Postponed due to the devastating Queensland Floods, the increasingly popular Magic Millions QTIS 600 Yearling Sale will be conducted this coming Sunday and Monday, 17 & 18 April 2011, at the Bundall Sales Complex.

All yearlings offered for sale will be eligible to pay up for close to $16 Million in prize-money – Racing for $5.05 million Magic Millions Race Series, and a further $10 million plus in added stakes and bonuses.

Success stories resulting from the QTIS 600 Scheme include:

Buffering (COST $22,000) 11 Starts 6-3-1-1 $459,900.00 (+ QTIS Bonus $147,000.00) –
Total $606,900 in prize-money and bonuses

Spirit of Boom (COST $ $90,000) 12 Starts 4-2-0-2 $249,650.00 (+ QTIS Bonus $63,000.00) –
Total $312,650 in prize-money and bonuses

Marking Time (COST $52,000) 11 Starts 2-2-1-2 $107,500.00 (+ QTIS Bonus $68,000.00) –
Total $175,500 in prize-money and bonuses

Flying Jet (COST $60,000) 3 Starts 1-0-1-0 $42,000.00 (+ QTIS Bonus $42,000.00) – Total
$84,000 in prize-money and bonuses

Gentle Giant (COST $22,000) 12 Starts 3-2-1-2 $80,650.00 (+ QTIS Bonus $108,000.00) –
Total $188,650 in prize-money and bonuses

The sale features some of the best sire lines in the country, with stallions represented including: Queensland’s reigning Champion Sire Show A Heart, and leading Australian 2YO Sires: Not A Single Doubt, Jet Spur, Stratum and Written Tycoon.

Queensland Stallions with their first 2YO runners in 2010/11 are well represented including: All Bar One, Red Dazzler, Hotel Grand, Nothing To Lose, Outback Prince, Chateau Istana, Collate, Bullmore & Dr Green all siring winners out of last year’s yearling sale series.

Highly sought after First Season Sires represented include: Court Command, Denmarket, Grand Reve, Haradasun, Henny Hughes, Host, Librettist, Mearas, Natural Destiny, Shaft, Wonderful World and Zizou.

Queensland’s stallion stocks have been boosted in recent months, with the announcement that Group Winners Capitan Sonador, Drumbeats, Monaco Consul and Rothesay will all be retiring to stud in Queensland for the 2011/12 season. Their first Yearlings will be at the Magic Millions Sales in 2014.

Auction starts from 10am.

To view the online catalogue for the QTIS 600 Yearling Sale – Click Here:

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Live Broadcast of the sale will commence from 10am on each sale day – Covering every lot in the Sales Ring – to View Click Here:

http://live.magicmillions.com.au/

There are currently over 500 Yearlings stabled at the Magic Millions Bundall Sales complex, and leading racing industry identities, local, interstate and international, are on site conducting inspections over the weekend.

Contact:

David Chester, Acting Managing Director, MOB 0410 683 466

Annie McDonald, Marketing Manager Sales, MOB 0417 727 516

(Please Note: Greg Irvine, Media Manager, is not contactable at this time, please refer all enquiries to David Chester and Annie McDonald)