It’s coming to the end of a busy sales season for Chris Watson and the team at Mill Park Stud with the leading South Australian nursery poised for action at the Adelaide Magic Millions Yearling Sale next Monday and Tuesday with their draft to feature one of the very last yearlings to be offered at auction by the great champion Lonhro.
The Hall of Fame for Mill Park bristles with G1 stars such as Fawkner, Mummify, Happy Trails, Rebel Raider, Southern Speed and Divine Madonna, plus Magic Millions 2YO Classic winners Away Game and Augusta Proud, but if you’re only as good as what’s happened in the last 12 months then Mill Park are producing the goods in spades.
Mill Park have been in hot form through 2024 and into 2025 with horses produced from their South Australian nursery including Group I VRC Victoria Derby winner Goldrush Guru, Group I SAJC Goodwood Handicap winner Benedetta and the 2023 Group I MRC Toorak Handicap winner Attrition, who ventured to Sydney to win the $2million Group II ATC Hill Stakes last year.
Also adding to the success have been multiple stakes-winner Air Assault and Group winning three year-old colt Angell Capital, who was consigned as a yearling by Mill Park on behalf of his breeder David Peacock and sold for $400,000.
The Harry Angel (IRE) colt recently changed hands and was sold to Yulong, so will do his future racing in their colours with his new trainer Chris Waller looking to land a G1 with the valuable acquisition.
A farm that produces sprinters, stayers and everything in between – Mill Park always present a draft with real diversity so yearling buyers are allowed to dream big!
Mill Park will present a draft of 17 in Adelaide with additional highlights below:
Lot 25 Colt So You Think x Miss Otto, by Elusive Quality (USA)
Full brother to Group II winner and promising young sire Peltzer as well as stakes-placed Madison Kate. This colt is also a three-quarter brother-in-blood to stakes-winner So We Are from a winning half-sister to Group II placed Miss With Attitude, the dam of Group III winner Crown Towers.
Lot 64 Colt Bivouac x Pimm’s Party, by Street Boss (USA)
From the second crop of brilliant G1 winning sprinter Bivouac, who has already sired two Group winners in Beiwacht and Intention. First foal of Group III placed Pimm’s Party from the family of Group I winner Run Fox Run, who was also bred and sold by Mill Park. This colt is bred on a similar Street Boss Exceed and Excel nick as Golden Slipper contenders Tentyris and Tempted, who are by Street Boss from daughters of Bivouac’s sire Exceed and Excel.
Lot 138 Colt Lonhro x Snow Surrender, by Sepoy
The only yearling in the sale from the last crop of champion racehorse and champion sire Lonhro. Half-brother to three winners from a placed half-sister to stakes-winner Adelong from the family of Group I winner Snowland and Group II winners Portillo and Ghisoni. This colt is also closely related to the dam of unbeaten Kiwi trained juvenile colt Return to Conquer, winner of Saturday’s Group I Sistema Stakes at Ellerslie.
Lot 206 Colt Hanseatic x West Beach, by All Too Hard
From the second crop of fast Group winning son of Street Boss (USA) in Hanseatic, already the sire of two winners and two stakes horses. First foal of an unraced sibling to triple Group I winner and $3.2million earner Happy Trails, Group III winner Danish Twist and stakes-winners All Too Hiuying and Heart of a Lion. Interesting pedigree as he is line bred to blue hens Scandinavia 4 x 4.
Lot 262 Colt Bivouac x Beluga Blue, by Lookin’ at Lucky (USA)
Another colt by Bivouac and this one is the third living foal of Group II placed stakes-winner Beluga Blue from the family of Group I winner Montoya’s Secret, Group II winners Excited Angel, Text ‘n’ Hurley and Group III winner Willaidow.
Lot 328 Colt Blue Point (IRE) x Don’tbabylon, by Reset
Fifth foal of stakes-winner Don’tbabylon, who has had two foals to race and both are winners with Charm Catcher (3f Blue Point), a debut winner at Balaklava last November for the Andrew Gluyas stable. Traces back to the family of Group I winners Skilled and Willowy as well as current season Group II winner Traffic Warden.
