Golden Slipper winner Guest House is the most valuable colt in Australia - image Bradley Photos

Guest House sold for $270,000 at Magic Millions.

Looking at the picture from a Home Affairs perspective, the Coolmore young gun sired the sale-topper at the Gold Coast when his filly from Sunlight made $3.2million and he had 47 yearlings in total average $383,298.

Again, Guest House fit somewhere just south of the middle and if you click on this link you can see the full list of Home Affairs yearlings sold at MM 2025 with images, so you can see what average looked like as opposed to expensive.

Guest House and his many happy owners - image Bradley Photos

He was purchased by Mick Price Racing & Breeding Pty Ltd/Roll The Dice Racing/Rogers Bloodstock and has now banked $3.3million his big ownership group.

On the pedigree front, Guest House was also somewhere in the middle being the sixth foal of Flamboyant Lass, a very fast Group placed daughter of Golden Slipper winning sire Stratum from an old Gooree Stud family.

At the time of the sale she had five foals to race for three winners and now she is six for six, although Guest House is her first stakes-winner.

Back in the day, Mr Cojuangco made a habit of bringing out mares from North America to add to his Aussie broodmare band at Gooree Stud and one of those was Palm Beach Deb (USA), who smashed it out of the park when her ninth foal was Tempest Morn.

A tiny chestnut with the heart of a tiger, she won the Group I SAJC Australasian Oaks and STC Ansett Australia Stakes (now the Vinery) and was also second in the G1 AJC Australian Oaks, Queensland Derby, Queensland Oaks and  South Australian Oaks.

The third dam of Guest House is Vain Deb, a useless half-sister by Golden Slipper winner Vain to Tempest Morn that duly made her mark at stud producing six winners headed by the classy G3 winner Pasikatera.

Tempest Morn winning the 2001 G1 Ansett Australia Stakes on Slipper Day - image Bradley Photos

These names are all dear to my heart given they were trained by Gai Waterhouse during the era when I was a part of that team and there was a morning that still sticks in my mind all these years later.

I went out to gallop Tempest Morn on the course proper during that memorable autumn when she was a superstar and thought to myself, this job does not get any better than this!

Here we are 25 years later and this family has smashed it out of the park again with a colt whose pedigree is packed with Golden Slipper influences.

Guest House has a double cross of Golden Slipper winning sires Vain and Canny Lad and we can also throw in three more Slipper winning sires Stratum, Flying Spur and Luskin Star to the mix.

He also has a 4 x 4 double cross of Danehill, who sired a Golden Slipper winner in each of this first three crops – Danzero, Flying Spur and Merlene – and then added two more in Catbird and Ha Ha.

Every racing nation has an iconic race for the breeding purist and the winner of the race invariably has a pedigree offering a history lesson in past winners and while the UK has the Epsom Derby and the USA has their Kentucky Derby, for Australia it is undoubtedly the Golden Slipper.