3/9/2010 Tattersalls to
restructure breeze up sales
Guineas Breeze Up to be replaced by Tattersalls Ireland
Fixture
Tattersalls is to restructure the calendar for its
two breeze up sales in 2011. The Tattersalls Guineas
Breeze Up will be replaced by an all new fixture at
Tattersalls Ireland and the Tattersalls Craven Breeze
Up, Europe’s premier two year olds in training
sale, will be expanded to accommodate approximately
250 lots.
Tattersalls Ireland will aim to catalogue 100 two year
olds for the new sale which will take place on Thursday
28th April. All lots will breeze in the morning at Fairyhouse
Racecourse, across the road from the Tattersalls Ireland
sales complex, and the sale will take place in the afternoon.
Commenting on the restructuring, Tattersalls Chairman
Edmond Mahony said;
“The changes reflect much of the feedback we
have received from both vendors and purchasers alike.
The Craven Breeze Up is the premier sale of its type
in Europe. It attracts buyers from all over the world
and rather than asking buyers to attend two sales in
Newmarket it makes sense to increase the numbers to
offer a wider cross section of two year olds at the
number one sale. At the same time Tattersalls Ireland
is ideally placed to stage a sale of around 100 two
year olds in the same week that consignors would previously
have headed for the Guineas Breeze Up.”
Tattersalls Ireland Managing Director George Mernagh
added;
“So many of the leading breeze up consignors
are based in Ireland and the new Tattersalls Ireland
Breeze Up will provide them with a locally based alternative
to the Craven Breeze Up in Newmarket. In conjunction
with Fairyhouse Racecourse we have the perfect facilities
for such a sale and having staged the first ever European
breeze up sale back in 1977 we are delighted to add
this new sale to our already extensive portfolio. The
Tattersalls Ireland Breeze Up promises to be an exciting
new fixture for us and we look forward to promoting
it extensively to an international audience alongside
the Irish Thoroughbred Marketing team.”
2/9/2010 Artie Schiller's
double delight
Independent Stallions shuttler Artie Schiller has confirmed
his status as one of the world's emerging stallion prospects
with a double in the Northern Hemisphere, this season
being his first with progeny on the track.
Artie recorded his 1st winner when 2YO filly Anne's
Beauty (Artie Schiller-Lucky Streak, by Sea Wall) scored
over 6.5 furlongs on all-weather at Woodbine in Canada
for trainer Paul Attard. Anne's Beauty was a US$30,000
yearling at the 2009 Keeneland September Sale. Her sire
Artie Schiller (who stands at Pauls Mills in Kentucky
for US$15,000) finished runner-up in voting for the
2005 US Eclipse Award for Male Turf Champion & his
dam Majestic Light was also a Gr1-winner. Artie Schiller
retired in September 2006 with 10 wins from 22 starts
for US$2,088,853 earnings; his victories included the
US Gr1 Breeders' Cup Mile, Gr2 Jamaica Handicap (setting
a Belmont Park turf course record for 9 furlongs), Gr2
National Museum Of Racing Hall Of Fame Stakes, Gr2 Maker's
Mark Mile Stakes, Gr2 Bernard Baruch Handicap &
Gr3 Hill Prince Stakes.
His second came when another 2YO filly Teryns Song
(Artie Schiller-Singinginthestreet, by Street Cry) scored
over 5.5 furlongs at Ellis Park in Kentucky for trainer
Dan McFarlane. Teryns Song was a US$15,000 yearling
at the 2009 Keeneland September Sale.
Those who inspected his yearlings at the 2010 sales
were particularly taken by his progeny and we look forward
to seeing his first runners in Australia this season.
2/9/2010
A super foal is born
There was a much anticipated arrival at Bombora Downs
last week – a striking, cheeky Golden Snake colt
who immediately captivated everyone at the Bittern property.
“It was a straight forward birth,” said
the stud’s Christoph Bruechert.
“He was quick to his feet and is progressing
well. We are very pleased that the mare Gold Patriot
has been booked back to the stallion this season and
we look forward to getting another excellent result
for her owners.”
Lynden Park Stallions’ Julie Nairn is also very
pleased with the new arrival – “he is a
very attractive, bright foal, so typical of the Golden
Snake breed – a well conformed, scopey foal with
a very good top line.”
This good looking bay is a full brother to one of that
emerging stallion’s best sons – the classy
Singapore galloper Super Gold.
Twice successful at Gr.3 level at Kranji, the winner
of over half a million dollars in stakes is a tough
and honest campaigner with another four Group placings
to his credit.
Typical of the Golden Snake breed, Super Gold rarely
runs a bad race – racing well fresh and maintaining
his form throughout his preparations as he steps up
in distance.
Much like Golden Snake himself, a four times Gr.1 winner
who just got better and better as he matured.
Also the sire of the ill-fated Gr.1 Railway Stakes
winner Gilded Venom and the stakes winners Hissing Sid
(who embarked on his spring cups campaign at Caulfield
last Saturday) and Antidotes, Golden Snake has some
promising types coming through.
Looking good winning her last two in Queensland, Striking
Rose has been in great form whilst in Europe Cottingley
Fairy and Bollin Freddie are recent winners.
Closer to home and Hiss And Tell won his maiden in
easy style at Bendigo late last month whilst the likes
of Richoman, Kaleske, Wickedly, Cool Cobra and Shoshonee
are shaping well with wins just around the corner.
Golden Snake’s syndicate manager Julie Nairn
of LP Stallions is excited about what the upcoming months
hold for Golden Snake.
“He is looking wonderful and he is getting good
support from owner/breeders who appreciate his ability
to sire sound, consistent gallopers,” she said.
“One Golden Snake worth following is the promising
Kaleske, bred by one of the share holders Bill Saunders.
Trainer Mark Kavanagh thinks very highly of him and
he has been entered for some of the big spring races.”
Standing this season at a fee of $6600 (incl gst),
Golden Snake “represents amazing value for a Group
One producing stallion and Australian breeders really
appreciate our new ‘bonus plus one offer,”
said Nairn.
“Breeders can send two mares for the price of
one and will automatically receive a complimentary nomination
to be used next season in 2011,” she explained,
noting that conditions apply.
For more information on Golden Snake please contact
LP Stallions Julie Nairn on 03 59773595 or 0402901910
or julie.nairn@optusnet.com.au or go to www.lyndenparkstallion.com.au
. Or Bombora Downs Christoph Bruechert on 03 59836802
or 0419534961.
2/9/2010 Shoot Out's half
sister another Millions drawcard
The 2011 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale has
received yet another boost with news that the outstanding
half sister to Shoot Out will go under the hammer in
January.
Shoot Out has emerged in the past 12 months as one
of the country's finest gallopers with a swag of group
race wins.
On Saturday he caught the eye when he flew home to
run third in the Memsie Stakes behind Cox Plate winner
So You Think.
Prior to that the gelding had won three straight group
races including the Group One Australian Derby.
His outstanding 2009/10 racing season was capped on
Saturday night when he was announced as Queensland's
Horse of the Year at a function in Brisbane.
Shoot Out is one of two Classic winners produced (from
two to race) for the grand producing Pentire mare Pentamerous.
She is also the dam of the Western Australian Oaks
winner Cassandara Shadow.
The mare's latest yearling, a black or brown filly,
is by exciting young Queensland based sire Ferocity
- already the sire of seven first crop winners.
Earlier this year the filly's full sister made $160,000
at the Gold Coast and this was before Shoot Out had
won twice at Group One level.The filly heading to this
January's sale will be prepared by renowned horsewoman
Robyn Wise.
Magic Millions Managing Director David Chester said
the filly would be yet another highlight lot at Australia's
most popular thoroughbred auction.
"She's a smashing filly," Chester said. "A
really lovely individual and she comes with one heck
of a pedigree."
"In recent times Shoot Out has proven himself
one of the great gallopers of the region with many great
wins and he's on track for the Cox Plate in October."
"To be offering his half sister at our sale in
January is a great honour and I can't wait to see how
she continues to develop between now and then."
The half sister to Shoot Out joins a growing list of
outstanding entries for this premier thoroughbred event
- with the half brother to Starspangledbanner booked
in to the sale along with the first foal of champion
mare Miss Andretti.Also heading to the sale is the outstanding
full sister to Saturday's Group One Golden Rose winner
Toorak Toff - highlighting a quality draft from Glenlogan
Park.
And Strawberry Hill Stud will present the half sister
to the outstanding mare More Joyous by champion sire
Redoute's Choice.
2/9/2010 Aushorse launches
Hong Kong awards
On behalf of Australia’s breeders, Aushorse Marketing
is delighted to announce a prestigious new award for the
highest performing Australian-bred Thoroughbred in Hong
Kong. The Aushorse Marketing Australian-bred Hong Kong
Champion Award will be announced on the 11th of September
at a gala event held in conjunction with the VRC’s
150 year celebration of the Melbourne Cup. The final contenders
are Sacred Kingdom, Happy Zero and One World which have
won world acclaim with their outstanding feats.
The award, aimed at recognising the feats of Aussie-breds
in one of the most fiercely competitive racing centres
in the world, will be judged by the Board of Aushorse
Marketing.
Australian horses have dominated racing in Hong Kong
for many years. One of the major achievements is their
undefeated record in the Group 1 HK International Sprint
since the first running of the race in 1999.
More than 40 percent of the horses currently racing
in Hong Kong are bred in Australia.
“Australian-bred horses have such an imposing
record in Hong Kong that we believe it is important
to recognise these feats and the people behind such
great horses,” said Aushorse Marketing Chairman
Antony Thompson.
One World and Happy Zero, both trained by John Moore
have had success not only locally but also on the international
stage.
One World, owned by Jackson So Hoi Wing placed second
in the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Sprint (1200m) and third
in the Group1 Meydan Dubai Golden Shaheen Stakes (1200m)
with his prizemoney now over the A$2Million mark.
Happy Zero, owned by David Boehm, has a career to date
of 14 starts and 8 wins which has earned him over A$1.3Million.
Last season saw him win the Group 1 Queen’s Silver
Jubilee Cup (1400m), the Group 2 Cathay Pacific International
Sprint Trail and the Group 3 Sha Tin Sprint Trophy.
Horse of the Year and Champion Sprinter at the Hong
Kong Jockey Club Awards recently, Sacred Kingdom, is
a three-time Group One winner last season. Trained by
Ricky Yiu and owned by Sin Kang Yuk, Sacred Kingdom
won the Group 1 Chairman’s Sprint Prize (1200m),
The Kent & Curwen Centenary Sprint Cup (1000m) and
The Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Sprint (1200m). His earnings
now reaching over A$3Million.
The winning owner(s) and trainer of the 2010 Aushorse
Marketing Australian-bred Champion award will be presented
with a unique cold cast bronze statuettes from renowned
Australian artist Mary Pinsent.
“Sacred Kingdom, Happy Zero and One World represent
the best of Hong Kong and international racing and Australia
is proud to have bred them and to have watched them
develop into champions able to take on and beat the
world’s best,” Antony Thompson said.
2/9/2010 Quality in first
two days for Road to Rock
Wellfield Stud's dual Group One-winning newcomer stallion
Road to Rock has served a black type-winning mare on days
one and two of his new career at stud.
"He covered Hanabananah (SAJC Proud Miss Stakes-LR)
yesterday and has Tehama (CJC Warstep Stakes-LR) lined
up today," Wellfield's Huw Taylor told NZTM this
morning.
Taylor added that the quality of mare covered by Road
to Rock so far typifies the book assembled for year
one at stud.
"Yesterday he covered Ruppertsberg, a Montjeu
daughter of the 1000 Guineas winner Clear Rose.
"Before the weekend he will have served Cold Shoulder,
a half-sister to the Melbourne Cup winner Efficient."
Road to Rock (Encosta de Lago ex Trewornan, by Midyan)
retired to stud a couple of months ago hard off the
back of a season which netted two Group One victories.
Last September he outgunned the dual Stradbroke Handicap
winner Black Piranha in the AJC George Main Stakes-Gr.1
(1600m), while more recently he defeated Triple Honour
and Monaco Consul in the AJC Queen Elizabeth Stakes-Gr.1
(2000m).
Before that he had placed second to Rangirangdoo in
the Group One Doncaster Handicap (1600m). Road to Rock's
rider, Damien Oliver, weighed in a kilo over which cost
the rider a three week suspension.
Like the boom young Australian stallions Manhatten
Rain (Arriowfield Stud) and Northern Meteor (Widden
Stud), Road to Rock is a sire-son of Encosta de Lago,
the Coolmore Stud stallion who has two Australian Premierships
to his credit and 69 individual stakeswinners to date.
Wellfield Lodge has announced an Open Day at the stud
on Sunday, 26 September where Road to Rock will be paraded
along with the other two stallions on the Wellfield
roster, Alamosa and Handsome Ransom.
Road to Rock - his masculine good looks haven't gone
unnoticed by breeders
1/9/2010 Outstanding catalogue
for Horses in Training Sale
An outstanding catalogue has been assembled for the
2010 Magic Millions National Horses in Training Sale.
The sale, to be conducted at the Gold Coast on October
27 and 28, has attracted 400 quality ready made racehorses.
This year the sale will be preceded by breeze up sessions
in three locations across two states.
The action commences on September 20 with the first
of two breeze up sessions at the Gold Coast Turf Club.
This year to assist with vendors there will also be
breeze up sessions at Seymour (23 September) and Rockhampton
(24 September).
The sale in recent years has unearthed a number of
star gallopers including Shocking, Masquerador, Fifteen
Carat, Graceful Anna, Deer Valley and Macau champ Viva
Pronto.
This year's catalogue is without doubt the best catalogue
ever assembled for the sale with many of the region's
leading and most exciting sires well represented.
Among those sires are Bel Esprit, Choisir, Commands,
Danzero, Dehere, Domesday, Elusive Quality, Elvstroem,
Encosta de Lago, Exceed and Excel, Falvelon, Fastnet
Rock, Flying Spur, Foreplay, Fusaichi Pegasus, General
Nediym, Hidden Dragon, Hussonet, Jet Spur, Lonhro, Lucky
Owners, More Than Ready, Mossman, O'Reilly, Posse, Reset,
Rock of Gibraltar, Royal Academy, Sequalo, Show a Heart,
Snitzel, Starcraft, Stratum, Stravinsky and Tale of
the Cat.The youngsters catalogued include (at least)
half relations to stakes performers including Fiery
Venture, The Secondmortgage, Flaming, Desuetude, Only
Glory, Coincidental, She's in Demand, Platinum Zana,
Golden Ace, Wyndam Glory, Not Now Norman and Sister
Havana.
Also catalogued are prospects produced by stakes winning
mares including Ruffles, Miss Kariba, Barbut Delcia,
Bumptious, Ebony Magic, Gathering Storm, Plaudits, Flickering
Fire, Johanna's Lady, Tycoon Tango, Josalie, Threadneedle,
Kota and Whyte Haze.
"We're delighted with the catalogue assembled
for the National Horses in Training Sale," Magic
Millions Managing Director David Chester said.
"This sale is particularly popular with international
clients and we're expecting great interest from Singapore,
Macau, Hong Kong, Korea and Malaysia to name a few."
"Importantly the sale is now regarded as a happy
hunting ground for Australian buyers - the reigning
Melbourne Cup winner was purchased from this sale for
$64,000."
The catalogue is at the printers and will be available
online in the coming days.
SALE AND BREEZE UP SCHEDULE
6 September
Catalogue online for viewing
www.magicmillions.com.au
13 September
Printed catalogues available
Contact: 1300 MILLIONS
20 September - 10am
Breeze Up Session 1
Gold Coast Racecourse
21 September – 12pm
Breeze Up Session 2
Gold Coast Racecourse
23 September – 10am
Breeze Up Session
Seymour Racecourse
24 September – 10am
Breeze Up Session
Rockhampton Racecourse
3 October
Breeze Up video footage online
www.magicmillions.com.au
3 October
Breeze Up DVDs available
Contact 1300 MILLIONS
Wednesday 27 October - 11am
National Horses in Training Sale - Session 1
Lots 1-200
Thursday 28 October - 11am
National Horses in Training Sale - Session 2
Lots 201-400
1/9/2010
NZTBA Auckland Branch stud
tour this Sunday
The NZTBA Auckland Branch Stud Tour is set to take
place this Sunday (5th September 2010).
Starting at Haunui Farm in Manurewa, the first stallion
will parade at 10.30am.The tour then visits the New
Zealand Bloodstock complex, Te Runga Stud and concludes
at Westbury Stud.
If you attend all four locations on the day, correctly
complete the entry form, and get it stamped at all locations,
you will go in the draw to win a FREE service to one
of the followingstallions: Buffalo Man, Castledale,
Cecconi, Don Eduardo (NZ), Sirocco & Strategic Image.
For further information contact the Branch Secretary,
Ruth Hargreaves, ph 09 267 9760 or email ruth_hargreaves@hotmail.com.
31/8/2010 Show a Heart
a toff among Australian sires
FEW can doubt after Saturday’s race results
that Show a Heart, a resident in the sire yards of Queensland’s
colonial sire bastion, the Glenlogan Park stud in the
Innisplain valley, is a toff among Australian sires
at this time.
Showing off Show a Heart’s sire prowess on Saturday
were stakes winners at Rosehill Gardens and Caulfield
who look set for big springs, two winners and a runner
up at the Gold Coast, a winner each at Perth’s
Belmont Park in Western Australia and Hastings in New
Zealand and a third placegetter at Doomben.
The two stakes winners were the Glenlogan bred Rick
Hore-Lacy trained Toorak Toff, a 3-year-old colt who
produced a big finish to land the million dollar Group1
Golden Rose (1400m) at Rosehill Gardens, and the 6-year-old
gelded Rightfully Yours, annexer of his tenth race in
24 outings when successful at Caulfield in the $100,000
Listed Clamms Seafood Stakes (1100m).
Rightfully Yours is a year older brother of Heart
of Dreams, a million dollar earner and dual Group1 winner
who bounced back from a spell too finish third behind
Shoot Out and Predatory Pricer in a Group 2 sprint at
Caulfield on August 14.Toorak Toff, now winner of five
of eight starts, was successful on the same program
in the $100,000 Listed Vain Stakes.
Last Saturday’s contribution by the Show a Heart
progeny coincided with the announcement that night at
the Queensland Racing awards ceremony for 2009-10 that
he was again Queensland Champion Sire.
Although the 2010-11 racing year is only a month old,
it is an award that Show a Heart should win again. One
runner in particular which is expected to fly the flag
boldly for him is Toorak Toff, a galloper who looks
a real good prospect for the Guineas races.
The success of Show a Heart, himself, a Queensland
bred national racing star who in earning $2.3million
won four Group1s, including the Caulfield Guineas, and
finished second in three others, could be very valuable
to Australian breeding for 47 years after his death,
he is revitalising the male line of Star Kingdom, the
greatest influence in Australia in the second half of
last century.
Show a Heart is a fifth generation descendant of Star
Kingdom and the showiest physically of the breed, being
a handsome chestnut with a blaze and three white fetlocks.
He is prepotent for these qualities, and also ability
with Toorak Toff being an eye catching example.They
are traits that Toorak Toff can be expected to transmit
on, along with a new generation of Star Kingdom descendants
if, as appears likely, he goes to stud.
Toorak Toff has a double dose of Star Kingdom in his
pedigree, being from Orong, an unraced sister by shuttled
Grand Lodge to dual Listed winner Avilde.They are out
of Blixen, a Sandown Guineas winner by Mighty Avalanche,
a son of the Star Kingdom sire Kaoru Star.
Blixen was bred by Jim Koureas when he had the Dalama
stud near Muswellbrook and put Mighty Avalanche to stud.
Former Dalama manager Michael Fitzgerald now conducts
the Bengalla stud on this Hunter river bordered property.
Glenlogan Park stud had a big day with their sires
on Saturday with all four in use who have runners making
contributions at metropolitan racing. Besides Show a
Heart, the others were Bradbury’s Luck (Redoute’s
Choice), the source in his first crop of 3-year-olds
of the filly Ringa Ringa Rosie, a three lengths winner
at Doomben; Falvelon (Alannon), sire of Falvelina, a
mare who followed a win at Doomben on August 14 with
a third behind Ringa Ringa Rosie; and
Jet Spur (Flying Spur), sire of first crop 3-year-old
Smart, a close second at the Doomben meeting. Smart
also won at Doomben on August 14.
Double at Rosehill Gardens
for Denise’s Joy family
DENISE’S JOY, one of the great matriarches of
Australian breeding at this time, contributed to a winning
double at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday.The first leg
was provided by the Gerry Harvey bred and raced Verballed,
a 4-year-old mare who gets her Denise’s Joy through
her sire, the up and coming Danehill winner getter Conatus.
Owned by a Harvey headed syndicate, bred by him and
based at Heather Pascoe’s Plaintree Farms stud
near Toowoomba in Queensland, Conatus is a former smart
Sydney performer out of AJC Challenge Stakes winner
Light Up The World, a Rory’s Jester grandaughter
of Joy and Fun, a daughter of Showdown and Denise’s
Joy.
As she is by Danehill and from Denise’s Joy,
Joie Denise, the Queensland Oaks winner who is the grandam
of More Joyous, the second leg of the double at Rosehill
Gardens on Saturday, has very close blood ties with
Conatus.
Bred and raced by Gerry Harvey’s partner in
the Magic Millions Sales company and the Vinery stud,
John Singleton (Strawberry Hills Stud Syndicate), the
4-year-old More Than Ready mare More Joyous on Saturday
took her record to seven wins in ten starts and earnings
to nearly $800,000 when she recorded a dominant win
in the $100,000 Sheraco Stakes.
The effort of the Gai Waterhouse trained More Joyous,
her first appearance since March 6 and her fifth straight
win, suggested she will be formidable in big races in
the spring. Her earlier successes have included the
AJC Flight Stakes, Light Fingers Stakes, STC Reisling
Slipper Trial and Tea Rose Stakes.
More Joyous is one of the most superbly bred horses,
male or female, in Australia. She was got by Vinery
stud’s very successful shuttle sire More Than
Ready from Sunday Joy, an AJC Oaks winner who resulted
from the mating to southern hemisphere time of Joie
Denise (Danehill – Denise’s Joy) in Japan
with Sunday Silence. In addition Sunday Joy is a half-sister
to the Singleton bred and owned Tuesday Joy (by the
Sadler’s Wells sire Carnegie), a champion mare
who won seven races, including four Group1s, and earned
$3.2million.
More Joyous, Conatus’s dam Light Up The World,
Sunday Joy,Tuesday Joy and Joie Denise are among more
than 30 stakes winners descending from Denise’s
Joy, an outstanding galloper in the Tommy Smith stables
in the1970s. She won13 races, including the VRC Oaks,
MRC Underwood Stakes, QTC Queensland Oaks and WATC Australian
Derby, and at two was second in the STC Golden Slipper
and AJC Champagne Stakes.
As a producer of winners, Denise’s Joy was not
a success, only three of her ten foals winning and Joie
Denise (foaled when her mother was19) being the only
one successful at stakes level. However, seven of the
foals were fillies and between them they have established
a top grade family.
Regrettably, the Denise’s Joy descendants have
been light on for colts used at stud.
The only two with runners at this time appear to be
Thorn Park (by Spinning World), a prominent New Zealand
sire at the Windsor Park stud, and Conatus. Also represented
on Saturday by Cataclysmic, a third in Perth and earlier
winner four times, and last week by two winners at Rockhampton
and one at Goulburn, Conatus is making an impression
as a sire from modest opportunity.
Other Conatus progeny include Brisbane winners Gag
Order (six wins, stakes fourth), Sky Effort and Convictor
and Sydney winners Miss Campbell and Solatus. Conatus
stands the 2010 season on $5,500.
A Denise’s Joy family produced sire who is to
have representation over the next 12 months through
first crop 2-year-olds is Primus, a Flying Spur Group
3 winner and money earner in four Group1s. Standing
at the Chatswood stud at Seymour in Victoria and used
over books of 122, 132 and 136, he is from a grandaughter
of Denise’s Joy.
One of the best bred colts ever from this family appears
to be the Singleton bred Redoute’s Choice yearling
half-brother to More Joyous. He is booked into the Magic
Millions sale to be held at the Gold Coast in January.
Nicconi brings Froth
to the top again
AMONG the seventy sires who were paraded for visitors
to the Upper Hunter in the past week were two new ones
with a lot of blood in common who captured a lot of
attention.They were new shuttler Big Brown, a great
American classic performer visiting Vinery, and champion
Australian sprinter Nicconi, one of the eight sires
at Widden.
Both Big Brown (by brilliant Boundary) and Nicconi
(by Swettenham stud’s leading Victorian sire Bianconi)
are grandsons in male line of the awesome speed source
Danzig and descend maternally from three-quarter brothers.
Big margin Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner
Big Brown is from a mare by Nureyev, a three-quarter
brother to Sadler’s Wells, the grandsire of Nicconi’s
dam Nicola Lass, through his very successful sire son
Scenic.
On top of this Nicconi is another star who has brought
one of New Zealand’s best modern matriarches,
his fifth dam Froth, to the top again. He is nearly
a three-quarter brother to Niconero, a winner of five
Group1s got by the Danzig grandson Danzero from Nicola
Lass, and is a grandson of Dubai Lass, a Bletchingly
mare out of Frivolous Lass, a daughter of In the Purple
and Frivole, a Le Filou daughter of Froth.
A winner of the Champion Fillies Stakes in Perth,
Frivolous Lass is sister to the dam of VRC Australian
Guineas and WATC Rothwells Stakes winner Military Plume,
a sire who started his career at Widden.
Nicconi is the third representative of the Froth family
to stand at Widden, the other being the 2009 deceased
General Nediym. His grandam Riticella was a three-quarter
sister to Frivolous Lass.
The other descendants of Froth have included world
champion race mare Horlicks and her Melbourne Cup winning
son Brew.Yet another product is Monaco Consul, the New
Zealand sired product of the first crop by High Chaparral
who in the 2009-10 racing year won the Victoria Derby
and AJC Spring Champion Stakes and finished third in
the AJC Australian Derby. His sire is at Coolmore in
the Hunter Valley this year.
31/8/2010 Elusive City endearing
Haunui Farm’s stallion Elusive City (USA) added
two extra stakes wins to his northern hemisphere tally
over the weekend, prompting the question ‘what
is his stock doing in our part of the world?’
The answer endears.
Of his eight stakes winners to date, three have been
derived from his three NZ-conceived crops of racing
age.
With a total runner count being less than half of his
NH equivalent, the Australasian stakes efforts here
of Returntosender (NZ), Lamington Vegas (NZ) and Metropolitan
(NZ) more than holds its own.
Haunui Farm's sire Elusive City (USA)
In fact, in New Zealand he actually improves on his
57.4% worldwide winners-to-runners ratio with a 65.85%
strike rate (27/41).
In Australia, he improves on this further with a 68.18%
win strike rate (15/22) and in both Hong Kong and Singapore;
he counts a 66.67% success rate.
Haunui Farm’s Mark Chitty shed some extra light
on these statistics.
“If you look at his first crop who have just turned
five, he has a 79% winners-to-runners ratio, which is
an impressive statistic in any part of the world,”
he said.
“The important thing is that from his first three
crops, he only had about 138 foals total, so he really
hasn’t had the huge numbers around.
“He is a stallion who can certainly produce a
Gr.1 winner, as he has shown with Elusive Wave, and
he really does get a good, genuine runner.”
Commercially speaking, you won’t find many sires
better in New Zealand.
In fact, in terms of bang for your buck, he is New Zealand’s
sire supreme.
According to the findings from the Bluebloods Statistical
Analysis of the 2010 Australia and New Zealand Majors,
he scored 10.9 in terms of Yearling Price Average divided
by Applicable Service Fee.
Elusive City’s 2010 Sale average of NZ$77,782
was derived from an NZ$8000 service fee, which not only
placed him at the very top of the New Zealand-based
Sire table, but placed him second overall for return
on investment in Australasia.
“To a significant degree, his 2010 popularity
at the Sales was fuelled by the important influence
of Asia on New Zealand,” Chitty explained.
“He had two Class one winners in Hong Kong last
season, which is the equivalent of black-type in New
Zealand. He also had six winners from nine runners there,
with Brave Kid running home for 3rd in the HK-1 Hong
Kong Derby; at just his first preparation.
“It also helps that on the whole he throws a good
type, who have a genuine amount of muscle about them.
He is a typical Mr. Prospector line horse, who is offset
through the knee and I think it has surprised people
that he has produced stock that are more correct than
he himself is.”
Remarkably, Elusive City (USA) remains available to
breeders this season at an unchanged service fee of
NZ$8000 (plus GST & Free Return).
“A lot of people were surprised we didn’t
put his service fee up this year. When setting his fee,
we felt it was still a critical time in the breeding
industry and we wanted to continue to give breeders
the opportunity to earn a result in the sale ring or
to produce a genuine racehorse at an attractive fee,”
said Chitty.
30/8/2010 Joyous boost for
MM yearling sale
More Joyous' made a barnstorming return to the track
on Saturday when she steamed home for the most impressive
of wins in the listed Sheraco Stakes at Rosehill.
With bigger races in store for the daughter of More
Than Ready including the Epsom Handicap and Cox Plate,
More Joyous produced an outstanding sprint finish to
beat a quality field.
In stretching her stakes winning streak to five, More
Joyous confirmed her status as one of the best mares
in Australia.
"She is an outstanding mare," trainer Gai
Waterhouse beamed after the race. "You have just
seen the Epsom winner in my opinion."
"She has blistering speed, the most sensational
turn of foot and whatever she has done (here) there
is so much improvement."
Winning rider Nash Rawiller was also thrilled with
the performance of the regally bred mare.
"She has strengthened up and as I said during
the week, the world is her oyster and there are bigger
and better things down the track to come."
"I have so much confidence in her and she never
lets you down," Rawiller added.
The win was yet another stakes success for one of Australia's
most famous thoroughbred families and turned the attention
to her outstanding yearling half brother.
The yearling in question, a colt by Redoute's Choice,
is the latest from More Joyous' dam, the Oaks winning
Sunday Silence mare Sunday Joy.
The colt is an outstanding individual and is being
prepared by Strawberry Hill Stud for January's Magic
Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale.
Saturday's star More Joyous is now the winner of seven
races and has earned $788,500 with six stakes victories.
Her dam Sunday Joy won three stakes races in three
different states including the Group One Australian
Oaks at Royal Randwick.
She is a daughter of Queensland Oaks winner Joie Denise
- the dam of four stakes gallopers including super mare
Tuesday Joy (7 wins and over $3.2 million).
Another daughter of Joie Denise, the Flemington stakes
placed Joie has a yearling colt by Encosta de Lago also
heading toward the famous Gold Coast auction in January.
30/8/2010
Kiwi steals the show in
NZB Memsie Stakes
It was a battle between some of Australasia's finest talent,
but fittingly New Zealand Bloodstock graduate So You Think
proved too good in the Group 2 $200,000 New Zealand Bloodstock
Memsie Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield on Saturday.
In what was his first start since November due to a
throat operation, the handsome son of High Chaparral
demonstrated why he is the reigning Cox Plate winner
with a gallant victory over a star-studded field.
Hot on the heels of five-time Group 1 winning mare
Typhoon Tracy, So You Think travelled up well to second
place and when asked by jockey Steven Arnold in the
straight he surged to the lead holding off Whobegotyou
(Street Cry x Temple of Peace) by half a length.
Crossing the line for third was another of High Chaparral's
outstanding offspring, Shoot Out (ex Pentamerous), who
was named 2009/2010 Queensland Horse of the Year later
that day in recognition of his wins in the Group 2 Royal
Sovereign Stakes, Group 1 Randwick Guineas, Group 1
AJC Derby and Group 3 Bletchingly Stakes. Shoot Out's
trainer John Wallace was honoured as Queensland Trainer
of the Year at the same awards.
Trained by Bart Cummings, who had five horses in the
race, So You Think has now accumulated earnings of $2,324,050
for owners Dato Tan Chin Nam and Tunku Ahmad Yahaya.
His display of dominance on Saturday has created a stir
in the betting markets, already favorite for the Cox
Plate, So You Think's price shortened from $8 to $4.40
on Sunday, while the four-year-old's Melbourne Cup price
has tightened from $26 to $15 yesterday.
Duncan Ramage, who received the New Zealand Bloodstock
Memsie Stakes trophy on behalf of So You Think's owners,
was full of praise for the winner.
"We're delighted that he has come back so impressively
after his break. It was a fitting win for him as a New
Zealand Bloodstock purchase given their sponsorship
of the race."
Bred by Mike Moran and Piper Farms Ltd, So You Think
was purchased by Duncan's DGR Thoroughbreds for $110,000
at the 2008 Karaka Premier Yearling Sale from Windsor
Park Stud.
Entries have closed for the 2011 National Yearling
Sales Series and selections are underway with almost
all of High Chaparral's small crop set to be offered
at Karaka 2011.
The next event on the New Zealand Bloodstock calendar
is the Ready to Run Sale of 2YOs on the 16 & 17
November. The Breeze Ups are on the 18 & 19 October.
The National Yearling Sales Series runs from 31 January
- 7 February 2011 with catalogues out 26 November.
29/8/2010 Dashing Melbourne
winner only runner for
sire and dam
SHAUN DWYER found glory as a trainer in 2003 and 2004
with the General Nediym filly Regimental Gal, winner
of the Gold Coast Magic Millions 2YO Classic and then
at three the VRC Lightning Stakes, MVRC Australia Stakes,
AJC San Domenico Stakes and Silver Shadow Stakes. At
the same time he had the big thrill of having a runner
in the 2004 Melbourne Cup, the Geelong and Grafton Cup
winner Pacific Dancer.
Although he got a lot satisfaction out of their success,
and that of many other winners that he has trained,
a current rising star in his Bendigo stables is probably
pleasing more as he has been involved in her breeding,
including steering the fortunes of her sire and dam.
Enjoying her third Melbourne success when a dominant
2.5 lengths winner in the Listed Hollylodge Stakes at
Moonee Valley on Saturday, August 21, she is 3-year-old
Dutchy’s Lass and she is the only runner for both
her sire Dutch Harry and her dam Southampton.
Also, although her sire is now 12-years-old, Dutchy’s
Lass is one of only two named foals by Dutch Harry,
one of the many good horses left by Glenlogan Park’s
prematurely deceased St Covet.
Raced by a partnership, including the two Queenslanders,
R.S. Willis ad M.G. Buys, who own Dutchy’s Lass,
Dutch Harry was one of the horses who helped put Shaun
Dwyer on the map as a quality trainer. Another horseman
from central Queensland, he ‘studied’ training
under the masters of the trade, working in the stables
of Tommy Smith, Gai Waterhouse and Bart Cummings, before
setting up himself at Toowoomba in 1998. Here he proved
so successful he was named 2003 Queensland Trainer of
the Year and also received the Recognition Award for
Outstanding Contribution to the Profile of Racing in
Queensland. He moved to Victoria in 2009 and is one
of that State’s emerging top trainers.
Dutchy Lass’s sire Dutch Harry (dam by the Nijinsky
sire Yeats) was one of the good horses Dwyer put the
polish on while at Toowoomba. At two he won at Eagle
Farm and the Gold Coast, finished second in the BTC
Champagne Classic-Gr.3, third in two Listed events at
Eagle Farm and fifth here in two Group1s, the Sires’
Produce Stakes and T.J. Smith Stakes.
Successful twice at Eagle Farm and a fourth in the
BTC Powerhouse Classic-Gr.3 at three, Dutch Harry has
a double cross of the genes that produced Luskin Star
in his pedigree. St Covet is a grandson of Luskin Star,
three-quarter brother to Luskin Lace, the grandam on
the bottom line of Dutch Harry.
Southampton Lass, the dam of Dutchy’s Lass,
is a winner over 800m bred at the Lyndhurst stud, Warwick
and sold at the Magic Millions Gold Coast sales as a
yearling for $5,500. She is out of Zvornik Lass, a mare
by the Todman sire Zvornik Lass.The bottom line goes
back to the celebrated Dark Jewel.
Danasinga an early jewel
for Princess Tracy family
DANASINGA, the sire of two metropolitan winners on
August 21 in Metal Bender (the Warwick Stakes over 1400m
at Warwick Farm) and Crabs (rattled up his third straight
success at 2500m in three weeks when he won at Moonee
Valley), has been one of Danehill’s most versatile
sires.
Himself a good performer from 1000 to 2000m, efforts
including a win in the QTC Stradbroke and seconds in
the Doncaster, Doomben Cup and Grand Prix Stakes, Danasinga
was one of five Group1 winners in Danehill’s first
Australian crop, foals of 1991. One of the others was
the Arrowfield based Danzero, a winner of the Golden
Slipper and sire of a winner of it.
Also one of Danehill’s best sources of tough,
mature gallopers, Danasinga is now at his third home
as a sire, standing this year for the first time at
Touchstone Farm, North Dandalup, WA. His 2010 fee of
$8,800 appears very good value for a sire whose 361
winners of over 1000 races includes 30 stakes winners
and 26 others stakes placed
At stud in New Zealand for seven seasons,1996-2004,
and then in 2005-2009 at Baerami Thoroughbreds, Hunter
Valley, Danasinga has had major winners at 1200,1600,
2020, 2400 and 3200m.
Winner of three Group1s, the Randwick Guineas, Rosehill
Guineas and Doomben Cup, Metal Bender (out of the Bluebird
mare Jacquin) heads the honour board. The others include
winners of the Brisbane Cup when it was 3200m, Portland
Singa and Piachay (second AJC Metropolitan), and the
Group 2 winners Sylvaner (three at 1600m including the
MVRC Sunline Stakes), Conquistar (at 1200 and 1600m
New Zealand), Sarajay (two New Zealand and Group1 third),
Ugachaka (VRC Edward Manifold Stakes, STC Queen of the
Turf Stakes), Singalong (Te Rapa Sir Tristram Fillies
Classic; Group1 second New Zealand Oaks, 1000 Guineas),
Danamite (Avondale Guineas, second Rosehill Guineas,
Canterbury Guineas, third AJC Derby), The Fuzz (VRC
Blamey Stakes, second Perth Cup), Singing Star (Waikato
Gold Cup) and Due Diligence (Te Rapa Sir Tristram Fillies
Classic).
The secret of Danasinga’s success as a sire
appears to be not only his sire Danehill, but his production
by an imported fleet footed Irish filly, the Ahonoora
mare Princess Tracy (1981 foal), who has established
an outstanding Australian family. Deceased at 16 in
1997, she produced seven winners out here, the first
two being Tracy’s Element (Australian bred Last
Tycoon top South African sprinter who won11 races) and
then Danasinga.
Returned to Australia for use as a broodmare and now
in the ownership of Hutchins Thoroughbreds, Gold Coast
and a resident at Vinery, Hunter Valley, Tracy’s
Element has had all her seven runners win. The best
of them are the Red Ransom siblings Typhoon Tracy, a
winner of four Group1s to 1600m in 2009-10, and Red
Element, a quality sprinter who won four races, including
two Listed Stakes, in Melbourne, and placed in the Group
2 QTC Sir Byrne Stakes.
Red Element retired stud this year on $8,800, standing
alongside Show a Heart, Falvelon, Jet Spur, Bradbury’s
Luck and Real Saga at Glenlogan Park, Innisplain, Qld.
He should add to the impressive strike rate of the Glenlogan
sires.
Lonhro – Night
Shift nick paying good dividends
QUITE often racehorses, like human athletes, fail
to live up to the talent that they have because of physical
problems. One eminent example among thoroughbreds has
been former Woodlands, Hunter valley shuttler Night
Shift, the sire of the dam of the new Lonhro star Parables,
the winner at Warwick Farm on Saturday August 21 of
the $125,000 Silver Shadow Stakes.
Bred in the purple in America, being a brother by
Northern Dancer to a queen of racing and breeding Fanfreluche,
the third dam of Flying Spur and fourth of Encosta de
Lago, Night Shift ran seven times for one very minor
win at six furlongs on debut and earnings of about Aust$12,000.
An overseas review said he showed little of his relatives’
ability.
This did not stop him climbing up from modest mares
to become one of the best sires of tough, durable winners
in the northern hemisphere, much of the success achieved
at Coolmore in Ireland. Here he stood besides Encosta
de Lago’s sire Fairy King, another example that
a well bred horse can rise above lack of proven racing
ability and become a good sire if given the opportunity.
Fairy King flopped at his only race start.
Night Shift’s northern hemisphere use resulted
in nearly 700 winners of over 2000 races. Among 77 stakes
winners were 31, including eight successful at Group1
level, who won Group events. On top of this his four
visits,1994-97, to Woodlands resulted in 235 starters,
166 winners (9 SWs,16 SPs) of over 500 races.
He is now making a good contribution as a broodmare
sire in both hemispheres, out here establishing a nick
with rising super sire Lonhro. So far there are three
stakes winners, Parables, Beaded (eight wins to Group
3, third two Group1s, the BTC Sprint, AJC All-Aged Stakes,
fourth QTC Stradbroke) and Trim (eight starts include
a Listed win, a second in the Group 2 Light Fingers
Stakes and a good fifth of 18 in the Group1 SAJC Sangster
Stakes).
Also bred on the Lonhro – Night Shift cross
is Dysphonia, a winner of four of ten outings, including
three in Melbourne.
Like Lonhro and their dams, all four were bred by
the Inghams when they had the Woodlands stud. All became
the property of Sheikh Mohammed when he acquired the
Inghams’ breeding and racing conglomerate for
Darley. The Sheikh races the four Lonhro – Night
Shift cross winners.
Illuminates spotlights
Australian bred New Zealand star
ILLUMINATES, a tough 6-year-old race mare who made
it 10 wins from 55 outings and pushed her earnings $890,000
when successful under top weight in the Listed Show
Quality at Warwick Farm on August 21, is by the former
first class Zeditave sprinter Strategic (now on $16,500
at Darley, Seymour,Vic) and from an unraced Danzero
mare, Dazzle Light, who has only managed two winners
from nine foals.
They are the Gerry Harvey bred and raced Illuminates,
a mare whose record includes three Listed wins and a
second in the Group1 STC Queen of the Turf Stakes, and
her two years older half-sister Earla Margaret, a Grand
Lodge mare. Now represented by a yearling filly by Strategic
as her first foal, the latter won one race, a maiden
at Eagle Farm, but also placed in Brisbane and Adelaide.
Illuminates success means that each of her first four
dams has produced one or more stakes winners.To start
with Dazzle Light is a half-sister to Stoway (by Geiger
Counter; 12 wins, AJC Summer Cup, Hawkesbury Cup) and
to London Lights, Sydney winning dam of Only a Lady
(Sir Tristram; won AJC Flight Stakes, second Victoria
Oaks) and Lisson Grove (Dehere; Listed winner Adelaide).
Only a Lady has gone on to produce Redwood Falls (Woodman),
a winner of ten races to Group1 level in Macau.
Bred in New Zealand, Illuminates grandam Travel Light
(by the Petingo sire Bellisimo) was a first class performer,
winning six races, including the Queensland Oaks and
two Group 3s, finishing second in the AJC Surround Stakes
and third in two Group1s, the AJC Queen Elizabeth Stakes
and STC Orlando Wines Classic.
Travel Light was one of two stakes winners from Otalight,
a three-quarter sister to Tudor Light (All A’Light;
16 wins) and a half-sister to Elabama (Tudor Court;
10 wins). Raced only in New Zealand both Tudor Light
and Elabama included in their successes the Group1 Auckland
Railway Handicap.
Also successful in two Group 2s, including the Avondale
Guineas, and third in another renrewal of the Railway,
Elanabama flew the flag for Australian breeding. He
was bred by the Bowcocks, owners of the Alabama stud
in the Segenhoe valley near Scone for sixty years, and
sold to New Zealand as a yearling in Sydney.
Elabama included three stakes winners among five successful
offspring. One of them was Tudor Light, a winner of
two Group1s, second in another and producer to Sir Tristram
of Our Tristalight, winner of the SAJC Australasian
Oaks and South Australian Oaks.
Our Tristalight is the dam of Danske, a Danehill who
won the New Zealand Guineas and Auckland Guineas and
who from use in New Zealand has sired over 200 winners,
including 11 stakes winners and 19 other stakes placegetters.
One of Danske’s daughters, Quite Astute, is
the dam of Smart, a winner at Doomben on August 14 and
runner up on the same track on August 28. He is a 3-year-old
in the first crop of Glenlogan Park’s very promising
Flying Spur sire Jet Spur.
Illuminates is one of over 400 winners of 1300 races
got by 18-year-old Strategic so far. Contributors have
included 21 stakes winners, 26 others stakes placed
and earners of $31.7million.
Strategic is a half-brother to Clang, a son of the
Mr. Prospector sire Bellotto who stands at Willowbend,
Beaudesert, Qld and who has over 300 winners of 950
races and $20.7million to his credit.
28/8/2010 $837K traded in
Scone
Today’s annual Scone Broodmare Sale saw 126 mares
sold for a total gross of $837,850.
The sale produced a clearance rate of 84% and those
mares not sold today are still available for sale via
the Inglis Make an Offer service
Today’s top price was for Quillionaire, a daughter
of Entrepreneur that sold to M & R Services for
$55,000. A half-sister to Group 1 Queensland Oaks winner
Zagalia, the mare was carrying a positive test to Lonhro.
Patinack Farm paid the day’s second highest price
when the Exceed And Excel mare Cerinthe was knocked
down for $46,000. The mare is a half-sister to former
Champion 2YO Victory Vein.
Blue Sky Thoroughbreds was also active today, finishing
as the sale’s leading buyer with four mares for
$111,000.
The next sale to be conducted by Inglis is the Spring
Thoroughbred Sale to be held at Newmarket, Sydney, on
September 24.
Entries close on Friday, September 17.
27/8/2010 Latest news from
Glenlogan park
SHOW A HEART will be one of the most talked about stallions
in the country if his outstanding 3YO colt Toorak Toff
is successful in the first G1
of the season tomorrow, the $1 million Golden Rose (1400m)
at Rosehill.
Toorak Toff has travelled from Melbourne to Sydney without
incident since his first up effort two weeks back when
he blew away a quality field in
the Listed Vain Stakes over 1100m at Caulfield.
Trainer Rick Hore Lacy has been thrilled with the way
the flashy chestnut has come through that run, however
was not quite as happy when he
learned that his charge had once again drawn awkwardly
in Sydney.
“That alley will make it tougher for us,”
Hore Lacy said. “He just can’t seem to draw
a barrier this horse and although his record is fantastic
– it
would have been even better if he had just had any luck
with alleys.
“The last time we were in Sydney we drew double
figure barriers in the two G1’s and I have no doubt
that if he had drawn better then he would
have won both (the Sires and Champagne as a 2YO).
“We will now be forced to drop back further then
we intended to try and find cover, but I still have my
fingers crossed that Damien (Oliver) will have
three or four behind him and he is in touch as they round
the bend.
“There are a couple of very good horses we are lining
up against tomorrow that have drawn well and should get
good runs in the race. He will be
spotting them a start so will need some luck and a few
other things to go our way but I wouldn’t swap him
for any other runner.
“I have said almost from the first time we threw
a saddle over his back that this is the best horse I have
had since Redoute’s Choice and I am not
backing away from that statement.
“I have already had 3 of the biggest studs in Australia
contacting me and wanting to get involved in him as he
has such great sire appeal
because his sire, Show A Heart, is the last of the Star
Kingdom line stallions in Australia.
“I am sure he will run well tomorrow and he looks
spot on.
“All we need is luck in running and not being forced
to give some of the others who will get soft runs too
big a head start.”
Providing all goes according to plan tomorrow for Toorak
Toff, the colt will head back to Melbourne to target the
G1 Caulfield Guineas in
6 weeks time where he is currently on the top line of
betting in the early markets.
BRADBURY’S LUCK’S stakes winning filly Ringa
Ringa Rosie will resume tomorrow in Race 3 at Doomben
but trainer Bevan Laming warns
she is not fully wound up as she has bigger fish to fry
down south later in the spring.
The leggy filly has matured well since her juvenile season,
although Laming still feels we will see a better horse
in another year’s time.
“She has filled out very nicely, and has a lot more
strength, but I think she is still 12 months away from
being fully conditioned,” Laming said. “I
don’t have her as forward as I did last time we
resumed so they may just be a bit too nippy for her tomorrow.
“The plan will be to give her a nice outing tomorrow,
make sure she is not flattened, and then we will be heading
south.
“Providing she comes through this run well, her
next start will be in the Guineas Prelude in 3 weeks time
but her main mission this preparation
will be the (G1 VRC) Oaks.
“She looks the ideal type to me to handle that and
I am confident she will see the distance right out.
“Having as much class as this filly does means you
can never write them off but I must admit I would be a
little surprised if she won tomorrow as I
have left plenty of improvement in her.”
SHOW A HEART’S multiple Group winning 6YO Rightfully
Yours is another who will take plenty of improvement out
of his return to racing
tomorrow when he lines up in the $100,000 Listed Clamms
Seafood Stakes (1100m).
The very consistent galloper has a tremendous first up
record – but that is usually over further distances
then he will tackle on Saturday.
The Show A Heart gelding has amassed almost half of $1million
in prize-money and will hopefully top that figure before
this campaign
completes.
The Mick Price stable report that Rightfully Yours has
come back in tremendous order but warn that tomorrow’s
opposition will probably
prove too slick for him.
They hope that he is hitting the line late and comes through
the run well before determining a path to tackle for the
spring.
RED ELEMENT’S full sister, and Australia’s
best racehorse, Typhoon Tracy resumes tomorrow and according
to the Peter Moody stable
has returned in wonderful order.
The condition of the track will certainly play a part
in tomorrow’s outcome against a quality field but
she looks the likely leader and is sure to give a
tremendous sight.
JET SPUR looks to have a terrific chance of claiming the
first race in Brisbane tomorrow (over 1350m) when his
two geldings Smart and
Equissential will line up as two of the more fancied runners.
Last time out Smart charged through a gap to claim victory
in the shadows of the post over 1200m whilst Equissential
flashed late to swoop
into 4th place in the same event.
Both of their efforts were full of merit and their clash
tomorrow should prove very interesting.
Perhaps the one that secures the best run in transit will
end up the victor but both look to have very bright futures.
FALVELON will look to provide the stiffest opposition
for Bradbury’s Luck’s quality youngster Ringa
Ringa Rosie in Race 3 at
Doomben tomorrow when his two in-form mares Kryptelon
and Falvelina take their place over the 1200m.
Falvelina will no doubt set a good tempo as she is a flying
machine and has a natural turn of foot.
Kryptelon is a stakes winning mare who should sit in behind
them just off the pace and prove very tough to hold out
over the concluding stages.
It promises to be an enthralling contest.
SHOW A HEART has some wonderful chances across the country
(and outside it) tomorrow with perhaps the best of them
being Dr Barnard, who
was desperately unlucky last time out and can be totally
forgiven for his run, in the last race at Doomben, Golden
Heart over in Western
Australia, also in the last, who has been treading water
for a few weeks and just waiting for the right conditions
and Show Up in Race 8 at Hastings in New Zealand who has
a lot of class and just needs a track that is not bottomless
to prove very tough to beat.
27/8/2010 European recognition
for Astronomer royal
Blue Gum Farm have reported on an update that should
give breeders even more reason to consider Astronomer
Royal this season.
The European season is in full swing and last Friday
saw a major update for our champion miler Astronomer
Royal. The prestigious Solario Stakes (Gr 3) at Sandown
was won in good style by the Ed Dunlop-trained Native
Khan, a son of Azamour and whose dam Viva Maria (Kendor)
is currently in foal to Astronomer Royal (USA).
The Solario has been won by the likes of Ravens Pass,
Sri Putra and Shakespearean in recent years and the
classic progress of Native Khan will only further emphasise
the market acceptance of Astronomer Royal.
The Champion 3yo Miler in France, Astronomer Royal's
first foals are arriving here in Australia and we have
been getting extremely favourable reports. At a fee
of just $8,800 in 2010 he surely represents the best
value of any second season stallion in the country.
Aug 23
Faith
in Wanted
Wanted has certainly attracted some outstanding mares
since Eliza Park announced in April that the Newmarket
Handicap-G1 winning son of Fastnet Rock would stand
in Victoria.
However, one of the real stand outs is the Straight
Strike mare Good Faith.
One of six Group One winners by Straight Strike, Good
Faith won the Ellerslie Sires’ Produce Stakes
and another Group race at two before producing multiple
winners at stud including Victorian Group winner Tully
Dane.
Good Faith is also a half sister to AJC Oaks-G1 and
NZ 1000 Guineas-G1 winner Daffodil.
Aside from the obvious commerciality of such a mating,
it’s worth noting that Straight Strike is also
damsire of 36 stakes winners including leading sire
Lonhro.
27/8/2010 Myboycharlie
returns to Vinery
FORMER Group One winning two-year-old Myboycharlie arrived
at Vinery on Wednesday morning thus completing the Stud's
powerful 2010 stallion roster.
Named as French Champion 2YO of 2008, Myboycharlie was
the last of Vinery's three shuttle sires to arrive at
the Scone nursery in time to begin serving on September
1. "We’ve not seen Myboycharlie
since he was here last season but you can see what a change
there has been in the horse even in that time,'' Vinery
Stud's Adam White said.
"He has let down into a lovely horse which would
suggest that he enjoys being a stallion and copes well
with the work rate and the travelling.''
And it's just as well given that Myboycharlie's book will
certainly exceed last season’s book of 94.
"We were very pleased to see him cover so many mares
last season in light of the fact that he wasn't announced
as joining the Vinery roster until the very eve of the
season,'' says White.
Myboycharlie made an immediate impact last year proving
to be an exceptionally fertile horse, says White.
"Any potential issue in that regard was put to
rest quickly and he subsequently returned 98 percent
of mare's in foal from his inital Northern Hemisphere
season at the English National Stud. That really is
quite a phenomenal figure.''
Myboycharlie's return to Vinery coincides with the birth
of his first crop of foals.
"Right from the beginning, we’ve been hearing
very positive reports about his foals,”' White
said.
"They are certainly throwing to type. They are
strong bodied foals with good bone that look like they'd
be early runners like Myboycharlie was himself.
A number of breeders and farms who've foaled a Myboycharlie
already this year have booked back to the stallion on
the strength of those foals and there is no greater
compliment than that.''
Myboycharlie is certain to do his bit to continue the
extraordinary success of the Danehill-line here and
in Europe.
``He was the first Group One winner for his sire, Danetime,
who was making an enormous impact with Group One winners
in both hemispheres before his untimely death,'' White
said.
Importantly, Myboycharlie's own female line is full
of quality and very familiar to Australian breeders
given the presence of the imported mare Snowdrift (FR)
whose offspring include Golden Slipper placegetter Portillo
and the successful sires Snowland and Snippetson.
Myboycharlie first foals
26/8/2010 Exciting debut
winner for Encosta
Impressive in winning two recent barrier trials, the
Gai Waterhouse trained Halekulani (3g Encosta de Lago
x Flying Spice, by Flying Spur) had no difficulty transferring
that good form to raceday with a sparkling debut win
at Canterbury on Wednesday.
The handsome chestnut looked very professional in driving
up to sit in second place before skipping clear in the
straight to win the 1100 metre maiden by two lengths
as a well backed favourite with apprentice rider Blake
Spriggs in the saddle.
“He’s a special horse, he jumped a bit
slow as he has done in his trials, but he switched on
pretty quickly after that,” said Spriggs.
“He was the best horse in the race and that’s
the way I tried to ride him.”
A $375,00 purchase for Blandford Bloodstock from the
Coolmore draft at the 2009 Inglis Australian Easter
Yearling Sale, Halekulani by champion sire Encosta de
Lago and is the fourth winner for stakes-placed Flying
Spice, a half-sister to stakes-winner Chattanooga.
“He’s a promising horse and has always
shown us alot, but he kept going shinsore and then after
we gelded him he has not looked back,” said Gai
Waterhouse.
Halekulani is raced by the Cheval Blanc Syndicate which
is made up of some high profile women in racing including
Fran Ingham, Petrea and Victoria Vela and Sophie Magnier,
whose husband Tom was on hand for the win.
“Gai has done a terrific job with this horse
and it’s a really good syndicate, so we’re
delighted to get a result,” said Tom Magnier.
Halekulani’s dam Flying Spice has been a regular
visitor to Coolmore and has a two year-old and yearling
to follow by Encosta de Lago, the two year-old colt
snapped up by Ingham Racing at the Inglis Australian
Easter Yearling Sale this year for $300,000.
Flying Spice is due to foal this spring to Coolmore
new recruit Henrythenavigator.
26/8/2010 Waikato stallion
parade this Saturday & Sunday
The Waikato Branch of the NZTBA in conjunction with
JLT Bloodstock (formerly Jardines) will host its Annual
Stallion Parade this Saturday and Sunday.
The parade starts 12:30pm on Saturday at Mapperley
Stud and continues around the Matamata studs that day.
On Saturday night the Breeder of the Month Dinner will
be held at Longlands Restaurant from 6.30pm.
On Sunday the tour will take in studs in the Cambridge
area and starts 9.30am at Brighthill Farm.
All are welcome and a special prize draw will be held
at The Oaks lunch break.
For further details and itinerary go to www.nzthoroughbred.co.nz
or ring Secretary Lisa Dunbar on 021 404 680.
25/8/2010 News all good
for Iffraaj
The news down the wire is all good for Haunui Farm’s
stallion Iffraaj (GB).
To date, the handsome Zafonic sire has had 52 starters
in the Northern Hemisphere and with 26 individual winners,
he is currently regarded as Europe’s Leading First
Season Sire.
From this oldest crop of two-year-olds, he has achieved
a 50% winners-to-runners strike rate, which is an early
accomplishment that is not going unnoticed.
Iffraaj (GB) parading at Haunui Farm
Arguably more fascinating than this first crop NH winner
count, is just how quickly his progeny are taking to
break their maiden status.
From his 26 winners, 10 won on debut.
Of the remaining 16 winners, 11 won at their second
start and the rest won at either start three or four.
“It’s interesting because by all accounts
they are not true 2YO types and Iffraaj himself did
not win until the September of his two-year-old season,”
said Haunui Farm’s Mark Chitty.
“In my communication with Jimmy Hyland, the Managing
Director of Kildangan Stud in Ireland, we have generally
found that the Iffraaj’s are big scopey horses
with laid back temperaments.
“Jimmy expected the Iffraaj’s to improve
and progress during the season and this is exactly what
has happened. Ideally they will be better suited when
they step out over a little more ground to races that
are between seven furlongs (1400m) to mile (1600m) long.
Iffraaj’s first Southern Hemisphere crop was derived
in 2008 from an impressive book boasting a 34% count
of either stakes winners, performers or stakes producing
dams.
The resultant yearlings will be available at public
auction in 2011 and if they are anything like their
NH counterparts, they will be keenly sought after.
“The reports from the Northern Hemisphere trainers
are that the Iffraaj’s are easy to train horses,
love their work and are pretty uncomplicated overall,”
commented Chitty.
In keeping with his early accomplishment, Iffraaj has
been in hot demand at Haunui Farm this season.
“We’ve had a huge response to Iffraaj this
season and as of today, we are closing his book for
2010,” said Chitty.
Iffraaj stands at Haunui Farm for $10,000 plus GST this
season.
24/8/2010 Miss Andretti's
first foal adds magic to millions
The first foal of champion sprinter Miss Andretti
is heading to January's Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling
Sale.
One of the best sprinting mares ever seen in Australia,
Miss Andretti proved her class against the best in both
hemispheres.
After proving herself in Australia with a swag of feature
race wins and record performances, Miss Andretti burst
onto the world scene with a great win in the King's
Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot in 2007.
In all the Ihtiram mare won 19 races, 11 at group level,
earned over $2.8 million and swept away with the 2007
Australian Horse of the Year crown.
The mare, who started her career in Perth where she
won that state's feature sprint, the Winterbottom Stakes,
won five Group One sprints in Melbourne.
Such was her reputation Miss Andretti started favourite
in 25 of her 31 lifetime starts.
Her first foal, a colt by fellow sprint sensation Exceed
and Excel, is set to go under the hammer at the Southern
Hemisphere's most popular yearling sale in January.
One of a number of quality entries for Ultra Thoroughbreds,
the colt will be presented at the Gold Coast by Toolooganvale
Farm.
"We are delighted to have received such quality
nominations from Sean Buckley and the Ultra Thoroughbreds
team - in particular the colt from Miss Andretti,"
Magic Millions Managing Director David Chester noted.
"Miss Andretti proved her champion qualities in
both hemispheres and is one of the best sprinters Australia
has produced in the modern era."
"Her first foal, heading to our sale in January,
is sure to attract great interest from around the world."
"The growing international reputation of the Magic
Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale can only be enhanced
with the inclusion of this colt in the catalogue."
"Only last week the Santic's Makybe operation
announced that Starspangledbanner's half brother would
also go under the hammer at the same sale."
Also highlighting the Ultra draft will be four youngsters
by leading young Coolmore Stud sire Fastnet Rock.
Also heading to the Gold Coast auction from the same
farm will be a few quality youngsters by Rock of Gibraltar.
The 2011 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale will
be held from January 12 to 21.
Miss Andretti's first foal
24/8/2010 First foal arrives
for Fully Fledged
Fairdale Stud welcomed the first foal by Fully Fledged
(NZ) on Monday and by all accounts, the colt is a carbon
copy of his father.
"He is a strong, well marked chestnut very like
his sire, who was a Gr.1 winning two-year-old and the
top-weighted colt on the NZ Two-Year-Old Free Handicap,”
said Fairdale Stud’s Duncan Fell.
FULLY FLEDGED's first foal.
“It is an exciting time for a studmaster seeing
the first progeny of a new sire.
“Fully Fledged had huge natural ability, pedigree
and looks, and it is encouraging to know that he is
leaving progeny like himself.”
The striking first foal was out of the Fastnet Rock
mare Dee Flawless.
Dee Flawless is owned by Peter Walker, who was a partner
in the racing career of Fully Fledged.
Fully Fledged commenced stud duties at Fairdale Stud
in Longburn near Palmerston North in 2009.
“He was well supported by breeders in his first
season and has 80 mares due to foal to him this spring,”
said Fell.
Fully Fledged will stand at Fairdale Stud this season
for a fee of $4,000 + G S T.
“We acknowledge that the economy is not as buoyant
as it has been in the past, and we are offering generous
transport subsidies to those broodmare owners who seek
bookings to Fully Fledged,” said Fell.
24/8/2010 Nominations
for Inglis bonus at Seymour closing
Nominations for the next leg of the Inglis Race Series,
Sunday’s Chatswood Vase Inglis Bonus 3YO Handicap
(1300m) at Seymour, close at 12noon today..
Conducted by the Seymour Racing Club, with support
from both Chatswood Stud and Super Vobis, this race
for 3yo’s rated 0-72 – will again be one
of the richest restricted events in country Victoria.
In addition to the $50,000 prize money allocated to
the race, Super VOBIS will again put a $30,000 metropolitan
bonus on the event.
With a $50,000 Inglis Bonus to be paid to winner should
they be Inglis Race Series qualified, it means eligible
graduates will be competing for a total purse of $130,000
this Sunday.
This will be the first 3YO Bonus event for 2009 yearling
sale graduates. The first 3YO $100,000 Bonus event in
VIC will be run at Caulfield over 1000m (3yo Open) on
Thousand Guineas Day, October 13.
A $100,000 Bonus will then be on the line at Randwick
in NSW on Saturday October 16. Collected by the Kevin
Moses trained ALL LEGAL last year, the $100,000 Inglis
Race Series Bonus has again be placed on the 3yo Benchmark
75 Hcp over 1600m that day.
The series for 2010 graduates begins at Moonee Valley
on Cox Plate Day, with the $250,000 Inglis Banner, which
has been renamed after inaugural winner Starspangledbanner.
If any connections you would to check the Inglis Race
Series eligibility of any of their horses simply email
raceseries@inglis.com.au
24/8/2010
Inglis Scone Broodmare
sale this Friday
Breeders will be presented with some outstanding opportunities
to upgrade their broodmare bands at the Inglis Scone
Broodmare Sale, to be held at White Park this Friday
August 27.
Supplementary entries which include an additional 16
half sisters to stakes winners, have lifted the catalogue
to 174 lots.
The sale catalogue now contains 36 half sisters to
stakes winners, including Group One winners Zagalia,
Victory Vein, Heart Ruler and Lashed.
An excellent array of covering sires is also a feature
of the sale.
Champion First Season Sire Stratum, a Golden Slipper
winner and now getter, will be represented by three
mares in foal while fellow first crop sire Domesday
will be represented by a lone offering.
On the back of producing a Group One winner from his
first crop, a nomination to Domesday recently sold at
auction for $44,000 with breeders keen to gain access
the exciting prospect.
STC Golden Rose G1 hopeful Squamosa's sire Not A Single
Doubt will be represented by three mares in foal while
Lonhro, sire of recent stakes winning fillies Parables
and Obsequious is represented as sire and covering sire
of mares within the catalogue.
Friday’s sale begins at 12noon.
Inglis bloodstock consultants and Inglis’ Make
An Offer Service will be available for those buyers
unable to attend. Please contact Inglis on (02) 9399
7999 for more information.
23/8/2010 Third stakes winner
for Whakanui stud's Monroe magic
A career ending leg injury may not sound like much of
a blessing, but for Whakanui Stud’s Tim Bodle it
is proving just that.
Bodle sold the Zabeel filly Monroe Magic as a yearling,
but upon hearing of her injury at three, he approached
her trainer in Australia Mike Moroney to buy her back.
It would cost him a similar amount to what he had received
for her as a yearling and would pay dividends in spades.
Like Empire Rose and Mrs Squillionaire - the dam of Gr.1
winner Green Birdie (NZ), Monroe Magic has gone on to
earn a special place in
Whakanui Stud’s 18 strong broodmare band.
In 2002 she produced the subsequent Gr.1 AJC Derby winner,
Headturner (Anabaa) In 2004, she followed this up with
the current
Gr.2 winner Kroner (NZ) (Viking Ruler) and as of Saturday,
she carved out a third stakes winner with her 2007 colt,
Anacheeva (Anabaa).
Trained by Peter Moody, Anacheeva won the Listed Mitchell
McKenzie Stakes (3YO C & G, 1200m) at Moonee Valley.
“As a full brother to Headturner, he attracted plenty
of attention as a yearling, but he had sesamoiditis and
some people were put off by his x-ray?s,” recalled
Bodle of Anacheeva.
“Peter Moody wasn’t one of these and he bought
him on type for A$110,000.”
Anacheeva has now won two of four starts.
“As a foal, he looked to have more brilliance about
him than Headturner. He was a stronger type and Headturner
was more of a dour stayer,” said Bodle.
“This horse has won a stakes race over 1200m, so
it will be interesting to see how he progresses.”
Looking to potential stakes winners of the future, Monroe
Magic is due to foal to Sebring and is booked in to see
O’Reilly this season.
23/8/2010 Lonhro colt tops
Future Stars
The BC3 Future Stars Sale was held at Oaklands today,
where 13 horses changed hands for a total of $1,154,000.
A Lonhro half-brother to yesterday’s Group 3
Up And Coming Stakes winner Blackball sold to a client
of Victorian trainer John McArdle for $220,000. The
colt is from the Grand Lodge mare Excommunicate from
the family of former Woodlands Stud topliners Hosannah
and Holy Roller.
BC3 have proven themselves successful buyers of Lonhro
progeny, with the Group 3 winner Deer Valley the shining
light.
Today’s buyers included Ireland based De Burgh
Equine, which secured a Churchill Downs colt for $120,000
on behalf of a Dubai based syndicate.
"We were pleased to sell 13 here at Oaklands today,
which eclipsed last year's total we sold at our auction,"
said BC3 CEO Bill Vlahos.
"We've been inundated with inquiry post sale and
hope to have a few more sales finalised, particularly
in the higher bracket in the next day or so.
"As history has shown, there will no doubt be
some great racehorses emerge from the BC3 program.
"As always the BC3 philosophy is that the horses
not sold through the ring today will remain for sale
and we're confident they will once again win a few races
in our colours along the way."
Inglis Managing Director Mark Webster noted, "Having
worked closely with Bill's team on this year's sale,
our team can fully endorse the BC3 philosophy.
"In particular we've been impressed by the quality
and level of education of the Future Stars draft.
"We'll continue to market these graduates post
sale, particularly in Asia where we will be we represented
over the next few months with trade missions in Singapore,
Hong Kong and China.
"The concept is returning results on the racetrack
and I'm confident that will translate to more sales
over time."
Horses passed in during today’s sale are still
available for sale via the Inglis Make an Offer service
It is worth noting that the likes of Deer Valley and
Group 1 placed American Crew were horses to find racetrack
success for BC3 after failing to find new homes at sale.
Horses still available include progeny of outstanding
stallions like Encosta De Lago, More Than Ready, Stravinsky,
Dehere, Pins, Starcraft and Choisir.
22/8/2010 Lonhro filly heads
stakes treble for Darley sires at Warwick Farm
The Peter Snowden-trained Parables looks to be yet
another potential star for her sire Lonhro after recording
an impressive victory in the G3 Silver Shadow Stakes
at Warwick Farm on Saturday.
Sitting out the back in the 1200m event the Woodlands
Stud-bred filly unleashed a powerful kick up the rails
to win by a length going away.
“She’s very exciting and hopefully she
goes on from this, but in my mind I feel confident she
will,” Peter Snowden told Racenet. “With
that turn of foot it will take her a long way.”
The other Group Three event on the card, the Up And
Coming Stakes, was taken out by Canny Lad three-year-old
Blackball, another Woodlands Stud graduate out of the
Grand Lodge mare Excommunicate, who was winning for
the second time. Less than two lengths away in third
was the Street Cry colt Sea Lord, a $400,000 yearling
purchase at NZB’s Premier Yearling Sale.
The 1400m Listed race earlier in the day went the way
of the consistent Strategic mare Illuminates, who was
runner-up to Typhoon Tracy in the G1 Queen Of The Turf
Stakes in April and already has two other Stakes victories
to her name. Illuminates was bred by Gerry Harvey and
is a daughter of Dazzle Light, by Danzero.
Rounding off a successful day for Darley-sired runners
in Sydney, Pinwheel, by Lonhro, narrowly missed out
on victory in the Listed Shimano Show County Quality
Handicap when finishing second by half a length, while
at Moonee Valley Lonhro sired another Listed place-getter,
The Ruffian, who was runner-up in the Essendon Nissan
McKenzie Stakes.
22/8/2010 Bender back with
a bang
Multiple Group 1 winner Metal Bender returned to racing
with a bang when leading home a Chris Waller trained
trifecta in today’s Group 2 Warwick Stakes in
Sydney.
It was also a quinella for graduates of the famous
Inglis Newmarket Sales ring, with METAL BENDER ($160,000
2007 Easter, 5g Danasinga-Jacqwin) staving off the challenge
of fellow Group 1 winner TRIPLE HONOUR ($50,000 2006
Classic, 6g Honours List-Myrrh).
Metal Bender only got as far as a barrier trial last
spring before his campaign was cut short through injury.
He returned to racing this autumn and after a couple
of runs to bring him to peak fitness, came into his
own at the Queensland carnival, winning the Group 2
Hollindale Stakes and Group 1 Doomben Cup.
He was previously a dual Group 1 winner of the Randwick
Guineas and Rosehill Guineas for the late Hall of Fame
trainer Jack Denham, who picked him out of the Waikato
Stud draft at the 2007 Easter Sale.
The son of Danasinga has now won eight races and almost
$1.5million in prizemoney. Waller said both he and Triple
Honour are likely to start next in the Chelmsford Stakes
before heading south for missions in Melbourne.
He is aiming Metal Bender at the Cox Plate, while Triple
Honour is a Caulfield Cup candidate. Notably, though
beaten, this effort took Triple Honour's earnings beyond
the $2million mark.
In Melbourne, Peter Moody let the spring leash off
AJC Derby winner Headturner’s full-brother Anacheeva,
who took out the Listed McKenzie Stakes (1200m).
ANACHEEVA ($110,000 2009 Easter, 3c Anabaa-Monroe Magic)
was an impressive debut winner last season and showed
enough talent for Moody to take him to Sydney, where
he ran a close up fourth in the Group 1 Champagne Stakes.
The Widden Stud graduate will only keep getting better
according to the trainer.
“He's a very nice colt and the improvement in
him is immeasurable,” Moody said. “He'll
just keep getting better as he gets to a longer trip.”
22/8/2010 Second session
tops $1M in Melbourne
The Melbourne August Thoroughbred Sale came to a conclusion
at Oaklands this afternoon, with the sale total falling
just short of the $2million mark.
In all, 182 horses were sold today for a total of $1,028,150,
bringing the total number of horses sold over the past
two days to 292 at a gross of $1,964,950.
Today’s session was topped by the Encosta De
Lago mare Miss Presidential, from the family of Rock
Of Gibraltar, when selling for $50,000. Lonhro mare
Miss Monhro topped the supplementary session this afternoon
when knocked down for $45,000.
“What was most notable today was the excellent
clearance of 97%, which is reflective of the strong
demand for racing stock,” Inglis Director Peter
Heagney said.
“At the top end of the market, the better performed
racehorses and nicely bred fillies all sold extremely
well.”
Horses passed in over the past two days are still available
for sale via the Make an Offer Service.
Attention now turns to the BC3 Future Stars Sale which
kicks off from 1pm this Sunday, August 22, with 35 lots
catalogued.
The sale will be broadcast on Inglis Sale Day Live
with Online bidding for those unable to attend.
22/8/2010 Dutch Art Half-sister
to Slow Power in October book
The DUTCH ART half-sister to shock 100–1 Group
1 Nunthorpe Stakes winner SOLE POWER is to be offered
at Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale which
takes place October 11th – 14th.
Out of the DISTANT VIEW mare DEMERGER, the daughter
of DUTCH ART will be consigned from Charlie Vigors’
Hillwood Stud and is one of 22 yearlings by the Cheveley
Park based first crop sire catalogued in Book 2 of the
October Yearling Sale. DEMERGER, herself purchased by
Hedsor Stud for 4,000 guineas at the 2000 Tattersalls
December Sale, is also the dam of the smart Group 3
placed sprinter CORNUS.
In total there are 1030 yearlings catalogued for Book
2 of the 2010 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale. The
catalogue can be viewed at www.tattersalls.com and is
available from Tattersalls and all Tattersalls overseas
representatives.
20/8/2010 Latest news from
Glenlogan park stud
Glenlogan Park stallions had an outstanding few days last
weekend with every one of them producing quality winners
and kicking the new season off in tremendous fashion.
SHOW A HEART deservedly grabbed most of the headlines
when his exceptionally promising 3YO colt Toorak Toff
overpowered a quality field when resuming in the $100,000
Listed Vain Stakes (1100m) at Caulfield.
In doing so, the flashy son of Show A Heart not only confirmed
his status as one of the country’s best of his age
group, but his winning performance also ensured he stamped
himself as one of the most valuable horses in the land.
In storming home to beat a cracking field, that included
the Blue Diamond winner Star Witness, Toorak Toff booked
a trip to Sydney to run in the $1million G1 Golden Rose
(1400m) in 8 days time.
Trainer Rick Hore-Lacy, who bought the colt from the Magic
Millions draft of Glenlogan Park for $135,000, has long
held an enormous opinion of his charge but even he was
almost overwhelmed by the ease of the victory.
“I’ve always known he was very good,”
Hore- Lacy said. “But that effort was something
else!
“I thought the 1100m would be too short for him
and after they went slowly in the first part of the race
and he was back last I didn’t hold much hope that
he could pick them up.
“But he cruised up to them and then battled really
strongly to the line – it was a wonderful effort
and there is no doubt he is an exceptional
colt.”
Toorak Toff was one of only two horses to break 12 seconds
for the final 200m at Caulfield last week, with the other
being the G2 Liston
Stakes winner Shoot Out, and he has now firmed into second
favourite for the Golden Rose and outright favourite for
the G1 Caulfield Guineas.
“There are not many better 3YO’s around that
didn’t turn up today,” Hore-Lacy added after
the race.
“But he made it look easy and I am sure he will
get even better as they get over more ground.
“He was very unlucky not to win a G1 as a 2YO and
I think he is the most promising horse I have trained
since Redoute’s Choice.”
BRADBURY’S LUCK returned a terrific result for his
followers in Singapore last weekend with two effortless
victories from his only two
representatives in that country.
Singapore racing is taking on a more important role for
the Australian breeding industry each and every year,
so to have kicked a
couple of early goals over there is a tremendous boost
for this exciting young stallion.
On Friday night, Bradbury’s Luck was represented
by the 3YO gelding Yoyo, who gave his rivals an absolute
galloping lesson to clear out
and win by an ever widening five lengths.
Jumping smartly from his barrier 7 the Bradbury’s
Luck youngster grabbed the lead and was able to dictate
his own terms from there.
Yoyo’s jockey, Barend Vorster, predicted a bright
future for the gelding.
“He is still very green and the moment he got to
the front he was looking all over the place,”
Vorster said. “It was only at the top of the straight
that he really started to concentrate and then he just
let down and dropped them.
“He is the sort of horse who will only get better
with time, but on what he has shown us he has the makings
of a very nice horse.”
Bradbury’s Luck’s second winner for the weekend
was the ultra impressive Kennecott who also gave his opponents
an absolute walloping.
After finishing second at his first two starts, the Michael
Freedman trained gelding was sent out the deserved favourite
and always looked in control of the S$65,000 event.
After leading in the early stages, jockey Danny Beasley
elected to take a sit after they had travelled 600m and
then he just eased the big
grey out on the point of the turn and then let him down
to cruise away as he quickly put the issue beyond doubt.
Freedman said he would have a look at the racing program
to see if there was a suitable race in the next two or
three weeks for the gelding.
“I’ll have a look to see what is available
but if I can’t find anything I may give him a month
off and bring him back at the end of the year,”
Freedman said.
“He has a terrific galloping action and he looks
like a horse who will appreciate getting over a bit more
ground as he matures.
“I really like him and think he has the ability
to develop into a Singapore Guineas horse next year.”
BRADBURY’S LUCK will have a chance to add some further
black type to his progeny record here in Australia tomorrow
when his Victorian trained filly Lucky Doris lines up
against some very strong opposition in the Listed Crockett
Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley.
The John McArdle trained filly was a race day scratching
from last week’s Listed fillies race at Caulfield
after drawing the extreme outside
barrier, but tomorrow she will jump from the inside draw
and this should assist in her getting a good run in transit.
McArdle reports however that he is unsure how suitable
the tight turning track will be for his promising filly
as she has a big stride and a free
flowing action.
“She is up against a strong field and she will definitely
come on from the run,” John said. “She has
always shown us really good galloping ability and I am
sure there is a nice race in her.
“There is a danger she could feel cluttered up on
the fence there tomorrow but I suppose we need to kick
off her campaign as I think the mile is
probably going to be more to her liking a bit later on.”
Jet Spur youngster with big future in front of him JET
SPUR currently leads the list of Second Season Sires in
Australia after his very
promising horse Smart delivered a cracking performance
to take out the final event at Doomben last weekend.
Smart’s trainer, John Wallace, has always been prepared
to back his judgment regarding this horse and has been
declaring him well above
average for a long time now.
“He has shown me plenty on the tracks right from
the first time I threw a saddle on him,”
Wallace said. “We have only run him in the better
races and he just needed a little time and a touch of
luck to show what he is capable of.
“I am sure we will all hear plenty more about this
fellow over time and I think you will find he has a few
big race wins in him.
The Jet Spur gelding was having only his third race start
after encountering plenty of trouble at his first two
outings.
Locked up on the rails, and with only a few horses behind
him as they entered the straight, jockey Jim Byrne thought
his luck was again going
to desert him last weekend so he had to wait, be patient
and trust in the ability of his horse.
Once a run opened for Smart as they entered the final
furlong, the Jet Spur youngster knuckled down strongly
and charged between runners to
win running away in a very impressive display.
“We had plenty of traffic in front of us but they
had gone reasonably hard and I thought that if we got
the split when we needed it then he could do
the rest,” Byrne said.
“He is the type of horse that, once he gets balanced
up he can really let down and he has a great turn of foot.
“He is still quite green though, however once he
learns to switch on properly I am confident he is at least
a stakes quality horse and he may be even better than
that!”
FALVELON rounded out the terrific weekend of results for
the Glenlogan Park sires with a powerhouse display by
his flying 4YO Falvelina
in the sprint race at Doomben
The fleet-footed mare threw her name into the ring to
join her stablemate Spirit Of Boom in Sydney after showing
her rivals a clean
pair of heels from the moment the barriers opened.
Falvelina registered her 4th win from a 13 start career
to take her prizemoney up near the $170,000 mark and she
has been a wonderful
purchase for her owners.
Trained out of Toowoomba by Tony Gollan, the stable reports
that Falveina would have already gone to Sydney but for
the wet tracks that
have plagued that state.
FALVELON will be attempting to make it 3 weekends in a
row where he can claim the main sprint race on the Brisbane
card when his 6YO
gelding Falco Star lines up in Race 2 at Doomben tomorrow.
The Liam Birchley trained charge has been in career best
form of late and will be hoping to bring up the hatrick
tomorrow in what looks to be a
pretty open race.
Falco Star rises 4.5kg on his last start but has drawn
perfectly and there appears to be plenty of speed in the
race – which will suit him down to the
ground.
There has been a bit of rain around the Brisbane area
in the last day or so, but should the track dry out sufficiently
then Falco Star will put himself
right in the finish yet again.
SHOW A HEART will be looking to add yet another stakes
performer to his ever growing resume when Golden Heart
takes his place in the $80,000
Listed Goodwood Sprint in Western Australia tomorrow.
The big, bold chestnut has won or placed in 12 of his
19 career starts and has amassed prize-money fast approaching
the $300,000 mark.
Trained out of the west by one of that state’s top
trainers in Adam Durrant, Golden
Heart was scratched just before the running of the Listed
Belmont Newmarket two weeks ago but the stable is hoping
that setback will not play too
big a part.
“He has always had plenty of ability and I am pretty
confident we will get to see it this campaign,”
Durrant said.
“It is disappointing to have missed that lead up
run as I would have been pretty confident coming into
tomorrow’s race.
“He may now be a little vulnerable at the business
end but I am very happy with how he is going and he should
give a terrific sight.”
FALVELON and Show A Heart will also have other runners
competing at Belmont tomorrow.
Falvelon’s representative will be the last start
winner Sherann in Race 6 and Show A Heart will have Courageous
Show in Race 2 – with both
being nice each way hopes.
BRADBURY’S LUCK’S grey filly In A Tangle will
be looking to go one better than her last start outing
when she rocketed from the rear of the field
to finish an eye-catching second when first up from a
spell.
Engaged in Race 5 at the Gold Coast tomorrow for trainer
Bryan Guy and jockey Daniel Griffin, a repeat performance
of her run a few weeks ago
will see her very hard to hold out over the concluding
stages.
She has drawn barrier 3 and the stable reports she has
done well since her first up run.
FALVELON registered a terrific win with his progressive
Singaporean sprinter Bionic Boy last week and he will
be hoping to keep that
momentum rolling this weekend.
On Sunday, Falvelon will have Sky Lord lining up in Race
3 over the 1400m and Cabrera taking his place in Race
5.
Both are very good hopes but the latter should prove really
tough to run down in the drive to the line.
20/8/2010 Game Serena Tops
Inglis August Thoroughbred opener
Stakes placed Encosta De Lago mare Game Serena topped
the opening session of the two-day Inglis Melbourne
August Thoroughbred Sale at Oaklands today.
Game Serena was knocked down to Bell View Park Stud
(NSW) for $86,000. She is the winner of seven races
and was also stakes placed in the Group 3 MVRC Inglis
Mile.
She was the highlight of a session that saw 107 horses
sold for a gross of $847,800, with an 82% clearance.
Two mares offered by Shadwell Park shared the second
highest price of the session, being knocked down for
$60,000. Nureyev mare Sidereal Time sold to Rosemount
Stud carrying a positive test to Lonhro, while Bletchley
Park’s daughter Snacking was knocked down to Victoria’s
Business & Equity Consultants in foal to Choisir.
Horses passed in during today’s session, which
included two mares by Champion Sire Flying Spur in foal
to Champion First Season Sire Stratum, are available
for sale via the Make an Offer service.
The sale will continue from 11am tomorrow with Yearlings,
unbroken stock and racehorses, followed by a supplementary
catalogue.
The sale will be broadcast on Inglis Sale Day Live
with Online Bidding available for those unable to attend.
19/8/2010 New BOBS Sire
guide - now available
Racing NSW has produced a BOBS 2013 Sire Guide –
listing all the stallions that are paid up for the Breeder
Owner Bonus scheme for the 2010 breeding season. The 48-page
full colour publication lists more than 140 stallions
which have been nominated for Australia’s most significant
breeders’ incentive plan, together with photographs
and pedigrees. The Sire Guide also contains valuable information
about BOBS and BOBS Extra, with full details on how they
operate.
This new publication will be invaluable for mare owners
planning this season’s coverings and for horse
owners who want to nominate two-year-olds for the BOBS
bonuses. The BOBS Sire Guide is available free of charge
by contacting Racing NSW via email - bobs@racingnsw.com.au
- or by telephone (02) 9551 7574.
19/8/2010 All American to
shuttle to Kentucky
Arrowfield’s freshman sire All American (Red Ransom
(USA)-Milva (USA), by Strawberry Road) will shuttle to
Darby Dan Farm, Kentucky for the 2011 northern hemisphere
season.
The Group One-winning miler (pictured winning the 2009
VRC Emirates S. G1) will be the first Australian stallion
ever to shuttle to the United States.
John Phillips, the owner of Darby Dan Farm, visited
Arrowfield Stud earlier this week to inspect All American
and conclude the shuttle agreement.
Arrowfield Chairman John Messara said, “When
John Phillips approached us about shuttling All American,
we were delighted because Darby Dan Farm bred, raced
and stood his paternal grandsire, Roberto. John has
a deep understanding of this great outcross sire-line
and shares our faith in All American’s ability
to transmit its best qualities.
“Everything about All American, including his
name, makes him the perfect pioneer of the reverse shuttle
to the United States.”
John Phillips said, “All American is sure to
be significant, not because of my sentiment, but because
of my familiarity with what makes this sire line work.
He is a Group I winner with high class two-year-old
performance, a turn of foot, and a masculine balance
with ample length of leg.
“As a sire and as a sire line Roberto has paid
incredible dividends to us and others who have supported
him. Sadly, American breeders lost some promising Roberto-line
sire candidates like Barbaro (by Dynaformer) and our
own Coshocton (by Silver Hawk), which makes the opportunity
to be a part of All American especially attractive.”
Phillips added, “As far as I am concerned the
sky is the limit for All American. Darby Dan is excited
to participate in his stud career with Arrowfield and
the All American Syndicate, and we intend to make him
a global success.”
All American stands his first southern hemisphere season
in 2010 at Arrowfield, at a fee of $16,500 (inc. GST).
His 2011 US fee will be announced by Darby Dan shortly.
Impressive
win for Pureness and Tale of the Cat
(19th August 2010)
Talented gelding Pureness (4g Tale of the Cat x Purespeed,
by Flying Spur) maintained his unbeaten record with
another highly impressive win at Randwick on Wednesday
following on from his facile debut win last month.
Sent out a raging hot favourite, Pureness led throughout
and gave nothing else a chance, coasting home to win
the 1400 metre restricted event by two lengths.
By proven Group One sire Tale of the Cat from the Flying
Spur mare Purespeed, the Gai Waterhouse trained gelding
is certainly bred to be good as a half-brother to the
Waterhouse trained Champion Two Year Old and Golden
Slipper winner Sebring.
Unlike Sebring, who was purchased by Star Thoroughbreds
at Magic Millions for $130,000, Pureness was withdrawn
from the same sale a year later as a result of immaturity
issues.
Gelded and given time to grow into himself by his breeder
George Altomonte of Corumbene Stud, Pureness seems blessed
with more than his fair share of natural ability.
Purespeed is shaping as a fine producer for Corumbene,
her yearling filly by Choisir fetching $325,000 at the
Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale this year.
She has a weanling full sister to Sebring and was covered
by champion sire Encosta de Lago last spring.
Tale of the Cat has proven a great source of quality
performers both in Australia and in the US, the son
of Storm Cat due back in Australia for Coolmore this
spring at a value fee of $38,500.
Hat Trick for Million
Dollar Mare
(19th August 2010)
The current winning run being enjoyed by the Ingham
family continued at Randwick on Wednesday with Shawnee
Girl (4m Encosta de Lago x My Moccasin, by Belong to
Me) notching her third consecutive win.
The Chris Waller trained mare has been in rare form
of late posting wins at Newcastle on July 10, followed
by a Canterbury victory on July 28 before taking out
the Benchmark 73 event over 1550 metres by a length.
Group Two placed in the STC Magic Night Stakes as a
juvenile, Shawnee Girl has now won three of 13 stars
earning some $80,000 in prizemoney.
A three-quarter sister-in-blood to Group One winner
and exciting young sire Northern Meteor, who is also
by Encosta de Lago, Shawnee Girl is the fourth foal
of the imported Belong to Me mare My Moccasin (USA).
A daughter of the good producing mare Explosive (USA),
My Moccasin is a half-sister to Northern Meteor and
to stakes-winners Queen of the Hill and Rabbuka.
Sold by Widden Stud for $1million at the 2008 Inglis
Australian Easter Yearling Sale, Shawnee Girl was the
second highest priced filly by Encosta de Lago in 2008.
The dearest, a filly from multiple Group One winner
Special Harmony that made $1.5 million at the same sale,
was also bought by Ingham Bloodstock and has won up
to Listed company as Little Surfer Girl and won again
at Rosehill last Saturday.
19/8/2010
Bianconi begins with a bang
Story: AAP
Lightly-raced five-year-old Rhythm In Paris is Bianconi's
latest stakes winner, taking out the Group Three Cockram
Stakes at Caulfield.
Rhythm In Paris only made the field for the 1200m feature
as the second emergency after two scratchings on Saturday
morning.
The turn of events led to trainer Jason Warren withdrawing
Rhythm In Paris from the "Weary" Dunlop Research
Foundation Handicap (1400m) earlier in the day so she
could take on the crack field of mares.
"I am thrilled to bits," the 33-year-old
trainer said.
Only four months ago Warren took the biggest risk of
his life when he bought Denistoun Park, an impressive
training complex formerly owned by Lee Freedman on the
Mornington Peninsula..
"It was an incredibly big move and we sold everything
we had to buy it," Warren said.
"This win is a huge result for us as we really
needed the boost."
Warren began training horses eight years ago and in
between had a two-year stint with Freedman to hone his
training skills which has come in handy with Rhythm
In Paris who has been a challenge to train.
She was having only her sixth race start on Saturday
in a career partly hindered by a large bone chip in
a fetlock which needed surgery, and more recently had
her spring campaign interrupted with a foot abscess
last month.
Despite the setback Rhythm In Paris, who was unbeaten
in her first three starts, bounced back to the winner's
circle in impressive fashion in the Cockram with jockey
Ben Melham driving her home from back in the field to
beat Response and Lady Lynette.
Warren paid tribute to Rhythm In Paris' owners John
Stewart and Rob Roulston who have backed him as a trainer
from the start.
"They have been huge supporters of mine,"
Warren said.
"They were happy to give her (Rhythm In Paris)
the time and it has paid dividends."
The sights have been lifted again and Rhythm In Paris
will now be aimed at the Group Two Let's Elope Stakes
(1400m) at Flemington on September 4.
She may then back up in the Group Two Stocks Stakes
(1600m) at Moonee Valley leading into her grand final
in the Group One Myer Classic (1600m) at Flemington
on October 30.
"I could only dream to win a Group One race for
these guys (Stewart and Roulston) because I wouldn't
be where I am without them," Warren said.
18/8/2010 Regal dates
ahead for Eagle Mountain
Brighthill Farm’s exciting new Group One stallion
Eagle Mountain (GB) has some regal dates ahead.
Notably among these consorts are up to ten broodmares
owned by His Highness, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al
Maktoum.
Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al Maktoum, who is the
Minister of Land Affairs in the United Arab Emirates,
raced Eagle Mountain during his internationally successful
race career and has duly retained a 60% interest in
the Champion Irish Three-Year-Old of 2007.
Eagle Mountain (GB) at Brighthill Farm
His mares bound for the Gr.1 Hong Kong Cup winner include
Futoon (Elusive Quality), Neraan (Elusive Quality) and
Al Yamama (Fusaichi Pegasus).
Futoon is a daughter of the former Australian 4yo+
of the year Flitter (Bluebird), who is closely related
to My Royal Captain (NZ) winner of Singapore’s
2007 Patrons Bowl.
Neraan is a half sister to three time Group one winner
Barely a Moment.
Al Yamama is from the group - one winning dam Piavonic,
making her a half sister to Von Costa De Hero (Encosta
de Lago).
The Rock of Gibraltar sire’s impressive credentials
has also meant that some of New Zealand’s best
have signed up to his 2010 dancecard.
In this vein, Eagle Mountain will cover the dual group
– one winners Bazelle (Zabeel) and It’s
My Sin (Success Express) along with black type mares
Country Rose (Centaine), Penny Arcade (Straussbrook)
and Winds of Conquest (Quest for Fame) to name just
a few.
Brighthill Farm’s Nick and Anne–Marie King
are currently syndicating a 40% interest in the horse,
which will guarantee his long-term future in New Zealand.
Eagle Mountain arrived at the Tauwhare-based farm two
months ago.
“He arrived in race fit condition and in the
time he has been here, he has really started to let
down well,” said Nick King.
“He really is a good looking, athletic animal
and he has a lovely temperament, which clearly enabled
him to be able to consistently compete against the best
horses all around the world.
“We have had a great response from those who have
been to the farm and seen the horse and we welcome visitors
at any time."
Of his international racing career, Eagle Mountain
competed at group level in the U.K., Ireland, France,
U.S.A., Hong Kong and U.A.E and achieved earnings of
over US$2.4 million.
He won the Gr.2 Curragh Beresford Stakes (1600m) at
two- years; the Gr.2 Royal Whip (2000m) at three and
at four, stormed home to claim the Gr.1 Hong Kong Cup
(2000m) and the Gr.3 Joel Stakes (1600m) – the
latter in a Rowley Mile track record time of 1.34.07.
During this time, he was also Gr.1 placed in the Epsom
Derby, the Irish Derby, the Champion Stakes and the
Breeders' Cup and he was named champion Irish Middle
Distance three-year-old.
With a view to his breeding, he is by the Gr.1 sire
Rock of Gibraltar and is out the Darshaan mare, Masskana,
who is also the noted Gr.1 dam of the Champion French
2YO, Sulk.
Masskana’s sire Darshaan is a proven broodmare
sire with the likes of High Chaparral and it is one
of the most sought after distaff lines in the world.
For those interested in seeing Eagle Mountain or the
farm's resident stallions Perfectly Ready and Patapan,
details can be found at Brighthill’s website www.brighthillfarm.co.nz
18/8/2010 Mustard only
a kid compared to ancient Iron Gelding
VETERAN racegoers would love to have the spring in
their step displayed at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday
by ‘ancient’ galloper Mustard, a 13-year-old
gelding who rattled home from the tail of the field
to record a convincing win in a1100 metre event.
In doing so, he became the oldest winner in Sydney
for at least the past fifty years.The nearest challenging
for this distinction appears to have been Grecian Vale,
a winner in town at 11 years and a placegetter four
times at 12. Coincidentally, both horses were sired
in the Widden Valley, Grecian Vale, a son of the Ajax
AJC Epsom winner Achilles, at Widden and Mustard being
bred and raised on the neighbouring stud, Baramul, when
it was owned by Sir Tristan Antico.
Bought by his trainer John McNair (Gosford) for $16,000
at the Magic Millions yearling sale at the Gold Coast,
Mustard is by the shuttled Mr. Prospector grandson Vettori
(Machiavellian) and from the minor Sydney winner Altezza,
a daughter of the Bletchingly sire Rigoletto and the
high class race filly Princess Talaria. She was a daughter
of the Round Table sire Dignitas and the tough Port
Vista racemare Winged Beauty.
Mustard has been to the races on 108 occasions for
17 wins (ten in Sydney including four stakes to Group
3 level),12 seconds (five stakes),14 thirds (two stakes)
and $771,517. He has won at three, four, five, six,
seven, eight, nine, ten, 12 and 13.
Although winning on the flat at 13 appears a freakish
age in flat racing, Mustard is only a pup compared Jorrocks,
a folk hero of Australian racing for his exploits in
the mid 1800s.
The ‘Iron Gelding’, this Mudgee district
bred Anglo-Arabian measuring less than 15 hands went
racing at five after being used as a stock horse. He
won at Coolah in the NSW central west on debut and went
on to succeed in more than sixty races, including 30
wins from 31 starts as a 13-year-old and one at 18 years.He
also had one unplaced outing at 19.
Many of the Jorrock’s wins were at what was
then Sydney’s principal racecourse, Homebush,
and included the Cumberland Cup twice, Champagne Stakes
and Metropolitan Stakes three times. He also won the
AJC Australian Plate on four or five occasions.
There have probably been some bush horses who have
won at an older age than Mustard since World War 11.
One was Passsion Moon, a 1952 foaled gelding who raced
in north Queensland, appearing 232 times for 118 wins,
including 15 at 15 years.There were only two or three
runners in many of his races and some were walk overs.In
other words he was the only starter.
Mouth watering collection
of Hunter Valley sires on show
A MOUTH watering collection of sires are to be a show
window for the Hunter valley in the last week of August
with four of the leading ustuds, Widden, Vinery, Darley
and Coolmore, holding stallion parades for invited guests.
Widden, a stud who will be parading on five consecutive
days, is to lead the way with the first of them on Thursday
August 26. Among those attending on this day will be
Hall of Fame trainers Gai Waterhouse and David Hayes.
Hayes trained and part owned Widden’s new sire
Nicconi (by the Danzig sire Bianconi) and Gai prepared
Sebring, a more Than Ready Golden Slipper winner who
started his sire career last year.
Sebring will be one of two Slipper winners paraded
at Widden, the other being 2009-10 champion juvenile
and first crop sire Stratum. Among the others on show
will be Dreamscape, a newcomer by Starbanglesbanner’s
sire Choisir, and the mercurial Encosta de Lago colt
Northern Meteor, one who like Sebring entered stud last
season. Sebring looked after 190 mares and Northern
Meteor 198.
Northern Meteor’s two times champion sire Encosta
de Lago will be one of fifteen on show at the Coolmore
parades.They also include the Australia and northern
hemisphere Group1 winners Chosir and Haradasun and the
world class High Chaparral (USA) (Sadler’s Wells;
won English and Irish Derby, American Breeders’
Cup Turf – twice), Dylan Thomas (IRE) (Danehill;
six Group1s included the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe,
Ascot King George V1 & Queen Elizabeth Stakes) and
Henry the Navigator (USA) (Kingmambo; four Group1 wins
at a mile at three, including the English and Irish
Two Thousand Guineas). Both Henry the Navigator (144
mares) and Duke of Marnalade (119) paid their first
visits in 2009.
The biggest collection in the Hunter Valley on show
will be that at Darley’s Kelvinside stud near
Aberdeen.They have 17 sires listed for use this year,
including locals Lonhro, Commands, Exceed and Excel,
Canny Lad, Nadeem and Shaft.
The Darley shuttlers include Street Cry (USA) (Machiavellian;
Dubai World Cup winner, sire winners Kentucky Derby,
Breeders’ Cup events, Melbourne Cup, Caulfield
Guineas), his son Street Sense (USA) (champion at two,
Kentucky Derby at three),Teofilo (IRE) (Galileo; unbeaten
champion European 2YO), Shamardal (USA) (Giant’s
Causeway; world champion 2YO, champion European 3YO
miler) and Medaglia d’Oro (USA) (by Sadler’s
Wells sire El Prado; won four Group1s, sire of Rachel
Alexandra, winner of 13 of 18 starts and earner of US$3,4million).
Medaglia d’Or is on his first visit to Australia.
The most talked about sire on show in the Hunter Valley
this spring is new American visitor Big Brown, a son
of the Danzig sire Boundary and the Nureyev mare Mien.
On the sire roster at Vinery, he is acclaimed as the
greatest overseas racehorse to shuttle and the most
brilliant American classic performer of recent years.The
only time he lost in his eight starts was when he went
amiss in the Belmont Stakes and did not finish the journey.
He won the Kentucky Derby by 4.8 lengths and the Preakness
Stakes by 5.3 lengths.
Big Brown is one of ten sires standing at Vinery this
year.Three of the others are three of the best sires
in Australia today, the shuttler More Than Ready and
the locals Testa Rossa and Mossman.
Investment in proven
Storm Cat sire pays dividends
ACQUISITION from Western Australia this year of the
awesomely bred Mosayter (USA) (Storm Cat – Bashayer,
by Mr. Prospector) for her Argyle Thoroughbreds stud
and agistment farm at Panuara near Orange in central
western New South Wales has reaped quick rewards in
the new racing year for Louise Ellis.
Two of the offspring got from Mosayter’s limited
opportunity in the West were successful in a space of
24 hours in the first week of August, the 5-year-old
mare Rose recording an eye-catching 2.3 lengths win
at Perth’s Belmont, covering the 1000 metre journey
in 0:57.60, and new 3-year-old Mickey Drippin beating
14 others in a1300m race at provincial Northam.
Appearing for only the third time, Mickey Drippin
followed that win with a third at Belmont on August
14. He had been fourth on debut on this track on July
21 and had won a trial there on June 28.
Winner earlier of two trials, Rose has now been successful
in both her race starts, scoring by 1.5 lengths at Northam
on debut on July 22 and then winning at Belmont. She
was a short priced favourite each time.
Both these Mosayter winners are from mares by sires
who represent the prepotent Grey Sovereign male line.
Rose, a half-sister to Group1 WATC Railway Stakes winner
El Presidente, is from Cottage Rose, a mare by the good
Western Australian importation Cheraw, and Mickey Drippin
from Mystical Profit, a winner by the Kenmare sire Tribu
and from Picnic Brook, a daughter of Lunchtime. Tribu
is also sire of Borsha’s Warrior, winner for the
eleventh time when successful at Doomben on Saturday.
Listed to stand his first New South Wales season on
$4,400, Mosayter appeals as one of the best bred sires
stand in the central west. His Storm Cat – Mr.
Prospector mare cross breeding is the same as that which
produced the Coolmore, Hunter valley shuttler Tale of
the Cat and One Cool Cat, the sire from use in New Zealand
of Winter King, a Listed winner at Rosehill Gardens
on Saturday. Mosayter and Tale of the Cat are from the
same illustrious family.
Very good prospects in
Scone mare catalogue
A YOUNG MARE in the 146 lot catalogue for the Inglis
2010 Scone Broodmare sale to held on Friday August 27
that appears worthy of use at the highest level is the
2006 foaled Modonna. Listed as lot 134 on behalf of
Secret Hills Farm, Beaudesert, she is a winner in Sydney
of three races and a second placegetter at Doomben in
the Listed Golden Stakes got by More Than Ready from
Donnadane, a Danehill mare.
Also winner in Sydney and stakes places, Donnadane
is three-quarter sister to champion Australian sprinter
Fastnet Rock (a Coolmore sire) and a half-sister to
Raheeb, a good class sprinter-1600m performer commencing
a sire career this year at Patinack Farm.
The deeds of Starspangledbanner should entice considerable
interest in lot 68, Bonboniere Lady, a 2004 foaled winner
of six sprint races, both being by Choisir and from
mares carrying Shecky Greene, an American champion sprinter
by exported Aussie Noholme, in the pedigree. On account
of Riversleigh Farm, Bonboniere Lady is from Ideal Option,
a Scenic mare out the imported Shecky Greene Sydney
winner Shecky’s Option. It is the family that
produced Marscay.
Another 2004 mare who looks a top level breeding prospect
is Porte Triage, a Redoute’s Choice winning three-quarter
sister the Danehill Adelaide juvenile stakes winner
Cassis. Her grandam was an England champion juvenile,
Durtal, a half-sister to Detroit, a winner like her
son Carnegie of the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.
Porte Triage is one of two potential breeders listed
by Newgate Farm, Scone. The other, lot 74, is Cerinthe,
a 2006 foaled Hawkesbury winner who is a half-sister
to champion Australian 2-year-old Victory Vein by the
Danehill champion Australasian sprinter Exceed and Excel,
a fashionable sire in both hemispheres.
There appear to be quite a few other good breeding
prospects in the catalogue with other sires represented
including Belong to Me, Canny Lad, Commands, Danewin,
Danzero, Dehere, Elusive Quality, Flying Spur, Fusaichi
Pegasus, Galileo, General Nediym, Grand Lodge, Hennessy,
Hussonet, Magic Albert, Octagonal, Marauding, Marscay,
Rory’s Jester, Show a Heart, Snippets, Tale of
the Cat, Volksraad, Zabeel and Zeditave.
Nearly 60 of the mares are shown as believed to be
in foal from 2009 services. They include three served
by Stratum and others by Tale of the Cat, Not a Single
Doubt, Hennessy, Sharkbite, Canny Lad, Lonhro, Snippetson,
Quest for Fame, Magic Albert, Haradasun, Aussie Rules
and Lion Heart.
17/8/2010 Star's half brother
heading to Magic Millions
The world renowned Magic Millions Yearling Sale in January
has received a tremendous boost with news the yearling
half brother to international sensation Starspangledbanner
will go under the hammer at the Gold Coast sale.
The team from Makybe in Victoria has made the decision
to sell the star offering at the famous Queensland auction.
The colt, a September 3 foaling, is the latest yearling
product of the exceptionally bred and top producing
Made of Gold mare Gold Anthem.
The youngster is a member of the first crop of Makybe's
resident young sire Purrealist, a brilliantly bred son
of champion international sire Tale of the Cat.
Magic Millions' South Australian and Victorian Manager
Tim Brown has inspected the colt and was suitably impressed.
"He's got plenty of size and scope," Brown
said. "Come January he's going to look a very mature
yearling."
"He is sure to appeal to every trainer."
"The colt is in the same mould as his outstanding
half brother. He is likely to show ability at two, but
he looks a great prospect to train on at three."
As well as Starspangledbanner's half brother, Brown
has inspected a number of youngster by Makybe's exciting
young sire Purrealist.
"I have seen a number of Purrealist yearlings
and I've been impressed by their quality and attitude,"
he added.
Starspangledbanner shot to prominence in Australia
by winning five races including the Caulfield Guineas
and Oakleigh Plate when prepared by Leon Corstens.
Purchased by the powerful Coolmore Stud operation,
Starspangledbanner was transferred to Aidan O'Brien
where at his past two runs he's won the Golden Jubilee
Stakes at Royal Ascot and the July Cup at Newmarket.
The son of Choisir is one of the world's most valuable
gallopers and is set to have a big future at stud in
both hemispheres.
Gold Anthem, the dam of Starspangledbanner and the
Gold Coast bound yearling, was purchased for Tony Santic
by John Foote for just $40,000 at the 2001 Adelaide
Yearling Sale (the sale where Mummify was purchased
for just $41,000).
She was a smart racehorse - winning two races at two
and earning black type when narrowly beaten into second
place in a listed Balcrest Stakes at Victoria Park.
At stud she's proven to be a sensation and aside from
Starspangledbanner she has produced the five time winner
and Dermody Stakes placegetter Gold Chant.
Only last week she presented the Makybe team with a
colt foal by Redoute's Choice.
Meanwhile, Gold Chant produced a colt by Lonhro in
her first season at stud and was served last season
by Starspangledbanner's sire Choisir.
Magic Millions Managing Director David Chester said
outstanding entries were flowing in for the pin-up Gold
Coast sale.
"We've been thrilled with both the quality and
quantity of entries received to date for our major sales
for 2011," Chester said.
"And to receive the entry from Tony and Deslee
Santic for the half brother to Starspangledbanner is
fantastic."
"There's no doubt this colt will be one of the
most valuable youngsters in the country and we're sure
he'll be an admired yearling here in January."
"He would be a stand out at any yearling sale
in the world - being a half brother to one of the best
sprinters in the world."
"The efforts of the Makybe operation were recognised
at Caulfield on Saturday when the won the Outstanding
Achievement in Breeding Award for 2009/10."
The 2011 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale will
be held from January 12 to 21.
18/8/2010 Aussie - breds
head World table
Australia topped the world for producing Group 1 winners
in the most number of countries with Australian-breds
successful in seven countries with a massive total of
70 Group 1s in the 2009/10 season.
Australia claimed Group 1 success internationally in
Great Britain, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Africa
and New Zealand.
Australian-bred horses dominate in their own country
having won 56 races at the highest level, with New Zealand
the closest behind with 11.
“This remarkable achievement underlines both
the excellence of Australian breeders and the importance
of international trade to the industry,” Aushorse
Marketing Chairman Antony Thompson said today.
“Australia’s integration into the global
marketplace is testimony to the outward looking approach
of the industry which sees it breed horses that are
fast, adaptable and tough at a competitive price able
to win at the highest level in both the Northern and
Southern Hemispheres.” Mr Thompson said.
Starspangledbanner made history by becoming the first
Australian horse to win the July Cup in 2010, following
an outstanding victory in the G1 Golden Jubilee Stakes
a month earlier.
In Japan, Kinshasa No Kiseki rose to the highest level
when narrowly winning the Takamatsunomiya Kinen earlier
in the year. Kinshasa No Kiseki is the winner of 10
races and has earned more than $A6.5million in prizemoney.
One of Australian breeding’s best exports, Sacred
Kingdom stretched his dominance as the world’s
top rated sprinter into a third season when winning
the G1 Hong Kong International Sprint. This took his
winning tally to 15 and yields a total of $A6.4million
with him showing no signs of slowing, even as a six-year-old.
Happy Zero lowered the colours of Sacred Kingdom when
winning the G2 HK Sprint Trial before running a close
second in the G1 HK International Mile at his next start.
His time in the Group 1 spotlight came in March this
year when winning the Silver Jubilee Cup, registering
as his eighth win and bringing his earnings to top $A2.2million.
Rocket Man continues to lead the Australian contingent
in Singapore with his prizemoney rising to $A1.6million
when taking the Lion City Cup for the second year in
succession.
Another Australian-bred headlining in Singapore, Better
Than Ever took his record to a perfect nine from nine
when dominating the Singapore Guineas. In his short
career, Better Than Ever has accumulated $A742, 000.
Gold Trail has been one of Australia’s most consistent
sprinters, with wins including the G2 AJC The Shorts
before taking on and beating New Zealand’s best
in the G1 Railway Handicap.
Mahbooba is yet another success story in South Africa
for Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al Maktoum from his
Australian breeding investment. The Galileo filly followed
Musir in becoming a South African Group 1 winner when
she easily took the lead at the Golden Slipper in July.
Happy Archer gave Queensland breeder Kevin Dixon international
Group 1 success when taking the Durban Thekwini Stakes
for two-year-old fillies, her third straight win.
Katie Lee is the dominant three-year-old filly in New
Zealand, winning both the New Zealand Two Thousand Guineas
against the colts and geldings before adding the NZ
One Thousand Guineas to her feats, both at Group 1 level.
“Innovation and investment is the key to the
success of Australian-breds around the globe which continues
to highlight the potential and strength of the Australian
breeding industry to overseas buyers.” Mr Thompson
concluded.
17/8/2010 Wellfield Lodge
- Ladies before Gentlemen
It’s a case of Ladies before Gentlemen at Wellfield
Lodge in Palmerston North.
Purchased seven years ago by Bill Gleeson and Peter
Didham as a 120 acre boutique broodmare and spelling
farm, Wellfield Lodge has developed into a significant
300 acre operation capable of managing all aspects of
the breeding process, as well as agistment, breaking-in
and pre-training.
“When we arrived, the plan was to keep the farm
as it was. As a result we concentrated for the first
three-four years on developing and growing our broodmare
band. My own racing interests were growing at this point
to no longer being of hobby proportions, so when the
farm next door became available, we decided to buy it,”
explained Gleeson.
Bill Gleeson with Wellfield Lodge's mulitple Gr.1 winning
sire, Alamosa (NZ)
“Shortly after we purchased the farm, we got
the opportunity to stand Handsome Ransom and 18 months
after that, we all agreed it would be a great decision
to stand Alamosa.
"It wasn’t planned, but when we heard Road
To Rock was available this year, we decided this was
too much of an opportunity to turn down and this is
pretty much how our stallion interests took hold.”
Whilst the addition of these stallions dominated the
limelight, Wellfield’s female focus continued
to hold sway on the home front.
“We had done some market research and it showed
as that when you look at the model of the very best
studs in New Zealand, they all had significant broodmare
bands to support their stallions with,”
As a result of this, Wellfield Lodge has spent the last
3 years busily buying young fillies and mares with black-type
race records.
“We now have some stunning young mares in our
60 strong broodmare band. We know we will have enough
unlucky mares of our own, so when we were buying these
mares, a proven black-type race record was a must and
they also had to be very good physically,'" said
Gleeson.
To this end, Wellfield Lodge’s young fem fatales
include mares such as Everswindell, St. Jessie, Penny
Florence, Elfonze, Elegant Emerald, Mya, Zatiger, Zeta
Black, Out of Align, and You Beauty.
Of the regally-bred count, the stud is also the fortunate
owner of a daughter of the Diamond Lover mare Peruzzi,
Something Special – the dam of last weekend’s
Listed Starlight Stakes winner Winter King, and are
in partnership as the owners of Cold Shoulder, who is
a half sister the Gr.1 Melbourne Cup hero Efficient
and to the Windsor Park Stud sire, Guillotine.
“We sold a bay Cold Shoulder / Zabeel colt to
Graham Rogerson at Karaka this year for $420,000. He
is destined for the Williams Family's Macedon Lodge,
who know this family well. In 2010 she will be represented
there by a grey Zabeel filly, who like the colt just
mentioned, is a ¾ sibling to Efficient,"
Gleeson said.
“Winter King’s dam Something Special didn’t
have a foal in 2009, so she won’t have anything
at Karaka this year but, we are very much looking forward
to the Alamosa foal she is due to have in three weeks.”
Whilst the absence of a Karaka bound Something Special
yearling this year is a disappointment, Wellfield’s
rigorous selection criteria for sending horses to sales
meant that it was by no means a lock-in, in the first
place.
“We will only take a horse to the sale that is
best positioned for them in that marketplace. We’ve
gone to sales with 11-12 horses and left as many as
we’ve taken at home. It’s not that they
won’t be good racehorses, it’s just that
they weren’t Sales type horses,” said Gleeson.
"Last year, for example, we had a Darci Brahma
half-brother to Winter King, who we didn’t take
due to him having a minor x-ray issue. He will be fine
to race, but he just wasn’t a ‘Sales’
horse.
“We have a system and a set up that allows us
to give all of our young stock the best path forwards,
whether that is to go through the ring, be sold privately,
or to be broken-in, pre-trained, and targeted at the
ready to run sales or trials marketplace. There is always
a plan A, B and C!”
17/8/2010 Enter now for
NZB Ready to Run sale
There's just under one week left to get your entries in
for Australiasia's leading sale of horses in training,
New Zealand Bloodstock's Ready to Run Sale of 2YOs.
Set to be held at Karaka on 16 & 17 November entries
are due on Monday 23 August.
As in previous years, New Zealand Bloodstock will conduct
Breeze Ups for the Sale at Te Rapa on 18 & 19 October
with vendors strongly advised to present their horses
there.
NZB Ready to Run Sale graduate & Group 1 $2.2million
Telecom NZ Derby winner Military Move.
Telecom New Zealand Derby winner Military Move added
his name to the Group 1 winning graduates list from
the sale last season with fellow graduate The Hombre
also to the fore at the recent Queensland Winter Carnival.
To request an entry form email reception@nzb.co.nz
or phone +64 9 298 0055
17/8/2010 Supplementary
catalogue for Inglis Melbourne Sale online
A number of quality supplementary entries have boosted
this week’s Inglis Melbourne August Thoroughbred
Sale to 391 lots.
The two day sale at Oaklands starts on Thursday August
19, following the stallion parade of 2010 Victorian
First Season Sires at 11am.
The 104 supplementary entries include G3 placed Encosta
de Lago mare Game Serena, Miss Whytwokay - a city winning
half sister to top Group winning Singapore galloper
The Hornet, in addition to the well bred stallion prospect
Grand Harmony. A three-quarter brother to last year’s
sales topper Burgeis, the son of Exceed And Excel is
from a half-sister to Champion First Season Sire Stratum.
The original catalogue contains 49 half sisters to
stakes winners, including 15 Group One winners. Covering
sires include Fastnet Rock, Choisir, Stratum, Exceed
And Excel, Lonhro, Bernardini & Magnus.
Recent pedigree updates comprise Lot 203, the Exceed
And Excel filly A City Girl, who ran 3rd at Sandown
yesterday after winning at Bairnsdale since the main
catalogue went to print.
Lot 251 is the racing and breeding prospect Queen’s
Lager, a half-sister to Saturday’s G3 MRC WW Cockram
Stakes placegetter Lady Lynette.
Furthermore Lot 75, Star Of Venus, is a half sister
to multiple Group winner Shelbourne Lass - the dam of
recent G3 MRC Aurie’s Star winner Elusive Touch.
The sale will be broadcast on Inglis Sale Day Live,
with Online Bidding and Make An Offer services available
for those buyers unable to attend.
16/8/2010 Winter King comes
up trumps
Promising sprinter and Karaka Premier Sale graduate Winter
King bagged the A$100,000 STC Starlight Stakes (1100m)
at Rosehill on Saturday.
In the hands of Glyn Schofield the four-year-old son
of One Cool Cat kept just over a length's grace between
himself and stable mate Centennial Park to take home
the quinella for the Sydney trainer David Payne.
Saturday's run sees him unbeaten in his two starts
this preparation, having won at Randwick over 1000 metres
when relegating Karaka Million runner up Sarge in Charge
(Golan) to second place on 24 July.
Bred by Bill Gleeson in conjunction with Peter Gillespie
Winter King was sold through Gleeson's Wellfield Lodge
in 2008 for $175,000 to Les Samba who now races the
gelding with Ron Medich.
Winter King is from the three-time city winning Bletchingly
mare Something Special and has now won on seven occasions
to accumulate $329,605 in prizemoney.
The five-year-old Centennial Park's Saturday effort
was equally as impressive, carrying a whopping 59kg.
Bred by Windsor Park Stud, last season's Group 3 VRC
AAMI Business Insurance Stakes (1400m) winner is by
their Group 1 QTC Stradbroke winning sire Thorn Park.
16/8/2010 Over $120,000
raised for good cause on Gold Coast
Over $120,000 was raised for a great cause through
the sale of a number of stallion nominations at today's
Magic Millions August Thoroughbred Sale at the Gold
Coast.
A selection of studs and breeders around Australia
kindly donated the nominations to go under the hammer
with all proceeds going to the Yeomans family.
Earlier this year Jye Yeomans was diagnosed with leukaemia
and as a result his parents, former Magic Millions groundsman
Scott and his wife Youlah, have not been able to work
due to the time required for Jye to be in Brisbane at
the Childrens' Hospital.
"We would like to sincerely thank all of the studs
and breeders who generously donated these nominations
- and to the buyers of each nomination and everyone
else who bid during the auction," Magic Millions
Managing Director David Chester reported.
The nominations included proven Group One producing
sires Danzero, Monashee Mountain and Octagonal and promising
young sires Hidden Dragon and Jet Spur.
The line up of nominations achieved proceeds of $121,450.
A full list of the stallion nominations and their donor
and purchaser details follows:
STALLION NOMINATIONS
Cheval de Troy
Donated by Anton Koolman Bloodstock Pty Ltd
Standing at Royston Stud
$1,500 - PF & LF Lynch (Qld)
Court Command
Donated by Wattle Brae Stud
Standing at Wattle Brae Stud
$6,500 - WC, JA & PJ Kajewski (Qld)
Danzero
Donated by Danzero Syndicate
Standing at Arrowfield Stud
$14,000 - Peter McMahon (Qld)
Dubleo
Donated by Vinery Stud
Standing at Vinery Stud
$2,500 - Mack Griffith (NSW)
Freeze
Donated by Springfields Stud & Richard Foster
Standing at Springfields Stud
$1,700 - Neil Hoffmann (Qld)
Hidden Dragon
Donated by Lyndhurst Stud Farm & Anton Koolman Bloodstock
Pty Ltd
Standing at Lyndhurst Stud Farm
$9,500 - John Rigg (Qld)
Hotel Grand
Donated by Racetree
Standing at Racetree
$7,500 - Scott Colless (Qld)
Jet Spur
Donated by Kiernan Pastoral
Standing at Glenlogan Park
$17,500 - Magic Millions as agent (Qld)
Monashee Mountain
Donated by Racetree
Standing at Racetree
$5,500 - Clear Summer Lodge (Qld)
Mutawaajid
Donated by Emirates Park
Standing at Emirates Park
$4,250 - Oriental Racing Connection Pty Ltd (Qld)
Octagonal
Donated by Darley Stud
Standing at Darley Stud
$6,500 - Racetree (Qld)
Ombra Della Sera
Donated by Kilto Park
Standing at Kilto Park
$1,200 - Canny Breeders & Racers (Qld)
Publishing
Donated by Donnybrook Estates
Standing at Raheen Stud
$3,000 - PF & LF Lynch (Qld)
Lot 61 - Red Arrow
Donated by Red Arrow Syndicate
Standing at Lincoln Farm
$3,000 - GK & MD Isaac (NSW)
Lot 62 - Red Dazzler
Donated by Melvin Foo
Standing at Eureka Stud
$7,500 - Billy Xantos (Qld)
Lot 63 - Red Element
Donated by John Hutchins
Standing at Glenlogan Park
$8,500 - Clear Summer Lodge (Qld)
Lot 64 - Seidnazar
Donated by Mary Lee Trivett
Standing at Banchory
$4,500 - Oriental Racing Connection Pty Ltd (Qld)
Lot 65 - Shinzig
Donated by Eliza Park
Standing at Eliza Park
$4,000 - Michael Hohos (NSW)
Lot 66 - Ukok Warrior
Donated by Almavale Stud
Standing at Almavale Stud
$800 - John Braybrook (Qld)
Lot 67 - Wonderful World
Donated by Patinack Farm
Standing at Patinack Farm
$4,250 - J Croan (Qld)
Lot 68 - All Bar One
Donated by Heinrich Bloodstock
Standing at Oaklands Stud
$4,000 - Emerald Thoroughbreds (NSW)
Nomination donated back for auction
$3,750 - Tullyard (Qld)
All up the sale today boasted a gross of $372,650 at
an impressive clearance rate of over 81% and average
price of over $5,100.
The top price of the auction was $61,000 for the beautifully
related Montjeu mare Strawberry Ripple.
A Brisbane winning half sister to the Group Two winner
Raspberry Ripple, Strawberry Ripple was offered by Benwerrin
Lodge (as agent) and purchased by Queensland's Stanley
River Thoroughbreds.
The mare, who is also a half sister to the group performer
Scattergun, is in foal to last season's champion first
season sire Stratum.
"There was spirited bidding on a number of lots,"
David Chester said. "Overall the sale was a great
success."
Chester said his team was no focussed on October's
National Horses in Training Sale as well as the 2011
yearling sales around the country.
"We'll be offering an outstanding selection of
horses at these upcoming sales and we've been delighted
with the entries from breeders and vendors around the
region," he summed up.
SALE STATISTICS
Lots Catalogued: 131
Sale Gross: $372,650
Average Price: $5,105
Median Price: $3,000
Top Price: $61,000
Lots Sold: 73
Lots Withdrawn: 41
Lots Passed: 17
Sold %: 81
16/8/2010 Tattersalls
October 1 boost from Millions entry Janood
Galileo Half-Sister to be offered at Book 1
Godolphin’s JANOOD, a graduate of Book 1 of the
Tattersalls October Yearling Sale last year, earned
quotes as low as 20-1 for next year’s 2000 Guineas
following his 1 and ¾ length win in the Listed
Washington Singer Stakes at Newbury. The Saeed bin Suroor
trained two-year-old also demonstrated his credentials
for the £1,750,000 Tattersalls Millions series,
the first race of which takes place on August 28.
A son of MEDICEAN out of the GREEN DESERT mare ALLURING
PARK, JANOOD was consigned to last year’s October
1 Sale by his breeder Seamus Burns’ Lodge Park
Stud where he was knocked down to John Ferguson for
150,000 guineas.
JANOOD’s victory provides an exciting update
to what is already an exceptional pedigree for his GALILEO
half-sister who is catalogued as lot 59 in the forthcoming
renewal of Europe’s premier yearling sale. The
filly, who like JANOOD will be consigned to Book 1 by
her breeder Seamus Burn, is a daughter of the Listed
placed ALLURING PARK, the daughter of the Group 1 winning
Champion 3yo filly in Ireland PARK EXPRESS.
PARK EXPRESS has established herself as an exceptional
broodmare with her progeny including the European Champion
two and three-year-old NEW APPROACH, the Group 3 winner
and Group 1 placed DAZZLING PARK, grand-dam of the Group
1 Phoenix Stakes winner ALFRED NOBEL, and the top class
Japanese sprinter SHINKO FOREST.
The Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1 takes
place from October 5th – 7th. Catalogues are online
now at www.tattersalls.com and will be available from
Tattersalls and Tattersalls representatives from August
18 .
15/8/2010 Glenlogan Park
producing the goods
When Show A Heart’s outstanding 3YO son Toorak
Toff staged a last to first victory today in the Listed
Vain Stakes, he confirmed himself as not only one of
the most promising horses in the country, but also as
one of the most valuable. Pitted against a quality field
of youngsters that included the Blue Diamond winner
Star Witness, Toorak Toff left no doubt that he is a
star on the rise as he gave all others a start and then
a beating in the $100,000 event. Trainer Rick Hore-Lacy
will now head the magnificent looking colt towards the
$1 million G1 Golden Rose in two weeks time before returning
to Melbourne to target the G1 Caulfield Guineas.
“We thought today might be a bit short for him
and we weren’t sure how he would handle the wet
track,” Hore-Lacy said. “However I think
he is the best horse I have had since Redoute’s
Choice and you can never underestimate exactly how far
class will take them.
“He is a beautiful specimen and will only get
better when we put him over more ground.
“He is a very, very exciting horse!”
With Show A Heart being the last remaining commercial
Star Kingdom-line stallion standing in Australia, the
future of this sire-line now rests firmly on the shoulders
of his sons, and Toorak Toff looks ready to play his
part. A win in either the Golden Rose or the Caulfield
Guineas will see his value skyrocket as he will be ideally
suited to the many Northern Dancer line mares that can
be found across the country.
Glenlogan Park sold Toorak Toff and last weeks super
impressive winner and heir apparent to the title of
Australia’s best sprinter, Love Conquers All,
through their Magic Millions drafts and both would now
rate amongst the very top sire prospects in the country.
15/8/2010
Second SW for Not a Single
Doubt
Not a Single Doubt's splendid run of success continued
this afternoon when his gifted 3YO son Squamosa (ex
Class Success by Success Express) made all and kicked
clear of a strong field to win the $125,000 STC The
Run to the Rose H. 1300m G3 at Rosehill, his third win
in three starts.
Squamosa is the second stakeswinner for Not a Single
Doubt, after Doubtful Jack's 6.5 length victory in last
month's VRC Winter Championship Final LR.
Arrowfield-bred and -sold Squamosa was purchased for
$140,000 by Denise Martin's Star Thoroughbreds at the
2009 Magic Millions Premier Sale, and is trained by
Gai Waterhouse for Mr J Tan, Miss G Tan, and Mrs G Wong.
His earnings now exceed $170,000.
His dam Class Success was a dual stakeswinner in New
Zealand at two, and is also the dam of Flying Success
(by Flying Spur), a stakes-placed winner in Sydney last
season, and the winner Pulsify (by French Deputy). Class
Success is foaling this season to Snitzel.
Represented by nine Australian winners in July, Not
a Single Doubt has picked up the pace in the first fortnight
of the new season, with seven individual winners since
1 August:
SQUAMOSA, 3c - G3, Rosehill, 14 August
Even Money, 4g - Wyong, 13 August
Pixiu, 3g - Ipswich, 13 August
Zulita, 3f - Canberra, 12 August
Shedaboss, 4m - Eagle Farm, 11 August
Roadtrain, 3g - Geelong, 6 August
Great Man, 4g - Doomben, 4 August
Himself a brilliant stakes-winning son of champion
sire Redoute's Choice, Not a Single Doubt was fifth
on the 2009/10 Australian 2nd Season Sires' list with
prizemoney of $2.2 million and 43 winners. He stands
at Arrowfield in 2010 at a fee of $13,750 (inc. GST).
$1.5 Million for Shoot Out
(15th August 2010)
Exciting spring prospect Shoot Out (4g High Chaparral
x Pentamerous, by Pentire) made it two wins from two
starts this preparation when taking out the Group Two
MRC JJ Liston Stakes over 1400 metres at Caulfield on
Saturday.
Despite covering extra ground throughout, Shoot Out
was able to storm home on the outside of runners and
win impressively for regular rider Stathi Katsidis.
Moments after the race his trainer John Wallace sent
a message to his likely Cox Plate rivals suggesting
his star would still make great improvement this preparation.
Bookmakers reacted to the outstanding win with Betstar
cutting his Cox Plate quote from $9 to $6, so he is
now a clear favourite for the Group One 2040 metre Moonee
Valley feature.
"He's a good horse mate and he really knows how
to win," John Wallace beamed.
"I was thinking, how wide can this bloke get,
but he knew what he was doing. He's a real racehorse."
"He loves to win and I'm just so proud of him."
"This horse will get better," Wallace said
without hesitation. "I'm telling you, lookout!"
"He's nowhere near ready. I've just been playing
about with him."
"He'll win the Cox Plate," Wallace stated.
Shoot Out is raced by Graham and Linda Huddy and it
was Linda who selected and purchased him from the draft
of Oaklands Stud at the 2008 Magic Millions Gold Coast
Yearling Sale for just $15,000.
The bargain buy has put together an impressive record
winning seven of 13 starts and $1.5 million in prizemoney.
Bred by the Stewart family's Oaklands Stud near Toowoomba,
Shoot Out is one of two stakes-winners for his dam Pentamerous
joining the Group Three WATC West Australian Oaks winner
Cassandara Shadow.
His dam Pentamerous is due to foal to champion sire
Encosta de Lago this spring.
Encosta double for Inghams
(15th August 2010)
The famed cerise colours of the Ingham family were
carried to victory at Rosehill on Saturday by two beautifully
bred young mares sired by Encosta de Lago in We Betcha
(4m Encosta de Lago x Wager, by Flying Spur) and Little
Surfer Girl (4m Encosta de Lago x Special Harmony, by
Spinning World.
The Chris Waller trained We Betcha made it back-to-back
wins at Rosehill when she saluted in the Benchmark 80
event over 1400 metres taking her overall record to
four wins from 18 starts with prizemoney nearing $250,000.
“That was a really good win and a beautiful ride
from by Glyn Schofield,” said Chris Waller.
“It’s great to have patient owners that
will give the horses the time they need and it’s
a privilege to be training for the Inghams.”
A $600,000 purchase from the draft of Corumbene Stud
at the 2008 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale,
We Betcha is the first foal of Group Two winning Flying
Spur mare Wager, a half-sister to Group One MRC Blue
Diamond Stakes winner True Jewels.
Bringing up the second leg of the winning double was
stakes-winning mare Little Surfer Girl, who belied a
betting drift to storm home and win the Benchmark 85
event over 1300 metres at her first run since finishing
down the track in the Group One AJC Australian Oaks
during the autumn.
A stakes-winner at Randwick last spring, Little Surfer
Girl looks to have returned in sensational order and
can no doubt be placed to advantage in coming months.
A $1.5 million purchase from the Coolmore draft at
the 2008 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, Little
Surfer Girl is the first foal and first stakes-winner
for champion filly Special Harmony, who won 10 races
and $1.8 million highlighted by Group One victories
in the VRC Oaks, STC Arrowfield Stud Stakes and MRC
Thousand Guineas.
13/8/2010 Dane Shadow’s
first 2010 foal at Kitchwin Hills arrives
He is a beautiful, striking black colt out of Sonette,
a well-related mare from an international family that
includes recent Group 1 Epsom Derby winner New Approach.
As this first foal takes early, tentative steps, it
is a time to remind breeders of how much – as
a result of a quality 2009 book – the outlook
for Dane Shadow has significantly shifted in his favour.
Last season Dane Shadow covered twice the number of
mares (166) he served on average in his first four years.
So, if you like what he has done so far, get set to
double that.
Perhaps more significant is the fact that the quality
of mares he has covered (with all due respect to past
acquaintances) has gone through the roof. Coolmore Classic
and Queensland Oaks winner Eskimo Queen and Shady Stream,
the dam of star gallopers Takeover Target and Predatory
Pricer, are just a taste of the type of mares who knocked
on Dane Shadow’s barn door last season.
This quality book may well be standard for many stallions
given a well-earned walk-up start to their stud careers,
however it is a significant change in fortunes for Dane
Shadow, who, like some of Australia’s most successful
stallions, has had to do it the hard way, from the ground
up.
So when more of Dane Shadow’s 2009 crop hits
the ground, expect to see double his past number of
runners and a significant increase in their quality.
This fact has not been lost on those who are breeding
their mares to Dane Shadow in 2010, as they will be
selling the yearlings when the class of 2009 has hit
the racetrack.
Blk colt, Dane Shadow – Sonette (by Hussonet from
Park Heiress)
