Home Affairs – If You Could Pick One?

Tara Madgwick - Wednesday December 4

Home Affairs promises to make a big impact at the upcoming Magic Millions Yearling Sale next month and even Coolmore have been taken aback by the widespread support for this champion son of I Am Invincible with Tom Moore shedding some light on his appeal when chatting with us as a guest on our podcast Tara Talks Racing.

Home Affairs is the most represented sire at Magic Millions 2025, which is an unusual occurrence for a first season sire and all of his yearlings are in Book 1.

“I don't think a stallion has ever been as well represented by their first crop offering at the Magic Millions as he has 63 of them and 13 of those are in our draft,” said Tom Moore.

“He’s just finished his third season for us and it’s been a long time since we’ve seen breeders get behind a horse at this point in his career in the way that they have.

“That's probably a reflection of what they think of his yearlings and whatever they've got on the ground this spring, but it seems like every breeder in Australia wants access to it.”

Coolmore are preparing a draft of 51 for Magic Millions and the farm has been buzzing with pre-sale inspections, although Moore explained the priority in this last month before the sale is in preparing the horses for what is to come and parades are managed and timed not to interfere with their daily routines.

She's the standout among many stars in the 2025 MM Coolmore draft.

She's the standout among many stars in the 2025 MM Coolmore draft.

When popped the question by Craig “Clocker” Tompson as to which yearling was his favourite and if you could name just one that you can’t look past, Moore didn’t take long to answer.

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“The filly from Sunlight by Home Affairs is an absolute standout, so she'll be a hard one to go past I would imagine,” Moore said.

“Given the fact that she's out of a champion mare like Sunlight, and she's about as good a physical sort as you would find anywhere. She's one that won't be missed by anyone.”

Sunlight was purchased by Tom Magnier for $4.2million at the 2020 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale and her first foal, a colt by Justify (USA), sold for $1.4million at Magic Millions in 2023 and is now the stakes-winner Dawn Service.

Her second is a Wootton Bassett (GB) filly that sold for $1.4million at Inglis Easter this year to Paul Moroney Bloodstock / C Bruggeman.

Sunlight has gotten off to a textbook start to her stud career and produced another filly this spring by Justify.

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