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Decision to bring half-brother to well-performed HK gelding to Melbourne rewarded.
David Peacocke and Mill Park Stud deliberately targeted the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale with their half-brother to Berkeley Square and Senor Toba and they were rewarded with a $400,000 result early on Day 2.
The son of Harry Angel and the Teofilo mare Bahamas will end up in Hong Kong after being bought by Upper Bloodstock in partnership with Gregory Ho.
The deeds of Senor Toba, who won a Group 3 Frank Packer Plate (2000m) and ran second in the Group 1 Queensland Derby (2400m) before going to Hong Kong, where he is a dual Group 3 winner and Group 1-placed, meant the Harry Angel colt would be of immense appeal to owners from that location.
"Doing the research on some of the Asian interests, there are a lot more Hong Kong and Asian buyers coming to Melbourne than most other sales, so we thought he'd be really well placed here in Victoria," Mill Park's Chris Watson said.
Senor Toba, a son of Toronado who cost $180,000 at the same sale four years ago, is the first foal from Bahamas, whose third foal Berkeley Square (Territories) has won four of seven starts, including the Group 2 Moonee Valley Vase (2040m) last spring.
"He was a lovely type," Watson said. "He had good, clean X-rays, a great scope so everything worked in his favour.
"There were a lot of inspections on him and there were many, many people coming back a lot of times."
The Harry Angel colt was one of two $400,000 lots in the first hour of selling on Day 2 with John Wheeler paying that amount for a daughter of Written Tycoon and Mummify's half-sister Bel Selene, who was offered by Noorilim Park.
