| Group One performed sprinter Stretan Angel has added more star power to May’s Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale with connections confirming she will be offered at the Southern Hemisphere’s leading breeding stock auction. |
| One of the finest sprinters of her generation with a trio of stakes wins and three Group One placings, Stretan Angel is also a half brother to this season’s exciting juvenile Stretan Ruler. To be offered through the Yarraman Park Stud draft, Stretan Angel is sure to be among the most admired breeding prospects to be offered in 2026. A runaway stakes winner at two, a Group Two Danehill Stakes winner at Flemington at three and a stakes winner in October at Caulfield, Stretan Angel has spent her career racing against the best horses in the country. She was second, beaten a head, in the Group One Goodwood Handicap in 2024. In 2025 she was second in the Group One Lightning Stakes at Flemington and then at her following start finished third in the Group One Newmarket Handicap. Across her career Stretan Angel was trained by Phillip Stokes and the astute stable always held her in the highest of regard. “She’s always oozed class since the day when she came back from the breakers,” Assistant Trainer Tommy Stokes said. “We knew she had a good brain on her.” “As you can see from her time as a two-year-old, we contested great races from straight away with her. She showed right from the start she was a high class racehorse.” “Although she hasn’t won a Group One she’s always been in the mix with the top level elite sprinters during her whole career – she’s a consistent mare with an outcross.” As well as her race record and pedigree, which are first class, connections feel Stretan Angel has the other attributes required to take her to the top as a broodmare. “She’s a lovely style of mare, she’s very athletic. She’s got a lovely temperament around the stables and conserves her energy well.” “All in all she’s a true athlete and true racehorse and her results speak to that,” Tommy Stokes said. During her career Stretan Angel has defeated a swag of Group One winners including Amelia’s Jewel, Benedetta, Giga Kick, Lady Laguna, Magic Time, Overpass and Switzerland. While Stretan Angel’s record at the highest level is first class, her pedigree continues to improve through the exploits of her half brother, another Stokes trained star Stretan Ruler. One of the leading contenders for this year’s Golden Slipper, Stretan Ruler scored a brilliant three and a half length win in the Silver Slipper before his closing second in Saturday’s Todman Stakes to Paradoxium. “He’s obviously heading to the Slipper in a fortnight,” Stokes said of Stretan Ruler. “He’s done an amazing job already and we are really excited about his future.” “What is happening now with Stretan Ruler is fantastic, but he’s not just going to be a two-year-old, he will go on with it. He’s going to make a lovely three-year-old. He’s got scope and looks the real deal.” “Next prep he’s going to keep improving. It’s an exciting family to be a part of. The full sister to Stretan Angel (by Harry Angel) sold for big money and we liked that colt but couldn’t afford her.” “It’s a family that’s really producing and I’m sure will continue to into the future,” Stokes said. Another quality offering for the Yarraman Park Stud draft is the exceptionally well related stakes winner Gala Queen. The Morphettville Guineas winning daughter of Deep Field is a half sister to the Triscay Stakes and Magic Millions Cup winner Semana. Their juvenile half brother Knightsbridge is a highly regarded juvenile this season for the Waterhouse and Bott stable. Also a winner at Flemington in September, Gala Queen is a four time winner and earner of over $188,000 from just 13 starts. “Yarraman is proud to present an exciting group of race fillies and mares at this year’s Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale, highlighted by Stretan Angel,” said principal Arthur Mitchell. “Phillip and his sons Tommy and Kerrin, along with the Stokes Racing team, deserve enormous credit for the way her successful career has been managed. We’re grateful to them and Stretan Angel’s ownership group for the opportunity to present her.” “We’re assembling another strong lineup for this sale, including Gala Queen for the Stokes stable, So Glamorous for Grahame Begg, plus in-foal mares such as Seonee for Joe O’Neill’s Prime Thoroughbreds, Seonee being in foal to Hellbent.” “We appreciate the support of the ownership groups who entrust us with their bloodstock, Magic Millions does a great job bringing together domestic and international buyers to cover all levels of the market.” Entries for the 2026 Magic Millions National Sale are now open and other previously announced highlight lots for the racefillies and mares section include Saturday’s Group One winner, New Zealand champion Legarto, Oaks winner Vibrant Sun and multiple Magic Millions Classic winner O’ Ole. |
