MAGNUS MARCH

The steady flow of winners for Magnus was clearly a telling point at the Melbourne Premier with his yearlings selling up to $125,000 and averaging $70,000 – over three times service fee.

Accordingly there has been plenty of action around his six yearlings in Eliza Park’s Adelaide draft and given his efforts over the last couple of days, they too should be popular in the Morphettville ring.

On Friday he had just the two runners, the Gai Waterhouse trained, Magnetron, who was having only his second start when successful over 1200m at Wyong, while Magnusificent finished second in South Australia.

On Saturday, David Hayes’ 3YO, Backstedt, won by almost four lengths over a mile at Echuca – his second win this time in – while his other three runners finished second on debut (Big Island), third on debut at Morphettville (Miss Wynette) and fifth – just a length off the placings – in the Supremacy Stakes-LR for 2YOs at Ascot (Purist).