Highlighting what is going to be a big year for some key new first season sires, the Magic Millions Gold Coast sale will be the kick off point for the first crop of some highly anticipated new sires!
Home Affairs
Coolmores exciting sire prospect Home Affairs is one step closer to earning his stripes as a proven serious stallion with the release of the 2025 Magic Millions Yearling catalogue where he is the most represented of all sires with a 63 strong offering, all of them to be offered in Book 1.
An elite dual Group I winning sprinter at three taking the VRC Coolmore Stud Stakes and Lightning Stakes at WFA against the older sprinters, Home Affairs was the top first season pick for Australia’s leading breeders in 2022 when he covered 203 mares. 
That stunning first crop of foals have grown and developed to garner high praise from the best judges in the business and Home Affairs is poised to deliver for his many supporters at the Gold Coast in January.
Some of the stars for Home Affairs include youngsters from Group I winning mares Booker, Montoya’s Secret, Srikandi, Sea Siren, the dam of international triple Group I winner Warm Heart and our champion 3YO Filly Sunlight, whose first foal Dawn Service (3c Justify) is now a stakes-winner.
Stay Inside
With 43 yearlings catalogued for the 2025 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale, G1 Golden Slipper winner Stay Inside’s stock must come with expectations of precocity. He has 122 live foals in his first crop, covered at a fee of $77,000 (inc GST).
“With Stay Inside, we’ve never been more bullish with a first season sire at Newgate Farm. He’s a Golden Slipper winner who was a dominant 2-year-old with an electric turn of foot, and his first stock are very attractive.” – Henry Field
Stay Inside’s 43 yearlings are spread across 19 vendors, being Alma Vale Thoroughbreds, Amarina Farm, Blue Gum Farm, Coolmore, Eureka Stud, Glenlogan Park, Highgrove Stud, KBL Thoroughbreds, Kenmore Lodge, Kingstar Farm, Kulani Park, Lime Country Thoroughbreds, Milburn Creek, Newgate Farm, Newhaven Park, Riverstone Lodge, Segenhoe Stud, The Chase, and Yarraman Park Stud.
“Being a Golden Slipper winner, he was supported by most of the proper breeders in Australia, so he has a real opportunity given the quality of mares in his books and the farms they’ve been raised on.
“They are much like Extreme Choice in that they are not hard on themselves, with beautiful fluid springy actions. They will cope with plenty of training and have a light movement. A bit like Extreme Choice, I think it’s fair to say that they’ll be very versatile. Some look like Golden Slipper winners and others could win an Oaks.”
Sword Of State
Cambridge Stud stallion Sword Of State was New Zealand’s champion two-year-old in 2020-21. He won four of his five starts in that campaign for Te Akau Racing, including scintillating victories in the Group One Sistema Stakes (1200m) and Group Three Matamata Slipper (1200m) by a combined margin of 10 lengths.
Sword Of State added another two Group Three wins to his CV as a three-year-old, comfortably beating subsequent 10-time Group One winner Imperatriz (I Am Invincible) in the Almanzor Trophy (1200m) and then defeating older sprinters in the King’s Plate (1200m). He crossed the Tasman and ran second in a photo finish to the Group Three Gold Coast Guineas (1200m) before an elevated temperature brought a premature end to his final racing campaign.
From a total of 11 starts, Sword Of State had two wins and two placings and earned more than $330,000 in stakes. He now stands for a service fee of $15,000 at Cambridge Stud.
