12/3/2010 Victorian Breeders
Flemington Saturday preview
Kicking off a great Flemington card this Saturday is the
Listed Streets Ice Cream Stakes, a Super VOBIS contest
for two-year-olds down the famous straight. Tricky Tricky
had a set-back after his first run but he certainly has
the right form line – a gallant second (after
holding his breath during the running) to subsequent Blue
Diamond Stakes winner Star Witness at debut in the Talindert
Stakes. Bred by DHK Investments and purchased at the Melbourne
Premier for $40,000 (later on-sold to his current owners),
he is the second foal
produced by the city winning Favorite Trick mare Trick
Or Treating, daughter of the multiple stakes winner Apple
Danish.
Making her debut is Curtana, a home-bred for Contract
Racing. She is a daughter of the Gr.3 winning Blazing
Sword mare Razor Blade – also dam of the talented
but ill-fated Sunburnt Land and the stakes placed multiple
city winner Joyeuse. A half sister to the Gr.3
winner Country Lodge, she was served last spring by Darley’s
New Approach.
The first of two feature mares races on Saturday is the
Gr.3 Matron Stakes, a $150,000 event over 1600m. Well
placed to earn more black type is consistent mare Marveen.
Bred by Peter Howell (Beauvest Pty Ltd), she is a half
sister to the talented gallopers Stoneblack and Jestajewel
from the prolific Dark Jewel family.
Golden Charmer has not been far away at two runs this
preparation and she boasts good third up form. A daughter
of Golden Snake bred and raced by Peter Cameron and Maureen
Black, she is a half sister to the stakes placed Special
Scene. Maquina deserves another
win after finishing in the placings at her last three.
A daughter of the late Archway bred by John Playfoot and
Robbie & Rachel Laing, she hails the family of that
stallion’s Gr.1 winner Roman Arch.
A second black type event for the girls (originally due
to be run last weekend) is the Gr.3 Victoria Plate over
1400m. Third up and ready to show her best is the classy
and consistent Flying Ruby. A mare who gets back in her
races and comes with a late charge
– much in the style of her “uncle” Better
Loosen Up, she is raced by John Shannon and was bred by
his brother Michael. A daughter of Rubiton bred on a 3
X 3 cross of legendary Victorian stallion Better Boy through
two of his best producers (his son Century and
daughter Better Fantasy), Flying Ruby is one of five winners
produced by the Brigand mare Parkhill’s Flyer (served
last spring by Written Tycoon) – a half sister to
the champion Better Loosen Up.
Flying Tessie ran a great race in the Mannerism Stakes
last time out and a win is not far away. Bred by Daniel
& Dianne Molloy with John Mortensen & Elizabeth
Mortensen and sold at the Melbourne Premier for $50,000,
she is out of the city winning mare Paris Plaits,
a half sister to the five times winning stakes placed
Arrowsweep. Running Riot was sound fresh and her second
up record is good. Bred and raced by Devon Park Stud out
of Running Smooth, a half sister to the dual Gr.1 winner
King’s High.
The always honest Red Flair also takes her place here.
Bred by Contract Racing with Peter & Brian Donohoe
and Kerry Good, she is out of the stakes placed Blazing
Sword mare Blazing Aura – also dam of the recent
city winner Spirited Halo and the Gr.2 Hong
Kong galloper Hello Pretty (Distorted Halo) who is back
in Australian – running fifth at Rosehill recently.
Fresh for this is Belscenica whose ¾ brother Whiston
won at Sandown on Wednesday.
Bred and raced by John Thatcher and Vernard Jones, she
is out of their Listed winning Redding mare Bellonic from
the family of their Gr.1 mare Piavonic, dam of the recently
retired Gr.2 winner Von Costa de Hero who is due to stand
at Darley Victoria. Bellonic
produced colts at her last three seasons at stud –
by Bianconi, Lago Delight and God’s Own.
The first Gr.1 on the programme is the $750,000 Crown
Australian Guineas which has attracted a stellar field
of exciting three-year-olds. As honest as they come and
deserving of a Gr.1 victory is Carrara. Raced by the Tagg
family who bred his sire Elvstroem, the
$200,000 Melbourne Premier graduate hails from the first
commercial crop of foals bred by James & June Anderson
who purchased the old Sanctuary Lodge property.
Connections are hoping he can go a little better than
Elvstroem, fifth in this same race in 2004 (Reset the
winner).
South Australian galloper Chief Of Staff returns to the
state where he was bred by Glentree Downs Pastoral. A
$100,000 Melbourne Premier graduate, he is out of the
multiple city winner Naareda from the family of the stakes
winners Natural Blitz (Hong
Kong), Castletown Keys, Bojack, November Flight, Crozier
II, Century Miss, Honour The Name and Lilting.
Up-and-coming filly Set For Fame may need to be as good
as Triscay and Miss Finland (the only two female Guineas
winners to date) to win on Saturday but she sure looks
the part so far! Trainer Peter Moody reports that her
work has been strong in the lead-up and
he is looking forward to the challenge.
“It’s a big task taking on Denman but we missed
the Gr.1 fillies races last spring with her. I think she
would more than hold her own with the opposition Denman
has been beating… she is ready.”
Bred and part raced by Robert Crabtree, Set For Fame has
raced six times for three wins and two seconds, missing
the spring carnival due to a bleeding attack. She has,
says Moody, returned “bigger and stronger.”
The Australian Cup is always one of the best races of
this year and the 2010 version is an even but exciting
one. On this day last year winning the Australian Guineas
at the same stage of his preparation (third up), the talented
Heart Of Dreams looks nicely primed.
A full brother to the last start Gr.3 winner Rightfully
Yours bred and raced by the Bartle family, he is from
an in-form family.
Jockey Craig Newitt is confident. “His final sectionals
were excellent last time out,” he said. “He
was second up jumping from 1400m to 1800m and he was actually
a bit dour in the last bit. La Rocket pinched the extra
break on the home turn but he was strong to the
line so I have every confidence he’ll run out the
trip.”
“He if he is not far off them turning for home,
he’ll be very hard to get past.”
Also third up and suited by a rise in distance is Littorio
who won the Gr.1 Turnbull Stakes over this trip at this
track. The $15,000 Melbourne Premier sale bargain bred
by Valda Klaric has been a great horse for connections
and his form on the come-back trail from
bone soreness has been most encouraging.
Jockey Craig Williams is happy to see the classy five-year-old
back at Flemington. “At Caulfield they tend to go
a bit slower early and then the leaders pinch a break
when they go around the tight track,” he explained.
“At Flemington, they have the sweeping turn and
the horses are accelerating over a longer distance than
at Caulfield where the pressure goes on in a flash. The
longer build up to his top should help Littorio as will
the wide open spaces.”
12/3/2010 Big Brown for
Vinery
In what can only be described as a revelation for Australian
breeders, Vinery Stud has secured a significant shareholding
in the Champion Racehorse Big Brown. Currently standing
at Three Chimneys Stud in Kentucky, Big Brown will shuttle
to Vinery Stud in the Hunter Valley commencing this 2010
breeding season, pending shareholder approval. It goes
without saying that Big Brown was certainly one of the
greatest racehorses to grace the racetracks of America
in the modern era. With just 8 lifetime starts in his
career, the good looking bay horse was only defeated on
one occasion and amassed over $US3.6million in prize money.
Big Brown showed his brilliance early,
dominating a 2yo race on Saratoga’s turf course
by 11 ¼ lengths on his debut. At three he came
back even better; after winning an allowance race over
1600m at Gulfstream Park, he entered Group 1 company
for the first time (at just his third career run) in
the Florida Derby, winning by a comfortable 5 lengths.
At his fourth start in the Kentucky Derby, Big Brown
delivered again despite jumping from the outside gate
20 (something no other horse has done in the history
of the race). Sitting four wide for most of the journey,
he stalked the leaders before drawing off at will and
posting a 4 ¾ length victory in devastating style.
In doing so he became the first horse since 1915 to
win the Kentucky Derby at just his fourth career start.
The electrifying Derby win caught
America’s attention, and all eyes were on Big
Brown leading up to the Preakness Stakes. Again he delivered.
Once more breaking from the outside gate, he won eased
down to little more than a canter, crossing the line
under wraps by 5 ¼ lengths.
A severely quartered foot prevented
Big Brown from completing the Belmont stakes and therefore
not being able to bring home the Triple Crown which
he was so perfectly poised to do (he would have been
the first horse to do so since Affirmed in 1978). Big
Brown returned to racing after the Belmont Stakes to
win his remaining starts; the $US1million Haskell Invitational
and the $US500,000 Monmouth Stakes (again run on turf).
A handsome and imposing individual,
Big Brown has a fascinating sire’s pedigree. He
is a son of sprinter Boundary (a sire boasting over
78% winners to runners), who in turn is by Danzig, a
stallion that has re-shaped the Australian thoroughbred
for generations to come. Big Brown also carries four
crosses of blue hen mare Selene, the fourth dam of multiple
champion Australasian sire Sir Tristram. With a pedigree
better suited to turf racing, Big Brown defeated the
best in the country on dirt but not before showing his
skills on turf at his first start and again as a 3yo;
on both occasions blowing his rivals away.
“It is a great thrill to be
standing a horse of the caliber of Big Brown”
said Vinery’s Peter Orton, “he was the most
superior racehorse of his generation, showing a devastating
turn of foot to dominate the best horses in the land.
Even more appealing to us is his pedigree, bred to run
on turf yet brilliant enough to beat the best on their
terms on dirt. What might this horse have achieved in
Europe running in the classics there also”?
“After inspecting the stallion
last week, I’m delighted to say he exceeded my
expectations on conformation and his suitability to
the Australasian style of racehorse. He stands just
on 16.1 hands, possesses a particularly kind temperament
and handles himself in the covering barn like a real
professional. The most pleasing aspect for the future
of this stallion is the quality of his first foals that
are now arriving in Kentucky. They are all strong compact
types with good strong shoulders and powerful hindquarters,
typical of the Danzig line progeny we see here that
are so successful in our conditions”. A service
fee will be announced in due course
12/3/2010 O'Lonhro's 2010
Service fee announced
“A lovely horse with the right
attitude, temperament and ability to be a top class
galloper.”
Trainer Wayne Hawkes’ description
of Larneuk Stud’s newest acquisition O’Lonhro
– the very first stakes winning son of the emerging
stallion star Lonhro to stud.
Larneuk Stud this week announces
the debut season fee for the well related and good looking
entire – $9,900 (incl gst) bound to appeal as
value to breeders.
11/3/2010 Group1 3200m
wins for three generations of Cummings family
ZAVITE’S devastating win in
this week’s million dollar Auckland Cup may have
created a new training world record, as it results in
three generations of the one family training winners
of a Group1 race over 3200 metres.This 7-year-old Zabeel
gelding is the first winner at this level and distance
for Randwick based Anthony Cummings, a son of Bart Cummings,
preparer of 12 Melbourne Cup winners, and grandson of
Jim Cummings, winner of the1950 Melbourne Cup with Comic
Court.
Anthony’s best effort previously
in a 3200m event had been with Zavite in the 2009 Adelaide
Cup, but this event was reduced to Group 2 level in
2007. In addition Zavite’s ten wins in 50 outings
have included two Group 3s, the Launceston Cup and VRC
Queen Elizabeth Stakes.
Zavite was bred by Fairdale Stud,
New Zealand and sold to a bid of $80,000 from Cummings
at the 2004 Inglis Easter yearling sale. A brother to
Mybigfatgreekhorse, a good jumper in Victoria and South
Australia, Zavite was got by Zabeel from a stoutly bred
American mare, Miss Vita, whose one win was at 2400m
in England.
Miss Vita is by two-times Prix de
l’Arc de Triomphe winner Alleged and from an unraced
three-quarter sister-in-blood to Suave Dancer. He won
both the Arc and the French Derby.
Considered Europe’s greatest
race, the Arc was won in 2009 by stand out world champion
3-year-old Sea the Stars. He is mentioned at this time
as his sire Cape Cross, a speedily bred high class European
miler, was responsible for the winner of another 3200m
race run in this part of the world this week, the 2010
renewal of the Adelaide Cup.
Also another triumph for the Zabeel
influence, the Adelaide race went to the 7-year-old
gelding Capecover, one like the runner up, the Ireland
bred Kerdem, trained by Patrick Payne. Earlier winner
of the VRC Queen Elizabeth Stakes, the Mornington Cup
and in New Zealand the CJC Metropolitan Handicap, Capecover
is another of the huge number of top race winners bred
by Patrick Hogan on his Cambridge stud. A half-brother
to Auckland Cup winner and Brisbane and Doomben Cup
third Upsetthym (by Rhythm), he by the Darley shuttled
Green Desert sire Cape Cross and from Set Up, a Zabeel
mare who is a half-sister to two English stakes winners.
Capecover’s grandam was a half-sister
to English Derby winner Slip Anchor and to the Mill
Reef Lancashire Oaks winner Sandy Island, the dam of
Subterfuge, a Machiavellian winner in England and a
producer in Australia of the Danehill stakes winners
Scintillation (12 wins Hong Kong, including three Group1s)
and Shania Dane (five in Australia, two Group 2 sprints,
placed in five Group1s).
Initially used by Goldendale, NSW
but now owned by Hutchins Thoroughbreds, Gold Coast,
Subterfuge has an
Encosta de Lago filly in the Coolmore
draft in this year’s Inglis Easter yearling sale
catalogue. Also listed under Coolmore is an Encosta
de Lago filly from Shania Dane, a mare owned by Matrix
Bloodstock, NSW, and Highgrove stud, Darling Downs is
to offer a filly by the same sire and out of Sequin
(by Lure). A three-quarter sister to Shania Dane and
Scintillation, Sequin is the dam of the Snippets Listed
winner Get to Work.
Set Up, the dam of Capecover, is
another mare to change hands after proving a successful
producer. She was purchased at the Inglis Sydney mare
sales in 2007 in foal to Johar (USA) for $45,000 by
John Reedy, NSW. She has produced fillies for him by
Johar and Quest For Fame (in 2008) and is currently
carrying to a late service to Musket, the three-quarter
brother by Redoute’s Choice to Makybe Diva who
started his sire career at Darley’s Twin Hills
stud (formerly Woodlands) near Cootamundra last season.
Musket did well with most of his
86 mares, but one who proved a problem was Songline,
dam of three times Horse of the Year Sunline. Songline
went in foal three times during the season, but unfortunately
failed to hold the pregnancy,
Rising 23, she has only had one foal
in the past six years.
Musket’s owners, Darley, welcomed
the success of Capecover particularly as his sire Cape
Cross, is one of their sires. Used on the shuttle system
in New Zealand and then Australia but now resident at
their Kildangan Stud in Ireland, this son of the Danzig
sire Green Desert and the Ahonoora mare Park Appeal,
was Europe’s leading sire for 2009 by earnings,
equal top by winners and second by wins.
He has had over 200 winners from
his southern hemisphere use including five successful
in Group1 races. The best of them has been New Zealand
champion Seachange.
Sheikh
and Lonhro centimeters off Sydney treble
INVESTMENT two years ago of a sum
reportedly about half a billion dollars by Sheikh Mohammed,
the Dubai ruler and head of the world-wide breeding
and racing monolith Darley, in acquiring the Inghams
Australian Woodlands empire, appears a bigger bargain
every week.To start with it bought them ownership of
the sire Lonhro and his exciting son Denman, both now
two of Australia’s most valuable horses.
Overall, the investment has seen
Darley challenge as one of the biggest owners of breeders,
racehorses and stud and stable complexes in Australian
history.Their impact as racehorse owners and also of
their sire Lonhro was shown at the Warwick Farm meeting
on Monday when the combination went within a long head
of winning the first three races.
All raced by Sheikh Mohammed and
prepared by Darley’s boss trainer, former Scone
horseman Peter Snowden, the program saw Lonhro provide
the first two winners, the fillies Obsequious (2yo)
and Status Quo (3yo), and the close second, Bass Rock
(3yo gelding), in the third. In addition another of
their Lonhros, Quidnunc, was third in the juvenile event
and their Elusive Quality 4-year-old Libertarian won
the fourth race.
All the Lonhro performers were bred
by the Inghams on Woodlands, Hunter Valley, but along
with their dams and sire became Sheikh Mohammed’s
property in the take over.
Juvenile winner Obsequious, one inbred
3x4 to wonder broodmare Eight Carat, is very much a
showcase for Woodlands production.They bred and raced
Horse of the year Lonhro and his first three dams were
all bred on the Hunter Valley farm, albeit by the man
that did much to fashion the complex for them, long
time manager Peter Flynn. Each of these dams are by
Woodlands used sires, in order of ascension Commands,
Quest for Fame and Clear Choice.
The winner Status Quo and third placed
Quidnunc are both from mares by the Woodlands shuttled
Grand Lodge and the Elusive Quality winner Libertarian
is from a daughter of one of their most successful sires,
Canny Lad. He now stands with Lonhro and Commands at
the Darley complex at Aberdeen, Hunter Valley.
Libertarian was in the package Darley
secured from the Inghams. She was bred by Dean Fleming
and sold through the family’s Tyreel stud to the
Inghams for $2million at the 2007 Sydney Easter yearling
sale.
Foreplay
to provide good results at Gold Coast
ONE of the smartest 2-year-olds in
the current racing year is the Clarry Conners trained
Decision Time, a gelding in the first crop of the Yarraman
Park stud, Scone based now infertility impaired Danehill
sire Foreplay. Decision Time is unbeaten in his four
outings, all in the last eight weeks and comprising
in order appearances at Kembla Grange (1.8 lengths),
Kensington (2.5 lengths), Rosehill Gardens (1.8 lengths)
and then on Sunday the big prize of the $256,000 Canberra
Black Opal Stakes (1.0 length).
Now being considered for a tilt at
the Golden Slipper, Decision Time is bred to go fast
with his sire being a Melbourne winner over 1000m and
1100m and a VRC Newmarket third and his dam being a
winner of nine sprint races got by the speed imparting
Last Tycoon sire Just Awesome and from a mare by Star
Shower, a winner of all his five starts, including the
Blue Diamond and Maribyrnong Plate.
Decision Time is one of about 70
foals from Foreplay’s first season. It is a crop
that also includes Shiny and New ( 2.7 lengths debut
winner Bendigo and then successful Sandown this week),
Playful Paris (one start, third Doomben), That’s
Not It (one start, second Mornington) and Foreboding
(one start, third Devonport),
Foreplay also had handy results from
the 86 mares he served in his second season, finishing
up with about 60 foals. Two , a colt on account of Robyn
Wise, Darling Downs and a filly representing Stuart
Ramsey’s quality Turangga stud at Scone, are in
the catalogue for the QTIS yearling sale to be held
at the Gold Coast on March 21 and 22.
Inbred 4x3 to Mr. Prospector, the
colt is bred to go fast. Its dam, St Mary, is by Bellotto
and out of Trojan Affair, a three-quarter sister by
Vain to classy sprinter and sire Proud Knight.Their
dam Gretel won the AJC Sires’ Produce Stakes.
Turangga’s Foreplay filly has
only two dams on the catalogue page. It is a half-sister
to seven winners, two of them stakes placed and from
Boganvillia, a Centaine placegetter in Melbourne and
Brisbane. Boganvillia is a sister to stakes winner La
Rose Noir and stakes placed Double Roy and Habaine and
a half-sister to Urbane, a Brisbane winner and VRC Sire’s
Produce Stakes third.
They are from Habania, a winner of
seven sprint races, including the VRC Princess Handicap,
third in the MRC Autumn Stakes and dam of ten winners.
Turangga is also offering one of
the only two yearlings by boom sire Charge Forward listed
for the sale. Possessing a Golden Slipper prospects
breeding, it is a half-brother to four winners and from
Marscay winner.There are eight runners who have won
or placed at Group1 level under the third dam,
The home of the yet to be represented
Zizou, a Golden Slipper second by Fusaichi Pegasus and
out of a close relation to Snippets, Turangga has quickly
become a good source of winners. Results in the past
week have included Vilakazi, a Johannesburg 3-year-old
who won a sprint on the Canberra Black Opal program,
and Geffen, a promising winner for the Gai Waterhouse
stables at Gosford on Tuesday.
Besides Foreplay and Charge Forward,
interstate sires represented in the catalogue include
Queensland bred yearlings by Ad Valorem (USA), Barely
a Moment, Bel Danoro, Benicio, Canny Lad, Churchill
Downs, Danasinga, Dane Shadow, God’s Own, Happy
Giggle, Mossman, Nadeem, Oratorio (IRE), Secret Savings
(USA), Snippetson, Snitzel, Southern Image (USA), Starcraft
and Strada. All are eligible for the rich rewards flowing
from the QTIS bonuses and also for the Magic Millions
races. Many are also covered by BOBS.
Griffon
bred to excel as a sprinter
ALTHOUGH he is out of a mare, Jeune
Girl, by an imported Melbourne Cup winner, Jeune, emerging
black type prospect Griffon is bred to sprint and the
four outings of this 4-year-old gelding in the Bart
Cummings stable have suggested this will be his caper.
Off the scene for 15 months following
a debut third at Canterbury, Griffon has rattled up
three successive wins over 1100m in Sydney since late
January. He opened the campaign with a track record
setting three lengths win on the Randwick Kensington
circuit on January 20, followed with a 1.5 victory at
Rosehill Gardens on February 6 and then was impressive
in scoring at Canterbury this week.
Bred by Orange Grove Thoroughbreds,
Tamworth, NSW and sold to Cummings for $210,000 at the
Magic Millions yearling sale at the Gold Coast, Griffon
is another flyer by the Arrowfield stud located Danehill
Golden Slipper winner Fying Spur and has a grandam,
Joker’s Girl, who was very fast and bred on a
dynamic speed pattern.
Dam of five winners, including the
Langfuhr dual stakes winner and Group1 VRC Empire Rose
second Absolutelyfabulous, Joker’s Girl won three
Listed races at two. She is by Golden Slipper winner
Rory’s Jester and from the dashing Biscay sprinter
Scarlet Bisque. She won eight races at 1100m or less
and included in her performances a win and a third in
the Oakleigh Plate.
Scarlet Bisque’s dam Scarlet
Pearl also flew, winning five races in Perth at two
and with the optimum distance also 1100m. She was by
the handy Todman sprinter Scarlet Man and from Pacific
Pearl, one of the first horses the late Ray Bowcock
bred on his Alabama stud, Segenhoe, Scone using mares
from the distinguished Sugar Kandy family he acquired
in the mid 1960s in a record spending spree at a New
Zealand dispersal.
11/3/2010 Classic run continues
for Volksraad three-year-olds
The progeny of New Zealand’s leading sire Volksraad
continued their excellent form at Ellerslie yesterday,
when his 3YO daughter, A Chance To Dream was an impressive
winner of the Sunline Vase L. (2100m).
The win comes hot on the heels of
another Volksraad 3YO Military Move who was a dominant
winner of Saturday’s $2.2million Telecom NZ Derby
(2400m).
In what many described as the most
impressive performance in any Oaks lead-up race this
season, the John Sargent-trained filly A Chance To Dream
dashed away from a strong field to win by a widening
four lengths.
"She's a very good horse when
she gets over ground on a good track," trainer
John Sargent said. The first time that happened was
her last start when she left maiden class by six lengths”.
A Chance To Dream was bred and owned
by Otaki businessman Tom Jamison, whom Sargent has a
long relationship with.
"I've trained for him since I
first started training in Otaki in the 1980s,"
Sargent said. "He's had a few horses with me but
this would be the first one that looks like she's a
group class filly."
The win earned A Chance To Dream a
start in the $300,000 Gr.1 New Zealand Oaks (2400m)
on March 20, for which she is now a $5 second favourite
behind Keep The Peace.
Interestingly as the field loaded
into the gates for the Vase, jockey Mark Du Plessis
had five possible Oaks mounts and faced a difficult
choice between them. Just over two minutes later, that
decision had been suddenly made incredibly easy.
Second-placed November Rain, who at
her previous start failed by only a length to rein in
Katie Lee in the Sir Tristram Fillies Classic at Te
Rapa. Another Oaks bound Volksraad filly Corsage was
third after backing up from a 4th in the Gr.3 Lowland
Stakes at Hastings on Saturday
The Sunline Vase has proven
to be the most significant lead up race in recent years
with the last two winners of the NZ Oaks, Jungle Pocket
and Boundless both running in the Ellerslie feature
prior to the fillies classic
10/3/2010 Adelaide Yearling
Sale - Session two stats
The second session of the 2010 Magic
Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale has concluded at Morphettville.
The session top sellers and statistics
follow. Also included are updated statistics from yesterday's
session one sale following further sales overnight.
SESSION TWO TOP SELLERS
$77,500 - Bel Esprit-Obiqua colt
Vendor: Summerset Park Stud (As Agent) / Buyer: John
Ledger (Vic)
$62,500 - Testa Rossa-Manoristic colt
Baramul Stud / Darren Weir (Vic)
$56,000 - Domesday-Brave Accord colt
Little Hills Pastoral Co / Darren Weir (Vic)
$42,000 - Written Tycoon-Sister Cinderella
colt
Rosehill Park (As Agent) / Edward O'Dwyer (Qld)
$40,000 - Calfornia Dane-Amazonian
colt
Sullivans Run / Caragona Pty Ltd (Vic)
$40,000 - Niello-Swiss Vault colt
Kirkliston Stud / Lloyd Kennewell (SA)
SESSION TWO STATISTICS
(2009 in brackets)
Lots Catalogued: 175 (114)
Sale Gross: $1,480,500 ($390,050)
Average Price: $12,987 ($5,494)
Top Price: $77,500 ($25,000)
Lots Sold: 114 (71)
Lots Withdrawn: 23 (24)
Lots Passed: 36 (19)
Sold %: 76 (78)
SESSION ONE STATISTICS
(2009 in brackets)
Lots Catalogued: 196 (392)
Sale Gross: $3,670,500 ($5,246,500)
Average Price: $26,792 ($20,102)
Top Price: $150,000 ($115,000)
Lots Sold: 137 (261)
Lots Withdrawn: 16 (38)
Lots Passed: 43 (92)
Sold %: 76 (74)
9/3/2010 Supplementary
catalogue for Sydney Autumn Thoroughbred sale online
The supplementary catalogue for this
Friday’s Inglis Sydney Autumn Thoroughbred Sale
is now online.
The 43 supplementary entries bring
the sale total to 167.
The supplementaries include stakes
placed performers Hotel Casino and Helene Brilliant,
a half-brother to Group 2 winner Ballybleue, in addition
to Warwick Farm winner on Monday, Rain Game.
The original entries included fillies
and mares by leading stallions including Danehill, Flying
Spur, Canny Lad, Dehere, Volksraad, Red Ransom, Snippets,
Quest For Fame and Redoute’s Choice.
Selling begins from 11:00am this Friday.
For those unable to attend the sale,
Online Bidding and the Inglis Make an Offer services
will be available.
9/3/2010 Adelaide Yearling
Sale - Session 1 stats and top sellers
The first session of the 2010 Magic
Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale has concluded at Morphettville.
STRATUM FILLY TOPS ADELAIDE YEARLING
SALE
A lovely filly by leading freshman
sire Stratum topped the first session of the 2010 Magic
Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale at Morphettville on
Tuesday.
Consigned by Baramul Stud, the filly
was catalogued as lot number 131 and was purchased by
leading young Morphettville trainer Lloyd Kennewell
for $150,000.
It is the second year in a row that
a Baramul Stud filly has topped the Adelaide Sale with
a daughter of Testa Rossa bringing the top price last
year at $115,000.
Kennewell, flanked by his father and
fellow trainer Gary, said the filly was his "must
buy" lot of the sale.
"She was the best horse in the
sale," Kennewell said. "And she's got a good
pedigree."
"I thought she was the sale topper
and knew she would be popular," he added.
"She's a good mover. I thought
she was a super athlete - she has plenty going for her."
All up on the day 131 yearlings changed
hands at a gross of over $3.6 million. The clearance
rate was 73 per cent and is bound to grow overnight.
The average price of $27,500 was up
over 36 per cent on last year's two day select sale.
Magic Millions Managing Director David
Chester said the day went well and seemed to get stronger
as the afternoon went.
"We had some lovely yearlings
early in the session and they were well received by
buyers," he said.
"But as a whole the selling got
stronger and the clearance rate lifted as the sale got
into the swing of things later in the afternoon."
"It was great to see the average
rise so well and the clearance hold from last year's
figures," Chester added.
"We have some really lovely prospects
to go under the hammer during the Session Two Sale tomorrow."
Earlier in the day a colt by Bel Esprit
and a filly by Choisir both sold for $100,000 as consecutive
lots.
Locals Peter and Cheryl Sutcliffe
purchased the half sister to Moment in Time as lot 16
while moments late Jamie Walter buying under Proven
Thoroughbreds snapped up the half sister to Go Cart.
Locals were particularly active on
the day with Kennewell joined on the buyers list by
the likes of Leon Macdonald, David Jolly, David Balfour,
Jon O'Connor and Richard Jolly.
But interstate trainers including
Rick Hore-Lacy, Tony Noonan, Mark Riley, John McArdle,
Robbie Griffiths, Terry Kelly, Terry O'Sullivan and
Joe Janiak were also among successful buyers.
Selling tomorrow at the Morphettville
Complex will kick away at 11am (SA time).
The sale statistics and top
sellers were as follows:
SALE STATISTICS
Lots Catalogued: 196 (392)
Lots Sold: 131 (261)
Lots Withdrawn: 16 (38)
Lots Passed: 49 (92)
Sale Aggregate: $3,602,500 ($5,246,500)
Average Price: $27,500 ($20,102)
Top Price: $150,000 ($115,000)
Sold %: 73 (74)
TOP FIVE SELLERS
$150,000 - Stratum-Show No Restraint
filly
Vendor: Baramul Stud / Buyer: Lloyd Kennewell (SA)
$100,000 - Bel Esprit-Concluding colt
Inman Valley Stud (As Agent) / Peter & Cheryl Sutcliffe
(SA)
$100,000 - Choisir-Cubicle filly
Balcrest Stud / Proven Thoroughbreds (NSW)
$95,000 - Niello-Autumn Belle colt
Ducatoon Park / Leon Macdonald (SA)
$90,000 - Blevic-Lin o'Dee colt
AJ Crabb & Sons Pty Ltd / Lloyd Kennewell (SA)
9/3/2010 Lonhro influence
to produce a better Australian horse
O’LONHRO, a young stallion described
in a race review as a performer with a six-speed transmission
and the looks and characteristics of his sire, Australian
Horse of the Year Lonhro, now retired to one of Victoria’s
leading studs, the Neville Murdoch run Larneuk Farm
in the Euroa district, is to be the pathfinder for a
sire dynasty that could be the cornerstone of a better
future local horse.
It is a budding dynasty that will
provide an opportunity to outcross the ever increasing
Danehill saturation of the Australian broodmare band,
and also other branches of Danehill’s awesomely
prepotent sire Danzig and his sire Northern Dancer.
The only dose of Northern Dancer
in Lonhro’s breeding is five generations out and
it appears through his son Nureyev, but it is drowned
out by three sire giants closer in. Paternally they
are Lonhro’s second and third sires, Zabeel (out
of the Nureyev mare) and Sir Tristram, while maternally
the influence is Mr. Prospector. His son Straight Strike
got the dam of Lonhro.
In addition to his outcross breeding,
a quality also possessed by his son O’Lonhro,
one completely free of Northern Dancer maternally, Lonhro
ranks as one of the greatest modern racehorses, including
in 35 outings 26 wins, 25 of which were stakes races.
In earning $5.79million and performing at the highest
level at two, three, four and five, he won eleven Group1s
and earned prize money in five others.
Raced by his breeders, the Inghams
of the Woodlands colossus, one like Lonhro now owned
by Sheikh Mohammed’s Darley, he showed good early
pace in his races from1100m to 2000m and sustained it
throughout his journeys. Revered by the multitude as
the Black Flash, this noble thoroughbred is transmitting
his magnificent physical qualities and fleetness of
foot to a high degree.
Overall his sons and daughters are
striking individuals dominated by their sire and they
and their offspring should be jewels of stallion yards
and broodmare paddocks.
Lonhro’s oldest progeny are
four and he already has over 100 winners from his first
two crops. Only six of his 67 first crop runners have
been unplaced and the first two include nine stakes
winners and eleven others who have won and been stakes
placed. In addition he already has a stakes winner and
stakes placed runner in his third juvenile crop.
Australia has witnessed the prepotency
of Lonhro for excellence in recent weeks by the deeds
of the Ingham bred Sheikh Mohammed owned 3-year-old
colt Denman. He is such an outstanding young racehorse,
it would not be surprising if he went on and made history
by emulating his sire and grandsire Octagonal and annexed
the Australian Horse of the Year honour.
Denman’s sire value is inestimable,
but it doesn’t matter as, assuredly, he will end
up in Darley sire yards, possibly in both hemispheres.
In the meantime, breeders can plunder the Lonhro genes
next season by using O’Lonhro, the horse that
challenges as his next best runner, and also one of
his best bred sons.
On an introductory fee of $9,900,
the new acquisition for the Larneuk Stud, one in the
same region in which Encosta de Lago was launched on
his illustrious stud career and which was also home
for champion Victorian sire Rubiton, O’Lonhro
is the horse that led the Lonhro charge in his first
crop.
A 16.2 hands near black, O’Lonhro
looked set for greatness in his early exploits in his
brief career of nine starts. It was one highlighted
with an on pace win as a short priced favourite last
spring over a field including Triple Honour, Court Command,
Roman Emperor and Zavite at Warwick Farm in one of Sydney’s
most historic weight-for-age events, the Chelmsford
Stakes (1600m). It is a race that has been won by such
distinguished performers as Lonhro (twice), Might and
Power, Emancipation, Kingston Town (twice),Tulloch and
Bernborough.
In winning his Chelmsford, O’Lonhro
ran fastest time for the race since it was switched
to1600 in registering a hand timed1:34.50, 0.30s faster
than the electronic track record. He was appearing for
only the fifth time and following on wins respectively
at Canterbury (1250m, by 1.5 lengths) and Rosehill (1500m)
at his first two outings and then close seconds at Rosehill
(1200m) and Randwick (1400m).The latter race was the
Group 2 Warwick Stakes and the also rans included Racing
to Win, Court Command, Dreamscape, Zavite and Vision
and Power. Lonhro contested the Warwick Stakes three
times for two wins and a second.
Possessing only one inbreeding, a
5x5 to Mr. Prospector’s sire Raise a Native, O’Lonhro,
and also his dam Mamzelle Pedrille, both brought high
level success to Sydney breeder and owner R.J. Gall.
Mamzelle Pedrille, dam of five winners, verged on being
an outstanding sprinter.
By Zoffany, sire also of the dams
of Group1 performers Red Oog, Court Command and Chong
Tong, she was tough and sound and included in eleven
wins three Group races, the STC Theo Marks, MRC Sandown
Stakes and Vo Rogue Stakes. She is sister to the dam
of Sydney triple Listed sprint stakes winner Madame
Pedrille and to the grandam of high class Invincible
Spirit sprinter I Am Invincible, a newcomer this year
to the prominent Yarraman Park Stud at Scone.
O’Lonhro and I Am Invincible
represent one of the most celebrated families in Australia,
tracing back on the bottom line to the imported Simper,
also ancestress of immortal racemare Flight and her
champion grandsons Sky High and Skyline. On top of this
Simper was from Chelys, a daughter of Chelandry, one
of the world celebrated matriarches of last century.
Other daughters of Chelandry produced two noted Australian
sires, the local champion racehorse Heroic (seven times
leading sire) and the imported Magpie.
The installation of O’Lonhro
provides the Larneuk Stud with a quartette of fashionably
bred young sires.The others are the promising winner
getter Legion (a half-brother by Redoute’s Choice
to General Nediym) and the yet to be represented Bramshaw
(a half-brother by Encosta de Lago to Commands and Danewin)
and Tsigane (an Anabaa winner in France and America
and Group1 placed).
Seventeen
by Heart of Dream’s sire at Gold Coast sale
VICTORY of Heart of Dreams, the prepost
favourite, in next Saturday’s deferred million
dollar Australian Cup would give this 4-year-old gelding
the distinction of being the first performer to annex
the double on Flemington of this event and the Australian
Guineas in the quarter century it has been possible.
Such a success, one which would be
Heart of Dreams’ third Group1 win in16 starts,
a career which has resulted so far this year in three
cheques at the highest level at Caulfield, a win in
the Underwood Stakes and seconds in the C.F. Orr and
Caulfield Stakes, would also add to the interest in
the17 lots by his sire Show a Heart listed for the Magic
Millions Queensland breeders QTIS yearling sale to be
held at the Gold Coast on March 21 and 22.
Show a Heart, a representative of
the Star Kingdom male line, and a very showy one at
that, located at the Jon Haseler established Glenlogan
Park stud in Queensland’s budding valley of champions,
Innisplain, overall is one of the better sources of
winners currently in Australia with his oldest six.
He is high up in the Australian statistics for 2009-10
on earnings, winners and wins and through his career
to date has supplied 163 winners (nine SWs,15 SPs) of
415 races and $14million. He has had approximately 50
individual winners in each of his first two crops and
his stock have won at all ages.
Among his 2-year-olds have been Crossyourheart
(champion juvenile filly New Zealand), Mimi Lebrock
(Gold Coast Magic Millions 2YO Classic) and current
youngster Toorak Toff, a Glenlogan bred dashing 1.8
lengths winner on Monday of the $164,000 Adelaide Magic
Millions 2YO Classic.
Show a Heart’s early success
and the impressive physical appearance of his progeny
has seen the quality of his books lifted considerably.This
is shown by the dams of his yearlings in the QTIS Gold
Coast catalogue including offspring of Zabeel, Rory’s
Jester, Sir Tristram, Zeditave, Lion Hunter, Brief Truce,
Scenic, Strategic, Rahy and Secret Savings.
Show a Heart has been the cornerstone
of Glenlogan Park becoming possibly the most successful
up market stud in sire strength in modern Queensland
history. He has been followed at the stud by three sires,
like him brilliant Australian racehorses, who now have
runners and who are supplying good winners.
One of them, Falvelon, with his oldest
five, has had winners around Australia, and the other
two, Jet Spur (by Flying Spur) and Bradbury’s
Luck (Redoute’s Choice), have made bold starts
with their first crops, current 2-year-olds. Jet Spur
is Australia’s leading juvenile sire by winners
(eighth) and sixth by money, ahead of More Than Ready,
Encosta de Lago and Flying Spur, while Bradbury’s
Luck has shown up with three winners, including Ringa
Ringa Rosie (won Doomben on debut and then a Listed
third at Eagle Farm), and others placed at Caulfield,
the Gold Coast and Caloundra)
Between them the four Glenlogan Park
sires have 83 lots in the catalogue. In addition their
near neighbour in the Innisplain valley, one about an
hours drive from Brisbane and the Gold Coast, is home
for another stud with yearlings in the QTIS catalogue
that deserve widespread respect from buyers.
Headed by Brisbane Race Club president
Kevin Dixon, this is Racetree and it is a young breeding
operation based on the former Noble Park, the stud that
produced top grade performers Gold Edition, Mossman,
Segments and Pure Energy, to mention a few. Racetree
has bigger scope than Noble Park to supply quality performers
because of a bigger sire line up and broodmare band.
Out of the 28 yearlings they have
booked into the sale, 25 are by their foundation sires
Greenwood Lake (USA) (eight lots), a Group1 winning
juvenile three-quarter brother to Success Express (USA),
and Hotel Grand (17 first crop), a winner in nine outings
of three stakes, the AJC Spring Champion Stakes, Randwick
Guineas and Newcastle Spring Stakes. All told there
are19 lots by Hotel Grand and13 by Greenwood Lake in
the catalogue.
The contributions from Glenlogan
Park and Racetree are among 462 lots in the catalogue
for the Magic Millions staged QTIS Yearling Sale, one
which was only established last year as a showcase for
Queensland breeding. Much of the catalogue comes out
of the paddocks in the rolling plains and hills of the
vast Darling Downs country, the source of Saturday’s
Newmarket Handicap winner Wanted and also the Glenlogan
Park sires Show a Heart and Jet Spur.
The most famous Darling Downs stud
is the Kruger’s Lyndhurst, the one at Warwick
which has had five sires lead Australia numerically
and which is currently home for Sequalo (33 lots in
the catalogue), the sire of Burdekin Blues, and Hidden
Dragon (34 lots), a very promising first season sire.
One of the first crop Hidden Dragon
2-year-olds, Steel Dragon, made it four wins from four
outings when successful in the $150,000 Harvey Norman
Plate at Townsville on Monday. Darling Downs bred graduates
of last years QTIS sale, Tough Luck (by Zaha) and Rocket
on By (by Shovhog), were second and third. Sires of
all three placegetters have yearlings available.
The major Darling Downs vendors for
the sale are Lyndhurst (41 lots), Wattle Brae (30),
Oaklands (28), Raheen (28), Eureka (27), Robyn Wise
(18), Clear Mountain Fairview (17), Superior Thoroughbreds
(13), Darlington (12), Oakwood (11) and Misty Downs
(8).
All the yearlings in the catalogue
can contest the glamour Magic Millions Gold Coast race
day open only to graduates of their sales held in January
each year and other sale bonus races and all qualify
for the $6million Queensland Racing Incentive Scheme
(QTIS) rewards. Some are also eligible for the NSW Racing
endowed BOBS program.
Fastnet
Rock wanted more by breeders and owners
LAST Saturday’s renewal of
the Newmarket Handicap, arguably Australia’s greatest
sprint, at Flemington was another triumph for Hunter
valley studs with all first three placegetters being
by sires in the region.
The winner Wanted, a 3-year-old colt
bred on a cross of top notch Australian racehorses,
Fastnet Rock and Snippets, was particularly pleasing
to the management of the Widden Stud as last month they
acquired him for future sire use. In pushing his earnings
over a million dollar, the effort of Wanted in the Newmarket
came on top of four successive Group1 performances in
Melbourne, close seconds in the Patinack Classic, Lightning
Stakes and William Reid Stakes and a fourth in the Oakleigh
Plate, and confirmed him as a leading Australian sprinter.
His success also suggested that the
giant Coolmore operation has in his sire, the Danehill
champion Australian sprinter Fastnet Rock headquartered
at their Hunter valley stud, a young local capable of
challenging their two-times champion Australian sire
Encosta de Lago for supremacy at the top.
Bred in Queensland by Ron Gilbert
(Highgrove stud, Westbrook, Darling Downs) using the
Listed Snippets winner Fragmentation and sold at the
Easter yearling sales to a bid of $800,000 from John
Hawkes, the Peter Moody trained Wanted is the second
Group1 winner in the first crop of Fastnet Rock. The
other is Caulfield Thousand Guineas winner Irish Lights
and the two of them are among 55 winners (six SWs) in
Fastnet Rock’s first crop. In addition he has
to date five second crop 2-year-old winners, one successful
in a stakes event, and three others stakes placed.
Overall Fastnet Rock appears to have
a huge future at the top. He had 257 mares in his first
season, 251 in 2008 and then 272 last year and his early
success has seen him sent to Coolmore in Ireland for
use in the current northern hemisphere season.
Both Fastnet Rock, an outstanding
sprinter whose efforts at three included wins in the
VRC Lightning Stakes and MRC Oakleigh Plate and a second
in the VRC Newmarket, and Encosta de Lago, a Group1
VRC VicHealth Cup winner and Caulfield Guineas third
by Fairy King, are by sires Coolmore has shuttled to
Australia. Fastnet Rock, a product of a mare by another
Coolmore shuttler, Royal Academy, was bred on their
Hunter Valley complex and raced by one of their partnerships.
Both sires are from mares whose production
records underline the lottery of breeding.To start with
Fastnet Rock is the only winner of consequence among
the four – her first four foals - produced by
his dam Piccadilly Circus, herself a prominent Melbourne
2-year-old. She followed by missing in 2003, 2007 and
2009, not being served in 2004 and having a Fusaichi
Pegasus filly in 2008.
A minor Adelaide winning half-sister
by Star Way to Flying Spur, Encosta de Lago’s
dam Shoal Creek has had six foals, but only one winner
from17 seasons of use. She did not have a foal in the
next six seasons after delivering Encosta de Lago as
her first foal.
Arrowfield’s
grip on 2010 Golden Slipper
A HIGHLIGHT of the meeting at Warwick
Farm last Saturday was the emphatic win of Solar Charged
in the $125,000 Kindergarten Stakes for 2-year-olds.
It was an effort that saw this filly from the second
crop of Charge Forward, a neck second in the 2004 Golden
Slipper, firm to favouritism for the 2010 edition to
be run on April 3.
The four most fancied runners for
this year’s Slipper, Solar Charged (by the Red
Ransom sire Charged Forward and from a Danehill mare),
Chance Bye (by Redoute’s Choice sire Snitzel and
from a Red Ransom mare), Beneteau (Redoute’s Choice
out of an Encosta de Lago mare) and Star Witness (in
the first crop of Starcraft and from a mare by the Danehill
sire Lion Hunter), are all by different Arrowfield stud
sires. It is an impressive feat for this great stud.
Raced by her breeder Peter Horwitz
(Twin Palms stud, Lochinvar, Hunter Valley), the John
O’Shea Randwick trained filly Solar Charged was
following up a five lengths debut win on the Kensington
track last November when she powered away to 4.5 lengths
win in Saturday’s Kindergarten.
She is a half-sister to the Giant’s
Causeway Tasmanian Oaks winner Causeway Queen and her
dam, the Danehill mare Soul Singer, is a minor Sydney
winner from Aretha, a Listed winner by Sir Dapper. Both
Sir Dapper and his sire Vain won the Slipper and Aretha
and her dam Soul Power (by Le Cordonnier) were both
bred on Fred Peisah’s Lomar Park stud at Werombi
near Sydney.
Unique
treble by overseas gallopers in Sydney
A UNIQUE feature of the Warwick Farm
meeting on Saturday was that three of the winners were
bred outside of Australia and New Zealand. One of them
Strike One, was foaled in England, another Dane Julia,
in South Africa, and the other, Albertinelli, in Ireland.
Strike One, the first of the three
winners, was bought at a sale in England as an untried
3-year-old for about $60,000 by his trainer Chris Waller
(Rosehill) after three starts in Ireland, including
a win at 2000m on a Provincial track and a debut third
at Curragh. Now six, this chestnut gelding has raced
21 times in Australia for five wins, including Saturday’s
effort (2200m, by 2.0 lengths) and one over 2400m a
week earlier at Rosehill Gardens.
He was got at Coolmore in Ireland
by their eminent Danehill shuttler Danehill Dancer but
foaled in England.The dam, Intellectuelle, is by the
Nijinsky sire Caerleon.
Danehill, the Coolmore deceased world
super shuttled sire, is in the breeding of each of three
overseas bred Sydney winners. He got Albertinelli from
use in Ireland and Dane Julia was bred in South Africa
using a Danehill winner, Precious Julia, produced in
Australia.
Like Strike One, the Clarry Conners
trained Albertinelli has won two races in succession
close together, succeeding at Warwick Farm on February
17 and then on Saturday.
He is a 7-year-old gelding who has
appeared in three countries, but only had 15 starts.
He followed two wins and a Listed third from three outings
in Ireland with ten runs in Hong Kong for one second
and one third. He has run twice in Australia.
A brother to an Ireland Group 3 second
and a half-brother to Seazun, a Group1 winner in England
at two and at three fourth in both the English and Irish
Thousand Guineas, Albertinelli is from Sunset Café,
a winner at 2400m in Ireland by Red Sunset, a good class
racing son of Red God, the sire of the influential Blushing
Groom.
The principal winner on Saturday
of the trio was the Lee Freedman trained Victorian visitor
Dane Julia, annexer of the $100,000 Listed Wiggle Quality,
a1400m event for mares.This South African bred 6-year-old
has also raced in three countries, South Africa, Australia
and New Zealand, and has performed creditably in Group1
races in each of them.
She won her first five outings in
South Africa, including the Fillies’ Classic-Gr.1,
succeeded in the Breeders’ Stakes-Gr.1 in New
Zealand and was a handy fifth of 20 in the Winter Stakes-Gr.1
at Eagle Farm. Her Australian performances have included
two Listed wins and Group 2 and 3 thirds.
Got by Danehill from the River Rough smart Sydney performer
Aspired, Dane Julia’s dam Precious Julia was bred
in the Hawkesbury Valley by Mrs R.J. Somers, Mrs J.A.
Somers and D.R. Casson and sold to South Africa at the
Inglis Easter yearling sales for $115,000. She won three
sprint races.
9/3/2010 Easter Broodmare
catalogue out
The catalogue for the 2010 Inglis Australian Easter Broodmare
Sale has now been released and boasts 83 stakes winners,
of which 11 have won Group 1 races. It also includes a
significant 446 half or full relations to stakes winners,
including 121 Group 1 winners.
The sale will be held at Newmarket
from April 13 to 16 and comprises 948 mares.
Since cataloguing there have already
been a number of important updates.
Charge Forward filly Solar Charged
galloped her way to Golden Slipper favouritism with
a dominant display to win the G3 Kindergarten Stakes
at Warwick Farm on Saturday.
No less than three mares in the Easter
catalogue are beneficiaries of the John O’Shea
trained filly’s rise to stardom.
Lot 446 is Solar Charged’s dam,
the Danehill mare Soul Singer to be offered by Vinery
Stud. Significantly, she is in foal to Charge Forward,
thus carrying a full-relation to the Slipper favourite.
Lot 447 is Soulful, an Octagonal half-sister
to Soul Singer, to be offered by Amarina Farm in foal
to young Coolmore stallion Aussie Rules.
Lot 590 is Causeway Queen, a Giant’s
Causeway dual stakes winning half-sister to Solar Charged.
The Easter Broodmare updates kept
coming at Morphettville yesterday.
Majestic Music added a fifth stakes
victory when winning the Group 2 Yallambee Stakes and
now has Group One glory in her sights. Lot 125 is Tobouggie
Woogie, a Tobougg half-sister to Majestic Music who
is being sold as a racing and breeding proposition,
as part of Toorak Park Stud’s unreserved dispersal
sale.
Adelaide Cup winner Capecover has
two half-sisters for sale including Lot 496 the Group
1 Auckland Cup winner Upsetthym (by Rhythm) selling
in foal to the Golden Slipper winner Sebring. Lot 848
is the unraced Traditionally mare Miss Dodds, who will
be offered in the general session.
An outstanding array of both broodmare
and covering sires are represented throughout the catalogue.
A feature of the mares with foals
at foot will be Irish bred Indian Ridge mare Indian
Dream Lot 37, who will be sold with a bay colt at foot
by Wanted’s sire Fastnet Rock, who in addition
is represented by 18 mares in foal.
“The catalogue assembled is
quality from start to finish and all breeders will find
themselves a suitable broodmare prospect for their budget
at this year’s sale” said Inglis Managing
Director Mark Webster.
9/3/2010 Vintage draft of
3YO’s keeps getting better
The moment Military Move reached the winning post first
in the $2.2million Gr.1 Telecom New Zealand Derby last
Saturday his victory ensured a special place lay waiting
in the trophy cabinet of his breeders Windsor Park Stud.
For the two-times winner of the Breeder
of the Year award, whose achievements include breeding
Melbourne Cup, Caulfield Cup and Cox Plate winners amongst
other prestigious races, the New Zealand Derby was a
Group One race that up until Saturday had narrowly eluded
them.
And as much as victory in the blue
riband event was a crowning achievement for Military
Move’s 7-times Champion Sire Volksraad, who has
stood at Windsor Park or their ancillary operation Mapperley
Stud throughout his distinguished career, it was also
a triumph for Windsor Park’s 2008 Karaka yearling
draft.
Besides Military Move, their draft
of yearlings offered at the Karaka sales that year,
also included this season’s Victoria Derby and
AJC Spring Champion Stakes winner Monaco Consul as well
as W S Cox Plate winner So You Think. The combined cost
of these three yearlings totaled $285,000 while their
earnings currently exceed $5.8 million.
Now 3YO’s, Windsor Park’s
draft that year also included Gr.1 performer Corsage,
Gr.2 winners King’s Ransom and Te Akau Rose, stakes
winners Swiss Rose and Comme Tu Veux and Gr.2 placed
C’Mon Cuba.
A tradition of producing high-class
racehorses from their farms at Cambridge and Matamata
is further endorsed by other representatives of the
leading nursery this season which include Australian
Group winners Growl and Centennial Park as well as Gr.1
performer Richard Beymer.
Windsor Park’s focus will now
be cast further afield to Hong Kong this Sunday and
the running of the world’s second richest Derby,
the Gr.1 $HK16,000,000 Mercedes-Benz Hong Kong Derby.
Among the leading contenders for the region’s
most prestigious classic event is the Windsor Park-bred
Beauty Flash, who, after his success in the Gr.1 Hong
Kong Classic Mile in January, is the highest rated runner
going into the race.
8/3/2010 Shamrocker shakes
Aussie juveniles for O'Reilly
Karaka graduate Shamrocker beat her Australian rivals
at their own game when she found plenty in the Group 2
VRC Sires' Produce Stakes (1400m) at Flemington on Saturday.
The juvenile O'Reilly filly destined
for the VRC Crown Oaks did not get any favours during
the A$300,000 event when asked to travel three wide
facing the breeze after drawing the outside barrier
in the nine horse field.
Glen Boss rode the filly to victory
in her Sandown maiden just three weeks earlier and this
time the pair put pay to a Group quality field.
Into the home straight Shamrocker
(O'Reilly x Bohemian Blues, by Blues Traveller) quickly
became prominent and immediately challenged race favourite
Willow Creek (Tale of the Cat) who had kicked strongly
from a handy position.
Shamrocker eventually ground her rival
into submission to score by a short neck, no mean feat
considering Willow Creek had finished just a length
off Star Witness (Starcraft) at her last start when
fourth in the Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m). Others
in the beaten brigade included Redoute's Choice and
Manhattan Rain's sibling Echoes of Heaven (Encosta De
Lago), and Bradbury's Luck and Murtajill's sibling Thegreatandthegood
(Rock of Gibraltar).
Trained by Danny O'Brien at Flemington,
Shamrocker's majority share-holder is Dato Yap Kim San's
Raffles Farm (50%), whose bloodstock interests are managed
in New Zealand by Bruce Sherwin.
Raffles Farm has developed a quality
young broodmare band in Cambridge over the past 18 months
and has racing interests throughout Australasia. Many
of these were sourced from Karaka including Shamrocker
who was purchased by Danny O'Brien for $65,000 at the
2009 Karaka Select Sale.
With earnings of A$200,000 thus far,
Shamrocker heads to the paddock with a firm target,
the Group 1 VRC Oaks, during Melbourne's Spring Carnival.
Trainer Danny O'Brien commented,
"We've always had hopes she'd be a nice Oaks filly
in the spring. She's a big, long lanky staying O'Reilly
filly so that's certainly given us a lot of promise
of what she might do after a win like that."In
winning the Group 2 event Shamrocker joins Linky Dink
(Group 1 TJ Smith Classic), Rockdale (Group 1 TJ Smith
Classic), Darci Brahma (Group 1 TJ Smith Classic), Alizes
(Group 2 Magic Night Stakes) and Group 1 AJC Oaks bound
My Emotion (Group 3 VRC Thoroughbred Breeders' Stakes)
as New Zealand-breds who have claimed juvenile Group
glory in Australia in the past five seasons.
7/3/2010 Second Group
One Winner for Fastnet Rock
(6th March 2010)
Exciting colt Wanted (3c Fastnet Rock
x Fragmentation, by Snippets) is a Group One bridesmaid
no longer after scoring a dominant win in the prestigious
VRC Newmarket Handicap at Flemington, posting his memorable
victory just moments before the track was hit by a devastating
hail storm.
The Peter Moody trained colt has been
a model of consistency this preparation and nobody could
begrudge Wanted his opportunity to shine.
Second in both the Group One VRC Lightning
Stakes and MVRC William Reid Stakes before a last start
fourth in the Group One MRC Oakleigh Plate, Wanted was
again well fancied to win the Newmarket.
Driven forward by Luke Nolen, Wanted
was up on the pace all the way kicking clear over the
final furlong and holding all rivals at bay to win by
a length over Eagle Falls with Oakleigh Plate hero Starspangledbanner
(3c Choisir x Gold Anthem, by Made of Gold) in third
place.
“He was well overdue,”
said Peter Moody. “He's a damn good colt and deserves
a Group One on his resume. He's an exceptionally well
bred horse and there's not a sprinter in the country
racing more consistently.”
Moody revealed Wanted had been freshened
up and given a change of scene having been trained from
a paddock at the property of trainer Quinton Scott.
“Fitness wasn't an issue, so
he didn’t need much work, he’s just been
trained from the paddock and popped over some logs,”
Moody said.
The change of regime obviously did
the trick with Wanted finding the length he needed to
go from being the perennial bridesmaid to bona fide
Group One star!
“He'll probably go to Sydney
for the T.J. (Smith), but today was the one we wanted,”
Moody added.
An $800,000 purchase from the Highgrove
Stud draft at the 2008 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling
Sale, Wanted runs for a syndicate that includes colourful
racing identity Eddie Hayson.
Amazingly, Wanted had not won a race
since this day last year when he took out the Group
Three AJC Kindergarten Stakes at Warwick Farm, but has
certainly danced every dance in between, his overall
record now three wins and six placings from14 starts
with prizemoney of $1,191,000.
Wanted was the most expensive yearling
from the first crop of Fastnet Rock and becomes his
second Group One winner joining Irish Lights.
Bred and offered for sale by Ron Gilbert
at his Darling Downs based Highgrove Stud, Wanted is
the second foal of stakes-winning Snippets mare Fragmentation,
whose two year-old colt Shrapnel won the Group Three
SAJC Marsh Breeders Stakes last week.
Fragmentation has no yearling this
year but did have a full brother to Wanted last spring.
Wanted is the seventh individual Australian
stakes-winner for Fastnet Rock this season.
Dreamscape
hits top gear for Choisir
(6th March 2010)
Talented Choisir entire Dreamscape
(4h Choisir x Faith in Dreams, by Ferdinand) recaptured
his best form for the Gai Waterhouse stable when scoring
a dashing victory in the Group Three AJC Liverpool City
Cup at Warwick Farm on Saturday over 1300 metres.
Beaten a short neck when resuming
from a spell at Randwick on February 13, Dreamscape
showed obvious improvement from that run, spearing across
from an outside draw to take over and lead before defying
the challengers to win by half a length over Group One
winner Triple Honour.
“Gai has been really happy with
his work and wanted him ridden positively as she thought
they wouldn’t get past him,” said Assistant
Trainer, Tania Rouse.
“He’s a big horse and
will only get better with racing.”
Yet another high class homebred for
Gooree Stud, Dreamscape has the overall record of four
wins and two placings from 10 starts with prizemoney
nearing $400,000 and with feature race wins already
on his resume such as the Group Two AJC Stan Fox Stakes
and Group Three AJC Up and Coming Stakes, the son of
Choisir is certainly a stallion prospect.
Dreamscape is the lone stakes-winner
for the Ferdinand mare Faith in Dreams, whose pedigree
is one of the best in the world as she claims legendary
producer Thong as her grand-dam.
A remarkable mare, Thong is the dam
of Group One winners Thatch and King Pellinore, her
many superior descendants including champions sires
Sadler’s Wells and Nureyev.
Dreamscape is the sixth Australian
stakes-winner this season for Choisir, who was also
represented by top class colt Starspangledbanner (3c
Choisir x Gold Anthem, by Made of Gold) , a gallant
third in the Group One VRC Newmarket Handicap at Flemington.
New Aussie
Stakes-Winner for Fupeg
(6th March 2010)
Kentucky Derby winner Fusaichi Pegasus
added another new stakes-winner to his tally when progressive
sprinter Captain Coltish (4h Fusaichi Pegasus x Skates,
by Danehill) took out the Listed MRC Schweppes Trophy
at Flemington on Saturday.
Racing in top form since resuming
from a spell, the Peter Moody trained entire was rewarded
for his consistency when kicking on strongly to win
the 1400 metre sprint by the best part of a length.
An $800,000 purchase for John Foote
Bloodstock from the Coolmore draft at the 2007 Inglis
Australian Easter Yearling Sale, Captain Coltish runs
for the Makybe Racing and Breeding Syndicate and partners
and has won five races and placed four times from 10
starts earning $172,876 in prizemoney.
Captain Coltish is a half-brother
to ill-fated Group One winner Juste Momente and is the
second stakes-winner for his stakes-placed dam Skates,
a daughter of former star mare and now star producer
Skating.
Coolmore Stud will offer a full brother
to Captain Coltish at the 2010 Inglis Australian Easter
Yearling Sale as Lot 167.
Skates has a colt foal by Encosta
de Lago in the pipeline and was covered by the champion
sire again last spring.
Captain Coltish is the third Australian
stakes-winner this season for Fusaichi Pegasus, whose
last Australian bred yearlings are selling at sales
this year.
7/3/2010 Easter: Everything
you ever wanted
Fastnet Rock colt Wanted capped an
Inglis domination of the Flemington card today when
he scored a much deserved win in the Group 1 $1Million
Newmarket Handicap.
It gave Easter graduates five of the
six races run at the rain-shortened Flemington Super
Saturday meeting.
Today’s quintet brings to 48
the tally of stakes races won by Easter graduates in
Australia this season, with Wanted being the sixth Group
1 winner.
Highlighting the strength of the 2010
Easter catalogue, which will be held at Newmarket from
April 6-8, three of today's stakes winners boast siblings
heading to next month's sale. *
WANTED ($800,000 2008 Easter, 3c Fastnet
Rock-Fragmentation) has been one of the most consistent
horses in training this season and he fully deserved
his Group 1 breakthrough.
He was bred and sold by Ron Gilbert’s
Highgrove Stud and was the most expensive yearling in
Fastnet Rock’s first crop. It was also a great
result for Widden Stud, who recently secured Wanted
for stud duties upon the conclusion of his race career.
The day started on a positive note
for Easter graduates when SHAAHEQ ($350,000 2009 Easter,
2f Redoute’s Choice-Damaschino) stitched up a
tilt on the Golden Slipper by taking the G3 Breeders
Stakes.
Arrowfield Stud will offer a full-sister
to Shaaheq as Lot 366 at this year’s Easter Sale.
DISSOLVED ($300,000 2008 Easter, 3c
Lonhro-Yarralumla) justified the faith the Hawkes stable
have in him when proving too strong in the Listed MSS
Security Stakes. The Lonhro colt was previously an Inglis
Bonus Series winner at Sale last October.
CAPTAIN COLTISH ($800,000 2007 Easter,
4h Fusaichi Pegasus-Skates) broke through for his first
stakes success in winning the Listed Schweppervescence
Trophy. The Peter Moody trained entire races in the
famous colours of Tony Santic and Coolmore Stud have
two close relations heading to Easter.
Easter Session II has created a huge
impression in its two years to date and flagbearer FAINT
PERFUME (P$40,000 2008 Easter II, 3f Shamardal-Zona)
resumed with a superb win in the Group 2 Kewney Stakes.
Assuming her customary role at the
back of the field, Faint Perfume was able to outclass
a very good field, despite the 1400m being well short
of her best. Trainer Bart Cummings will now try to complete
the VRC-AJC Oaks double when the filly heads to Sydney
next month.
Both Faint Perfume and Wanted are
in commanding positions to build on the brilliant record
of Easter having supplied seven Champion three-year-olds
in the past seven seasons.
Think Big Stud will offer a Pendragon
half-brother to Faint Perfume as Lot 273 at Easter this
year.
7/3/2010 Easter
catalogue updates
The 2010 Inglis Australian Easter
Yearling Sale will be held at Newmarket from April 6-8.
Following is a list of stakes updates to the catalogue
from today’s racing.
G2 Kewney Stakes – FAINT PERFUME
(Shamardal-Zona): Think Big Stud will offer a half-brother
by Pendragon as Lot 273
G3 Breeders Stakes - SHAAHEQ (Redoute’s
Choice-Damaschino): Arrowfield Stud will offer a full-sister
as Lot 366
LR Schweppervescence Trophy –
CAPTAIN COLTISH (Fusaichi Pegasus-Skates): Coolmore
Stud will offer a full-brother as Lot 167 ; Coolmore
Stud will offer an Encosta De Lago filly from Captain
Coltish’ sister Delphi Lodge as Lot 380
G1 Newmarket Handicap – 3rd
Starspangledbanner (Choisir-Gold Anthem): Makybe will
offer a three-quarter-sister by Rock Of Gibraltar as
Lot 450
G2 Kewney Stakes – 3rd No Evidence
Needed (Shamardal-Generosa): Princes Farm will offer
a half-sister by Fusaichi Pegasus as Lot 445
G2 Surround Stakes – 2nd Hurtle
Myrtle (Dane Shadow-Ravenswood): Kitchwin Hills will
offer a half-sister by Royal Academy as Lot 124
G2 Surround Stakes – 3rd So
Anyway (General Nediym-Addictive): Rheinwood Pastoral
will offer a half-sister by Testa Rossa as Lot 276
5/3/2010 Victorian Breeders
Flemington Saturday preview
All racing eyes will be on Flemington this Saturday with
the running of three of the autumn carnival majors. Run
consecutively – making for a very big couple of
hours – the Gr.1 treble is kicked off by the $1
million Newmarket Handicap.
Best known for his W.S Cox Plate victory, El Segundo is
a horse who can pull out a great run fresh and trainer
Colin Little is looking forward to the eight-year-old
having his first crack at a Gr.1 1200m race. And should
he race well – a trip to the UK for the July Cup
beckons.
Co-bred by Victorians Donald Howell, Ian & William
Hickey and Philip Murphy, El Segundo has – says
little, been happy in his work. “He has pleased
me a lot,” he said. “You don’t retire
geldings unless they’ve had enough and he’s
not telling us that – he’s still got the
fire in the belly.”
Also fresh, having had just the one run this preparation,
is Light Fantastic, a game first up fourth after making
the pace in the William Reid Stakes. A home-bred for Bob
& Rosemary Scarborough’s Wood Nook Farm, the
is a half brother to their Gr.1 winner Leica Guv
generally races well second up and jockey Craig Newitt
is confident that the grey will be in the mix.
“He should get a nice run in the race and with a
bit of room and freshened up he should run well.”
Even fitter third up after a Lightning Stakes fourth and
a tough Oakleigh Plate victory, Starspangledbanner “looks
even better and stronger,” according to stable representative
Troy Corstens. Bred and co-raced by Emily Krstina, the
$120,000 Melbourne Premier
purchase from the family of Elvstroem and Haradasun.
“He has done exceptionally well since his win in
the Oakleigh Plate,” Corstens enthused.
“It is hard to be confident going in to such a strong
Gr.1 but Star has been sizzling and we would be extremely
disappointed if he did not look the winner at some stage
of the race.
We can’t wait for one last hurrah before he jetsets
off to Aidan’s!” Next up is the $750,000 Crown
Australian Guineas which has attracted a stellar field
of exciting three-year-olds. As honest as they come and
deserving of a Gr.1 victory is Carrara.
Raced by the Tagg family who bred his sire Elvstroem,
the $200,000 Melbourne Premier graduate hails from the
first commercial crop of foals bred by James & June
Anderson who purchased the old Sanctuary Lodge property.
Connections are hoping he can go a little better than
Elvstroem, fifth in this same race in 2004 (Reset the
winner).
South Australian galloper Chief Of Staff returns to the
state where he was bred by Glentree Downs Pastoral. A
$100,000 Melbourne Premier graduate, he is out of the
multiple city winner Naareda from the family of the stakes
winners Natural Blitz (Hong Kong), Castletown Keys, Bojack,
November Flight, Crozier II, Century Miss, Honour The
Name and Lilting.
Up-and-coming filly Set For Fame may need to be as good
as Triscay and Miss Finland the only two female Guineas
winners to date) to win on Saturday but she sure looks
the part so far! Trainer Peter Moody reports that her
work has been strong in the lead-up and
he is looking forward to the challenge.
“It’s a big task taking on Denman but we missed
the Gr.1 fillies races last spring with her. think she
would more than hold her own with the opposition Denman
has been beating… she is ready.”
Bred and part raced by Robert Crabtree, Set For Fame has
raced six times for three wins and two seconds, missing
the spring carnival due to a bleeding attack. She has,
says Moody, returned “bigger and stronger.”
The Australian Cup is always one of the best races of
this year and the 2010 version is an even but exciting
one. On this day last year winning the Australian Guineas
at the same stage of his preparation (third up), the talented
Heart Of Dreams looks nicely primed. A full brother to
the last start Gr.3 winner Rightfully Yours bred and raced
by the Bartle family, he is from an in-form family.
Jockey Craig Newitt is confident. “His final sectionals
were excellent last time out,” he said. “He
was second up jumping from 1400m to 1800m and he was actually
a bit dour in the last bit. La Rocket pinched the extra
break on the home turn but he was strong to the
line so I have every confidence he’ll run out the
trip.”
“He if he is not far off them turning for home,
he’ll be very hard to get past.” Also third
up and suited by a rise in distance is Littorio who won
the Gr.1 Turnbull Stakes over this trip at this track.
The $15,000 Melbourne Premier sale bargain bred by Valda
Klaric has been a great horse for connections and his
form on the come-back trail from bone soreness has been
most encouraging.
Jockey Craig Williams is happy to see the classy five-year-old
back at Flemington.
“At Caulfield they tend to go a bit slower early
and then the leaders pinch a break when they go around
the tight track,” he explained. “At Flemington,
they have the sweeping turn and the horses are accelerating
over a longer distance than at Caulfield where the
pressure goes on in a flash. The longer build up to his
top should help Littorio as will the wide open spaces.”
Earlier in the day sees the running of the Gr.3 TBV Thoroughbred
Breeders Stakes, a Super VOBIS 1200m contest for two-year-old
fillies. Backing up from an easy win in last week’s
Inglis Premier is
Not A Pretender (see notes below) who should again prove
hard to toss.
Sweet Cheeks did not have much luck in the Blue Diamond
Stakes and, already being a stakes winner at Flemington,
can improve drastically here. Bred by Eddings Thoroughbreds
International, the Listed Maribyrnong Trial Stakes winner
is out of the New Zealand stakes winner Captain’s
Command, granddaughter of the Gr.3 mare Grand Jette.
Marvellous Miss – third in the Inglis Premier –
is another to back up. She got back at Caulfield, striking
interference, but was very strong late. Bred by Riverend
Park and D’Arcy Thoroughbreds and sold for $70,000,
she is out of the imported mare Wishing Star from the
family of the Gr.1 winners Danarani, Crystal Glitters
and Amerique.
First up here is Sublime Girl who ran such a great race
at debut last spring – a somewhat unlucky third
in the Listed Merson Cooper Stakes. Given time to mature,
she was bred and is raced by the Hoare family’s
Devon Park Stud. A half sister to the metropolitan
winners Running Riot (also running on Saturday) and Jester
Smoothie, she is out of Running Smooth – half sister
to the dual Gr.1 winner King’s High who on this
day in 1989 won the Australian Guineas.
Constant Rhythm has shown ability at her first couple
of outings. A daughter of former Darley shuttler Consolidator,
the Glentree Downs Pastoral bred chestnut is out of the
unraced Rory’s Jester mare Crystal Jester –
a half sister to the stakes placed Smidgin.
The Listed Super VOBIS MSS Security Stakes over 1100m
is for the three-year-olds. Avenue pulled up sore from
the Oakleigh Plate but on her day is high class and this
is an easier race for her. A full sister to the dual Gr.1
winning sprinter Virage de Fortune bred
and raced by Limerick Lane Thoroughbreds, she is a granddaughter
of one of the best race mares of all time – the
mighty Emancipation. She is also ancestress of recent
UAE Oaks winner Raihana.
Common Interest ran really well and she is unbeaten second
up. A $485,000 Easter graduate bred by Emily Krstina,
he is out of the stakes placed city winning mare Common
Smytzer. A half sister to the Listed winner Our Majestic
Blue, she is also dam of the Gr.3
juvenile Exceedingly Good.
Nicastro showed good potential last spring and is first
up here. Racing in the same colours as his sire, the Cappellin
family’s Testa Rossa, the $45,000 Melbourne Premier
purchase is out of the lightly raced mare Kinky. Hailing
from a strong northern hemisphere family whose
members include Blue Gum’s new boy Astronomer Royal,
she sadly died last year – her final foal a Bel
Esprit colt.
The Gr.2 VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes, is another feature
for juveniles –a Super VOBIS event over 1400m. Echoes
Of Heaven was a little green at debut but bound to be
improved.
Raced by her breeder, Mr Ali Yaseen’s Teeley Assets,
the valuable colt races in the same yellow, red, lime
and orange colours as his full brother, the recently retired
Gr.1 winner Manhattan Rain and his champion half brother
Redoute’s Choice.
Willow Creek ran a great race in the Blue Diamond and
she will find this a little easier.
A home-bred for Contract Racing, she is out of the city
placed Umatilla mare River Tribe. Served last spring by
Bel Esprit, she is a half sister to the speedy dual Listed
winner Cross Current out of the Flemington winner River
Express – in turn daughter of the Listed winner
Ride The Rapids. That mare is setting up quite a dynasty,
producing the Gr.1 Oakleigh Plate winner River Dove (whose
first foal Dove Lake won at debut recently) whilst her
daughter River Serenade is the dam of the spring carnival
Gr.2 winner First Command and the Gr.1
Hong Kong Sprint runner up One World.
After bolting in at debut, Yosei ran a great race at Gr.3
level in Adelaide last start. A homebred for John Pittard,
the daughter of Invincible Spirit is out of the lightly
raced Fuji Fairy from a strong northern hemisphere family
– one that produced the highly successful stallion
Nassipour. Served last spring by Bianconi, Fuji Fairy
is a descendant of the famed matriarch Mumtaz Mahal.
The Gr.2 Kewney Stakes is a 1400m Super VOBIS race for
three-year-old fillies. Rostova has not been far away
at two runs this preparation and the $80,000 Melbourne
Premier graduate bred by Leonard Wilson should be ready
to show her best. As should Fomalite
who has also been shaping well. A first crop daughter
of Fomalhaut bred by Robert Thompson she is out of the
four times winning River Rough mare White Water Bay. Served
last spring by Fomalhaut, she is also dam of the metropolitan
winner Mio Figlio.
5/3/2010 O'Lonhro retired
to Larneuk stud
Renowned for his eye for a stallion,
Neville Murdoch is delighted to announce the arrival
of O'Lonhro to his Euroa property for the 2010 breeding
season.
Gr2-winning 4YO stallion O'Lonhro
(Lonhro-Mamzelle Pedrille, by Zoffany) has been retired
to stud at Euroa-based Larneuk Stud in Victoria.
O’Lonhro is the 1st stakes-winning
son of former Woodlands & now Darley-based 11-time
Gr1-winning World Champion Miler & Australian Racehorse-Of-The-Year
Lonhro (Octagonal-Shadea, by Straight Strike) to retire
to stud. And his group-winning dam Sister Pedrille won
11 races (3 at Group level & 4 at Listed level).
O'Lonhro (a $220,000 yearling consigned
by Woodlands at the 2007 Magic Millions Gold Coast Sale)
recorded 3 wins (including 2009’s Gr2 Chelmsford
Stakes over 1600m at Randwick) & 2 runners-up (including
2009’s Gr2 Warwick Stakes over 1400m at Randwick)
from 9 starts for $231,40 earnings.
5/3/2010 Latest news from
Glenlogan park stud
RED ELEMENT’S outstanding little sister Typhoon
Tracy wrote her name into the record books and became
their sires (Red Ransom) most successful performer at
the elite level when she recorded her fourth Group 1 victory
last weekend in truly dominating fashion.
With a minimum of fuss, the royally bred mare dispatched
of her rivals in the $500,000 G1 Futurity Stakes (1600m)
to take her overall
record to 9 wins and 2 placings from just 12 career starts.
Trainer Peter Moody was understandably full of praise
for his stable flag-bearer. “She is simply just
a star,” Peter said. “Most trainers go their
entire lifetime without crossing the path of one anywhere
near this good, so I consider myself pretty lucky.
“She can maintain a really high cruising speed throughout
the race and then she just finishes with such depth –
it is a very rare thing.
“She is bullet proof at the moment.”
SHOW A HEART’S promising Singaporean staying galloper
Pina Colarda made it three wins from his past four starts
when making a
one-act affair of the $75,000 Kranji Stakes over 2400m
last Friday night.
Sent out the short priced favourite on the back of some
very impressive displays in recent times, Pina Colarda
scored by a
widening five-and-a-half length margin in 2min 28.41 secs
– just 0.27 secs outside the record which has stood
since 1999.
Trainer Leslie Khoo will resist the temptation of giving
the son of Show A Heart a short break.
“I will keep him going as the owners are keen to
get him to the Derby,” Khoo said. “He needs
to keep winning races to get his rating up to a
point where he will make the field but he doesn’t
look like slowing down at this point.
“He has made good improvement since his last start
and is developing into a really promising stayer.”
JET SPUR has only had the one race opportunity in the
last seven days to increase his lead in the battle for
Champion First Season Sire by winners and, not surprisingly,
he grabbed it with both hands and saluted.
Last Sunday at the Sunshine Coast, the upand- coming sire
had two runners, Aessex and Count Spur, entered for the
2YO event and
they finished first and third respectively – split
only by the efforts of a very promising debut by Bradbury’s
Luck youngster Bradbury’s
Fortune.
In registering his 8th juvenile winner for the season,
Jet Spur is now sitting two wins clear of all other stallions
in Australia for number
of 2YO winners.
SHOW A HEART’S best performed galloper, and dual
Group 1winner, Heart Of Dreams will be attempting to make
it three victories at the
highest level, and keep his unbeaten third-up record intact,
when he tackles the $1million Australian Cup tomorrow.
Trainer Mick Price is very pleased with the way his 4YO
has come through his lead-up runs and should have him
cherry ripe on the
day.
“I think he is as fit as I can get him and he should
be ready to produce his best on Saturday,” Mick
said. “A lot will depend on the
tempo of the race and the state of the track but, in my
opinion, he is probably the one to beat.
“A wet track would throw up a few question marks
as he has never been on anything worse than dead but we
know he will give
100% as he simply doesn’t know how to run a bad
race.
“Australian Cups aren’t easy to win –
but I wouldn’t swap him for any other runner.”
SHOW A HEART’S very promising 3YO Paganinni’s
Soul has been sold to Hong Kong for a very tidy figure
according to his ex-trainer
Tony Noonan.
“I was really disappointed to lose this horse,”
Tony said. “As I was sure we could take him up to
QLD and win their Guineas this winter.
“To be honest, I had also already started making
long term plans for an assault on the Railway (G1) I such
a big opinion of him.
“But I understand the owners had to sell at the
money they were being offered and I am sure he will go
across there and do a super job
in Hong Kong.”
JET SPUR will probably provide the shortest priced starter
of the Glenlogan Park sired runners in this weekend’s
2YO race at Eagle
Farm, but Bradbury’s Luck will be hot on his tail.
The Eagle Farm track will no doubt be almost “bottomless”
after the amount of rain we have seen in this state in
the past week, so trying to
determine which of the juveniles will handle these conditions
best is anyone’s guess.
Jet Spur will have both True Blue Angel and the very impressive
last start debutant Jet Surge due to do battle whilst
Bradbury’s Luck
has three acceptors for this event in Stephen Got Even,
Miss Lucky Choice and Miss Lucky Sweep.
SHOW A HEART’S promising 2YO galloper from the Rick
Hore-Lacy stable Toorak Toff was, not surprisingly, underdone
for last
weekend’s Listed assignment at Caulfield after only
being back in the stable for some 16 days after a break
in the paddock.
Undeterred, the Hore-Lacy stable will now ask the colt
to travel to Adelaide and line up in the rich Magic Millions
event at Morphetville
on Monday.
FALVELON will also have a representative at Morphetville
on that day, Falvelon’s Dream. The classy mare will
be lining up in Race 1
over the 1100m and will, as usual, be powering late and
hitting the line hard.
SHOW A HEART will have two live chances in Race 3 at Eagle
Farm tomorrow, assuming they handle the shifty conditions.
Both Tolart and Brigadoon Star have been in very good
form of late and can figure in the finish.
FALVELON is certainly not known as a sire of wet trackers,
but his 5YO daughter Guissepino has previously shown she
can
handle the slow going so must be included when assessing
the form for Race 8 at Eagle Farm tomorrow.
5/3/2010 Huge session II
increases as Premier concludes
The upward trend of the 2010 Melbourne
Premier Sale continued throughout the final day, with
Session II statistics improving a staggering 50% from
12 months ago.
In all, 108 horses sold today for
a gross of $3,001,500 – a hefty rise on last year’s
figure of $2,009,000. Today’s average of $27,792
represented a 46.6% increase in the corresponding session
from 2009.
Furthermore, 15 horses made $50,000
or higher today (compared to four last year).
It brought to a conclusion this year’s
Premier Sale, where more than $31.5million has been
traded over the past four days. A number of passed in
horses from the first session have since been sold,
taking that session’s clearance rate beyond the
80% mark.
“This is a tremendous result
and just reward for our vendors who have committed a
wonderful team of young horses to this year’s
sale,” Inglis Director Peter Heagney said.
“Melbourne graduates have proven
themselves to be world class racehorses and I’m
certain that buyers from this year’s sale will
be reaping those same rewards in the coming seasons.”
Topping the final day was Ultra Thoroughbreds’
Stravinsky colt from the stakes winning mare Radio Sky,
which went to Greg Eurell for $120,000. This was significantly
higher than the $70,000 that topped last year’s
Session II.
Horses passed in during all four days
of the sale are still available post sale via the Make
an Offer service.
The next sale at Oaklands is the Melbourne
March Thoroughbred Sale to be held on Friday March 19.
Yearlings return to Oaklands on April
22 and 23 for the 2010 Melbourne Autumn Yearling Sale.
Overall Sale Statistics
Vendors
In all, nine vendors topped the $1million
in sales mark during the sale. Eliza Park finished on
top, with 37 yearlings selling for $2,221,500. Yallambee
Stud (31 for $2.1million) and Three Bridges (19 for
$2.06million) also topped the $2M mark.
Burnewang North Pastoral finished
as the leading vendor by average (5 or more sold), with
seven selling at an average of $117,143. They just edged
out South Australia’s Mill Park, which sold seven
at $116,071.
Buyers
South Africa’s Form Bloodstock
was the leading buyer at this year’s Premier Sale,
signing for six yearlings for $900,000. Griffiths training
was the second highest buyer, securing a sale topping
14 yearlings for $897,000. Rogerson Bloodstock spent
$737,500 on seven youngsters, while Sacred Kingdom’s
trainer Ricky Yiu was also active, buying five horses
for $660,000.
Session II Statistics
Sold: 111 (74%)
Passed In: 38 (26%)
Gross: $3,043,500
Average: $27,419
Median: $23,000
Highest Lot: (Lot 667) $120,000
4/3/2010 The stage is
set
The news this week that Manhattan Rain is to join his
half-brother, champion sire Redoute's Choice, at Arrowfield
Stud draws our attention to another wonderful producing
mare, who will have multiple sons at stud - Peter and
Wendy Moran's Staging.
Manhattan Rain (by Encosta De Lago)
will be Shantha's Choice's (by Canny Lad) fourth son
to retire to stud; she also is the dam of Platinum Scissors
and Superior Sateen, brothers to Redoute's Choice (by
Danehill (USA)).
Shantha's Choice is the only active
Australian mare to have three Group 1 winners to her
name (Redoute's Choice, Platinum Scissors and Manhattan
Rain), but Staging is hot on her tail.
Staging (by Success Express (USA))
is a top-flight racemare - she won 10 races, four at
Group 2 level and placed four times in Group 1s - who
has gone on to be a broodmare blue hen.
Staging, who already has her Group
1 winning son Excites (AJC Sires' Produce Stakes) at
stud at Vinery, will have two high-profile sons - Duporth
and Tickets - possibly fighting out Saturday's Group
1 Newmarket Handicap (1200m) at Flemington.
The magnificent-looking Duporth, by
Red Ransom (USA), became Staging's second Group 1 winner
when he brilliantly won the BTC Cup (wfa 1200m) at Doomben
in April 2009, and Peter Moody, who trains both horses,
believes Tickets (by Redoute's Choice), already a Group
2 winner, is a Group 1 quality galloper. Both horses
are owned by the Morans.
Duporth was a top-class juvenile,
who trained on to win the $1 million Golden Rose (1400m)
at Rosehill as a spring 3YO
Duporth, with his blood free of Northern
Dancer, is one of the hottest young sire prospects in
the country. The near-black horse returned to racing
in the Group 1 Lightning Stakes (wfa 1000m, Flemington)
last month with an excellent sixth behind Nicconi.
Moody has reserved Duporth for the
Newmarket, a race in which the horse last year finished
a luckless eighth, beaten only 3.5 lengths, behind Scenic
Blast, before going on to win his Group 1 in Brisbane.
Duporth is in his last campaign
before he is retired to stud. Studmasters are clamouring
to sign him up - watch this space - as an announcement
on a home for this exciting stallion prospect will be
made shortly.
4/2/2010 Increases
across the board in Melbourne
The first session of the 2010 Melbourne
Premier Sale has concluded, with the increases across
all market indicators highlighted by the average rising
30%.
The Second Session will begin from
11am tomorrow, with another 170 horses catalogued.
A total of 396 horses have been sold
over the past three days, with the gross figure topping
$28.4million. This represents a 21% increase on the
figures from 12 months ago, despite 60 fewer horses
being offered this year.
The average rose to $71,764, while
the $55,000 median was up 22% on the 2009 figures. The
clearance rate of 79%, which is expected to increase
further with horses selling post sale via the Make an
Offer service, also bettered the 2009 mark.
Another six horses made $200,000 or
higher during today’s session, with the day’s
best going to Leon McDonald, who offered $300,000 for
Mill Park’s Starcraft-Tayusu Run colt.
In all, 16 yearlings fetched $200,000
or higher during the last three days.
“The record of Melbourne graduates
speaks for itself and with that reputation growing all
the time, there was plenty of incentive for buyers to
be here at Oaklands this week to secure the stars of
tomorrow,” Inglis Director Peter Heagney said.
“Vendors at this sale have continued
to offer outstanding prospects and we are very pleased
to see them rewarded with the results that have unfolded
here over the past three days.”
Heagney pointed out that shrewd buyers
still have the opportunity to secure themselves a future
star from the 2010 Premier Sale.
“It is worth noting that more
than a third of the stakes winners from this sale in
the past two seasons sold for $50,000 or less and there
are some very nice yearlings still to go through the
ring tomorrow,” he said.
Tomorrow’s session will be broadcast
on Inglis Sale Day Live with Online Bidding in operation
throughout the day.
All lots passed in during the first
session are available via the Inglis Make an Offer service.
Session 1 Statistics
Catalogued: 554
Withdrawn: 50
Sold: 396 (79%)
Passed In: 108 (21%)
Gross: $28,418,500
Average: $71,764
Median: $55,000
Top Lot: $400,000
3/2/2010 Redoute’s
Choice local sire dynasty
to match Danehill
TWO sons of the Arrowfield, Hunter
Valley located Australian champion sire Redoute’s
Choice on Saturday added to the conjecture that he will
be as great as his sire, deceased world super shuttler
Danehill, as a patriarch of a dynasty in Australia.The
two Redoute’s Choice sires who stirred the nation
through the exploits of their offspring, first crop
2-year-olds, on Saturday are the MRC Oakleigh Plate
and AJC Challenge Stakes winner Snitzel, another Arrowfield
sire, and the Widden stud based Golden Slipper winner
Stratum.
On Saturday Snitzel moved back to
the top of the first season ladder and to second on
the main juvenile list when his daughter Chance Bye
made it three from three in taking the Silver Slipper,
a success that saw her installed as Golden Slipper favourite,
and Stratum was the source of the 4.8 lengths winner
of the $100,000 Chairman’s Stakes at Caulfield
and of Gannochy, the third placegetter in the Perth
juvenile event.
Stratum also had success earlier
in the week, being represented by Rose of Scotland,
the 3.3 lengths winner of the Magic Million Classic
at Tasmania’s Launceston track. He is now fourth
leading first season sire on earnings and equal second
in the main juvenile statistics by winners, six each,
with Snitzel, Redoute’s Choice and General Nediym,
the leader by money.
The leading juvenile sire by winners,
seven, and top for Queensland by money is another representative
of the Danehill male line, the Glenlogan Park based
Flying Spur product Jet Spur. His first crop are also
2-year-olds.
Snitzel and Stratum are two of five
sons of Redoute’s Choice to get off to promising
starts as sires in the current racing year.The others
are Bradbury’s Luck (Glenlogan Park), God’s
Own (Eliza Park, Kerrie,Vic) and Marmottan (Walnaring.
Wallan East, Vic).
Redoute’s Choice had the first
racing results from his sire dynasty in 2008-09, a year
four of them had first crop winners.These sires are
Not a Single Doubt (Arrowfield), Stromberg Carlson (Raheen,
Gladfield, Qld), Legion (Larneuk Stud, Euroa, Vic) and
the very lightly used deceased Master of Ceremonies
(Jelle-Jac Farms, Tatura, Vic).
The two most impressive of them have
been Not a Single Doubt, sire to date of 38 individual
winners, including 13 first crop 2-year-olds and seven
stakes placed, and Stromberg Carlson. Not a Single Doubt
had his latest winner when 3-year-old son Tuscan Breeze
was successful at Randwick on Friday and the latest
promising showing for Stromberg Carlson was a head second
by his second crop 2-year-old Random Orbit at Doomben
on February 20 He has competed six times for a win and
four minor places.
Another of the second season Redoute’s
Choice sires to meet with recent success has been Legion,
the half-brother to General Nediym in Neville Murdoch’s
care at the progressive Larneuk stud at Euroa. His 3-year-old
daughter Tad of Class collected her fourth prize cheque
in five outings when successful at Arrarat in Victoria
on Monday. Previous efforts included seconds at Seymour
and Echuca and a debut third at Tatura.
Typical of most low service fee sires,
restricted in early exposure of his progeny at the races,
Legion is starting to get a move on with first crop
runners. Another of his daughters, Garter Girl, registered
her second win when successful by 2.5 lengths at Pakenham
on February 5 and the gelded Shady Grove has won at
Morphettville (2.4 lengths December 4) and Strathalbyn
(1.9 lengths February 17).
A fourth generation descendant of
the celebrated New Zealand broodmare Froth, ancestress
of not only General Nediym but also of Group1 stars
Horlicks (won the Japan Cup and top races in Australia
and New Zealand), Brew (won the Melbourne Cup), Interstellar
(Canterbury Guineas), Fiumcino (AJC Australian Derby,
STC H.E Tancred Stakes), Laelia (Adelaide Cup), Laebeel
(second Caulfield Cup), Larry’s Never Late (Launceston
Cup, third Queensland Derby), Military Plume (VRC Australian
Guineas) and Monaco Consul (2009 Victoria Derby, AJC
Champion Stakes), Legion has approximately100 possible
runners in his first two crops.
Double
of Sir Tristram to produce the best Bianconi
BIANCONI, the Swettenham Stud, Nagambie,
Victoria Danzig sire currently riding high as the source
of crack sprinter Nicconi and as Victoria’s leader
by earnings and numbers, has very limited use over mares
carrying in their breeding one of the most prepotent
Australasian influences in history, Sir Tristram. One
of the few has been Posy, the daughter of the Sir Tristram
sire Marauding who produced to Bianconi the good galloper
Mr Martini, winner of the MVRC Bill Stutt Stakes and
STC Kingston Town Stakes.
No Bianconi product, however, has
had as much exposure in its breeding to Sir Tristram
as a colt born September 22, 2008 who is in the consignment
from Adam Sangster’s Swettenham stud to the Magic
Millions Adelaide yearling sale due to be held on March
9 and 10. One of the first Bianconis bred by Adam following
his taking over the ownership of the stud after the
death of his father Robert Sangster, the yearling is
inbred to Sir Tristram 4x4 and on top of this is from
a family that has had outstanding success with him.
Bianconi got the colt as the first
foal of Ellexcell, a winning daughter of the Zabeel
Horse of the Year and Lonhro’s sire Octagonal
and Tamarind Tree, a mare by another superior transmitter
of excellence, Last Tycoon. She was from Les Lilas,
a winning sister by Sir Tristram to four Patrick Hogan
bred stakes winners, Grosvenor (champion racehorse and
prominent sire), National Gallery (won the Western Australian
Derby, second Victoria Derby), Kyrie Eleison (won the
Manawatu Breeders’ Stakes; second Great Northern
Oaks) and Garfunkel.
In addition the yearling’s
dam has relationship with Horse of the Year and budding
sire giant Lonhro. He is by Octagonal and from dual
Group1 juvenile second Shadea, a half-sister to Les
Lilas.
The yearling is one of nine by Bianconi
in the Adelaide catalogue, but the only one on account
of Swettenham.They have, however, six other lots –
two each - by other proven Swettenham sires in Dash
for Cash (MRC Futurity Stakes and VRC Australian Guineas
winner by Secret Savings), Hold That Tiger (European
champion juvenile by Storm Cat) and Keep the Faith (Australian
bred son of Sunday Silence who followed dashing wins
here by setting a new American grass track record for
six furlongs in one of his three outings in that country).
Tipped to be a bigtime sire in the
future, Keep the Faith has got off to a good start with
his first crop, current 2-year-olds, including the David
Hayes trained unbeaten colt In Faith. He won by 2.3
lengths at Morphettville in January on debut and then
by 4.25 lengths at Moonee Valley on February 13.
In Faith is inbred 4x3 to another
giant of breeding in Danzig.The same Danzig dosage is
in one of the Swettenham Keep the Faith yearlings, a
September 10 foaled colt out of the Sydney winner Brittany
Miss.
The other Swettenham Keep the Faith
also has a strong pedigree. A half-brother to Brisbane
winner Martha’s Vineyard, he is from Roya Jama,
a winner by Royal Academy out of Sajama, a half-sister
by Bletchingly to Skybeau, a triple Group 3 winner,
Adelaide Cup second and Melbourne Cup third.
All told there are nine by Keep the
Faith in the 369 lot Adelaide catalogue with the others
being offspring of Danehill, Fairy King, Canadian Silver,
Zeditave, Rory’s Jester, Soviet Lad and Danzero.
Strawberry
flavoured American track record setter
QUALITY ROAD, the 4-year-old colt
who lowered his own track record for nine furlongs (1800m)
from1:47.72 to 1:47.49 when he thundered to a spectacular
12.8 lengths win in the $500,000 Group1 Donn Handicap
at Gulfstream Park, Florida,USA last month, is by Darley
shuttled Elusive Quality and from Kobla, a daughter
of Strawberry Road, one of Australia’s greatest
overseas equine ambassadors.
A modestly bred horse got at Braidwood,NSW
by the Nijinsky sire Whiskey Road, Strawberry Road followed
up 1983 Australian Horse of the Year honours and wins
in the AJC Derby, Queensland Derby, Cox Plate and Rosehill
Guineas by winning Group1 races in France and Germany
and at Group 2 level in America. In addition he was
placed in America in four Group1s, the Breeders’
Cup Turf, Washington International, Turf Classic and
San Luis Rey Stakes.
Strawberry Road went on to prove
one of the most successful Australian bred northern
hemisphere sires from his use at Brookside Farm, Kentucky.
He supplied 255 winners, over 80% of his runners, of
1058 races and US$28million.
His 37 stakes winners included six
Group1 winners. One of them, Ajina, was champion filly
at three and winner through her career of seven races,
including in three Group1s, the Breeders’ Cup
Distaff, CC American Oaks and Mother Goose Stakes. She
is the dam of three winners but none of them have been
anywhere near as good as Quality Road, a product of
her sister Kobla. This mare won one race and earned
US$1,080, money that is a vast difference to the US$1.05million
she made as an in foal mare at a Keeneland sale in1999.
She was bought by Quality Road’s breeder and owner
Edward Evans.
Although she is the dam of Quality
Road, Kobla has been a poor investment, producing only
five foals in nine years and two winners, the other
failing to get black type. Evans, however, has gained
solace in Quality Road, the result of her seventh breeding
season, as he is one of the most brilliant middle distance
performers in America at this time.
So far Quality Road has raced nine
times for six wins (five stakes) and three minor places
and has set three track records, appearances in the
Donn Handicap, Florida Derby (also nine furlongs at
Gulfstream Park) and Group 2 Amsterdam Stakes (6.5 furlongs
Saratoga).
Quality Road appears first class
sire material because of not only his racing class but
in depth breeding. Himself setter of a world record
on grass for a mile and of a track record for seven
furlongs at Gulfstream Park, his sire Elusive Quality,
a son of Mr. Prospector’s Gone West, visited Australia
from America six times, 2003-08. So far he has supplied
96 winners in his first three Australian crops. Six
stakes winners and five stakes placed performers have
included six out of Danehill mares.
His biggest Australian results could
be ahead as he had173 mares in 2007 and119 on his last
visit, 2008.
At Darley in Kentucky, Elusive Quality
(fee $75,000) has over 50 American stakes winners, headed
by Smarty Jones (champion at three, won Kentucky Derby,
Preakness Stakes), Raven’s Pass (champion at three
England, winner American Breeders’ Cup Classic;
set new course record in England at two at seven furlongs),
Maryfield (American champion sprinter) and Elusive City
(a leading European 2-year-old). For 2009 his American
sired progeny included111 winners (14 in 21 stakes)
and earners of US$5.8million.
There are at least 15 sons of Elusive
Quality at stud, including Smarty Jones, Raven’s
Pass and Elusive City. The latter shuttles from France
to Haunui Farm in New Zealand and has had stakes winners
in both hemispheres.
Elusive Quality’s track record
setting son Quality Road is not only a descendant of
Mr. Prospector in male line but he is also a relation
to this world super progenitor. Kobla and his champion
sister Ajina were got by Strawberry Road from Winglet,
a Group 2 winning half-sister by Alydar (by Mr. Prospector’s
sire Raise a Native) to the now deceased Jugah, a Northern
Dancer sire of good winners from use in Victoria. Winglet’s
fourth dam Durazna was a three-quarter sister to the
third dam of Mr. Prospector.
Quality Road’s maternal grandsire
Strawberry Road is the sire of the dams of some 444
winners, 66 successful at stakes level.The latter include
the Australian winners All American, Crimson Reign,
Newtown Jet, Tippitaka and Strawberry Storm and in New
Zealand Danroad.
Quality Road’s sire Elusive
Quality has one yearling in the Magic Millions Adelaide
sale next week, a powerfully bred filly on account of
Lindsay Park. Inbred 4x4x4 to Northern Dancer, it is
from Siberie, an Ireland bred daughter of Caerleon (by
Nijinsky) and Russian Snows, a Sadler’s Wells
Group 2 winner and Irish Oaks second from an Irish One
Thousand Guineas winner, Arctique Royale.
3/3/2010 Market continues
to build in Melbourne
Led by an improved clearance rate,
the 2010 Melbourne Premier Sale continued to evolve
at a rapid rate, with two $400,000 Redoute’s Choice
yearlings highlighting another strong session of trading
today.
Gross receipts topped $10million today,
as another 132 yearlings sold at an average of $78,924.
It brought the sale total to just
short of $20million at an average of $74,019.
The progressive average is now 35%
higher than the figure achieved 12 months ago.
The clearance rate had reached 79%
by this afternoon, helped by a number of horses passed
in yesterday selling today.
“While the results are a positive
reflection on the state of the market, they are also
a glowing endorsement for the growth and internationalisation
of the Melbourne Premier Sale,” Inglis Managing
Director Mark Webster said.
No less than eight yearlings topped
the $200,000 mark today, with Encosta De Lago, Fastnet
Rock, Choisir and Flying Spur contributing to that tally.
Bellerive Stud’s Redoute’s
Choice filly from the New Zealand Group 2 winner Maze
was the early pacesetter today, knocked down to Bill
Mitchell (pictured with the filly) for $400,000.
That figure was matched when Dean
Hawthorne secured Arrowfield’s Redoute’s
Choice colt from the US-bred mare Oceanette.
Late in the session, Torryburn Stud’s
Choisir three-quarter-sister to Chance Bye fetched $200,000
to the bid of McDonald Racing.
The Sale continues from 11am tomorrow
and will be broadcast on Inglis Sale Day Live with Online
Bidding in operation throughout the day.
All lots passed in during today’s
session are available via the Inglis Make an Offer service.
Statistics: Day 2
Sold: 132 (78%)
Gross: $10,418,000
Average: $78,924
Highest Lot: (Lots 254 & 300)
$400,000
Overall Sale Statistics
Sold: 267 (79%)
Passed In: 73 (21%)
Gross: $19,763,000
Average: $74,019
Median: $60,000
Highest Lot: (Lots 254 & 300)
$400,000
2/3/2010 Manhattan Rain
retired to stud
Glamour colt Manhattan Rain has been retired to stud.
Arrowfield Stud has secured the colt to stand alongside
his half-brother, champion sire Redoute's Choice after
an 11-start career which yielded two wins and seven placings
with prizemoney of $1,311,200.
"Manhattan Rain is a lightly-raced
Group I winner by a champion Stallion out of a champion
Broodmare," Messara said.
"His half brother Redoute's Choice
is an outstanding success at stud and we are delighted
that Mr Yaseen has seen fit to place this colt's stud
career in Arrowfield's care."
2/3/2010 Entries for National
sale close Friday
Entries close on Friday for the Southern
Hemisphere's premier breeding stock sale - the Magic
Millions National Sale.
To be held from late May and through
June on the Gold Coast, the National Sale will present
buyers with a first class line up of stock.
At last year's auction previous National
Yearling Sale graduate Princess Coup was sold for a
Magic Millions record price of $3 million.
Weanling sale graduates in recent
seasons have included the likes of Swiss Act and Murtajill.
At last year's sale Russeting was
purchased for $300,000 as a racing and breeding prospect.
At her next start she won the Group One Winter Stakes.
Magic Millions Managing Director David
Chester said the sale would offer breeders and vendors
the opportunity to sell horses of all ages - from weanlings
through to proven broodmares.
"This sale has quickly established
itself as one of the most important in the Southern
Hemisphere."
"Anyone wanting more information
about the National Sale should contact our bloodstock
department as a matter of priority," Chester said.
Entry forms can be downloaded from
the Magic Millions website.
2/3/2010 Market stong at
Melbourne Premier opener
The 2010 Melbourne Premier Sale commenced
strongly today, with the opening day’s trade up
$2million on the corresponding session from 12 months
ago.
More than $9million was traded during
today’s session, with the average of $71,488 representing
a 30% rise on the opening session last year. The median
of $60,000 was a 33% gain on 2009.
Victorian based buyers found themselves
competing with a strong contingent of interstate investors,
with the buying bench bolstered further by representatives
from Japan, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore and South
Africa, who were successful on some of the day’s
higher priced lots.
Mick Price teamed with Blue Sky Thoroughbreds
to secure the day’s top priced yearling (pictured),
a grey Exceed And Excel colt for $300,000. Offered by
Three Bridges Thoroughbreds, the colt is the first foal
from G2 VRC Sires Produce winner De Lago Mist from the
family of Wanted and Blue Sky’s impressive G3
winning two-year-old Shrapnel.
McDonald Racing went to $200,000 to
purchase Burnewang North Pastoral’s Stratum filly
from Spinning World’s Group 2 Edward Manifold
Stakes winning daughter Coupe.
“The day one clearance of 74.12%
has been comparable to the sales conducted so far this
year,” said Inglis Bloodstock Director Peter Heagney.
“The rise in average is exceptional
but there is still a lot of selling ahead of us.”
Top buyers on the opening day were
Denise Martin with 5 lots at $585,000, Guy Mulcaster
Bloodstock (3 lots for $330,000); Robbie Griffiths (5
lots for $350,000) and Ricky Yiu (3 lots for $330,000).
The Sale continues from 11am tomorrow
and will be broadcast on Inglis Sale Day Live with Online
Bidding in operation throughout the day.
All lots passed in during today’s
session are available via the Inglis Make an Offer service.
Day 1, Session 1 Statistics
Catalogued: 185
Withdrawn: 15
Sold: 126 (74%)
Passed In 44 (26%)
Gross Amount:$9,007,500
Highest Lot: (Lot 86) $300,000
Average: $71,488
Median: $60,000
2/3/2010 Red
Ransom’s typhoon of influence boosts Vinery stud’s
sire choice
RED RANSOM’S influence for excellence
was in typhonic proportions in late February and in
being so has endorsed the judgement of the Vinery stud,
Segenhoe Valley, Scone management in choosing one of
his Group1 winning sons, Onemorenomore, to fill the
void left in their stallion yards by his death last
November.
On Saturday in particular, Red Ransom
enjoyed a red letter day through his descendants with
the chief banner waver being his awesome 4-year-old
daughter Typhoon Tracy. Bred on Vinery for her owners,
Gold Coast based Hutchins Bloodstock, the Peter Moody,
Caulfield trained mare moved to nine wins from12 appearances
when she thumped her opponents in the small field that
contested the Group1 Futurity (1600m) on the home track.
It was her third Group1 win in successive outings.
The success Typhoon Tracy embellished
the credentials of Onemorenomore, a lightly raced winner
of the AJC Champagne Stakes, T.L. Baillieu Handicap,
second in the MRC Norman Robinson Stakes, third in the
AJC George Main Stakes, Breeders’ Plate, STC Silver
and fourth in the AJC Sires’ Produce Stakes and
Up and Coming Stakes, in more ways than one.They are
both by Red Ransom and out of mares by Last Tycoon,
a sire who had a short stint at Vinery when it was known
as Segenhoe. Segenhoe Breeding Venture bred Tracy’s
Element, the dam of Typhoon Tracy.
A son of world class sire Roberto
and a Damascus mare and an outcross for Danehill, Danzig
and Northern Dancer, Red Ransom also made a big contribution
on Saturday to the breeding of two juvenile stakes winners,
but in different directions. He is the sire Rouge Femme,
the dam of the bargain Classic sale yearling Chance
Bye, a first crop colt by Snitzel who kept up his unbeaten
record with a dominating win in the $200,000 Silver
Slipper at Rosehill Gardens, and of Charge Forward,
the sire of second crop runner Shrapnel, the winner
at Adelaide’s Morphettville of the $100,000 Breeders’
Stakes. Both Snitzel, a Redoute’s Choice Oakleigh
Plate and Challenge Stakes winner, and Charge Forward,
annexer of the Galaxy and San Domenico and a short neck
second in the Golden Slipper, are at Arrowfield, a short
drive away from Vinery.
Shrapnel, a colt bred by Ron Gilbert’s
Highgrove Stud, Darling Downs and raced by him with
Arrowfield Pastoral and Blue Sky Thoroughbreds, is from
Fragmentation, a daughter of Snippets, the sire also
of the dam of Snitzel.
The Snippets influence could also
do well in the future with Vinery’s new acquisition
Onemorenomore. He was to have stood at his racing owner
Nathan Tinkler’s nearby Patinack Farm, but keen
to have Red Ransom in their sire complex, Vinery have
acquired controlling interest.
Charge Forward, a sire whose oldest
are three, is one of two promising young Red Ransom
sires in NSW, firing. Represented by first crop 2-year-olds,
the other is Domesday, a winner of the Silver Slipper
and a Golden Slipper fifth standing on a low fee at
Darley, Cootamundra.
Domesday had four metropolitan runners
in late February suggest he has the potential to be
a good sire.They were Pressday (followed up two dashing
trial wins at Rosehill Gardens with a 1.8 lengths debut
win on Randwick’s Kensington circuit on Friday),
Giresun (debut winner Warwick Farm February 17), Backgammon
(came back from a win at Flemington on December 19 to
be fourth at Rosehill Gardens on February 20 at his
second start) and Divorces (followed a nose debut second
at Rosehill Gardens on October 31 with a luckless fourth
in Saturday’s Silver Slipper – missed the
start and well back for most of the trip).
Two other Australian bred Red Ransom
sires who have met with success recently have been Markane
(a three-quarter brother to Onemorenomore standing at
Eureka stud, Cambooya, Qld) and Face Value (Lindsay
Park, Angaston, Vic). Eureka is also home for Red Dazzler,
a Red Ransom high class Australian1600m performer whose
oldest are yearlings. He has 22 lots booked into the
Queensland breeders yearling sale at the Gold Coast
on March 21 and 22. Also in the catalogue are 19 by
Markane and two by Charge Forward.
Good
alternatives to Danehill Dancer at Adelaide sale
DANEHILL Dancer, the Danehill Coolmore
Ireland bred sire who has been very effective in Australia
and Europe, hasn’t any 2010 yearlings here, because
he missed the 2007 season through the equine influenza
epidemic, but good alternatives could be found at the
Magic Millions Adelaide sale on March 9 and 10 through
progeny of Choisir and Churchill Downs.
The Australian world class sprinter
who supplied this year’s Oakleigh Plate winner
Starspangledbanner, the Coolmore shuttled Choisir is
a son of Ireland bred Danehill Dancer and newcomer Churchill
Downs is an Australian bred on similar lines to him.
Both are by Danehill and Churchill Downs is from a mare
by Diesis, a very good influence by Sharpen Up, the
sire of the dam of Danehill Dancer.
Although Danehill Dancer was one
of the best juveniles in Europe in his year,Churchill
Downs, a resident with another top Danehill with yearlings
in the Adelaide catalogue, Elvstroem, at Blue Gum Farm,
Euroa, Vic may have been more brilliant. He won the
MVRC Bill Stutt Stakes and AJC Widden Stakes, finished
second in the Gold Coast Magic Millions 2YO Classic,
third in the Golden Slipper and Ascot Vale Stakes and
fourth in the Caulfield Guineas.
One of the Churchill Downs Adelaide
yearlings, a colt on account of Eliza Park, Vic, is
inbred 2x3 to Danehill, the dam being a good class New
Zealand performer by Danasinga.The others listed are
progeny of mares by Red Ransom, Canny Lad, Century,
Quick Score (half-brother to Snippets), Jeune, Baryshnikov
(half-brother to Zabeel), Lake Coniston (by Bluebird),
Jetball (by Marscay), Bellotto (Mr. Prospector) and
Military Plume.
Two nice fillies by Choisir catalogued
are the second foal of the Jeune Adelaide dual Listed
winner Prancelot and one that is a three-quarter sister
to Go Cart, a Danehill Dancer winner of eight races,
including three Listed events. They are both from Cubicle,
a Scenic mare who was a winner and black type money
earner in Adelaide.
Cubicle is a relation of the Vinery
stud based Testa Rossa, a winner of six Group1 races
and a popular sire who contributes six yearlings to
the Adelaide catalogue.They include progeny of two Woodman
mares and one each by Flying Spur and Royal Academy.
All the Testa Rossa yearlings are
on account of the Baramul Stud, Widden Valley. Supplying
15 lots all told with the others including progeny of
Hussonet, General Nediym, Mossman, Stratum and Foreplay,
Baramul is owned by Gerry Harvey, also one of the owners
of the Vinery stud and the Magic Millions Sales company.
A feature of the Adelaide sale is
the solid contribution from prominent Victorian studs,
including the mammoth Eliza Park (19 lots, including
progeny of Barely a Moment, Churchill Downs, Elvstroem,
Clangalang, Written Tycoon), Caithness Breeding (14
lots, including Churchill Downs, God’s Own, Keep
the Faith, Dane Shadow, Bel Esprit), Erinvale Thoroughbreds
(11, Bel Esprit, God’s Own, Artie Schiller, Seidnazar,
Dubai Destination), Grange Thoroughbreds (9, Hussonet,
Gonski, Niello, Don Eduardo, Court of Jewels), Chatswood
Stud (7, including five by Lonhro’s Group1 winning
younger brother Niello), Oakford Farm (8, Churchill
Downs, Gonski, Niello, Keep the Faith) and Swettenham
Stud (8, by resident sires Bianconi, Dash for Cash,
Hold That Tiger and Keep the Faith).
The biggest consignment for the Adelaide
sale is 32 lots on account of the Hayes family’s
Lindsay Park.They include progeny of their young Australian
bred and performed sires Barely a Moment (Gilded Time
– Lady Danna, by Danehill) and Face Value (Red
Ransom – Freckled Face, by Polish Patriot).
A triple Group1 winner and a Caulfield
Guineas second, Barely a Moment has 36 second crop yearlings
in the 369 lot catalogue, while Face Value, a winner
of four sprints and also second in the Caulfield Guineas,
has 15 from his third season of use.
Other South Australian contributors with six or more
are Ducatoon Park (14, including offspring of Aussie
Rules, Churchill Downs, Barely a Moment, Snitzel), Inman
Valley Stud (7, Bel Esprit, Written Tycoon, Face Value,
Danbird, Magic Albert, Delago Brom), Kambula Stud (6,
Blevic, Barely a Moment, Face Value, Snippetson, Zeditave),
Kia Glen Stud (10, Face Value, Bianconi, Real Jester,
Gonski, Dubai Destination, Lion Heart, Arazi, Artie
Schiller), Kirkliston Stud (13, Barely a Moment, Niello,
Bianconi, Not a Single Doubt, Keep the Faith, Foreplay),
Little Hills Pastoral Company (8, Barely a Moment, Real
Jester, Domesday), Meadow Park Stud (6, Zeditave, Bel
Danoro, Fraar, Delago Brom, Chateau Istana), Mill Park
Stud (9, Mossman, Bel Esprit, King Cugat, Dubai Destination,
Danerich, Umatilla), Oakside Park (12, 11 by Akhadan,
a Danehill sire of 95 winners), Riva Ridge Stud (7,
Written Tycoon, Face Value, Strategic, Gonski, Not a
Single Doubt), Riverside Stud (17, including five by
the young Gone West sire Mugharreb), Somerset Park Stud
(6, Gonski, Not a Single Doubt, Barely a Moment, Snippetson,
Bel Esprit) and Willow Grove Stud (12, including nine
by Mugharreb).
Sires with eight or more Adelaide
yearlings are Akhadan (12), Artie Schiller 8), Barely
a Moment (36), Bel Esprit (14), Bianconi (9), Churchill
Downs (11), Danerich (11), Dash for Cash (15), Face
Value (15), Gonski (14), Keep the Faith (9), Mugharreb
(19), Niello (14) and Written Tycoon (8). The bulk of
the yearlings are in Breeders Schemes and all are eligible
for the rich rewards available through the Magic Millions
sales incentives.
A grand look for Jazz Heart’s
half-sister
STAN LESZCZEWICZ, the North Queensland
breeding and owning enthusiast who enjoyed success in
February with his fleetfooted Show a Heart performer
Jazz Heart scoring at the Sunshine Coast and then Doomben,
could help establish a new Queensland sire as a good
winner getter through the gelding’s half-sister.
The sire is Hotel Grand, the lightly
raced Grand Lodge winner of the AJC Champion Stakes
and Randwick Guineas who stands at the Kevin Dixon established
Racetree stud, a near neighbour of Glenlogan Park, the
home for Show a Heart and Falvelon.
They are the two sires who between
them handled the previous five matings for Jazz Heart’s
dam, the Danzero winner Bluedanu.This use resulted in
four foals, the Show a Heart winners Jazz Heart and
Blushow and the Falvelon colts Waltz With You (current
2yo) and Cosmo Xiang Gang (3yo, sold to Japan at the
Gold Coast yearling sale for $120,000).
Besides Jazz Heart, Stan Leszczewicz,
the owner of a panel beating business at the fair northern
city of Cairns and not Townsville as reported after
Jazz Heart’s win at Doomben on February 20, has
retained Blushow. She had her first foal, a Falvelon
colt, last September, but was then sent along with her
mother Bluedanu to the Hunter Valley for 2009 servicing.
Blushow went to Not a Single Doubt at Arrowfield and
Bluedanu was one of the spectacular book of 198 mares
looked after in his first season by the Widden stud
based Encosta de Lago VRC Ascot Vale Stakes winner and
Randwick and Canterbury track record setter Northern
Meteor.
Bluedanu is a Brisbane juvenile winner
and Listed stakes second bred on the attractive pattern
of the Danehill Golden Slipper winner Danzero over a
good Adelaide winner, Suburban Blues. She was from Residential
Status, a half-sister to Demus, winner of the VRC Lightning
Stakes and sire of 235 winners.
The Hotel Grand – Bluedanu
yearling is not booked into 2010 sales, but buyers at
the Queensland breeders QTIS series to be conducted
by Magic Millions at the Gold Coast on March on Sunday
and Monday March 21 and 22 have a good selection from
this top sire prospect’s first crop including
some bred on similar lines.
The nineteen yearlings by Hotel Grand
in the catalogue includes offspring of mares by Danzero,
Danehill (two), Anabaa, Encosta de Lago, Zabeel, Thunder
Gulch (Kentucky Derby winner by Mr. Prospector), Rory’s
Jester, Iglesia, Marauding, Dehere and Beautiful Crown.
Already established as a good source
winners from the inaugural QTIS sale held last year,
the Hotel Grand yearlings and the others in the 462
lot catalogue can be expected to sell at real good value
prices. All the yearlings are eligible for the rich
rewards flowing from the Queensland Racing incentives
and Magic Millions race program.
Hidden
Dragon gelding king of North Queensland kids
STEEL DRAGON, a first crop gelding
by the Lyndhurst Stud, Warwick Danehill sire Hidden
Dragon suggested again on Thursday that he is the North
Queensland king of the kids when he romped to 3.3 lengths
win at Townsville. Carrying top weight of 59.0 kgs in
the 12 runner field, he scooted over the 1000m in 0.57.80
and a last 600m in 0.33.88.
The effort meant that the Ray Long
trained Steel Dragon retained his unbeaten record. He
has run three times for three wins at Townsville, succeeding
narrowly on debut on September 6 and then returning
from a spell to score by 2.5 lengths on February 4,
taking 57.42 for the 1000m.
Knocked down to one of his two owners,
G. Nicolls, for $20,000 at the January yearling sales
conducted by Magic Millions at the Gold Coast, for $20,000,
where he was sold through Bileena Stud, Warwick for
breeder M. Hemmings, Steel Dragon is the third winner
from the four foals to race out of Vo Gold, a Volksraad
winner of seven races. The pedigree contains a 3x4 inbreeding
to Danehill’s sire Danzig.
Steel Dragon’s effort at Townsville
on Thursday was followed by two good performances by
first crop offspring of Hidden Dragon, a Danehill winner
of six races in Hong Kong and Group1 placed, in the15-runner
juvenile event at Eagle Farm on Saturday.
Each of them appearing for the second
time and following up debut thirds in Brisbane, the
Hidden Dragon contestants were the winner, the Robert
Heathcote trained filly Hidden Kisses, and fourth placed
I’llbetricked, a David Lawlor prepared gelding.
Hidden Kisses, a filly from a mare
bred on a cross of two Eureka Park used sires, Piccolo
and Semipalatinsk, was the second Brisbane winner by
Hidden Dragon during February, the other being Huff
and Puff. Also trained by Lawlor, he won by 1.3 lengths
at Eagle Farm on February 13.
Hidden Dragon has 34 second crop
yearlings in the catalogue for the QTIS 600 Yearling
sale to be conducted by Magic Millions at the Gold Coast
on March 21 and 22, including offspring of mares by
Sequalo, Canny Lad, Dehere, Flying Spur, Octagonal,
Luskin Star, Sir Tristram, Quest for Fame, Fusaichi
Pegasus, Tale of the Cat, Celestial Dancer, Jetball
and Air Express. The line up includes 23 from the Lyndhurst
stud, consignors of a total of 41 lots.
Old
age no impediment to sire success
BOTH Not a Pretender, winner at Caulfield
on Saturday of the $250,000 Inglis Premier for 2-year-olds
who graduated from the Inglis Melbourne yearling sales,
and her sire Royal Academy are examples that old age
need not be an impediment to success. Not a Pretender,
a runner for Nathan Tinkler’s Patinack Farm, was
foaled when Royal Academy was 20 and he himself was
produced when his sire NIjinsky was the same age and
his dam was 18.
Now 23, Royal Academy has been a
resident for the last three years at Coolmore in the
Hunter Valley and before that shuttled out to this stud
on12 occasions. He did not visit in 2000 and 2001, instead
spending the southern hemisphere seasons in Brazil.
A very talented racehorse who won
four of seven starts, including the American Breeders’
Cup Mile and Newmarket July Cup (a top English sprint)
and finished second in the Irish Two Thousand Guineas,
Royal Academy has supplied world wide1720 starters spread
over 27 countries for 1152 winners of 2840 races (290
stakes) and over $133million.
His Australian sired contribution
adds up to approximately 440 winners of 1000 races and
$40million.The most outstanding runner in Australia
has been Bel Esprit, now a prominent sire from his use
at Eliza Park, Kerrie, Victoria.
Royal Academy is one of two surviving
sons of Nijinsky, a Northern Dancer world champion racehorse
who was born in1967 and who died at 25 in1992, in the
Hunter Valley. Produced when Nijinsky was 23, the other
is Humam and he is at Pine Lodge, Scone.
The small number of Nijinsky sires
still living around the world also includes Sky Classic,
a North American champion juvenile and turf performer
who is from a mare by Nodouble, a son of the exported
Australian Horse of the Year Noholme. Foaled the same
year as Royal Academy, Sky Classic has had over 400
winners (57 stakes winners) of 1500 races and US$45million.
He stands the 2010 season in Kentucky on $10,000.
Sale
of in foal mare cost Bob Lapointe Snippets
BOB LAPOINTE, the entrepreneur who
bought Kentucky Fried Chicken to Australia, has put
his highly regarded spelling and pre-training centre
Muskoka Farm up river from Wiseman’s Ferry, near
Sydney on the market.
Active in racing and breeding for
over 30 years, Bob Lapointe had the misfortune to take
advice in 1984 that a young mare he owned with the late
Bob Logan wasn’t good enough and they sold at
the Scone sales for $5,000.
Named Easy Date, she was carrying
a foal at that time who became Snippets, a champion
Australian racehorse, top sire of winners from use at
the Arrowfield Stud and a major influence through his
daughters.
His strength as a broodmare sire
was demonstrated on Saturday by his daughters being
the dams of the winners of three feature juvenile races.The
winners were Chance Bye, the Snitzel filly successful
in the Silver Slipper; Shrapnel, the Charge Forward
colt who took out the $100,000 Breeders’ Stakes
at Adelaide’s Morphettville; and Crystal Lily,
the Stratum winner of the $100,000 Chairman’s
Stakes at Caulfield.
The winners by Snitzel, an Oakleigh
Plate winner standing at Arrowfield, and Stratum, a
Redoute’s Choice Golden Slipper winner at the
Widden stud, are both in their first crops, while Shrapnel
is in the second batch by Arrowfield based Charge Forward,
an AJC Galaxy winner and Golden Slipper second by Red
Ransom.
Geelong
winner thrills Scone race club boss
SCONE Race Club secretary Helen Sinclair
got a big thrill out of a winner over a1000 kms away
on Saturday.The reason for her joy was the fact that
the winner, the 5-year-old Catbird gelding Monkeys was
bred and is owned and trained by her daughter Elizabeth
Grocott, a horsewoman who grew up in Scone and who was
for a time foreman in Sydney for Bart Cummings.
Elizabeth has recently established
at Mornington, but has only one horse in her stables,
Monkeys. He has raced twice for her for a sound second
at Terang on February 15 and then the win (1741m) at
Geelong on Saturday.
Earlier in the hands of two different
trainers in Sydney and coming back in February from
seven months spell, the problem restricted Monkeys has
raced only13 times to date with his earlier campaigns
including a win at Kembla Grange and seconds at Newcastle
and Hawkesbury.
He is a half-brother to three winners,
including Cinque Cento, a Nothin ‘ Leica Dane
filly who won the Doomben Cup, SAJC Queen of the South
Stakes and BTC Doomben Roses and finished second in
the Queensland Oaks, and Dothis Dothat, a Commands gelding
who won several races in Sydney and finished second
in the Parramatta Cup.
All were bred by the Elizabeth Grocott,
owner under Scone Racing & Breeding Syndicate of
Cinque Cento until she was a late 4-year-old. She was
sold then for $255,000 to Turangga Stud, Scone owner
Stuart Ramsey at the 2006 Magic Millions National Broodmare
sale and won the Doomben Cup and Queen of the South
for him the following year.
Now in the high quality Turangga
broodmare band, Cinque Cento had her first foal, a More
Than Ready colt, in August last year and could have
an early one by Hussonet next spring.
Laydown Misere, the dam of Cinque
Cento, died at the Yarraman Park Stud, Scone in November
2008 shortly after producing an Elvstroem filly for
Grocott. She also had a filly in 2007 by Al Maher and
a colt in 2006 by Flying Spur.
She has an impressive production
record for a mare that cost Grocott only $600 at the1999
Inglis Easter Thoroughbred sale. A minor winner at two,
Laydown Misere was by the Mr. Prospector sire Varick
and from Coral, a daughter of Sackford.
2/3/2010 First
Stakes winner for Mr Nancho
The Mike and Paul Moroney-trained Nacho Man (NZ) became
the first stakes winner for his sire Mr. Nancho on Saturday
when he served it up to his rivals in the Listed Waikato
Stud Slipper (1200m) at Matamata.
Scoring his second win from just three career starts,
the imposing two-year-old gelding powered away from the
field entering the home straight, kicking clear in the
hands of Craig Grylls to score by two-and-a-half-lengths
at the line.
Sirrio (NZ) (Captain Rio) ran into second for trainer
Lance Noble, whilst Mr Spock finished in third position
a head away.
Bred by Stoney Bridge Thoroughbred Ltd, Nacho Man (NZ)
was purchased by Tom and Shelly Murtagh of Esker Lodge
at the 2009 Karaka Festival Sale for $27,000. Interestingly
Nacho Man had been identified as a “stand-out “colt
in Paul Moroney’s catalogue, so the Matamata-based
bloodstock agent and trainer approached the Murtaghs to
train him.
“I had filled my buying orders and didn’t
have the money to buy him, but thankfully they gave him
to us to train” Moroney reported after the race.
Nacho Man (NZ) will now head to the
Group I Manawatu Sires' Produce Stakes, at Awapuni on
April 3.
Mr Nancho, a winner of the Gr.1 Palermo Gran Premio
Palermo (1600m) in Argentina, stood at Stoney Bridge
in 2009 at a fee of $5,000 + GST
2/3/2010 New
black type winner for Keeper
Keeper’s prominence with his
current three-year-old crop continued at Riccarton Park
on Saturday when the Richard Collett-trained The Beekeeper
(Keeper ex The Minder, by Personal Escort) took out
the Listed Southland Guineas (1600m).
The Beekeeper is one of a trio of
new stakeswinners amongst Keeper’s current 3YO
crop; the others being Keep the Peace (WRC Desert Gold
Stakes-Gr.3) and St Germaine (Hawkes Bay Gold Trail
Stakes-Gr.3).Another of that 3YO crop for Keeper to
shine this season is Finderskeepers, who has been placed
second in the Avondale Guineas-Gr.2 and Sarten Memorial-LR.
Cambridge Stud’s Keeper now
has an individual black type tally of 14; ten of which
are Group winners. His progeny has had 96 winners in
NZ; 27 in Australia and have also tasted success in
Hong Kong (12), Singapore (9), Korea (4), Macau (3),
Phillippines (2), Malaysia (1) and South Africa (1).
Keeper is the sire of three Group
One winners; namely Linky Dink, Insouciant and Keepa
Cruisin.
1/3/2010 Young South Australian
sires on fire as sale approaches
Exciting young South Australian based
sires Barely a Moment and Mugharreb have hit form on
the eve of their home based sale with their progeny
starring on tracks back at home and abroad.
Willow Grove Stud based second season
sire Mugharreb continued his great run with a pair of
impressive winners over the weekend headlined by the
outstanding Singapore prospect Black Ice.
A member of the red hot Steven Burridge
stable, Black Ice made it two wins from as many starts
at Kranji when he powered home for a brilliant win on
Friday night.
At his racetrack debut a couple of
weeks earlier the likely type scored a similar brilliant
win, coming from off the speed and racing clear.
Burridge said Black Ice was a progressive
young galloper who looked set to make more of an impact
in Singapore in the weeks and months to come.
On Sunday at Balaklava the promising
Lloyd Kennewell trained three-year-old Single Command
continued the Mugharreb run when successful over 1050
metres.
A son of Gone West, Mugharreb now
has ten individual winners from just 23 starters - and
his first runner outside of Australia is unbeaten in
two runs and looks one of the region's more progressive
youngsters.
Meanwhile, former star galloper Barely
a Moment continued his bright start at stud with a second
impressive first crop winner.Promising two-year-old
Life is a Cabernet, a $23,000 purchase from last year's
Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale, led home a quinella
result for her sire when successful at Balaklava on
Sunday.
In beating the rest of the juvenile
field by four and a half lengths, Life is a Cabernet
and runner-up Fleet Riane impressed top trainer David
Hayes.
Hayes will see how the winner pulls
up but is looking at running the filly in the upcoming
$200,000 Magic Millions Adelaide 2YO Classic (1200m)
on March 8.
The upcoming 2010 Magic Millions Adelaide
Yearling Sale will present the best line up of yearlings
by both Mugharreb and Barely a Moment to go under the
hammer this year.
The Lindsay Park Stud based Barely
a Moment has 36 yearlings catalogued including a half
brother to top Sydney galloper Voice Commander and a
half sister to Guineas winner Reigning Belle.
There are 19 youngsters by Mugharreb
set to go under the hammer at the two day sale on March
9 and 10.
28/2/2010 Chatswood Stud
announces new stallions
Chatswood Stud is thrilled to announce the addition of
two new stallions to our roster for 2010, joining Rakti,
Neillo, Primus and Racer's Edge is:
Amadeus Wolf
Group 1 winner of 1200m Middle Park
Stakes at Newmarket as a 2YO
Group 2 winner of Duke of York Stakes at York defeating
four Group 1 winners. This race also won by leading
Sires Invincible Spirit and Indian Ridge
By Mozart, Danehill?s fastest son and sire of 8 Stakes
Winners from his first and only crop
Joint 3rd highest rated 2YO in Europe and rated 122
by Timeform
Masterpiece
Group 1 winner of 7 races from 1200m
to 1700m
By More Than Ready's sire Southern Halo
Dam a Group 1 winner and has produced two Group 1 winners
Outstanding first crop foals
Ideal cross for Danehill line mares
All Service Fees to Chatswood Stallions will be announced
in March. Any enquiries can be directed to Greg Willis
on (03) 5799 0560 or 0419 990 560
28/2/2010 Inglis babies
fly in three states
Fairytale filly Chance Bye highlighted
a close relation at next week’s Premier Sale as
fellow Inglis graduates Not A Pretender and Shrapnel
also scored feature two-year-old successes today.
CHANCE BYE ($15,000 2009 Classic,
2f Snitzel-Rouge Femme) made it three wins from as many
starts for Kembla trainer Mick Tubman and took her earnings
to the brink of half a million dollars in winning the
G2 Silver Slipper Stakes.
The win books the Snitzel filly’s
place in April’s Golden Slipper.
Torryburn Stud will offer a Choisir
three-quarter-sister to Chance Bye as Lot 368 at next
week’s Premier Sale.
SHRAPNEL ($450,000 2009 Easter, 2c
Charge Forward-Fragmentation) justified the high opinion
of trainer Mark Kavanagh in taking the G3 Breeders Stakes
at Morphettville.
The Highgrove Stud bred colt, who
is a half-relation to multiple G1 placed Wanted, was
previously stakes placed on debut.
"It was great to see our two-year-olds
perform so well today, but their wins, along with the
stakes success of Stratum filly Crystal Lily, also highlighted
the emergence of their young sires and our upcoming
yearling sales boast a high number of horses by those
stallions," Inglis Managing Director Mark Webster
said.
Well related filly NOT A PRETENDER
($65,000 2009 Premier, 2f Royal Academy-Mimes) provided
Nathan Tinkler’s Patinack Farm with another feature
success when she scored a dominant win in the $250,000
Inglis Premier (1200m).
She is from the family of Blue Diamond
winner Reward For Effort, G1 placed Consular and fellow
stakes winners Chuckle, Catnipped, Life’s A Bounty
and Bleveeka.
Not A Pretender was offered for sale
by Woodside Park, who have a draft of 13 yearlings for
this year’s Premier.
Patinack Farm was the leading buyer
at last year’s sale and Not A Pretender continues
a successful run for those buys, which include Breeders’
Plate winner Run For Wilson and dual Brisbane winner
Heartsareforlove.
The 2010 Inglis Melbourne Premier
Sale begins at Oaklands on Monday and runs over four
sessions.
The sale received another notable
update when emerging four-year-old BRILLIANT LIGHT ($14,000
2006 Australian Weanling, $32,000 2007 Classic, 4g Fantastic
Light-Trick Taker) made it four wins on end when resuming
a winner at Rosehill.
Brilliant Light is a full-brother
to Group 1 winner Mission Critical and Bendaree Park
will offer a Chateau Istana half-brother as Lot 475
at next week's sale.
For those not able to attend the sale,
it will be broadcast on Inglis Sale Day Live, with Online
Bidding and Make an Offer services available.
The Inglis Premier Yearling Sale Open
Day will be held at Oaklands tomorrow, featuring an
owners’ forum with Gai Waterhouse and David Hayes
from 1.45pm and the chance to see living legends Might
And Power, Fields Of Omagh, Silent Witness and Brew
at 12.45pm.
28/2/2010 Autumn graduate
too speedy in Adelaide
Adelaide flyer Periduki became the
latest stakes winner from the Melbourne Autumn Yearling
Sale when proving far too slick for his rivals in the
Listed Matrice Stakes today.
PERIDUKI ($4000 2006 Autumn, 5g Perugino-Miduki)
was sold by Northwood Park and started his career in
the Northern Territory, winning races at both Alice
Springs and Darwin. He had already won 12 times prior
to today, but this was his first at stakes level.
The Mick Whittle trained gelding was
simply too fast for his rivals and was never in danger
at any stage. He has made a lie of his purchase price,
with earnings approaching $300,000.
He completed a stakes double at Morphettville
for Inglis graduates, following $450,000 Easter colt
Shrapnel earlier in the day.
The 2010 Melbourne Autumn Yearling
Sale will be held at Oaklands on April 22 and 23.
Current graduates include unbeaten
three-year-old Our Baby Bonus ($42,500) and stakes winning
juvenile She’s Got Gears ($45,000).
MONTON ($80,000 2008 Easter II, 3g
Catbird-Dynamic Flyer) added to the Inglis stakes haul
today when causing an upset in the Group 2 Hobartville
Stakes.
The Tim Martin trained gelding, who
was prepared for sale by Brooklyn Lodge, was coming
off a last start Rosehill win, but was overlooked in
the betting to start a $31 chance.
He is the latest stakes winner for
Easter Session II, which is enjoying outstanding success
from the only two years it has been held. Vendors have
once again strongly supported this section of the sale,
with 114 lots catalogued in 2010.
The 2010 Australian Easter Yearling
Sale will be held at Newmarket from April 6-8.
26/2/2010 Latest news
from Glenlogan park stud
Australia’s leading sire for 2YO winners JET SPUR
is a stallion making a big name for himself and doing
it in super fast time.
The magnificent looking young sire has now not only hit
the front in the battle for Champion Fist Season Sire
by number of winners but,
after registering his 7th individual victor last week,
he is currently Australia’s Leading General 2YO
Sire for number of winners as well.
This places him in front of such notable juvenile producing
stallions as General Nediym, Redoute’s Choice, More
Than Ready, Fastnet
Rock and ….. well …… every other sire
in the country with runners!
Unquestionably Jet Spur is an up-andcoming stallion with
an enormous and very bright future in front of him and,
with mares of
the quality of the dam of Victoria’s boom 3YO Linton
currently in foal to him, that momentum seems likely to
only be headed in the one
direction.
FALVELON is also faring exceptionally well on the national
General 2YO Sires table by number of winners and is currently
sitting inside
the Top 10 with 4 victors to date.
The very consistent stallion produces winners each and
every week and there are very few better sires in QLD
poised to capitalize on the wonderful prize-money available
through the QTIS 600 scheme.
In each of Falvelon’s three seasons to date with
runners he has produced more than 10 juvenile winners
and the 2009/2010 season
looks to charging in exactly the same direction.
SHOW A HEART is also playing his part on the Australian
General Sires list and looks destined for his best season
yet as he sets
benchmarks very few stallions, if any, have ever reached
before in QLD.
Currently, the Champion Stallion is running 8th for active
sires in Australia by number of winners, however is a
long way in front of all of
his rivals as far as percentage of winners to runners
is concerned.
With 66 winners from only 149 starters this season, Show
A Heart has also produced more victors, from less runners,
than stallions
of the caliber of Danehill Dancer (180 runners), Choisir
(162 runners), Exceed And Excel (157), Flying Spur (188),
Sequalo (221) and Danzero (151) just to name a few.
SHOW A HEART’S ability to figure in all the big
time racing was again evident in last weekend’s
top racing down in Victoria - registering a G3 win with
Rightfully Yours and a G2 runner up with Heart Of Dreams.
Rightfully Yours was resuming from a break when he took
his prize-money earnings closer towards the half million
dollar mark in posting his 9th career victory.
Sent out as a short priced favourite in the G3 Carlyon
Cup (1400m), the Mick Price trained 5YO did not have everything
go his own way having to face a stiff head wind down the
back straight and then hold out the determined effort
of G1 winner Road To Rock as they battled to the line.
“He really toughed it out,” Mick said straight
after the race. “It was a late decision to target
this event, as we had originally scheduled to kick him
off over 1200m in the Hareeba Stakes on Wednesday, so
to keep kicking all the way up the straight over the seven
furlongs whilst being
attacked shows plenty of merit.
“He has come back in terrific order and looks bigger
and stronger than at any time he has started a campaign.
“Providing he pulls up well I would think the logical
step is to give him three weeks and then we will tackle
the Blamey Stakes (G2-
$300,000) over the mile.
“This race was a really good starting point and
he has passed his first test with flying colours.
“Hopefully it is onwards and upwards from here.”
SHOW A HEART’S dual G1 winning 4YO Heart Of Dreams
produced an effort in last Saturday’s G2 St George
Stakes that saw him
promoted from the fourth line of betting at $12 into the
clear favourite at the $7 mark for next weekend’s
$1 million G1 Australian Cup.
Heart Of Dreams, as a proven G1 Weight For Age performer,
was sent out as the favourite for last weekend’s
1800m event and
was only beaten a neck when finishing determinedly to
grab second placing.
His effort was fantastic considering he was second up
from a spell, was jumping from the 1400m to the 1800m,
had missed his planned
first up run with an irregular blood pattern and amazingly
returned faster final sectionals than the Oakleigh Plate
winner Satrspanglebanner
and the Blue Diamond winner Star Witness.
No wonder he was promoted to the head of betting for the
Australian Cup! The Show A Heart 4YO has come through
this lead up run in apple pie order and should be ready
to tackle next weeks assignment at peak fitness.
BRADBURY’S LUCK, Show A Heart and Jet Spur all have
runners in Saturday’s 2YO QTIS race over 1200m at
Eagle Farm and all
are last start winners.
In A Tangle is the Bradbury’s Luck representative
and is trained out of the in-form Bryan Guy stable.
The filly saluted at Ipswich on debut a few weeks ago
with a tremendous effort after having to race wide without
cover for the entire
journey.
Bryan has been very happy with her progress since that
event but a poor barrier draw has dampened the confidence
levels.
“We’ve drawn the car-park,” Bryan lamented
after hearing she had got alley 16 in a field of the same
size. “We are going to need a
mountain of luck from out there and it makes it almost
impossible to win now.
“But we have to run around to keep going forward
this preparation and I am sure she will give her all.
“She continues to improve and she has a really nice
future.”
Show A Heart 2YO shooting for stakes success JET SPUR’S
youngster in the Brisbane 2YO race will come out of the
Kevin Kemp stable in
Toowooomba in the shape of Dulacca Jet.
Her trainer has been delighted with her improvement since
breaking through at Dalby in the strong $50,000 event
two weeks ago
and is anticipating another good effort tomorrow.
“We’ve always known she could gallop,”
Kevin said. “And it was nice to get the runs on
the board last time out.
“The filly felt her shins the first time to the
races and then I probably went a little easy on her in
the lead-up to her second start so she
peaked on her run at the 200m.
“But we whacked the blinkers on her last time out
and, with a bit more fitness under her belt, she really
attacked the line and finished off
strongly.
“We have drawn well on Saturday and hopefully we
can posy up in the second or third line of runners with
some cover.
“There are a couple in the race I respect and it
won’t be easy, but if we see daylight at the right
time I think my filly will be powering
home.”
SHOW A HEART’S flying 2YO filly Norocos will be
waving the flag for her sire in this event and she is
coming off a devastating victory at
Toowoomba three weeks ago.
Trained by Norm Hilton at that track, Norocos left her
rivals floundering when she resumed on February 6 over
the 1050m,
trouncing them by an untouched margin of almost 7 lengths.
“The 1200m holds no fears for us as she had plenty
left in the tank last time out when she hit the line,”
Norm said. “She has drawn perfectly
in barrier 3 and should either lead or sit right on the
pace.
“She has natural pace and can maintain a terrific
cruising speed. The filly has not put a foot wrong since
her last start and should give
backers a very big sight.”
RED ELEMENT’S little sister Typhoon Tracy will be
looking to add to her incredible record by putting another
G1 trophy in her
cabinet this weekend when she tackles the $500,000 G1
Futurity Stakes at Caulfield.
According to trainer Peter Moody, the daughter of Red
Ransom has improved a number of lengths since her first
up victory in the G1
Orr Stakes three weeks ago and he will be surprised if
she is toppled on Saturday.
The blue-blooded mare is headed for her 9th win (from
only 12 starts) and will push her prize-money levels past
the $1.7 million mark should she salute in the Futurity.
“She was a little bit tubby when she won firstup,”
the Moody stable said. “However her work since then
has been terrific and she has
tightened up noticeably.
“She will improve again after tomorrow but we couldn’t
be happier with the way she is progressing.”
Once again her rivals will be out to plot on how to bring
the star mare un-done, with talk they will give her no
rest in a bid to control the
tempo of the race.
“She doesn’t have to lead, she has already
shown that,” Peter said. “This mare is just
one of those special animals – she can carve out
some amazing sectionals and will dig in for the fight
if needed.
“The others can plan all they want, we will just
be going out there to run our own race and I will let
this mare do the talking.”
SHOW A HEART’S very promising 2YO colt Toorak Toff
will be lining up in the Listed Chairman Stakes (1100m)
at Caulfield tomorrow after a
second change of plans in a short period of time by his
trainer Rick Hore-Lacy.
Originally, after a stunning debut win at Caulfield over
1200m back on January 23, Hore-Lacy signaled his intention
to set the
youngster for the $300,000 G2 Sires Produce Stakes to
be run at Flemington on March 6.
However, the day after his victory he decided to send
the Show A Heart 2YO to the paddocks, with a long term
goal of being set
specifically for the G1 Caulfield Guineas in the spring.
Fast forward two weeks and two days and a walk past the
colt’s spelling paddock convinced Rick to change
course yet again. He
immediately brought Toorak Toff back into the stables
for his original thought of targeting the G2 Sires, albeit
he knew he would now be on
the back foot.
Consequently, the smashing looking chestnut has only been
back in training for a little over a fortnight, but will
still take his place
in Saturday’s field with Damian Oliver on board.
“There is no question it has not been the ideal
lead-up to this race,” Rick said. “But we
won’t be out there to give him a gut-buster.
“Considering the Caulfield 1100m really won’t
be his go, I will just instruct Damian to let him find
his feet wherever he wants and then
let him work home at the finish.
“The last thing we want to do is flatten him for
the following week because I would still like to send
him to the Sires should he come
through this run in good order.
“He is easily the most promising horse I have trained
in years and there isn’t a race on the calendar
I would consider to be outside his
ability.”
JET SPUR will only have the one opportunity to add to
his winners total this weekend and that will come at the
Sunshine Coast on
Sunday.
In Race 3 on the card, Australia’s leading sire
of 2YO winners will hopefully have two representatives,
although one of them is
currently listed as the first emergency.
First starter Aessex ran second in a recent trial and
will jump from barrier 4 with the services of Chris Munce.
First emergency is the Bryan Guy trained Count Spur who
has Jim Byrne booked to ride and has drawn barrier 9.
He is a winner of a
Gold Coast trial over the 1000m on Tuesday and should
give a good account of himself if he sneaks into the field.
26/2/2010 Muskoka Farm to
be sold
After 40 years of success, Bob &
Wendy Lapointe have decided to sell their preeminent
spelling and training complex, Muskoka Farm. Jamie Inglis,
Director of Inglis’ Livestock and Rural Property
division will oversee the sale.
It is a rare opportunity to secure
a world class equine facility in an enviable location,
only 90 minutes to Randwick or Rosehill.
Since it was purchased in 1969, Muskoka
Farm has been improved into a spectacular spelling and
pre-training facility, comprising 117 hectares and able
to cater for over 180 horses.
With extensive Hawkesbury River frontage,
the property features three tracks (1000m sand, 2900m
crusher dust & 2400m turf), a horse swimming pool,
walking machine, treadmill, barriers, and 70 boxes along
with day yards, spelling yards, isolation stables and
spelling paddocks.
Muskoka has a fail safe water supply
via a large dam and bore, feeding the equine facilities,
impressive five bedroom homestead (with guest house),
farm office, permanent garden irrigation and staff accommodation.
Other features include three generators
that maintain power to the entire property (when needed),
tennis court, swimming pool, 24 hour helipad, boat shed,
sea plane mooring and the potential for a quarantine
facility.
Muskoka’s reputation of producing
the nation’s top gallopers is long established,
having pre trained and spelled Champions of the Turf
such as; Emancipation, Diamond Shower, Marauding, Sir
Dapper, Bint Marscay, Circles Of Gold, Grand Armee,
Dance Hero, Might And Power and Sebring among others.
It also served as the Nebo Lodge pre
training establishment for the Sangster, Millie Fox,
Lapointe Syndicate. In it's first year of operation,
trainer Brian Mayfield-Smith won the Sydney premiership
and in the process ended Tommy Smith's 33 year reign
on the title
