Coolmore goes Platinum
The most expensive of Coolmore’s Gold Coast haul was $3.5 million Gimcrack Stakes (Gr 3, 1000m)–winning filly Platinum Jubilee, who will not race again, with the stallion farm’s shuttler Wootton Bassett (Iffraaj) already earmarked as her maiden mating.
As well as being a sibling to her stablemate and Slipper winner Lady Of Camelot, the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained filly is also a half-sister to multiple Group 3 winner Queen Of The Ball (I Am Invincible), Platinum Jubilee was runner-up in both the Silver Slipper (Gr 2, 1100m) and a Magic Millions 2YO Classic (RL, 1200m) to go with her Group 3 victory.
“Obviously the mother has done more than most will ever hope to do; she’s the dam of a Golden Slipper winner [and] all first three foals are Group winners,” Coolmore’s Tom Moore said.
“This particular filly won her Gimcrack on debut and she’s the type of filly that we want to home in on to send to stallions like Wootton Bassett.
“We think that she can produce a commercial yearling, hopefully a top-class two-year-old in the future and she was one of the mares here that we really wanted to get home.”
The Sir Owen Glenn’s Go Bloodstock bred Platinum Jubilee and he remained in the syndicate that raced her and rather than pocketing his share of Tuesday’s proceeds, he has decided to retain his interest in the filly by joining the Coolmore-led breeding partnership.
She is one of three foals to race for the Listed-winning blue hen mare Miss Debutante (Fastnet Rock).
Platinum Jubilee is a member of Tulloch Lodge and Kestrel Thoroughbreds’ inaugural Valerie fillies syndicate. She was purchased by her trainers and Kestrel’s Bruce Slade for $600,000 out of the Newgate Farm consignment at the January Gold Coast sale in 2022.
The Sir Owen-owned Miss Debutante has a Flying Artie (Artie Schiller) rising two-year-old colt, a weanling sister to Queen Of The Ball, who was also recently retired to the Go Bloodstock broodmare band.