Esprit de Gain 8/01/09

GOLD COAST MAGIC MILLIONS - DAY TWO WRAP
Eliza Park has enjoyed a resounding start to the 2009 Gold Coast Magic Millions with six of seven lots sold by the end of day two, weighing in with an average of $113,000.
Given the current flux of the economy and overall sale clearance, this is a tremendous result and a figure, hopefully, to be enhanced over the next three sessions.
Champion stallion, Bel Esprit, registered the highest price for a Victorian based sire at this year’s Gold Coast MM, when Patianck Farm paid $260,000 for the full sister to multiple stakeswinner, Bel Mer. The filly hails from the stakeswinning mare, Drop Anchor, who had a Danbird yearling sell to Robbie Griffiths for $250,000 at the 08 MM.
Bel Esprit had set the mood earlier in the day – albeit from afar – when the Kambula Stud bred, Esprit de Gain won convincingly at Penola after having finished third in town on debut. Bel Esprit is now tantalisingly close to a six figure ‘earn’ for 08/09 and has now notched up 39 winners for the first half of the season.

Esprit de Gain,10/0 1/09
Cheap BelsIf anybody had taken the time to follow the stories on this site, they would have read that Bel Said, who won her 1st two races, was bought at the Scone Mixed sales in 2007 for $700. andLa bella Rose was bought privately off one of Colin Little's clients for $2000, won her 1st two races and finished in a place at Moonee valley at her last start.Now , another couple of unusual cheap buys cropped up in the last three days and these came out of Major Sales.Esprit de Gain, who was the cheapest Bel Esprit horse sold, out of the 1st crop, won at Penola last Thursday. He was sold at the Adelaide Magic Million Sales in March 2006 for $3000.Robbie Griffiths bought a Bel Esprit, Anquetil, out of the 2nd crop, for $3000 at the Ingles Febuary Sales in Sydney 2007. He won on Saturday at Pakenham, he was very well backed and won like it. He was the cheapest Bel Esprit sold out of the 2nd crop, at Major Sales.
Other cheap Bel winners are
Belcentra, $50,000, a Stakes race and $219,000
Esprit de Roses, $28,000, has won five races and $99,700.
Esprit Lad, $16,000, won 5 races and $40,000and already out of the 2nd crop
Bel Shoes, $20,000, won two races and $26,000
Belcino, $35,000, won three races and $22,000Casabel, $18,000, won one race, one 2nd at Caulfield and $34,000.