Nine time Group I winning Fastnet Rock mare Avantage was a champion on the racetrack and her progeny are proving highly desirable in the sale ring with her third foal, a lovely filly by I Am Invincible, selling for $1,050,000 at Magic Millions on Tuesday.
Consigned by Coolmore, the filly was purchased by Glentree Thoroughbreds/Badgers Bloodstock.
“She did everything we look for in a filly. She’s a really good physical, beautiful mover and out of a multiple stakes winner - a phenomenal racehorse. She ticks a lot of boxes for our program going forward,” said Luke Simpson, Stud Manager for Glentree Thoroughbreds.
“We’re looking to get a racing career out of her and hopefully she can step up to some of mum’s form and then join our broodmare band going forward.
“There are a couple of other fillies we have our eye on, but this was our main target so we’re delighted to secure her.”
Glentree Thoroughbreds will have a runner in the Magic Millions 2YO classic this Saturday with the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott trained Russian Revolution filly Lumbini to carry their colours with Craig Williams to ride.
A superstar racemare and now star producer, Avantage was raced by Te Akau Racing during her long and glittering racing career and purchased on retirement by Tom Magnier for $4.1million through Gavelhouse Online in NZ.
She has made the perfect start to her stud career for Coolmore with her first three foals all selling for upwards of $1million and the first of them Avantaggia (3f Wootton Bssett (GB) is a promising winner in New Zealand from just three starts.
Avantage was one of 157 mares covered by European Horse of the Year City of Troy (USA) in his first Southern Hemisphere season at Coolmore last spring.
