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Great result for Cambridge Stud shuttler as Ultra and Baystone stretch to $800,000.
A colt from the first crop of Cambridge Stud shuttler Almanzor (Wootton Bassett) handed his sire a great result at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale on Thursday as Ultra Thoroughbreds Racing teamed up with Dean Harvey's Baystone Farm to secure the yearling for $800,000.
Catalogued as Lot 470 and offred by Bhima Thoroughbreds, the colt is out of two-time winning Group 2-placed Sebring (More Than Ready) mare Lazumba.
The colt's third dam is Group 2 winner Excited Angel (Don't Say Halo) - the dam of Group 3 scorer Aquiver (Danehill), while she is also the grandam of Group 2 winner Text'n Hurley (Hard Spun).
Further back this is the same family as Listed scorer Prayerful (Don't Say Halo) - 2017 Vinery Stud Stakes (registered as Storm Queen Stakes) (Gr 1, 2000m) winner Montoya's Secret (High Chaparral).
Dean Harvey told Racing & Sports Bloodstock the colt would be trained by Danny O'Brien, who said the youngster reminded him of his dual Group 1 winner Russian Camelot (Camelot).
"He was just a quality colt," said Harvey. "I actually didn't think he would make that sort of money, but you have to fight hard to get those sort of colts.
"Danny O'Brien is going to train him and he loved him. He thought he was quite similar to Russian Camelot on type and we were just very keen to get him. Danny O'Brien has trained these types of horses before and has done very well with him, including Russian Camelot.
"He will go through Danny's system and hopefully he can emulate a horse like that. Obviously it is his first crop, but he was a very good racehorse."
Harvey said the colt looked like he looked like he could be a back-end two-year-old, but would definitely flourish the older he gets.
"He had a beautiful big hip, a lovely overstep and a big step," said Harvey. "He is not the sort of two-year-old you are used to seeing at this sale, but I don't think he'll take too long to come to his own.
"He is going to be a backend two-year-old and really come into his own as a three-year-old. He doesn't look like an out and out two-year-old and I don't think he should be on his breeding, but in saying that he was still quite forward and had great muscle definition and lovely bone."
Almanzor has had three yearlings sell for an aggregate of $1,520,000 at an average of $506,667.
Meanwhile, fellow first-season sire Hellbent (I Am Invincible) also enjoyed a good result at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale on Thursday after Heinrich Bloodstock went to $500,000 for a Yarraman Park-consigned filly.
Catalogued as Lot 416, the filly is the first foal out of Group 3-placed Foreplay (Danehill) mare Jalan Jalan and she is herself a daughter of Listed-placed Impinge (Generous).
Group 1 winner Hellbent was retired to stand alongside his father at Yarraman Park in 2018 and he has had 22 yearlings sell this week for an aggregate of $4,030,000 at an average of $183,182.
Arthur Mitchell told Racing & Sports Bloodstock he had been pleased with the way the buyers had responded to the stallion's first-crop.
"She was certainly our best Hellbent in the draft and we weren't expecting her to make that much, but we were expecting her to sell well, so we were really happy with the result," said Mitchell. "She was a really lovely athletic filly.
"She was medium-sized filly with a lovely walk and she looks like she will run at two-year-old. She could have been a Vinnie or she could have been a Hellbent - lovely filly.
"The Hellbents have sold well across the board and I think they have sold well, with an average of $183,182 off a $25,000 service fee, that's pretty good going - we're delighted and the comments about him have been very positive, which is great."
