Charm Stone‘s win in the Robert Sangster Stakes enhances what has already been a record-breaking season for seven-figure yearlings when it comes to Group 1 wins, but as Run The Numbers discovers, it was also a drought-breaker for yearling fillies in the price bracket.
Before Charm Stone’s fast-finishing victory in the Robert Sangster Stakes, it had been 2590 days - or more than seven years - since a million-dollar-plus locally bred yearling filly had won a Group 1 race in Australia.
The 2018 Golden Slipper winner Estijaab was the most recent filly to go from seven-figure Australian purchase price to elite racetrack success, while before then, you have to go right back to Samantha Miss, the $1.5 million yearling turned triple Group 1 winner, whose final top-flight success came in the 2008 VRC Oaks.
Sunday Joy was also able to complete that double. A $1 million purchase in 2001, she won the AJC Oaks two years later and would go on to produce the champion mare More Joyous.
Shower Of Roses, purchased out of Karaka for $1.45 million in 2001, was the most recent NZB seven-figure filly graduate to go on to Group 1 success, winning the 2003 Arrowfield (now the Vinery) before running second to Sunday Joy on a high-priced quinella in the Oaks.
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