Stunning grey Darley shuttler Frosted (USA) lit up sale rings in North America last year with his first crop and did the same at the Gold Coast on Thursday when his filly from Fast Fleet fetched $650,000 to the bid of Spendthrift Farm.

With the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale in full swing, these are heady days for Tyreel Stud’s Linda Monds whose anxiety must be rising with three runners out the farm’s star broodmare Couredge set down to contest races worth over a combined $3,100,000 on Saturday.

Victorian breeders led the charge on the opening day of the Gold Coast Magic Millions Yearling Sale with two horses reaching the magical million dollar mark.

The first Australian bred yearlings by Triple Crown hero American Pharoah were in hot demand at the Gold Coast on Wednesday during the first session of the Magic Millions Yearling Sale with a colt from Derelique selling for $850,000 to record the single highest result for a first season sire.

A colt by leading sire Exceed and Excel topped Day One of the 2020 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale when he sold late in the day for $1.1 million.

The session topper for the first day of Magic Millions on Wednesday arrived late in proceedings with an Exceed and Excel colt from intriguing Frankel mare Dream in Colour (GB) selling for $1.1million to the bid of Coolmore’s Tom Magnier.

Foaled and raised at Newgate Farm for his breeder Nick Vass, this Capitalist colt from Booklet made a big splash at Magic Millions on Wednesday when selling for $750,000 to James Harron, who purchased his sire from this sale in 2015.

With an unprecedented number of high profile first season stallions, the success of the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale was in a large part going to hinge on how they were accepted in the market place and in that regard, it was a big thumbs up on the opening day.

With his oldest progeny just two year-olds and already including the stakes-winner Tanker, Coolmore’s exciting young sire Pride of Dubai made his presence felt during Magic Millions on Wednesday with a colt from Archangel selling for $620,000.

Coolmore’s Triple Crown hero American Pharoah (USA) finished 2019 as the Champion North American First Crop sire and his first Australian bred offspring have been quick to impress at the Magic Millions Yearling Sale on Wednesday with a colt from Azumi fetching $750,000.

Rosemont Stud bought Group I winning Northern Meteor mare Amanpour for $1.5million at the 2015 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale and got a big return on investment when selling her I Am Invincible colt for $1million during the first session of Magic Millions on Wednesday.

Some people may have wondered at Coolmore’s Tom Magnier paying $500,000 for a Zoustar colt early in the sale at Magic Millions on Wednesday, but when you hear what his breeder John North of Bowness Stud has to say about him you can see why this colt is seen as having serious potential.

Tipped as one of the stars on day one at Magic Millions, the I Am Invincible colt from Group II winning Zabeel mare Adrift duly set the sale ring alight when selling for $1,050,00 with Guy Mulcaster signing the docket in conjunction with Waller Racing.

Darley’s Golden Rose winner Astern was the first of the newcomer sires to smash one out of the park at Magic Millions on Wednesday with his powerhouse colt from Zimaretto making $725,000 to the bid of Asian Bloodstock Services.

Respected bloodstock James Harron struck early at the Magic Millions Yearling Sale on Wednesday securing Lot 19, a powerful son of Zoustar, whose attitude and temperament marked him as something special.

Globetrotting mare Lys Gracieux (Jpn), who closed out the year by winning the Takarazuka Kinen, WS Cox Plate and Arima Kinen under Damian Lane, has been honoured as Japan’s Horse of the Year for 2019.

A breathtaking last to the performance by the royally-bred Deep Impact colt Miyake in a 1500 metre maiden at Kembla Grange on Tuesday certainly makes him one to watch.

Scoring her first win at Vaal in South Africa on Tuesday was three year-old Snitzel filly Masaaqaat, a $1million Inglis Easter purchase from the Willow Park draft for Shadwell.

On the eve of the 2020 Magic Millions Yearling Sale it’s good to take a look at just what horses have made the big races on Saturday for two and three year-olds, who bought them, what did they cost and who sold them.

When Darley sent Group I winning Redoute’s Choice mare Anamato to the Northern Hemisphere to start her stud career, they probably had high hopes of success, but after producing one stakes-winner from four foals, she is now back in Australia and had a winner on Tuesday.

It’s that time of year when we attempt to zero down on some of the lots turning heads at the 2020 Magic Millions Yearling Sale, with the first of 260 lots catalogued for day one set to go under the hammer at 10am at the Gold Coast on Wednesday.

Superstar stallions have lit up racetracks on both sides of the Tasman this season, and now their yearlings are set to impress at Karaka 2020.

Exciting juvenile filly Tokorangi galloped into Karaka Million contention when blitzing her rivals in the KB Bloodstock 1100 at Matamata on Tuesday.

The Blood-Horse reports that the former Blue Gum Farm stallion Churchill Downs and former Emirates Park stallion Eavesdropper (USA) were among six in-foal mares and six stallions stolen in an attack by armed militia at Al Shaab Stud in Libya on January 5.

World of Trouble, the fastest 3YO of his generation in North America by sire sensation Kantharos, will be shuttling to Australia in 2020 after recently retiring to stud at Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms in Kentucky.

A proven source of Group I winners including outstanding siblings Funstar and Youngstar as well as Trapeze Artist, Bowness Stud will offer 10 yearlings at the Magic Millions this week including a pair of colts from the first crop of Golden Slipper winner Capitalist.

The late Paul Whelan enjoyed success at the highest level as a breeder and as an owner through the deeds of champion colt Flying Artie, who is the sire of two cracking yearlings he co-bred that will be offered by Middlebrook Valley Lodge as agent at Magic Millions this week.

Every vendor loves a pedigree update leading into a sale, particularly when it involves one of the best yearlings in their draft.

Over the past few years we have continued to update the racing industry in relation to the ATO’s “Lifestyle Assets” data matching project, a project originally set-up in early 2016.

Fiorente’s Group II Autumn Stakes winner and Group 1 Australian Guineas runner-up Beauty Legacy made the best possible start to his career in his adopted homeland with an impressive victory in the Class II Broadwood Handicap (1400m) at Sha Tin on Sunday.

Top three-year-old Catalyst will make his first public appearance since Group One success at Riccarton when he competes at the Matamata trials next week.

The 2020 Inglis Weanling and Breeding Stock Sales will follow the same structure as the successful 2019 editions, highlighted by a 0% sales commission for The Chairman’s Sale.

Coolmore’s Triple Crown winner Justify (USA) has just completed his first Australian season at stud covering a star studded book of 132 mares, while in the Northern Hemisphere breeders are now expecting his first foals.

Aquis Farm are offering a bonus payment scheme for buyers that secure yearlings at Magic Millions by their first crop sires Divine Prophet and Kiss and Make Up.

Champion sire Fastnet Rock clocked up his 100th Graded stakes-winner at the weekend in the US when five year-old entire Desert Stone captured the Group II San Gabriel Stakes at Santa Anita.

With his first Australian bred progeny about to light up the sale ring at the Magic Millions Yearling Sale at the Gold Coast this week Coolmore Triple Crown hero American Pharoah has been quick to post his first winner of 2020 with promising colt Phast Pharoah breaking his maiden at Santa Anita on Saturday.

Throughout January, Victoria’s Sun Stud will be supporting those affected by the devastating bushfires by donating $1,000 for every winner by a Sun Bloodstock owned horse, plus $200 for every winner sired by a stallion on the Sun Stud roster.

The late, great Coolmore stallion High Chaparral (IRE) may have celebrated more prestigious wins in his glittering career but Saturday was a real financial windfall for the son of Sadler’s Wells.

The Scott Brunton-trained Mandela Effect had a long and fruitful campaign in Victoria last year, which began with a win at Bendigo in March and culminated with a defeat of Ranier at Flemington on Mackinnon Stakes day on November 19.

Swettenham Stud’s shuttler Toronado (IRE) has been riding a wave of success of late and he enjoyed another successful day on Saturday with the progressive 3yo filly Mrs Beckham winning at Caulfield before another 3yo filly, Still A Star, became her sire’s first stakes-winner in Australia with a dominant performance in the  Ladbrokes Tasmanian Guineas (1600m) at Launceston.

No black-type but a Group 1 prize for the connections of the High Chaparral (IRE) gelding A Man To Match who not only pocketed the $145,000 winners cheque as the inaugural winner of the $250,000 The Tab Wave (1800m) at the Gold Coast but had it topped off with another $200,000 for being a Magic Millions graduate.

The glorious looking chestnut Wisdom Of Water credited his sire Headwater with his first winner when successful in Saturday’s $125,000 Aquis Gold Nugget Quality at the Gold Coast and will return to the same track in seven days as a winning chance in the $2 million Magic Millions 2YO Classic.

The Toby and Trent Edmonds-trained Queen Kay defeated her better-fancied stablemate Smart 'N' Sexy in Saturday’s $125,000 Aquis Gold Pearl Quality at the Gold Coast, which was not just a blow to punters but looks to have cost the runner-up a spot in next week’s Magic Millions 2yo Classic.  

Two hundred metres out in Saturday’s Hyland Race Colours Hcp at Randwick-Kensington, the $1,700,000 Exceed And Exceed colt Osamu looked set for a winning debut when he ambled to the lead on a tight rein by James McDonald but out of the pack from near last emerged the Snitzel debutant Philizzy.

Superstar three-year-old Probabeel proved a class above her age-group rivals when she made a winning start to her summer campaign over 1400m at Awapuni on Saturday.

The Victorian Thoroughbred Racing Industry is concerned for all people and horses currently affected by the Australian bushfires, both within the racing industry and amongst the wider community.

Time to have a look at the offering from Newgate Farm’s Extreme Choice who has 14 lots set to go under the hammer at Magic Millions Gold Coast next week.

A $1,050,000 Inglis Easter purchase from the Yarraman Park draft for China Horse Club / John O'Shea Racing / Boomer Bloodstock (FBAA), talented three year-old colt Quantico opened his account at Canterbury on Friday night.

Blue-blooded Pierro colt Untamed kicked off his career with a stylish debut victory on Friday night at Canterbury carrying the China Horse Club colours.

The first running of the VOBIS Sires Guineas (1600m), the new $500,000 race open exclusively to the three-year-old progeny of Victorian stallions, will prove a significant addition to Victorian Owners and Breeders Raceday at Caulfield on Saturday, 18 April 2020.

Boutique Southern Highlands based nursery Lime Country Thoroughbreds have consigned a top class draft of 15 yearlings for Magic Millions 2020 including a filly by champion sire Written Tycoon from triple Melbourne Cup winner Makybe Diva.

American Pharoah has been off to a flyer in the northern hemisphere so there’ll be plenty of interest in his stock at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling and you can see them in our First Season Sire Gallery.

Four colts that include the full brother to a champion and the full brother to the Magic Millions 2YO Classic favourite make this draft preview a sneak peek at some potential sale ring super stars at the Gold Coast next week.

Past success makes for future winners so a visit to the Sledmere Stud draft is one likely to be well rewarded.

Champion sire Fastnet Rock produced the quinella in the juvenile maiden at Geelong on Thursday with the Yulong Investments colours carried to a very easy victory by the winner.

A talented son of ill-fated champion sire Hinchinbrook (Fastnet Rock), he will stand alongside Flemington Group 1 winner Awesome Rock (Fastnet Rock) and although his service fee is yet to be confirmed although it’s expected to be the in the $5,000 range. 

The Tony Pike-trained Not Ideal indicated he has a promising future ahead of him after he maintained his winning ways at Tauranga.

The winning run of trainer Jamie Richards and the Te Akau Racing team continued at Tauranga on Thursday when Byzantine scored over 1400m in rating 72 company.

Wow! there are some serious bluebloods contesting the Hyland Race Colours Hcp on the Kensington track at Randwick on Saturday while up at the Gold Coast it’s the last chance saloon for those looking to force a place into next weeks $2 million Magic Millions 2YO Classic with big fields in the Aquis Gold Pearl Quality for fillies and the Aquis Gold Nugget Quality for colts and geldings.

Mill Park can lay claim to having produced 17 Group I winners and smart buyers will be heading to the Gold Coast to discover their next generation of champions at Magic Millions.

Two of Australia’s biggest farms in Arrowfield and Coolmore have very different stallion rosters, but in the instance of this nick they have created a match made in heaven.

The Group III Chinese Club Challenge Cup (1400m) at Sha Tin on New Year’s Day was won in commanding style by exciting gelding Golden Sixty, an Aussie bred son of Darley’s champion sire Medaglia D’Oro (USA), whose last crop of Southern Hemisphere bred yearlings will be a highlight at MM 2020.

Plenty of interesting two year-old trials around the country in the past week so here are all the placegetters with their breeding and sale information.

Coolmore shuttler No Nay Never (USA) spent a season in South America before he started visiting Australia and that lone crop of now three year-olds has delivered a Group I winner when Brooke proved a class above her rivals when taking the Grade 1 Premio Las Oaks at Club Hipico de Santiago earlier this week.

The fairy-tale comeback of Cambridge galloper Julius (NZ) (Swiss Ace) was completed at Ellerslie on New Year’s Day when the gentle giant took out the Group 1 Sistema Railway (1200m).

A field of battled hardened old warriors lined up for the Listed Bagot Handicap at Flemington on New Year’s Day and at the end of the 2800 metres mere inches separated the first two across the line.

Robbie Griffiths has not been in the best of health in recent times but if he needed a pick-me-up he found it with his homebred Magnus gelding Halvorsen who had the honour of being the first stakes-winner in Australia in 2020 when he powered to victory in the Group III Standish Handicap (1200m) at Flemington.

The winners keep coming from Edinburgh Park, which is why Ian Smith’s boutique draft for Magic Millions is not to be missed featuring colts by champion sires Written Tycoon and Exceed and Excel that are seen as the pick of the draft.

Talented three-year-old Dragon Leap (Pierro) stamped his Derby credentials with his winning effort in the Group II Jamieson Park Auckland Guineas (1600m) at Ellerslie on Wednesday.

A past track record of success and a sensational draft of yearlings by leading sires makes the Sledmere draft a must inspect at any sale.

The first five across the line in the Press Statement @ Vinery Maiden (1100m) at Randwick-Kensington on New Year’s Day were vying to become the first winner for their respective sires but there was a dominant winner in the Tulloch Lodge debutant Vangelic who was the equal most expensive lot by her sire Vancouver at the 2019 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale.

Exciting juvenile Play That Song (NZ) (Showcasing) maintained her unbeaten record when she downed hot favourite Not An Option (Not An Option) to win the first of the feature races at Ellerslie on New Year’s Day, the Gr.2 Barneswood Farm Eclipse Stakes (1200m).

The Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-trained A Beautiful Night put one on the board for Darley Stud’s one season shuttler Night of Thunder (IRL) when she finished best to down a gallant Bombay Rocket in the New Year Sprint (1000m) down the straight at Flemington.

Ciaron Maher and David Eustace took the wraps off this $1.6million Snitzel colt for the first time on New Year’s Eve and got the perfect result.

Time to take a look at the yearlings by Vinery Stud’s Star Turn at Magic Millions 2020, and being by an undoubtedly precocious galloper they should be ideal Magic Millions candidates.

When you can hang your hat on a $2.4 million earning horse like Invincibella, you just know every buyer will be stopping in to see what you have to offer at Magic Millions in 2020.

Well known NSW breeder Ian Smith of Edinburgh Park was one of the first breeding industry participants to take a meaningful public stance on what happens to horses after racing, announcing on the ABC’s 7.30 program that all horses carrying his brand can always come home and that brand will be seen to advantage at the Gold Coast at the 2020 Magic Millions Yearling Sale.

Next cab off the rank in our Magic Millions First Season Sire Gallery is Aquis Farm’s Caulfield Guineas winner Divine Prophet.

Five heats for juveniles at the Rosehill trials on Monday included  some eye-catching winners including Godolphin’s Lonhro colt Beyliks, who was placed in the Group III ATC Breeders Plate.

Three heats for juveniles at the Newcastle barrier trials on Monday produced some interesting winners including the colt that topped the 2019 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale.

Bulls trainer Bryce Newman wanted a tough run for his stayer Gorbachev ahead of next month’s Gr.3 NZ Campus Of Innovation & Sport Wellington Cup (3200m) and that is just what jockey Ryan Elliot delivered in their Harcourts Taupo Cup With Fasttrack $5K (2000m) victory on Monday.

In a game sometimes confused by marketing froth and bubble, the investment of a number of notable industry insiders, hard earned money, can really stand out.

By a Magic Millions 2yo Classic winner out of a filly that was first past the post in a Magic Millions 2yo Classic who herself is out of a Magic Millions 2yo Classic winner, that sounds a winning recipe for a filly in the Kitchwin Hills draft heading to the Gold Coast.

The 2019-20 New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year Series stretches out beyond 1600 metres for the first time in Wednesday’s fifth leg, the $100,000 Group 2 Valachi Downs Royal Stakes (2000m) at Ellerslie.

A week on from a thrilling win by True Enough (Nom du Jeu) in the first leg of the NZB Insurance Weight-for-Age Triple Crown, the NZB Insurance Sprint Triple Crown is set to get off to a spectacular start of its own in Wednesday’s $200,000 Group 1 Sistema Railway (1200m) at Ellerslie.

Fresh from a treble on Boxing Day, champion Sydney-based jockey James McDonald is eager to return to Ellerslie on New Year’s Day with further black type success in his sights.

A big Magic Millions mover for the 2YO Classic put the spotlight on a well-known nick over the weekend.

Dashing grey sprinter Big Party scored a commanding victory in the Group III Bauhinia Sprint Trophy (1000m) at Sha Tin on Sunday bringing a huge pedigree update for his full brother that will be offered at Magic Millions 2020.

He’s the highest rated son of Medaglia d’Oro, famously handsome, and winner of the Gr.1 Golden Rose so let’s take a look at the first offerings of Astern at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale.

A son of the Group 1 AJC Australian Derby and Group 1 VRC Australian Guineas heroine Shamrocker, the 2yo Lord Kanaloa colt Satono Shalom made the perfect start to his track career in a 2000m Newcomer race at Hanshin on Saturday.

Magic Millions have released the updated order of entry for the Magic Millions 2YO Classic with the James Harron Bloodstock purchased duo King’s Legacy and Nitrous the big movers.

Widden Stud bred Stratum Star was a $165,000 Magic Millions graduate from the 2013 Gold Coast Sale and 2020 will see the first of his progeny to grace sale rings around Australia.

Alligator Blood and King's Legacy swept the features on a brilliant day of racing on Saturday as Eagle Farm hosted the annual Road to Magic Millions Raceday.

The $1 million Magic Millions Fillies and Mares race at the Gold Coast on January 11 will be the next stop for the Shane Nichols-trained Tahitian Dancer after the daughter of Dawn Approach (IRE) came from near the tail of the field under Damien Oliver to earn a maiden stakes success in Saturday’s Nudgee Quality (1200m) at Eagle Farm.

Tough-as-teak Nicconi 6yo gelding Niccanova carried his top weight of 59kgs to an all the way win in Saturday’s Listed Bernborough Handicap (1600m) at Eagle Farm.

Winner of the Group III The Nivison at Randwick on October 26, Madam Rouge blotted her copybook when last at her most recent start in the Group II Hot Danish Stakes at Rosehill where she never saw daylight, but the daughter of Zoustar was back at the top of her game in Saturday’s Listed Christmas Classic at Randwick.

A striking Redoute’s Choice colt with a stallions pedigree, King’s Legacy had plenty riding on his performance in Saturday’s Group III Magic Millions B.J. McLachlan Stakes, not the least being he needed to win to earn a place in the $2 million Magic Millions 2yo Classic at the Gold Coast in a fortnight.

A red hot favourite for the upcoming $2million Magic Millions 3YO Guineas at the Gold Coast, exciting All Too Hard gelding Alligator Blood again showed his dominance with a commanding win in the Group III BRC Magic Millions Vo Rogue Plate (1400m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday.

There were emotional scenes in the Timaru birdcage following the running of the Listed Craigmore Sustainable Holdings Ltd Timaru Cup (1600m) on Saturday as the connections of Who Dares Wins waited for their pride and joy to return to the winner’s enclosure.

Darley Stud’s Epaulette can sure get a runner and you don’t have to pay a million dollars for them, which makes him very attractive for syndicators like Prime Thoroughbreds Joe O’Neil.