19/11/08 Successful Conclusion
to the 2008 Ready to Run Sale at Karaka
New Zealand Bloodstock's 2008 Ready to Run Sale of 2YOs
has withstood the economic pressures facing auctions
sales around the world in recent months, by concluding
with solid results from the past two days of selling
at Karaka.
Both the sale median and average were
only a shade off last year's figures, with final average
$60,366 (down just 1% from a record $61,134 in 2007)
and $33,000 (down 8% from $36,000 in 2007).
The clearance rate climbed steadily
throughout the day to finish at 67%, down from last
year's 70%, with 247 horses sold for $14,910, 500 compared
with $15,100,000 for the same number sold last year.
The top price of $400,000 achieved
yesterday for the Red Ransom colt from Lady Circles
(Lot 62) was not surpassed, with today's top Lot knocked
down for $360,000. The Zabeel colt from Group 1 winner
Surprize Surprize (Prized) at Lot 243 was purchased
by Queensland bloodstock agent John Foote from Mark
& Shelley Treweek's Lyndhurst Farm.
Foote commented, "I've bought
him for a Hong Kong client and as yet we haven't decided
whether he'll race in Australia first or go straight
to Hong Kong.
"He's a well-bred colt, a lovely
type and breezed up with a good action. We're hoping
he'll be as good as his mother and father."
The Zabeel colt breezed up the 200m
straight at Te Rapa racecourse on 20 October in a time
of 11.72 seconds.
Of the 247 horses sold, 17 fetched
$200,000 or more compared with 14 last year, showing
the relative strength at the top of the market.
Managing Director Sales & Marketing
Petrea Vela was very pleased with the results of the
past two days.
"In view of the challenges facing
everyone in the current market conditions, the results
of the past two days have really been well in excess
of our expectations. Heading into this sale we were
certain that results would be down on last year, but
to see such strength from the market here has been a
fantastic result.
"One of the most pleasing aspects
of today was the strengthening clearance rate which
was 69% for the day and brings the overall clearance
to 67%.
"Particular credit must be paid
to the great number of both international and local
buyers that came to Karaka this week. We're very grateful
for their efforts to be here and their support of the
sale with their purchases, and hope that they are justly
rewarded on the racetrack."
Leading the buyers was Graeme Rogerson
with eight horses purchased for $1,625,000. Amongst
his purchases were three two-year-olds by New Zealand
champion sire Zabeel, including a top price of $320,000
for the colt from multiple stakes winner Flushed (Redding)
offered by Curraghmore Stud.
Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia
and Korea were all well-represented by buyers at Karaka
over the past two days. From Australia, in addition
to John Foote, John Morrisey was active again following
the Group 1 success of Rockdale from this Sale last
year, buying another six young horses, plus Patrick
Payne, Surf Coast Racing and Lee Hope accounted for
some of the 32 horses purchased for Australia.
A total of 49 horses are destined
for Singapore, including purchases by Laurie Laxon,
Michael Freedman, Stephen Gray and Soon Hock Lee, with
another 18 bought for Hong Kong, 14 headed to Malaysia
and five to Macau. The Seoul Racehorse Owners Association
bought another six today to bring their total to 16
horses for Korea.
The leading vendor at this sale for
the second year in a row was Mark & Shelley Treweek's
Lyndhurst Farm, with 11 of their 15 entries sold for
$1,706,000 at an average of $155,091.
For further information on any passed
lot, contact New Zealand Bloodstock.
2008 Ready to Run Sale Statistics
2008 2007
AVERAGE $60,366 $61,134
MEDIAN $33,000 $36,000
CLEARANCE 67% 70%
AGGREGATE $14,910,500 (247 Lots Sold) $15,100,000 (247
Lots Sold)
TOP LOT $400,000 (B.C Red Ransom x Lady Circles) $500,000
(B.C Rock of Gibraltar x Run and Hide)
Top Ten Lots Lot Type Breeding Vendor
Purchaser Price
62 BR.C Red Ransom / Lady Circles ESKER LODGE MR S GRAY
(Singapore) $400,000
243 B.C Zabeel / Surprize Surprize LYNDHURST FARM JOHN
FOOTE BLOODSTOCK (QLD) $360,000
93 B.G Zabeel / Macanudo PHOENIX PARK ROGERSON BLOODSTOCK
(Hamilton) $320,000
39 B.C Keeper / Jazzmatazz PHOENIX PARK MR C MCANULTY
(QLD) $300,000
363 B.C Zabeel / Cornwall Queen MANA PARK SURF COAST
RACING (VIC) $300,000
419 B.C Zabeel / Flushed CURRAGHMORE STUD ROGERSON BLOODSTOCK
(Hamilton) $300,000
143 G.C Galileo / Our Heather LYNDHURST FARM ROGERSON
BLOODSTOCK (Hamilton) $275,000
29 B.C Zabeel / I'm in Heaven MANA PARK ROGERSON BLOODSTOCK
(Hamilton) $260,000
74 B.C Encosta de Lago / La Veine REGAL FARM JOHN FOOTE
BLOODSTOCK (QLD) $260,000
107 B.C Dehere / Miss Candy PHOENIX PARK MR C MCANULTY
(QLD) $250,000
Leading Purchasers by Aggregate Purchaser
Bought Aggregate Average Top Price
ROGERSON BLOODSTOCK 8 $1,625,000 $203,125 $320,000
NEW ZEALAND BLOODSTOCK (as agent) 32 $1,599,500 $49,984
$200,000
JOHN FOOTE BLOODSTOCK 5 $922,500 $184,500 $360,000
MR S GRAY 5 $763,000 $152,600 $400,000
MR C MCANULTY 3 $700,000 $233,333 $300,000
MAGUS EQUINE 6 $670,000 $111,667 $180,000
MR J MORRISEY 6 $436,000 $72,667 $120,000
MR CP BEH 3 $385,000 $128,333 $185,000
MR LK LAXON 4 $363,000 $90,750 $220,000
MR ONG TIONG SENG 2 $330,000 $165,000 $180,000
Leading Sires by Average (3 or more
sold) Sire Sold Average Aggregate Top Price
Zabeel 5 $308,000 $1,540,000 $360,000
Cape Cross 3 $143,333 $430,000 $190,000
Pins 8 $129,250 $1,034,000 $220,000
Keeper 9 $105,556 $950,000 $300,000
Volksraad 5 $97,500 $487,500 $180,000
Pentire 5 $84,500 $422,500 $230,000
Viking Ruler 4 $77,250 $309,000 $170,000
Golan 4 $66,875 $267,500 $110,000
One Cool Cat 11 $59,273 $652,000 $150,000
High Chaparral 4 $52,750 $211,000 $90,000
Leading Vendor by Average (3 or more
sold) Vendor Sold Average Aggregate Top Price
LYNDHURST FARM 11 $155,091 $1,706,000 $360,000
PHOENIX PARK 12 $124,042 $1,488,500 $320,000
ESKER LODGE 9 $122,500 $1,102,500 $400,000
CURRAGHMORE STUD 4 $110,625 $442,500 $300,000
ANZAC LODGE 6 $104,000 $624,000 $200,000
MANA PARK 14 $97,964 $1,371,500 $300,000
ASCOT FARM 6 $93,917 $563,500 $230,000
REGAL FARM 5 $90,200 $451,000 $260,000
SUMMERVELD STABLES 3 $85,000 $255,000 $100,000
CHEQUERS STUD 8 $72,500 $580,000 $170,000
Leading Vendors by Aggregate Vendor
Sold Aggregate Average Top Price
LYNDHURST FARM 11 $1,706,000 $155,091 $360,000
PHOENIX PARK 12 $1,488,500 $124,042 $320,000
MANA PARK 14 $1,371,500 $97,964 $300,000
ESKER LODGE 9 $1,102,500 $122,500 $400,000
CHESTERFIELDS 14 $638,500 $45,607 $105,000
ANZAC LODGE 6 $624,000 $104,000 $200,000
CHEQUERS STUD 8 $580,000 $72,500 $170,000
ASCOT FARM 6 $563,500 $93,917 $230,000
VENTURE THOROUGHBREDS 9 $481,500 $53,500 $180,000
HAUNUI FARM 11 $454,000 $41,273 $175,000
19/11/08 Dane Shadow
Colt Fetches $72,500 at NZB RTR
Despite the gloomy economic climate,
promising young sire Dane Shadow achieved a good result
during the first session of the NZB Ready to Run Sale
on Tuesday when his colt from Lady Guest fetched $72,500.
Consigned by Venture Thoroughbreds,
the athletic brown colt breezed comfortably in 11.29
seconds and was knocked down to New Zealand Bloodstock
on behalf of a Singapore based client.
Bred and offered for sale as a weanling
by Kitchwin Hills, the colt made $32,000 at the 2007
Inglis Australian Select Weanling Sale, so has been
an appealing horse from day one.
“We all know how tough things
are at present given the financial situation worldwide,
so it was reassuring to see this Dane Shadow sell well
and fetch close to ten times service fee,” said
Mick Malone of Kitchwin Hills.
Chris Waller’s Dane Shadow colt
Shellscrape impressed onlookers with a stylish barrier
trial win in fast time at Rosehill on November 11 and
is set to make his debut at Randwick this Saturday.
The colt will be well educated having
trialled twice, the first time when second to the Gai
Waterhouse trained colt Turf Express who made a winning
debut at Rosehill last Saturday.
It should be noted, all two year-olds
by Dane Shadow are eligible for the Dane Shadow Breeders
Bonus Incentive Scheme, which is offered to horses from
the first crop of foals sired by Dane Shadow.
A special $500,000 bonus is available
for the connections of any Dane Shadow two year-old
this season that can win Group One STC Golden Slipper
Stakes, 4th April, 2009 Rosehill.
The bonus payment is to be split evenly
between trainer, owner and breeder, so there is every
incentive for precocious youngsters by Dane Shadow to
be out and running.
For more information contact Mick
Malone (02) 6545 8065 or 0428 458 065 or visit www.kitchwin.com.au
19/11/08 Scenic viewed
at four different Australian studs
SCENIC, the now deceased Sadler’s
Wells Ireland bred sire whose recent runners have included
2008 Melbourne Cup winner Viewed, the illfated Sunburnt
Land (in recent weeks winner of the Caulfield Sprint-Gr.2
and third in the VRC Salinger Stakes-Gr.2 and Patinack
Farm Classic-Gr.1, he was killed when struck by lightning
in a spelling paddock last week) and Coniston Bluebird
(successful at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday, has called
four different Australian studs home.
Initially a shuttle sire, he started
off at Collingrove, a stud at Sandy Hollow in the Hunter
Valley for a time owned by a partnership of the Hayes
family of Lindsay Park, South Australia and leading
international breeder and racehorse owner Robert Sangster’s
Swettenham Stud.They also had Collingrove Stud at Nagambie
in Victoria,.
Commencing in1989, he shuttled between
Coolmore in Ireland and the Hunter Valley through to1996
and then became a resident at Lindsay Park. He was sold
off to the Durham Lodge Stud at Muchea in Western Australia
eight years ago, but came back across the Nullabor to
be used in the 2002 season at the Nagambie located Collingrove.
That stud is now named Swettenham
and is in the sole ownership of the deceased Robert
Sangster’s Australian domiciled son Adam. He has
developed it into one of Australia’s major stallion
stations, one which has seven sires on offer in the
2008 season and which is to be home next year for a
newcomer in the high class Danzero juvenile and sprinter
Kaphero.
The Sangsters played a big role in
establishing Scenic as a quality sire, in particular
being the breeders with the late Colin Hayes of the
three-quarter brother million dollar earners Blevic
(efforts included wins at Flemington in the Victoria
Derby and Sires’ Produce Stakes and a third in
the AJC Derby) and Universal Prince (won the AJC Derby,
Spring Champion Stakes, STC Rawson Stakes and Canterbury
Guineas; second Victoria Derby).
Standing at the Toole’s long
established Kambula Stud at Kadina, Blevic is one of
the best sires in South Australia, while Universal Prince,
a brother to SAJC Robert Sangster Stakes-Gr.1 winner
Universal Queen, has replaced Scenic at Durham Lodge
after starting off at stud in NSW. His oldest are 4-year-olds.
Blevic, Universal Prince and Universal
Queen are among 520 winners, including100 who have won
or stakes placed, of a massive 2,000 plus races and
over $63million supplied by Scenic from his Australian
use. The others include Viewed (besides the Melbourne
Cup, won the Brisbane Cup), Shame (Caulfield Thousand
Guineas, QTC Sires Produce Stakes; second in four Group1s),
Episode (SAJC Australasian Oaks, South Australian Oaks;
second Queensland Oaks), Lord Essex (STC George Ryder
Stakes; placed AJC All-Aged Stakes, QTC Doomben 10000
Piavonic (MVRC Manikato Stakes and Norman Carlyon Stakes)
and Western Australian star Marasco (Group 2s in Melbourne
and Perth; second at Caulfield in the Australian Cup
and C.F. Orr Stakes), to mention a few.
Scenic has had good performers from1000m
to 3200m and 29 offspring who have each won ten or more
races.
He supplied nearly 1000 foals from
his Australian use and in consequence has left a huge
pool of females who should be much prized as broodmares.They
have already produced over 350 winners, including among
successful stakes performers Niconero (by Danzero),
Lazer Sharp (Zariz), Van Costa de Hero (Encosta de Lago),
Book of Kells (Rock of Gibraltar) and Almost Never (Akhadan).
Got at Coolmore in Ireland in the
first crop of the Robert Sangster bred and raced Sadler’s
Wells from Idyllic, an unraced daughter of American
champion juvenile and Kentucky Derby winner Foolish
Pleasure, Scenic was purchased as a yearling by Sheikh
Mohammed, subsequent founder of the Darley conglomerate.
He was raced 11 times over three years for four wins,
three of them, including a dead heat victory with another
Sadler’s Wells product, Prince of Dance, in the
Newmarket Dewhurst Stakes-Gr.1. Scenic’s effort
was a shock as he was unwanted in the betting at 33-1in
the six runner field.
At the end of his juvenile year,
Scenic was rated equal best 2-year-old with Prince of
Dance in the Timeform assessments with a high128 and
weighted equal third best in the European Free Handicap.
Scenic suffered from illhealth at
three, a year he had his other win, appearance in Scotland’s
only Group class event at that time, the Group 3 Scottish
Classic. Four Group1 efforts at this age were a well
beaten third in the St James’s Palace Stakes (1600m)
at Ascot, fourth in the Newmarket Champion Stakes (2000m)
and near last displays in the Irish Champion Stakes
(2000m) and American Breeders’ Cup Turf (2400m).Three
outings at four included a Group 3 second and a last
of eight in the Group 2 Prince of Wales’s Stakes
at Ascot.
Olympus
qualified to scale the thoroughbred heights
MOUNT OLYMPUS, the highest mountain
in Greece, lends its name to a thoroughbred sire located
at Tamworth in north western NSW who at this time through
limited early opportunity will have difficulty in the
formative years of his career reaching such lofty heights
in his field. Yet, he has the credentials that suggests
he could be quite capable of scaling them.
He is a powerfully bred son of Danehill
stallion Olympus and he showed last week that he can
live up to this prognosis by having the only runner
to date from his first crop, current juveniles, record
a dashing win by 3.0 lengths and 3.5 lengths in a 900m
event for the age group at Scone in the Hunter Valley.
Named Sutton Princess, she had been beaten just over
half a length when fourth at Taree on debut, but had
previously showed exciting potential with a six lengths
trial win at Scone. Her name is derived from her breeder
and owner Russ Lazarus’s Sutton Farm stud along
the road bordering the far side of the Scone racecourse.
Since he was one of the owners the1987
Melbourne Cup winner Kensei, Russ has made a big contribution
to racing as a breeder, owner and as an administrator.
He was driving force for a number of years on the committee
of the NSW Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association.
The Mack Griffifth, Muswellbrook
trained Sutton Princess is from Sutton Miss, a winner
of six races, including one at Randwick, that he also
raced for Russ Lazarus. He also prepared for the same
breeder Sutton Miss’s accomplished brother Sutton
Review, winner of the Listed Gainsborough 3YO Stakes
at Tamworth, and also successful Randwick.
They are both by Danehill’s
American bred relation Youthful Legs and from Miss Regal
Mine, an imported Canadian mare by the Vaguely Noble
sire Regal and from a daughter of Mr. Prospector.The
latter appears twice at the fourth generation of Sutton
Princess, a distinction he shares with Spring Adieu,
the second dam of both Youthful Legs and Danehill.
Olympus is the third sire in which
Russ Lazarus has been a prominent owner, being preceded
by Youthful Legs and the very popular importation Beautiful
Crown.The latter stands at the Patinack Farm stud near
Scone by arrangement with his Andrew Bowcock headed
syndicate owners, while Youthful Legs is with Olympus
at Stepen Miller’s Erin Park Stud along the Peel
river on the western fringe of Tamworth.
Erin Park, phones 0414 345 685 or
(02) 6760 821, is the biggest breeding operation seen
in north western NSW in the last 40 years.They offer
the use of Olympus at $3,300 and Youthful Legs at $4,000.
Purchased at the Sydney Easter yearling
sales at a cost of $235,000 by a syndicate including
Lazarus, Bowcock and one of the most respected judges
of thoroughbred quality, Warwick Farm trainer Clarry
Conners, Olympus showed up as a very good racing prospect
but suffered problems that restricted his ability to
live up to his obvious ability.
At two he sparked contemplation of
Golden Slipper glory with a commanding all the way win
over1100m at Rosehill Gardens, scoring by four lengths,
a 1.4 lengths fourth in the Group 3 Skyline Stakes at
Canterbury and then a third in the Illawarra 2YO Classic.
Subsequently a winner by a length
of a1600m event at Warwick Farm, Olympus was got by
Danehill from Metal of Honour, a daughter of the Mr.
Prospector sire Conquistador Cielo (sire of winners
of over 2,200 races) and Badge of Courage, a half-sister
to Group1 winners and sires Tentam and Known Fact and
also to the dam of one of the noted Mr. Prospector sire
Gone West.
Viewed’s
cousin plundering NSW country Cups
ON TUESDAY November 4 two cousins
went within a few centimeters of taking out two Cups,
Viewed stopping the world in winning the great ‘two
miler’ at Flemington by a nose, the equal shortest
margin in the races long history, and Phantom Thief
failing by a long neck when runner up later in the afternoon
in the $40,000 Muswellbrook Cup, one of the big annual
sporting attractions in Hunter Valley horse country.
Phantom Thief, a former inmate of
the Lee Freedman’s stables in Victoria who had
won the Tasmanian Derby and also been successful in
Melbourne and Hong Kong, attoned for that loss by taking
out the $45,000 Dubbo Gold Cup on Sunday.
The now 7-year-old gelding is a half-brother
by the shuttled Mr. Prospector sire Jade Robbery to
STC N.E. Manion Cup winner Saturday Fever and nearly
a three-quarter brother to Horse of the Year Weekend
Hussler. He is by another Mr. Prospector sire, Hussonet,
and from Weekend Beauty, a half-sister to Phantom Thief.
Not On Friday, the dam of Phantom
Thief and grandam of Weekend Hussler, won the Group
3 MRC Angus Armasco Stakes, finished second in the VRC
Wakeful Stakes, third in the Caulfield Thousand Guineas
and South Australian Oaks. She is another good winner
producer by the imported Melbourne Cup winner At Talaq
and is from Market Heights, a daughter of one of Sir
Tristram’s best racing and sire sons, Grosvenor,
and from a granddaughter of the famous broodmare Wuthering
Heights
Phantom Thief’s kinship with
Viewed flows from the Melbourne Cup winner’s grandam
being by Sir Tristram and from Mountain Heights, a daughter
of Wuthering Heights.
Phantom Thief is raced by a partnership
of three, including his trainer Marcus Wilson, one who
has some 15 horses at his stables adjacent Muswellbrook’s
Skellatar racecourse, one recognised as one of the best
country racing and training complexes in NSW. Along
with neighbouring Scone, Muswellbrook provides a formidable
training and racing region.
The quinella in the Muswellbrook
Cup on November 4 showed what good horsemen can do with
horses that have been culled. Besides Marcus Wilson’s
acquisition of the former Freedman trained Phantom Thief,
the winner of the Muswellbrook Cup, With A Chance, was
a second hand buy, coming out of a Sydney mixed sale
as a mid 3-year-old at $3,000. Trained at Scone by Luke
Griffith for a local syndicate, this son of Commands
and the unraced Snippets mare Career Collection has
won16 races, including nine in Sydney, and earned nearly
$500,000.
Another astute horseman who is confident
he is going to do well with a cast off is Gosford trainer
Terry Evans. He won a race at the popular Bong Bong
picnic race meeting near Bowral last week with recently
acquired Galileo 4-year-old gelding Cee Dubai.
Originally knocked down to Gai Waterhouse
at the 2006 Sydney Easter yearling sales for $160,000,
Cee Dubai was secured by Terry unraced for $1,700 at
the Inglis Sydney winter mixed sale in July. Terry is
racing the gelding in partnerships with some new clients.
“They are over the moon with this horse for such
a small outlay and to be competitive.The new owners
are having a ball,” Terry reports.
Cee Dubai was got by Galileo, a Sadler’s
Wells sire who is now one of the best in Europe, from
Azzurro, a Bluebird mare who won seven races including
the Caulfield Thousand Guineas and VRC Edward Manifold
Stakes.
Scone
racing identity’s pious regard for Brisbane winner
BILL ROSE, a longtime racing and
breeding industry leader based at Scone, more than likely
got pleasure from the early breakthrough as a sire of
the Coolmore, Hunter Valley visitor Antonius Pius, the
source in his first crop of Big Tony, the impressive1.5
lengths winner of the juvenile event which opened the
program at Eagle Farm on Saturday.
Before Antonius Pius, a talented
American bred European performer named after a Roman
Emperor of 2000 years ago, was born, Rose purchased
in England Isle of Pines, a winning half-sister to the
mare who was to become his dam, Catchascathcan, and
brought her to Australia.
A daughter of the very respected
sire Kris, Isle of Pines has produced seven foals for
him, including stakes winners Tall Timbers (by Anabaa)
and Taken (Gilded Time), stakes placed Anapine (Anabaa)
and on October 14 of this year a colt by the Widden
Stud based Redoute’s Choice Golden Slipper winner
Stratum.
Raced by Bill Rose, Tall Timbers
won seven races, including two Group 3 events, the MRC
Easter Cup in Melbourne and the Newmarket at Newcastle,
but gave him his biggest thrill when beaten a couple
of centimetres when second in the 2005 Scone Cup.
Represented by only two runners to
date, but possessing about 50 first crop foals, the
Coolmore shuttled Antonius Pius appears one of the best
value sires in Australia on his current fee of $8,800.
Like one of Coolmore’s now prominent visiting
sires, the Danehill Ireland bred Danehill Dancer, he
has the credentials to rise up to be a prominent sire
in both hemispheres.
He is by the awesomely speed prepotent
Danzig, sire also of course of Danehill, and on top
of this his dam, Isle of Pines’ half-sister Cathascatchcan,
is a Yorkshire Oaks and Lancashire Oaks winner. She
is by Pursuit of Love, a champion European 3-year-old
sprinter and a grandson world breeding influence Blushing
Groom.
An illustrious relation of Blushing
Groom is Mill Reef, the sire of Catawa, grandam of Antonius
Pius and herself a grandaughter of a half-sister to
a champion Australasian sire, Oncidium..
Antonius Pius only won two of his
14 starts, both successes coming at two and including
the prestigious Group 2 Railway Stakes at Curragh in
Ireland, but he showed up as a leading miler at three.
In was a year in which he beat the third placegetter
Six Perfections by 1.5 lengths when a close second in
the American Breeders’ Cup Mile and finished third
in two of Europe’s eminent Group1 events at a
mile, the Longchamp Prix du Moulin and Ascot St James’s
Palace Stakes, and a 1.5 lengths fifth in the French
Two Thousand Guineas.
Big Tony, the youngster who opened
the Antonius Pius account at Eagle Farm on Saturday,
was bred by Bylong Thoroughbreds, a breeding operation
located in the historic Bylong Valley on the western
fringe of the Hunter Valley which was formerly the Clearvale
Stud. It was initially the home for Frisco View, the
imported Blushing Groom grandson who now stands at the
Craiglea Stud in Queensland and who supplied Craiglea
Scorcher, the runner up to Big Tony on Saturday.
Sold at the Magic Millions yearling
sale at the Gold Coast for $40,000, the Trevor Miller,
Sunshine Coast trained Big Tony is inbred 2x4 to Danzig,
being from unraced Miss Conception, a daughter of Danehill
Golden Slipper winner Danzero and from Prefer An Angel,
a winner of five races, including the Group 2 Diamond
Jubilee Stakes at Moonee Valley.
Manner
Hill puts Tamworth owner breeder on a new high
TAMWORTH north-western NSW breeder
and owner Bob Shelton appears to be on track to be on
a high again from his wisdom in mating his unraced High
Regard mare High Wisdom again with a sire who was then
available at the local Stratheden Stud owned by the
Marheine family.
On the first occasion a mating with
the Star Watch STC Todman Slipper Trial winner Pauillac
resulted in a performer named On A High who became a
winner for him of nine races, including the Group 2
Villiers Stakes at Randwick.
Six years after Shelton bred On A
High, the 2003 season, he sent High Wisdom to the powerfully
bred, versatile Danehill Sydney performer Manner Hill,
then fresh out of work and looking after a small book
of mares at Stratheden.
This mating produced Manahi, a bay
gelding currently emerging as a good class runner at
Tamworth in the ownership of Mr and Mrs Shelton and
friends and in the local stables of Paul St Vincent.
Now a 4-year-old, Manahi has won his last two races,
scoring by 1.8 lengths at nearby Quirindi on October
24 and then at Tamworth on November 17.
He is one of nine money earners that
Manner Hill has had from 14 runners out of mares of
modest quality from two very light seasons in NSW. The
others have included Feisty Manner (a winner at Brisbane
and Seymour), Charming Manners (won Darwin), Pub Torque
(won Dubbo, Tamworth) and Convent Hill (Cessnock).
The performances of the progeny of
Manner Hill from his very restricted use in NSW has
been very pleasing for prominent Victorian racing and
breeding identity Danny Rose as he was able to secure
this16.1 hands bay son of Danehill and the great racemare
Mannerism for his young Cherokee Rose Stud near Lancefield
in Victoria.
Breeders responded to the commercial
opportunity provided Manner Hill at Cherokee Rose by
supplying him with 93 mares in his first season, 2005,
and following up with 82 in 2006 and 96 in 2007. In
the latter year he had over 100 booked in, but a number
were unable to travel from interstate owing to the equine
influenza epidemic.
The first of the Manner Hills got
at Cherokee Rose are now 2-year-olds and include offspring
of mares by Canny Lad, Zephyr Bay, Bluebird (USA), Perugino
(USA), Tabasco Cat (USA), Bletchingly, Fairy King, Desert
Sun (GB), Centaine, Dehere (USA), Yeats (USAO, Flying
Spur, Arena, Umatilla, Catrail (USA), Noalcoholic (FR),
Spectrum (IRE), Raami (GB), Zeditave, Thunder Gulch
(USA) and Fasliyev (USA).
Raced by a syndicate including the
Marheines of the Stratheden Stud, Manner Hill won six
races from 1100m to 2400m, including two stakes and
appearances at Randwick, Rosehill Gardens, Canterbury
and Flemington. In addition he was runner up in seven
races and fourth in the Group1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes
at Randwick.
Manner Hill is one of two proven
Danehill sires standing at the up and coming Cherokee
Rose Stud. Initially used in Queensland and sire of
72 winners, he is Legal Opinion, a half-brother to Zeditave
and Falvelon’s sire Alannon. His first crop got
at Cherokee Rose are yearlings.
19/11/08 Stylish Win
for Encosta Filly
Promising filly Rapala (3f Encosta
de Lago x Kahuna's Girl, by King of Kings) made a swift
transition from a maiden win at Goulburn to a metropolitan
success when she charged home to win over 1300 metres
at Warwick Farm on Tuesday.
The Guy Walter trained filly was eased
back from a wide gate and made a sustained run four
and five wide to win her second race from four starts
by more then a length.
“She had to make a long and
sustained run and was very impressive,” Walter
said.
“I would think on that run she’d
win better races.
“She could possibly even be
a filly for the autumn.”
Passed in shy of her $150,000 reserve
at the 2007 Magic Millions Yearling Sale, Rapala was
retained to race by Sebring’s breeders Corumbene
Stud and is the second foal of unraced Kahuna’s
Girl, a grand-daughter of US Group Three winner Duty
Dance.
Rapala brought up the second leg of
a winning double for Guy Walter, who took out the first
race on the program with improving gelding I’ve
Got Talent (4g Danehill Dancer x Swing Again, by Take
Your Partner), who won the Ratings 75 event over 1600
metres.
Coolmore based sires posted a third
winner on the program when the Gai Waterhouse trained
Fusakeo (3g Fusaichi Pegasus x Miss Jakeo, by Unbridled's
Song) took his record to two wins and a second from
three starts when taking out the restricted event for
three year-old colts and geldings over 1300 metres.
A son of Kentucky Derby winner Fusaichi
Pegasus, Fusakeo overcame a wide drawn to lead throughout,
kicking on strongly to score by half a neck.
Yet another winner for Denise Martin’s
Star Thoroughbreds, Fusakeo was a $140,000 Magic Millions
purchase from the draft of Baramul Stud and is a half-brother
to Group Three winner Miss Judgement being from Miss
Jakeo, a daughter of dual Group One winner Lady Jakeo.
18/11/08 $400,000 Red
Ransom Colt Tops RTR Day One
The first day of New Zealand Bloodstock's Ready to Run
Sale of two-year-olds has showed resilience to recent
economic pressures with results holding up well against
those posted at last year's record Sale.
With 212 lots catalogued for Day One
of the two-day Sale the average was $61,128 ($61,134
in 2007) by the close of play, with a $32,500 median
($36,000 in 2007) and 61% clearance rate (70% in 2007).
Turnover is currently $6,907,500 for the 113 horses
sold today.
Today's sale-topper Lot 62 breezing up at Te Rapa on
25 October.
The top lot of the day came at Lot
62, a Red Ransom colt purchased by Singapore-based trainer
Stephen Gray for $400,000. From Lady Circles (Ascot
Knight), a half-sister to Elvstroem and Haradasun, the
colt consigned by Esker Lodge breezed up in a speedy
10.66 seconds.
Ex-pat Kiwi Gray was delighted with
his purchase, "He's a good looking colt with a
strong stallion pedigree and was great value at the
price.
"We'll send him down to my parents
place (in Palmerston North) to mature and will race
him in New Zealand before we look at taking him to Singapore.
We're in no hurry with him and will look to start him
as a late two-year-old/early three-year-old."
The second highest price of the day came at Lot 93 with
the Zabeel colt from Macanudo (Kingdom Bay) bought by
Graeme Rogerson for $320,000. From a half-sister to
the dam of Queensland Oaks winner Vouvray, the colt
offered by Phoenix Park did not breeze up.
Rogerson was also the leading buyer
of the day with four horses bought for $965,000.
New Zealand Bloodstock Managing Director
Sales & Marketing Petrea Vela said the sale company
was pleased with the results posted at Karaka today.
"This is our first sale since
world financial pressures have come to bear and we are
very pleased by how well the market here is holding
up. We are by no means immune but certainly today's
results are heartening under the current circumstances.
"There is clear strength at the
top of the market but as we anticipated buyers are selective
in their purchasing and the clearance rate reflects
this. We've seen good competition on the sought after
lots but it's a buyers' market and there is still plenty
of opportunity to acquire some good quality young stock
over the course of tomorrow."
Today's Sale received a notable boost
from the large turnout of international buyers active
ringside at Karaka, in particular from Hong Kong, Singapore,
Malaysia, Australia and Korea. The Seoul Racehorse Owners
Association has been amongst the most prolific international
buyers with ten two-year-olds purchased so far.
2008 Ready to Run Sale Day 1 Statistics
2008 Day 1 2007 Final
AVERAGE $61,128 $61,134
MEDIAN $32,500 $36,000
CLEARANCE 61% 70%
AGGREGATE $6,907,500 (113 Lots Sold) $15,100,000 (247
Lots Sold)
TOP LOT $400,000 (B.C. Red Ransom x Lady Circles) $500,000
(B.C Rock of Gibraltar x Run and Hide)
Top Ten Lots Lot Type Breeding Vendor
Purchaser Price
62 BR.C Red Ransom / Lady Circles ESKER LODGE MR S GRAY
(Singapore) $400,000
93 B.G Zabeel / Macanudo PHOENIX PARK ROGERSON BLOODSTOCK
(Hamilton) $320,000
39 B.C Keeper / Jazzmatazz PHOENIX PARK MR C MCANULTY
(QLD) $300,000
143 G.C Galileo / Our Heather LYNDHURST FARM ROGERSON
BLOODSTOCK (Hamilton) $275,000
29 B.C Zabeel / I'm in Heaven MANA PARK ROGERSON BLOODSTOCK
(Hamilton) $260,000
74 B.C Encosta de Lago / La Veine REGAL FARM JOHN FOOTE
BLOODSTOCK (QLD) $260,000
107 B.C Dehere / Miss Candy PHOENIX PARK MR C MCANULTY
(QLD) $250,000
212 B.G Gold Mine / Shaayil BREMNER BLOODSTOCK MR CP
BEH (Malaysia) $185,000
204 B.C More Than Ready / Sapphire Girl ESKER LODGE
MR ONG TIONG SENG (Singapore) $180,000
156 B.C Viking Ruler / Pastel CHEQUERS STUD WAIKATO
BLOODSTOCK (Hong Kong) $170,000
Leading Buyers by Aggregate Purchaser
Sold Aggregate Average Top Price
ROGERSON BLOODSTOCK 4 $965,000 $241,250 $320,000
NEW ZEALAND BLOODSTOCK 15 $717,500 $47,833 $100,000
MR C MCANULTY 2 $550,000 $275,000 $300,000
MR S GRAY 2 $485,000 $242,500 $400,000
MR CP BEH 3 $385,000 $128,333 $185,000
Leading Sires by Average (3 or more
sold) Sire Sold Average Aggregate Top Price
Keeper 4 $121,500 $486,000 $300,000
Pins 4 $81,000 $324,000 $105,000
Volksraad 3 $65,833 $197,500 $82,500
Golan 3 $62,500 $187,500 $110,000
Handsome Ransom 4 $61,250 $245,000 $100,000
Leading Vendors by Average (3 or more
sold) Vendor Sold Average Aggregate Top Price
REGAL FARM 2 $145,000 $290,000 $260,000
PHOENIX PARK 10 $141,150 $1,411,500 $320,000
ESKER LODGE LTD 6 $140,417 $842,500 $400,000
ANZAC LODGE 1 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000
BREMNER BLOODSTOCK 2 $98,750 $197,500 $185,000
Leading Vendors by Aggregate Vendor
Sold Aggregate Average Top Price
PHOENIX PARK 10 $1,411,500 $141,150 $320,000
ESKER LODGE LTD 6 $842,500 $140,417 $400,000
LYNDHURST FARM 6 $566,000 $94,333 $275,000
MANA PARK 7 $555,000 $79,286 $260,000
CHEQUERS STUD 3 $295,000 $98,333 $170,000
A list of the day's Passed Lots can
be viewed online. For further information on any Passed
Lot contact New Zealand Bloodstock.
A further 212 two-year-olds are catalogued for sale
from 11am tomorrow at Karaka. The Sale will also be
streamed live online at http://www.nzb.co.nz./
18/11/08 NZ RTR Sale Live
Online Today
New Zealand Bloodstock's Ready to Run Sale of two-year-olds
kicks off today at Karaka, with the Sale also being
streamed live on the New Zealand Bloodstock website.
Lots 1 to 212 are scheduled to go
under the hammer today (Tuesday 18 November), with the
remaining Lots 213 to 424 on Wednesday 19 November.
Selling commences each day at 11am.
Video clips of the horses breezing
over 200m of the Te Rapa racecourse are available online
and can also be viewed in New Zealand Bloodstock's 'cyber-cafe'
set up at Karaka.
18/11/08 New sale joins
Magic Millions' January carnival
January's Conrad Jupiters Magic Millions
Sales and Racing Carnival in January has got bigger
and better with a new one day thoroughbred sale announced.
The new Magic Millions Summer Carnival
Thoroughbred Sale will be held following the conclusion
of the tradition Yearling Sale on January 18.
And already some high profile lots
have been received for the auction.
Lonhro's multiple stakes winning daughter
Black Minx is set to go under the hammer at the sale.
A winner of the McDougall Stakes and
Sir Douglas Wadley Stakes among five wins last season
at two, Black Minx showed she was on track for a successful
return to the track with a dazzling barrier trial win
last week.
Current trainer Mark Webb is aiming
the filly at the $1 million Conrad Jupiters Magic Millions
3YO Trophy. Following that race she will highlight the
new Summer Carnival Sale.
Also among the entries are two outstanding
racetrack prospects - both being exceptionally bred
two-year-old fillies.
Broken-in but unraced the fillies
are by Redoute's Choice (ex Victory Vein - Champion
Australian 2YO of 2001/02) and Encosta de Lago (ex Fayfa
- making the filly a half sister to Hillfa and Love
Jeddah).
Magic Millions managing director David
Chester said the sale would just be another highlight
of what would be a magnificent thoroughbred event.
"A number of clients have expressed
interest in a sale of this kind for January," Chester
said. "The world's thoroughbred focus is on the
Gold Coast at this time."
"Already we've got some big name
entries and I'm sure plenty more will come in over the
next few weeks."
Anyone interested in nominating a
thoroughbred for the sale should contact the bloodstock
department of Magic Millions on 1300 MILLIONS. An entry
form is available for download on the homepage of the
Magic Millions website.
Entries for the sale close on December
19.
17/11/08 Tell a Tale and
Il Quello Veloce Siblings for Karaka
The emphatic performance by both Tell a Tale and Il
Quello Veloce in the $1,000,000 NZ 2000 Guineas (1600m)
provided an early spotlight on the yearlings to be presented
at the 2009 National Yearling Sales Series at Karaka.
Tell A Tale, in the hands of Troy
Harris, took home the first $1 million race to be run
in the South Island beating favourite Il Quello Veloce,
ridden by Noel Harris, Troy's father. Il Quello Veloce
seemed to have the race in her safe keeping, but a final
burst of speed from Tell A Tale proved otherwise.
The chestnut son of Tale of the Cat
is out of the Sir Tristram mare, Cheeky Veronika and
was bred by Davilora Lodge. A half-brother to Tell A
Tale by Snippetson (Snippets) will be available at the
2009 New Zealand Bloodstock Premier Yearling Sale in
the Ainsley Downs draft.
Following Tell A Tale's victory on
Saturday, Courtney Howells of Ainsley Downs said, "It
took me a while to stop shaking. Like everyone else,
I didn't think he could get clear in the straight, never
mind get up and win. He was almost the forgotten horse,
and he has kept on delivering. The way that he is finishing
his races, you would think he may go even further."
Courtney described his Snippetson-Cheeky
Veronica colt as, "A colt with real presence about
him, he is an impressive, athletic colt, with a great
head and a good length of rein."
To add another string to the bow of
the Karaka Yearling Sales Series in 2009, Westbury Stud
has a full brother to Il Quello Veloce (Captain Rio
- Nishaani, by Gold Brose) in the Premier Sale. The
filly put in a monumental effort to run second in the
NZ 2000 Guineas against the best of New Zealand's colts,
a performance that compliments her Group 1 victory at
two, with lots more in store for the future on current
form.
Russell Warwick of Westbury Stud describes
their colt as "a lovely, lovely colt, well grown,
very forward and a quality individual in his own right".
Warwick expects a lot of interest in the colt who "
is in the similar mould to his sister, a filly who was
outstanding at two and has carried that on into her
three-year-old year".
It was a great week for Captain Rio
(Pivotal) with two-year-old Brazilian Princess (Saigon
Princess, by Rhythm) winning by six lengths at the Gold
Coast on Wednesday, and Alegrio (ex Eledance, by Dancing
Spree) winning in a strong three-year-old Handicap at
Tauranga on Saturday for trainer Richard Collett. Both
are Karaka graduates and both were sold by Raffles Farm.
The 2009 Karaka National Yearling
Sales Series is set to begin on 26 January, with catalogues
available from 1 December 2008.
17/11/08 No Excuse Needed
(GB) Back in the Black-type Spotlight
Hot on the heels of registering his
landmark first Gr.1 winner last Saturday, Waikato Stud’s
resident stallion No Excuse Needed (GB) (Machiavellian)
has returned to the black-type spotlight.
Anchored into Gr.1 sire status by
his 3YO daughter Daffodil (NZ) in last weekend’s
NZ 1000 Guineas (1600m), the young Machiavellian stallion
returned to Riccarton racetrack’s limelight on
Saturday after filly Lesley Brook (NZ) took out the
Listed Ford Welcome Stakes (1000m) for two-year-olds.
Bred by JS Otway, Lesley Brook (NZ)
was purchased by her trainer Terry Kennedy at the 2008
South Island Sale of 2YO’s & Mixed Bloodstock
for $28,000. Remarkably she has already recouped this
price for owners, the FA King Family Trust, after just
one outing.
No Excuse Needed (GB) added to his
recent landmark Gr.1 win on Saturday.
According to Mark Chittick of Waikato
Stud, however, Lesley Brook’s win was not the
only impressive debut performance for No Excuse Needed
(GB) on the day.
“Not only did Lesley Brook win but he had Take
The Rap finish second at his first ever start for Danny
O'Brien in the Listed Triple M Rocking Horse Stakes
at Sandown,” Chittick told NZTM of the multiple
English group winning miler.
“He’s leaving good looking horses that can
run and are easy to breed to.
“Another thing about No Excuse Needed is that
if a mare has conformational faults, he’s the
one we recommend they be put to, to tidy things up.
Particularly, he benefits from those mares with strength.
He just seems to fine them down and to put athleticism
into them.
“Its been an amazing 6 week period of winners
for him, so it’s certainly making it hard to know
where to go with our own mares this season!” said
Chittick.
Standing at Waikato Stud for NZ$12,000 plus GST, No
Excuse Needed (GB) was the Champion New Zealand 2YO
Sire for 2007/08, best remembered that season by son
Vincent Mangano (NZ), winner of the inaugural Karaka
Million.
Sibling success prompts
recollections of Xcellent and Vengeance of Rain
Nov 17, 2008
Fans of the now retired New Zealand-bred
champions Xcellent (NZ) and Vengeance of Rain (NZ) (Zabeel)
were prompted to recall their earlier brilliance on
Saturday, after half-siblings to each struck at Sandown
in Australia.
Xcellent (NZ) (Pentire), a $45,000 graduate of the Premier
Yearling Sale, was a four time Gr.1 winner and dual
winner of New Zealand’s ‘Horse of the Year’
for trainer Mike and Paul Moroney and breeder Garry
Gimblet.
On Saturday, Instructor (NZ), Xcellent’s 5YO half
brother by Pins (AUS) put his best foot forward in the
AU$60,000 Sofrana Hcp (1700m).
Purchased by Rogerson Bloodstock for $115,000 at the
2005 Premier Yearling Sale, Instructor (NZ) has to date
won six of his 14 starts for trainer, John Sadler.
Xcellent has two younger brothers yet to hit the track.
To the future, the next chapter for
dam, Excelo, will be achieved with Excel King (NZ),
an unraced 3YO brother to Xcellent who will step from
the Melbourne stable of Danny O’Brien.
Excelo successfully returned to Pentire for a colt foal
in 2006, and has subsequently produced her first filly
in 2007 following a mating with Zabeel – to whom
she returned this year.
Keen followers of the NZ-bred Hong Kong hero Vengeance
of Rain (NZ) had to wait until the last on the Sandown
card before witnessing the sibling success, but were
rewarded for doing so when his Elusive Quality half-sister
Bernicia achieved her second Listed level win in the
$100,500 TBV Summoned Stakes (1500m).
In all, the Guy Walter-trained four-year-old has attained
a record of 9:4,0,1.
Out of the Australian-bred Danehill mare, Danelagh,
Bernicia is not only a half sister to the six time Gr.1
winning Hong Kong star, but to the Gr.1 Australian Oaks
(2400m) winning Zabeel mare Dizelle (NZ) also.
Interestingly, Sandown was not the only Australian venue
where siblings of NZ Bred Gr.1 heroes would shine.
At Rosehill in Sydney, an O’Reilly half to the
2004 Gr.1 Caulfield Guineas hero Econsul (NZ) named
Jedburgh (NZ) was to the fore, winning the $70,000 TAB
MOBI Hcp (1400m) for trainer David Hayes.
16/11/08 First Winner
for Antonius Pius
Young Danzig stallion Antonius Pius
featured at Eagle Farm on Saturday posting his first
winner when the Trevor Miller trained Big Tony (2c Antonius
Pius x Miss Conception, by Danzero) saluted in the open
juvenile event over 1000 metres.
Fourth on debut at Doomben on November
1 when he made a mess of the start, Big Tony made no
such mistakes this time jumping well from barrier two
to lead throughout, then kicking away to win by a length
and a half.
A $40,000 purchase from the draft
of Bylong Park Thoroughbreds at the 2008 Magic Millions
Yearling Sale, Big Tony is from the Danzero mare Miss
Conception. He is the first foal of his dam who is an
unraced daughter of Group Two winner Prefer an Angel.
Antonius Pius was a brilliant juvenile
himself winning the Group Two Railway Stakes at the
Curragh and training on at three to place in the Group
One Breeders Cup Mile an the St James Palace Stakes
at Royal Ascot.
A $1.5 million yearling purchase,
Antonius Pius is also a magnificent individual and has
the matching pedigree being from unbeaten Group One
winner Catchascatchcan, who comes from the family of
former champion sire Oncidium.
Antonius Pius is standing his fourth
season in Australia at Coolmore this spring at a fee
of $8,800.
14/11/08 Latest news
from Glenlogan park stud
SHOW A HEART’S very promising 4YO gelding Rightfully
Yours booked a plane ticket to Perth and a shot at G1
glory after
proving far too classy for his rivals in the $100,000
Emirates Airline Stakes (1400m) at Flemington last Saturday.
Rightfully Yours is unbeaten as a 4YO, having managed
to string together 6 wins from his last 7 starts, and
appears to be a
real star on the rise.
The emerging galloper arrived in Perth on Tuesday after
a long 9 hour flight where he has been installed the
equal favourite (with
Marasco) for the G1 $1 million Railway Stakes (1600m)
to be run at Ascot on November 22nd.
“He is a promising horse, a good strong gelding
and is ready to go,” trainer Mick Price said after
the race.
“He hadn’t had a start for 6 weeks and I
feared he may have been a little vulnerable today over
the final 100m but his class shone
through and he was still very strong to the line.
“He will take plenty of benefit out of that race
and if things fall into place over in Perth then I am
sure he will prove very competitive.”
Jockey Craig Newitt felt he got to the front too early
last weekend but circumstances dictated that he had
no choice.
“When another runner came around us at the 700m
he grabbed hold of the bridle and pulled himself up
3 wide as they rounded the
turn,” Newitt said. “We then hit the lead
way too early and left ourselves as sitting shots but
he was just classes above them.
“He is a genuine G1 horse this fellow and we rated
him the best of the 3YOs from the stable (Price yard)
last year.
“Unfortunately things just didn’t go his
way and he needed gelding and maturing but now that
is done we are starting to see what he
can really do.”
SHOW A HEART’S offspring and trainer Mick Price
have forged an outstanding partnership over the last
few years and last weekend’s victory by Rightfully
Yours took the tally to an amazing “19 wins from
49 times to the races” for the combination.
Mick is hoping to make that an even 40% (20 from 50)
when his dual G3 winning 5YO Gotta Have Heart lines
up in the Listed
$100,000 Kevin Heffernan Stakes (1300m) at Sandown tomorrow
but warns that there will need to be stacks of luck
fall his way if
that is to occur.
“He has given the owners plenty of great times
this horse and he has now won well over $300,000,”
Mick said. “But he has just
got a few niggling problems that will make it a little
tough for him from here on in.
“He has unquestionably got the raw ability to
take this race out on Saturday but he is finding it
hard to hit the line with the same
force as he did this time last year.
“We will just let him bowl along at his leisure
in the lead and it will be a matter of crossing our
fingers and hoping things go our way.”
SHOW A HEART and Mick Price have plenty to look forward
to in the autumn as well with the stakes winning 3YO
Heart Of
Dreams’ victory last month proving to be one of
the form races of the carnival.
Despite Mick openly stating that Heart Of Dreams had
come to the end of his preparation and was certainly
not at his peak, the
Show A Heart gelding easily saluted in the Listed Winning
Edge Presentation Cup four weeks ago, back on October
18.
And whilst Mick sent his charge to the paddock with
an eye on the G1 Cadbury Guineas in the autumn, there
have been plenty of horses who finished well beaten
behind Heart Of Dreams that have come out and franked
the form time and time again.
The first to do this was Dr Doute’s, who could
only manage 4th to Heart Of Dreams, when he came out
at his next start on
November 1st and easily won the $260,000 G3 Carbine
Club Stakes.
The second cab off the rank was Stokehouse, who finished
8th to Heart Of Dreams, before literally smashing his
rivals
on Oaks Day at Flemington in the $150,000 Listed Fashion
Stakes.
And then last week we saw Drumbeats, who finished an
easily beaten runner up to Heart Of Dreams, come out
and stroll away
with the $150,000 Listed Hilton International Stakes
at Flemington.
Obviously, taking into account the subsequent results,
there is no questioning the strength of the Heart Of
Dreams form-line
from that day. And considering he was far from his top
in that stakes victory then there is little doubt that
he is one serious racehorse
of the future.
We would think that anything Price sets this youngster
for is going to be well within his reach and, should
things go smoothly in the
lead up to March, he is sure to present a huge obstacle
to all challengers come G1 Guineas time.
FALVELON kept an incredible run of Saturday Brisbane
city winners rolling along when his only runner on the
Doomben card
last weekend, Borsha’s Mark, saluted to make it
4 winners from 4 races within the last fortnight.
Borsha’s Mark was asked to jump from the extreme
outside alley of 16 but mustered speed quickly to cross
the big field and then
set a solid tempo as he bowled along in front.
The Falvelon 4YO had put the writing on the wall 2 weeks
previously, after being narrowly beaten into third placing,
and he looked
ready to produce his best last Saturday.
The win took the Les Kelly trained youngster’s
prizemoney to within an inch of one quarter of a million
dollars ($247,450) and
he has been a wonderful money earner for his owner/breeders.
Borsha’s Mark’s victory was full of merit
but Kelly considers he is just starting to return to
his best after really suffering from
the EI injections and expects we will see an even more
improved horse next time out.
The unlucky runner in the race was unquestionably the
Show A Heart gelding Main Vein.
Main Vein finished a rapidly closing 3rd after failing
to secure a run for most of the straight and, if he
had of got clear galloping
room earlier, there is no doubt he would have made the
finish very exciting indeed.
However, return bouts for the pair will not be far away
as the two quality sprinters will have a chance to square
off against each other a
number of times in the next month or so as they both
target the lucrative summer sprint series here in Brisbane.
This series kicks off on November 22 with the $100,000
Keith Noud Quality Hcp (1200m) at Eagle Farm, before
moving on to
the $200,000 G3 George Moore Stakes (1200m) at Doomben
on December 6 and then culminating in the $200,000 Listed
City
Pacific Doomben Stakes (1350m) on December 20.
SHOW A HEART’S glamour mare Mimi Lebrock signed
off a very successful Spring Carnival campaign with
a typically tough and
courageous placing in the G1 Emirates Stakes at Flemington
last weekend.
The former Magic Millions winner claimed a G2 victory
(the Tristarc Stakes), a G3 victory (the Let’s
Elope Stakes) and two G1
placings (in the Myer Classic and the Emirates Stakes)
over the last few months to cement her reputation as
one of the best of
her sex in the land.
In addition she watched her prize-money earnings soar
well over the $1 million barrier to land at $1,149,595.
FALVELON has a few very real and genuine chances at
Eagle Farm tomorrow to keep his amazing strike rate
ticking along.
In Race 2 on the card the desperately unlucky Kryptelon
will line up over 1200m for jockey Jim Byrne in what
appears to be a
very competitive race for fillies and mares.
The David Kelly trained 4YO finished strongly to just
miss out a nose 2nd back on October 4th to Dance Girl
Dance at Doomben
over 1200m and then was finishing better than anything
else when a very fast closing 7th (beaten less than
a length) to Desdemona over the same course and distance
on October 25.
She has not had clear running when she has needed it
most at her last two outings and is much better suited
to the wider spaces
of Eagle Farm than the tighter turning track of Doomben.
Kryptelon’s last run just couldn’t have
been missed by smart form students and if she gets a
clear crack at them in the straight
tomorrow then she will certainly take some holding out.
ONE MARE hoping to do just that is the Helen Page trained
Show A Heart 5YO Satsang who resumes off a 5 month break
in
the same event.
“She has been working really well and has done
everything right this time in,” Helen said earlier
this week. “We gave her a jump-out to
fit her up and were very pleased with how she performed
and came through.
“The 1200m is probably a little short of her ideal
distance but she is such a good fresh horse that she
certainly can’t be discarded.
“She can absolutely fly at the end of her races
if the luck runs with her and she gets an uninterrupted
passage but she has a few
little idiosyncrasies that can sometimes go against
her.
“She has plenty of class and we are anticipating
that she will be in for a good campaign.
Tomorrow should see her hitting the line hard and she
is a great each way hope.”
Satsang last stepped out in the G1 Winter Stakes against
Absolut Glam and co. in June earlier this year, but
found the footing way too
wet for her liking.
She has a lethal first up record having won 2 and being
placed once from 4 attempts and if the pace is on will
give this a real shake.
FALVELON will have the impressive last start winner
Geebeetee representing him in Race 5 at Eagle Farm after
the McLachlan
stable elected to scratch him from a midweek event that
was far easier.
The 4YO gelding will be going into tomorrow’s
assignment 3rd up from a spell and off the back of a
strong 1.25 length victory over
1200m at the Sunshine Coast on November 2.
He will be meeting far tougher opposition here but drops
4.5kg and is a very consistent galloper having won,
or placed, in 9 of his 17
career starts.
Both Another Target and Firedrake look big obstacles
to overcome but Geebeetee will be at great odds and
will be strong at the finish if
he can gain a good run in transit.
SHOW A HEART will have the well-performed Showify representing
the Glenlogan Park sire roster in Race 6 at Eagle Farm
and he should be right amongst the action again this
week.
Gold Coast trainer Stephen Lowe believes Showify has
his hoof right on the till and will give a great sight
in the $75,000 Listed
Brisbane Handicap (1600m).
Showify has been threatening to win at his past 4 starts,
including his last 2 outings when an unlucky 4th to
Prosecution in a
1500-metre Open at Eagle Farm on October 18 and a last-start
2nd to Hard To Catch in a 1615-metre Open at Doomben.
“He's been a bit unlucky lately and could easily
have won his last two starts," Lowe said. “He
had the outside barrier last start
and got too far back then got held up for 50m approaching
the home turn.
"The day he ran 4th at Eagle Farm he was held up
again and only got into the clear 250m out."
Showify produced an eye-catching performance in the
Magic Millions Stayers Cup (1800m) in March when he
flashed home for
a desperately unlucky 3rd after drawing the outside
barrier and most think he should have won it easily.
"I'm planning to run him in the Stayers Cup again
and if he goes well I'll aim him for the winter carnival
races next year," Lowe said.
SHOW A HEART will have his 4YO grey gelding Heart Of
The Citi looking to break back into the winners circle
in Race 7 and,
despite the tricky alley, he looks a great chance of
achieving that.
Trainer Pat Duff usually lets his talented galloper
race his way back into fitness and Heart Of The Citi
tackles tomorrow’s field at his 3rd
run back from a spell and appearing ready to peak.
The Magic Millions winning gelding didn’t get
much room in the final stages when resuming for a close
up 4th over 1000m at
Eagle Farm back on October 18 and then was caught 3
wide without cover over 1200m two weeks later when doing
a big job to keep
finding the line right to the finish and landing 3rd
placing.
He looks really ready to go on with it tomorrow and
can give this a big shake regardless of the bad barrier.
GLENLOGAN PARK supporters won’t know which way
to look in the last race at Eagle Farm on Saturday with
3 very exciting youngsters
set to do battle.
Falvelon will have two entries with the Helen Page trained
Power Of George looking to make it 4 Falvelon winners
for the Page stable in
the space of just 15 days.
Page has saddled up Powerful Light, Falontime and Vulcania
all to success within the last fortnight and expects
“George” to give backers
a great sight tomorrow.
Robert Heathcote may also have a Falvelon runner in
the race if he elects to go to the post with the very
well thought of debutant Gundy Son.
Gundy Son has trialed in sensational fashion but Heathcote
is wary of throwing him in the deep end at his first
day out.
“He only has to make one mistake at the 1000m
distance and he is gone,” Rob said. “He
has been a little slow from the jump in his trials but
if he did bounce cleanly he would be really competitive
for sure.
“However it would be a big plus to start him out
on his home track, and with a fair barrier, and I suppose
there aren’t too many longterm
negatives if things don’t go our way and we get
rolled.
“In the end, I will leave it up to the owners
and they probably won’t decide until Saturday
morning.”
Heathcote will also saddle up Show A Heart’s very
talented 3YO Woorim.
“He hasn’t trialed and will be using this
as his first really serious hit-out this campaign,”
Rob added. “The distance may be a bit too short
for him but the horse has come back in sensational order
and I think he is going to be
in for a big preparation.
“If they go absolutely crazy up front he is definitely
capable of swamping them at the finish - but it will
be the next few runs that I
am really looking forward to from this bloke.”
14/11/08 Tattersalls
the World's International thoroughbred sale
Widely regarded as the most influential
thoroughbred sale in the world, the Tattersalls December
Sale has long been the source of legends. The outstanding
VAGUELY NOBLE, who was the winner of the Group 1 Observer
Gold Cup at the time, was offered at the 1967 December
Sales, selling for a record price before going on to
win the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe the following
year. The legendary French 2,000 Guineas winner and
successful sire BLUSHING GROOM was sold as a foal at
the 1974 December Sales for only 16,500 guineas and
perhaps most famously of all, LADY ANGELA, the dam of
the breed-shaping NEARCTIC, sire of arguably the greatest
stallion of all time, NORTHERN DANCER, was sold at the
1952 December Sales for the sale topping price of 10,500
guineas.
Buyers from more than 50 countries
have been coming to the Tattersalls December Sale for
more than 100 years, searching for the filly or mare
to form the foundation for future generations of success
as well as the chance to catch up with old friends and
to make new acquaintances. In recent years the number
of Australians heading to Tattersalls for the December
Sale has grown as buyers sought new bloodlines and quality
in a market that no longer comes at a premium.
The horse that has commanded most
of the headlines in recent years is the triple Group
1 Melbourne Cup winner MAKYBE DIVA. MAKYBE DIVA is a
product of the Tattersalls December Sales, her dam TUGELA
having been purchased at the 1998 December Mare Sale
by agent John Foote for 60,000 guineas carrying MAKYBE
DIVA in utero. Purchasers who missed that opportunity
to buy her were given another bite of the cherry the
following year when the resulting DESERT KING foal was
offered at the December Foal Sale, but the chance went
begging and after being led out unsold at 19,000 guineas,
the filly who was to rewrite history was sent to Australia.
The remarkable TUGELA has also been represented by the
recent Group 2 Shannon Stakes winner MUSKET and Group
3 winner VALKYRIE DIVA.
In fact John Foote has enjoyed great
success buying at the December Sale, having also purchased
HAPPY HEART for 50,000 guineas the year after he bought
TUGELA. Her DANEHILL DANCER filly ARAPAHO MISS won the
Group 1 Victoria Oaks 12 months ago.
Buyers do not need to look back too
far in Australian and New Zealand racing folklore to
uncover other Tattersalls graduates who have helped
shape the Australasian breed. At the 1979 Tattersalls
December Sales a mare called EIGHT CARAT was knocked
down for 9,400 guineas. Subsequently sold to Sir Patrick
Hogan and repatriated to New Zealand, she went on to
prove one of the most influential mares in Australasian
racing and breeding as the dam of five Group 1 winners
in OCTAGONAL, MOUAWAD, DIAMOND LOVER, KAAPSTAD and (OUR)
MARQUISE and grand dam or great grand dam of a further
seven Group 1 winners.
Other mares whose progeny have excelled
on the racecourse include BENEDICTION, who was purchased
at the 1989 December Mare Sale for only 17,000 guineas
and is the dam of 1997 Melbourne Cup winner and dual
Australian Horse of the Year MIGHT AND POWER.
The key to any sale is the success
of its graduates and the December Sale certainly measures
up on all fronts. So far in 2008 the progeny of graduates
of the Tattersalls December Sale have won no less that
26 Group 1 races across all parts of the globe including
England, Ireland, France, USA, Hong Kong, South Africa,
Canada, Brazil, India and Australia. They include the
Irish Derby and Oaks winners FROZEN FIRE and MOONSTONE,
the Group 1 juvenile winners BUSHRANGER, FAME AND GLORY
and AGAIN, the remarkable YEATS, winner of the Gold
Cup three times, and NAAQOOS, impressive winner of the
Group 1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere on Arc day and favourite
for next year’s 2000 Guineas with many bookmakers.
The Tattersalls flag was flown in Australia during the
last 12 months by Stradbroke winner MR BARITONE whose
dam TUNISIA cost a mere 16,000 guineas, PORTILLO, whose
dam SNOWDRIFT was purchased for 10,000 guineas by agent
Kieran Moore and the aforementioned ARAPAHO MISS.
One thing few Australians will have
missed during the last couple of months has been the
fall in the Australian Dollar. What is worth noting
though is that the Pound has been falling just as quickly
and so buying at Tattersalls will cost Australian buyers
no more than it did 12 months ago.
The Tattersalls December Sales run
from November 24th – December 4th and comprises
one day of yearlings, five days of foals and a further
four days of broodmares and fillies in training. All
of the top European owner/breeders have significant
consignments and catalogues are available now from Tattersalls
and Tattersalls representatives and online now at www.tattersalls.com.
Countdown
on for NZ Ready to Run Sale
The countdown is on with over 400 well educated two
year olds set to go under the hammer in New Zealand
Bloodstock's Ready to Run Sale next Tuesday 18 November
and Wednesday 19 November from 11am each day.
The success of Kiwi breds over the
Melbourne Spring Carnival bodes well for the Sale with
the versatile breed carrying the NZ suffix to four Group
1 victories over 1200m (Swick), 1400m (Orange County),
1600m (Alamosa), and 2000m (Maldivian). The highlight
was of course Maldivian's (Zabeel) victory in Australasia's
feature weight for age event the $3,000,000 Group 1
Cox Plate while the Group 1 success was backed up with
five winners at Group 2 level, three winners at Group
3 level, and four at Listed level.
The New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to
Run Sale has provided some great success for buyers
with six Group 1 winners in the past two seasons being
purchased from the unique two-year-old sale. From last
year alone the Sale has produced 36 winners, remarkable
considering they are only spring three-year-olds. Rockdale
(Danroad - Komplete Kaos, by Desert Sun) has been the
real headline act for last year's sale with his impressive
victory in the Group 1 TJ Smith Classic (1600) for trainer
John Morrissey who purchased the colt from last year's
sale for $135,000 from the draft of Phoenix Park.
Joining Rockdale as one of four stakes
winners to emerge from the 2007 Ready to Run Sale to
date is Kildonan (Invincible Spirit - Game Lady, by
Lord Seymour) who won the Listed Bonecrusher Stakes
(1400m) in September. Just 12 months after being purchased
for $56,000 by Michael Wallace Bloodstock from Anzac
Lodge, Kildonan will line up tomorrow in the $1,000,000
New Zealand 2000 Guineas at Riccarton.
The 2008 Karaka Ready to Run Sale
offers a great opportunity for buyers to buy the progeny
of Australasia's very best stallions with Group 1 sires
like Al Akbar, Align, Anabaa, Black Minnaloushe, Cape
Cross, Captain Rio, Daggers Drawn, Danasinga, Danroad,
Danske, Danzero, Dehere, Deputy Governor, Dubai Destination,
El Moxie, Encosta De Lago, Faltaat, Fantastic Light,
Flying Spur, French Deputy, Galileo, General Nediym,
Giant's Causeway, Golan, His Royal Highness, Honours
List, Howbaddouwantit, Hussonet, Istidaad, Jungle Pocket,
Kaapstad, Kashani, Keeper, Magic Albert, More Than Ready,
No Excuse Needed, Octagonal, O'Reilly, Pentire, Pins,
Postponed, Quest For Fame, Red Ransom, Rock of Gibraltar,
Sandtrap, Secret Savings, Sequalo, Shinko King, Spinning
World, Star Way, Storm Creek, Strategic, Stravinsky,
Street Cry, Towkay, Van Nistelrooy, Volksraad, and Zabeel
represented.
As well as the impressive six-length
win by Sousa (Galileo) in the Group 1 AJC Spring Champion
Stakes boosting the pedigree of his three-quarter-brother
by High Chaparral at Lot 81, there are a number of updates
to the pedigrees on offer at this year's Sale including:
· Lot 193 - B.F. Pins - Roaring
Meg (Centaine): This filly's sister Bella Valentina
is now a stakes winner after capturing the Listed SAJC's
Durbridge Stakes on 18 October.
· Lot 212, a bay colt by Gold
Mine, further boosted his credentials by winning a Cambridge
trial by five lengths on 23 September. He's eligible
for the Karaka Million and will be offered on account
of Bremner Bloodstock. · Lot 254 - C.G. Howbaddouwantit
-The Candidate (Deputy Governor): This colt's dam is
a half-sister to Group 1 Kelt Capital Stakes winner
Prized Gem, who herself has left last season's Group
1 AJC Derby winner Nom De Jeu (Montjeu). Trained by
Murray and Bjorn Baker, he has recently placed in both
the Group 1 Kelt Capital Stakes and the Group 1 Caulfield
Cup.
· Lot 305 - a chestnut colt
by Bertolini beat eight rivals by one length in a trial
on 24 October. His two year old form really represents
what he was bred to do being by speedster Bertolini
from a half sister to stakes winning juvenile Chuckle
(Danehill). GCTC 2YO Classic winner Catnipped (Rory's
Jester) is also present further down the page. Lot 305
will be offered by Charisse Lodge.
· Lot 369 - B.C. One Cool Cat
- Crimson (Zabeel): The Stravinsky filly Miss Scarlatti
has provided three valuable updates to her half-brother's
pedigree with her win in the Listed VRC Super Impose
Stakes and second placing in the Group 1 VRC Oaks, Group
2 Wakeful Stakes, and earlier in the Group 3 MRC Norman
Robinson Stakes.
To view a full list of pedigree updates
visit www.nzb.co.nz
The Breeze Up Clip Cyber Café
will also be up and running at the Karaka complex, making
it quick and easy for buyers to judge the galloping
action of the two year olds on offer.
The New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to
Run Sale is also your last chance to secure a horse
to run for the 2009 Karaka Million on the 25th of January.
There are 40 lots entered in the Sale eligible to vie
for a spot in the feature one million dollar race.
There are also 15 horses eligible
for the Carnival Sale Bonus of $100,000, which goes
to the first 2008 Carnival Sale graduate past the post
in the 2YO Carnival Sale Bonus Race at Ellerslie on
Derby Day 2009.
The 2008 Ready to Run Sale will
be conducted at Karaka on 18 & 19 November from
11am each day.
13/11/08 Inglis
TV Announced at Asian Racing Conference
Inglis Managing Director Mark Webster
addressed the Asian Racing Conference in Tokyo today
on technology innovations in the business of thoroughbred
auctioneer houses. During the presentation he appropriately
announced the newest innovation, that being the launch
of Inglis TV which will be up and running by December.
Inglis TV aims to inform and entertain
industry participants. It will provide worldwide access
to live, recent and archived video content on a wide
range of web based channels.
Inglis TV will not only host the popular
live TVN coverage of Inglis sales, but will also be
a medium for coverage of topics relative to the thoroughbred
industry, including informative information relating
to sales, breeding and racing. There will be a channel
dedicated to user generated or 'home' video submissions
and provide access to a wide range of Sirecam content.
“I was delighted to be asked
to address the Asian Racing Conference on the many innovations
Inglis has introduced in the past year and it was timely
that this latest project we have been working on - which
is a world first for sales companies - could be announced
here,” Webster said.
“The advertainment channel should
provide viewers with some light hearted laughs, featured
are some very clever ads for Three Chimney’s Farm
in Kentucky,” he added.
Inglis TV joins a growing list of
internet innovations to be introduced by Inglis in the
past year, including an online X-ray repository, internet
bidding and eCommerce. For a preview on what’s
to come on Inglis TV, go to www.inglis.tv.
13/11/08 Latest news
from Chatswood stud
Our 3 young stallions Rakti, Primus and Niello have
been frequent visitors to the serving barn this season,
with each attracting over 100 mare bookings. Rakti is
leading the race at the moment with 140 mares however
Niello and Primus are coming home with well timed late
runs.
This is particularly pleasing in a year where financial
and drought conditions are generally causing decreases
in the number of mares bred. Chatswood wishes to thank
our loyal band of supporters, and new clients for supporting
our stallions in 2008
Leading Sydney Trainer and part owner of Primus, John
O’Shea visited Chatswood during October to congratulate
his multiple Group 1 performed Stallion during another
successful year at Stud.
Joined by Wassim Gazal of Gazal Thoroughbreds, they
expressed their joy over the popularity of this magnificent
son of Champion Sire Flying Spur. The foals speak for
themselves”, commented John. “They are great
types” and with over 100 Mares flocking back to
Primus this season for more of a good thing the forecast
for this Sire is excellent.
Wassim who was owner/racer and is now owner/ breeder
of Primus also couldn’t be happier with the result.
“ With mare numbers down in general this season,
Primus is certainly stamping breeder confidence from
his first crop of outstanding foals, and this is translating
to his impressive book of Mares in 2008&#
