South Australian vendors Mill Park Stud have achieved an extraordinary record for producing Group I winners over many years and a slew of new stakes-winners during the recent spring carnival will have yearling buyers beating a path to their draft of 11 for Magic Millions in January.
Chris Watson and his family are committed to producing quality thoroughbreds and their carefully nurtured pedigrees and bloodlines translate into tough athletes bred to withstand the rigors of racing.
Raised in vast undulating paddocks on limestone-based country, Mill Park bred stock are grown out naturally to encourage athleticism and the mental strength to be not just a competitor, but a winner!
Mill Park graduates to taste success this season include Attrition (Churchill (IRE), winner of the Group I MRC Toorak Handicap, plus Group winning mares Benedetta (Hellbent), Rose Quartz (Written Tycoon) and Brazen Style (Brazen Beau).
Also stakes-winner Arctic Glamour (Frosted(USA) and Group II placed Attractable (I Am Invincible) winner of the $3million ATC The Big Dance on Melbourne Cup Day.
Mill Park produce sprinters, stayers and classic horses with past juvenile stars including Champion 2YO Filly Away Game, who won the 2020 Magic Millions 2YO Classic and later sold as a broodmare prospect to Yulong for $4million.
The draft this year features many youngsters from familiar Mill Park families highlighted by the full brother to Attrition.
Offered as Lot 74on the first day of the sale, the Churchill (IRE) colt is from Queen’s Kiss, an exceptional producer that has left six winners from seven to race with Attrition her star performer along with stakes-winner Royal Rumble.
Mill Park sold Attrition for $180,000 as a yearling and the Mitch Freedman trained gelding has won just shy of $1million in prizemoney and Chris Watson believes this colt could be even better.
“He is probably a more forward, stronger precocious type than his full brother, who we took to Inglis Premier,” Watson said
“Attrition was a more refined type whereas this colt is a more powerful style of horse.”
Click here to see the full Mill Park draft with additional highlights below:
Lot 154 Filly Bivouac x Secretly Discreet, by Lonhro
From the first crop of Champion 3YO Sprinter Bivouac and is second foal from winning Lonhro daughter of Group I SAJC Australasian Oaks winner Maybe Discreet. From the famed ‘Discreet’ family that has produced countless Black Type performers and is bred on Exceed and Excel x Lonhro nick that’s has been highly successful, the two champion sires combining in the pedigrees of 22 SW’s.
Lot 325 Colt Street Boss (USA) x Unbounded, by Sebring
By the sire of Australian Horse of the Year Anamoe and is the first foal of winning sibling to stakes performers Hardly Surprising, See Marie and Weinholt from the family of Group I MRC Toorak Handicap winner Tuvalu. Third dam Ancelin is a half-sister to blue hen Accessories (GB), the dam of Group I winning sires Helmet and Epaulette.
Lot 724 Filly Street Boss (USA) x Gotta Be Gold, by Bernardini (USA)
Third foal of a winning half-sister to stakes-winner Beluga Blue from the family of Group I winner Montoya’s Secret and Group winners Excited Angel, Text ‘n Hurley, Typhoon and Delago’s Secret. Her 2YO filly Triple Tempo (Yes Yes Yes) sold for $370,000 at MM and has shown good promise in her first trial for Bjorn Baker in December.
Lot 800 Colt So You Think x It’s A Myth, by Sepoy
Third foal of a stakes-placed half-sister to Group III placed Too Good Too Hard from the family of four time Group I winner Divine Madonna and Group I winners Blessum, Live to Tell and Angle of Mercy, dam of this season’s Group III MRC Ethereal Stakes winner Autumn Angel. Bred on similar So You Think x Elusive Quality cross to Group II winning millionaire Peltzer.
Lot 860 Filly Wootton Bassett (GB) x Liberty Lover, by Rebel Raider
From the first Australian crop of renowned G1 sire Wootton Bassett and is the second foal of a winning half-sister to $3.5million earning multiple Group winner Dalasan and stakes-winner Party Princess. Her first foal is a So You Think colt that sold for $220,000 at this sale to Busuttin Racing/Andrew Campbell.
