Edinburgh Park – Biggest and Best

Tara Madgwick - Saturday January 5
When you can produce sale-toppers and stakes-winners, your yearling draft will always be a must inspect and Edinburgh Park have upped the ante in 2019 to present their biggest and best ever draft at the Gold Coast with 16 Magic Millions yearlings to offer.

Edinburgh Park will offer three yearlings from the family of G1 winner and $1.8 million earner Comin' ThroughIan Smith's boutique breeding operation on the mid north coast of New South Wales has established a reputation for excellence driven by ongoing results on the track at the highest level.

A farm that has produced a world champion in Silent Witness, not to mention the likes of Bull Point, Sister Madly, Dances on Waves, Eximius, Amovatio and Golden Spin, Edinburgh Park is a brand to be respected.

New stars are emerging all the time from Edinburgh Park and include this season's promising three year-olds Zizzis and Wonderbabe, who has a full brother headed to the Gold Coast and highlighted below.

Also talented Rubick two year-old Alburq, who has placed at his only two starts to date and a real rising star in the Darren Weir trained four year-old Tamasa.

A lightly raced son of So You Think, Tamasa has five wins and two seconds from just eight starts and has been brought along slowly, but with untapped ability could easily emerge as a serious player in 2019 for the champion trainer.

Edinburgh Park will present a draft of 16 with highlights below and see them parading at Stable I 19-26 and J 1-7.

Lot 143 Colt Fastnet Rock x Smokin Alice (USA), by Smoke Glacken




Full brother to this season's promising two year-old Eleven Eleven, third on debut in the $125,000 Sizzling 2YO Handicap at Doomben and then fifth in the Group III BRC BJ McLachlan Stakes. From a superb North American Black Type family that has flourished in Australia to produce Group I stars Criterion and Comin' Through, who is by Fastnet Rock.

Lot 336 Colt Snitzel x Alice's Smart (USA), by Smart Strike




Full brother to Group III placed Miss Wonderland and this season's talented three year-old filly Wonderbabe, who has two wins from three starts including an easy last start victory at Randwick. From the same family as the colt above.

Lot 390 Filly Lonhro x Becerra, by Al Maher




By champion sire from a stakes-winner that was also second in the Queensland Oaks and comes from the family of Group I winning fillies Episode and First Seal.

Lot 435 Colt Pride of Dubai x Calcatta, by Tale of the Cat (USA)




Third foal of stakes-winner Calcatta, whose second foal is two year-old filly Lady Naturaliste, who was second at Moonee Valley and fourth at Flemington at her only starts to date.

Lot 439 Colt Vancouver x Candela, by Stryker




First foal of a winning daughter of Group I winning sprinter Recurring.

Lot 597 Colt Snitzel x Fortune of War, by General Nediym




Full brother to Group III placed Spoils from a stakes-placed half-sister to Group winners Sertorius, Dollar for Dollar and Clifton Red.

Lot 867 Colt Fastnet Rock x Nothing But a Dream (USA) by First Defence




The third yearling from the same family featuring Criterion and Comin Through, the latter sired by Fastnet Rock, who has nicked well with this family to produce additional Group winners Amah Rock, Upon this Rock, Siege of Quebec and Bull Point, who topped the Magic Millions Yearling Sale in 2012 for Edinburgh Park when fetching $960,000.


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