{"id":446040,"date":"2026-05-26T13:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/446040\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T13:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:10:11","slug":"1-5million-for-g1-nz-1000-guineas-winner-captured-by-love-te-akau-trio-all-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/446040\/","title":{"rendered":"$1.5million for G1 NZ 1000 Guineas Winner Captured by Love – Te Akau Trio All Sold"},"content":{"rendered":"

Te Akau Racing boss David Ellis has had a lot of luck with Magic Millions having secured Group I winners from the Gold Coast yearling sale as well as selling Group I winning mares through the auction house and Captured by Love combined both of those things.<\/p>\n

\"Captured<\/p>\n

Purchased for $525,000 by Te Akau Racing from the Milburn Creek draft at the Gold Coast in 2023, Captured by Love was fast and precocious winning her first four starts at two.<\/p>\n

The daughter of Written Tycoon blossomed at three for Mark Walker and Sam Bergerson to win the Group I New Zealand 2000 Guineas beating top class filly Alabama Lass.<\/p>\n

Consigned for Te Akau in the Newgate Consignment, she was always going to be a big ticket item at this sale with a strong Black Type pedigree to back her up and was knocked down for $1.5million to Sheng Geng, China.<\/p>\n

\u201cCaptured By Love has come the full circle. This is where I bought her for $525,000, and to win seven races and to come back and get $1.5 million, Australian dollars, is a big thrill for us,\u201d said David Ellis.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe has been brilliantly promoted by Newgate and Magic Millions and we\u2019re very happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Quintessa,<\/p>\n

The Newgate Consignment featured two more mares sold for Te Akau with dual Group I winning Shamus Award mare Quintessa sold for $800,000, also to Sheng Geng,and Group III winner My Lips Are Sealed sold to New Zealand based nursery Rich Hill Stud for $180,000.<\/p>\n

Ellis was well pleased with the whole sale and in particular Quintessa.<\/p>\n

\u201cVery happy with the price level she reached,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t wait to see her yearlings at the sales as I think she\u2019ll be a really good broodmare.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Te Akau Racing boss David Ellis has had a lot of luck with Magic Millions having secured Group…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-446040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}