Magic Millions has opened entries for its 2026 yearling sales series, which will feature a revamped format for its March sale, as it looks to build on positive results in 2025.
Among the achievements by Magic Millions in 2024 included the highest priced yearling in Australia, the filly by Home Affairs out of Sunlight which sold for $3.2 million.
Managing Director Barry Bowditch said the Gold Coast-based sales company was looking forward to its 2026 yearling sales which starts on the Gold Coast in January, then to Perth and Tasmania in February and the Gold Coast and Adelaide in March.
“With proven performance at all levels of the market across our Gold Coast, Perth, Adelaide and Tasmanian locations, we present a Sale Series that is backed by our energy and drive to achieve commercial success across the 2026 yearling crop," Bowditch said.
"The Gold Coast Yearling Sale is a festival like no other celebrating equine excellence - with the the strongest buying bench in the country on hand, as the finest Australasian yearlings take centre stage in the theatre created by the buzz of the Magic Millions Carnival."
"We are proud to boast about the best auctioneers in Australia and achieving more individual buyers than any other yearling sale in the Southern Hemisphere, in turn providing greater year-on-year returns direct to our vendors."
Bowditch said the Magic Millions race series continued to provide a compelling case for breeders and vendors to support its yearling sales.
"Offering yearlings at the 2026 Magic Millions Yearling Sale Series provides vendors with exclusive access to the greatest marketing tool to support the sale of your stock – the Magic Millions Race Series,” he said.
"More than $20 million and 28 races every year. There is simply no better Race Series in the world."
"A national program of races that provides rich prizemoney opportunities across all ages, classes and distances supported by world-first innovation with initiatives such as The Syndicate and The Debut races plus the ground-breaking Magic Millions Racing Women’s initiative that has changed the narrative of ownership globally."
The traditional QTIS-only March Sale will be opened up to horses bred outside of Queensland.
"In 2026 we introduce an exciting new format for the Gold Coast March Yearling Sale with the sale now open to all Australian and New Zealand bred yearlings,” Bowditch said,
“The sale will continue to showcase outstanding QTIS stock plus providing a new opportunity for all breeders to participate on the Gold Coast this Autumn."
"Each and every year we provide the perfect springboard for the next stars of the racetrack in the sale ring. Our team looks forward to working with our breeders and vendors in placing stock in an auction where the best possible returns are realised."
