Couldn't be there? The online broadcast (despite a few teething problems on Friday) courtesy of Racing & Sports has been brilliant. In addition to web streaming of the actual auction the sales addicts have had considerable other data to absorb including links to pedigree pages and conformation videos, top 10 sire aggregates, sire averages, average prices overall, etc etc.

Magic Millions report that over 38,000 viewers tuned into the action during the first five days of the seven day auction - a record number for any thoroughbred sale in Australian history.

During the five sessions a total of 458,857 minutes were viewed - the equivalent of 7,647 hours or 318 days.