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The two-year-old season is officially underway with the first month of results to kick off the 2025-26 QTIS Premiership. View the 2YO QTIS results for October here Click here for the 3YOs QTIS Trainers' Premiership here

An incredible line up of racing's next generation of superstars has been unveiled with the online release of the 2026 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale catalogue . The country's undisputed number one auction for future success is ready to deliver again with the finest yearlings set to converge at Australia's holiday playground in what is shaping as a summer to remember. Australasia's best thoroughbreds breeders have all made strong contributions to a first class offering of 1,221 yearlings to sell from January 13 to 18. The star studded catalogue of yearlings across Books One and Two, includes progeny of 122 individual sires, with strong interest to surround youngsters by 14 first season sires. Among the pedigree highlights are (at least half) relations to elite level winners including Artorius, Benedetta, Cool Archie, Devil Night, Farnan, Golden Mile, Imperatriz, In Secret, Joliestar, Manaal, Sepals, Stay Inside, Stefi Magnetica, Sunlight, Super Seth and Yearning. The catalogue features 239 lots from stakes winning mares headlined by 31 Group One winners including Absolut Glam, Avantage, Graceful Girl, Hiyaam, Hungry Heart, Instant Celebrity, Krone, Levante, Loving Gaby, Mossfun, Odeum, Silent Sedition, Snapdancer and Unforgotten. "We are incredibly proud to present the catalogue for the 2026 Gold Coast Yearling Sale," Magic Millions Managing Director Barry Bowditch said. "This sale is firmly established as the best producing auction in the country - no better example being the six Group One winners from the 2024 sale - the competitor's edition achieved none." "From recent legends like Winx, Imperatriz and Alligator Blood to new pin-up performers Apocalyptic, Autumn Boy, Charm Stone, Cool Archie, Ole Dancer and Stefi Magnetica - the Gold Coast Yearling Sale delivers year after year." "Our team has worked hard in bringing together a catalogue packed with athletic yearlings that we think will give their buyers the ride of their life." "While the Gold Coast is renowned for producing short course performers such as Golden Slipper winners, our graduates are stars in the Classic races - from Guineas' to Derbies and Oaks' and let's not forget Knight's Choice - last year's Melbourne Cup winner!" To view the online catalogue for the 2026 Gold Coast Yearling Sale click here . It can also now be downloaded via the Equineline Catalog app for iPad. TAB GOLD COAST MAGIC MILLIONS CARNIVAL SCHEDULE Wed 7 Jan - Magic Millions Yearling Inspections commence, Magic Millions Sales Complex Sat 10 Jan - $7.3m Magic Millions Gold Twilight Meeting, Gold Coast Turf Club - 10 races featuring the $3m TAB Magic Millions Sunlight, $1.5m Racing Queensland Magic Millions QTIS & $1m TAB Magic Millions The Syndicate Sun 11 Jan - Pacific Fair Magic Millions Polo & Showjumping, Doug Jennings Park Tue 13 Jan - TAB Magic Millions Barrier Draw, Kurrawa Beach, Broadbeach Tue 13 Jan - Magic Millions Yearling Sale, Day 1 from 11am (Lot 1-210) Wed 14 Jan - Magic Millions Yearling Sale, Day 2 from 10am (Lot 211-450) Thu 15 Jan - Magic Millions Yearling Sale, Day 3 from 10am (Lots 451-690) Fri 16 Jan - Magic Millions Yearling Sale, Day 4 Super Session from 10am (Lots 691-980) Sat 17 Jan - $13.25m TAB Magic Millions Raceday, Gold Coast Turf Club - 10 races featuring the $3m TAB Magic Millions 2YO Classic & $3m Gold Coast Magic Millions 3YO Guineas Sun 18 Jan - Magic Millions Yearling Sale, Day 5 (Book 2) from 12pm (Lots 981-1221)

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Standing at a fee of $7,700, the Group winning son of Better Than Ready, is an exciting addition to the Queensland breeding ranks. Alpine Edge is an exciting young stallion by leading Queensland sire Better Than Ready, out of emerging top producer Freezethemillions – dam also of Gr.1 winner Port Lockroy and exciting 2YO Mortal Halo. A multiple stakes winner with over $1.8M in earnings, Alpine Edge brings a powerful mix of precocity, consistency and class. He burst onto the scene as a brilliant early 2YO, winning the Listed Phelan Ready Stakes and the Gr.3 BJ McLachlan Stakes. He also finished an unlucky closing second in the $2M Magic Millions 2YO Classic. Alpine Edge continued to perform at top level through his 3, 4 and 5YO seasons, winning the QTIS Magic Millions and placing in multiple Group races. By Better Than Ready – Australia’s leading sire of 2YO winners in recent years – Alpine Edge inherits outstanding speed and commercial appeal. His Gr.1 producing dam adds another layer of sprinting quality, making him an ideal choice for breeders aiming to produce fast, early running types. After covering 110 mares in his first season at stud, Alpine Edge is better than ready for 2025. Contact Clear Mountain Fairview for details

He was far from ever winning a race on the track, but the thoroughbred now called “Pizza” has proven to be a supreme performer in retirement. The former galloper had one trial and two race starts towards the end of 2024, finishing last and ninth in a pair of maiden handicaps at the Gold Coast and Ipswich. Racing as “Supremeperformance,” he was transferred from the Trevor Lambourn stable to Chris and Corey Munce’s care, where he was retired in March. It was there that the gelding caught the eye of Sally Rodwell, who works as an assistant foreman at the Munce team’s spelling and pre-training facility at Beaudesert. Rodwell has been working for the Munces for just over a year, and instantly fell in love with the newcomer. “I really absolutely loved his nature - he's just so quiet and easy to do anything with, and no matter where he was, he's just always the quietest horse around,” Rodwell said. “Unfortunately, he is a bit slow and just didn't really show much, and he did have a little bit of an injury to his fetlocks, and it wasn’t worth pursuing with him. “He was retired, and came straight home to me.” Rodwell works out of the Munce family’s Ballycapall Thoroughbred Spellers and Pre-Trainers in the Scenic Rim region. She and the family currently have eight horses on their nearby home property, with the new addition thoroughly enjoying his time running around with the stock horses and quarter horses. It is Rodwell’s step-daughter Tillie who has formed the closest bond with the former racehorse, and also the one responsible for the “Pizza” name becoming a permanent fixture. “I used to call him Supreme Pizza at the track, and then it caught on with the track riders,” Rodwell explained. “And then when I came home, I told Tillie ‘this is what we’ve been calling him’ and she said ‘well, that's his name now, it's always Pizza.’ “I gave him one ride off the track, and I thought this horse is way too slow so I gave him to Tillie and she's done everything with him since. “She takes him to pony club, takes him mustering, takes him to campdrafts…she also took him hacking on the weekend and sporting - anything she wants to do, that horse just does. “She trots him around and she stops and he just stands there…he never puts a foot wrong, he's definitely a one-in-a-million pony. “People usually ask me if he's 25, and no-one believes me when I tell them how old he is.” With just a combined 14 years of life between them, nine-year-old Tillie and five-year-old Pizza have already enjoyed success as a pairing around South East Queensland. They recently competed at the Rathdowney Campdraft, placing 7th after making it around two pegs. The pair then scored the Highest Scoring Under 14 Rider at the Rathdowney and District Pony Club Campdraft, taking the win in both of their runs, taking home the Highest Cut Out award and being crowned Overall Age Champion (8–10 years). The recent Beaudesert Show also proved fruitful, with Tillie and Pizza taking home several ribbons across a range of hacking and sporting events. Sally said the future was looking bright for the dynamic duo. “We will look at just getting Tillie going and seeing where they go…at the moment, he's holding up quite well to what she's wanting to do, and we're hoping they'll have a very long future together,” Sally said. “Whether he can keep up the pace with her as they go, we’ll see. “But he's definitely showing that he'll stay with us forever, and then go between other kids when needed.” Sally is also constantly sending photos of Pizza to the Munces to keep them updated on his progress. She said the former galloper’s success story was a good example of how important the Queensland Off-The-Track (QOTT) Program is for retired racehorses. “Going through the QOTT program, it’s only the first time I've done it with Supremeperformance,” Sally said. “We've really enjoyed the lessons and all the goodies that come with it, and I think it's a really good initiative. “I've gotten a couple of retired horses from people that go on to just be some of the best horses you have. “I've just recently sold one up to the prison farm at Palen Creek here for the prisoners to go mustering on, and they absolutely love him. “There's so many different careers that they can go into…I don't think people realise how versatile they are.”