A powerful Deep Field filly foal sold for $220,000 to top Vinery Stud’s Day 1 draft during the Magic Millions National Weanling Sale at the Gold Coast on Thursday.
Sold by Vinery (as agent), she was purchased by Suman Hedge in partnership with Redwall Bloodstock’s David Redvers and Hannah Wall. Catalogued as Lot 37, she was the first Vinery foal to parade during the two-day Sale.
“She made our shortlist of the top three or four fillies in the Sale,” Hedge said. “She’s very strong and looks a running type. Trainers will gravitate to her and we think she will be an ideal pinhook for the Yearling Sale here in January.
“Deep Field is a top-class stallion and it’s a pity he’s not serving any more. The filly’s dam Alliterate won a Wellington Boot so she should scoot along.”
Alliterate (Al Maher) is a half-sister to Alart (Excellent Art) who won a LR Reginald Allen Hcp at Randwick for trainer Pat Farrell in 2015. She is owned by successful owner-breeder Alan Bell who also raced Deep Field (Northern Meteor) to a Group 2 victory in the 2014 Linlithgow Stakes (1200m) at Flemington.
British-based Redwall Bloodstock also weighed in with $175,000 for Vinery’s Farnan colt from Insta Erma (Lot 222). The dam won a Group 3 Ladies Turf Stakes at Kentucky Downs and is now owned by Kia Ora Stud.
Redvers and Wall have a second-to-none record pinhooking in Australia. They buy up to ten foals out here each season and among their most lucrative buys in recent years have been a Zoustar colt ($310,000 to $900,000), Frosted (USA) filly ($300,000 to $650,000) and Zoustar filly ($230,000 to $650,000).
Vinery sire Ole Kirk had a first-crop colt from Ducale (Lot 143) make $130,000 to the bid of Victorian-based Diamond Park owner Jeremy Payne. “Our agent Bevan Smith liked him and reckoned he’s built just like Ole Kirk,” Payne said. “Clint Galliott is also in the colt and, hopefully, he makes a profit when we bring him back here next year.”
Ducale (I Am Invincible) was a Canterbury 2yo winner for Paul Perry and she is a full-sister to Group 3 GCTC Ken Russell Classic winner Nettuno. Their dam Saint Minerva (Galileo) won a Group 3 QTC Grand Prix.
Payne has operated Diamond Park for six years at Longwarry, 90km south-east of Melbourne and among his best gallopers to date has been Jakpil (The Pug) who won Stakes races in Melbourne and Adelaide in the 1990s.
“We purchased a Capitalist colt out of Haraka from Vinery here last year,” Payne recalled. “He cost us $260,000 and we came back to the Gold Coast in January and Trilogy Racing bought him for $430,000.”
The Capitalist colt is the second foal of Irish-bred mare Haraka (Fastnet Rock) who was a 2yo winner in England. Second-dam Luna Wells (Sadlers Wells) won a Group 1 Prix Saint-Alary at Longchamp.
A Deep Field – Luce filly (Lot 256) is the first Vinery foal to go under the hammer at the Gold Coast on Friday. Her dam is a full-sister to Lumosty who was a Group 2 winner of a MVRC Fillies Classic and MRC Caulfield Sprint in 2014-15.
