Sydney, April 21 – Talented Magic Albert three year-old Marchinski has been sold to Hong Kong in a lucrative deal which connections found impossible to refuse.
“It was unexpected but the money was just too good and we had to sell,” said the gelding’s trainer Tracey Bartley, who also bred the horse.
“You hate to see them go but by the same token when the big money is around us little country trainers can’t afford to say no.”
The lightly-raced sprinter won the Group Three AJC Frederick Clissold Stakes against the older horses at Randwick over 1200 metres before finishing an unlucky fifth in the Group Two STC Hobartville Stakes behind Mic Mac and Caymans.
“If he didn’t get softened up mid-race in the Hobartville he’d have won the [race],” Bartley said.
“They were on the case after the Clissold and I was sticking to what I wanted and they came back after the Hobartville and said he’s a serious horse and came up with what we wanted.”
Marchinski departs Australia with the overall record of three wins and three placings from nine starts with earnings of $142,750 and is one of 11 stakes horses by Yarraman Park’s consistent sire Magic Albert.
Marchinski’s dam Elishir has been a regular visitor to Magic Albert and has a yearling filly and weanling colt to hopefully emulate the success of their famous sibling.
