Group 1-placed Stretan Angel to be sold at Magic Millions

Group 1-performed sprinter Stretan Angel will add further depth to May’s Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale after connections confirmed she will be offered at the southern hemisphere’s biggest breeding stock auction.

One of the finest sprinters of her generation with three stakes wins and three Group 1 placings, Harry Angel’s daughter Stretan Angel is also a half-sister to this season’s exciting juvenile Stretan Ruler and will be offered through the Yarraman Park Stud draft.

A runaway stakes winner at two and a Group 2 winner of the Danehill Stakes at Flemington Racecourse at three before another stakes victory at Caulfield Racecourse, Stretan Angel also placed in the Group 1 Lightning Stakes, Newmarket Handicap and Goodwood Handicap during a career spent competing against the country’s elite sprinters.

Across her career she was trained by Phillip Stokes and always held in the highest regard by the stable, with assistant trainer Tommy Stokes saying: “She’s always oozed class since the day when she came back from the breakers. We knew she had a good brain on her.

“As you can see from her time as a two-year-old, we contested great races from straight away with her. She showed right from the start she was a high class racehorse.”

Stretan Ruler, a leading contender for the Golden Slipper after a dominant win in the Silver Slipper Stakes and a second placing in the Todman Stakes to Paradoxium on Saturday, remains on course for a career-defining tilt at the $5 million race.

The full-brother to Stretan Angel sold for $540,000 at last month’s Inglis Classic Yearling Sale.