Micro opportunity – $3.2 million Gold Coast filly to be syndicated for $650 a share in Japan

Up to 3000 Japanese owners are being offered $A650 microshares in the record-breaking $3.2 million Home Affairs filly purchased at Magic Millions on the Gold Coast in January.

Racing club DMM Dream Club (Banusy) is syndicating small shares in the filly from the first crop of Home Affairs out of multiple Group 1 winner Sunlight, with 3000 available at 60,000 yen apiece.

The offer opens on Monday and represents 180 million yen, or circa $2 million in investment in the yearling filly, who was purchased by trainer Mitsu Nakauchida from the draft of Coolmore.

She is classified as a two-year-old to Japanese time, so will have an age disadvantage against her rivals when she does begin racing.

Nikauchida has been searching Australia’s yearling sales for a quality filly to take back to Japan for the past few years and had intended on bidding on the $10 million Winx filly at the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale last year, only to be severely outgunned.

He outbid American owner John Stewart on the Gold Coast and purchased the Home Affairs filly with a view not only to her racetrack potential but her long-term residual value.

“I’ve been lucky to have had success with Australian mares. I have Liberty Island out of Yankee Rose. I have another very good three-year-old called Eri King out of Youngstar,” the trainer said at the time.

“So, Australian mares do quite well in Japan at the moment. They go well with Japanese stallions.”

サンライト2023(牝.2歳)
父 Home Affairs
厩舎 中内田 充正/関西

募集総額 1億8000万/3000口
一口金額(一括) 60000円
一口金額(分割) 12000円/5回

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母は豪3歳牝馬チャンピオン

2025年3月17日(月)18時頃
募集開始予定

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— 【公式】DMM BANUSY(DMM バヌーシー) (@dmm_banusy) March 11, 2025

The purchase of a filly both by and out of winners of Australia’s leading three-year-old sprint race, the Coolmore Stud Stakes, is an unusual pivot for Japanese investment, which has often focused on classic pedigrees.

However, the success of Yankee Rose, who was a Sires’ Produce winner over 1400 metres during her two-year-old season, as a broodmare has broadened horizons.

DMM Dream Club is one of around 25 racing clubs in Japan and has banked nearly two billion yen in prize money over the past decade.

The most prominent horse in its ownership has been Loves Only You, the Japanese Oaks winner who went on to the QEII Cup and Hong Kong Cup at Sha Tin and became the first Japanese-trained winner of a Breeders’ Cup when she won the 2021 Filly and Turf.

DMM Dream Club maintained its ownership of Loves Only You and her first foal, a colt by Epiphaneia was syndicated in 2023 with 4000 shares worth a combined 180 million yen selling out in just four days. That colt, now a two-year-old, is named Loves Premium.

Sunlight in the twilight – Champion mare’s $3.2 million daughter right at home in Japan

Prominent Japanese trainer Mitsu Nakauchida launched a daring raid at the Gold Coast on Friday, securing the Home Affairs-Sunlight filly for a record $3.2 million in a marquee conclusion to Book 1 of the Magic Millions Yearling Sale.

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A similar deal for her second foal, by Rey De Oro, now named Odio Perdere, was offered last July. Loves Only You foaled a Maurice colt last week and he will go through the same ownership process.  

DMM is a massive e-commerce and online content company which integrated the microshare racing club into its business in 2016. It currently has ownership in 43 active horses in Japan.

Racing clubs hold ownership in around 17 per cent of horses in the JRA.