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Bought by Edmonds Racing and Kestrel Thoroughbreds from Daandine Stud.
Edmonds Racing and Kestrel Thoroughbreds bought a Sebring (More Than Ready) filly for $240,000 on Day 1 of the Magic Millions Gold Coast March Yearling Sale on Monday, the most expensive filly sold during the opening session.
Offered as Lot 153 by Daandine Stud, the August-foaled filly is the fourth foal out of the winning Husson (Hussonet) mare Go Again who has already produced two winners from as many foals to race.
The filly's second dam is Listed winner Danehill Smile (Danehill Dancer), dam of the stakes placed pair Feels Like Home (More Than Ready) and Street Dancer (Pride Of Dubai).
The filly had been due to sell at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale in January but after a small setback was offered here instead.
Bruce Slade of Kestrel Thoroughbreds told Racing & Sports Bloodstock that they had wanted to buy the Sebring filly back January and thought that $240,000 represented good value for a filly of her calibre.
"We fell in love with the Sebring filly back in January. She was set for the sale here in January and that shows how good a filly she is," he said.
"She didn't make it to that sale so she arrived at the QTIS sale and that gave her an extra couple of months. We thought that at $240,000, a filly by Sebring was good value buying. She's got a big pedigree and from a great cross."
Slade said that Sebring - Hussonet cross was another thing that attracted them to the filly. The cross has produced a strike rate of 69 per cent winners to runners headed by Group 1 winner Lucky Bubbles.
"Obviously that Sebring - Hussonet cross has produced a good number of winners from very few starters.
"It's a cross that we loved and the filly we loved. She has that natural precocity about her too, but she's got strength and scope to develop into a lovely three-year-old and then train on.
"She's a filly that has QTIS so she can work through her grades in Queensland and then hopefully in time campaign in the big races in Melbourne and Sydney."
Earlier in the day Edmonds Racing, Kestrel Thoroughbreds and Archer Park teamed up to buy a colt by Newgate Farm’s star first-season Capitalist (Written Tycoon) for $160,000 from the draft of Alexia Fraser Bloodstock.
Catalogued as Lot 19 the colt is the first foal out of the placed mare Athenry (Kaphero), who is a half-sister to six winners being out of the Listed placed Portview (Handy Proverb).
Her progeny are headed by Listed winner and 2001 TJ Smith Classic (Gr 1, 1600m) runner-up Barawin (Barathea) who in turn produced Group 3 winner De La Terre (Reliable Man), while the stakes placed Saddler's Silk (Barathea), who also placed third in the 2002 QTC Sires' Produce Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) is the dam of Listed winner Jerezana who is herself the dam of Group 2 winner Osborne Bulls (Street Cry).
Slade said he thought that the $160,000 paid represented good value for a colt by the Newgate Farm-based stallion.
"We really thought he was terrific buying early in the sale for $160,000," he said. "We've obviously seen a lot of Capitalists go through this year and I thought that a colt like him by the stallion in the other sales would make a lot more.
"He's a big, mature horse who has pretty much done all of his growing per our measurements. He's from a really fast two-year-old family. He's the first foal out of the mare and just about all of her half-sisters have produced stakes horses and he's an absolute beauty."
Slade said he thought the colt looked like a bay version of his sire.
"He's pretty much a bay version of his sire Capitalist and he's just doing a massive job," he said. "He's got three runners in the Slipper on Saturday and from his first crop. He's not only the leading first crop sire but he's the leading two-year-old sire heading the likes of Snitzel and I Am Invincible.
"He's a stallion that we have a lot of time for. We've got a couple of others in the yard and we are very big on him and we were just delighted to buy this horse for $160,000. I'm looking forward to getting him broken in, getting a saddle on and taking him from there."
The colt was the only lot bought by Edmonds Racing, Archer Park and Kestrel Thoroughbreds while Edmonds Racing and Kestrel Thoroughbreds spent $350,000 buying four lots on Monday to finish the day as the third leading buyer behind Morrisey Racing and Gollan Racing / John Foote Bloodstock.