Yulong Investments continued their unrivalled spending spree when parting with another $1.5m to secure another of Australia’s most sought after broodmares, Macroura, at the National Broodmare Sale on Thursday.
Macroura is a three-quarter sister to Group 1 Surround Stakes-winning filly Sunshine In Paris who was sold in the same Magic Millions ring on Tuesday for $3.9m and her dam, Zenaida, who will also head to Yulong’s Mangalore property after being purchased for $1.4m on Wednesday.
The dual stakes-winning daughter of Snitzel was one of three mares in the sale in foal to the recently retired Deep Field whose stallion career ended due to fertility issues.
“It’s great to secure her after buying her mother yesterday and we’ll try and build the family with her,” Yulong’s chief operations officer Sam Fairgray said.
“There are two very fast fillies out of the mare and we’ll keep breeding and try and keep fillies and see how we go with building the family.”
As of Thursday afternoon, Yulong have forked out $30.6m on 55 lots at on average of $557,564.
Yulong’s Sam Fairgray (brown shirt) talks to the media after purchasing Macroura at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale on Thursday. Picture: Magic Millions
“It is very difficult but with the mares that you really want, the quality, you’ve got to pitch up and go for them because at the end of the day you’ll get rewarded on the other side,” Fairgray said.
“You’re better off buying the mares that you really want and know that are going to leave you the right physical down the track because you’ll get the results in the sale ring with their yearlings.”
On Thursday Yulong also purchased the dam of Stradbroke fancy Yellow Brick, Magical Mist (NZ), in foal to Maurice (JPN) for $775,000.
Elliptical’s dam Marquise Dar Rossa in foal to So You Think for $675,000 and their third mare in foal to northern hemisphere superstar Frankel, Group 1 winner Mississippi Burning (SAF), for $800,000.
“She’s supposed to be carrying a colt, we saw last week those couple of Frankel colts sold very well as weanlings, but we’ll most likely keep them and race them,” Fairgray said.
“She’ll probably go to Tagaloa next. Size-wise, she probably just needs a little bit of leg, which he’ll give and the pedigree works on paper.”