Spendthrift Farm’s Australian dissolution will take the next important step with the sale of 95 broodstock, weaned juveniles and fingerlings in a two-stage unconserved dispersal beginning by Magic Millions at the end of this month.
The April 7 auction house announced 52 lots that will be cataloged in the Magic Millions Online Sale from April 19 to 20, including 21 hens, 22 weaners and 9 chicks.
Phase two will take place at the Gold Coast National Sale from May 19 to 28 with 12 lots offered through the National Weanling Sale and 31 lots during the National Broodmare Sale.
Buyers will have the opportunity to purchase high quality broodstock, including double bet winners Baccarat Baby (Casino Prince ), a 6-year-old half-sister with three mares won first place group 1 Duais (Shamus Prize) and 8-year-old Santa Monica (Per Incanto), winner of Ellerslie’s Railway Stakes (G1) in 2019.
This list also includes the 5-year-old Melbourne city winner Kuramae (Foxwedge ), half-sister to Forbidden Love (All Too Hard), and Joy At Last (More than ready ), an unranked 4-year-old half-sister to Castlereagh Kid (G2) winner Castlereagh Kid (Snitzel ) from the wonderful Denise’s Joy (Seventh Hussar) family.
The dispersal comes four months after Spendthrift announced the closure of its six-year-old Australian operation — based on their Victorian farm in Romsey — a decision made four months after the founder’s US death. giant livestock corporation B. Wayne Hughes .
The announcement of the sale will also show that the prospect of a buyer taking over Spendthrift Australia locks, warehouses and crates did not materialize.
Magic Millions chief executive Barry Bowditch said: “In recent years, the Spendthrift Australia team has assembled an excellent portfolio of Purebred breeds.” “There is an incredible mix of the best bloodlines from Australia and abroad. It is an honor and privilege to be offered 95 lots. This is a rare opportunity for a buyer to bid with confidence in quality blood at the no-reservation auction—whether online this month or at the Gold Coast National Sale.”
There is no word yet on the future of the farm’s four colony stallions, Dirty work, Excessive sharing, Swearand Gold Standardor Spendthrift racing stock and 600-acre property, former Yallambee Stud.
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Spendthrift’s stables now include a 2 year old pony trained by highly regarded Team Hawkes Sebonack (Capitalist), who won the Lamaros Hotel Presidents Share of Caulfield (G3) before strong fourth, having been defeated by just over a short time in the Blue Diamond Stake (G1), and the Team Digged by McEvoy create Mac ‘N’ Cheese (Sebring), a double-prize winner on the roster, who is currently the third favorite for the Australasian Oaks (G1) team.
Potential buyers keeping an eye on the volume on offer in the online sale, which will run for 28 hours of bidding, are asked to contact Spendthrift Australia to arrange an on-farm inspection.
That manuscript included four ponies and five young birds of Excessive sharingSwear, and Bolt d’Oro , the United States stallion stood one season in Australia. 22 weaners are mostly US bi-season shuttles Vino Rosso as well as Swear and Gold Standard, while 21 broodstock in the foal species to Omaha . Beach who also stood two seasons in Australia, plus Dirty Work, Gold Standard or Overshare.
Of the 31 mares that will attend the National Sale, all bars are ponies, mainly to Dirty Work and Omaha Beach. 12 weaners of Omaha Beach, Overshare, Vino Rosso, Abyss, and Super Seth.
Magic Millions has handled large distributions in the past, including those for Patinack Farm, Teeley Assets and Shadwell Stud.
“We are honored to be entrusted with this. We have worked very closely with Spendthrift in all aspects of their business in recent years,” Bowditch said. “They’ve invested a lot in Australia over the last decade and bought some of the best genealogy we have to offer, and that’s the fruit of this that the market will get when it comes to sales support.”
Magic Millions says a list of 52 online lots can be viewed at Magic Millions Online from April 11. Anyone who wants to import horses for sale can apply to participate until the night of April 12.
The company said sales categories for MM National Weanling and Broodmare will be announced “in the coming days.”
