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Plans up in the air for weanling colt purchased at Magic Millions.

Rosemont Stud - in conjunction with other parties - purchased five weanlings over the two days of the Magic Millions National Weanling Sale and added two more youngsters to their portfolio at the auction on Friday, headed by colt by Written Tycoon (Iglesia), who they secured for $510,000. 

Catalogued Lot 383 and offered by Woodside Park, where Written Tycoon used to reside, the colt is the second foal out of 2017 Heatherlie Stakes (Listed, 1700m)-winning Not A Single Doubt (Redoute's Choice) mare Hell Or Highwater. 

Hell Or Highwater is herself a daughter of Listed winner Get Ready Bertie (More Than Ready) and she is the grandam of prolific Listed winner Tamborera (Maclean's Music). 

The colt's third dam is Grade 2 scorer De Bertie (De Niro) - the dam Grade 3 winner Whirlie Bertie (Stormin Fever) and Grade 3 scorer Uptown Bertie (More Than Ready). 

Being out of a Not A Single Doubt mare, the colt is bred on the same cross as dual Group 3 winner Enthaar and Rosemont's Ryan McEvoy told Racing & Sports Bloodstock he believed Not A Single Doubt would turn out to be one of the best broodmare sires in Australia. 

"We loved him and looked at him a number of times," he said. "He is a strong, powerful colt and looks fast, sort of in the mould of his father. There was good competition for him. I had a good look at the mare's form. She was probably at her best as a three and four-year-old, but she did show some precocity as a two-year-old and she did win a stakes race at a mile. 

"That cross has produced, arguably the fastest two-year-old of the season, in Enthaar, bred on the same cross and also Shaquero is also out of a Not A Single Doubt mare and I think he is going to make a phenomenal broodmare sire."

Rosemont Stud teamed up with Justin Bahen to secure a pair of colts by Fastnet Rock (Danehill) and Zoustar (Northern Meteor) for $1,300,000 and McEvoy said they would most likely join the Rosemont racing programme, but they may be more open-minded with the Written Tycoon colt. 

"The two yesterday (Thursday) probably almost certainly will go into the racing system, but today's colt we might be a little more open-minded to re-offering, but we will make a call over the next three or four months, depending on how he develops and then make a call," said McEvoy. 

Rosemont, in conjunction with other parties, purchased five weanlings for $2,160,000 at an average of $432,000.