Great result as Newgate’s Stay Inside joins the $1 million club
There was plenty of hype surrounding the first-crop of Newgate Farm’s Golden Slipper Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) winner Stay Inside (Extreme Choice) and he made an instant impression with one of his sons selling for $1 million to the newly formed partnership of James Harron and Tony Fung.
Bred by Brian Siemsen and offered by Eureka Stud, the colt is out of the three–time winner Bleu Zebra (I Am Invincible), who was purchased by Siemsen’s Black Soil Bloodstock and John Foote for $600,000 at the 2019 edition of the same sale.
Harron said the colt was one of the team’s top picks at the sale and was happy to secure him.
“Gorgeous horse. All the team loved him,” he said. “He comes from a great farm. Very exciting first-season sire.
“He was one of our top picks of the sale. We had to push hard and that is the sort of marketplace we’re in. The good ones are well-found. He didn’t put a foot wrong all week.
“[He’s a] real Magic Millions-type colt and the aim would be to have him back here next year. He’s the right type of horse to try it.”
The son of Stay Inside was one of a 122 foals sired by the stallion off a $77,000 (inc GST) fee in his first year in the breeding shed. He had five lots sell for an aggregate of $2,470,000, recording an average of $494,000.
Harron and Fung kicked off proceedings on Tuesday by purchasing a colt by Home Affairs out of the three-time winning US-bred mare Tell Your Mama (Blame) for $550,000.
‘We won the Slipper and hopefully this colt can take us back next year’
Go Bloodstock enjoyed Golden Slipper glory last season with their homebred filly Lady Of Camelot (Written Tycoon), and the operation are hoping the Snitzel (Redoute’s Choice) colt out of Listed-winning mare Villami (Foxwedge) they paid $850,000 on the first day at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale can take them back to the Rosehill Group 1 in 2026.
“We won the Slipper and hopefully this colt can take us back next year,” said Go Bloodstock director Steve O’Connor. “We love buying from young mares and we had a lot of success with Russian Revolution, Wild Ruler, In The Congo. Hopefully he’s the one who can take us back to all of these good races.”
Catalogued as Lot 76, the Segenhoe offering was the second foal out of the daughter of Foxwedge (Fastnet Rock) with her first foal, a colt by Zoustar (Northern Meteor), having made $1 million in the same ring 12 months earlier when he sold to James Harron’s Colt Partnership.
O’Connor said he recalls when Villami sold to her trainer Gerald Ryan for $425,000 at the 2018 edition of the Gold Coast sale.
“I remember she [Villami] was a yearling. She was a beautiful yearling and is a proven mare on the track,” he said.
“Sir Owen [Glenn, Go Bloodstock owner] came out yesterday [Monday] and looked at the shortlist and this was his top pick of the horses that we looked at.
“He’s looking for a good colt to support our broodmares. We have full confidence buying a son of a champion stallion out of a good, young mare off a farm like Segenhoe who are doing it week-in-week-out with two-year-olds.”
The Go Bloodstock team had to fight off fierce competition for the colt, but O’Connor said it was understandable given the colt’s high-class credentials.
“They’re good horses. When you’re going into bat for these colts, there’s a lot of competition on the better ones and from a farm like Segenhoe. It is proven there’s a lot of competition and that is why we were very happy with the price and hopefully they’ll look cheap in two years,” he said.
Villami herself is out of Galapagos Girl (Dehere), whose four wins were headed by victories in the Frances Tressady Stakes (Gr 3, 1400m) and Mannerism Stakes (Gr 3, 1400m). Further back this is the same family as Group 1 winners Laisserfaire (Danehill) and Personal (Fastnet Rock).