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Tattersalls to restructure breeze up sales
Artie Schiller's double delight

A super foal is born

Shoot Out's half sister another Millions drawcard

Aushorse launches Hong Kong awards
Quality in first two days for Road to Rock
Outstanding catalogue for Horses in Training Sale

NZTBA Auckland Branch stud tour this Sunday

Show a Heart a toff among Australian sires

Double at Rosehill Gardens for Denise’s Joy family

Nicconi brings Froth to the top again

Elusive City endearing

Joyous boost for MM yearling sale

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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)