Home Affairs filly tops Magic Millions weanling sale at AU$680,000
A Home Affairs filly led Magic Millions at AU$680,000, a ringing vote of confidence in a sire and family page buyers still want at the top end.
Lot 251 ignited the Magic Millions Gold Coast National Weanling Sale when a half sister to Group 1 winner Madame Pommery by Home Affairs out of Cancel sold for AU$680,000, the day’s highest price and the clearest sign that buyers were still willing to stretch for proven commercial bloodlines.
Stefan Pardi, buying for SP Bloodstock, secured the filly after strong interest from multiple bidders. The result mattered because the page offered exactly the sort of upside the market rewards: a filly with residual breeding value, a young sire in full flight, and a family that has already produced elite performers. Cancel, by Exceed and Excel, is a sister to Earthquake, the filly is from Cancel’s seventh living foal, and the catalogue also noted that she is closely related to Zealously. That depth gave the lot far more appeal than a simple headline pedigree.
The price sat at the sharp end of a solid sale rather than a lonely spike. Of 360 lots offered, 176 sold for gross receipts of AU$13,790,500, an average of AU$78,355, a median of AU$46,750 and a clearance rate of 73.33%. In other words, the market was functioning, but the filly from the Cancel line stood out well above the crowd.
Home Affairs’ profile helped drive that result. His son Guest House won the Golden Slipper on March 22, 2026, handing the stallion his first Group 1 sire success and giving his stud career a major commercial lift. Coolmore reported that all nine Home Affairs lots it offered sold for a combined gross of AU$1.95 million, a strong signal that breeders and pinhookers alike were treating him as one of the hottest young sires in the country.
That confidence was reinforced by the broader shape of the catalogue, which carried 354 lots by 97 stallions, including 18 first-season sires. Against that crowded freshman field, Home Affairs separated himself in the ring, and this filly’s price showed why. Madame Pommery’s 2022 MRC Thousand Guineas win and her later AU$2.7 million sale as a breeding proposition had already given the family premium status. Lot 251 suggested the market still believes that, with the right sire and the right page, top-end weanling money can keep pushing higher.
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