列度選擇子嗣創今屆神奇百萬拍賣會既新紀錄
After looking stone dead at $1.9million, bidding gathered momentum again before the much admired Redoute's Choice-Gypsy Dancer colt sold for $2.2million on the Gold Coast today.
A three-quarter-brother to Champion 2YO Dance Hero, the colt was previously a record-priced Australian weanling, when sold at this complex last June for $1.15million.
Patinack Farm opened the bidding at $1million and after a sustained duel with Sydney trainer Tim Martin, Patinack's Managing Director Roger Langley held the final call.
Anthony Cummings will train the colt.
“We are definitely planning to bring this colt back next year (for the Magic Millions 2YO Classic). He's a very strong, forward type of horse,” Langley said.
“An ideal two-year-old that's got everything that we are looking at – an ideal sire prospect and quite simply a very exciting horse to have.”
Auctioneer Julian Blaxland was a muscle twitch away from dropping the hammer at $1.9million before the colt was eventually knocked down for an additional $300,000.
It represents a very good result for Coolmore Stud, who purchased the weanling at last year's Magic Millions National Weanling Sale.
Coolmore also purchased the mare Gypsy Dancer at the same sale for $1.5million and she has since produced another Redoute's Choice colt, but slipped to Encosta De Lago last year.
Coolmore's farm manager Peter O'Brien described the most recent colt as “outstanding.”
She will go to Encosta De Lago again this year.
“I thought he would make around the $2million mark,” Coolmore's Michael Kirwan said.
“There was a lot of interest from all parties. It's proved to be a good investment.”
The sale eclipses the previous Magic Millions record of $2million, which was set here last January for the Sadler's Well-Sunday Joy colt.
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