Magic Millions Releases Gold Coast Yearlings Catalog

The first yearlings by Anamoe (AUS) and Jacquinot (AUS) plus full siblings to In Secret (AUS), Sunlight (AUS), Super Seth (AUS), and Stefi Magnetica (AUS) are among the highlights in the catalog for January's Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale. The five-day sale will kick off Jan. 13, a week later than normal, with inspections beginning on the Gold Coast. The AU$7.3 million Magic Millions Gold Twilight meeting will take place on the Gold Coast Jan. 10, and the AU$13.25 million Magic Millions Raceday will take place at the same track a week later Jan. 17. Well-related offspring of proven sires Extreme Choice (AUS), Zoustar, I Am Invincible, and Snitzel (AUS) also feature, along with the progeny of rising stars such as Ole Kirk (AUS), Home Affairs (AUS), and Farnan (AUS). A slightly streamlined catalog has been assembled with 1,221 yearlings, down from 1,401 last January. That includes 980 lots in Book 1—down from 1,021—with 241 in Book 2, compared to 380 in 2025. Magic Millions managing director Barry Bowditch said the 2026 sale could be expected to achieve "great results", not just for the pedigrees represented but for an exceptional physical crop of yearlings. "It's a catalog that will be extremely well received not only once people open it, but more so when they get on the farms and see the actual yearlings," Bowditch told ANZ News. "Physically speaking, it's an outstanding crop. "All the major players are heavily supporting the sale. All the right sires have big, big numbers. It's very exciting." Last January's Book 1 sale moved 769 yearlings grossing AU$207 million with an average of AU$269,000, down from 2024's figures of AU$225 million and AU$276,000 off 819 yearlings sold. One of the most in-demand yearlings at the sale is sure to be Lot 250, Segenhoe Stud's brother to In Secret, the dual elite winner of the Coolmore Stud Stakes (G1) and Newmarket Handicap (G1). The colt's sister fetched AU$2.3 million as the third-highest lot last January, while In Secret herself was a AU$900,000 yearling, also at Magic Millions Gold Coast. Much is expected also of Lot 835, Widden's full brother to triple group 1 queen Sunlight, who's now a stakes-winning producer herself, and whose daughter of Home Affairs topped last January's auction at a sale record of AU$3.2 million. Group 1 winner and top-flight-producing sire Super Seth's brother comes up as Lot 764 from Arrowfield's draft, while dual elite winner Stefi Magnetica's brother is Lot 537 from Cressfield's draft. International sires represented include Frankel (GB) with 12 lots, Kingman (GB) with three, Baaeed (GB), and Blame with two each, and Night of Thunder (IRE) with one. Bowditch said the slightly smaller catalog size—due mainly to having 139 fewer lots in Book 2 than last January—would allow a longer time for inspections of the secondary book. The Book 2 sale will also take place on only one day, as opposed to two days in previous years. "The smaller catalog is basically a Book 2 change," he said. "Our feedback was that it was very hard logistically to get horses into Book 2 and have them all parading at one time. "This year, the Book 2 horses will arrive when they arrive, not staggered, so they'll get a good amount of time for inspections."