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In between selling a couple of high-priced lots, Tom Magnier spent up on a colt

Coolmore is selling the banner lot at this year's Inglis Easter Yearling Sale but Tom Magnier also took time out to spend up himself on Sunday's opening day.

The Coolmore Australia boss paid $1.9 million for a colt by Zoustar out of three-time Group 1 runner-up Fundamentalist.

The colt was offered by Segenhoe Stud and Magnier said he was the ideal model for his colts' fund, which use Chris Waller to train their horses.

"He floated around the sales complex, he's obviously a big, strong horse with loads of quality," Magnier said.

"He's a lovely colt, a great mover and it's a family that we all know.

"Chris will train and everybody just really liked him. He was one of the stars of the week, so fingers crossed."

The Zoustar colt was sold just minutes after Coolmore sold a filly by the same sire out of dual Group 2 winner and two-time Group 1 placegetter Formality for $950,000, while Zoustar later had a filly from the Sledmere Stud draft also sell for $950,000.

On Monday, Coolmore will offer the filly by Pierro out of Winx who will almost certainly end the sale the highest-priced lot of the elite offering.

But at the time he sold, the $1.9 million Zoustar colt was the equal second highest-priced yearling sold in Australia in 2024.

The only more expensive was the $2.1 million colt by Wootton Bassett out of Avantage that Coolmore sold to Te Akau Racing's David Ellis at Magic Millions on the Gold Coast in January.

The $1.9m Zoustar colt was the first seven-figure yearling of the Easter sale with the first filly to top $1m being the Snitzel-Hips Don't Lie youngster, who was also part of the Coolmore draft, which sold to Kia Ora Stud and TFI for $1.1 million.