The Newgate Consignment of mares were in hot demand at the record breaking Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale this week with 28 glorious girls selling for a total of $13,205,000 to put us second on the leading vendor by aggregate list behind only the Shadwell Dispersal.
The top seller in our draft was Group II winning racemare Mizzy, who sold on the first day of the sale for $2.2million to Tom Magnier.
“She’s one of the nicest physicals at the sale,” Magnier said of the five year-old daughter of Zoustar.
“We’re delighted to get her.
“It’s for a new partnership. She’s a lovely, quality mare and in fairness she should have been a Group One winner.
“(Her price) shows you the strength of the market here in Australia at the moment. It’s a great indication that Magic Millions have one of the best sales in the world going on.”
A $675,000 investment at the Inglis Chairman’s Sale last year for Newgate Farm on Group I winning mare Volpe Veloce paid big dividends on Thursday, when the daughter of Foxwedge sold for $1.9million.
Presented in foal to I Am Invincible in her first season at stud, Volpe Veloce was bought by Sheamus Mills Bloodstock (FBAA)/Longwood Thoroughbred Farm/Peter Morgan, so will join the long line of superior mares headed back to Victoria after this sale.
Bred originally by Nick Vass, Volpe Veloce was foaled and raised at Newgate and was from the first crop of Newgate Farm’s foundation sire Foxwedge.
She was sold as a weanling by Newgate at the 2014 Magic Millions National Sale for $120,000 to renowned New Zealand based pinhookers Lyndhurst Farm and was then re-offered in their draft at Karaka selling for $240,000 to Richardson Racing.
She was an immediate success winning her first seven races in a row and went on to win the Group I ARC Railway Stakes (1200m) among her seven stakes victories and retired with earnings in excess of $600,000.
Volpe Veloce is that rare thoroughbred that has made money for everyone ever involved with her and she will undoubtedly become a most valuable asset for her new owner Michael Christian and his team at Longwood Thoroughbred Farm.
“We are very, very pleased,” Michael Christian said.
“She’s an absolute queen.
“It’s an absolute privilege to be able to buy her and we’re able to bring her home to Longwood which is great.
“She will be on the farm for the next 12 years and hopefully produce some really nice foals and hopefully we can have a lot of fun over that time.”
Newgate also sold $1million mares Diddles, a stakes-placed daughter of Snitzel, and Jedastar, a stakes-placed daughter of I Am Invincible.
Diddles was in foal to Deep Field in her first season at stud and bought by Daandine Stud/Boomer Bloodstock, while Jedastar was in foal to Zoustar in her first season at stud and bought by Torryburn Stud.
