Recent graduates of the Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale have continued their winning run around the world.
Black and Bent and Belfast Boy led the way at Flemington when at that feature Melbourne meeting both were successful.
And outstanding Macau based three-year-old Northern Champion continued his impressive run when winning another feature event there, also on Saturday.
South Australian town Gumeracha is well known for it’s giant rocking horse. But really it should be known as the home town of popular gallopers Some are Bent and Black and Bent.
Both versatile gallopers and big prizemoney earners were bred on the outskirts of the Torrens Valley town by Rob and Maureen McBryde of Summerset Park Stud.
On Saturday at Flemington the cult galloper Black and Bent notched career win 13 when he held out Swooper in the $152,000 Banjo Paterson Final (2600m).
An earner of over $560,000, Black and Bent is trained at Caulfield by Robert Smerdon. He was purchased for just $25,000 by Blue Sky Thoroughbreds on behalf of Rick McIntosh.
At the same meeting the talented Bel Esprit three-year-old Belfast Boy continued his liking of the Flemington straight with a strong win in his event.
Prepared at Morphettville by Gordon Richards, Belfast Boy is a graduate of Oakford Thoroughbred Farm and Richards bought him from that draft at the 2009 Adelaide Yearling Sale for $25,000.
As it stands Belfast Boy’s record reads out at five wins and five placings from 20 runs and over $200,000 in prizemoney.
“He seems to really like Flemington and this straight track,” Richards pointed out. “He’ll stay in Melbourne run here again in a couple of weeks.”
In Macau the excellent career of young performer Northern Champion continued when he won the M$500,000 Subscription Horse Challenge Final (1200m) in impressive fashion.
A son of Willow Grove Stud based sire Mugharreb, Northern Champion was purchased for just $2,250 from the 2009 Adelaide Yearling Sale.
A winner of four of his six runs (he was runner-up on the other two occasions) Northern Champion is prepared by top Macau horseman Vincent Chong.
“We won’t run him again this season,” Chong told reporters. “I will just rest him now and aim him at the Guineas and the Derby next year.”
The gelding, a graduate of Riverside Stud, is one of two winners from the unraced Ascot Knight mare Ascot Prancer.
