Baramul Colt a Magic Millions Weanling Sale Standout

Inspections are in full swing for the Magic Millions Gold Coast National Weanling Sale and prospective buyers coming into the complex from the car park cannot miss the Baramul Stud consignment in the Chester stable. Baramul has 20 weanlings cataloged for the May 24 sale, and racing manager Luke McDonald is hoping buyers will be patient picking their penultimate colt to go through the sale ring as one of the standouts of the draft. Cataloged as Lot 326, he's a son of Widden Stud's champion Australian sire Zoustar (AUS) from I Am Invincible (AUS) mare Grandstraand. "He's by the right sire and you can also see the 'Vinnie' in him," McDonald said. "He's well shaped, precocious, and has so much commercial appeal. Buyers will gravitate to him and make money whether they're end users or pinhookers for the yearling sales or ready-to-run sales next year." There are only two entries by Zoustar at the Gold Coast and his weanlings are at a premium this year with only one changing hands at the Inglis Weanling Sale earlier this month. Baramul Stud's Zoustar colt is the first foal from Grandstraand who is an unraced daughter of 2013 Oakleigh Plate (G1) winner Mrs Onassis. Mrs Onassis is a homebred for Magic Millions owner Gerry Harvey and is one of eight black-type winners under third dam Miss Jakeo (by Unbridled's Song). Her latest foal is a Hawaii Five Oh (AUS) colt on the ground at Baramul. Baramul has a stake in Vinery Stud sire Hawaii Five Oh and has entered six of his first-crop foals for the Magic Millions Weanling Sale. "His colt out of our New Zealand-bred mare One Pose (Lot 72) is a lovely mover and light on his feet," McDonald said. "His dam is a young mare by Swiss Ace, who is building a very good strike rate as a broodmare sire. "The Hawaii Five Oh foals are cookie cutters. He really stamps them and the feedback has been exciting. We've had broodmare owners asking if we have any of his shares available on the back of these first foals," he said. Timing is everything and Vinery Stud has foals by its resident sires All Too Hard (AUS) and Exceedance (AUS) for sale Sunday, as well as a Shinzo (AUS) colt from Hot Little Thing (Army Mule) in their draft as Lot 338. Shinzo topped the Inglis Weanling Sale with a AU$600,000 filly and his colt from Vinery is the second foal out of an Indiana-bred mare, Hot Little Thing, a lightly raced juvenile sprinter who won the 2022 Back Home Again Stakes at Horseshoe Indianapolis. "Shinzo did extra well with his first foals in Sydney," White said. "Our foal is an attractive type and looks like she will be a forward filly." The Magic Millions weanling sale will start at 10 a.m. local time Sunday.