Every success, an unforgettable memory
Baraqiel is one of Arrowfield's 10 stakes-winning Magic Millions graduates in 2024 alone.
Australia is famous for its high-octane 2YO and sprint racing, and Arrowfield stallions & graduates make major contributions in both categories.
There is nothing like the thrill of The Brilliant 2YOs, racing within 12 months of purchase and progressing to win one or more of Australia’s 64 2YO stakes races.
Arrowfield’s recent sale graduate record includes winners of all 5 Australian Group 1 2YO contests, won by Magic Millions purchases Invader (Sires’ Produce) & Tagaloa (Blue Diamond), as well as Estijaab (Golden Slipper), Castelvecchio (Champagne S.) & The Autumn Sun (J.J. Atkins).
For buyers focused on winning Magic Millions races, Arrowfield has that category covered too. Former resident stallion Snippets won the inaugural Magic Millions, and Arrowfield-sired & -sold yearlings have since won 45 Magic Millions races around Australia – including six Gold Coast 2YO Classics.
Arrowfield’s Magic Millions 2025 draft features 31 yearlings by stallions that are by either Champion 2YO Sires or Group 1 2YO sires, or were themselves Group 1-winning 2YOs.
And the speed doesn’t stop with 2YOs. The Classy Sprinters at three & older have supplied more than half of the 50 stakes wins compiled by Arrowfield 2014-23 Magic Millions graduates. Among them are Group victories by Secret Agenda, Anders, Count De Rupee, Showtime, Wee Nessy & Flying Evelyn, whose first foal, a filly by Maurice, is Lot 409 in Arrowfield’s 2025 Magic Millions draft.
This season the Flemington stable of Leon & Troy Corstens & Will Larkin struck an outstanding Group race double on one of Australian racing’s biggest days, 2024 Cox Plate day at The Valley, and they did it with a pair of Arrowfield Magic Millions graduate sprinters.
3YO colt Bittercreek landed his second Group win, the Red Anchor S. G3 for a group of owners including Dean Harvey who joined Team Corstens to buy him for $375,000 at Magic Millions 2023.
Five races later his stablemate Baraqiel, purchased by Bennett Racing, Anthony Freedman Racing & Blue Sky Bloodstock for $150,000 in 2020, scored a sensational win in the 1200-metre Ian McEwan S. G2, breaking champion Miss Andretti’s class record in the process.
As Troy Corstens said after Baraqiel’s win, “To see these people enjoy this like this, it’s amazing. That’s what we do it for…to see these guys have such a good day, it’s fantastic.”
