Prized racehorses killed in NSW Hunter road crash after Magic Millions

A horse float transporting thoroughbreds from Australia’s richest sale has crashed in the NSW Hunter Region, killing five prized mares.

Five prized racehorses involved in the Magic Millions sale in Queensland have been killed in a truck crash.

The horses were being transported on a float through the Hunter Region Saturday morning when the vehicle crashed about 6.25am.

NSW Police confirmed five horses had been killed in the crash at Jerrys Plains, near Muswellbrook.

Jerry Plains horse float crash. Picture: Mangoola Rural Fire Brigade NSW

Two men - aged 62 and 59 - were treated for non-life threatening injuries and were transported to John Hunter Hospital.

The mares, whose identities are yet to be confirmed, were purchased at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale on the Gold Coast earlier this week.

The accident sours what was a record breaking event for the company owned by Gerry Harvey with a total gross income of over $140,000,000 over the two-days trade.

Some of Australia and New Zealand’s best mares changed hands at last week’s auction including champion WA racehorse Arcadia Queen, who sold for $3.2m.

New Zealand’s version of Winx, Melody Belle, was bought for $2.6m whilst the Anthony Cummings trained Mizzy fetched $2.2m.

The average price of the 615 individual horses at the sale was $232,247 with many of them pregnant to some of the nation’s top stallions.