First Sepoy yearlings sizzle on the Gold Coast

Sepoy’s first-crop yearlings set the Magic Millions sales ring on the Gold Coast alight January 7, selling up to $850,000 and averaging an incredible $367,500. In a year with an abundance of well-credentialed first-season sires, the former Champion two-year-old and world Champion three-year-old sprinter stole all the headlines.

The day’s top-priced lot was a Mill Park-consigned Sepoy filly, the first foal of Stakes winner Celebrity Girl bred by Trevor Robertson. After spirited competition she was eventually knocked down for $850,000 to New Zealand bloodstock agent Michael Wallace acting on behalf of the China Horse Club.

Sepoy’s highest-priced colt was lot 43 out of the Made Of Gold mare Academy Idol who has one of the leading contenders for Saturday’s Magic Millions Two-year-old Classic, the Stakes-placed Exceed And Excel filly Miss Idyllic. Consigned by Riversdale, the powerfully built colt was bought by David Raphael for $460,000 with Hong Kong’s George Moore the under-bidder.

Lot 115, a Sepoy colt out of Red Ransom mare Bondi Blonde was knocked down for $350,000 to BK Racing and Breeding while Newhaven Park’s Sepoy colt out of Domesday mare Zigzag was purchased by Ciaron Maher for $250,000.

Another first-season sire to be well received was G1-winning miler Poet's Voice whose first Australian-bred yearling to go through a sales ring was a filly out of Danehill mare Bells Will Ring. Sold as lot 108 by Millbrook, the filly was purchased by Astute Bloodstock for $140,000.

The sale continues tomorrow.