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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.
UPDATED 4:16PM, JAN 13 2021
A colt born in the UK to southern hemisphere time by super European sire Kingman provided the benchmark on another extraordinary day of trade when selling for A$1.8 million (£1.02m/€1.14m) at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale on Wednesday.
Even the most bullish industry pundits and stakeholders did not predict, at least publicly, the insatiable appetite shown by buyers during the first two sessions of the seven-day auction, which resulted in four million-dollar lots being sold on Wednesday as the key metrics kept pace with the corresponding figures from the past two years.
While a colt by Not A Single Doubt broke the seven-figure barrier before midday, it was the son of Kingman who stole the show, his sale coming less than 24 hours after it was announced that the stallion’s owner-breeder, Juddmonte Farms founder Prince Khalid Abdullah, had died aged 83.