The all time record for the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale has been smashed twice in two days after a filly sold for $3.2 million dollars on Friday.

The yearling by multiple group one-winning sire Home Affairs and superstar race mare Sunlight was offered by the Hunter Valley’s Coolmore Stud at Jerrys Plains just one day after a new $2.8 million record had been set.

Leading Japanese trainer Mitsu Nakauchida flew in the day before just to secure her and outlasted an international bidding battle.

“I expected to pay a high price, and it is a little bit more than the budget, but I hope the filly is worth it.”

Coolmore had high hopes for the filly after boss Tom Magnier purchased Sunlight as a broodmare prospect at the 2020 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale.

Mr Magnier said this was a dream come true for the whole team.

“We’re so excited,” he said.

“She has been the talking point of the sales all week. Really you can’t pinpoint the exact figure you’d get but Mitsu is one of the great trainers around the world.

“He’s a great judge and I really wish him all the best with her. She’s fantastic.”

The filly is the third foal for three-time group one winner Sunlight.

Her previous two colts were each sold for $1.4 million.

Bloodline success

Mr Nakauchida has had success with Australian bloodlines in recent years and hopes Sunlight’s foal will continue his record.

“She will go back to Japan and train with me. Hopefully she will make a nice racehorse,” he said.

“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.

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

Epicentre of breeding

The sale eclipsed the all time Gold Coast yearling sale record price of 2.8 million set on Thursday by a Snitzel colt out of Humma Humma.

He was offered by the Hunter Valley’s Widden Stud and sold to English businessman Phil Cunningham who was on his first trip to Australia.

Magic Millions managing director Barry Bowditch said to break the record two days in a row, with big international bidders involved, was a fantastic result.

“This is the first progeny we’ve seen by Home Affairs, and out of a fantastic mare in Sunlight who we sold for $4.2 million as a broodmare four years ago. They’re seriously big numbers,” Mr Bowditch said.

“We had so many people looking to bid on this filly. There were many people bidding up to $2 million on her.”

Mr Bowditch said it came down to a bidding duel between Mr Nakauchida and Americans John Stewart and Chelsey Stone from Resolute Bloodstock.

This year’s sale has once again highlighted the elite offering from the Hunter Valley.

“There’s three horses that have made over $2 million. Obviously we had a 2.3 [million] earlier in the sale that was Segenhoe Stud, and then a 2.8 from Widden Stud. Then now this one at 3.2 from Coolmore,” Mr Bowditch said.

“As always, the Hunter Valley, it’s the epicentre of breeding here in Australia. They bring great product here to the Gold Coast and they’ve been very, very well rewarded in 2025.”

The Book One section of the Magic Millions Yearling Sale grossed more than $205 million with a clearance rate of 81 per cent.

The sale continues tomorrow with Book Two lots.