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Kacy Fogden goes to $340,000 to secure the filly from her breeder Scott Seamer

A filly from the second crop of Newgate Farm’s Capitalist (Written Tycoon) topped the second day of the Magic Millions National Yearling Sale on Wednesday when bought for $340,000 by Kacy Fogden. 

Offered as the third last lot through the ring by her breeder Scott Seamer, the filly was catalogued as Lot 1828 and is the second foal out of the unraced mare Kimigayo (Show A Heart) who is herself a half-sister to Listed placed mare Gold Anthem (Made Of Gold) whose ten winners are headed by multiple Group 1 winner and successful sire Starspangledbanner (Choisir). 

This is also the family of Thousand Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) winner Amicus (Fastnet Rock). 

The Capitalist filly was one of two lots bought by Fogden at the sale, a colt by Lonhro (Octagonal) who cost $80,000 being her other purchase, and she told Racing & Sports that she believes the filly will be a nice early two-year-old. 

“We had to wait all day for her," Fogden said. "I was hoping that we would get her a bit cheaper, but a filly like that you can’t really miss. 

“She was just so athletic and so strong and from a really wonderful family so she has nice residual value there. I think she will be very, very early. She looks every bit a two-year-old.”

Capitalist has made an extremely strong start to his stud career having sired 16 runners so far in his first crop including Champagne Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m) winner Captivant as well as Group 3 winner Kalashnikov and Listed winning pair Profiteer and Tycoon Humma. 

Fogden said that she liked the Capitalists as they are horses that can get up and run early and had a trial winner, Capital Gamble, win her second trial over 1000 metres at the Gold Coast on Monday. Like Capital Gamble, the session topping filly will race in the pink colours of Blue Sky. 

“I really like the Capitalists,” said Fogden. “We’ve only got one two-year-old by him and she won her trial on Monday and then we bought one earlier this year. I just like them. They are very natural horses. They just want to get up and run early and I think that for us it’s pretty important that they run early, just to get a few runs on the board and get them out in our colours early.”

Fogden was very active at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale in January buying ten yearlings for $2,255,000 and she said that the earlier sales had been tough but she felt there was value in buying at the National Yearling Sale. 

“All year I think there has been really tough competition, with these prices that we’ve seen and averages well above what they were last year,” she said.  

“At this sale though I think there were some good opportunities for buying. I think that if the horses we bought here had been sold in January, we would have had to pay a lot more, but instead I feel like there was good buying here.”