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Group One winner Platinum Witness has been sold as a broodmare prospect.

“She’s been bought by Japanese interests and she’s gone to Arrowfield Stud in Australia,” said Neville McAlister, who raced the daughter of California Dane with Lincoln Farms.

The same combination have also recently sold their Group One performer Platinum Balos.

Platinum Witness won five of her 22 starts, including the Gr.1 New Zealand 1000 Guineas and she also placed at the elite level in the New Zealand Oaks and in the Windsor Park Plate.

Last season’s NZ Bloodstock Filly of the Year was out of the money in both her starts this autumn.

“She was disappointing, but she had nothing more to prove and as a young mare she is a top broodmare prospect,” trainer Lisa Latta said.

Platinum Witness was also the dual Group Three winner of the Desert Gold Stakes and the Lowland Stakes, in which she dead-heated with Savaria, and won the Listed Armadillo Stakes before running fourth in the Gr.1 New Zealand 2000 Guineas.

Meanwhile, her former stablemate Platinum Balos has been sold to Australian interests after injury prevented her from rediscovering her best form.

“She had two knee chips removed after the Sires’ Produce and while she came back and won a couple of races she was never the same horse,” McAlister said. “She’s gone to Bell View Park in New South Wales.”

Platinum Balos ran third in the Gr.1 Diamond Stakes, finished runner-up in the Gr.2 Wakefield Challenge Stakes and was fourth in the Gr.2 Matamata Breeders’ Stakes.