The two-day auction brings together a broad cross-section of yearlings from proven Western Australian stallions with a wave of emerging sires. A total of 79 stallions are represented, led by champion local sire Playing God with 52 yearlings.
Young people to winners of group 1 Arthur , Paul, State of tranquility And Stronger are part of the offer, in addition to local newcomers Aysar, LightsaberAnd Marine one.
Inspections have revealed a strong local and interstate buying bench, including trainers Grant and Alana Williams, Neville Parnham, Simon Miller, Luke Fernie and Dan Morton; while East Coast visitors include Sheamus Mills, Calvin McEvoy and Damon Gabbedy, Annabel Archibald, Johnny McKeever, Andy Makiv and First Light Racing.
Interest in the sale has undoubtedly been boosted by key graduates, a roll of honor added to this season and including the winner of the 2025 Railway Stakes (G1) Watch me rock and group 2 winners King of light And Super makeup.
Among the vendors generating a lot of attention during the inspections was Mogumber Park, whose graduate Maria Lucia landed the Magic Millions WA 2YO Classic at Pinjarra on February 14. The Bullsbrook-based operation will offer a depth of 22 yearlings.
Mogumber Park, managed by Colin Brown and Fiona Lacey, will present 14 yearlings from their first season regular sire, Marine One, and Brown said the son of Capitalist‘s offspring were well received during the inspections.
“From an industry perspective, it’s really nice to have three first-season bulls, and it’s really nice when each of them has a good number; they’re all in their 20s,” Brown said.
“One of the most important things, apart from the way they look – in terms of strong shoulders, deep girth, nice hindquarters, they walk nicely – but they have the personality of Marine One. They are all easy to work with. They are smart horses and they want to learn. The ones that have come here, you can see they are all in a good place.”
Despite the depth of Marine One’s first harvest, Brown admitted that Lot 145 has the strongest emotional connection to the farm.
He is the last foal of Clarecastle, the granddam of stakes winners Do I Feel Lucky and Maria Lucia. The Group 3-placed mare produced 10 foals and raced for nine winners, including listed winner Castle Road and stakes-placed trio Specialism, Royal Strata and More Special.
“He’s probably the one we have the most emotional connection with because we call him Omega. He’s the last of the Clarecastles. She’s got a two-year-old starting on Saturday, and that’s the only one she’s bred that’s gone to the races and hasn’t won a race yet, but she’s only got her third race start.
“They are all winning, and many are on the line. We lost her (Clarecastle) last year, so emotionally, that she may have left the best for last. He is a super horse and a wonderful family. We will be sad to see him go. He is the one for whom many tears will be shed when the hammer falls.”
The design also features Lot 68, a filly by the late Coolmore Stud stallion So You Think from Group 3 placegetter Rocket Fuel, which was picked up by Mogumber for AU$130,000 with the filly at the 2024 Magic Millions Gold Coast National Broodmare Sale.
“There was a lot of interest in her,” Brown said. “It doesn’t matter if people pay $100 or $1 million for a horse; they’ll talk about the way he walks. This filly would be the nicest, natural-walking horse on the complex – she’s a standout, a beautiful filly.”
Based on the atmosphere around the complex, Brown said he remained optimistic heading into the sale.
“We always go into a sale with optimism. If you go into a ‘glass half empty’ you’re in the wrong business. But I believe there have been more visitors this year than last year. I haven’t looked at my maps from last year, but the complex has been consistently busy. There have been no lows or dead spots.
Magic Millions Western Australia manager David Houston echoed that optimism, as he was confident sales would continue to deliver strong results.
“For three of the last four years we have had the largest cleanup in Australasia,” Houston told ANZ News. “Last year it kind of fell away. We’ve been one of the few, if not the only, sales that has been on an upward spiral in the last three or four years. We’ve come a long way to get to where we are today with a small sale in a small jurisdiction.”
The sale starts at 11am local time.
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