Magic Albert / Shine On Anna Filly

½ Sister to impressive debut 2 yo winner Alaskan Sun

I’ve always regarded Shine On Anna as probably the best filly I have syndicated.  The impressive daughter of Anabaa only raced five times winning twice at Flemington and Caulfield.  She was slaughtered in her first start at Morphettville and placed at her other two starts. Two of the fillies placed behind her at Caulfield and Flemington went on to be Group and Listed winners and she gave them a cold on both occasions when she went past them.  I’m certain she would have been a major player had she run in the 1000 Guineas at Caulfield. Unfortunately an injury ended her career.

When she completed her racing career she was sold at auction and I purchased her back for two of the owners that raced her.  She has now had three foals to race.  The first of these is the four year old Annaman who has taken time to mature but started putting it together during his last preparation winning a Saturday race at Doomben by 6 ½ lengths.  The 2nd is Shining Brooke.  She won as a two year old and is now back in work.  We have high hopes for her and feel she will get better as she matures.

Yesterday at Ballarat her 3rd foal Alaskan Sun scored an impressive win at Ballarat on debut.  The two year old filly was back in the field but unleashed an enormous sprint to win by 1 ½ lenths and looks to have plenty of upside.

The one issue Shine On Anna has is that she has big foals and after the two Hinchinbrook fillies had issues being born we decided to send her to Magic Albert to get a smaller foal.  This worked with the filly I am offering having no issues at birth and is very athletic.  She is being syndicated as a 10 share partnership @ $8,500 per share.  5% shares are available at $4,250.  Tony Gollan will train the filly for us.  More details are available later in this dispatch.

I must say most of January was a blur but we got a lot done and move into February with all the yearlings I purchased having been well received.  The next few weeks are quite frantic.  I was at the Gold Coast on Monday inspecting some of the yearlings I purchased earlier in the year.  They are all in great shape and will head to the breakers in the coming weeks.  

On Thursday I head to Sydney for the Inglis Classic Sale.  It appears a good catalogue on paper and always throws up some nice horses.  The last yearling I purchased at the Classic Sale was the stakes winning mare Savoureux.  

I head back to Melbourne on 9 February and plan to get the January accounts out before heading to Perth on Friday for the WA Magic Millions Sale.  I have only purchased three yearlings from this sale with Raido, Maldicion and Invincible Me being quite handy horses.

On Tuesday I fly from Perth to Launceston for the Tasmanian Magic Millions sale and then the Oaks meeting on the Sunday.  The Inglis Premier sale is in early March followed by the Adelaide Magic Millions Sale.  Magic Millions flew me to Adelaide on Tuesday to speak to their breeders, trainers and some owners.  I enjoyed it and was well received.  

The last eight horses I have purchased from Adelaide Magic Millions have yielded seven winners including four winners of Magic Millions races.  These four are Husson Eagle ($1 million Magic Millions Sprint), Atalanta Miss (Adelaide Magic Millions 2 Years Old Classic), Rumeron (Tasmanian magic Millions Three Years Old Classic) and Rose Of Scotland (Tasmanian Magic Millions Two Years Old Classic).

Incidentally, the 8th yearling is Hussy’s Glow who was unlucky not to win in Adelaide on debut on Saturday.  She is being aimed at the $200,000 2016 Adelaide Magic Millions Classic    

A VERY SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY

I know many of our clients would love to become a part of the Syndicate to race the Savabeel / On Broadway colt but feel he is out of their reach. I have decided to form a syndicate to race 10% of the colt.  Shares will be 1% each @ $6,750 each with all costs up until 1 August covered.  He is by far the most expensive colt I have purchased at $561,000 incl GST.  

He is a stunning horse that will be directed towards the classics with John Thompson to train him at Randwick.  He is a ¾ brother to Dowager Queen.

He has been paid up for the rich Magic Millions Series. Get in touch if you are interested in getting into him.

John Thompson inspected all the Savabeel yearlings on offer in NZ and said this colt would have been the most expensive had he gone through that sale.

ON THE TRACK

On Friday we have Bella Venus running in Hobart, More Than A Rose resuming at the Sunshine Coast and Lomazzo heading to Canberra. On Saturday we are likely to have Makeadane running at Randwick.