Mystic Journey colt sells for $1.3 million in Japan

A colt foal by champion Equinox out of Australian-bred Group 1 winner Mystic Journey has sold for the equivalent of $1.34 million at a Northern Farm Mixed Foals Sale in Japan.

The colt, the third of Mystic Journey’s Japanese-bred progeny, cost Naohiro Sakaguchi, who made a splash at the recent Keeneland September Yearling Sale, 130 million yen.

Mystic Journey, the Australian Guineas and All-Star Mile winner who was sold for just $11,000 as a yearling. was sold privately by her owner Wayne Roser to Northern Farm after her racing days.

Her first colt, the Kizuna colt named Bicheno, is yet to race, while she also has a yearling filly by Saturnalia, who was purchased by Hironobu Koyano for 46.2 million yen at last year’s mixed sale.

Sakaguchi also secured the progeny of another Australian Group 1 winner, Seabrook. Her colt by Contrail sold for 99 million yen, or the equivalent of just over A$1 million.

Seabrook, a winner of the Champagne Stakes, is the dam of recent Japanese winner Thunderstruck, a colt by Lord Kanaloa.

The top lot of the sale was a Kitasan Black colt out of Galileo mare Delphinia. He sold for 506 million yen, or A$5.14 million.     

The turnover for foals amounted to 43 billion yen at an average price of 65.8 million yen.