Glen Norris

Billionaire Gerry Harvey could have hired a private jet complete with champagne and caviar on his way back to Sydney after a successful Magic Millions on the Gold Coast earlier this month. Instead, the notoriously frugal Harvey (illustrated) was spotted in economy on VA 512 as it winged its way back to the Emerald City. “He could buy the entire airline,” a city beat spy on the same flight told us. Harvey and his wife Katie-Page Harvey are the co-owners of the Magic Millions, which bills itself as the southern hemisphere’s biggest yearling sale and horse racing carnival. Harvey told horse lovers at the Magic Millions this year that both horse sales and sales of fridges and televisions were holding up despite challenging economic conditions. “Trying to predict the market all the time whether its horses or fridges is never easy,” Harvey told Sky Racing at the annual thoroughbred auction at the Magic Millions.“With horses, the sale last year was a boomer and I thought that this year we can’t get the