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Coolmore, Mulcaster and Waller team up for son of I Am Invincible on the Gold Coast.

Less than 20 minutes after the 2021 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale got underway, a colt by I Am Invincible (Invincible Spirit) - a half-brother to 2019 South Australian Derby (Gr 1, 2500m) winner Qafila (Not A Single Doubt) - created early fireworks after he was also purchased by Coolmore, Mulcaster and Waller for $800,000. 

Catalogued as Lot 7  and offered by Attunga Stud, the colt is out of the placed Tapit (Pulpit) mare Zighy Bay, whose only winner is the aforementioned Qafila, who was purchased by Shadwell Stud for $450,000 from the Attunga Stud draft at the 2017 edition of the sale. 

Zighy Bay herself is a half-sister to Japanese Grade 1 winner Mozu Superflare (Speightstown) and American Grade 3 scorer Sacristy (Pulpit) - the dam of Listed winner and Grade 1-placed Flor De La Mar (Tiznow). 

It was another good result for Attunga Stud who have sold three of Zighy Bay's progeny at this sale for total receipts of $1,750,000 and Nutt said he was confident the colt would sell well. 

"It was a really good result," Nutt told Racing & Sports. "We thought there would be a lot of people that would have half a million for him, but where it was going to stop no one knew, but luckily we had a few people sticking to $800,000 for him. 

"We were fortunate that we had Coolmore and Guy Mulcaster working as a team and I believe the underbidder Craig Rounsefell. 

"The closest similarity between him and Qafila was the walk. Qafila wasn't a typical nuggety, short-coupled Not A Single Doubt, she had a bit of size and scope to her just like this horse, but the walk was exactly the same."

Of the sale so far, Nutt commented: "I think it's going OK. I think for day one the clearance is good. It looks like the vendors are being reasonably realistic with their reserves."

Mulcaster said he had been impressed with the colt when he saw him during the farm inspections last month. 

"We saw him on the farm about a month ago and he really attracted our eye then and we targeted him as one of a few horses that we're going to have a go at today," Mulcaster told Racing.com. 

"He's going to go to our colts syndicate and be trained by Chris Waller."

"He ticked all the boxes, as they say – you hear it every time there's an interview done – but he was a lovely nice moving horse and I Am Invincible is such a great sire. I didn't think he was going to take too long and the mare's done a good job.

"Qafila, the other one out a mare, was winning from 1000 to 2500 (metres), so she was very versatile and this colt will just tell us in time where he ends up."

Later on in the afternoon, Mulcaster and Waller teamed-up to buy another I Am Invincible - this time a filly, who they paid Three Bridges Thoroughbreds $500,000 for. 

Catalogued as Lot 37, the filly is out of winning Exceed And Excel (Danehill) mare Alteza Real, making

 her a half-sister to South African Group 3 winner Alfolk (Lonhro). 

Alteza Real herself is a daughter of Group 1 winner Shindig (Straight Strike) - the dam of fellow elite level winner Shinzig (Danehill) and Listed scorer Strada (Danehill). 

Waller Racing and Mulcaster Bloodstock finished Tuesday as the day's leading buyer having spent $3,035,000 on eight lots at an average of $379,375.