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Exciting Magic Millions three-year-old Whypeeo bounced back from a first-up defeat in Sydney to win the Listed Gold Edition Plate at Doomben on Saturday and provide his sire I Am Invincible with his 25th stakes winner.
Trained by Toby Edmonds, Whypeeo was purchased by Blue Sky Bloodstock for $200,000 at last year's Gold Coast Yearling Sale.
Edmonds said Whypeeo would have his next start in the G3 Vo Rogue Plate (1350m) at Doomben on December 30. A decision will then be made whether he targets the $2 million Magic Millions 3YO Guineas at the Gold Coast on 13 January or the shorter $1 million Magic Millions Sprint (1200m) on the same program.Jeff Lloyd and @EdmondsRacing back in the winners circle with talented gelding Whypeeo who controls the race out in front and holds off the fast finishing Pierata in the Listed Gold Edition Plate. @racing_qld pic.twitter.com/RDeowu17LX
— Sky Racing (@SkyRacingAU) December 16, 2017
Whypeeo (I Am Invincible x Sunset Boulevard by Fasliyev) has won four of his six starts, earning $166,960.
The 3YO is one of six winners for his dam Sunset Boulevard (Fasliyev), among them the G2 Angus Armanasco Stakes winner Meliora (Ad Valorem).His second dam Miasmatic (Warning) is a half-sister to Tigava (Machiavellian), the dam of Listed winner Inetrobil (Bertolini) and stakes-placed colt Mac Leader (Sagamix).
Whypeeo was bred by Yarraman Park Stud, who sold Sunset Boulevard at the 2015 Australian Broodmare Sale for $70,000. She was subsequently sold again at the 2016 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale.She has a two-year-old colt by Dundeel sold for $NZ250,000 at the 2017 New Zealand Bloodstock Premier Yearling Sale at Karaka to Astute Bloodstock and a Dundeel colt born this year.
The Tony Gollan trained Most Important gave I Am Invincible his second stakes win on the Doomben program in the Listed Lough Neagh Stakes (1350m).The 5YO Most Important (I Am Invincible x Orange Marmalade by Stravinsky) also won the Lough Neagh Stakes in 2016.
A son of I Am Invincible, Most Important was purchased for $260,000 at the 2014 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale and with a $500,000 Summer Crown bonus he landed last year has now earned over $1.2 million for his connections.Most Important is one of 25 individual stakes winners by I Am Invincible, who sired a stakes double at Doomben and has 44 yearlings catalogued for the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale in January.
The $1 million Magic Millions Sprint (1200m) on January 13 is the likely aim for Robert Heathcote's speedster Pinch River after first-up win in the Listed Bribie Handicap (1000m).The 6YO Pinch River was purchased by Paul Willetts for $85,000 from the Musk Creek Farm draft at the Gold Coast Yearling Sale in 2013.
Pinch (Denman x Avenue Girl by Catbird) was having his first start since April and gave Heathcote a winning double at the Doomben meeting.
