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Headline mare Arcadia Queen fails to sell Will Clarken with Bella Vella. Photo: Magic Millions By Clinton Payne Comments
One of Australia’s best race mares Arcadia Queen failed to sell when she was put through the ring at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale on the Gold Coast on Tuesday.
The Bob Peters-owned mare, a three-time Group 1 winning daughter of Pierro, was regarded as the headline act of the sale but an online bid of $3.4 million wasn’t enough for the West Australian-based owner to part with his prized five-year-old, the winner of eight from 16 with career earnings of more than $3.9 million.
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By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor
The morning after Ciaron Maher and
Dave Eustace trained the quinella in the South Australian Derby – another notch on the belt of this extraordinary, youthful training duo – a wily rival trainer quipped: “look at them in the yard.”
“Sprinters, stayers, jumpers, they’re all the same,” the trainer said. “They just lope around, heads down. You look at a lot of trainers and their horses are yanking at the bridle, wasting energy. Ciaron’s horses are so relaxed. He gets inside their heads. The man is a freak.”
The ability of 37-year-old Maher to “get inside their heads” has been the magic ingredient of his training since the very start, way back when he had six boxes at his old man’s farm on the outskirts of