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A look at how Wednesday’s Wyong feature winner stacks up against past victors.

Sovereign Fund out-performed the decade average in winning Wednesday's Magic Millions Wyong Classic, but he will still need to slightly elevate to win next month's 2YO Classic on the Gold Coast.

The Peter and Paul Snowden-trained colt, who cost $550,000 at this year's Gold Coast Yearling Sale, earned a Timeform figure of 107 for his 1-1/4-length win over Quasimoto and Summer Loving in the 1100-metre event at Wyong.

That is fractionally above the 105.7 average returned from the previous 10 winners of the $200,000 Listed event.

The best of those winners was Capitalist, the sire of Sovereign Fund, who went 112 when winning the 2015, which proved a stepping-stone to victory in the Gold Coast feature.

Unencumbered is the other horse to complete the Wyong-Gold Coast Magic Millions double in the past decade, having gone 109 at Wyong, while Karuta Queen's 113 returned in the 2009 edition is the highest rating returned in the Wyong Magic Millions Classic.

Karuta Queen also won the Magic Millions 2YO Classic on the Gold Coast.

Farnan (110), who was unplaced on the Gold Coast but won the Golden Slipper, and Unite And Conquer (108), who was also unplaced on the Gold Coast, are the only others to have rated higher than Sovereign Fund at Wyong in the past decade.

The average figure returned by Gold Coast Magic Millions winners in the past decade is 111 with Capitalist (116), Houtzen (113+) and Sunlight (113+) those to have gone higher than the average number in that time.

This year's $2.5 million Magic Millions 2YO Classic (1200m) will be run on the Gold Coast on Saturday, January 14.

Sovereign Fund jumped to the $11 line in TAB's Magic Millions market, which is headed by his Breeders Plate-winning stablemate Empire Of Japan ($5).