I Am Invincible x Twilight Royale,  $1,400,000

MAGIC MILLIONS

C Deep Impact x Honesty Prevails $1,900,000

C Exceed and Excel x Plagiarized $1,800,000

2019

INGLIS

C Snitzel x Ichihara, $2,800,000

C Fastnet Rock x Legally Bay, $2,300,000

MAGIC MILLIONS

C I Am Invincible x Oakleigh Girl $1,700,000

C Redoute’s Choice x Purely Spectacular $1,600,000

2018

INGLIS

C Fastnet Rock x The Broken Shore, $2,300,000

C Fastnet Rock x O'Marilyn, $1,800,000

MAGIC MILLIONS

C I Am Invincible x Tai Tai Tess, $2,000,000

C I am Invincible x Electric Dreams, $1,900,000

2017

INGLIS

C Redoute's Choice x Secluded,$2,500,000

C Medaglia d'Oro x Hoss Amor,$2,400,000

MAGIC MILLIONS

C Redoute’s Choice x Ballet Blue, $1,300,000

C More Than Ready x Purespeed, $1,300,000

2016

INGLIS

C Snitzel x Vegas Showgirl,$2,300,000

C Redoute's Choice x Estelle Collection,$1,800,000

MAGIC MILLIONS

C Snitzel x Mirror Mirror, $1,600,000

C Pierro x Skates, $1,500,000

2015

INGLIS

C Snitzel x Admirelle,$2,200,000

C Snitzel x Alinghi,$1,800,000

MAGIC MILLIONS

C Sepoy x Sister Madly, $1,200,000

F Fastnet Rock x Response, $1,050,000

2014

INGLIS

C Fastnet Rock x Perfect Persuasion,$1,600,000

C Street Cry x Star on High,$1,500,000

C Snitzel x Monte Rosa,$1,500,000

MAGIC MILLIONS

C Snitzel x Hades $1,000,000

F Fastnet Rock x Headway, $700,000

2013

INGLIS

C Redoute's Choice x Helsinge,$5,000,000

C Fastnet Rock x River Dove,$4,000,000

MAGIC MILLIONS

C Fastnet Rock x Smart Company $1,350,000

C Redoute’s Choice x Apercu $800,000

2012

INGLIS

F Redoute's Choice x Helsinge, $2,600,000

C Street Cry x Tugela,$1,200,000

MAGIC MILLIONS

C Fastnet Rock x Rose of Cimarron, $960,000

C Redoute’s Choice x Cloister, $750,000

2011

INGLIS

C Casino Prince x Helsinge, $1,025,000

F Redoute's Choice x Schiaparelli,$1,000,000

MAGIC MILLIONS

C Redoute’s Choice x Sunday Joy, $1,150,000

C Redoute’s Choice x Bourgeois, $850,000

2010

INGLIS

C Redoute's Choice x Regrowth, $1,875,000

F Zabeel x Gin Player, $1,300,000

MAGIC MILLIONS

C Redoute’s Choice  x They Say, $925,000

C Fastnet Rock x Sun song, $700,000

F Encosta de Lago x Ha Ha, $700,000

2009

INGLIS

C Encosta de Lago x Show Dancing, $1,800,000

C Galileo x Makybe Diva, $1,500,000

MAGIC MILLIONS

C Encosta de Lago x Surrealist $2,000,000

C Redoute’s Choice x Kapchat, $1,200,000

2008

INGLIS

C Redoute's Choice x Salameh, $2,700,000

C Redoute's Choice x Snowdrift, $2,500,000

MAGIC MILLIONS

C Redoute’s Choice x Lady Capel, $2,200,000

C Redoute’s Choice x Gypsy Dancer, $2,000,000

2007

INGLIS

C Rock Of Gibraltar x L'On Vite, $3,000,000

F Encosta de Lago x Twyla,  $2,200,000

MAGIC MILLIONS

C Sadler’s Wells x Sunday Joy, $2,000,000

C Redoute’s Choice x Liberty Rose, $1,500,000

2006

INGLIS

C Redoute's Choice x Deja Slew,  $3,000,000

F Encosta de Lago x Oceanfast, $2,600,000

MAGIC MILLIONS

C Red Ransom x Savannah Success, $1,550,000

C Sadler’s Wells x Ha Ha, $1,300,000

2005

INGLIS

C Redoute's Choice x Tugela,  $2,500,000

C Redoute's Choice x Saucy Nell, $1,800,000

MAGIC MILLIONS

C Danehill x Silken Whisper, $950,000

C Danehill x Riveryev, $850,000

2004

INGLIS

C  Danehill x Prawn Cocktail,  $2,200,000

C Sunday Silence x Bright Finish, $1,500,000

C Sunday Silence x Sonoray,  $1,500,000

MAGIC MILLIONS

C Danehill x Marigot Bay, $1,050,000

C Danehill x Fitting, $800,000

2003

INGLIS

C Sunday Silence x Phantom Creek,  $1,700,000

F Sunday Silence x Sensation, $1,300,000

MAGIC MILLIONS

C Sunday Silence x Engraver $900,000

F Danehill x Lake Alexandrina, $725,000

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