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Classy mare Illuminates added another stakes win to her record when she steamed home to win the listed Angst Handicap (1400m) at Randwick on Saturday.
The five-year-old mare by Strategic, an $86,000 yearling purchase for trainer Graeme Rogerson at the 2006 Magic Millions National Yearling Sale, finished too well for Patronyme in an all Magic Millions finish.
Rogerson was impressed with the performance of the well bred mare to sprint home over the top of a classy field of mares.
"The ground suited her and it was a very good ride by Peter (Wells)," Rogerson commented. "The two get along very well together."
"She's a very good mare and she has got a great turn of foot - it was great to see her win another big race."
Connections are now contemplating a trip south to Melbourne for a race over the coming weeks of the Spring Carnival.
Illuminates' record reads out at eight wins and 13 minor placings from 43 starts and earnings of over $630,000. She has won or placed in no fewer than seven stakes races.
The mare is one of two winners from the well bred and good producing Danzero mare Dazzle Light.
Unraced, Dazzle Light is a daughter of the Group One Queensland Oaks winner Travel Light - making her a half sister to former grand Sydney galloper Stoway.
Dazzle Light is also a half sister to London Lights, the city winning dam of group one winner Only a Lady (dam of Redwood Falls) and stakes winner Lisson Grove.
Further back it is the family of stakes winners including Our Tristalight, Tudor Light, Tudor Sky, Roman Candle, Dance On Air and Dream Machine.
Dazzle Light's latest yearling, a cracking bay colt by red hot sire More Than Ready, is one of the quality lots of a star studded draft from Baramul Stud heading to January's Magic Millions Yearling Sale at the Gold Coast.
The draft from Baramul will include youngsters by such outstanding sires as Redoute's Choice, Encosta de Lago, General Nediym, Exceed and Excel, Testa Rossa, Stratum and More Than Ready. |
| BARAMUL FILLY RUNS FASTEST BREEZE UP |
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Lightning times were the order of the day at the Gold Coast Turf Club today when the first of two breeze up sessions in the lead up to the 2009 Magic Millions Horses in Training Sale was held.
Some 34 horses broke the magical 11 seconds barrier - headlined by the 10.35 seconds carved out by a filly by Sequalo from Baramul Stud.
Catalogued as lot number 138, the Sequalo filly is the first foal of a Danehill three quarter sister to Verstak and half sister to Show of Force.
Two colts - by Danzero and Happy Giggle - ran the second quickest time of the day - 10.4 seconds.
Another pair of two-year-olds ran under 10.5 - colts by Danehill stallions Untouchable and Fastnet Rock.
First season sires to impress with sub 11 runners included the likes of Stratum, Hidden Dragon, Keep the Faith, Snitzel, Jet Spur, Greenwood Lake and Snippetson.
Others to run under 11 seconds today included progeny of proven sires including Flying Spur, Bel Esprit, Sequalo, Al Maher, Testa Rossa, Hussonet, More Than Ready, Bletchley Park, Fastnet Rock, Savabeel and Tale of the Cat.
Magic Millions Managing Director David Chester said the session was extremely successful with a number of stand out performances.
"We've never had so many horses run under 11 seconds here at the Gold Coast track before," Chester said.
"And this just the first session of breeze ups - there will be plenty more to be put through their paces next month."
Chester said the horses were exceptionally presented by their vendors and he was confident they would be well received by prospective buyers in the lead up the popular auction.
"The vendors keep getting more professional each year," Chester pointed out. "They should be congratulated for how the day went."
"There are plenty of good looking horses and most importantly they all look exciting racetrack prospects."
Video clips from the breeze ups will be available from Thursday on the Magic Millions website.
And entries remain open for the new racehorse sale to be held on the day following the second session of the Horses in Training Sale next month.
"Entries are just $150 plus GST - this is the best spot to offer your tried galloper to a worldwide buying bench."
Anyone requiring information on any of the sale days should contact the Bloodstock Department of Magic Millions.
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| McCLINTOCK ALL THE WAY IN BILL RITCHIE |
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McClintock notched his first stakes win at Randwick today with an exciting all the way victory in the $125,000 Group Three Bill Ritchie Handicap (1400m).
In holding out fellow Magic Millions graduate Walking Or Dancing, McClintock scored a deserved stakes success after minor placings in his past two efforts - the Concorde Stakes and Newcastle Newmarket.
The win was the first at group level for trainer Mark De Montfort, a former top class Sydney rider.
De Montfort said he was delighted with how Glyn Schofield handled the son of King Cugat during the race.
"He tries too hard in the middle of his races but Glyn rode him beautifully so it was great."
"He was my first Randwick winner and now my first Group winner."
De Montfort said he was enjoying training and hoped McClintock would continue to grow his list of feature victories.
"I don't miss the riding, I hoed down two hot dogs before the race, so I feel pretty good and it certainly helps to get results like this."
Winning rider Glyn Schofield was delighted with the performance and praised his mount for a tough win in tricky conditions for leaders.
"The key is to not get him switched on," Schofield reported. "He is a very easy to switch on, you only have to move a little bit and he is on his way."
"I think the field was letting him dictate from out in front today because it is hard to win out there with the wind, so this horse has done well."
Schofield said he had no reason to worry during the race - always happy with how his charge travelled.
"He gave me a good ride. He always felt like he was in control. When we topped the rise he gave a good kick."
A graduate of the 2006 Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale, McClintock is raced by retail supremo and outstanding Australian breeder Gerry Harvey.
With his group victory, McClintock boosted his record to five wins and nine minor placings from 18 starts and earnings of $299,750. Not bad for a horse who could have been yours for just $30,000.
McClintock is the 13th stakes winner for his sire, Kingmambo's classy son King Cugat.
His headline act to date has been the former top Mark Kavanagh trained mare Devil Moon - ironically a graduate also of the Adelaide Yearling Sale - albeit twelve months earlier than McClintock.
McClintock's dam, the lightly raced Danzero mare She's Sweet, is a half sister to eight winners including the stakes performers Little Pattie and Silver Arch.
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| FIRST COMMAND EMERGES AS NEXT SPRINT STAR |
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First Command confirmed his status as one of the country's most promising sprinters when he led home a Magic Millions trifecta in the listed The Heath (1100m) at Caulfield today.
A $170,000 buy for Hall of Fame horseman Lee Freedman at the 2007 Magic Millions Yearling Sale, First Command was sent out the popular elect with punters and he didn't let them down - cruising home for an easy win.
The son of Commands is unbeaten since a gelding operation, which followed his debut effort.
And Freedman was thrilled with the result. He did have some reservations before the race - thinking a couple of things were against his rising star.
"I was really happy. I was worried about the conditions of the race and then I was worried when the rain came - his really only bad run was on rain affected ground."
"He's very good horse I think. I'm just really thrilled with the horse. We thought the ground would be against him and he came through it really well."
While knowing he has to take another step up to tackle the country's best sprinters in the spring carnival's Group One events, Freedman knows there's plenty of improvement in his charge.
"These aren't the absolute guns but I think he's climbing the ladder pretty well and I know there's a lot of improvement in the horse."
"I have targeted the Salinger with him. I think that is a realistic goal," Freedman pointed out. "But he will tell me. Maybe we go bigger than that."
Stable rider Dwayne Dunn, who won earlier in the day aboard the South Australian raider Jaalippy, was equally as impressed with the performance and predicted bring things from the four-year-old.
"We didn't have him tuned up for today," Dunn said after weighing in. "He's got a big campaign ahead of him."
"From the wide gate we didn't know whether we'd run or what to do."
"He's going on to bigger and better things. Particularly if he can win this first up - he's going to go a long way this preparation."
The Heath's minor placegetters Masked Assassin ($70,000, GC Yearling) and Here De Angels ($90,000, GC Yearling) both ran well and look set to feature over upcoming features of the carnival.
First Command's record reads out well. Six wins from just seven starts and already his earnings sit at an impressive $189,538.
The winner, bred and sold by Gerry Harvey's Baramul Stud outfit, is a three quarter brother to the Hong Kong based group performer One World.
A son of Danehill Dancer, One World has won seven races in Hong Kong and has earned over HK$6 million. He was second in a Group Three Premier Cup and third in a Group Two Sprint Cup.
Their dam, a 1000 metre winner by Hurricane Sky, is a full sister to former Oakleigh Plate winner River Dove.
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| Gerry adds more black type to his broodmare band |
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Mark Smith writes on www.breednet.com the The Peter Moody trained Miss Judgement was acquired as a broodmare prospect last Easter...............
...........but she is doing a mighty fine job of earning her purchase price back on the track with Thursday’s $150,000 Listed MFS Stakes (1100m) at Flemington her second stakes success since the sale.
Originally trained by Allan Bailey in Brisbane, Miss Judgement had won 8 of her 13 career starts, before being sent to the Easter Broodmare sale in June.
She was knocked down to Scone based bloodstock agent Keiran Moore on behalf of Cressfield Stud for $360,000. The decision to keep the now 5yo mare in training has proved an inspired decision. Sent to the Caulfield stables of Peter Moody she captured the $100,000 Group 3 Stuart Hocking South Yarra Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield on September 1, at just her second run for her new owners.
Following two unplaced runs in the Gilgai Stakes (1200m) and Tristarc Stakes (1400m), where she performed with distinction finishing on the heels of the placegetters, Miss Judgement appreciated coming back in distance in the MFS Stakes.
 As the field headed down the grandstand side, Luke Nolan found a seam for Miss Judgement (Strategic x Miss Jakeo by Unbridled's Song (USA)), who hit the line strongly to defeat the ever-consistent Let Go Thommo (Laranto x Memory True by Is It True (USA)) by three quarters of a length with outsider Message Bank (All Chatter (USA) x Zonki by Zephyr Zip (NZ)) a half head away in third. The race brought to end the seven run winning steak of the undefeated Rubiton gelding Lucky Secret, who finished a well-beaten eighth. The $90,000 winners cheque vaults the earnings of Miss Judgement to almost $340,000 from a record of 10 wins and 4 seconds from 20 starts. Miss Judgement was originally purchased out of the Baramul Stud consignment at the 2004 Easter Yearling Sale for $140,000. She is the first foal of the Brisbane winning Unbridled’s Song mare Miss Jakeo, a half sister to Able Choice (Dehere) the Champion Griffin in Hong Kong in 2001/02, out of the outstanding racemare Lady Jakeo (Last Tycoon), whose 5 wins included the Blue Diamond Stakes (G1) and Australia Made Stakes (G1). Miss Jakeo has a 2yo Fusaichi Pegasus filly named Fusakeo that was purchased by Star Thoroughbreds for $140,000 at the Magic Millions Yearling Sale, a yearling filly by Encosta de Lago, and was covered by General Nediym last spring. Miss Judgement is one of 14 stakes-winners for Woodlands Stud’s Strategic (pictured), who is coming off one of his most successful seasons at stud, finishing as the 11 th top sire in Australia and third behind Flying Spur and Encosta de Lago on the juvenile list, due in the main to the exploits of recent Darley purchase, AJC Champagne Stakes (G1) hero, Meurice. |
| EI inquiry resumes today |
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www.turfmonthly.com.au writes the Callinan Inquiry into how Equine Influenza got into Australia resumes today with a directions hearing at which the inquiry will hear any further applications for leave to appear as a party before the Inquiry and to advise parties and others of the course of evidence that will be led from witnesses.......
The first witnesses will be called in hearings starting from Tuesday November 13 and are expected to go through to Friday November 16.
Current planning is that hearings will commence at 10am each day from Tuesday In subsequent weeks until 13 December 2007, hearings are planned to commence at 10am on each day from Monday to Thursday inclusive.
The Inquiry began on October 3 with counsel assisting, Tony Meagher QC, outlining possible scenarios through which the equine influenza outbreak may
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He said the possible scenarios included a person or persons accompanying horses to Australia had prior contact with an infected horse; the virus was transmitted on materials or contact by a person or persons who attended horses at Eastern Creek; and EI was already present at Eastern Creek and became airborne.
He said these scenarios will be investigated by the Inquiry along with reports of bio-security breaches at the Eastern Creek quarantine facility.
A number of horse industry bodies made applications for leave to appear at the inquiry.
Leave to appear was granted to the Australian Racing Board, Australian Harness Racing Council, Thoroughbred Breeders Australia, Aushorse, Commonwealth Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, State of NSW, State of Queensland, Australian Veterinarians Association, Australian Horse Industry Council and Livestock Transport Group.
Applications to appear by Animal Health Australia and NSW Farmers Federation were deferred along with Individual applications by three veterinarians.
These groups and individuals were told they may be invited to give evidence as opposed to being granted leave to appear as a party to the Inquiry.
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| Minister's written assurance no horse flu |
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www.racing&breeding.com.au reveals under the front-page headline "Minister Fobbed Off Horse Flu Warnings", The Sydney Morning Herald revealed........
"Barely 2 years before equine influenza paralysed the horse industry & hobbled this year's Melbourne Cup, the Federal Government gave a written assurance that quarantine protocols were so stringent an outbreak of the disease 'could not occur'." The newspaper reported "the racing industry may claim as much as $500 million in compensation from taxpayers if the Government is found to have been negligent" & noted: "In May 2005 the then Minister For Agriculture Warren Truss wrote to the Australian Racing Board to dismiss concerns about a growing risk of horse flu reaching Australia because of moves to replace staff in the Australian Quarantine Inspection Service with private personnel." The federal inquiry into the entry of the disease into Australia (headed by retired High Court judge Ian Callinan) resumes this week & "will hear evidence of how Australia's biggest quarantine station at Eastern Creek failed to enforce the operating procedures the Commonwealth insisted were in place & how repeated warnings of the emerging problems were brushed aside". Stay Tuned! |
| Part Of NSW Red Zone Hopes To Go Amber |
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www.racing&breeding says NSW Minister For Primary Industries Ian Macdonald also confirmed his Department believes EI infection at Berry, Moree, Coonamble, Wauchope & Walcha "had run its cycle & has been contained"......
Macdonald noted: "This signals a potential change in zoning status for all or part of a number of regions including Moree Plains, Gwydir, Coonamble & Warrumbungle Local Government Areas.
We are now undertaking testing to resolve the status of these locations. The state government is working to move these areas from Red Zone to Amber Zone in the very near future, but must be certain there is no disease existing before it does so."
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| EI vaccination to be expanded |
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www.racing&breeding.com.au say NSW Minister For Primary Industries Ian Macdonald announced the state government "has deployed vaccination teams into the equine influenza Purple Zone & is renewing calls on horse owners to continue reporting sick horses".........
Macdonald explained: "Our objective is to eventually have at least 80% of the horse population in the Purple Zone immune or resistant to EI through either vaccination or infection.
We know there is a massive horse population in the Purple Zone & we need as much information as possible to ensure we conduct a well-informed & strategic vaccination campaign.
There are currently 5,050 infected properties in NSW & about 41,000 known infected horses.
Thankfully most of the state remains free of infection, but reporting sick horses remains vital to the success of the eradication campaign.
Owners of uninfected horses should inform their own veterinarian. This is a mechanism for uninfected horses to be recorded for potential vaccination & a decision will be made based on their location, herd size & proximity to known infection.
I want to stress from the outset that we are conducting a targeted vaccination campaign, not a blanket vaccination campaign & people must be patient."
Macdonald noted "priority is being given to areas in the Purple Zones where there are large numbers of uninfected horses to build-up immunity in these herds & provide a dead end to the disease's path.
Vaccinating these uninfected horses will assist rapid strategic disease control. Therefore we need to know which horses are infected & which are still disease-free, so we can target the limited supply vaccine to deliver the best result.
Horses on infected properties or within one kilometre of a known infected property are not being vaccinated.
Vaccinating infected horses is a waste of time, vaccine & resources as the horses will naturally become immune as a result of the infection."
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| All Australian racehorses to be vaccinated |
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www.racenet.com.au advises the Australian Racing Board has today given in-principle approval to the adoption of new Australian Rules of Racing making it mandatory for all horses involved in racing and breeding to be vaccinated as a condition of participation in the industry............
In terms of a rationale the Australian thoroughbred sector (racing and breeding) believes that implementing a permanent national vaccination policy is an essential and non-negotiable risk management policy. In this regard it may be noted that:
The UK has vaccinated since 1981 and despite EI being considered endemic in that country no race meetings have been lost because of EI in 25 years (including the 2003 Newmarket outbreak).
Notwithstanding that Japan has been considered free of EI from 1972 to 2007 it has a compulsory vaccination program and this has undoubtedly been a significant factor mitigating the losses caused by the 2007 outbreak.
ABARE has included in its modelling the probability of an EI outbreak in Australia once every 20 years irrespective of eradication.
“We are still giving our full co-operation to the efforts that are being made to contain and eradicate EI, and we very much hope that the disease can indeed be eradicated. However, even if this is accomplished we have reached the conclusion that we simply cannot afford to be without an insurance policy against a future outbreak occurring. A compulsory national vaccination program is that insurance policy.” Bob Pearson, Chairman, Australian Racing Board.
A full period of notice and consultation will take place before the rules are implemented.
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| Ford Predicts Foal Crop Down About 6% |
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Keeper Of The Australian Stud Book Michael Ford told The Australian Financial Review about 18,000 thoroughbreds are foaled in Australia every year:.........
........ around 14,000 are named & 11,000 are raced. Ford believes that, despite the delay to the breeding season following the equine influenza crisis, estimates of producing about 85% of the normal foal crop are "a bit gloomy" & that it could be closer to 94%.
He revealed: "Our straw poll is showing it's down about 6% but we'll get a better idea a week into November.
The impact has probably not been as bad as we thought, because we were able to get mares into the Purple Zone & bred to a lot of the great stallions."
However Ford also noted that, with some of the shuttle stallions caught in quarantine when the EI outbreak occurred subsequently taken out of Australia (because their international owners did not want them stranded inside the Purple Zone until the outbreak ended) "overall maybe the standard (of the resultant foal crop) won't be as good as previous years.
It will take about 6 or 7 years to know that. Roughly you get about 1% of each foial crop, about 180 horses, that will win a black-type race of some sort.
If this year's crop doesn't produce as many, then you can probably know what has happened." |
| Govt assembles 1,000 workforce |
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www.racing&breeding.com.au writes that NSW Minister For Primary Industries Ian Macdonald announced the state government "has assembled a workforce of more than 1,000 people to tackle the current equine influenza outbreak"..........
Macdonald declared: "The minute horse flu was confirmed in NSW, the Iemma Government launched a proactive, unprecedented response.
It is now 60 days since it was confirmed that horse flu had breached the Federal Government's Eastern Creek quarantine facility & our control & eradication campaign is in full swing.
The backbone of this effort is the dedicated staff who have shown overwhelming commitment to working with the horse industry to stamp out EI.
The NSW horse flu workforce has huge depth of experience in veterinary science, logistics co-ordination & emergency disease management.
At any one time in NSW there are about 400 staff working on this problem at about 20 locations across the state, from Temora in the south to Woodenbong near the Queensland border.
Staff are working across a range of disciplines, from tracing the disease, surveillance, decontamination, veterinary investigations, vaccination & logistics right through to communication, policy development & zoning.
The team includes more than 550 staff from DPI assisted by another 575 staff from other state government agencies, including the Rural Fire Service, NSW Police, RTA, State Emergency Services & the Department Of Environment And Climate Change.
Rural Lands Protection Boards are also playing a crucial role on the ground with veterinarians & rangers taking part in the vaccination campaign & offices administering permit applications.
In addition, about 25 people have been called in from interstate to bolster the NSW effort.
We also have the services of 100 private veterinary practitioners, who are part of the mobile vaccination teams sweeping through buffers strategically vaccinating horses."
Macdonald noted a total of 5,000 properties in NSW are confirmed infected & about 40,200 horses are infected. |
| Aushorse Export Scheme Wins Award |
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www.racing&breeding.com.au writes Aushorse's "innovation in attracting international buyers to support Australian thoroughbred breeders" has received national acclaim from the Australian Institute Of Export...........
Aushorse received a Highly Commended Award in the National Agribusiness Category "in recognition of the group's strategy that saw international guests increase their spend at the Yearling Sale to $26.5 million this year, compared to $5.31 million just 3 years ago".
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| Rosehill Decontamination Next Week |
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www.racing&breeding.com.au writes Racing NSW has announced..........
..........."it is expected Rosehill Gardens will be decontaminated next week & Warwick Farm on November 1".
In addition, "it is presently envisaged that from January 1, NSW racing will resume in total with the normal racing calendar".
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| Vaccinated Horses Begin Return To Randwick |
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............ horses "which were in pre-training or spelling" will be allowed to return to Randwick from yesterday.
These horses "were either vaccinated twice or have given an appropriate blood test to ensure they have sufficient immunity to Equine Influenza".
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| Sydney Metro Racing To Resume In December |
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www.racing&breeding.com.au writes Racing NSW yesterday announced the details of its "road map to recovery" from the equine influenza crisis..............
....racing with public access will recommence this Saturday (October 27) at Kembla Grange; & Sydney metropolitan racing will return at Royal Randwick on Saturday December 1. Each Saturday during November will feature "special events" at Gosford, Coffs Harbour, Wyong & Kembla Grange. Then in December metropolitan Saturday meetings will proceed at Randwick (December 1), Rosehill Gardens (December 8 & 15), Randwick (December 22, plus the traditional Boxing Day meeting on Wednesday December 26) & Rosehill (December 29).
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The federal government "has confirmed it may be liable for compensation if negligence is proved in the equine influenza outbreak," reported The Australian Financial Review............
The "admission of potential liability, made in a risk statement at the back of the government's Mid-Year Economic & Fiscal Outlook" was released last week. The risk statement said the government "might become liable for compensation" if the Department Of Agriculture "was found to have been negligent over the outbreak". It added: "At this stage, any potential liability resulting from the EI outbreak cannot be quantified". Agriculture Minister Peter McGauran "refused to speculate about possible liability claims, saying it would be improper to comment until retired High Court Judge Ian Callinan had finished his inquiry into the outbreak".
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| Federal Govt EI assistance extended |
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www.racenet.com.au writesFederal Agriculture Minister Peter McGauran today announced a further $117 million assistance in an extension of the existing federal assistance packages..........
The first assistance package was $110 million to run for 12 weeks and the new package sees $117 million again for a 12 week period through until February.
"We are ecstatic about it," Racing NSW CEO Peter V’Landys told AAP.
"We are trying to maintain a specific work force and the money has an economic multiplier effect throughout the entire industry.
"It means trainers are able to keep staff employed, jockeys will receive a further $5,000 payment as will trainers.
"We are very appreciative of the leadership Peter McGauran has shown in this matter.
"The federal government funding has kept the NSW racing industry financially viable in the worst period of its history."
The money will be split between the two EI affected states, NSW and Queensland and will cover racing, harness and elite equestrian horses.
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| Hold It Harvey Does it Again |
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Tara Madgwick writes on www.breednet.com.au that Australian bred King Cugat (USA) three year-old Hold it Harvey went on his winning way in New Zealand on Sunday scoring a commanding victory in the Listed Stoney Bridge Canterbury Stakes over 1600 metres..........
A stakes-winner last start when breaking his maiden in the Listed Ray Coupland Stakes over 1400 metres at Ashburton, Hold it Harvey improved again to race right away and score by a length and three-quarters.
Australian bred Hold It Harvey is prepared at Riccarton by Terri Rae, who travelled to the Gold Coast to purchase her charge at the Magic Millions National Yearling Sale in 2006.
Hold it Harvey has now won two races and placed three times from seven starts winning $72,100.
Bred and offered for sale by Gerry Harvey under his Baramul Stud banner, Hold It Harvey was secured by Rae for just $16,000.
 He is the first foal of the Best Western mare Daly Charm, a half-sister to stakes-placed Chanted and grand-daughter of French Group One winner Princess Lida.
Sent back to King Cugat (USA) in 2006, Daly Charm produced a full sister to Hold it Harvey on August 16.
Hold it Harvey is one of five stakes-winner worldwide for the young Kingmambo horse King Cugat (USA), who is currently the leading third season sire in Australia by earnings with his star performer in-form mare Devil Moon, due to contest the Group One MVRC W.S. Cox Plate at Moonee Valley this Saturday.
King Cugat (USA) (pictured left) is available at Widden Stud this spring at a fee of $8,800.
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| ARB welcomes vaccination |
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Clinton Payne writes on www.racenet.com.au that Australian Racing Board chief executive Andrew Harding said vaccination is the best insurance policy against the further spread of equine influenza (EI) and he welcomed National Management Group of Chief Veterinary Officers new national strategy to vaccinate all horses in Australia.........
The NMG met earlier this week and a national strategy to vaccinate all horses in Australia for equine EI was approved.
“We've tried to contain and eradicate the disease through containment but there's no guarantee that works,” Harding said.
“We needed an insurance policy and that's vaccination.
“We believe a permanent vaccination strategy is necessary.
“We've had to make government authorities understand this is a major industry and we can't afford to take any risks.
“We can't be inactive indefinitely.”
Harding said the majority of thoroughbreds in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria had been vaccinated.
“We now need to take out the same insurance in Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania. We've got to do something to ensure we never have to endure such a loss of income again.”
Harding said EI had cost the industry $4.3 million a day, comprising $3 million for racing and $1.3 million for breeding.
Further stocks of vaccine will arrive in Australia within the next two weeks.
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| Gold Coast-Palm Meadows plan a goer |
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www.racing&breeding's website says Queensland Racing yesterday "applauded the (state) Bligh Government for its forward thinking plan to move the process forward to build a Gold Coast racing precinct of truly international standard, through the development of Palm Meadows".
QR chairman Bob Bentley said the development would "undoubtedly propel the Gold Coast as a major racing & sales destination internationally.
Consultation with the Gold Coast City Council can now proceed as a matter of priority.
The assistance of Treasurer Andrew Fraser is gratefully acknowledged, as a project of this magnitude cannot be completed without a true industry-government partnership.
The dedication shown by the Treasurer to the project to reach this stage has been remarkable."
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| Australian Govt buys further 500,000 vaccines |
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www.racing&breeding's website says The Federal Agricultural Minister Peter McGauran announced the Australian Government will buy another 500,000 vials of horse flu vaccine & noted.........
"Taking into account the need for booster shots, the 750,000 vaccines (250,000 had been obtained previously) will make it possible to vaccinate some 300,000 horses, if need be, by the end of the year.
The majority of the vaccines will be used in NSW & Queensland, which remain the only states with confirmed cases of equine influenza.
However targeted vaccinations will take place in non-affected states & territories, as has been the case in Victoria & the ACT."
McGauran confirmed the West Australian & Tasmanian racing industries had requested vaccination of their thoroughbred populations & added: "To date, the focus has been on vaccinating high-value horses, located in infected areas, as well as securing a buffer zone, to prevent the further spread of equine influenza.
We are now in a position to move to the vaccination of competition & show horses, to get the industry back on its feet as soon as possible."
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| No Artificial Insemination |
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The International Stud Book Committee remains against it in thmeeting in Newmarket has confirmed artificial insemination "which might have been reconsidered as a result of the devastating equine influenza outbreak in Australia, will remain a no-go area in thoroughbred breeding," reported racingpost.co.uk...........
The committee summed up: "The overwhelming consensus among breeders, as reported by their representative bodies, is that artificial breeding should not be accepted in production of the thoroughbred." The committee heard reports from both Australia & New Zealand "on events that had led to inquiries from some breeders about the acceptability of AI". But the fact the Australian Thoroughbred Breeders' Association, & Coolmore "all said that AI was not the solution made up the ISBC's mind." The ISBC also said it was persuaded by "lack of support in a survey of breeders conducted by the New Zealand TBA". Paul Greeves, chief executive of Weatherbys Thoroughbred & joint chairman of the European branch of the ISBC, commented: "There'll always be some breeders who favour AI & it's a subject that is constantly raised by interested individuals. But the overwhelming consensus among ISBC member organisations oroughbred breeding." |
| National Vaccination Program |
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Racing NSW "is calling for a national thoroughbred vaccination program to prevent another disastrous equine influenza outbreak," reported The Daily Telegraph.......
The board of Racing NSW "met to work out a strategy to combat the effects of equine influenza" & chief executive Peter V'Landys said the industry "needed to adopt an on-going equine influenza vaccination program". He noted: "NSW racing, in fact Australian racing, can't afford to go through another horse flu crisis. In every other country where there has been an outbreak of equine influenza, the disease has come back again. We can't let that happen here. Racing NSW will be pushing for a national vaccination program to be implemented as soon as possible."
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| EI costs industry $4.3m per day |
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www.turfmonthly.com.au write on their webset that Equine Influenza crisis is costing Australia up to $4.3million per day in direct economic losses............
According to estimates calculated by the Australian Racing Board (ARB) and Thoroughbred Breeders’ Australia (TBA) using Australian Bureau of Statistics data, the loss of income to the horse racing industry in NSW, Queensland and the ACT is up to $3million per day and the loss of income to the horse farming industry – incorporating the breeding sector – is up to $1.3million per day.
Even Federal Treasurer Peter Costello has acknowledged the infinite trickled-down effect will have far-reaching consequences as two months after EI was first detected in Australia, the number of people whose livelihoods are affected continues to grow.
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| Records at Perth Horses in Training Sale |
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Greg Irvine writes..Records were broken across the board at today's Magic Millions Perth Horses in Training Sale at Belmont.............
A large crowd was in attendance with a number of buyers from across Australia and overseas in attendance.
Quality youngsters who performed well in the morning breeze up sessions caught the eyes of buyers and sold accordingly.
The all time record price for a two-year-old at the sale was smashed when South African agent Andy Williams, buying under World Wide Bloodstock, went to $180,000 to buy a colt by Flying Spur.
Consigned by South West Bloodstock, the colt is a half brother to the promising Sydney performer Come on Cugat and hails from the family of Group One winners Bonanova, Telesto and Fraternity.
The second top priced horse of the day was the colt by Choisir from Diamond Band who made $170,000 to the bid of high profile Perth owner Santoso Wirya.
The colt, a half brother to four winners, will join the Wally Mitchell stables at Ascot.
All up this afternoon six two-year-olds sold for $100,000 or more - another record for the Perth Horses in Training Sale.
All up 63 racetrack prospects sold at a record aggregate of $2,596,500 and record average price of $41,214.
Magic Millions Managing Director David Chester said today's sale provided some good news with the Australian thoroughbred industry after the recent equine influenza setbacks.
"It was nice to be back in the auctioneers box today selling young racetrack prospects," Chester said.
"We were pleased to have such a good buying bench on hand and they appreciated the lovely line up on offer."
"The better prospects were the subject of exceptional interest and sold for record breaking prices," Chester summed up.
"We're now very much looking forward to Australia's number one breeze up style sale - the Magic Millions Gold Coast Horses in Training Sale - at the end of November."
TOP SELLERS
$180,000 - Flying Spur-Come on Klaire bay colt
Vendor: South West Bloodstock / Buyer: World Wide Bloodstock (Sth Africa)
$170,000 - Choisir-Diamond Band bay colt
Beclin Pty Ltd / Santoso Wirya (WA)
$140,000 - Scenic-Ya Habibi brown colt
RL Mills (As Agent) / W Hoe (Singapore)
$125,000 - Stravinsky-Final Leica bay gelding
Carinya Park / Len Treloar (Singapore)
$100,000 - Blevic-Bejewelled Zephyr brown gelding
Carinya Park / Len Treloar (Singapore)
$100,000 - Danetime-Serenghetti Silk bay colt
RL Mills (As Agent) / John Chalmers Bloodstock (WA)
$85,000 - El Moxie-Belle De Lago brown gelding
Carinya Park / Donald Baertschiger (Singapore)
$85,000 - Helenus-Blue World bay filly
Key Pastoral Pty Ltd / John Chalmers Bloodstock (WA)
$85,000 - Bletchley Park-Turret chestnut filly
Key Pastoral Pty Ltd / John Chalmers Bloodstock (WA)
SALE STATISTICS
(2006 statistics in brackets)
Lots Sold: 63 (51)
Sale Aggregate: $2,596,500 ($1,707,500)
Average Price: $41,214 ($33,480)
Top Price: $180,000 ($121,000)
Lots Withdrawn: 39 (19)
Lots Passed: 40 (31)
Lots Catalogued: 142 (101)
Sold %: 61.1 (62.2)
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| Waller expects half his team to continue on |
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Top Rosehill trainer Chris Waller expects half of the horses currently locked down in his Rosehill stable will carry on in their preparations once the quarantine restrictions are lifted at Rosehill......writes Clinton Payne on Racenet
Rosehill horses received their first vaccination shot against equine influenza (EI) on September 28 before the flu spread throughout the training centre a week later.
“The horses are very good they have hardly been affected,” Waller said.
“The horses that got it in the first 48 hours were mildly affected and the rest of them have shown next to no signs with some showing no signs.
“There is no doubt the shot of vaccine they received has had a positive effect on them, definitely, 100%.
“At least half of our horses will continue on with their preparations which is very positive.”
The horses within the stable are not currently being worked due to the unknown impact on the horses internal makeup despite showing no signs of the disease.
“The only uncertainty is whilst there are no visible signs we don’t know what it has done to their lungs and things like that,” he said.
“In my opinion that is what you have to be careful about.”
Waller believes the effects of EI on the horses within his stable gives him confidence that the Melbourne Spring Carnival will not be halted due to EI infecting horses competing in the coming weeks.
“I could almost guarantee that Melbourne horses would now be fully
vaccinated,” he said.
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| Entry To Purple Zone Training Centres TBA |
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Racing&Breeding Australia's website says............Racing NSW chief steward Ray Murrihy also emphasised that "at this stage horses are still not permitted to be brought into infected & non-infected training centres within the purple zone......
This includes not only horses coming from spelling or pre-training establishments to be stabled on course, but also trainers who are seeking to use training facilities at a particular centre. Racing NSW is currently engaged in discussions with the Department Of Primary Industries in formulating the earliest safe return of these training & racing centres to operational normality. Conditions for the entry of horses to purple zone training centres will be determined in the next few days & promptly advised to industry members." |
| NSW Stewards Impose Purple Zone Restriction |
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Racing&Breeding Australia's website says........Meanwhile Racing NSW chief steward Ray Murrihy issued orders to stop the transport of horses from equine influenza-infected training centres & stables to unaffected spelling facilities.....
Murrihy explained: "The re-setting of boundaries of the purple zone set by the Department of Primary Industries has opened up horse movement from equine influenza-infected tracks & stables. However it would clearly not be in the best interests of the thoroughbred industry for horses from these infected centres or from infected stables to be taken to uninfected spelling properties at this stage, particularly with the 2nd round of vaccinations only now taking place." He said a horse could be moved to an unaffected property within the purple zone once all horses have been vaccinated & a period of 14 has elapsed since a booster shot. And he noted: "Horses from infected training centres & stables may of course be re-located to those spelling properties within the purple zone that have already been infected with equine influenza."
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| EI Spreads Closer To Vic Border |
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Racing&Breeding Australia's website says.....Equine influenza moved closer to the Victorian border yesterday with 2 local government areas in the Riverina declared amber zones.............
The NSW Department Of Primary Industries confirmed equine influenza in horses near Temora & immediately changed areas around Cootamundra & Junee from a green (EI-free) to amber (low risk) zone, creating an expanded amber zone control area between the new red zone near Temora & the green zone at Wagga Wagga. NSW DPI deputy chief veterinary officer Steve Dunn announced: "DPI tracing & surveillance teams are now working to identify how the disease found its way to the Temora property. The next closest infection point was at Barmedman, where a buffer zone has been established & all horses in the zone have been vaccinated. We now have 4 vaccination teams working in a buffer zone around Gidginbung & they have already vaccinated more than 100 horses. This will create a barrier of immunity in that district after about 14 days."
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| December return for Randwick gathers momentum |
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Racenet's website says....A strategy to have Sydney racing up and running again by December will be released in the next week, according to media reports........
A Racing NSW board meeting on Monday considered the possibility of racing returning to Randwick by December 1.
Randwick trainers have told Racing NSW they are confident there will be enough horses in work to stage a race meeting – the first at the racetrack since early August.
“We are developing a strategy for a return to racing and that should be out in the next week or so," Racing NSW chief executive V'Landys told AAP.
Meanwhile, 2008 Sydney autumn carnival dates have been finalised.
In a re-arranged schedule, the Golden Slipper and the AJC Australian Derby will be put back five weeks.
The Golden Slipper will now be run on April 19 with AJC Australian Derby and Doncaster Handicap held on April 26.
Mr V’Landys was unavailable for comment when contacted by Racenet on Monday night.
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| Purple zone restrictions by stewards |
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Warwick Barr writes on www.racenet.com.au - Restrictions on the movement of thoroughbred horses within the NSW designated purple zone remain conditional, a Racing NSW bulletin said on Monday.............
Racing NSW chief steward Ray Murrihy has issued orders to stop the transport of horses from equine influenza infected training centres and stables to unaffected spelling facilities.
“The re-setting of boundaries of the purple zone set by the Department of Primary Industries has opened up horse movement from EI infected tracks and stables,” Murrihy said.
“However, it would clearly not be in the best interests of the thoroughbred industry for horses from these infected centres or from infected stables to be taken to uninfected spelling properties at this stage, particularly with the second round of vaccinations only now taking place.”
He said a horse could be moved to an unaffected property within the purple zone once all horses have been vaccinated and a period of 14 has elapsed since a booster shot.
“Horses from infected training centres and stables may of course be re-located to those spelling properties within the purple zone that have already been infected with EI,” Mr Murrihy said.
“Racing NSW also seeks to reiterate that at this stage horses are still not permitted to be brought into infected and non-infected training centres within the purple zone.
“This includes not only horses coming from spelling or pre-training establishments to be stabled on course, but also trainers who are seeking to use training facilities at a particular centre.
“Racing NSW is currently engaged in discussions with the DPI in formulating the earliest safe return of these training and racing centres to operational normality.
“Conditions for the entry of horses to purple zone training centres will be determined in the next few days and promptly advised to industry members.”
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| Rosehill a chance when racing returns |
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Warwick Barr writes on www.racenet.com.au - Metropolitan racing in Sydney could be back in full swing at two racetracks within six weeks...............
Racing NSW chief executive Peter V’Landys said he was confident Randwick, the first racetrack to be hit by equine influenza, would be ready to hold race meetings by early December.
And he didn’t ruled out Rosehill joining Randwick on the racing roster at the same time.
“We are very positive,” Mr V’Landys said.
“I think the vaccine has given us a new sense of optimism and hopefully if there are no infections in the next couple of weeks racing in NSW should resume in some sort of normality by December.”
Mr V’Landys revealed a planned October 27 meeting at Kembla Grange is likely to be open to the public provided there are no more EI outbreaks.
If the Kembla Grange meeting proceeds without incident, it would be the forerunner to racing returning to Randwick and possibly Rosehill and Hawkesbury.
Mr V’Landys said horses which had contracted EI at Rosehill had shown less symptoms than flu hit thoroughbreds at Randwick and Warwick Farm. |
| Queensland invokes 28-day wait for second jabs |
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Warwick Barr writes on www.racenet.com.au - Queensland officials will wait 28 days before giving South-East Queensland horses a booster shot of equine influenza vaccine ahead of a return to racing on December 1............
“In setting a Saturday, December 1 date for the resumption of racing, trainers now have the opportunity to consider whether to let their horses down or continue with a trackwork program targeted at a racing resumption at that time, Queensland Racing Limited chief operations manager Malcolm Tuttle said.
“Many of the tracks in South-East Queensland will be reopened for light trackwork as from Monday.”
While NSW racing officials this week successfully lobbied to have a second round of shots administered 14 days after the initial injection, Queensland is abiding by the recommendations of the vaccine’s maker.
“In accordance with the manufacturer’s recommendation, the agreed national position and the approval of the Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, the second inoculations to horses in Queensland will occur 28 days after the first inoculation,” Mr Tuttle said.
“Horses originally vaccinated on the weekend of Saturday, September 29 will receive their second vaccination on the weekend of Saturday, October 27.
“This will not make any significant difference to the training regime of these horses except that trainers will be required to ease horses slightly ahead of the scheduled second vaccination and ease them back into training subsequent to the inoculation.
“Many horses will have uninterrupted trackwork for the month of November.”
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Metropolitan racing in Sydney "could be back in full swing at 2 racetracks within 6 weeks according to Racing NSW," reported racenet.com.au................
Racing NSW chief executive Peter V'Landys said he was "confident Randwick (the 1st track to be hit by equine influenza) would be ready to hold race meetings by early December" & didn't rule out Rosehill "joining Randwick on the racing roster at the same time".
V'Landys commented: "We are very positive. I think the vaccine has given us a new sense of optimism & hopefully if there are no infections in the next couple of weeks, racing in NSW should resume in some sort of normality by December."
V'Landys said a planned October 27 meeting at Kembla Grange "is likely to be open to the public provided there are no more equine influenza outbreaks"; & if the Kembla meeting proceeds without incident, it would be "the forerunner to racing returning to Randwick & possibly Rosehill & Hawkesbury".
V'Landys noted horses which had contracted equine influenza at Rosehill had shown "less symptoms than flu-hit thoroughbreds at Randwick & Warwick Farm".
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| No Change for Magic Millions |
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| Breednet - Media Release....................
Australia's most popular sale, the Conrad Jupiters Magic Millions Yearling Sale, will run as planned from March 24 next year over nine sessions.
Magic Millions Managing Director, David Chester said, "The sale dates of March 24 to April 3 were the best available for the Gold Coast event."
"We tried hard with the rest of the industry to come up with the right dates, always bearing in mind that Magic Millions sets a scene for the New Year with a sale built around its precocious quality entries."
"Easter seemed just the right time to get the selling season rolling," Chester added.
"We, like the rest of the industry, were troubled by the short preparation period between our sales at Easter and other sales in late April but strong vendor feedback kept telling us to go at Easter, given the extraordinary circumstances of the Equine Influenza outbreak and its effect on delaying the 2008 selling year."
Magic Millions will kick off on Easter Monday with its world famous $4.1 million Magic Millions race day, which should give a huge boost of enthusiasm to the sale.
Selling will begin Monday evening and followed byfour sessions through till Thursday 27 March. SessionFive will start on Sunday the 30th March through to SessionNineon the 3rd April.
"The year 2008 will be crucial to the whole thoroughbred industry as it seeks to recover from the damage of 2007. Magic Millions will bring all of its marketing and firepower to bear to ensure the best start possible," Chester added.
"Furthermore, our sales are renowned for their high clearance rate and the strong local and international buying bench, and in 2008 we will make super efforts to maintain these features."
Any vendors interested in nominating further yearlings because of the later time slot should contact the Bloodstock department at Magic Millions now. |
| Magic Millions' Carnival Programme at a glance |
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Magic Millions' media release advises the Carnival programme (* session details are provisional)...........
2007/08 MAGIC MILLIONS SALE DATES
- Magic Millions Perth Horses in Training Sale - 16 October 2007
- Magic Millions Gold Coast Horses in Training Sale - 25-28 November 2007
- Magic Millions Perth Yearling Sale - 15-22 February, 2008
- Magic Millions Tasmanian Select Yearling Sale - 25-26 February, 2008
- Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale - 10-13 March, 2008
- Magic Millons National Weanling Sale - 26-28 May, 2008
- Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale - 2-6 June, 2008
- Magic Millions National Yearling Sale - 10-13 June, 2008
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| MILLIONS PREPARING FOR A MAGICAL EASTER |
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Greg Irvine writes for Magic Millions' media release - Australia's most popular sale, the Conrad Jupiters Magic Millions Yearling Sale, will run as planned from March 24 next year over nine sessions.........
Magic Millions Managing Director, David Chester said, "The sale dates of March 24 to April 3 were the best available for the Gold Coast event."
"We tried hard with the rest of the industry to come up with the right dates, always bearing in mind that Magic Millions sets a scene for the New Year with a sale built around its precocious quality entries."
"Easter seemed just the right time to get the selling season rolling," Chester added.
"We, like the rest of the industry, were troubled by the short preparation period between our sales at Easter and other sales in late April but strong vendor feedback kept telling us to go at Easter, given the extraordinary circumstances of the Equine Influenza outbreak and its effect on delaying the 2008 selling year."
Magic Millions will kick off on Easter Monday with its world famous $4.1 million Magic Millions race day, which should give a huge boost of enthusiasm to the sale.
Selling will begin Monday evening and followed by four sessions through till Thursday 27 March. Session Five will start on Sunday the 30th March through to Session Nine on the 3rd April.
"The year 2008 will be crucial to the whole thoroughbred industry as it seeks to recover from the damage of 2007. Magic Millions will bring all of its marketing and firepower to bear to ensure the best start possible," Chester added.
"Furthermore, our sales are renowned for their high clearance rate and the strong local and international buying bench, and in 2008 we will make super efforts to maintain these features."
Any vendors interested in nominating further yearlings because of the later time slot should contact the Bloodstock department at Magic Millions now. |
| Extension of Purple Zone Brings Relief |
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Tara Madgwick writes on today's breednet news website - Extension of Purple Zone Brings Relief...................
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Areas in NSW classified as highly infected with equine influenza have been linked to create a wider purple zone, bringing welcome relief to breeders previously operating on the fringe of the zone such as Mike O’Donnell of Fairhill Farm.
“This common-sense decision frees up movements for thousands more horse owners and breeders in the heavily infected expanded purple zone,” Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald said.
The purple zone, originally established around the Hunter Valley, has been expanded to take in the Camden, Maitland and Tamworth districts.
“Expanding the zone will greatly reduce the economic impact this contagious disease is having on our horse industries and allow the multi-million dollar horse breeding industry to resume,” Mr Macdonald said.
“It means activities such as show jumping, dressage, pony carnivals, and three-day events can go ahead – as long as the horses are fit and healthy and stay within the purple zone.
“It also means drought affected horse owners, who were previously forced to buy in feed for their horses, will now have the opportunity to agist them elsewhere in the purple zone.”
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| New Format for 2008 Easter and Classic Sales |
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www.racenet yesterday had the following unedited media release stating William Inglis & Son have delayed their Easter sale by one week, an Inglis media release announced today............
Over the past week directors of Inglis, Magic Millions and Aushorse have been engaged in discussions to improve the spread of sales dates for buyers and vendors in 2008. It is widely agreed by industry participants that an 11-day gap between the revised dates for Magic Millions and the Australian Easter Yearling Sale is not ideal.
In summary, the only change coming from discussions so far is agreement by Inglis to move the Easter and Classic yearling sales back one additional week to provide buyers and vendors with a little more relief. The Australian Easter Yearling Sale will now commence on Sunday April 20, the day after the Golden Slipper. President of Aushorse John Messara has been consulted in relation to the new sales dates and said, “ the extra week will help.”
Inglis managing director Mark Webster said " We originally moved the Easter sale back to mid April to allow Magic Millions to sell in either February or June and provide an 8 week gap between our sales.
“The move was also in line with a delayed start to the Sydney Autumn carnival. As everyone knows, last week Magic Millions announced their plans to take our old Easter dates in March which was surprising noting buyers will also be in Sydney for the Autumn carnival.
“I have expressed my concern that in doing so they only provide an 11-day gap between our two sales. At the Aushorse meeting on Monday, both parties were asked to move their sale dates or change their sales format to widen the gap.
“Inglis have done this but to my knowledge Magic Millions have not agreed to any further changes or concessions at this stage. Inglis was also asked by Aushorse to consider moving the Classic sale back into February.
“At this stage I’m reluctant to do this due to the current EI situation. It’s still a consideration, but I will need to be convinced that all yearlings will be vaccinated in time and be allowed to cross state borders. I will also need to be convinced that Sydney trainers will be ready to buy in February.”
Antony Thompson from Widden Stud said, “ Inglis have been very co-operative in trying to find a better solution for next years sale schedule. They have consulted major breeders and have given ground when requested to help the industry.”
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Today's turfmonthly news website says – In welcome news for many thoroughbred breeders, the NSW State Government has expanded the purple zone to incorporate Camden, Maitland and Tamworth............
Thoroughbred Breeders’ Australia President John Messara said the expansion meant that breeders could have their mares covered and then have them returned to their own properties.
“This will help a lot of people in the Lower Hunter who have to send mares out of their zone into the purple zone, now they’ll be able to bring them back to their own farms,” Messara said, adding that he was negotiating with the NSW Government over the October 19 deadline for horse movement.
“We would like to seek a one or two-week extension to accommodate people, particularly from interstate, who need that extra time,” Messara said.
He said the cut-off date of October 19 would enable a containment strategy to be implemented with a view to lifting the restricted status of the purple zone.
“The policy is to have all horses in by tht date so that the infection can then run its course sooner rather than later and we can then lift restrictions more quickly than might be possible if horses keep coming in and contracting EI,” Messara explained.
NSW Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald said: “This common-sense decision frees up movements for thousands more horse owners and breeders in the heavily infected expanded purple zone.
“Expanding the zone will greatly reduce the economic impact this contagious disease is having on our horse industries and allow the multi-million dollar horse breeding industry to resume,” he said.
“It means activities such as show jumping, dressage, pony carnivals, and three-day events can go ahead – as long as the horses are fit and healthy and stay within the purple zone.
“It also means drought-affected horse owners, who were previously forced to buy in feed for their horses, will now have the opportunity to agist them elsewhere in the purple zone.”
The purple zone includes all or part of the following Local Government Areas: Penrith, Liverpool, Camden, Wollondilly, the Hawkesbury, Gosford, Wyong, Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Port Stephens Great Lakes, Cessnock, Maitland, Dungog, Singleton, Upper Hunter and Muswellbrook, Tamworth, Liverpool Plains.
Horses can move into the purple zone with a permit but cannot leave until authorised.
“This re-zoning will take in many more horse studs – including Quarter Horses, Arabian horses and performance horses - allowing the movement of non-thoroughbred mares to stallions during the current mating season,” Minister Macdonald said.
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| Randwick horses move out to spell |
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The following story appears on turfmonthly's website..................................
SYDNEY - Racing may begin at Randwick again late this year, according to NSW Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald. The majority of some 700 horses stabled at Randwick in Sydney’s eastern suburbs are being moved out to spelling properties to recuperate after contracting Equine Influenza (EI) and enable Randwick to be decontaminated.
Horses from Randwick are being moved to properties within the red and purple zones designed to restrict horse movements and the spread of EI.
“This is the first time these racehorses will leave Randwick in almost six weeks - it is a great day for their owners and trainers as well as the horses themselves,” Macdonald said.
Horses nominated by their stables are being transported under permit to designated properties in the EI infected red and purple zones, which largely cover the greater Sydney and Hunter regions.
“Strict permit conditions will apply to ensure no risk is associated with their movement, and tests will be conducted on all those horses that are moving,” he said.
“EI is still a serious problem for all horse owners with 34,010 horses infected on almost 4000 properties.
“The horses that are leaving from Randwick today may return to the racecourse facility after November 15 following appropriate blood tests,” Macdonald said.
Racing NSW chief executive Peter V'Landys said the clean-up at Randwick was part of the racing industry's road to recovery.
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| Chris Bournon ('Out-of-Town Owner') sent the following letter to RacingNSW's Suggestion Box Submissions....................................... |
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| Everyone associated with our business knows we are going through incredibly difficult times at the moment; the most difficult for decades. |
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| We will hopefully survive, but surely the State Government will not further restrict racing at Randwick due to World Youth celebrations and the Pope's visit. |
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| What a joke. Commit now and take this event somewhere else so that when we are able to race at Randwick, we can. The Government should have never considered taking Randwick out of play for ten (10) weeks. |
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| I don't have horses at Randwick but I do have horses trained outside of the Metropolitan area, currently not affected by EI, and I am fully aware how the EI outbreaks of recent weeks have severely affected our industry, not only in the short-term, but in the long-term. |
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| Trainers, owners, farriers, dentists, jockeys, trackwork riders, stablehands, breeders, etc. and the list is considerably longer, are severely impacted. |
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| Shinn, Bowman, Rawiller, Katsidis, Seamer & co. can relocate to Melbourne; Beasley to Singapore, Ford to NZ, and Beadman to Hong Kong, and this confirms how serious this outbreak has been to our industry as their livelihood is impacted. All have to earn a dollar and the high profile transferable individuals are the fortunate ones who can look elsewhere. |
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| Sadly, most associated with this business cannot explore opportunities elsewhere. If only the general public had a better idea on how much racing provides for the State coffers and what the longer term effect EI will have on the industry, and Government funds. |
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| If Governments budgeted incomes fall short, make no mistake we will all be paying for any shortfall. Racing as we know it will not revert to 'normal' until at least four (4) months after EI has 'gone' so get used to the fact that February 2008 is the earliest we are likely to resume 'normal services' where Newcastle, Kembla, Hawkesbury, Gosford and metropolitan-trained horses compete against one another again. |
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| I recently read that owners of horses trained close to the NSW/Victoria border want the rules 'bent' so that they can take horses to the Spring Carnival in Melbourne. Wonderful ... we would all like the same, but horses many kilometres north of the Murray, and with no signs of EI, surely have to be given that same opportunity. |
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| There are dozens of trainers and hundreds of owners who would like to move horses from areas not affected by EI to the limited meetings being held, but we do need to exercise considerable care if the rules are 'bent'. |
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| There are many big races south of the border that at the moment we cannot target and I am sure that a couple of high profile Coffs Harbour-trained horses would love to be south of the Border, but alas they cannot. |
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| Whilst there will be much discussion about how we have approached this whole EI problem, and there will be lessons learned, surely we can't make special allowances for some and not others. |
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| Oh yes, and another interesting point - should trainers/owners of horses who have an opportunity to race at 'closed meetings' and earn prizemoney, receive any government assistance? It is a complex matter. |
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| Melbourne to date has been fortunate that it has not been exposed to EI. Good management or good luck - I hope both - but a lot of the latter, I suspect. |
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| With the inoculation process now underway let's hope that the EI menace will subside, although given Rosehill's predicament, perhaps we are still weeks and weeks away from resuming something resembling normality. |
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| Vaccine about-face as containment fails |
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Bronwyn Farr wrote the following article that appears on today's turfmonthly website.............................................
NEWS SOUTH WALES - In a welcome about face, the NSW Department of Primary Industries has given the green light for inactive vaccine usage beyond the so-called “buffer zones” in NSW as it becomes obvious that containment policies are failing. Vaccine for 44,000 horses will be made available today (Tuesday).
A case of Equine Influenza at Barmedman in Southern NSW illustrated the futility of “buffer zones” with movement of humans carrying EI believed to be the culprit in this case. With reports of EI at Wagga Wagga, it would seem to be only a matter of time before EI is discovered in Victoria.
“Securing this huge number of vaccines will enable us to conduct a broader vaccination program that will benefit all horse users in NSW and help us along the road to recovery,” said NSW Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald, adding that his government had wanted the inactive vaccine on a mass distribution basis in the first place.
“We have more than 34,000 horses infected in NSW,” he said. “I cannot stress enough the need for people to abide by the movement restrictions pertinent to their areas.”
Leading NSW equine veterinarians including Tim Roberts have slammed government authorities for not implementing a buffer zone policy more swiftly so that such a policy of containment might have been effective.
In an open letter, Roberts said containment policies were too late to be effective.
He noted that by the time officials brought in “vet training and registration” to begin vaccinating a region, it was too late and most horses would have begun recovery.
“This is incompetence at its highest level and the science has been thrown out the window,” Roberts said, adding that buffer zones were, “at best, a very poor attempt at containment” that would do nothing to eradicate EI.
Roberts, whose views are backed by other veterinarians, said suggestions that the number of EI outbreaks was declining was “ludicrous” and the virus itself was at least three days ahead of symptoms developing.
He said the DPI had prevented horse owners from vaccinating their horses and wanted them to continue biosecurity practices although no relief from the crisis was being offered.
“If DPI have not yet vaccinated all the horses in these buffers than they have achieved nothing,” Roberts said.
“ Buffer zones need saturation vaccination to be effective … the DPI appears to be paralyzed by incompetence at the highest level.
“The strategy of the DPI has no prospects of working and every prospect of causing irreparable damage to the horse industry,” he said.
Veterinarian Nick Kannegeiter said mismanagement of the EI crisis was “like watching a train crash in slow motion”.
In Queensland, reports of ad hoc horse movement are numerous, while in the Upper Hunter of NSW there has been criticism of lack of monitoring of vehicles in and out of a region rife with EI.
The mass vaccination program was announced following a meeting on Monday (October 8) where Racing NSW CEO Peter V'Landys and Australian Racing Board chief executive Andrew Harding addressed Primary Industries ministers from each state and territory, the federal Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Peter McGauran, and the director-generals of all state and federal Primary Industries departments on the need for a national mass vaccination strategy.
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| Aushorse meeting fails to resolve sale date stoush |
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Today's www.turfmonthly.com.au news has the following story......................
AUSTRALIA - Meetings between leading Hunter Valley yearling consignors and the heads of rival sale companies Magic Millions and William Inglis in Sydney today (Monday) failed to resolve an impasse over sale dates in the wake of the Equine Influenza (EI) crisis.
Aushorse chairman John Messara said another meeting would be held toward the end of this week.
With 46 of 61 member farms based in NSW, Aushorse consignors produced yearlings which accounted for 79 per cent ($118million) of the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale and 70 per cent ($64million) of receipts at Magic Millions’ January Premier Yearling Sale.
Inglis announced on September 28 that it was moving its showpiece three-day Easter sale to April 14, 15 and 16.
Magic Millions responded last Thursday saying it would move its January showcase sale to the vacated Easter dates, starting March 24 (Easter Monday).
Messara has previously said that Inglis failed to consult adequately with leading consignors before settling on its new dates and Magic Millions managing director David Chester said he was disappointed that the two sale companies had not worked together on the issue.
At present the major sale dates are:
February 15 – 22
Magic Millions Perth Yearling Sale
February 25 – 26
Magic Millions Tasmanian Select Yearling Sale
March 2, 3 & 4
Inglis Premier Yearling Sale, Melbourne
March 10-13
Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale
March 24, 25, 26, 27
Magic Millions Premier Yearling Sale, Gold Coast
March 30 – April 3
Magic Millions sessions 5 – 9
April 14, 15 and 16
Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, Sydney
April 20, 21 and 22
Inglis Classic Yearling Sale, Sydney
April 27, 28, 29, 30
Inglis Easter Broodmare Sale, Sydney
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| Magic Millions' Pin Up Carnival Moved to Easter |
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Greg Irvine has issued the following media release for Magic Millions advising of their January sales moving to Easter........................................
Australia's most popular thoroughbred sale - the Conrad Jupiters Magic Millions Yearling Sale - will be held over the Easter period in 2008.
The revamped 2008 carnival, which has been delayed from its traditional January timeslot because of the equine influenza outbreak, will run from Monday March 24 (Easter Monday) next year.
The carnival will kick away with the staging of the world famous $4.1 million Magic Millions raceday at the Gold Coast racecourse on Easter Monday.
The action will then immediately swing to the Conrad Jupiters Magic Millions Yearling Sale for the first session, under lights when the first outstanding yearlings prospects will go under the hammer that night.
Nine sessions have been programmed for the 2008 sale - with the first four popular days to run through to Friday, March 28.
Selling will then recommence with Session Six set to be staged from Sunday, March 30.
"Magic Millions intended to delay the announcement of rescheduled dates for the Conrad Jupiters Magic Millions Yearling Sale and Raceday as long as possible for obvious reasons," Managing Director David Chester said.
"But over the last few days our company has come under a great deal of pressure by domestic and international buyers as well as breeders to end the speculation."
Chester said the Easter timeslot selected was the most suitable to suit their great number of clients.
"This time slot also ensures our sales and raceday will not clash with any other major racedays or thoroughbred events in the region," Chester commented.
"As well as this our new dates fit favourably with our large and ever increasing international buying bench."
"The new dates will also provide owners and trainers with more time to prepare their horses for the rich Magic Millions raceday at the Gold Coast - the only raceday of its kind in the world and the richest in Queensland."
Chester also announced a great initiative by Magic Millions to assist breeders and vendors in the lead up to the 2008 auction.
"To assist vendors in their preparation of yearlings for the sale, Magic Millions will offer up to four weeks complimentary stabling at the Gold Coast in the lead up to the sale."
Any vendors interested in nominating further yearlings because of the later time slot should contact the bloodstock department of Magic Millions as a matter of urgency.
Chester said the originally programmed dates for the Magic Millions Yearling Sales in Perth, Adelaide and Tasmania would run as scheduled in 2008.
CARNIVAL PROGRAMME AT A GLANCE
- Monday 24th March (Easter Monday)
Magic Millions raceday - featuring the $1.5 million Conrad Jupiters Magic Millions 2YO Classic and $1 million Conrad Jupiters Magic Millions 3YO Trophy
Conrad Jupiters Magic Millions Yearling Sale - Session 1 (Night session)
- Tuesday 25th March
Conrad Jupiters Magic Millions Yearling Sale - Session 2
- Wednesday 26th March
Conrad Jupiters Magic Millions Yearling Sale - Session 3
- Thursday 27th March
Conrad Jupiters Magic Millions Yearling Sale - Session 4
- Sunday 30th March
Conrad Jupiters Magic Millions Yearling Sale - Session 5
- Monday 31st March
Conrad Jupiters Magic Millions Yearling Sale - Session 6
- Tuesday 1st April
Conrad Jupiters Magic Millions Yearling Sale - Session 7
- Wednesday 2nd April
Conrad Jupiters Magic Millions Yearling Sale - Session 8
- Thursday 3rd April
Conrad Jupiters Magic Millions Yearling Sale - Session 9
* session details are provisional
FURTHER MAGIC MILLIONS SALE DATES
- Magic Millions Perth Horses in Training Sale - 16 October 2007
- Magic Millions Gold Coast Horses in Training Sale - 25-28 November 2007
- Magic Millions Perth Yearling Sale - 15-22 February, 2008
- Magic Millions Tasmanian Select Yearling Sale - 25-26 February, 2008
- Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale - 10-13 March, 2008
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The first day of the independent inquiry into Equine Influenza is reported on today's turfmonthly website.................................................
AUSTRALIA - The Federal Government Inquiry into how the exotic disease Equine Influenza (EI) entered Australia, where it has affected 33,000 horses to date, yesterday heard that bio-security protocols such as the requirement for staff handling horses to wear protective clothing were not enforced at the Eastern Creek Quarantine Centre.
Tony Meagher SC, counsel assisting the inquiry, told the first day of the public hearing that the inquiry would centre on the importation of 56 horses from four countries in early August.
The inquiry heard that EI was possibly introduced between August 3 and 8 at Sydney Airport when dual hemisphere stallions arrived.
The inquiry also heard that the virus may have been "indirectly transmitted" through contaminated clothing or equipment at Eastern Creek Quarantine facility as AQIS "relied strongly on the goodwill of veterinarians, farriers and other staff" to adhere to biosecurity requirements as the wearing of protective clothing was not enforced.
ABC Radio reported that Meagher said the inquiry would look at issues including a film crew which shot footage of 16 stallions bound for a Hunter Valley stud while at Sydney Airport, before they had entered quarantine.
Meagher said investigations would also examine whether some horses that came from Ireland were not vaccinated for EI prior to departure and whether quarantine certificates for stallions were produced, Marr told the inquiry.
Mr Meagher said that prior to the outbreak of EI, the Australian Quarantine Inspection Service (AQIS) had no after-hours presence at the Eastern Creek facility.
He said there were three possible scenarios as to how EI, which was first detected in a stallion at Eastern Creek, spread throughout the general horse population in NSW and Queensland: That a person or persons accompanying horses on the trip to Australia had prior contact with an infected horse; it was transmitted on materials or contact by a person or persons who attended horses at Eastern Creek; it was already present at Eastern Creek and became airborne, which was most unlikely.
Public hearings are set to recommence on November 8.
The inquiry is headed by recently retired High Court Judge Ian Callinan, whose brief is to review all the evidence and report to Federal Agriculture Minister Peter McGauran on the likely cause of the incursion and what measures are needed to maintain the integrity of Australia’s quarantine system.
He has wide-ranging powers under the Quarantine Act 1908, which allows him to subpoena witnesses and hold public hearings.
The inquiry will examine the circumstances that contributed to the outbreak of EI in Australia and any need for strengthened procedures and processes to make sure the highest standards of biosecurity are maintained for horses in post-arrival quarantine. |
| Rosehill horses get some relief |
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Warwick Barr writes on today's Racenet website Chris Waller will put his horses back into work later this week..............................................
Rosehill trainer Chris Waller will put his racing team back into serious work later this week after the first shots of horse flu vaccine caused only a minimal disruption to their training schedule.
“There were some mild signs evident … some minor changes to their temperatures but there was no serious reaction,” Waller said.
“In some horses their temperature came up by 0.2 to 0.3 degrees but that is next to nothing.
“Within 12 hours they had dropped back. They never got into a danger zone.”
Waller said he noticed some of his team were lethargic the following day but after two days of light duties including walking and swimming “they were climbing the stable door”.
“By Thursday I will start to work them a bit faster,” he said.
Waller will keep most of his team in work with a Rosehill meeting tentatively planned for October 20.
“Some of my horses will have been in for about 12 months but they have been freshened up and it’s important to help the club with [horse] numbers,” he said.
Rosehill-based thoroughbreds were the first horses targeted by a Racing NSW vaccination strategy.
The first inoculations took place late Friday in a bid to secure a racehorse population to provide some Sydney metropolitan racing after Randwick and Warwick Farm training centres were hit by equine influenza. |
| Vaccination here to stay according to Murrihy |
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Clinton Payne writes on Racenet's website today that according to Murrihy vaccination is here to stay.......................................................
Racing NSW Chief Steward Ray Murrihy believes racehorse owners and trainers should prepare themselves for a new ongoing cost of racing a horse with vaccinations against equine influenza now part of the racing landscape.
“We think to sustain this industry it’s going to be necessary as in virtually every other country in the world, perhaps bar New Zealand to have a vaccination program,” Murrihy told 2ky this morning.
“Unfortunately that’s just going to be the routine for the owner and the trainer every six months they’re going to have to ring up their vet and ensure that the vaccinations are done.
Murrihy believes the vaccination program currently being undertaken by the DPI in buffer zones surrounding known outbreaks of EI and the round of vaccinations being handled by Racing NSW stewards of in-training racehorses at Rosehill and the uninfected provincial tracks along with out of training horses on pre-training establishments and agistment farms will not “guarantee” EI’s eradication in NSW.
“It can’t be a one off because I think we couldn’t afford to get back to normal and find in six months time this flares up again and while you’ve got 85% of horses in the state, pleasure horses and the vast bulk of them, it might be 80% won’t be vaccinated, you can’t guarantee that this virus won’t be raring its head again,” he said.
One of the biggest issues facing the racing industry over vaccination according to Murrihy will be the way it is handled on a national level.
“There are questions that will need to be answered in the next couple of months,” he said.
“Victoria went from no vaccinations to doing some and I don’t know about the other states. “It’s changed the face of racing, there’s no doubt about that.” |
| EI and people |
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People have been main virus carriers says DPI
Warwick Barr
Monday, 24 September 2007
The movement of people within the horse industry had become a key factor in the spread of equine influenza, a leading government veterinary officer said on Monday.
“The horse stand still has worked very, very well,” NSW Department of Primary Industries chief vet Bruce Christie said.
“[With] this concern about people movement, bio-security, making sure people change their clothes, washing their hair … it’s become more and more obvious that it’s so important and so difficult to get individuals to recognise that.”
Mr Christie said the rampant nature of the disease had surprised his DPI colleagues.
“It has been a lot more contagious, I think, than we expected,” he conceded.
He said new cases of EI were still being confirmed at Randwick racecourse last week, meaning the 700 horse population stabled there would remain in quarantine.
“[It’s] roughly a month after the last horse has shown clinical signs that we can have movement,” he said.
He said horses stabled at Centennial Park, the first area outside of Eastern Creek to be hit with EI, had almost fully recovered.
However the immediate future doesn’t look so good for horses domiciled at Warwick Farm.
Mr Christie said it was unlikely an initial vaccination program would include thoroughbreds stabled at the western Sydney track.
“The experience from other locations, and we are certainly keeping an open mind on this, is that once this virus is in it rips through [stables] very quickly,” he said.
He said the timeframe for the vaccination to take hold meant that it would not be practical to vaccinate the Warwick Farm horse population.
“By the time this vaccination actually kicks in, most of the Warwick Farm horses, I would expect, would be infected,” he said.
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| EI vaccinations expected to begin this week |
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NSW EI vaccinations expected to begin on Thursday night
Racenet
Sunday, 23 September 2007
Horses at Rosehill are expected to receive their first dose of Equine Influenza vaccine on Thursday night, within hours of 20,000 vials touching down in Australia.
Authorities revealed today that 9,500 of the vials will be made available to NSW and the same number to go to Qld, with 1,000 set to go to Victoria.
In what has been described as a “floodlight at the end of a very long tunnel” by Racing NSW CEO Peter V’Landys, the shift to vaccination is undoubtedly a positive sign in the crisis and could even also pave the way for NSW horses to play a belated part in the Victorian spring carnival.
Horses at other EI free major racing centres in NSW, Newcastle, Kembla Grange, Wyong and Gosford will also receive priority in being inoculated.
Immunity to the virus begins immediately upon receipt of the first dose of vaccine, which is followed two weeks later by a booster and 100% immunity is expected within three to five weeks.
Racing at metropolitan and provincial tracks has been put on hold for at least a week in a bid to keep those significant horse populations EI free while the vaccines take effect.
“It’s the short term pain for long term gain,” said NSW Chief Steward Ray Murrihy.
Australia and New Zealand are the only major racing countries in the world which, until now, did not vaccinate for Equine Influenza.
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| DPI press release re zoning system |
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The NSW DPI issued the following press release today.......................
Zones next phase in fight against equine influenza: Macdonald
NEW SOUTH WALES - A four-colour zoning system has been introduced in NSW as the next stage of the Iemma Government’s Equine Influenza Protection Plan, Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald announced today.
Minister Macdonald said the new zoning plan would see restrictions on horse movements softened in some areas of the State, particularly the important breeding areas of the Hawkesbury and the Hunter, while allowing the Government to concentrate on eradicating the problem.
“Zoning will enable us to focus our resources on known disease spots and high risk areas in NSW,” he said.
“While at the same time introducing common sense measures to help the breeding and racing industries survive.
“We have listened to the industry – taken its concerns on board and come up with a sound plan that maintains our commitment to stamping out the disease while allowing some movement of mares and foals in areas like the upper Hunter,” he said.
“The purple zone is designed to allow valuable breeding activity to be conducted – it will allow horses with a permit to be brought in for breeding purposes, however, they cannot leave the zone until authorised by DPI.”
Minister Macdonald said based on information gathered by epidemiologists, surveillance teams and field veterinarians, the State will be broken into four colour zones representing the known level of disease infection and risk of spread.
The zones are:
Green – Protected Area - no disease, aim to keep free. Currently includes the Far West, Riverina and Eden-Monaro areas. Travelling Horse Statement required and a permit for events.
Amber – Control Area – no confirmed disease, suspect horses to be investigated as quickly as possible. Based around large parts of the Central West and North Coast areas. Movements may be authorised for racing and breeding. Movements to other events prohibited.
Red – Restricted Area – area of at least 10 km around Infected Premises, high containment and biosecurity to be applied to individual premises and area. Currently includes a band stretching from Sydney, Newcastle and Central Coast areas roughly following the New England Highway up to the Queensland border. Limited permits within the red zone, current movement restrictions stand.
Purple – Special Restricted Area – largely infected, high containment and biosecurity applied to movements out of area. Includes two purple zones in the Upper Hunter and North West Sydney. Can move in with a permit but cannot leave until authorised.
“Zoning is a logical and internationally recognised method of containing and eradicating disease,” Minister Macdonald said.
“The new zones will be effective from Friday and regulations will be supported by the NSW Police Force.”
Minister Macdonald said information was being gathered every day on how the disease is spread.
“Today there are 1363 infected properties with 11,872 horses and another 670 properties are suspect. All infected properties are in containment lines,” he said.
“The challenge now is to let horse owners know where they fit within the EI Protection Plan and ensure they fulfil their responsibilities.
“It is clear zoning hinges on the support of the general public and importantly each and every horse owner - no matter whether they own a racehorse worth tens of thousands or a companion pony.
“The value of these horses to their owners is the same – the Government recognises that.
“We are doing all we can to eradicate this problem and discover just how it got into NSW in the first place.”
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| EI breakthrough for breeding industry |
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Warwick Barr writes on www.racenet.com.au today..................................
The NSW thoroughbred breeding industry has been thrown a lifeline with in principle approval for the restricted movement of horses in the State.
The National Management Group (NMG) addressing equine influenza outbreak issues is expected to sign off on an agreement later this week, possibly Wednesday.
This will include the establishment of a “purple zone” around the heartland of Australia’s breeding industry.
“It is a significant breakthrough,” Thoroughbred Breeders Australia President John Messara told Racenet.
“There are still a lot of technical issues and conditions to be worked through but it’s a great result for the breeding industry.
“The zone and perimeter details are expected to be known midweek.
“Obviously we are thrilled with the decision and we are grateful to [NSW Primary Industries Minister] Ian Macdonald for his support.”
Horses located within the boundaries of a purple zone will be able to move freely within that area, allowing broodmares to be transported to nearby stud farms to be mated with resident stallions, Mr Messara said.
The zone, expected to extend in area from Cessnock to Murrurundi in the Hunter Valley and possibly south to the Hawkesbury region, will take in Australia’s major thoroughbred farms such as Coolmore, Arrowfield, Darley and Widden studs.
A growing percentage of this geographical zone is currently being affected by EI, with Yarraman Park Stud the latest breeding farm to confirm an outbreak of the virus on Monday.
Horses will be allowed to move into the purple zone on permit but won’t be able to leave until the area is declared free of EI.
The decision will open the way for Victorian owners to transport their broodmares to the Hunter Valley, the commercial epicentre of the Australian breeding industry.
“If the authorities are happy for the mares to leave the State and the owners are prepared for an indefinite wait for them to return, then there is no reason why Victorian-based mares can’t travel to the Hunter Valley,” Mr Messara said.
The creation of special zones follows the announcement of a NSW vaccination program on Monday.
The State Government said 5000 horses would be vaccinated, presumably within a 10 kilometre radius of EI hotspots, such as the Hunter Valley.
“Vaccinating represents a significant attitudinal change, one that hopefully spreads to other parts of the industry such as our racehorses,” Mr Messara said.
Mr Messara said he was unaware if stallions locked down in the Eastern Creek quarantine facility would be allowed to move into the purple zone.
“Eastern Creek is another story because it comes under Federal jurisdiction,” he said.
“If the stallions can be released in 30 days I would hope that would be the case [that they can be moved] but that hasn’t been decided yet.”
It is expected four different categories of zones will be declared.
Horses located in an area mapped as a green zone – one that has been identified free of EI - will be allowed to move on an unrestricted basis using a travelling stock permit.
Other zones will be classified as amber and red, depending on a NSW DPI risk assessment.
Horses can only be moved to a higher risk category zone. Once they enter a high risk zone they won’t be able to return to a lower zone until a standstill order has been lifted.
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| Mammoth entries for Rosehill |
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With racing resuming at Rosehill on Saturday, www.racenet have the following story.....................................................
The Sydney Turf Club has received a staggering 325 nominations ahead of Sydney’s second meeting since the equine influenza outbreak at Rosehill on Saturday.
The meeting will be restricted to Rosehill and Warwick Farm trained horses.
However, unlike Warwick Farm’s ‘in-house’ meeting on September 8, the racing public will be able attend under strict bio-security conditions.
There are 150 entries for three maiden races that have been programmed while there are 26 nominations, including nine from the Chris Waller stable, for a $70,000 open handicap over 1200 metres.
Nine races have been programmed but there is a possibility of at least 10 events being held.
Meanwhile, 92 horses have been nominated in seven races set down for an ‘in-house’ meeting at Canberra on Friday. |
| Racing resumes at Rosehill on Saturday |
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Warwick Barr of www.racenet.com.au has the following story.................
STC tipping 7000 for Rosehill race meeting
Crowds will return to Sydney racing under strict bio-security measures at Rosehill on Saturday.
With the Sydney Turf Club anticipating a crowd of 7000 racing fans to attend but they will be restricted to areas in front, behind and in the main grandstand.
Sydney punters have been starved of live racing action since August 22, two days before the outbreak of equine influenza at Centennial Park.
A closed race meeting, restricted to raceday personnel only, was held at Warwick Farm on September 8.
“Of course strict biosecurity measures will be in place at Rosehill but it will be good to see people back trackside in NSW for the first time,” NSW Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald said.
Saturday’s meeting will include Warwick Farm and Rosehill trained horses.
They will be separated from the general public by barricades manned by security guards.
Full bio-security protocols will apply to everyone in a special red zone.
This area will be restricted to people who will have raceday contact with the horses.
Competing jockeys will be banned from having contact with horses for three days before the meeting. |
| Restricted movement agreed to in principle |
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The following story appears on today's TurfMonthly website...........
Restricted movement agreed too in principle
NEW SOUTH WALES – An agreement in principle has been reached for restricted movement on horses in New South Wales’ Hunter Valley.
Thoroughbred Breeders’ Australia (TBA) president John Messara said details had yet to be finalised for the "purple zone" of horse movement during the current equine influenza (EI) crisis.
Horses within the zone would be able to move freely onto properties allowing mares to be served by stallions already resident on breeding farms.
"Agreement has been reached in principle and we expect the details mid-week," Messara said.
"Mares coming from outside the zone would have to stay in there but the ones already within the zone would be able to move freely from farm to farm.
"It is believed that selected use of vaccination will occur in a buffer area around the purple zone."
NSW Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald announced that about 10,000 shots of vaccine would also be imported for use on horses inside newly-created buffer zones.
"Vaccine will be imported once the federal government's Office of the Gene Technology Regulator signs off on this initiative. I have already written to them on this important matter," he said.
"There is national agreement that we must use the vaccine strategically and with precision to stay one step ahead of the disease, with the ultimate aim of eradication.
"I want to make it absolutely clear from the start that the vaccine will not be made available to each and every horse owner in NSW - it just won't work that way." |
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Rosehill a glimmer of hope in EI crisis
Friday Sep 14 17:12 AEST
Approval to let horses travel from Warwick Farm to race at Rosehill in front of spectators next week has provided a glimmer of hope for the NSW racing industry currently in the grip of equine influenza (EI).
It will be the first time for a month that horses will be able to move off their home bases in NSW with both the Warwick Farm and Rosehill training centres so far free of infection.
However, trainers, breeders and veterinary surgeons are calling on government authorities to allow vaccination immediately to minimise the current risk and protect the future.
The disease has so far been confined to NSW and Queensland, with only in-house meetings restricted to locally-trained horses up and running in the past week and the multi-million dollar Sydney spring carnival cancelled.
Horse movement is still at a standstill unless special permits are obtained and the 700 horses trained at Randwick, where EI is present, have all been ruled out of any of the Melbourne spring features.
"It is a landmark in the situation," V'Landys said of next week's meeting.
"Hopefully it means more of the same."
A marathon session of 19 barrier trials was held for Warwick Farm horses on Friday morning and the Rosehill brigade will tune up for racing with 10 trials to be run at that track on Monday.
But the lingering problem of EI has left hundreds of sport and leisure horses stranded and racehorses confined to restricted areas as well as causing the cancellation of several crucial Olympic-qualifying equestrian events.
The breeding industry in the NSW Hunter Valley, which accounts for 40 per cent of the foals born in Australia each year, is under serious threat with the 2008 foal crop certain to be diminished.
The call for vaccination against EI has gathered momentum over the past week with trainers, breeders and leading veterinarians now supporting the cause.
Thoroughbred Breeders Association (TBA) president John Messara, the proprietor of Arrowfield Stud, was initially against vaccination but has joined the call for an urgent turnaround in policy.
"If it doesn't ravage us this time it will in a year or two or three," Messara said.
"It will come again because human error in these days of international travel and the global horse economy will mean that at some stage in the future it will happen again.
"It would be preferable to vaccinate across the whole of Australia but our view in NSW is if the other states don't want to do it we (NSW) should vaccinate ourselves so we can have freedom of movement within our state and conduct racing in the normal way."
Dr Cameron Collins, secretary of Equine Veterinarians Australia, said strategic vaccination would help the current situation and work in conjunction with the containment measures implemented by the Department of Primary Industries (DPI).
"Strategic vaccination of target populations should be implemented to prevent further infection of contained unaffected horse populations," Dr Collins said.
"Use of vaccination in combination with current DPI containment strategies is recognition that there are a significant number of horses at immediate risk that may be able to be protected from the virus, without compromising the ability to control the spread of the disease.
"Strategic vaccination will provide further security for target horse populations and provide much-needed security for many industry participants."
Until last month, Australia, New Zealand and Iceland were the only countries in the world to have avoided EI.
Australia's first case was identified in a shuttle stallion awaiting release from Sydney's Eastern Creek quarantine centre and several more valuable sires have now been confirmed with EI with no horses allowed to leave the complex.
Although there are still many highly sought after stallions resident on studs in NSW, Queensland and Victoria, the mares they are supposed to serve are not allowed to travel to the farms.
The TBA has put a proposal to NSW Primary Industries minister Ian Macdonald which would allow mares to be moved to the studs under strict biosecurity measures.
A decision is expected next week.
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| Hunter Purple-Zone plan to allow mare movement |
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The following article appears on today's Breeding & Racing Update website.....................
Thoroughbred Breeders Australia announced its plan for a Purple Zone in the NSW Hunter Valley (to "allow horse movement & the subsequent opening of the 2007 breeding season for walk-on mares to be served by stallions already in the Hunter") will be presented to the NSW Department Of Primary Industries next Monday (September 17). Once mares entered the Purple Zone, they would not be able to leave "until an all-clear is given on the equine influenza situation". After meeting NSW Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald yesterday, TBA president John Messara confirmed the Purple Zone proposal met the following response: agreement in principle to the plan; a need for further discussion "on compliance aspects to reassure other jurisdictions"; the plan "will go to the Technical Committee this week"; & "all going well, the final plan will be presented for approval on Monday 17 September".
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| Sydney Vet and Plasvacc seek horse flu solution |
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The following story appears on today Breeding & Racing Update website..................
Meanwhile Dr Tim Roberts (vet in charge of Sydney's Centennial Parkland Equestrian Centre) & Queensland bio-tech company Plasvacc (Australia's leading producer of animal plasma products) have formed an alliance "to investigate a medical solution for the current equine influenza virus" & are "awaiting permission from Animal Health Australia through AusVetPlan to draw plasma from infected horses at the Centennial Park stable". They believe the infected horses "have started to build immunity to the flu virus & plasma drawn from the horses could boost the immune systems of horses faced with the highly contagious disease". Roberts said he was "cautiously optimistic the treatment collected from volunteer donors at the Centennial Parklands Equestrian Centre could provide a ray of hope for the industry". And Plasvacc chief executive Andrew Macarthur noted antibody-rich plasma is "a proven way of combating the risk of many other infections, especially in new-born foals". Macarthur declared: "We are looking for industry-wide support to fast-track this program to see if it can work. Now more than ever, new-born foals need the proven benefits provided by antibody-rich plasma to fight off the risk of equine influenza."
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| Progress made on movement of mares |
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Tara Madgwick wrote the following article Progress Made on Movement of Mares on today's Breednet website....................................
Progress is being made on a proposed plan to introduce a so-called ‘purple zone’ in New South Wales to enable the movement of mares for the purposes of breeding with Thoroughbred Breeders Australia confirming that the plan is likely to be presented for approval next Monday, September 17.
From the TBA website
The Hunter Valley will hopefully have a ‘purple zone’ created around it by the NSW State Government and DPI in the next 7 days. The zone will to allow horse movement, and the subsequent opening of the 2007 breeding season for walk-on mares.
At the moment there is a total lock-down of all horse movement in NSW as officials work to contain the equine influenza.
The purple zone would allow the breeding season to commence, and walk-on mares to be served by stallions already in the Hunter Valley. Once mares enter the purple zone they would not however be able to leave until an ‘all clear’ is given on the EI situation.
After meeting with Ian McDonald, NSW Minister for Primary Industries, earlier today, TBA President John Messara confirmed that the Zoning Plan has met with the following response:
· Agreement in principle to the zoning plan
· There is a need for further discussion on compliance aspects to reassure other
jurisdictions
· Subject to further issues arising, the zoning plan will go to the Technical Committee this week
· All going well, the Final Plan will be presented for approval on Monday 17 September
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| Lotteria and her Encosta De Lago filly |
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Tara Madgwick on today's Breednet writes that Lotteria Takes to Motherhood.............
Former star racemare Lotteria has moved into a new phase of her life as a broodmare after producing her very first foal at Vinery Stud on September 1, a fabulous chestnut filly by leading sire Encosta de Lago. Raced by Gerry Harvey and partners throughout her career, Lotteria was one of the best mares ever trained by Gai Waterhouse, winning eight of 17 starts earning prizemoney just shy of $1.5 million.  The daughter of Redoute’s Choice kicked off her career as a spring three year-old in 2004, winning her first four starts in succession culminating in a dazzling seven length win in the Group One AJC Flight Stakes at Royal Randwick. Competitive in the autumn when racing against elite company, Lotteria blossomed again the following spring with some sparkling performances that earned her a trip south for a tilt at the Group One MVRC W.S. Cox Plate. Ridden a heady race by Chris Munce, Lotteria defeated all but the mighty Makybe Diva in finishing second in Australia’s premier weight-for-age event, before gaining some consolation with a facile win in the Group One VRC Myer Classic at Flemington. Lotteria is the best offspring to date for the Sir Tristram (IRE) mare Rose Reward (NZ) (also owned by Gerry Harvey), who hails from an outstanding New Zealand Black Type family, featuring Group One winners such as Taatletail, Starzaan, Lord Reims and Rocket Racer. |
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The following story appeared on today's Racenet news written by Warwick Barr.......................
Vaccinating Australia’s horse population against equine influenza would cost up to $100 million each year, NSW Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald said on Monday.
“If we are going to effectively vaccinate across all States that means that 440,000 horses,” he told Sydney radio station 2KY.
“[There needs to be a] high level of vaccination use to avoid a mutation of the disease in the horse population.
“It will cost $70 million to $100 million a year.”
Mr Macdonald said a “suitable” vaccination had been indemnified to combat the strain of the virus that has brought the NSW horse industry to a virtual standstill.
However the implementation of a vaccine program needed to be signed off by national bodies such as AQIS.
The minister said it would be at least two weeks before any vaccination program would be able to start.
With the program involving two injections over a one month period, it would be six weeks before the vaccination started to work.
“It’s a big step to sign off on,” he said.
Mr Macdonald described the current spread of the virus as being “lateral” with most latest cases happening from paddock to paddock contact.
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| Latest news on Equine Influenza |
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Turf Monthly have the following release on their website...................................
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Breeding Season start date brought forward
AUSTRALIA - At its special emergency national meeting today the Australian Racing Board agreed to a proposal by Thoroughbred Breeders Australia that the commencement of the breeding season be brought forward from 1st September to 27th August, 2007.
Having received a request from the national peak body representing the Australian breeding section, the ARB resolved today that in the exceptional circumstances of the current outbreak of Equine Influenza, and the uncertainty about the duration of restrictions on the movement of horses in the near future, approval is given for mares to be covered from today’s date, 27 August, 2007.
This will permit mares currently domiciled on breeding farms to be covered by resident stallions from today, bringing the breeding season forward by six days. This action is being taken in the hope of ameliorating to some extent an anticipated congestion of mares’ coverings when the current restrictions on the movement of horses are eventually lifted.
The outcome of this decision is that 2008 foals who are the result of a covering between 27 August 2007 and 31 August 2007 will be recognised as the same age as those whose dams were covered from 1 September 2007.
The Australian Racing Board stresses that this Order is subject to all current and future Government orders and edicts restricting the movement of horses.
The Australian Racing Board will work in close co-operation with the Australian Stud Book and Thoroughbred Breeders Australia in the implementation of this change.
NSW racing suspended indefinitely
NEW SOUTH WALES - Racing in New South Wales is suspended indefinitely with some 415 horses on 53 properties diagnosed with equine influenza, NSW Primary Industries Minister Ian MacDonald said today.
Speaking at a press conference in Sydney early this afternoon, he said results on three horses with clinical symptoms of the devastating virus were expected by 6pm today. Reports indicate that horses from the stables of leading trainers Gai Waterhouse and Bart Cummings are among those at Randwick with elevated temperatures.
“We have extended the standstill indefinitely and we won’t revisit that until next Monday; we have a lot more to do to indentify the scope of this problem and it is absolutely essential that no one moves a horse,” MacDonald said.
“It is a very difficult situation now with three horses being tested at Randwick. There are over 700 horses in that precinct and they represent the cream of racing in NSW,” he told assembled media.
“I want to reiterate that we need to limit the spread of this highly, highly contagious disease. Look at the situation at Centennial Park where 161 of 163 horses are now showing symptoms. We are doing further tests to identify the type of equine influenza we are dealing with so we can analyse what caused this outbreak,” he said.
“We will also greatly increase the number of restricted areas in the state. We have to get rid of it.
“I have begun an investigation ... I won’t speculate, I will wait for results, but I think the sero-typing will give us a pretty good angle on where it has come from. One thing I do know is it does not need a horse to transmit it, it is possible for it to be transmitted on clothing, hands, shoes – it is reputed the disease can travel on the wind for 8km,” MacDonald said.
“The implications for the racing industry very serious indeed.”
NSW Racing chief executive Peter V’Landys will seek compensation under the National Disaster Relief Funding Scheme as racing in NSW grinds to an indefinite standstill. V’Landys estimated the loss in NSW betting turnover alone was $1billion per month, and said he was very concerned with 50,000 participants in the industry whose livelihoods would be affected.
“We are going to seek assistance so people can meet their own financial commitments,” he said.
Owners witnessing symptoms of equine influenza in their animals should call the emergency animal disease hotline 1800 675 888.
For further information call the Equine Influenza hotline 1800 234 002 or go towww.outbreak.gov.au
Monday, 27 August 2007
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| Kakakakatie and Dancesteps retired to stud |
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Australian Racing & Breeding have the following story on their website..................
Body Beautiful & Dancesteps Retire To Breeding Barn
City-winning 5YO racemares Body Beautiful (Flying Spur-Porte Des Iles, by Kris) & Dancesteps (Danehill-Cannyanna, by Canny Lad) "have joined former stable-mate Kakakakatie in retirement," reported racenet.com.au . Trainer Pat Webster confirmed the 2 mares (who both finished unplaced in the same event at Randwick last Saturday) had run their last races & "they were put on the float this week." Body Beautiful notched 4 wins & 7 placings from 19 starts for $78,350 earnings. And Dancesteps notched 3 wins & a runner-up from 14 starts for $79,500 earnings. Meanwhile Kakakakatie bowed out of racing on a winning note by claiming her 2nd stakes win at Randwick in March & Webster noted: "I think Kakakakatie is being sent to sire Mossman". (Aug 15)
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| First leg of Gerry's Randwick double |
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Come On Cugat adds another dimension to his arsenal
Clinton Payne
Saturday, 11 August 2007
Rosehill trainer Chris Waller believes Come On Cugat can develop into a stakes class galloper after proving much too good for his rivals in today’s Vilis Handicap over 1600m at Randwick.
A horse Waller describes as a “big baby” is turning the corner after being taught to settle in his races and the rewards were on show today.
“Darren Beadman rode him two runs back and jagged him back to last and since then we have been teaching him to settle and find the line,” Waller said.
“He showed the benefit of that today.
“He’s such a big horse, over 600kg, and didn’t realise his powers.”
After finishing fifth in last year’s trainers premiership, Waller believes there are "exciting times" ahead for the stable and he is particularly keen for the new two-year-old season to begin.
“I breezed up a couple of well bred babies the other morning and we hadn’t been in a position to do that before,” he said.
“The way they went they would have beaten some of the older horses so it’s exciting times for us.”
With the stablemate Humma over racing in front with the blinkers on, the race was run to suit Come On Cugat who has relaxed back towards the tail of the field.
In the straight jockey Nash Rawiller made his move on Come On Cugat and the pair swept past the leaders and surged clear for an easy victory.
“He’s showed he’s got another dimension now,” said Waller.
“We used to think he was a bit one paced but now he’s showing he’s got a turn of foot.
Maybe there are better things on the cards for him now and it wouldn’t surprise me if he could win a stakes race.”
The runner up Hike continued his consistent for finishing off evenly and holding out Beau Covet who worked home strongly to grab third. Come On Cugat 56.5kg ($4) (N.Rawiller) defeated Hike 56kg ($8) (R.M.Quinn) by three lengths with Beau Covet 58kg ($5.50) (B.Shinn) a nose back in third. The 1600m was run in 1.38.20 with the final 600m run in 36.92. |
| Second leg of Gerry's Randwick double |
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La Silva lands the cash
Warwick Barr
Saturday, 11 August 2007
Gerry Harvey’s racing empire flexed its muscle in consecutive races at Randwick on Saturday.
One of Australia’s best known entrepreneurs, Harvey’s thoroughbred holdings are spread far and wide and his winning double on Saturday was brought up by two different trainers.
Rosehill trainer Chris Waller prepared his first winner Come On Cugat while Warwick Farm’s Greg Hickman put the polish on La Silva in the Hyland Race Colours Handicap (1600m).
Hickman trains five horses for Harvey and La Silva was the first winner he prepared for the businessman.
“She won first-up at Goulburn,” Hickman said.
“What can you say about Gerry Harvey. “He’s a champion. He enjoys the game and he often comes to the stable to look at his horses.
“The industry would be lost without people like him. He’s got 110 horses in work with 35 trainers.”
La Silva, specked from $20 to $17, produced a late run to beat Ruby Bre ($3) by almost two lengths with Harmony Hall ($5.50) finishing a length away third.
Hickman said an operation on the mare’s front joints had helped her turn the corner since resuming.
“I wish I would have had her as a three-year-old,” Hickman said.
“She would have been a nice Oaks filly.”
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| The Waller and Beadman Road Show Rolls On |
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After Come On Cugat won at Canterbury on Wednesday, NZ journalist Rob Burnet wrote the following story that appeared on his trainer Chris Waller's website.................................................
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The Waller and Beadman road show rolled on for another day at the Sydney Turf Club’s meeting at Canterbury on Wednesday.
On Tuesday at Warwick Farm the Rosehill trainer and Sydney’s top jockey brough home Grizz (NZ) to win for the first time in nearly 12 months, and at Canterbury they did the same with Gerry Harvey’s Come On Cugat in the $25,000, Hyland Race Colours Handicap (1900m). |
Come On Cugat had not won since June last year when running at Tamworth, and he collected a frustrating run of placings in Sydney mid-week company before the master rider organised a clear win.
Beadman dropped Come On Cugat to the rear of the eight horse field and allowed his mount to settle and be carried along to the final turn. Then Beadman eased five wide coming off the turn ensuring he had clear running room.
He then waited for 50m racing almost line astern to the leaders before asking Come On Cugat to stride out passing the 175m. That was when the race over as the large three-year-old gelding went away with ease to a 2 1/2L win.
It all seemed effortless and it placed a different light on Come On Cugat after the 11 previous races for just the one win, but five places.
Woman Of Fire (High Yield) was second, with Tor’s Dancer (Thunder Gulch) third, the margin 2 1/2L. The time was 2.02.22 on the heavy (9) track, and the final 600m in a testing 38.28. Come On Cugat paid $3.30 on NSW TAB with punters still prepared to back Beadman despite his mount’s lack of previous winning consistency.
Come On Cugat is by King Cugat out of the Sir Tristram mare Come On Klaire, suggesting that time is on his side. After the win his stakes climbed to $53,940.
The win took Waller to outright fifth on the Sydney metropolitan trainers’ championship with Come On Cugat making it a double for the meeting after Triple Honour won in the previous race, the $25,000, Retirement Show 27-29 July Handicap (1100m).
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| Bred by Gerry - The Jackal - wins the Ramornie Hcp |
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Greg Irvine wrote the following media release for MAGIC MILLIONS - THE JACKAL HAS PUNTERS LAUGHING AFTER RAMORNIE...............
The Jackal had favourite punters cheering with his near track record breaking in Wednesday's listed $126,300 Ramornie Handicap (1200m) at Grafton.
Prepared by former golf professional Paul St Vincent, The Jackal sizzled in the New South Wales feature, stopping the clock at 1 minute 8.35 seconds - just seven hundredths of a second from Cangronde's 11 year track record.
A $20,000 bargian buy for St Vincent at the 2004 Magic Millions National Yearling Sale at the Gold Coast sent his earnings soaring to $615,600 following today's three quarter length victory.
St Vincent was over the moon after the race, saying today's win the Ramornie meant more than his recent Group Three win in the Healy Stakes in Brisbane.
"I've been coming to Grafton for about 30 years now," St Vincent commented. "And I've always wanted to win the Ramornie."
St Vincent said he owed The Jackal a lot.
"If it wasn't for this horse I would be broke and given the game away," he commented.
Standing alongside St Vincent in the winner's stall were sons Kane and Aiden, who are being groomed to take over the stables "sooner rather than later."
"I want to give it away now," St Vincent commented.
As all good Dad's do, it's a sure thing Paul is going to tell his boys to shop smart when shopping for yearlings and head to the value sales conducted by Magic Millions.
The Jackal, by the rejuvenated Spectacular Bid horse Bite the Bullet, is one of three winners from the Best Western mare Positive Surprise.
Unraced, Positive Surprise is from the Ascot winning and Group placed Habitat mare Victorian Habit.
She is already responsible for three winners - Perth victor Calabration and multiple winner and city performer Collingwood as well as The Jackal.
St Vincent trained Collingwood and at the time of The Jackal going under the hammer on the Gold Coast he was showing a good deal of ability.
It wasn't only St Vincent and the immediate connections of The Jackal who were laughing after the Ramornie.
Baramul Stud's Gerry Harvey, who bred and sold The Jackal, still has his dam Positive Surprise at his Hunter Valley property.
The daughter of Best Western has a weanling filly at home by King Cugat. Her yearling by the same sire was purchased earlier this year by well known kiwi horseman Shaune Ritchie.
The Jackal's sire Bite the Bullet has been in the news for all the right reasons this season and not only through the exploits of her sprinting star from the St Vincent stable.
He is also the sire of the recent Group One Stradbroke Handicap winner Sniper's Bullet.
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| Conatus to light up Plaintree Farms |
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Bred by Gerry at his historic Baramul Stud from one of the best families in the Australian Stud Book, Conatus stands at Plaintree Farms in Queensland. Brian Russell wrote the following story in his regular email newsletter...................................
There are few Danehill (USA) sires with immediate bloodlines offering more in potential speed than Conatus, a son of this world giant of thoroughbred breeding who has good prospects of lighting up Heather Pascoe's Plaintree Farms as a big player in Queensland.
This sturdy bay due to have his first two-year-olds race during 2007-2008 is a brother to juvenile star World Peace, a winner of a MRC Blue Diamond Preview-Gr.3 and third placegetter in the MRC Blue Diamond Stakes-Gr.1. They are from Light Up The World, a winner of eight sprint races, including two Group 3s at Rosehill Gardens, and second in the AJC Challenge Stakes-Gr.2 and STC Missile Stakes-Gr.3.
Light Up The World is a half-sister by Golden Slipper winner and prolific speed influence Rory's Jester to the dams of the noted performers Bentley Biscuit and Thorn Park and is from Christmas Spirit, a daughter of Bletchingly, a setter of new track record time at Flemington and three times champion Australian sire.
Bletchingly was by the awesomely fast Biscay, the sire also of Marscay, the maternal grandsire of the Danehill sires Catbird, Elvstroem and Untouchable. Biscay also sired Christmas Tree, a winner of the STC Pago Pago Stakes-Gr.2 and AJC Kindergarten Stakes, a Golden Slipper-Gr.1 fourth and three-quarter brother to the grandam of Conatus.
Christmas Spirit and Christmas Tree were from Joy and Fun, a daughter of champion racehorse and sire Showdown(GB) and a queen of Australian racing and breeding, Denise's Joy. The latter mare is recognised as the matriarch of one of Australia's most successful modern Group1 producing families.
Conatus did not add to the family's Group1 honour board, but in a brief career lived up to his genes with some exhibitions of blistering speed. Unraced at two, he showed considerable ability at three, winning his first two outings, the first of them an1100m event at Randwick which he won by 3.3 lengths in class record time. He had impressed so much in training, including a trial win by 2.5 lengths at Warwick Farm, that he was sent out an odds on favourite in both wins.
Conatus also won twice at four, and was successful in two trials, before retirement to Plaintree Farms.The first of the wins was by 4.0 lengths and in class record time in a 1400m event on the Newcastle Cup program and the second by 1.8 lengths at Warwick Farm. He covered the 1000m journey at the Farm in 0:57.48.
John Hawkes, the trainer of this son of Danehill, told Gerry Harvey, it's breeder and one of it's owners, that he considered in short-sprint terms alone, Conatus would have held his end up with Champion Australasian Sprinter Exceed and Excel. Also by Danehill, Exceed and Excel now stands at the Darley Stud at Aberdeen in the Hunter Valley on $55,000, a vast difference to the $3,300 asked for Conatus.
The owner of the historic Baramul Stud in the Widden Valley, Gerry Harvey and the other syndicate owners entrusted Conatus to Heather Pascoe's care at the young Plaintree Farms stud, Cecil Plains Road, Toowoomba, in 2004 and his books for his first two seasons were 83 (first season) and 109 (2005).
Harvey has strongly supported him each year and among the mares in his initial book were daughters of Marscay, Encosta de Lago, Zabeel, Secret Savings (USA), Snippets, Thunder Gulch(USA), Desert Prince (IRE), Marauding, Timber Country (USA), Royal Academy (USA), Last Tycoon (IRE), Canny Lad, Scenic (IRE) and Geiger Counter (USA).
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| Bel Danoro retires to Vinery Stud |
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Vinery Stud have issued the following press release of Gerry's Gr 3 winning son of Danehill, Bel Danoro will begin his stud career at Vinery Stud this season.
The good looking son of the multiple champion sire and sire of champion sires, Danehill and the stakes-winning daughter of Bellotto, Bislotto retires to stud after winning two stakes races down the famed Flemington straight.
Bel Danoro showed his natural speed early having won his first two starts which included a win at Flemington over the straight 1200m course in a slick 57.5 seconds on a dead track.
A stakes horse early in his career, Bel Danoro showed his liking to the Flemington straight course when he defeated Gr 1 winners El Segundo and Apache Cat when winning the Listed Aurie's star Hcp.
He showed this win to be no fluke when he won at the same course and distance taking out the Gr 2 VRC Bobbie Lewis quality at his very next start.
Bel Danoro's dam Bislotto was also a stakes-winner down the Flemington straight and is a daughter of Mr Prospector's successful Australian based stallion Bellotto.
Her dam Biscay Dancer is by champion sire Biscay and is a sister to stakes-winner Nanutarra and a half-sister to Gr 1 Caulfield Guineas winner Marwong.
"It is our commitment to offer breeders quality stallions at all levels of the market at the best value and Bel Danoro certainly fits this criteria", said Vinery's General Manager, Peter Orton.
"He was a very good racehorse, from a strong Australian family and by Danehill, the most potent stallion of our time. Danehill now stands as the best sire of sires with the likes of Redoute's Choice, Flying Spur, Commands, Danewin, Danzero, etc. Bel Danoro will be syndicated to breeders and with additional support from Vinery, will receive a great opportunity to be a success at stud".
Bel Danoro will stand his first season at Vinery for a fee of $5,500 (GST inclusive) which is payable in June of next year.
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| Minor hiccup to Rose of Sharon's preparation |
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Rose of Sharon has had a minor hiccup with her preparation for this Saturday's Gr 1 QTC Oaks (2400m) at Eagle Farm. Racenet's Clinton Payne wrote the following story.................................
Randwick trainer Pat Webster is optimistic about the chances of his filly Rose Of Sharon making it to the barriers in Saturday’s $400,000 G1 Queensland Oaks (2400m) at Eagle Farm after revealing the filly has had a hiccup in her preparation.
Webster advised Queensland Racing stewards that the half sister to former top line mare Lotteria was suffering from a stone bruise and Webster’s vet Tim Roberts inspected the filly earlier today.
” The stewards’ vets will inspect her at 2.00pm tomorrow afternoon,” Webster said.
”We are pretty upbeat we are working on it and hoping it’s not too serious and if its not we’ll be running.
”I’d lover her to run but we’ll see what happens.
”If she’s not meant to run she’s not meant to run.
”The stewards are not going to let her run unless she’s 100%.”
Webster’s team will work around the clock before tomorrow afternoon hoping the filly responds to treatment of the hoof.
”We’ll just keep poulticing the foot, hot and cold, hot and cold.
”The farrier will be over this afternoon to put the shoe back on so were hoping.”
Rose Of Sharon is currently at $12 in the race in TAB Sportsbet’s fixed-odds market.
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| Magic Millions Yearling Sale Update |
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Lot 2512 at the Magic Millions Yearling Sale has a pedigree update and Australian Racing & Breeding Magazine wrote the following story:
Highly Leicly Half-Brother At Magic Millions Yearling Sale
The 3-lengths victory by 3YO filly Highly Leicly (King Cugat-Chandrika, by Kenmare) over 1200m at Mildura in Victoria highlighted the cataloguing of his half-brother (by Widden Stud shuttler Belong To Me) at the National Yearling Sale. Chandrika is a half-sister to triple Gr1-winner Pharaoh & to the dam of Gr1 NZ Derby winner Leica Guv. (May 29)
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| Webster says Rose will be big improver |
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Rose of Sharon will take her place in Saturday's Gr 1 QTC Oaks (2400m) and Warwick Barr of Racenet wrote the following story.......................................
Punters should be in a forgiving mood when it comes to assessing the Queensland Oaks prospects of Sydney filly Rose Of Sharon, trainer Pat Webster warned today.
“Just forget all about the Doomben Roses,” he said.
“She drew out in the car park and had to go back to last. You couldn’t take any notice of the run.”
Rose Of Sharon finished 12th of 16 runners behind Lasoron but after conceding the leaders an impossible start into the straight, made some late ground to be beaten just over five lengths.
Webster said champion Melbourne jockey Damien Oliver was more than happy to retain the ride.
Oliver rode Rose Of Sharon when the filly was placed at Randwick during the autumn carnival before Darren Beadman took over when she finished an eye-catching second in the Silk Stocking at the Gold Coast on May 5.
“She’s bred to stay and I’m sure Eagle Farm will suit her better than Doomben,” Webster said.
Rose Of Sharon is a $12 chance for Saturday’s $400,000 Group I staying test at Eagle Farm on Saturday.
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| Rose of Sharon draws wide barrier in Doombe Roses |
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AAP wrote the following story when Rose of Sharon drew barrier 18 in the Doomben Roses......................................
Rose Of Sharon cops poor draw at Doomben
17 May, 2007
Trainer Pat Webster didn't know whether to laugh or cry after his promising filly Rose Of Sharon received the visitor's draw for the Group Three Doomben Roses on Saturday.
The Randwick trainer, noted for his quick wit, was shattered when Rose Of Sharon drew barrier 18 in the 2020m staying feature - the traditional lead-up to the Group One Queensland Oaks (2400m) at Eagle Farm on June 2.
Rose Of Sharon became a leading Oaks fancy following her unlucky second to Kiwi filly Santagostino in the Listed Gold Coast Bracelet (1800m) on May 5.
"I was shattered when I heard what draw she got," Webster said.
"It's really put a spanner in the works. Originally we wanted a good draw so she could get a nice sit and smother.
"Now she's in the car park and I'll let Damien Oliver decide how best to ride her."
Oliver pounced on the opportunity to ride Rose Of Sharon after the filly's last-start rider Darren Beadman could not give Webster a firm decision earlier in the week whether he would be available for the Doomben Roses.
"Beadman told me she hit the fence twice at the Gold Coast and the track was too small for her," Webster said.
"The bad barrier may yet prove a blessing in disguise as she'll be away from any trouble out wide."
The Encosta De Lago filly is only the second horse Webster has sent to Queensland in a career spanning 33 years.
His only other runner was Ab Initio who came north on a Doomben 10,000 mission following his win in the Group Three TJ Smith (1200m) at Randwick in 1999.
Ab Initio, who was later transferred to John Hawkes, finished 12th to Toowoomba flyer Laurie's Lottery in the Group One Doomben 10,000 that year after finishing a close third to Staging in the Group Two Carlton Cup (1200m) at Doomben.
"I'm very happy with Rose Of Sharon since her Gold Coast run but nothing runs like a well-oiled machine," Webster said.
"She's going to 2000 metres for the first time and a lot of good judges tell me she's a doubt getting the trip.
"But her mother won over 2000 metres and her father (Encosta De Lago) just sired the South Australian Oaks winner (Watches).
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| Rose of Sharon heading towards Qld Oaks |
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Warren Barr wrote the following story on today's Racenet website..................
Sydney filly Rose Of Sharon will be on trial for a Queensland Oaks start when she continues her Brisbane campaign at Doomben on Saturday.
A veteran of just seven race starts, Rose Of Sharon promises to be one of the main chances in the $175,000 Group III Doomben Roses (2020m).
“The Doomben race will tell me if she will stay,” trainer Pat Webster told Racenet.
“I think she will. [Her sire] Encosta De Lago sired this year’s South Australian Oaks winner and her dam [Rose Reward] was placed at 2400 metres.”
Webster is super keen for Rose Of Sharon to earn winning black type against her name before she becomes a four-year-old.
“There are not as many opportunities for mares to get black type so that’s why I’m keen to make the most of the next few races in Brisbane,” he said.
Rose Of Sharon has been placed at Listed level three times including a last start second to Santagostino in the Gold Coast Bracelet (1800m) on May 5.when stepped up beyond a mile for the first time.
Damien Oliver takes over from Darren Beadman on Saturday but the top Melbourne jockey rode Rose Of Sharon into second place in a Listed race during the Randwick Easter carnival.
The Group I $400,000 Queensland Oaks (2400m) at Eagle Farm on June 2.
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| Stacked made it three wins from three starts |
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Stacked made it three wins from three starts last Saturday at Randwick and Clinton Payne wrote on Racenet..........................................
Rosehill trainer Chris Waller might be in Brisbane looking after Magically who lines up in the BTC Cup later today but at Randwick his team was firing on all cylinders with first, smart filly Stacked remaining unbeaten and then Miss Nikki making it a race to race double.
Stacked, was unwanted in betting in the CPR Handicap (1400m), blowing out from her opening quote of $3.20 to $6 while the punters were all over Helluva Party who firmed from $2 into $1.70 with the only other runner under double figures being Tzu His at $6.
Stacked began quickly and took up the leaders roll with the pressure being applied by Crafty Belle but on straightening, Stacked, shook off Crafty Belle before quickly having pressure applied by Helluva Party who appeared as though she would run away with it.
But Stacked refused to lie down and fought back over the final 200m to worry Helluva Party out of the victory with Tzu Hsi fighting on gamely for third.
”She’s a very genuine filly,” Chris Waller’s stable foreman Paul Shailer said.
”Today was her acid test; she’d got away with some soft leads at her first two wins so there was still some question marks.
”But she’s very determined and found plenty when the pressure was on.
”Brisbane is an option we are looking at now but we’ll see how she pulls up before making any decisions.”
Stacked 55kg ($6) (J.Innes) defeated Helluva Party 56kg ($1.70) (T.Angland a1.5) by a half head with Tzu Hsi 58kg ($6) (J.Parr a1.5) a short head back in third. The 1400m was run in the time of 1.25.96 and the final 600m was covered in 36.14.
Apprentice Tye Angland had finished second twice in the first three races but he registered a score with a patient ride aboard Miss Nikki to win the UBS Investment Handicap (1600m).
After being involved in an early charge for the lead, Angland eased Miss Nikki in behind the leaders before again taking off at the 800m and from there she was never headed.
“She likes to make the race a staying test.” Shailer said.
”We’ll keep her here in Saturday company and probably step her up over a bit of ground after that.”
“I’m confident she can get 2000 metres if she leads at her own tempo and there are no other horses around her.”
The best backed runner in the race was the David Payne-trained Viva Caro who was supported from $5.50 into $3.60 but was the first horse beaten and jogged home to finish sixth beaten 9.8 lengths.
Neroli was given the run of the race before charging late to finish a narrowly beaten second with Zeagle Eagle battling back in third.
Miss Nikki 56.5kg ($6) (T.Angland a1.5) defeated Neroli 56.5kg ($3.20) (J.Parr a1.5) by a head with Zeagle Eagle 53kg ($7.50) (J.Innes) a further three quarters of a length back in third. The 1400m was covered in 1.39.03 and the final 600m was run in 38
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| Article on The Jackal |
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When The Jackal won the Listed Prime Minister's Cup last Saturday, the TBNSW newsletter had the following article..............................
When The Jackal scored in the Listed Prime Minister’s Cup at the Gold Coast on 5 May 2007 he gave his breeder TBNSW member Mr G Harvey yet another black type win. Congratulations to Mr Harvey .
The Jackal (Bite the Bullet(USA)-Positive Surprise) was successful from Daunting Lad (Latarmiss(IRE)-New Day Dawning(NZ)) with Mr Hornblower (Admiralty(USA)-Anika Joy) in third place.
This is the first black type success for The Jackal who takes his record to 7 wins, 7 second placings and 2 third placings from 24 race starts for $420,850 in career prizemoney to date. |
| Another Stakes winner bred and sold by Gerry |
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The win by The Jackal in Saturday's Listed Prime Minister's Cup (1300m) was another success for Gerry and his Baramul Stud, having bred and sold the horse. The Australian Racing & Breeding Magazine have the following story on their website.................................................
The Jackal Wins Prime Minister's Cup Bengalla Stud sire Bite The Bullet (Spectacular Bid-Lassie's Lady, by Alydar) recorded his 18th stakes-winner when 4YO gelding The Jackal (Bite The Bullet-Positive Surprise, by Best Western) motored home to score by a long-neck in the $175,000 Listed Prime Minister's Cup (1300m) at the Gold Coast. The Jackal (ridden by Steven King for trainer Paul Vincent) defeated 5YO entire Daunting Lad ( Latarmiss-New Day Dawning, by Standaan) & 5YO gelding Mr Hornblower (Admiralty-Anika Joy, by Tirol). The Jackal (a $20,000 yearling consigned by Baramul Stud at the 2004 National Yearling Sale) now has 7 wins & 9 placings (including February's Gr3 Frederick Clissold Stakes over 1200m & April's Listed Chief De Beers Quality over1100m) from 24 starts for $420,850 earnings. His sire Bite The Bullet (a close relation of champion US sire A.P.Indy & imports Foxhound, Statute Of Liberty & deceased Spectacular Spy) was the foundation sire at Kingmaker Park Stud near Scone, followed by a stint at Baramul Stud & then Bengalla, where he stood last season at $6,600. Bite the Bullet has 4 yearlings catalogued for this year's Magic Millions National Sale. |
| GENERAL EISENHOWER LABELED A 'DERBY COLT' |
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Gerry bred and sold General Eisenhower who has been labelled a "Derby colt" after his runaway win at Moonwe Valley on Saturday. Greg Irvine wrote the following media release for Magic Millions............................................
Beautifully bred two-year-old General Eisenhower was labeled a "Derby colt" by trainer Mick Price after scoring a thumping give length win in the City Pacific Finance Balwyn Handicap (1523m) at Moonee Valley this afternoon.
Despite an encouraging debut run at Ballarat when second on April 22, General Eisenhower was sent out at seemingly juicy odds and in a truly dominant performance he never gave his rivals a look in.
A colt by Mr. Prospector's Kentucky Derby winner Fusaichi Pegasus, General Eisenhower is from Baramul Stud's Group winning Danehill mare Moonflute.
He was purchased by Walter, Kathy and Robert Alteri, the family behind Newlands Thoroughbreds, for $150,000 from last year's Magic Millions Yearling Sale on the Gold Coast.
Winning trainer Mick Price said General Eisenhower looked to have a bright future.
"He's a colt and he's a bit off and on," Price said. "Gatty (jockey Matthew Gatt) said he better lead so he can find the fence because he's got a terrible habit of hanging in."
"I thought he sat outside of the leader there pretty good."
"It was a pretty good effort"
While looking a natural talent on the racetrack, things aren't the same on the training track.
"He's been a bit off and on in his work," Price commented. "He can't win a trial."
He was looking forward at continuing the racetrack career of General Eisenhower, particularly as the distances increase into the future.
"But some of these colts need a bit of journey. We think he's a Derby type of horse."
Price said he would speak to the owners and decide where the colt heads to - whether another race, or a trip to the paddock.
"Whether we go on to the Gibson Carmichael (Stakes) or go out (for a spell), we'll have to see. It's a bit hard to put them out on that (win)."
General Eisenhower ($11-$13) cruised home in the two-year-old race, six lengths clear of Protesta ($4.60-$5.50-$4.40 fav), while last start winner Greatwall of China ($4.60-$6) was a further length and a half back in third place.
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| Stacked wins on Anzac Day |
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Stacked first up win on Anzac Day makes her successful at her only two race starts. Clinton Payne wrote the following story for Racenet.com..............................................
Promising three-year-old filly Stacked from the Chris Waller stable has booked a trip to Queensland after she proved too good in the Last Post Handicap (1300m) at Randwick today.
Heavily supported in betting, Stacked with Darren Beadman in the saddle firmed from $4.80 into $3.80 while the favourite Catseye Beach blew in betting to start at $2.35 after opening at a $1.95 quote.
After beginning quickly, Stacked went straight to the front and Beadman was able to dictate the speed to suit himself before kicking well clear at the top of the straight and holding a decisive margin to the post.
”She’s one of those horses that you hardly know is there,” Waller said.
”A real little professional in everything she does, a real racehorse.
”She’ll have another start in Sydney and then we’ll look for a few races in Queensland.
”We have nominated for the Oaks but we’ll take it a run at a time and see where that takes us.”
Consistent filly Crafty Belle again ran an honest race to finish second with the favourite Catseye Beach fight on for third after travelling three deep for much of the journey.
Stacked 54kg ($3.80) (D.Beadman) defeated Crafty Belle 54.5kg ($8.50) (K.O’Hara) by one and a half lengths with Catseye Beach 55kg ($2.35) (S.Miller a3) another two and a quarter lengths back in third.
The time for the 1300m was 1.21.67 with the final 600m run in 36.06.
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| Magically wins in Brisbane |
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Magically won the Listed Juanmo Quality Hcp at Eagle Farm on Saturday, April 21. The following story appeared on Racing & Breeding's website...........................................
At Eagle Farm in Queensland, Coolmore Stud's deceased former champion stallion Danehill had another stakes winner when raiding Sydney 4YO mare Magically (Danehill-Magic Music, by Loosen Up) ran out an easy 1.75 lengths winner of the Listed $100,000 QTC Eagle Farm Juanmo Stakes (1200m) for females 3YO & up. Ridden by Shane Scriven for Rosehill trainer & Kiwi expat Chris Waller, Magically defeated fellow 4YO mares Strawberry Malt (Lion Hunter-Royal Malt, by Black Zephyr) & Rash Promise (More Than Ready-Triattica, by Centaine), who was a further 1.25 lengths back in 3rd. Magically now has 5 wins & 2 placings from 14 starts for $289,375 earnings. (Apr 23).
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| Casino Prince in Hong Kong |
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Casino Prince is in Hong Kong for Sunday's Gr 1 Champions Mile. The following story appeared on Racing & Breeding's website........................................
Sydney trainer Anthony Cummings is hoping the Douglas Whyte factor
combined with his confidence in Australia's top-three-year-olds will put his runner Casino Prince into the picture in Sunday's G1 Champions Mile in Hong Kong.
Casino Prince arrived in Hong Kong in good order on Monday and completed a satisfactory piece of work on the dirt track at Sha Tin on Tuesday.
The horse had only light exercise yesterday in the trotting ring at the
quarantine stables.
"I know I've got a top jockey, so that has to count for something over here," Cummings said.
"But I get a bit of confidence through the form of horses like Haradasun and Miss Finland.
"My horse has good form around them, and I think either of them would rate very highly in this race."
Casino Prince finished a short head behind Miss Finland in second place
in the Australian Guineas last month and was then competitive when fourth to Haradasun in the George Ryder Stakes at Rosehill on March 31.
At his only run since, Casino Prince finished seventh to Haradasun in
the Doncaster when unsuited by the slow track.
While the Champions Mile plays second fiddle on Sunday's card to the G1 QEII Cup (2000m), it has still attracted some of Hong Kong's best, along with some high quality internationals.
Last year's winner Bullish Luck, a recent third to Invasor in the Dubai
World Cup is the local favourite, but he will have stiff opposition from
The Duke, winner last December of the Hong Kong International.
Kapil and Linngari from South Africa also have strong form from the Dubai carnival.
Linngari finished second in the Dubai Duty Free (1777m) behind Admire
Moon who is favourite for the QEII on Sunday.
Kapil was seven lengths from the winner in the Duty Free, having won at Nad al Sheba at his previous run.
All have worked well since arriving in Hong Kong, but no horse has
impressed the locals as much as Floral Pegasus.
The Tony Cruz-trained son of Fusaichi Pegasus went down by a nose in the HK Derby (2000m) last month, but is back to 1600m here, a trip at which he appears better suited.
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Magically's 2yo half-sister debuts at Moonee Valley tonight.................................
Musically is by Belong To Me (USA) from the Loosen Up mare Magic Music, and is therefore the younger half-sister to Gr 2 winner Magically.
Trained at Caulfield by Peter Moody, Musically is making her race debut tonight at Moonee Valley.
Peter is very happy with the progress this well bred filly is making and while she is not wound up to win tonight, he expects her to run a very good race.
The filly will spell after tonight's race and Gerry can look forward to having a lovely 3yo filly for the spring.
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| One World does it for Gerry in Hong Kong |
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The Danehill Dancer/River Serenade colt Gerry sold to leading Hong Kong trainer at the 2006 January Magic Millions wins on debut. Alan Aitken of the SCMP wrote the following story...........................................
......Moore recaptured his title as the "griffin master" when his two-year-old runners took the opening quinella, clearing out by more than four lengths from the rest of the field in the most impressive griffin race to date.
One World (Douglas Whyte) has bounced back from being one of the stable horses afflicted bnriefly with equine herpes virus last month, and while the winning margin over Lucky Hero (Manoel Nunes) was unexpected, the win certainly was not.
"I knew they were good, but I did think Lucky Hero would be a horse for next season, so he's surprised me by getting so close and he's actually kept surprising me in his trial and work," Moore said. "Lucky Hero is very backward to look at him, while One World is already a lovely type of a horse. They both have plenty of ability though and I'll be keeping them apart next time - I'd rather win two races with them, than quinella another one."
By the sire of Choisir, Danehill Dancer, One World is bred to be good as his dam, River Serenade, is a full sister to Group One-winning Australian sprinter River Dove.
Moore elected not to run One World earlier, but more for reasons of stable management than because of the equine horse virus.
"I had him ready for the first griffin race, but when I saw the field I thought it was one I could win with Sunny Golf so I ran him instead and decided to wait for the 1200m with this horse," Moore said. "Unfortunately, Sunny Gold hasn't been as professional as One World and didn't win his race. This gues does everything right."
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Runners for Saturday, 7th April are.........................................................
Arlington (Red Ransom/Savannah Success 2004 colt) - Sold, Retained Share, Graeme Rogerson
Randwick Race 2 No. 4 @ 12.15pm
Listed Fernhill Hcp (1600m)
Solo Flyer (Belong To Me/Fly The Flag 2004 colt) - Sold, Anthony Cummings
Randwick Race 6 No. 7 @ 2.55pm
Gr 1 Inglis Sires Produce Stakes (1400m)
Ruling Power (Viscount/Vintage Power 2003 colt) - Sold, Bart Cummings
Randwick Race 7 No. 9 @ 3.55pm
Gr 1 David Jones AJC Derby (2400m)
Magically (Danehill/Magic Music 2002 filly) - Retained, Chris Waller
Randwick Race 8 No. 2 @ 4.20pm
Gr 2 Bombay Sapphire Stakes (1200m)
All The Goss (Quest For Fame/Confer 2003 filly) - Retained, Mike Moroney
Caulfield Race 3 No. 4 @ 1.55pm
Noel Rundle Super VOBIS Hcp (1400m)
Bel Danoro (Danehill/Bislotto 2002 colt) - Retained share, Lee Freedman
Caulfield Race 4 No. 1 @ 2.32pm
Bill Collins Hcp (1000m)
Goyousoandso (Lion Hunter/So And So 2004 filly) - Sold, Bruce McLachlan
Eagle Farm Race 2 No. 1 @ 1.05pm
Cadbury QTIS 2yo Fillies Hcp (1000m)
Miss Judgement (Stragegic/Miss Jakeo 2002 filly) - Sold, Alan Bailey
Eagle Farm Race 5 No. 1 @ 3.06pm
Max's House Quality F&M Hcp (1200m)
Grand Corso (Grand Lodge/On The Corso 2002 gelding) - Sold, Maryann Thexton
Gold Coast Race 3 No. 1 @ 2.08pm
Happy Birthday Allan Howie Maiden Hcp (1300m)
Powderpuffs (Bite The Bullet/Powderbox 2003 filly) - Sold, Clarry Conners
Newcastle Race 8 No. 13 @ 5.12pm
Fluke Maiden Hcp (1600m)
Go Harvey (Quest For Fame/Windfall 2002 geld) - Sold, David Hayes
Oakbank Race 4 @ 12.52pm
Ord Minnett Sharebrokers Hurdle (2900m)
Sissano (Last Tycoon/Tristers 1998 geld) - Sold, Robbie Laing
Oakbank Race 7 No. 1 @ 2.52pm
Carlton Draught Von Doussa Steeplechase (3250m)
Just A Freak (King of Kings/Ingenuity 2000 geld) - Sold
Toowoomba Race 3 No. 6 @ 5.15pm
Euroka Kitchens Class 2 Hcp (1006m)
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Clinton Payne reports on Racenet, Thursday, April 05, 2007......
Trainer Anthony Cummings has aborted the preparation of Teranaba and is saving the galloper for the spring...................
After a strong start to Teranaba’s campaign, things turned sour for the Victoria Derby placegetter when he finished well back in the Rosehill Guineas and then again in the BMW which forced him out of Saturday’s AJC Australian Derby.
”He won’t run in the Queen Elizabeth,” Cummings said.
”He has finished up with some pain in both his knees and while he has responded to the treatment it’s just not worth pushing on.
“The reality is he was only going to be half as good as he could be regardless of what he ran in.
”By running again your putting the spring campaign at risk so he’s gone to the paddock and he’ll be back healthy and well for a spring assault.”
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| Dubai Gr 1 win is boost for Gerry's broodmare |
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Vengeance of Rain's win in the Gr 1 Sheema Classic (2400m) in Dubai is a tremendous boost for one of Gerry's broodmare band. Brian Russell wrote the following article in his media newsletter the following article.........................................
Vengeance of Rain, a Zabeel gelding from the Danehill mare Danelagh bred and raised in New Zealand for Western Australians, including Keith Biggs and Ron Russell, the owners earlier of Doriemus, winner in 1995 of the Caulfield - Melbourne Cups double and runner up in these two races in 1997, captured one of the world's richest races on Saturday, the $5million Group1 Sheema Classic (2400m) on the Dubai Cup program. It was the six-year-old geldings tenth win in 22 starts and took his career earnings to over $10million, nearly all the earlier collect being from raciing in Hong Kong, where his efforts have included successes in the Hong Kong Derby and Hong Kong Gold Cup.
Purchased by Graeme Rogerson at New Zealand yearling sales and initially raced in Melbourne under the name of Subscribe by Mr and Mrs Lloyd Williams, he had three starts here at two before export to Hong Kong, winning the Veuve Clicquot Stakes-LR and finishing third in the VRC Talindert Stakes.
Vengeance of Rain is the first foal of Danelagh and is a brother to Dizelle, a year younger filly who has been first class in Australia with her performances including wins in the AJC Oaks-Gr.1, MVRC Woodstock Mile-Gr.2 and STC Canterbury Cup-Gr.3.
Danelagh, a mare now owned by Darley, won the Blue Diamond Stakes and finished second in the Caulfield Thousand Guineas-Gr.1. She is from Palatious, a versatile performer who won from 1200 to 3200m, her efforts highlighted by wins in the west in the Perth Cup-Gr.2 and C. B. Cox Stakes-Gr.2 and a second in the West Australian Oaks-Gr.2.
Now in Gerry Harvey's huge band of mares at his Baramul Stud in the Widden Valley, Palatious was bred in Queensland on cross of two sires used at the McAlpine's Eureka Stud, being by Semipalatinsk and from the Rascolnik mare Delicious Blue.
A bIg thrill, no doubt for his Excellency Nasser Hussain Lootah, the Dubai based owner of the Emirates Park studs at Murrurundi in the Hunter Valley and Diggers Rest in Victoria, was the third placing of Salaam Dubai in the $2million Group1 Golden Shaheen over 1200m.
Earlier a winner in Australia, Salaam Dubai is a brother Dash for Cash, the MRC Futurity Stakes-Gr.1 and VRC Australian Guineas winner who is one of the best current first season sires from his use at the Sangster's Swettenham Stud at Nagambie, Victoria. They are both by Emirates Park's imported AJC Doncaster Handicap-Gr.1 winner Secret Savings and from the Rubiton mare Gulistan.
Two big hopes for Australian breeding, Sushisan (owned in South Africa; fifth in the Sheema Classic won by Vengeance of Rain) and Pompeii Ruler (Australian visitor; 8th of 16 in the $5million Dubai Duty Free) were unplaced.The Duty Free was won by the Japanese entry Admire the Moon, a son of a former Hunter Valley visitor End Sweep and a Sunday Silence mare.
The biggest race on the $22million program, the $6million Dubai World Cup over 2000m, a race whose prize money is booked to be lifted to $10million, was taken out by what is arguably the best horse in the world at this time, Invasor. Head of the world rankings for 2006 and now winner of Group1 races in the land of his birth, Argentina, America and Dubai, Invasor is a son of the deceased Blushing Groom sire Candy Stripes.
Three of the winners on the Dubai program, Invasor, Vengeance of Rain and Asiatic Boy (won the UAE Derby-Gr.2 over 1800m) are southern hemisphere bred. Asiatic Boy was also bred in Argentina, but has done his racing first in France and then Dubai, winning four races in the latter country, including the classic double of Two Thousand Guineas and Derby. |
| Runners for Saturday, March 31 |
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Runners for Saturday, March 31 are.........................................................
CARNEGIE HOUSE (Carnegie/Platonic 2003 colt) Retained, Anthony Cummings
Rosehill Race 3 No. 7 @ 12.45pm
Gr 2 Tulloch Stakes (2000m)
RULING POWER (Viscount/Vintage Power 2003 gelding) Sold, Bart Cummings
Rosehill Race 3 No. 8 @ 12.45pm
Gr 2 Tulloch Stakes (2000m)
CASINO PRINCE (Flying Spur/Lady Capel 2003 colt) Sold, Anthony Cummings
Rosehill Race 4 No. 5 @ 1.20pm
Gr 1 George Ryder Stakes (1500m)
TERANABA (Anabaa/Tristera 2003 colt) Sold, Retained share, Anthony Cummings
Rosehill Race 5 No. 13 @ 2.00pm
Gr 1 The BMW (2400m)
FASHIONS AFIELD (Redoute's Choice/Attire 2002 filly) Purchased, Gai Waterhouse
Rosehill Race 8 @ 4.25pm
Gr 1 Queen of the Turf Stakes (1500m)
DANOISERIE (Danehill/Isolda 2002 filly) Retained, Graeme Rogerson
Rosehill Race 8 @ 4.25pm
Gr 1 Queen of the Turf Stakes (1500m)
LORD OF THE LAND (Timber Country/Lady Capel 2000 colt) Retained, Anthony Cummings
Rosehill Race 9 @ 5.05pm
Listed Royal Parma Stakes (1400m)
ZA'ATAR (Zabeel/Dansino 2003 filly) Retained, Steve Englebrecht
Kembla Grange Race 7 No. 12 @ 4.38pm
Wilsons Holden Maiden Plate (1400m)
FITZGERALDA (Last Tycoon/Always Divine 2002 filly) Retained, Steve Englebrecht
Kembla Grange Race 5 @ 3.00pm
Shellharbour Workers' club Class 1 Hcp (1200m)
HIDDEN ASSETS (Secret Savings/Aphrodisiac 2004 colt) Sold, John O'Shea
Kembla Grange Race 2 No. 1 @ 1.01pm
Forty Winks 2yo Open Hcp (1200m)
DARK AMBITION (Octagonal/Raise The Crown 2002 gelding) Sold.
Morphettville Race 5 No. 10 @ 2.50pm
City of Adelaide Stakes (1600m)
TAJ PARU (King Cugat/Paru Paru 2004 filly) Sold
Doomben Race 3 No. 13 @ 1.30pm
Parmalat QTIS 2yo Hcp (1350m)
STOP LAUGHTING (Happy Play/Happy Giggle 2003 gelding) Sold
Echuca Race 2 No. 12 @ 12.50pm
Look Tapware Maiden Plate (1618m)
SNEAKY SUSPICION (Honour & Glory/Fast Draw 2002 filly) Sold
Echuca Race 4 No. 5 @ 2.08pm
Tooheys New Maiden Plate (1009m)
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Runners for Saturday, March 24 are.................................................
Teranaba (Tristera/Anabaa 2003 colt) - Sold, Retained Share, Anthony Cummings
Rosehill Race 6 @ 3.25pm
Gr 1 Dubai Rosehill Guineas (2000m)
Solo Flyer (Fly The Flag/Belong To Me 2004 colt) - Sold, Anthony Cummings
Rosehill Race 4 @ 2.10pm
Gr 2 Darley Pago Pago Stakes (1200m)
Perfectement (Exquisite Lass/Carnegie 2003 filly) - Retained, Steve Englebrecht
Newdcastle Race 5 @ 3.40pm
First National Home Sellers Guide F&M Maiden Hcp (1300m)
Respectfully (Luskinette/Honour & Glory 2002 filly) - Retained, Steve Englebrecht
Newcastle Race 8 @ 5.38pm
First National Commercial & Industrial Ratings 81 Hcp (1200m)
Sparkling Lion (Sapphire Grosve/Lion Cavern 2002 filly) - Sold
Cheltenham Park Race 1 @ 12.35pm
Distinctive Homes Hurdle (3020m)
Stop Laughing (Happy Play/Happy Giggle 2003 gelding) - Sold
Echuca Race 5 @ 3.18pm
Gaffney Logistics Maiden Plate (1400m)
Longhorn (Fitting/Danehill 2001 colt) - Sold
Gold Coast Race 3 @ 1.14pm
Oakwood Farm Class 3 Hcp (900m)
Mission Beach (Settlers Cove/General Nediym 2004 colt) - Sold
Gold Coast Race 7 @ 3.59pm
MFS-Magic Millions 2yo Trophy (1200m) |
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The following article appeared in Stallions Daily Bulletin 20.03.07 by Allan Porter ..............................
DANEHILL
(Danzig - Razyana by His Majesty)
The Danehill line delivered it’s usual dose of black-type at the weekend when grand campaigner Desert War (by Desert King) landed his fifth Group I success in the Ranvet Stakes, a week earlier Mentality (by Flying Spur) had claimed his second success at the elite level in the Randwick Guineas; Casino Prince (by Flying Spur) had won the Group 2 Alister Clark Stakes and finished a bold second to Miss Finland (by Redoute’s Choice) in the Group I Cadbury Guineas; Anamato (by Redoute’s Choice) won the Group 2 Kewney Stakes after capturing the Group 2 Moonee Valley Oaks; Posadas (by Commands) claimed the Group 3 Nivea Visage Stakes; and Just Mambo (by Danehill Dancer) chalked up his sires’ 42nd stakes winner when he easily accounted for his rivals in the Group 2 Parramatta Stakes.
This week Alan Porter looks at the families of Desert War , Anamato and Casino Prince .
There are some interesting patterns at work here. The extremely well-bred Anamato is half-brother to Drum, and to the dam of Grand Armee. Out of the Whiskey Road mare Voltage, he’s a Northern Dancer/Northern Dancer cross, and has Nijinsky II 4 x 3 . Of course, as well as three crosses of Northern Dancer , he has another cross of Northern Dancer’s half-sister Spring Adieu , the grandam of Danehill . But, what is more interesting is that Danehill is by a son of Northern Dancer out of a mare by His Majesty , and Whiskey Road is by Northern Dancer out of a half-sister to His Majesty . It looks as this affinity is a pretty good one as Anamato is one of ten Danehill line sires out of mares carrying Whiskey Road .
Casino Prince is very similar in that he is also a Northern Dancer/Northern Dancer cross with three Northern Dancer strains along with the half-sister to Northern Dancer . Again, however, there is an additional factor in play. Danehill is by a son of Northern Dancer with a second dam by Buckpasser , and Try My Best (grandsire of Lady Capel, the dam of Casino Prince ) is by Northern Dancer out of a mare by Buckpasser . For good measure, his third dam is by Mr. Busher , a three-parts-brother to the dam of Buckpasser.
Desert War is an example of the tremendously successful Danzig/Bletchingly cross, which has produced 45 stakes winners, including group one scorers Redoute’s Choice and Platinum Scissors (both out of mares by Canny Lad , the broodmare sire of Desert War ), Shogun Lodge, Outback Prince, Special Dane, Hotel Grand, Natural Blitz and Undue . The Danzig/Canny Lad version of the cross is also responsible for graded scorers Blur, Clothilde, Street Smart , Collate and Kusi .
Beyond the obvious appeal of Danzig/Bletchingly , Desert King does offer a particular twist with this broodmare sire line. His third dam, Loose Cover is by the top-class miler, Venture VII . He is a very close genetic relative to Coogee , the dam of Bletchingly : both are by the very influential sire, Relic ; Venture VII’s dam is by Pherozshah (by Pharos out of a grand-daughter of Lady Josephine ) and Coogee’s grandam is by Fair Trail (by Fairway , brother to Pharos , out of a daughter of Lady Josephine ); and Venture VII’s second dam, Rocklyn , combines Phalaris with a mare by the rarely seen Rock Flint, as does the third dam of Coogee .
- Catalogue style pedigree - Catalogue style pedigree - Catalogue style pedigree
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Runners for Saturday, March 3 are...................................................
DANCESTEPS (Cannyanna/Danehill 2002 filly) - Retained, Pat Webster
WARWICK FARM Race 3 No 4 at 13:45
NATIONAL JOCKEY CELEBRATION DAY HANDICAP (1300m)
MEGA LASS (Bite The Bullet/Erin 2004 filly) - Sold & Retained, Pat Webster
GR 3 WARWICK FARM Race 5 No 13 at 15:00
CABRA-VALE DIGGERS KINDERGARTEN STAKES (1100m)
VILLA BLED (Palatious/Danehill 2001 filly) Retained, Clarry Conners
WARWICK FARM Race 6 No 4 at 15:35
LISTED NOVA 96.9 WIGGLE QUALITY (1400m)
ROSE OF SHARON (Rose Reward/Encosta De Lago 2003 filly) - Retained, Pat Webster
GR 2 WARWICK FARM Race 8 No 14 at 16:55
SYDNEY UD TRUCKS SURROUND STAKES (1400m)
SERMON (Eureka Jewel/Octagonal 2003 gelding) - Sold, Bob Thomsen
WARWICK FARM Race 9 No 2 at 17:35
EQUAL HANDICAP (1400m)
ALL THE GOSS (Confer/Quest For Fame 2003 filly) - Retained, Mike Moroney
CAULFIELD Race 9 No 7 at 17:15
PREMIER SIGNS PLATE (1400m)
KATMAI (St Kate/Stragegic 2003 filly) - Retained, Mick Price
CAULFIELD Race 9 No 9 at 17:15
PREMIER SIGNS PLATE (1400m)
HONOUR HAPPY LIST (Hate To Lose/Honour & Glory 2002 filly) - Sold
DOOMBEN Race 3 No 12 at 13:50
VOLVO TRUCKS CLASS 6 PLATE (1640m)
FLYING VICAR (Vestry/Flying Spur 2002 gelding) - Sold, Terry Kelly
MILDURA Race 8 No 3 at 17:28
NATIONAL JOCKEY CELEBRATION DAY 0 - 62 HCP (1407m)
GO HARVEY (Windfall/Quest For Fame 2002 gelding) - Sold, David Hayes
MORPHETTVILLE Race 2 No 13 at 13:25
NEIL RICHARDSON'S 60TH HANDICAP (1600m)
DESERT DANE (Danehill/Regina Madre 2000 gelding) - Sold
MORPHETTVILLE Race 5 No 6 at 15:16
NEIL RICHARDSON HANDICAP (1200m)
CLOUSEAU (Arrest/Redoute's Choice 2003 colt) - Sold, Gai Waterhouse
NEWCASTLE Race 4 No 1 at 14:45
TAILERMADE FISHING ADVENTURES CLASS 2 HCP (1500m)
POWDERPUFFS (Powderbox/Bite The Bullet 2003 filly) - Sold, Clarry Conners
NEWCASTLE Race 7 No 13 at 16:40
SOUTH NEWCASTLE RUGBY LEAGUE CLUB MAIDEN PLATE (1300m)
TAJ PARU (Paru Paru/King Cugat 2004 filly) - Sold
TOOWOOMBA Race 1 No 13 at 15:51
HSE ELECTRICAL QTIS 2-Y-O MAIDEN HCP (1000m)
MAXIMISS (Kinderscout/Bite The Bullet 2003 filly) - Sold
TOOWOOMBA Race 6 No 6 at 18:55
KENNEDY SPANNER LAWYERS FILLIES AND MARES MAIDEN HCP (1200m)
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SOLO FLYER (Belong To Me/Fly The Flag 2004 colt) - Sold, Anthony Cummings
ROSEHILL Race 6 No 3 at 15:35
GR 2 INTERNATIONAL ANIMAL HEALTH SILVER SLIPPER (1100m)
TERANABA (Tristera/Anabaa 2003 colt) - Sold & Retained Share, Anthony Cummings
ROSEHILL Race 7 No 1 at 16:15
GR 2 FRANKLINS SUPERMARKETS HOBARTVILLE STAKES (1400m)
KAKAKAKATIE (St Kate/Zeditave 2002 filly) - Retained, Pat Webster
ROSEHILL Race 8 No 7 at 16:55
LISTED DE BORTOLI WINES MILLIE FOX STAKES (1300m)
KYRI DASH (Windies/Bite The Bullet 2002 gelding) - Sold
BALLINA Race 6 No 12 at 14:01
RICHMOND SAND & GRAVEL LISMORE/BALLINA CLASS 2 HCP (1260m)
DARK AMBITION (Raise The Crown/Octagonal 2002 gelding) - Sold
CHELTENHAM PARK Race 7 No 6 at 16:35
MIX 102.3 HANDICAP (1450m)
POWDERPUFFS (Powderbox/Bite The Bullet 2003 filly) - Sold
KEMBLA GRANGE Race 2 No 10 at 13:30
WESTRAC MAIDEN PLATE (1300m)
PERFECTEMENT (Exquisite Lass/Carnegie 2003 filly) - Retained, Steve Englebrecht
KEMBLA GRANGE Race 2 No 15 at 13:30
WESTRAC MAIDEN PLATE (1300m)
MEMORISATION (Marshow/Zabeel 2002 filly) - Retained, Anthony Cummings
KEMBLA GRANGE Race 6 No 6 at 16:00
CAT MINI EXCAVATOR RATING 63 HANDICAP (2000m)
FITZGERALDA (Always Divine/Last Tycoon 2003 filly) - Retained. Steve Englebrecht
KEMBLA GRANGE Race 7 No 9 at 16:40
CAT TRUCK ENGINES CLASS 1HANDICAP (1200m)
SMASHING (Macedon Princess/Hurricane Sky 2002 colt) - John O'Shea
ROSEHILL Race 1 No 2 at 12:25
CADBURY SCHWEPPES HANDICAP (1100m)
TAKE TWO (Amistosa/Reenact 2003 gelding) - Sold
TOOWOOMBA Race 6 No 6 at 18:58
LESLEY CASTLES MEMORIAL CLASS 1 HANDICAP (1615m)
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| Casino Prince Wins Gr 2 Alister Clark Stakes |
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Bred by Gerry, it was good to see the talented Casino Prince return to the winners circle with a win in the Gr 2 Alister Clark Stakes (1600m) at Moonee Valley last Saturday. Following the win, Greg Irvine issued the following media release for Magic Millions...................................................................
MAGIC MILLIONS - CASINO PRINCE A GREAT HIGHLIGHT ON EVE OF ADELAIDE SALE
Outstanding Flying Spur colt Casino Prince gave the Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale a great boost on Saturday when he scored a resounding win in the Group Two Alister Clark Stakes (1600m) at Moonee Valley.
Prepared from Sydney by in form horseman Anthony Cummings, Casino Price gave the sale regarded by many as the best value in Australasia, a significant kick along by winning well.
Casino Prince was purchased by Cummings from the Adelaide Sale in 2005 and he has already proven himself a multiple Group Two winner.
"It was a great win," a delighted Cummings said from Moonee Valley. "I'm not exactly sure what to do with him now though,"
Cummings must now decide whether to head for the Group One Cadbury Guineas at Caulfield or to aim for more riches during the autumn carnival.
"He could head to the Guineas, or there's another race here (in Melbourne) he could run in before heading back to Sydney," Cummings added.
The emphatic Group win by Casino Prince is a further boost for the Adelaide Yearling Sale - which kicks away its 2007 edition tomorrow.
Casino Prince was purchased by Cummings from the draft of Baramul Stud for $140,000 at the 2005 Adelaide Sale.
Casino Prince wasn't the only graduate of the 2005 Adelaide Yearling Sale that won at Moonee Valley on Saturday.
The opening race on Australia Stakes Day was captured by the David Hayes trained Sun Glazed - a $35,000 purchase for Prime Thoroughbreds.
The 2007 SKYCITY Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale kicks away at 4pm in Adelaide on Monday.
"There are some really wonderful yearlings on offer at Morphettville this year," Magic Millions managing director David Chester said at tonight's opening cocktail party.
"I've got no doubt there will be a Mummify or an Undoubtedly or Divine Madonna or Victory Chant or Casino Prince in the sale."
"I inspected a number of yearlings today and found some exciting racetrack prospects."
The sale will kick off tomorrow with the first lot of the afternoon being a half brother to the Group Two Perth Cup winner Black Tom.
"The sale will then continue on Tuesday and the third and final session will be on Thursday," Chester added.
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| 'Magic New Filly for Waller' |
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Written by Clinton Payne, the following story appeared on Racenet's website on Wednesday, February 14..............................................
Trainer Chris Waller has labeled smart mare Magically 'as pretty good' as she prepares for her stable debut in the Triscay Stakes (1200m) at Rosehill on Saturday.
Magically was previously trained in Melbourne by Mick Price and was a Group 2 winner in Adelaide 12 months ago.
Owner Gerry Harvey opted for a Sydney trainer this autumn due to better opportunities for mares.
"I was thrilled when I got the call from Gerry's racing manager, Jill Belford," Waller said.
"She has done really well since she got here and her trial two weeks ago was good.
"Darren (Beadman) made sure she had something in reserve for raceday as she is a mare who is pretty smart when fresh."
Magically finished third in the trial but was never off the bit in an eye-catching run.
Beadman is obligated to the Hawkes-trained Chatoyant in the Triscay so Zac Purton has plucked a prized-ride.
Waller has one other runner at the meeting, Silky Red Boxer in the Parramatta Cup, and Beadman is available for the last start winner.
"This race looks very even – our horse won last time but he meets some of the horses from that race on worse terms," Waller said.
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| Runners for Saturday, February 17th |
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Runners for Saturday, February 17th are..........................................
FASHIONS AFIELD (Redoute's Choice/Attire 2001 filly) - Purchased, Gai Waterhouse
ROSEHILL Race 7 No 7 at 16:30
GR 2 WINNING EDGE APOLLO STAKES (1400m)
DANCESTEPS (Cannyanna/Danehill 2002 filly) - Retained, Pat Webster
ROSEHILL Race 8 No 9 at 17:10
LISTED INVERMIEN TRISCAY STAKES (1200m)
MAGICALLY (Magic Music/Danehill 2002 filly) - Retained, Chris Waller
ROSEHILL Race 8 No 4 at 17:10
LISTED INVERMIEN TRISCAY STAKES (1200m)
CASINO PRINCE (Lady Capel/Flying Spur 2003 colt) - Sold, Anthony Cummings
MOONEE VALLEY Race 5 No 3 at 14:50
GR 2 TOP CUT ALISTER CLARK STAKES (1600m)
KATMAI (St Kate/Stragegic 2003 filly) - Retained, Mick Price
MOONEE VALLEY Race 8 No 11 at 16:50
LISTED HOLLYLODGE THOROUGHBREDS CLASSIC (1500m)
ZAREMUS (/Zabeel 2001 gelding) - Sold, Robert Smerdon
ARARAT Race 1 No 8 at 12:40
WIMMERA RACING MAIDEN PLATE (2000m)
SEVENIA (Kapalua/Reenact 2003 filly) - Sold
ARARAT Race 1 No 14 at 12:40
WIMMERA RACING MAIDEN PLATE (2000m)
FLYING VICAR (Vestry/Flying Spur 2002 gelding) - Sold, Terry Kelly
ARARAT Race 4 No 4 at 14:35
WOLSEY KNITWEAR CLASS 1 HANDICAP (1310m)
DESERT DANE (Danehill/Regina Madre 2000 gelding) - Sold
CHELTENHAM PARK Race 5 No 3 at 15:10
DISTINCTIVE LIFESTYLE HANDICAP (1250m)
DARK AMBITION (Raise The Crown/Octagonal 2002 gelding) - Sold
CHELTENHAM PARK Race 8 No 4 at 17:08
OLD GREY MARES HANDICAP (1400m)
NOCTURNE (Magic Music/Octagonal 2003 filly) - Retained, Steve Englebrecht
NEWCASTLE Race 4 No 12 at 14:55
HUNTER IMAGING GROUP SOCIAL CLUB MAIDEN HCP (1500m)
CLOUSEAU (Arrest/Redoute's Choice 2003 colt) - Sold, Gai Waterhouse
NEWCASTLE Race 5 No 4 at 15:35
GME GARMIN MAIDEN PLATE (1300m)
PERFECTEMENT (Exquisite Lass/Carnegie 2003 filly) - Retained, Steve Englebrecht
NEWCASTLE Race 5 No 11 at 15:35
GME GARMIN MAIDEN PLATE (1300m)
PAMPAS (Danehill/Savannah Success 2002 gelding) - Sold, Pat Webster
NEWCASTLE Race 7 No 5 at 16:54
GENCOM CLASS 1 HANDICAP (1400m)
SERMON (Eureka Jewel/Octagonal 2003 gelding) - Sold, Bob Thomsen
ROSEHILL Race 9 No 4 at 17:50
REDS BUILDING AND CARPENTRY HANDICAP (1200m)
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| Runners for Saturday, January 20 |
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Runners for Saturday, January 20 are..............................................
Classic Reward (Belong To Me/Genuine Offer 2003 gelding) - Sold, retained share, Bede Murray
Kembla Grange Race 5 @ 3.30pm
The Prince of Wales Class 1 Hcp (1400m)
Sabi Sands (Belong To Me/Primrose Sands 2003 gelding) - Retained, Steve Englebrecht
Kembla Grange Race 7 @ 4.50pm
The Golden Grove 3yo Maiden Plate (1400m)
Same Sung A Song (Timber Country/Centollua 2000 gelding) - Sold
Randwick Race 2 @ 1.45pm
Spring Valley Hcp (1600m)
Ostras (Woodman/Aphrodisiac 2001 gelding) - Sold
Eagle Farm Race 4 @ 2.15pm
Royal Paree Class 6 Hcp (1600m)
Desert Dane (Danehill/Regina Madre 2000 gelding) - Sold
Victoria Park Race 6 @ 3.45pm
Bernard H Booth Real Estate Hcp (1250m)
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| Illuminates Wins Magic Millions 2yo Plate (900m) |
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Bred and part owned by Gerry, Illuminates won Saturday's Heinrich Group Magic Millions 2YO Plate over 900m at the Gold Coast. Following the race, Greg Irvine wrote the press release for the Magic Millions.................................
Smart filly Illuminates won her second Magic Millions feature race for the season when she romped away with the $101,775 Heinrich Group Magic Millions 2YO Plate (900m) at the Gold Coast today.
Trained by powerful trans-Tasman horseman Graeme Rogerson, Illuminates showed good speed out of the barriers and after sharing the lead to the turn she was able to zip clear and score a brilliant win.
Today's victory followed her recent impressive win in the Strawberry Hill Stud Magic Millions Wyong Slipper last month.
"She's a nice filly." Rogerson said. "Gerry wanted to let someone else win the Magic Millions (2YO Classic) so he made me run it in that race."
"So at least we've got something," Rogerson added.
Zac Purton hardly had to move on the daughter of Strategic as she steamed home in the new race record time of 51.72 seconds. Her last 600 metres was covered in a slick 33.67 seconds.
Rogerson purchased Illuminates for $86,000 from the draft of Baramul Stud at last June's Magic Millions National Yearling Sale over the road at the MM complex.
The filly will chase yet more Millions glory. She will now be set for the $400,000 Magic Millions Adelaide 2YO Classic (1200m) late next month at Morphettville.
The race proved a cakewalk for Illuminates. Her winning margin at the post was three and three quarter lengths.
$80,000 buy Anabarbarian, for Paul Hammersley and Gerald Ryan was second, while a half head back in third place was $38,000 purchase Falontime for Scott Seamer and Helen Page.
Illuminates is one of two winners from as many runners from the unraced mare Dazzle Light, a half sister to Group winner Stoway and a daughter of Oaks winner Travel Light.
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| Runners for Saturday, January 13 |
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Runners for Saturday, January 13 are................................................
ST MARTIN (Danehill/Marigot Bay 2003 colt) - Purchased share, Graeme Rogerson
GOLDCOAST Race 1 No 10 at 11:35
QUEENSLAND EVENTS MAGIC MILLIONS MAIDEN PLATE (1200m)
STYLIZED (Anabaa/Minuette 2003 filly) - Sold, retained share, Bruce McLachlan
GOLD COAST Race 1 No 15 at 11:35
QUEENSLAND EVENTS MAGIC MILLIONS MAIDEN PLATE (1200m)
ILLUMINATES (Strategic/Dazzle Light 2004 filly) - Sold, retained share, Graeme Rogerson
GOLD COAST Race 2 No 7 at 12:15
HEINRICH GROUP MAGIC MILLIONS 2YO PLATE (900m)
GRAND CORSO (Grand Lodge/On The Corso 2002 gelding) - Sold, Maryann Thexton
GOLD COAST Race 3 No 17 at 12:55
MARRIOTT MAGIC MILLIONS STAYERS CUP (1800m)
FRITZ'S PRINCESS (More Than Ready/Superb Lady 2002 filly)
GOLD COAST Race 4 No 2 at 13:35
PASPALEY MAGIC MILLIONS FILLIES AND MARES HCP (1300m)
PREND (Honour & Glory/Talent Plus 2002 filly) - Sold
GOLD COAST Race 4 No 10 at 13:35
PASPALEY MAGIC MILLIONS FILLIES AND MARES HCP (1300m)
SOLO FLYER (Belong To Me/Fly The Flag 2004 colt) - Sold, Anthony Cummings
GOLD COAST Race 8 No 4 at 16:15
$1 MILLION CONRAD JUPITERS MAGIC MILLIONS 2YOCLASSIC (1200m)
DANOISERIE (Danehill/Isolda 2002 filly) - Retained, Graeme Rogerson
ROSEHILL Race 6 No 12 at 16:25
CADBURY SCHWEPPES UNDERWOOD CUP (2000m)
RULING POWER (Viscount/Vintage Power 2003 colt) - Sold, Bart Cummings
ROSEHILL Race 7 No 9 at 17:05
LAUNDY HOTEL HANDICAP (1300m)
PRESIDENT DANE (Danehill/Regina Madre 2002 gelding) - Sold, retained share, Tim Martin
ROSEHILL Race 7 No 7 at 17:05
LAUNDY HOTEL HANDICAP (1300m)
VILLA BLED (Danehill/Palatious 2001 filly) - Retained, Clarry Conners
ROSEHILL Race 8 No 8 at 17:45
STAR CITY HANDICAP (1300m)
CASINO PRINCE (Flying Spur/Lady Capel 2003 colt) - Sold, Anthony Cummings
CAULFIELD Race 3 No 1 at 14:05
GEOFFREY BELLMAINE SUPER VOBIS HANDICAP (1200m)
SHVAY (Secret Savings/Sing 2003 gelding) - Sold
KEMBLA GRANGE Race 1 No 8 at 13:30
STUART MACKAY MAIDEN HANDICAP (2000m)
ORCADES (Flying Spur/Altrista 2002 filly) - Sold
KEMBLA GRANGE Race 3 No 7 at 14:50
PIRTEK ILLAWARRA MAIDEN PLATE (1400m)
NOCTURNE (Octagonal/Magic Music 2003 filly) - Retained, Steve Englebrecht
KEMBLA GRANGE Race 4 No 10 at 15:30
STOCKLAND SHELLHARBOUR MAIDEN PLATE (1400m)
FLYING VICAR (Flying Spur/Vestry 2002 gelding) - Sold, Terry Kelly
MORPHETTVILLE Race 4 No 8 at 14:25
MARINA PIER HOLDFAST SHORES HANDICAP (1200m)
WOODGRAIN (Timber Country/Glory Girl 1999 gelding) - Sold
MORPHETTVILLE Race 7 No 13 at 16:25
LUCKY HORSESHOE CLASSIC MILE (1600m)
SPARKLING LION (Lion Cavern/Sapphire Grosve 2002 filly) - Sold
MORPHETTVILLE Race 8 No 11 at 17:05
PICTURES IN THE PARK HANDICAP (2030m)
TAKE TWO (Reenact/Amistosa 2003 gelding) - Sold
TOOWOOMBA Race 7 No 3 at 19:42
FEDERAL HOTEL MAIDEN HANDICAP (1610m)
COLEYVILLE ROAD (Charnwood Forest/Colorado Cowgirl 2000 gelding) - Sold
IPSWICH Race 8 No 7 at 16:40
FRANZ FELFER OPTOMETRISTS CLASS 3 PLATE (2150m)
HOMEMAKER (Desert King/Homestead 1999 gelding) - Sold
ASCOT Race 8 No 3 at 17:45
MR GERALDTON HANDICAP (1500m)
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| Rogerson Pays $850,000 for Isolda Colt |
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Magic Millions press release for the Redoute's Choice/Isolda colt sold at today's session of the Magic Millions sale follows.............................................
The 2007 Conrad Jupiters Magic Millions Yearling Sale heated up on the Gold Coast when leading trans-Tasman trainer Graeme Rogerson went to $850,000 to buy a colt by champion sire Redoute's Choice.
The colt, the seventh foal of the Group One winning Sir tristram mare Isolda, attracted strong interest from around the ring and after some minutes in the ring fell to the bid of Rogerson.
Taking the bids from Rogerson was celebrity bid spotter - Hollywood actress Tara Reid.
"He was a lovely colt and we valued him around $700,000 to $800,000," Rogerson commented. "So we have gone a little higher than expected. Hopefully he's worth every dollar we spent on him."
Rogerson said the colt was a great individual who looked a good prospect or being able to return to the Gold Coast for next year's Magic Millions 2YO Classic.
Isolda is already the dam of the impressive Sydney performers Mei Lin and Danoiserie.
As well as being a Group One winner of the Champagne Stakes as a two-year-old, the BOBS eligible colt hails from a top black type filled family.
She is a daughter of the international Diesis black type mare Sharpatan and from the family of quality gallopers Chinese Jusatice, Dr More, Strike Hard and Presumed Innocent.
Redoute's Choice is Australia's most popular sire and last spring he commanded a service fee of $275,000 at Arrowfield Stud.
He is the sire of nine individual Group One winners including six purchased from Magic Millions Yearling Sales..........."
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| Runners for Saturday, January 6 |
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Runners for Saturday, January 6 are.....................................................
OSTRAS (Woodman/Aphrodisiac 2001 gelding) - Sold
DOOMBEN Race 3 No 11 at 1.30pm
FREE FINANCE CHECK-UP NO METRO WINS HCP (1615m)
SLICK TRICK (Favorite Trick/St Kate 2001 gelding)
DOOMBEN Race 6 No 12 at 15:30
BUSINESS FINANCE TWO METRO WINS HANDICAP (1200m)
LONGHORN (Danehill/Fitting 2001 colt) - Sold
GOLDCOAST Race 1 No 1 at 12:25
PRIME TELEVISION CLASS 1 HANDICAP (900m)
GRAND CORSO (Grand Lodge/On The corse 2002 gelding) - Sold
GOLDCOAST Race 4 No 2 at 14:25
JOANNE E FORD MAIDEN PLATE (1800m)
WOODGRAIN (Timber Country/Glory Girl 1999 gelding) - Sold
MORPHETTVILLE Race 5 No 2 at 15:00
MIX 102.3 HANDICAP (1600m)
CELTIC DANE (Danehill/Moving Soon 1999 gelding) - Sold
MORPHETTVILLE Race 7 No 8 at 16:20
PEWSEY VALE HANDICAP (1100m)
SHVAY (Secret Savings/Sing 2003 gelding) - Sold
NEWCASTLE Race 5 No 14 at 16:25
NADIN WEST KITCHENS MAIDEN HANDICAP (1850m)
THE JACKAL (Bite The Bullet/Positive Surprise 2002 gelding) - Sold
ROSEHILL Race 8 No 1 at 17:20
KERRIE ANN HAUTE COUTURE HEADWEAR HANDICAP (1100m)
FUGITIVE (Belong To Me/On The Corse 1999 gelding) - Sold
SANDOWN HILLSIDE Race 3 No 6 at 13:40
WOORAK HANDICAP (1300m)
MISS CUGAT (King Cugat/Starling 2004 filly) - Sold
TOOWOOMBA Race 1 No 4 at 15:36
RANSOME & JORDAN BOOKMAKERS SHEETS 2YO HCP (900m)
MONA LISA SMILE (Honour & Glory/Overtures 2002 filly) - Sold
TOOWOOMBA Race 6 No 16 at 18:42
LEN PATTI MITSUBISHI CLASS 1 HANDICAP (1307m)
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| Magic Millions Sale One Week Away |
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Magic Millions latest press release: Australia's favourite thoroughbred event - the Conrad Jupiters Magic Millions Yearling Sale - is a week away..............................
Next Thursday (January 11) the Gold Coast will come alive with fierce bidding and the sound of the hammer falling on members of the best ever catalogue assembled by Magic Millions.
Already hundreds of yearlings have arrived at the Bundall complex with hundreds more expected in the coming days.
By this weekend many leading agents and trainers from around the world will be inspecting a number of the region's finest yearlings.
Between January 11 and 19 a catalogue of 1,600 yearlings will go through the ring - covering a wide range of stallions meaning ever budget will be well represented.
"The complex is really coming to life," managing director David Chester said. "It's a really exciting time and the excitement is really building."
Chester said the 2007 sale would attract buyers from around Australia and the globe.
"We've worked hard over the years to attract the best buying bench to compete for the quality yearlings on offer," Chester added.
"The buyers who come out are so impressed they keep coming back. They know there's plenty of horses in the catalogue to suit their needs."
"With horses selling at prices for as little as a few thousand dollars up past a million, there really is something for everyone."
At last year's sale new records were set for the overall top price, average price and complete sale aggregate.
A colt by Red Ransom sent the complex into a spin when he sold to leading trans-Tasman trainer Graeme Rogerson for $1.55 million.
Chester said he was hopeful more records would be set from next week.
"The catalogue is truly outstanding and there are a number of yearlings in the sale that would be highlight horses in any sale in the world."
Obvious stand outs in any Australasian sale in recent years are those by Arrowfield Stud's champion Redoute's Choice and fittingly the super sire has dozens of yearlings catalogued including Lot 1.
The first yearling to step into the ring next week is the Redoute's Choice full sister to Group performed mare One in a Million. The filly is from the stakes winning Zeditave mare Happen.
Also in the catalogue by Redoute's Choice are a full sister to Snitzel, a three quarter brother to Undoubtedly and youngsters from stakes winning mares including Isolda and Liberty Rose.
Coolmore Stud's star resident sire Encosta de Lago has a wonderful draft of yearlings - a number amongst the finest individuals in the catalogue.
His stand outs include outstanding fillies from Na-Ayim and Red Labelle and at least half relations to stakes horses including Sharkbite, Chong Tong, Jezabeel and Le Zagaletta. Fillies from Group One winners Burst and Victory Vein will attract attention.
Present day Group One winners including Divine Madonna, Gold Edition and Racing to WIn have attractive half relations catalogued.
Those who can't attend the sale but want to enjoy the excitement of the Magic Millions Yearling Sale should follow the live stream from the Gold Coast. The stream will be available for all eight sessions of the sale (follow links on the homepage of the MM website).
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| Latest Order of Entry for 2yo Magic Millions Race |
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Magic Millions press release of the latest order of entry for the $1 million Conrad Jupiters Magic Millions 2YO Classic (1200m) follows............
The race will be one of nine run at the Gold Coast Turf Club on Saturday week (January 13) as part of the exclusive $3.5 million Magic Millions raceday.
ORDER OF ENTRY
| EXEMPT |
MY MAN MURPHY (Liam Birchley) |
$19,800 |
| 2 |
HUSSON LIGHTNING (David Hayes) |
$176,500 |
| 3 |
ROYAL ASSCHER (Lee Freedman) |
$95,900 |
| 4 |
SASHENKA (Alan Bailey) |
$85,300 |
| 5 |
BONZA CROP (Ron Macrae) |
$82,500 |
| 6* |
MOSSTANG (Paul N Nolan) |
$81,200 |
| 7 |
CINQ ROUGE (David Hayes) |
$80,200 |
| 8 |
ILLUMINATES (Graeme Rogerson) |
$74,550 |
| =9 |
PRESS THE BUTTON (David Hayes) |
$60,000 |
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ZIZOU (David Hayes) |
$60,000 |
| 11 |
CAJOU (John Hawkes) |
$55,950 |
| 12 |
FELINE HUNTER (Mark F Webb) |
$54,300 |
| 13 |
MIMI LEBROCK (Bart Cummings) |
$51,000 |
| 14 |
CANITELLYA (David Hayes) |
$48,300 |
| 15 |
SOLO FLYER (Anthony Cummings) |
$47,750 |
| 16 |
ROCK IDOL (Kelso Wood) |
$44,200 |
| 17 |
VECCHIA ROMA (David Payne) |
$43,800 |
| 18 |
ESPURANTE (John O'Shea) |
$40,250 |
| 19 |
KEIKI (Gai Waterhouse) |
$34,000 |
| 20 |
PUSS 'N' BOOTS (Shaun Dwyer) |
$33,300 |
| 21 |
REDHOTJAZZ (Lyle R Plumb) |
$28,800 |
| 22 |
FALONTIME (Helen Page) |
$22,500 |
| 23 |
STUNNING (Ron Macrae) |
$20,000 |
| 24 |
ANABARBARIAN (Gerald Ryan) |
$19,800 |
| 25 |
ENCOSTA TSZYU (John Wallace) |
$19,000 |
| 26 |
ARLINGTON (Graeme Rogerson) |
$18,300 |
| 27 |
MISS ARGYLE (Gai Waterhouse) |
$16,000 |
| 28 |
MR STANDFAST (Peter G Moody) |
$15,950 |
| 29 |
ATOMIC HUSS (Liam Birchley) |
$13,500 |
| 30 |
EXTENSION OF TIME (David Hayes) |
$13,400 |
| 31 |
JUSFORSATISFACTION (James Rundle) |
$12,800 |
| 32 |
TINIKARUA (Kris Lees) |
$11,400 |
| 33 |
KEY BAR NIGHTS (Bruce McLachlan) |
$10,000 |
* - denotes late first acceptor
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| Solo Flyer Wins at Randwick on Debut |
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Magic Millions issued the following press release when Solo Flyer won on debut at Randwick on December 2................................................
The Anthony Cummings-trained debutant Solo Flyer spearheaded a Magic Millions two-year-old trifecta in the Canon Employees Rock Handicap (1100m) at Randwick today when scoring by a short neck from fellow 2006 Gold Coast graduates Espurante and Cajou.
The result continues the fabulous success of Magic Millions babies in the early two-year-old races this season and indeed the overall domination in this age group that the sale's graduates have enjoyed in recent years.
Sporting the same black and red-starred silks as Cummings' outstanding G1 winner Hotel Grand, Solo Flyer was able to capitalise on its handy position rounding the home turn to hit the front in the straight and defy the late challenge of the unlucky Espurante with Cajou fighting on gamely for third.
The in-form Cummings was extremely pleased with the victory and predicted a big future for his gifted colt.
"He's obviously pretty talented," commented Cummings.
"His pedigree says he shouldn't be here for another twelve months."
"Wait till he gets to a mile-and-a-quarter, then he'll be hard to catch," he said ominously.
"He's a Magic Millions horse so if he pulls up ok he will contest the Canonbury in three weeks then head north."
Espurante should most definitely have pushed Solo Flyer for winning honours after encountering interference in the straight where it lost momentum. Its effort to pick itself back up and fly late was tremendous.
The three placegetters commanded over $1 million between them when acquired at the Magic Millions Yearling Sale last January with the winner Solo Flyer costing $180,000 whilst Espurante and Cajou also fetched substantial prices of $260,000 and $600,000 respectively.
By Flying Spur out of the stakes winning Centaine mare La Rose Noir, the talented Espurante was purchased by her trainer John O'Shea and the filly certainly possesses plenty of upside in terms of both racetrack and broodmare potential.
The dearest of the trio was third-placed Cajou which was secured by Woodlands Stud in one of its rare, but albeit growing, forays into the bloodstock market. By stable favourite Encosta de Lago, Cajou is from the young Anabaa mare Anacarde, winner of the listed SAJC Hill Smith Stakes in 2002.
This striking filly will also make into a fine broodmare prospect upon retirement and she will have no shortage of willing and well credentialed suitors at owner Bob Ingham's Denman property.
But today's hero clearly boasts the most alluring distaff bloodlines.
Selected by Cummings from the consignment of Gerry Harvey's Baramul Stud, Solo Flyer is by Belong To Me and is the first named foal from the impeccably bred Sir Tristram mare Fly The Flag, a daughter of Japan Cup winning New Zealand mare Horlicks.
The outstanding Horlicks has proven to be just as adept at stud, producing 2000 Melbourne Cup winner Brew and G2 Avondale Guineas winning mare Bubble. Both gallopers are full siblings to Fly The Flag.
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| Magic Millions Stories from Boxing Day Racing |
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Boxing Day racing produced some good winners looking towards the upcoming Magic Millions race day. Magic Millions media release follows:
The build up to the $3.5 million Magic Millions raceday continued around the country today with a number of impressive lead up winners.
Gai Waterhouse added another member to her traveling team when Five Ways scored an all the way win in the Seppelt Wines Handicap at Randwick today.
Ridden by prominent stable apprentice Josh Pass, Five Ways showed plenty of ticker in the straight to hold out a strong challenge from Ruling Power.
Race favourite and proven Group race winner and Group One runner-up Permaiscuous was distanced in third place in the field of three. Permaiscuous will now be spelled.
"It was a big test today," Waterhouse said after the race. "He was running for the trip to the Magic Millions and he did it well."
Waterhouse said Five Ways would head to the $1 million Conrad Jupiters Magic Millions 3YO Trophy (1400m) at the Gold Coast on January 13.
She confirmed the recent Magic Millions Wyong 3YO Stakes winner Ulladulla would clash with MM Trophy favourite Gold Edition in Saturday's Vo Rogue in Brisbane.
"Zac (Purton) will go up and ride him work and again on Saturday," Waterhouse confirmed.
About an hour later the exciting two-year-old Espurante booked his place in the field for the $1 million Conrad Jupiters Magic Millions 2YO Classic (1200m) with a dominant win in the Bacardi Breezer Handicap (1200m).
Under the guidance of proven big race jockey Glen Boss, Espurante found plenty when required in the straight to beat Censorious easily in a performance that delighted favourite punters.
A member of the John O'Shea stable, Espurante will now head to the Gold Coast in search of MM glory on January 13.
Fritz's Princess, an entry for the MM Fillies and Mares Handicap and the Class 6 Plate, is another likely to head north for the Millions carnival after her dominant win in the McGrath Real Estate Handicap (1200m).
Owned by Nick Moraitis and trained by Kris Lees, Fritz's Princess started the favourite and when she hit the winning post she held a one and a quarter length margin over Reverenza. Misasio was a similar margin back in third place.
A daughter of More Than Ready, Fritz's Princess stopped the clock in the class record time of 1 minute 9.46 seconds.
Meanwhile, further south in Melbourne powerful trainer David Hayes kicked away with the Boxing Day meeting at Caulfield with a win courtesy of What's the Time.
The three-year-old by Gilded Time is among the first acceptors for the $100,000 Waterford Crystal Magic Millions Class 6 Plate (1200m).
*** RELEASE ENDS *** |
| Runners for Saturday, December 30: |
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Runners for Saturday, December 30 are..................................................
SOLO FLYER (Belong To Me/Fly The Flat 2004 colt) - Sold, Anthony Cummings
ROSEHILL Race 1 No 2 at 1.05pm
TOOHEYS NEW HANDICAP (1100m)
ILLUMINATES (Strategic/Dazzle Light 2004 filly) - Sold, Retained share, Graeme Rogerson
ROSEHILL Race 2 No 3 at 1.45pm
WINNING EDGE PRESENTATIONS HANDICAP (1100m)
DANOISERIE (Danehill/Isolda 2002 filly) - Retained, Graeme Rogerson
ROSEHILL Race 4 No 3 at 3.05pm
BRADLEY PHOTOGRAPHERS HANDICAP (1500m)
PRESIDENT DANE (Danehill/Regina Madre 2002 gelding) - Sold, Retained share, Tim Martin
ROSEHILL Race 7 No 12 at 5.05pm
THE ROXY HOTEL PARRAMATTA HANDICAP (1500m)
NOCTURNE (Octagonal/Magic Music 2003 filly) - Retained, Steve Englebrecht
KEMBLA GRANGE Race 3 No 9 at 2.50pm
SNAP PRINTING MAIDEN PLATE (1400m)
FITZGERALDA (Last Tycoon/Always Divine 2003 filly) - Retained, Steve Englebrecht
KEMBLA GRANGE Race 5 No 7 at 4.10pm
BRADLEY'S PHOTOGRAPHERS CLASS 1 HANDICAP (1000m)
SPARKLING LION (Lion Cavern/Sapphire Grosve 2002 filly) - Sold
GAWLER Race 3 No 8 at 1.45pm
PETER LEHMANN SEMILLON DISTANCE CLASS 3 HCP (1950m)
SWISS ALPS (Scenie/Makeeba 2003 filly)
GOLD COAST Race 3 No 10 at 2.00pm
MAGIC MILLIONS BARRIER DRAW- 9 JAN QTIS 3-Y0 HCP (1000m)
TAKE TWO (Reenact/Amistosa 2003 gelding) - Sold
TOOWOOMBA Race 2 No 4 at 4.42pm
RUBELLI LOUNGES QTIS 3-Y-O MAIDEN HCP (1600m)
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| Runners for Saturday, December 23 |
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Runners for Saturday, December 23 are..................................................
WOODGRAIN (Timber Country/Glory Girl 1999 gelding) - Sold
CHELTENHAM PARK Race 5 No 2 at 3.45pm
MISTRAL HANDICAP (1250m)
DESERT DANE (Danehill/Regina Madre 2000 gelding) - Sold
CHELTENHAM PARK Race 5 No 4 at 3.45pm
MISTRAL HANDICAP (1250m)
OSTRAS (Woodman/Aphrodisiac 2001 gelding) - Sold
DOOMBEN Race 4 No 18 at 2.15pm
FINANCE TO GO NO METRO WINS-LAST YEAR HCP (1615m)
PREND (Honour & Glory/Talent Plus 2002 filly) - Sold
DOOMBEN Race 4 No 12 at 2.15pm
FINANCE TO GO NO METRO WINS-LAST YEAR HCP (1615m)
LONGHORN (Danehill/Fitting 2002 colt) - Sold
GOLD COAST Race 7 No 1 at 3.58pm
PACIFIC HOSEFLEX CLASS 1 HANDICAP (1000m)
CLASSIC REWARD (Belong To Me/Genuine Offer 2003 geld) - Sold & Retained, Bede Murray
KEMBLA GRANGE Race 2 No 4 at 2.10pm
TED TOBIN MAIDEN PLATE (1500m)
COME ON CUGAT (King Cugat/Come On Klaire 2003 gelding) - Retained, Chris Waller
KEMBLA GRANGE Race 6 No 8 at 4.50pm
ILLAWARRA TURF CLUB 3OTH ANNIVERSARY CUP (1600m)
SHVAY (Secret Savings/Sing 2003 gelding) - Sold
KEMBLA GRANGE Race 7 No 9 at 5.25pm
BARRY BOLT MAIDEN HANDICAP (2000m)
ARLINGTON (Red Ransom/Savannah Success 2004 colt) - Sold & Retained, Graeme Rogerson
RANDWICK Race 1 No 1 at 1.05pm
LISTED 2YO CANONBURY STAKES (1100m)
ILLUMINATES (Strategic/Dazzle Light 2004 filly) - Sold & Retained, Graeme Rogerson
RANDWICK Race 1 No 3 at 1.05pm
LISTED 2YO CANONBURY STAKES (1100m)
SAM SUNG A SONG (Timber Country/Centollua 2000 gelding) - Sold
RANDWICK Race 6 No 13 at 4.25pm
VILLIERS STAKES (1600m)
PRESIDENT DANE (Danehill/Regina Madre 2002 gelding) - Sold & Retained, Tim Martin
RANDWICK Race 8 No 15 at 5.45pm
CADBURY SCHWEPPES HANDICAP (1400m)
GLORY CATCHER (Honour & Glory/Terrace Queen 2002 gelding) - Sold
TOOWOOMBA Race 8 No 14 at 8.28pm
CLIVE BERGHOFER GROUP MAIDEN HANDICAP (1625m)
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| Magic Millions 2yo Plate Lastest Order of Entry |
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The latest order of entry for the $100,000 Heinrich Group Magic Millions 2YO Plate is as follows:
The race, to be contested over 900 metres, will be run as part of the $3.5 million Magic Millions raceday where all nine races are closed to eligible graduates of the MM Yearling Sale series.
ORDER OF ENTRY
| 1 |
ILLUMINATES 2F (Graeme Rogerson) |
$72,150 |
| 2 |
CANITELLYA 2F (David Hayes) |
$45,500 |
| 3 |
REDHOTJAZZ 2C (Lyle R Plumb) |
$28,800 |
| 4 |
ANABARBARIAN 2F (Gerald Ryan) |
$19,800 |
| 5 |
ENCOSTA TSZYU 2C (John Wallace) |
$19,000 |
| 6 |
FALONTIME 2F (Helen Page) |
$16,500 |
| 7 |
MISS ARGYLE 2F (Gai Waterhouse) |
$16,000 |
| 8 |
ATOMIC HUSS 2F (Liam Birchley) |
$13,500 |
| 9 |
JUSFORSATISFACTION 2C (James Rundle) |
$12,800 |
| 10 |
ARLINGTON 2C (Graeme Rogerson) |
$12,000 |
| 11 |
KEY BAR NIGHTS 2F (Bruce McLachlan) |
$10,000 |
| 12 |
TINIKARUA 2C (Kris Lees) |
$9,000 |
| 13 |
CASA CARDOSO 2G (Lyle R Plumb) |
$5,000 |
| 14 |
PUSS 'N' BOOTS 2F (Shaun Dwyer) |
$4,500 |
| 15 |
HOSTEE 2F (Graeme Rogerson) |
$4,000 |
| 16 |
KHASAHN 2F (Ron Maund) |
$2,500 |
| 17= |
TRIBAL CHOICE 2C (Bevan Laming) |
$2,000 |
| 17= |
UNSTOPPABLE LADY 2F (Trevor Miller) |
$2,000 |
| 19 |
NUDE ETRUSCAN 2F (Liam Birchley) |
$1,900 |
| 20 |
REIKA 2F (Go Shigemi) |
$1,800 |
| 21 |
BROMS GIRL 2F (Alan Bailey) |
$1,550 |
| 22 |
HIDDEN WONDER 2F (David Hayes) |
$800 |
| 23 |
EMILYJOY 2F (David Hayes) |
$540 |
| 24 |
PONCHO 2F (Lyle R Plumb) |
$500 |
| 25 |
CAT AND THE FIDDLE 2F (Dean S Smith) |
$350 | |
| Magic Millions Press Release on Baramul Graduates |
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Magic Millions issued press release of "Baramul Graduates Winning At Home And Abroad"............
The team from Baramul Stud and many punters cheered home The Jackal in the final Sydney race on Saturday - the Pages Event Equipment Welter (1100m).
The $3.50 favourite produced a brilliant finishing burst under Hugh Bowman in the home straight to easily beat Keltic Flash. Uber was further back in third place.
A $20,000 graduate from the Magic Millions National Yearling Sale, The Jackal enhanced his impressive record to five wins and seven minor placings from just 18 starts. His stakes earnings have rocketed past $224,000 for his purchaser, trainer Paul St Vincent.
A half brother to The Jackal is among the 59 strong draft from Gerry Harvey's Baramul Stud for next month's feature yearling sale.
The yearling, catalogued as lot number 956, is by Kingmambo's Group winning sire son King Cugat - the sire of recent impressive Caulfield Cup day winner Devil Moon and international Group winner Kingship.
The colt is bred on the exact same cross as Fairy Queen - a brilliant winner of a Magic Millions Million Cup (1600m) in the Philippines on Saturday being by King Cugat and out of a Best Western mare. |
| Runners for Saturday, December 16 |
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Runners for Saturday, December 16 are.......................................
SAM SUNG A SONG (Timber Country/Centollua 2000 gelding) - Sold
ROSEHILL Race 4 No 1 at 3.05pm
DE BORTOLI WINES HANDICAP (1800m)
DANOISERIE (Danehill/Isolda 2002 filly) - Retained, Graeme Rogerson ROSEHILL Race 7 No 5 at 5.05pm WWW.THERACES.COM.AU HANDICAP (1500m)
THE JACKAL (Bite The Bullet/Positive Surprise 2002 gelding) - Sold
ROSEHILL Race 8 No 10 at 5.45pm
PAGES EVENT EQUIPMENT HANDICAP (1100m)
SAHIFA (Lion Hunter/Cornish Moss 2003 filly) - Sold
SANDOWN HILLSIDE Race 2 No 3 at 12.45pm
SUPER VOBIS BEACHSIDE HANDICAP (1400m)
HE'S A PERLA (Red Ransom/Perla Di Sasso 2000 gelding) - Sold
SANDOWN HILLSIDE Race 5 No 7 at 2.45pm
BOUNTY HAWK HANDICAP (2400m)
SHVAY (Secret Savings/Sing 2003 gelding) - Sold
NEWCASTLE Race 1 No 14 at 1.30pm
CAROMA MAIDEN HANDICAP (1850m)
PAMPAS (Danehill/Savannah Success 2002 gelding) - Sold, Pat Webster
NEWCASTLE Race 3 No 1 at 2.50pm
RELN MAIDEN PLATE (900m)
TRE PRATI (Octagonal/Perla Di Sasso 2003 filly) - Retained, Marc Conners
NEWCASTLE Race 5 No 12 at 4.10pm
RHEEM MAIDEN PLATE (1400m)
MEMORISATION (Zabeel/Marshow 2002 filly) - Retained, Anthony Cummings
NEWCASTLE Race 7 No 12 at 5.25pm
KEY PLASTICS CLASS 1 HANDICAP (1600m)
LONGHORN (Danehill/Fitting 2001 colt) - Sold
GOLD COAST Race 2 No 5 at 12.40pm
4 WEEKS TO MAGIC MILLIONS MAIDEN PLATE (900m)
HONOUR HAPPY LIST (Honour & Glory/Hate To Lose 2002 filly) - Sold
GOLD COAST Race 7 No 3 at 3.58pm
GCTC MAGIC MILLIONS COCKTAIL PARTY 4 JAN. C (1300m)
OSTRAS (Woodman/Aphrodisiac 2001 gelding) - Sold
TOOWOOMBA Race 5 No 4 at 5.55pm
SPOTLESS SERVICES CLASS 4 HANDICAP (1625m)
GLORY CATCHER (Honour & Glory/Terrace Queen 2002 gelding) - Sold
TOOWOOMBA Race 8 No 2 at 7.47pm
CCD ANIMAL HEALTH MAIDEN PLATE (1625m)
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| Runners for saturday, December 9 |
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Runners for Sasturday, December 9 are.........................................
Diamond Cove (Eliza Cove/Octagonal 2002 filly) - Sold, Peter Moody
Caulfield Race 3 @ 2.45pm
Melbourne Signage Concepts Plate (1400m)
Classic Reward (Belong To Me/Genuine Offer 2003 gelding) - Bede Murray
Kembla gRange Race 1 @ 12.40pm
Goodman Fielder Maiden Hcp (1600m)
Make Him Mine (Belong To Me/Sister Canny 2001 gelding) - Sold
Cheltenham Park Race 6 @ 3.45pm
SA Hot Water Hcp (1310m)
Desert Dane (Regina Madre/Danehill 2000 gelding) - Sold
Cheltenham Park Race 6 @ 3.45pm
SA Hot Water Hcp (1310m)
Woodgrain (Glory Girl/Timber Country 1999 gelding) - Sold
Cheltenham Park Race 6 @ 3.45pm
SA Hot Water Hcp (1310m)
Just Too Good (Better Watch Out/Nothin' Leica Dane 1999 gelding) - Sold
Armidale Race 4 @ 12.50pm
Uphill & Schaefer Real Estate Armidale BOBS Class 1 Hcp (1400m)
Paws A Minute (Grand Watch/Lion Hunter 2003 filly) - Sold
Armidale Race 8 @ 3.30pm
Armidale Cup 19/3/07 Maiden Hcp (1900m)
Prend (Talent Plus/Honour & Glory 2002 filly) - Sold
Gold Coast Race 7 @ 3.58pm
Restaurant & Bar Solutions Class 5 Hcp (1800m)
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| Runners for Saturday, December 2: |
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Runners for Saturday, December 2 are...............................
SAM SUNG A SONG (Timber Country/Centollua 2000 gelding) - Sold
RANDWICK KENSINGTON TRACK Race 1 No 1 at 1.05pm
SANTA USES A CANON CAMERA HANDICAP (1550m)
SOLO FLYER (Belong To Me/Fly The Flag 2004 colt) - Sold
RANDWICK KENSINGTON TRACK Race 3 No 4 at 2.45pm
CANON EMPLOYEES ROCK HANDICAP (1100m)
PICULET (Dinky Flyer/Timber Country 2001 filly) - Leased, Kerry Walker
RANDWICK KENSINGTON TRACK Race 6 No 12 at 4.25pm
CANON FINANCE HANDICAP (1300m)
THE JACKAL (Positive Surprise/Bite The Bullet 2002 geld) - Sold
RANDWICK KENSINGTON TRACK Race 7 No 1 at 5.05pm
CANON WISHES YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS HANDICAP (1100m)
BUTTONHOOK (Pretty Buttons/Encosta De Lago 2003 filly) - Retained, Graeme Rogerson
NEWCASTLE Race 6 No 11 at 4.10pm
EARTHMOVING WEARPARTS AND ATTACHMENTS MAIDE (1400m)
EL MIO (My Sienna/Belong To Me 2003 gelding) - Retained, Pat Webster
NEWCASTLE Race 8 No 5 at 5.30pm
CARRINGTON EQUIPMENT HYUNDAI EARTHMOVING MAIDEN HCP (1200m)
DESERT DANE (Danehill/Regina Madre 2000 gelding) - Sold
CHELTENHAM PARK Race 6 No 2 at 4.24pm
ARDROSSAN CARAVAN PARK HANDICAP (1260m)
MAKE HIM MINE (Sister Canny/Belong To Me 2001 gelding) - Sold
CHELTENHAM PARK Race 6 No 12 at 4.24pm
ARDROSSAN CARAVAN PARK HANDICAP (1260m)
COLEYVILLE ROAD (Colorado Cowgirl/Charnwood Forest 2000 geld) - Sold
GOLD COAST Race 4 No 10 at 2.00pm
PEPPER HOME LOANS EASY LOW DOW CLASS 1 HCP (1800m)
KING JOEL (Vain Tina/King Cugat 2003 geld) - Sold
GOLD COAST Race 6 No 8 at 3.20pm
PEPPER COUNT DOWN TO CHRISTMAS CLASS 2 HCP (1200m)
MONA LISA SMILE (Overtures/Honour & Glory 2002 filly) - Sold
GOLD COAST Race 7 No 15 at 3.58pm
PEPPER HOME LOANS OPENING DOORS CLASS 1 HCP (1400m)
HE'S A PERLA (Perla Di Sasso/Red Ransom 2000 geld) - Sold
MOONEE VALLEY Race 7 No 3 at 4.45pm
HEROS HCP (2040m)
OSTRAS (Aphrodisiac/Woodman 2001 gelding) - Sold
TOOWOOMBA Race 5 No 4 at 6.37pm
PENGELLY TRUCK SALES CLASS 3 PLATE (1615m)
MISERLY (The Cloisters/Secret Savings 2003 geld) - Sold
YARRA VALLEY Race 4 No 8 at 2.30pm
BRAD & RITA'S 40TH CG&E MAIDEN PLATE (1200m)
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| Runners for Saturday, November 11: |
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Runners for Saturday, November 11 are.......................................
My Middi (Belong To Me/High Honour 2003 gelding) - Sold, Marc Conners
Flemington Race 4 @ 1.30pm
Listed UCI Stakes (1400m)
Perfectly Ready (More Than Ready/Elle Duccio 2002 colt) - now owns the mareFlemington Race 6 @ 3.00pm
Gr 1 Emirates Stakes (1600m)
He's A Perla (Red Ransom/Perla Di Sasso 2000 geld) - Sold, Michael Kent
Flemington Race 9 @ 5.15pm
Emirates Airline Hcp (2000m)
Illuminates (Strategic/Dazzle Light 2004 filly) - Sold/Retained share, Graeme Rogerson
Randwick Race 1 @ 12.22pm
Carter & Di Girolamo Hcp (1000m)
Mega Lass (Bite The Bullet/Erin 2004 filly) - Sold/Retained share, Pat Webster
Randwick Race 1 @ 12.22pm
Carter & Di Girolamo Hcp (1000m)
Sam Sung A Song (Timber Country/Centollua 2000 geld) - Sold, Danny Williams
Randwick Race 8 @ 5.35pm
Christmas Twilight Meeting Dec. 15 Hcp (1600m
My Lord (Belong To Me/Abbey Lady 2003 gelding) - Retained, Chris Waller
Newcastle Race 4 @ 3.07pm
Dreame Limousines Maiden Hcp (1200m)
By Boon (Octagonal/Light Up The World 2002 gelding) - Sold, John Hawkes
Newcastle Race 5 @ 3.52pm
Waketts TV & Aerial Maiden Plate (1400m)
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| Denise's Joy's family gains 23rd stakeswinner |
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Brian Russell wrote in his media service Racing & Breeding that Denise's Joy's family gained its 23rd stakeswinner when Tuesday Joy won at Flemington last Saturday. Gerry owns quite a few descendants of this outstanding family.........
There have been few better and more consistent families for quality in modern times that that established by the late Tommy Smith's great race filly Denise's Joy 30 years ago. The honour role of her major winning descendants was added to when Tuesday Joy, having only her seventh outing and recording her first win, comfortably took out the $302,000 Wakeful Stakes at Flemington on Saturday.
Acclaimed as a certainty beaten when fourth in the Champion Stakes at Randwick on October 7 and second in the Gloaming Stakes at Rosehill Gardens two weeks earlier, this budding champion is trained by Gai Waterhouse for her breeder, John Singleton's Strawberry Hill Stud, Mt White,NSW.
She is by Carnegie, a Sadler's Wells Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner shuttling to the Darley Stud in the Hunter Valley, and from Joie Denise, a Queensland Oaks winner got by Danehill from Denise's Joy, herself winner of 13 races including the VRC Oaks, QTC Oaks, WATC Australian Derby, VRC Turnbull Stakes, MRC Underwood Stakes and MVRC Moonee Valley Stakes,
The 23rd stakes winner descending from Denise's Joy with the others including eight who have been successful in Group1 races. and highly fancied to join this elite group by annexing this week's Victorian Oaks, Tuesday Joy is to start with a half-sister to the Australian bred Sunday Silence AJC Oaks winner Sunday Joy.
Their dam is a half-sister to the second dam of another Danehill Queensland Oaks winner, Miss Danehill, and also to Pentastic, a dual Group 2 winner and placegetter in eight Group1s, including the Brisbane Cup, Doomben Cup and AJC and VRC Derbys.
Joie Denise is also a half-sister to two mares, Joie de Vivre and Joy and Fun, who did nothing on the racetrack but who have added more quality to the family as producers. Joie de Vivre is the dam of Joie de Grise (an Australian bred South African sprint star) and Arlington Road (Danehill AJC All-Aged Stakes winner) and Joy and Fun has produced Euphoria (won the AJC Champagne Stakes) and Christmas Spirit, a dam of nine winners headed by the Rory's Jester filly Light Up The World (eight wins including the AJC Challenge Stakes, STC Queen of the Turf Stakes and Premiere Stakes).
Light Up The World has gone on to be the dam of World Peace (a Danehill filly who won the MRC Blue Diamond Preview and finished third in the Group1 Blue Diamond Stakes) and other daughters of Christmas Spirit have produced Thorn Park (won the QTC Stradbroke Handicap, AJC Hobartville Stakes and STC Premiere Stakes) and Bentley Biscuit (successful in nine races to date and third in the AJC Doncaster Handicap).
The magic of the Denise's Joy family could also be transmitted on by a sire descendant, namely the Danehill product Conatus, a brother to World Peace. Raced by a syndicate including his breeder, Gerry Harvey of the Baramul Stud, Widden Valley and standing by arrangement with them at Heather Pascoe's Plaintree Farms Stud near Toowoomba, he also looked a good stakes prospect but his career was curtailed by problems. He still won four races including events in Sydney at 1000 and 1100m.
Conatus has a good opportunity to make an impact as a sire, looking after 83 mares in his first season in 2004, including about 30 from Baramul, and 109 last year. His yearlings at 2007 sales could be good investments. |
| Runners for Saturday, 4th November |
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Runners for Saturday, 4th November are............................
Teranaba (Anabaa/Tristers 3yo colt) Retained share, Anthony Cummings
Flemington Race 6 @ 3.00pm
GR 1 AAMI Victoria Derby (2500m)
Sir Lago (Encosta De Lago/Lady Langham 3yo colt) - now owns the mare
Flemington Race 6 @ 3.00pm
GR 1 AAMI Victoria Derby (2500m)
Collingwood (Timber Country/Positive Surprise 7yo gelding) Retained, John McNair
Newcastle Race 6 @ 5.10pm
Hunter Allied Diving Service Class 2 Hcp (1850m)
Stella Joy (High Yield/Lady Langham 3yo filly) - now owns the mare
Newcastle Race 7 @ 5.51pm
Tesa Group Pty Ltd Class 1 Hcp (1200m
Prisons (Secret Savings/Palace News 2yo colt) - Sold, Graeme Rogerson
Rosehill Race 1 @ 12.17pm
Nepean Motor Group Plate (1100m)
Fritz's Princess (More Than Ready/Superb Lady 3yo filly) - now owns the mare
Rosehill Race 8 @ 5.35pm
WSFM Hcp (1300m
Glory Catcher (Honour & Gloyr/Terrace Queen 3yo geld) - Sold
Toowoomba Race 7 @ 7.45pm
Sid's Place Maiden Hcp (1303m)
Fugitive (Belong To Me/On The Corso 7yo geld) - Sold
Traralgon Race 1 @ 2.41pm
Star FM & 3GG Class 4 Hcp (1430m)
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| Hope Springs Eternal for Teranaba |
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In the October issue of the Australasian Turf magazine, under the headline 'Hope Springs Eternal' the following story appears on Teranaba's win in the Gr 1 Spring Champion Stakes (2000m)...........
It's hard to recall the last time a Group 1 winner paid triple figure odds for a winning dividend.
Teranaba was sent out a $51 chance in this month's Spring Champion Stakes, but paid upwards of $100 on each of the TAB's.
Not all punters neglected him though, with specking for the horse shortening his quote from a best fluctuation of $71 into the 50-1 starting price.
Teranaba is the latest Group 1 winner to emerge from that uncanny race at Newcastle - the Spring Stakes.
Last year his stablemate Hotel Grand completed the double for trainer Anthony Cummings.
This year Teranaba ran third to Mearas at Newcastle, before a luckless run in the Dulcify Quality (LR) and then onto the Spring Champion.
There were a couple of omens in Teranaba's pedigree to say the Spring Champion might be a suitable race.
His second dam is the 1988 Caulfield Cup winner Imposera (by Imposing), who in turn is a full sister to the 1986 Spring Champion Stakes winner Imprimatur.
So 20 years on, the family strikes again.
Another key Spring Champion pointer in Teranaba's favour was his damsire - the great Sir Tristram, whose daughters had already supplied two previous winners of this race in Nothin' Leica Dane and Viking Ruler.
Teranaba, a $100,000 graduate of the William Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, is by Anabaa from the stakes placed Sir Tristram mare Tristera.
He joins an elite club of big race winners produced from Sir Tristram mares.
The former multiple Champion Cambridge Stud-based stallion is the damsire of 163 stakes winners of $132 million.
Sir Tristram won his first Australian General Sires title in 1982-83 and went on to win that award on six occasions.
It is now 10 years since he covered his final book of mares, before he died in May 1997.
However, his daughters continue to be a potent source of big race winners and Teranaba is the latest.
He is one of 30 Group 1 winners produced from Sir Tristram mares.
These include: Melbourne Cup winners Saintly and Ethereal; Golden Slipper winners Bint Marscay and Guineas; Derby winners Nothin' Leica Dane and Freemason; and a host of others including Triscay, Viscount, Filante, Lotteria, Linesman, Mahtoum and Viking Ruler.
Sir Tristram's most famous sire son Zabeel is now following in his footsteps, with his daughters consistently producing big race winners.
Teranaba is bred very similarly to this year's AJC Derby winner Headturner.
He is by Anbabaa from the Sir Tristram mare Tristera.
Headturner is by Anabaa from the Zabeel mare Monroe Magic.
Anabaa's star continues to rise in Australia.
He is proving most versatile, with the ability to get sharp sprinters like Yell and Virage De Fortune and classic types like Teranaba and Headturner.
Teranaba's career has followed an almost identical path to Mearas - the beaten favourite in the Spring Champion.
They have now met four times, with the score at 2-2 after Teranaba beat the unplaced Mearas on debut.
The only time Teranaba has not raced against Mearas was in the Dulcify Quality, where he wasn't tested at any stage after suffering severe interference early in the straight.
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| Runners for Saturday, October 28 |
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Runners for Saturday, October 28 are........................................
Arlington (Red Ransom/Savannah Success 2004 colt, Graeme Rogerson)
Rosehill Race 2 @ 1.05pm
The Wine Society Hcp (1100m)
Parfumier (Belong To Me/Patou 2002 gelding, Pat Webster) - Retained
Centennary Institute Hcp (1400m)
Memorisation (Zabeel/Marshow 2002 filly, Anthony Cummings) - Retained
Kembla Grange, Race 8 @ 5.30pm
Brick & Block Company Pty Ltd Maiden Plate (1400m)
Port Headland (Woodman/Patou 2001 colt, John Hickmott) - Sold
Morphettville Race 7 @ 4.35pm
Adelaide Galvanising Industries Hcp (1600M)
Legal Brief (Brief Truce/Hate To Lose 1998 gelding, Greg Wehlow) - Sold
Doomben Race 1 @ 12.40pm
Watpac No Metro Wins-Last Year Hcp (2100m)
Grand Corso (Grand Lodge/On The Corso 2002 geld, Maryann Thexton) - Sold
Gold Coast Race 2 @ 1.30pm
UDZ Nissan Diesel Trucks Colts & Geldings Maiden Hcp (1200m)
Get Your Gun (Bite The Bullet/Golden Gun 2001 filly) - Sold
Yarra Valley Race 5 @ 3.10pm
Mitchell Class 2 Hcp (1950m)
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| My Middi has a well deserved in at Caulfield |
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After My Middi's good win at Caulfield last Saturday, Greg Irvine wrote the following media release for the Magic Millions............................
Marc Conners had no time to celebrate the win of My Middi in the listed Jayco Cup at Caulfield this afternoon, electing to rush to the airport to catch a 2 o'clock flight back to Sydney after winning the race run just before noon.
"I'd prefer to spend the rest of the day with the kids", said Conners, who was content to leave My Middi, his only horse in Melbourne, in the care of his brother Heath who has stables at Caulfield.
"My brother will look after him", he said. "I taught him well."
My Middi had been racing in much stronger stakes company in Sydney and Conners targeted today's Jayco Cup feeling that the slightly lower class would make his task easier.
"His form in Sydney was very good and he was dropping back a bit in class today", Conners observed.
Aided by a perfect ride from Greg Childs, My Middi ($9.50-$10-$9.50) took an inside run in the straight to win by 1¼ lengths from Dance On Board ($8-$10) and Bodgie ($16-$26).
"There was not much he could do wrong today", said Conners.
"He got the run of the race, never left the fence and was too good for them." "I know he had 58kg but he did the job."
Conners decided to swap My Middi's winkers for blinkers as his raceday gear in an effort to switch on his gelding's attention to racing.
"He was starting lose a bit of interest so the blinkers kept his eye on the job."
Having won some black type with My Middi, Conners is planning to keep him in Melbourne and hunt some more riches during Melbourne Cup week.
"He's been in the top level a fair bit and he's just been a little bit below them."
"So we just dropped him back to this class and that's where we'll sit for the time being."
"He won't run now until Emirates Day", he said. "There's another Listed race for him." "He goes that little bit better fresh."
A $25,000 yearling purchase, Conners purchased My Middi at the 2005 Magic Millions Yearling Sale on the Gold Coast. He was sold by Magic Millions principal Gerry Harvey's Baramul Stud.
He is by Belong To Me from the Best Western mare High Honour. Only placed herself, High Honour is out of Listed winner and Group 1 placed The Cloisters, who in turn is a daughter of the Group 3 winner Sovereign Chick.
The David Hayes trained favourite Enemy Of Average ($2.50-$3.20-$3.10F) belied his name to finish sixth after never really getting into the race.
The $1.2 million yearling purchase Art House ($4.20-$5.00), owned by Darley Australia, suffered from atrial fibrillation (heart flutters) before being pulled up just past the post by Kerrin McEvoy. |
| Early positive news for the 2007 breeding season |
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It is well known that Gerry has a mouth-watering selection of Group 1 winning and Gr 1 producing broodmares. At this early stage of the breeding season, the following well bred mares are in foal....................................
Altrista (Sir Tristram/Alynda) in foal to Testa Rossa
Christmas Offer (Belong To Me/Christmas Spirit) in foal to More Than Ready
Crystal Hill (Danehill/Crystal Palace) in foal to Encosta De Lago
Crystal Palace (Palace Music/Zephyr Souba) in foal to Redoute's Choice
Danalaga (Danehill/Tamarino) in foal to Encosta De Lago
Eighth Wonder (Danehill/Jezabeel) in foal to More Than Ready
Elle Duccio (Danehill/Delightful Belle) in foal to More Than Ready
Fitting (Marscay/Corn) in foal to More Than Ready
Isolda (Sir Tristram/Sharpatan) in foal to Redoute's Choice
Lady Capel (Last Tycoon/Kew Gardens) in foal to Redoute's Choice
Lotteria (Redoute's Choice/Rose Reward) in foal to Encosta De Lago
My Sienna (Weasel Clause/Etruscan) in foal to Encosta De Lago
Nevis (Danehill/Tartan Tights) in foal to Encosta De Lago
Palatious (Semipalatink/Delicious Blue) in foal to Testa Rossa
Pink City (Danehill/My Sienna) in foal to Mossman
Portland Singa (Oregon/State of Oregon) in foalf to Testa Rossa
Rose Reward (Sir Tristram/Gypsy Reward) in foal to Redoute's Choice
Sabino Canyon (Danehill/Cinnamon) in foal to Mossman
Sontweni (Ire) (Sadlers Wells/Igreja) in foal to Red Ransom
St Katherine (Barathea/St Klaire) in foal to Redoute's Choice |
| Another Gr 1 winner bred by Gerry Harvey |
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Teranaba is another Group 1 winner bred by Gerry Harvey at his historic Baramul Stud. Clinton Payne wrote on racenet.com.au on Saturday, October 07, 2006........
Randwick trainer Anthony Cumings made it back to back Spring Champion Stakes when his lightly raced three-year-old Teranaba caused a boilover in today’s $400,000 G1 Thrifty Spring Champion Stakes over 2000m at Randwick. Last year Cummings pulled of a similar result when Hotel Grand led all the way to win the race. Teranaba began quickly and took up the running with All Black Gold overracing early before settling outside the leader while being trailed by He’s No Pie Eater and the favoured runners Tuesday Joy and Mearas were back towards the tail of the field. Teranaba was able to get away with some cheap sectionals mid race and on straightening kicked strongly with the pack forming behind him but jockey Larry Cassidy kept driving Teranaba ($51) along and to the horse’s credit he kept finding, fighting off the challengers to win by a half neck from All Black Gold ($7) with He’s No Pie Eater ($21) running the race of his life to finish third a half head away.  Teranaba holds them at bay in the Spring Champion - Photo by Steve Hart ”I said to the guys last week was the best barrier trial he’ll ever have,” Cummings said referring to Teranaba’s luckless run in the Dulcify Quality. ”To is the best the horse has presented in his career and the performance matched it. ”It’s all come together for a great result and he’ll head to Melbourne for a couple of races and his main aim will be the Derby.” Finishing fourth was Tuesday Joy ($4.20) and jockey Dan Beasley fired in a protest against the runner-up All Black Gold after interference Beasley described as causing a “domino effect” at the 200m mark when All Black Gold shifted out forcing Macau Causeway out onto Theseo who checked Tuesday Joy causing the filly to all but “sell out”. The protest was dismissed by stewards as in their opinion Macau Causeway never made contact with All Black Gold and overreacted to the incident but that was no consolation to Tuesday Joy's connections as the filly should have arguably would have won the race has she been afforted a clear passage to the line. The $3 favourite Mearas also copped the backwash of the interference in the straight and finished sixth with jockey Darren Beadman declaring “just the gate” cost him any chance of winning. |
| Teranaba wins Gr 1 Spring Champion Stakes |
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Gerry Harvey bred and part-owned Teranaba winner of the Gr 1 Spring Champion Stakes at Royal Randwick on Saturday, October 7. Tony Arrold wrote in his Thoroughbreds section of The Australian on Monday, October 9.................
"Back in early July Randwick trainer Anthony Cummings put in a call to a jockey agent seeking a rider to put an unraced colt through an educational barrier trial.
"Tell him he will be getting a feel of a Champion Stakes winner," Cummings told the agent. The rosy forecast was not enough to entice the desired rider for either of the two barrier trials Teranaba ran in July.
Jockeys may listen more attentively if approached with the same enthusiasm next winter, because Cummings duly delivered with Teranaba in the Spring Champion Stakes at Randwick on Saturday, although most are still trying to get over the shock of the 50-1 winner's turnaround in form.
Teranaba brought Cummings back to the winner's circle he had occupied with Hotel Grand 12 months before, and going back one year before Hotel Grand Cummings saddled the Desert Prince colt Outback Prince, which went down fighting in a desperate head-to-head with Savabeel, a month later the winner of the Group 1 Cox Plate.
Persistence has certainly paid off for Cummings in this race, as has his yearling sale activities in chasing up individuals he likes that have been led out of the ring unsold. In the mid-1990s at the Inglis Sydney Easter sale, he chased New Zealand breeder Nelson Schick to the back of the complex to finalise a deal on a passed-in lot at $30,000. That Zabeel colt raced on as Might and Power, although he had left Cummings before establishing his national fame.
At the Inglis Australia sales two Easters ago, Cummings gave chase on Teranaba, another pass-in, and sealed a deal at $100,000, with the vendor retaining a share. Teranaba was bred and offered in the draft of Baramul Stud, whose owner Gerry Harvey is a principal of the Magic Millions sales consortium, and the auction house rival to the Inglis company.
Teranaba is by Widden Stud shuttle horse Anabaa, by Danzig, the Northern Dancer horse whose male line accounts for eight of the past 13 winners of the Champion Stakes (four, for instance, by Danehill).
Teranaba is the second important distance winner at Randwick this year - after Australian Derby hero Headturner - for Anabaa, himself a Group 1 sprinter in France and England.
Teranaba also has a strong connection to previous Stakes winner Imprimatur, the victor 20 years ago.
Imprimatur was by the Todman horse Imposing, winner of the 1979 Epsom Hcp and sire of dual Epsom winner Super Impose (1990-91).
Teranaba is the seventh foal of Tristera but the first stakeswinner of her five winning foals.
Tristera, in turn, is from Imprimatur's sister Imposera, a high class mare that included the Group 1 VATC Caulfield Cup, SAJC Australasian Oaks and Group II VRC Wakeful Stakes among her seven wins.
Imposera was also runner-up to Regal Native in the 1988 Epsom Hcp.
Tristera has left colts by Danehill dancer and General Nediym since foaling Teranaba, and this spring is due to foal to the Kingmambo horse King Cugat".
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| Runners for Saturday, October 14 |
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Runners for Saturday, October 14 are................................
Darm Ambition (Octagonal/Raise The Crown 2002 gelding) - Sold
Cheltenham Park Race 7 @ 4.20pm
Scott Group of Companies Hcp (1250m)
Altivo (Zeditave/Tennessee Midnight 2002 gelding) - Sold
Cheltenham Park Race 8 @ 5.00pm
Holly & Horseshoes Hcp (1000m)
Legal Brief (Brief Truce/Hate To Lose 1998 gelding) - Sold
Eagle Farm Race 5 @ 3.06pm
Marist College Ashgrove Parents & Friends Hcp (1800m)
Paws A Minute (Lion Hunter/Grand Watch 2003 filly) - Sold
Kembla Grange Race 4 @ 2.35pm
Cleary Bros (Bombo) Pty Ltd 3yo Maiden Hcp (1200m)
Sir Mapperley (Belong To Me/Bykova 2002 gelding) - Sold
Kembla Grange Race 6 @ 3.52pm
Waldean Industries Class 1 Hcp (2000m)
Spanish King (King Cugat/Sprinkler 2003 gelding) Retained, Pat Webster
Kembla Grange Race 7 @ 4.32pm
Noreen Hay C, G & E Maiden Plate (1300m)
Collingwood (Timber Country/Positive Surprise 1999 geld) - Retained, John McNair
Kembla Grange Race 8 @ 5.12pm
Taylor Rail Track Class 2 Hcp (1400m)
Grand Corso (Grand Lodge/On The Corso 2002 gelding) - Sold
Gold Coast Race 5 @ 3.36pm
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| Runners for Saturday, October 7 |
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Runners for Saturday, October 7 are............................
My Middi (Belong To Me/High Honour 2003 gelding) Sold, Marc Conners
Randwick Race 2 @ 12.40pm
Gr 2 Milk & Honey Roman Consul Stakes (1200m)
Sermon (Octagonal/Eureka Jewel 2003 gelding) - Sold, Bob Thomsen
Randwick Race 4 @ 1.50pm
Gr 1 Thrifty - Spring Champion Stakes (2000m)
Teranaba (Anabaa/Tristera 2003 colt) - Retained, Anthony Cummings
Randwick Race 4 @ 1.50pm
Gr 1 Thrifty - Spring Champion Stakes (2000m)
Magically (Danehill/Magic Music 2002 filly) - Retained, Mick Price
Randwick Race 5 @ 2.30pm
Gr 3 Coast Clothing - The Shorts (1100m)
Sam Sung A Song (Timber Country/Centollua 2000 gelding) - Sold, Danny Williams
Randwick Race 5 @ 2.30pm
Gr 3 Coast Clothing - The Shorts (1100m)
Kakakakatie (Zeditave/St Kate 2002 filly) - Retained, Pat Webster
Randwick Race 9 @ 5.10pm
Listed Marriott Hotels - Angst Stakes (1400m)
Diamond Cove (Octagonal/Eliza Cove 2002 filly) - Sold, Peter Moody
Randwick Race 9 @ 5.10pm
Listed Marriott Hotels - Angst Stakes (1400m)
Bel Danoro (Redoute's Choice/Bislotto 2002 colt) Retained - Lee Freedman
Flemington Race 7 @ 3.30pm
Gr 3 Gilgai Stakes (1200m)
Dark Ambition (Octagonal/Raise The Crown 2002 colt) Sold
Morphettville Race 7 @ 4.30pm
Scott Group of Companies Hcp (1200m)
Sir Mapperley (Belong To Me/Bykova 2002 gelding) - Sold, Toby Edmonds
Newcastle Race 4 @ 2.45pm
Phil Koina Electrical Maiden Hcp (1850m)
Parfumier (Belong To Me/Patou 2002 gelding) - Retained, Pat Webster
Newcastle Race 5 @ 3.25pm
Sargents - The Premium Pies Class 3 Hcp (1400m)
Play Me Some (Reenact/Quaglino 2003 gelding) - Sold, Bryan Guy
Gold Coast Race 1 @ 12.35pm
MM Corporate Marquees On Sale QTIS Maiden Hcp (1200m)
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| Runners for Saturday, September 30 |
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Runners for Saturday September 30 are...................................
Teranaba (Anabaa/Tristera 2003 colt) Retained, Anthony Cummings
Randwick Race 4 @ 2.00pm
Listed Schweppes Dulcify Quality Hcp (1800m)
Kakakakatie (Zeditave/St Kate 2002 filly) Retained, Pat Webster
Randwick Race 9 @ 5.20pm
Listed The Seppelt Wines Nivison Quality (1200m)
Pontifex (King of Kings/Centollua 1999 gelding) Retained, John McNair
Race 7 @ 4.25pm
A&D Lifting Equipment & Services Cup Class 4 Hcp (1200m)
Timbers (Woodman/Minuette 2001 gelding) Retained, Stephen Jones
Gold Coast Race 8 @ 5.25pm
Terry White Chemists Runaway Bay Class 2 Hcp (1800m)
Loughnan (Bite The Bullet/Grand Cindy 2001 gelding) Sold
Doomben Race 4 @ 2.30pm
Mater Mothers Private 7 Hcp (1615m)
Air of Mystery (Air De France/Witch of the West 2003 filly) Sold
Gold Coast Race 2 @ 1.25pm
Terry White Chemists Australia Fair 3yo Fillies Maiden Hcp (1300m)
Paws A Minute (Lion Hunter/Grand Watch 2003 filly) Sold
Newcastle Race 7 @ 2.25pm
P.W.B. Anchor Maiden Plate (900m)
Fugitive (Belong To Me/On The Corso 1999 gelding) Sold
Seymour Race 8 @ 4.33pm
Life Member Peter Neylan Class 4 Hcp (1309m)
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Magically will be having her second race at Gr 1 level in tomorrow's Cleanevent Manikato Stakes at Moonee Valley..............................
Already a Gr 2 winner, Magically's first attempt at Gr 1 level was in the 2006 Galaxy Hcp at Randwick earlier this year.
The Gr 1 Galaxy Hcp followed Magically's Gr 2 win at Morphettville, and the trip to Adelaide, back to Melbourne and then onto Sydney and a barrier trial win by 10 lens eight days before the Gr 1 Galaxy Hcp, may have taken the edge of the exciting Danehill mare.
Magically hit the front at the 200m in the Gr 1 Galaxy Hcp, but hit the wall and ran a gallant 6th beaten 3 lens.
Ray Thomas writes in today's Daily Telegraph under the heading "Mick's magic four"..............................
"Mick Price, armed with his best carnival team, can continue a sensational start to the Melbourne spring with leading chances in four feature races at Moonee Valley tomorrow.
Under-rated mare Magically leads the stable charge in the Group One $400,000 Manikato Stakes (1200m).
Price is also expecting big things from talented Red Dazzler in the Group Two $300,000 Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes (1600m) and brilliant filly Estelle Collection in the Group Three $120,000 Champagne Stakes (1200m).
Boom three-year-old Deferment is out to maintain his unbeaten record in the ADE Turf Equipment Handicap (1500m).
Price is looking to build on his successful start to the season which has included stable star Pompeii Ruler's weight-for-age double of the Liston and Craiglee Stakes.
Price revealed yesterday Pompeii Ruler had thrived since last week's Craiglee triumph but a definite spring campaign is yet to be determined.
"I'm 70/30, maybe more, about running him in the Cox Plate," he said.
"I've never actually wavered from that view but there is still plenty of time to look at it. He's going to the Underwood next week and from there we will know more."
Price expects his four Moonee Valley starters to prove hard to beat tomorrow.
Magically is a $16 chance for the Manikato but Price believes the mare is capable of figuring in the finish.
"She is already a Group Two winner and this could be her chance to win a Group One," Price said.
Red Dazzler, winner of the Bill Stutt Stakes over this course and distance last spring, is poised to make amends for close seconds in the Bletchingly and Liston Stakes since resuming.
"There are only seven runners and it's always tricky in small fields but I'm very happy with Red Dazzler," Price added.
After a runaway win over 1200m at the Valley first-up, Estelle Collection has been installed $1.75 favourite for the Champagne. "Estelle Collection is one of the better fillies going around," Price said. "I like this filly. She has form around Sharkbite, which is holding up. She's going to be hard to beat."
Deferment won his only start by a massive eight lengths at Mornington and Price has entered the gelding for next month's Caulfield Guineas. |
| Runners for Saturday, September 16 |
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Runners for Sasturday, September 16 are...............................
Magically (Danehill/Magic Music 2002 filly) - Retained, Mick Price
Caulfield Race 7 @ 4.05pm
Gr 1 Cleanevent Manikato Stakes (1200m)
Kakakakatie (Zeditave/St Kate 2002 filly) - Retained, Pat Webster
Rosehill Race 6 @ 3.05pm
Gr 3 APN Outdoor Research Stakes (1200m)
Snowdropping (Jade Robbery/Little Moxy 2002 filly) - Retained, Chris Waller
Kembla Grange Race 7 @ 4.09pm
Jim McGee Memorial Cup (F&M Class 1 Hcp) (1400m)
Timbers (Woodman/Minuette 2001 gelding) - Retained, Stephen Jones
Gold Coast Race 7 @ 4.30pm
Gold Coast Titans Class 3 Hcp (1400m)
Klairevoyant (Flying Spur/Come On Klaire 2002 filly) - Sold, John O'Shea
Kembla Grange Race 7 @ 4.09pm
Jim McGee Memorial Cup (F&M Class 1 Hcp) (1400m)
Take Two (Reenact/Amistosa 2003 gelding) - Sold
Gold Coast Race 1 @ 12.45pm
Ritz Care Centres QTIS 3yo Maiden Hcp (1800m)
Hurricane Charley (Hurricane Bay/Rhapsodist 2003 gelding) - Sold, Terry O'Sullivan
Ararat Race 6 @ 3.00pm
Wolsey Knitwear Class 1 Hcp (2000m)
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| Upcoming Horses In Training Sale |
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Brian Russell writes in his latest edition of Racing & Breeding News...........
Kingston Town's cousin ready to run at the Gold Coast
An August 14, 2004 bay colt foal by King Cugat, the American champion grass horse who shuttles out to the Widden Stud and who is showing considerable promise as a sire here with his oldest three-year-olds, and from a daughter of a sister to Australian Hall of Fame honoured KingstonTown could be a good investment at the prestigious Gold Coast Horses in Training sale to be conducted by Magic Millions on Wednesday and Thursday of next week.
He is one of seven by King Cugat in the draft of 19 representing Gerry Harvey's Baramul Stud in the catalogue, one comprising 369 new two-year-olds and 11 unraced three-year-olds. Owner of the second biggest broodmare band in Australia and a partner in the shuttling of King Cugat, a son of one of the best Mr. Prospector sires, Kingmambo, Harvey also has offspring by this sire listed out of well related mares by Century, Marauding, Best Western and Royal Academy.
The Baramul consignment for the sale, one for which buyers have the opportunity to watch all the horses gallop at breeze ups to be held on the adjacent Gold Coast racecourse on Monday and Tuesday, also includes three of the fifty lots by sons of the phenomenal influence Danehill available.They are a Danehill Dancer colt from a daughter or another Australian Horse of the Year, Research; a Flying Spur colt from a daughter of AJC Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner Dinky Flyer. |
| Bel Danoro wins Gr 3 Bobby Lewis Quality |
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After Bel Danoro's gutsy win in Saturday's Gr 3 Bobby Lewis Quality, Breeding&Racing Update ran the following story on their website...........................
Ill-fated Coolmore shuttler & multiple champion sire Danehill (Danzig-Razyana, by His Majesty) added a group success when favoured 4YO entire Bel Danoro (Danehill-Bislotto, by Bellotto) scored by 0.75-lengths in the $200,000 Gr3 Bobbie Lewis Quality (1200m) for 4YOs & up at Flemington. Bel Danoro (ridden by Craig Newitt for trainer Lee Freedman) defeated fellow 4YO entire Perfectly Ready ( More Than Ready-Elle Duccio, by Danehill) & 5YO entire Volitant ( Flying Spur-Sibon, by Bletchingly). Bel Danoro now has 4 wins (also including the Listed Aurie's Star Handicap over 1200m last start at Flemington on August 12) & 2 placings (including the Listed Wellington Racing Club Stakes over 1400m at Caulfield in February) from 9 starts for $293,175 earnings. (Sep 11) |
| Runners for Saturday, September 9 |
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Runners for September 9 are..............................................
Bel Danoro (Danehill/Bislotto 2002 colt) - Lee Freedman
Flemington Race 8 @ 4.45pm
Gr 3 Bobby Lewis Quality (1200m)
Teranaba (Anabaa/Tristera 2003 colt) - Anthony Cummings
Randwick Race 9 @ 5.05pm
Listed Percy Marks Ming Dynasty Quality (1400m)
Sermon (Octagonal/Eureka Jewel 2003 gelding) - Sold, Bobby Thomsen
Randwick Race 9 @ 5.05pm
Listed Percy Marks Ming Dynasty Quality (1400m)
Diamond Cove (Octagonal/Eliza Cove 2002 filly) Sold, Peter Moody
Cheltenham Park Race 4 @ 2.25pm
Hop Skip Dump Hcp (1250m)
Take Two (Reenact/Amistosa 2003 gelding) - Sold
Toowoomba Race 7 @ 6.47pm
Rowen Myers & Associates Maiden Hcp (1620m)
Footstepsinthesnow (Lion Hunter/Plot and Scheme 2003 gelding) - Sold
Gold Coast Race 1 @ 1.00pm
Ray White Real Estate 3yo Colts and Geldings Maiden Hcp (1200m)
Sir Mapperley (Belong To Me/Bykova 2002 gelding) - Sold
Newcastle Race 2 @ 1.25pm
East Cessnock Bowling Club Maiden Hcp (1850m)
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| Runners for Saturday, September 2 |
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Runners for Saturday, September 2 are..............................
World Joy (Anabaa/Christmas Spirit 2003 filly) - Retained, Danny O'Brien
Caulfield Race 1 @ 12.15pm
Danzero Plate (1400m)
Magically (Danehill/Magic Music 2002 filly) - Retained, Mick Price
Caulfield Race 8 @ 4.40pm
Listed Heath 1100 (1100m)
My Middi (Belong To Me/High Honour 2003 gelding) - Sold, Marc Conners
Rosehill Race 7 @ 3.40pm
Gr 3 Tooheys Golden Rose (1400m)
Casino Prince (Flying Spur/Lady Capel 2003 colt) - Sold, Anthony Cummings
Rosehill Race 7 @ 3.40pm
Gr 3 Tooheys Golden Rose (1400m)
Teranaba (Anabaa/Tristers 2003 colt) - Retained, Anthony Cummings
Rosehill Race 7 @ 3.40pm
Gr 3 Tooheys Golden Rose (1400m)
Kakakakatie (Zeditave/St Kate 2002 filly) - Retained, Pat Webster
Rosehill Race 7 @ 3.40pm
Listed Premier Warehousing & Distribution Sheraco Stakes (1100m)
Sabi Sands (Belong To Me/Primrose Sands 2003 gelding) - Retained, Steve Englebrecht
Kembla Grange Race 8 @ 4.04pm
Jeff Bailey & Helen Stewart Maiden Hcp (1500m)
Anabaa Gold (Anabaa/Tristera 2002 gelding) - Retained, John Hawkes
Rosehill Race 2 @ 12.35pm
The Ronald Coles Investment Gallery Hcp (2000m)
Costly (Secret Savings/Hot Gig 2003 filly)
Rosehill Race 5 @ 1.10pm
Civil Pacific Traffic Management Hcp (1400m)
Timbers (Woodman/Minuette 2001 gelding) - Retained, Stephen Jones
Gold Coast Race 7 @ 4.25pm
Greenbank RSL Class 2 Hcp (1400m)
Sure Do (Woodman/Mother Knows Best 2002 gelding) - Sold
Queanbeyan Race 5 @ 4.10pm
1164 Family Reserve Maiden Hcp (1600m)
Loughnan (Bite The Bullet/Grand Cindy 2001 gelding) - Sold
Doomben Race 7 @ 4.08pm
Warren Hawkins Last Day of Freedom One Metro Win Hcp (1350m)
Take Two (Reenact/Amistosa 2003 gelding) - Sold
Gold Coast Race 1 @ 12.40pm
Rod Falcke 3yo Maiden Hcp (1400m)
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| Don't write off Casino Prince |
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Clinton Payne writes on today's Racenet website............
Randwick trainer Anthony Cummings believes punters should snap up some of the attractive odds about his one time Golden Slipper favourite Casino Prince in tomorrow’s $1 million G3 Tooheys Golden Rose over 1400m at Rosehill.
Casino Prince is currently a $26 chance with TAB Sportsbet in tomorrow’s feature event after resuming with a luckless 12th in the San Domenico at Randwick three weeks ago.
”He’s going really well,” Cummings said.
”I’m pleased with how he has progressed since his last run.”
The equal favourite for the Golden Rose at $3.80 is the John Hawkes-trained Mentality and Cummings was keen to highlight Casino Prince has the credentials to measure up against the Crown Lodge runner.
”He’s got the score on the board to beat Mentality and he is definitely one of the horses to beat,” he said.
”If you look deep enough he [Casino Prince] has the right form.”
Casino Prince is raced by Steve Smith who won the horse in a draw at Star City Casino and tonight Casino Prince’s jockey Jim Cassidy and trainer Anthony Cummings will be on hand to draw the lucky winner of the Casino’s promotion this year, Count Casino at 8.30pm. |
| Runners for Saturday, August 26 |
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Runners for Saturday, August 26 are..............................................
My Middi (Belong To Me/High Honour 2003 gelding) - Sold, Marc Conners
Randwick Race 9 @ 5.00pm
Gr 3 Marriott Hotels Australia Up & Coming Stakes (1200m)
La Silva (Octagonal/Milva 2002 filly) - Purchased, Greg Hickman
Newcastle Race 8 @ 4.44pm
Saxby Bakery Class 2 Hcp (1300m)
Money In Pocket (Secret Savings/Pyranee 2003 gelding) - Sold
Mildura Race 9 @ 4.52pm
Mildura Rural City Council Class 1 Hcp (1800m)
Desert Dane (Danehill/Regina Madre 2000 gelding) - Sold
Darwin Race 4 @ 5.23pm
National Seniors Top End Branch Open Hcp (1300m)
Celtic Dane (Danehill/Moving Soon 1999 gelding) - Sold
Darwin Race 3 @ 4.43pm
Power Water Class 6 Hcp (1100m)
Cawdor Bullet (Bite The Bullet/Vain Burst 2001 filly) - Sold
Toowoomba Race 7 @ 8.12pm
Clifton Cup Race Day Oct 28 Class 1 Hcp (1310m)
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| Runners for Saturday, 19th August |
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Runners for Saturday, 19th August are...........................
Kalgoorlie Kid (Timber Country/Magic Melody 2001 gelding) Retained, Pat Webster
Kembla Grange Race 5 @ 2.55pm
Wolf Blass Class 1 Hcp (2000m)
Sabi Sands (Belong To Me/Sabi Sands 2003 gelding) Retained, Steve Englebrecht
Kembla Grange Race 8 @ 4.52pm
Devils Lair Fifth Leg Maiden Hcp (1500m)
Sermon (Octagonal/Eureka Jewel 2003 gelding) Sold, Bob Thomsen
Rosehill Race 2 @ 12.50pm
Smithfield RSL Club Hcp (1100m)
Fugitive (Belong To Me/On The Corse 1999 gelding) Sold
Kilmore Race 7 @ 4.04pm
Rotary Club of Heidelberg Class 3 Hcp (1200m)
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| Reenact's First Crop Winner |
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Baramul Stud's freshman sire Reenact recently recorded his first winner from his first crop...............................
Thoroughdbred Express writes in their August 2 edition:
Baramul Stud freshman sire Reenact recorded his first winner when his two-year-old filly Wifi scored recently over 1000m at Hawkesbury for trainer Brett Partelle.
Wife, who is out of the Marauding mare Honi, was a $16,000 yearling purchase at the 2005 Magic Millions Gold Coast Sale..........
Now owned by a partnership of the White (Geoff and Beryl) and Gerry Harvey of Baramul Stud, Reenact was one of the most versatile and best bred of the Marscay products, winning the QTC Sires' Produce Stakes and Grand Prix Stakes, finishing second in the AJC Sires' Produce Stakes, third in the AJC Breeders' Plate and Canonbury Stakes and fourth in the AJC Australian Derby, Champagne Stakes and STC Silver Slipper Stakes.
Out of an American bred mare by the Mr Prospector sire Gulch, Reenact gets his chance to add to his list of winners in the future also as he had 112 mares in 2004 and 118 last year on a fee of $5,500.
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| Runners for Saturday, August 12 |
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Runners for Saturday, August 12 are...........................
Casino Prince (Flying Spur/Lady Capel 2002 colt) - Sold, Anthony Cummings
Randwick Race 6 @ 3.10pm
Gr 3 San Domenico Stakes (1000m)
My Middi (Belong To Me/High Honour 2003 geld) - Sold, Marc Conners
Randwick Race 6 @ 3.10pm
Gr 3 San Domenico Stakes (1000m)
Liliflora (Flying Spur/Mulan Princess 2003 filly) - Retained, Pat Webster
Newcastle Race 7 @ 3.25pm
Nova Distributors 3yo Maiden Hcp (1200m)
Succeeding (Flying Spur/Staging 2001 filly) - Purchased, Shaun Dwyer
Eagle Farm Race 2 @ 12.50pm
Fuji Xerox Class 6 Hcp (1600m)
World Joy (Anabaa/Christmas Spirit 2003 filly) - Retained, Danny O'Brien
Flemington Race 1 @ 12.25pm
Marc Bradley & Jon Sculley Hcp (1410m)
Bel Danoro (Redoute's Choice/Bislotto 2002 gelding) - Retained, Lee Freedman
Flemington Race 6 @ 3.30pm
Listed Aurie's Star Hcp (1200m)
Timbers (Woodman/Minuette 2001 geld) - Retained, Stephen Jones
Gold Coast Race 8 @ 4.55pm
Harditex System Class 3 Hcp (1200m)
Miss Charisse (King Cugat/Disco Danza 2003 filly) Sold - Peter Balzen
Gold Coast Race 3 @ 1.40pm
Linea Weatherboards Fillies & Mares Maiden Hcp (1200m
Cawdor Bullet (Bite The Bullet/Vain Burst 2001 filly) - Sold
Toowoomba Race 2 @ 4.46pm
Tress Cox Lawyers Fillies & Mares Class 1 Hcp (1320m)
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Runners for Saturday, July 22 are......................................
Bel Danoro (Danehill/Bislotto 2002 colt) - Lee Freedman
Caulfield Race 5 @ 2.40pm
Listed Sir John Monash Stakes (1100m)
Succeeding (Flying Spur/Staging 2001 filly) - Purchased, Shaun Dwyer
Eagle Farm Race 3 @ 1.15pm
Hardy Brothers Jewellers Fillies & Mares Class 6 Hcp (1400m)
Lindalay (Honour & Glory/Western Invasion 2000 filly)- Retained, Stephen Jones
Eagle Farm Race 3 @ 1.15pm
Hardy Brothers Jewellers Fillies & Mares Class 6 Hcp (1400m)
Ball Dancer (Vettori/Masked Dancer 2000 filly) - Sold
Eagle Farm Race 3 @ 1.15pm
Hardy Brothers Jewellers Fillies & Mares Class 6 Hcp (1400m)
The Jackal (Bite The Bullet/Positive Surprise 2002 gelding)-Sold, Paul St Vincent
Eagle Farm Race 6 @ 3.10pm
Sky Channel QTIS 3yo Hcp (1200m)
Ruling Power (Viscount/Vintage Power 2003 colt) - Sold, Bart Cummings
Rosehill Race 4 @ 1.40pm
Inghams 'Love 'Em!' Hcp (1200m)
Dark Ambition (Octagonal/Raise The Crown 2002 gelding) Sold
Cheltenham Park Race 2 @ 12.30pm
Tony's Tuna International Hcp (1460m)
Sparkling Vogue (Vettori/Hate To Lose 2000 gelding) - Sold
Toowoomba Race 5 @ 5.43pm
Reinke's Pharmacy Class 2 Hcp (1600m)
Celtic Dane (Danehill/Moving Soon 1999 gelding) - Sold
Darwin Race 6 @ 3.48pm
Baker Young Stockbrokers Special Conditoons Hcp (1300m)
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Runners for Saturday, July 15 are...................................
Katmai (St Kate/Strategic 2003 filly) - Retained - Mick Price
Morphettville Race 4 @ 1.40pm
Listed Dequetteville Stakes for 2yo Fillies (1100m)
Presenting (Christmas Spirit/Redoute's Choice 2002 filly) - Retained - Mick Price
Moonee Valley Race 5 @ 2.40pm
Winning Edge Presentations Cup (1600m)
Sabi Sands (Primrose Sands/Belong To Me 2003 gelding) - Retained - Steve Englebrecht
Kembla Grange Race 3 @ 1.20pm
Wollongong Hospital 2yo Maiden Hcp (1400m)
Inlet Bay (Hurricane Bay/Strategic 2003 filly) - Sold - Graeme Rogerson
Kembla Grange Race 1 @ 12.10pm
Cawdor Bullet (Vain Burst/Bite The Bullet 2001 filly) - Sold
Toowoomba Race 2 @ 4.23pm
Badlands (She's Naughty/Timber Country 2000 gelding) - Sold
Carnarvon Race 1 @ 1.23pm
OTC Dish Hcp (1200m)
Woodgrain (Glory Girl/Timber Country 1999 gelding) - Sold
Darwin Race 6 @ 4.56pm
Liquorwise Hospitality Chief Minister's Cup (1600m)
Invictus (Arrest/Belong To Me 2003 colt) - Sold - David Hayes
Horsham Race 1 @ 12.35pm
Tooheys Extra Dry Maiden Plate (2100m)
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A decision will be made soon on the future of multiple Gr 1 winning mare Lotteria..........................
Majority owners Mr Nam and Gerry will make a decision soon on the future of multiple Gr 1 winning mare Lotteria.
After resuming under the massive weight of 61kg in the Listed Millie Fox Stakes over 1200m for Fillies and Mares in the autumn, Lotteria failed to produce her spring form and plans were aborted for her to run in the Gr 1 Doncaster Hcp.
The daughter of Redoute's Choice was found to have a back strain and the owners had no hesitation to abort plans for the Gr 1 Doncaster Hcp.
Unfortunately the back strain means the mare will miss a second tilt at this year's Gr 1 W.S. Cox Plate and the decision now is whether the mare will return to training in the autumn or be retired to stud this season to be mated with Encosta De Lago.
We're looking at a decision from Mr Nam and Gerry by the early August.
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Gr 2 Chelmsford Stakes (1400m) winner Nevis has been retired to stud.............
Greg Irvine writes on Cyberhorse........................
Quality Sydney mare Nevis has been retired after straining a ligament in work with David Payne this week.
The superbly bred daughter of Danehill will now be sent to one of the country's leading stallions in her first season at stud.
Bred and raced by the country's second biggest breeder and owner Gerry Harvey, Nevis was being prepared another spring campaign.
Nevis achieved her career highlight when last September she defeated Sir Dex and Natural Blitz in the Group Two Chelmsford Stakes in Sydney.
A start earlier she won the listed Toy Show Handicap at Randwick.
The mare retires with five wins and three minor placings on her record from just 13 starts. She earned $371,770 in prizemoney during her short career.
Among her placings included a second in the Group One Rosehill Guineas to Eremein (beating Outback Prince). She was also a close up fourth in the George Main Stakes at Mr Celebrity, Shania Dane and Outback Prince.
Gerry Harvey's racing manager Jill Belford confirmed the retirement today.
"She was a very good mare," Belford said. "We were hoping to win a Group One race this spring, but she strained a ligament in a hind leg in track work."
Belford said no final decision had been made as to which stallion Nevis would visit this spring - but Coolmore's leading sire Encosta de Lago was a front runner.
Nevis, a close relation to VRC Derby winning sire Arena (sire of Regal Cheer), is a daughter of the dual Group One winning Tights mare Tartan Tights.
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After a frustrating autumn, which resulted in only one race start in May, Nevis has returned to David Payne's Randwick stables.
Gr 2 Chelmsford Stakes (1400m) winning mare sustained an injury in the Gr 1 George Main Stakes (1600m) and then returned to training with a paddock injury.
David Payne and his staff put painstaking time and effort into getting Nevis over her injuries and she made a return to the racetrack in the Gr 1 Doomben Ten Thousand at the end of May.
Unfortunately Nevis did not perform up to her ability due mainly to the very hard track surface, which saw her jar up severely.
Nevis then had a short spell in the winter sunshine at Washpool Lodge in Queensland, and has returned to David's Randwick stables looking fantastic.
The Gr 2 Chelmsford Stakes (1400m) will again be on Nevis' racing program this spring and she will also be nominated for the Gr 1 Caulfield Cup (2400m), Gr 1 W.S. Cox Plate (2040m) and Gr 1 Melbourne Cup (3200m). |
| Runners for Saturday, July 8 |
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Runners for Saturday, July 8 are....................................................
Shvay (Sing/Secret Savings 2003 colt) - Sold, Graeme Rogerson
Randwick All Weather Track Race 4 @ 3.35pm
Seppelt Wines Hcp (1300m)
Lindalay (Western Invasion/Honour & Glory 2000 filly) Retained, Stephen Jones
Eagle Farm Race 2 @ 12.45pm
Conrad Treasury Brisbane Class 6 Hcp (1600m)
Succeeding (Staging/Flying Spur 2001 filly) - Purchased, Shaun Dwyer
Eagle Farm Race 4 @ 2.06pm
XXXX Gold Class 6 Plate (1200m)
Sissano (Tristera/Last Tycoon 1998 gelding) - Sold, Robbie Laing
Flemington Race 4 @ 1.55pm
Cleanevent Grand National Steeplechase (4500m)
Volantis (Sovereign Field/Flying Spur 2001 filly) - Retained, Stephen Jones
Gold Coast Race 4 @ 1.48pm
Conrad Jupiters Fillies & Mares Class 2 Hcp (1000m)
Whistleinthewind (Vain Lyric/Woodman 2002 gelding) - Sold
Gold Coast Race 5 @ 2.30pm
Lawrence Drive Tavern Maiden Hcp (1400m)
Ostras (Aphrodisiac/Woodman 2001 gelding) - Sold
Gold Coast Race 6 @ 3.10pm
QRSE Mockridge Memorial Class 3 Plate (1800m)
Dark Ambition (Raise The Crown/Octagonal 2002 colt) - Sold
Morphettville Race 4 @ 1.55pm
Peter Murray 30th Birthday Hcp (1200m)
Anabaa Gold (Tristera/Anabaa 2002 gelding) - Retained, John Hawkes
Newcastle Race 4 @ 2.02pm
Bulbeck Marine Maiden Hcp (1850m)
Zaremus (Wolf/Zabeel 2002 gedling) - Sold, Tim Martin
Newcastle Race 4 @ 2.02pm
Bulbeck Marine Maiden Hcp (1850m)
Money In Pocket (Pyranee/Secret Savings 2003 colt) - Sold, Lee Freedman
Geelong Race 3 @ 12.50pm
Hodge Livestock Transport 2yo Maiden Plate (1200m)
Fugitive (On The Corso/Belong To Me 1999 gelding) - Sold
Geelong Race 6 @ 2.50pm
Molesworth Class 4 Hcp (1200m)
Celtic Dane (Moving Soon/Danehill 1999 gelding) - Sold
Darwin Race 5 @ 3.42pm
Aussie Signs Class 6 Hcp (1300m)
Desert Dane (Regina Madre/Danehill 2000 gelding) - Sold
Darwin Race 6 @ 4.23pm
Adultshop.com Welter Hcp (1100m)
Badlands (She's Naughty/Timber Country 2000 gelding) - Sold
Carnarvon Race 3 @ 2.33pm
Emu Bitter Hcp (1400m)
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Gr 2 Chelmsford Stakes winning mare Nevis (NZ) resumed after a long layoff in last Saturday's Gr 1 Doomben Ten Thousand over 1350m.........................
Racing for the first time since her excellent 4th in last year's Gr 1 George Main Stakes over 1600m, Nevis (NZ) resumed in last Saturday's Gr 1 Doomben Ten Thousand finishing a disappointing 17th.
The Danehill (USA) mare had been off the scene since last October, firstly with a hairline fracture to a pastern, injured in the last 50m of the Gr 1 George Main Stakes.
While the mare was spelling to recover from this injury, she unfortunately damaged a tendon, that was thankfully noticed by her trainer David Payne when she got off the float when she returned to his stables in the middle of December last year.
To say David was beside himself, was the least of his worries. The leg was immediately scanned and it was revealed Nevis had a bruised tendon.
With Gerry's agreement, David set about rehabilitating the mare, hoping to have her ready to resume racing during the Sydney autumn carnival.
With the tendon taking a little longer to rehabilitate, it was decided to give Nevis two runs in Brisbane, being the Gr 1 Doomben Ten Thousand (1350m) and the Gr 1 Stradbroke Hcp (1400m).
Unfortunately Nevis succumbed to the hard track at Doomben last Saturday, and jarred up seriously enough to have her two run campaign aborted.
Nevis just didn't cope with the hard track and shifty surface, and while she was lame after the race, by Monday morning she had recovered sufficiently for her to go straight to the spelling paddock for a short spell.
The plan now is for Nevis to have 3 weeks in the paddock and then she will return to David Payne's Randwick stables to be prepared for the spring with the Caulfield Cup, Cox Plate and Melbourne Cup likely to be on her agenda.
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Brian Russell writes in his current Racing & Breeding News of the "Massive 103 lots from Baramul booked into Gold Coast sale".............
The staff at Gerry Harvey's Baramul Stud in the Widden Valley are in for a busy time at the mammoth sale scheduled to be conducted by Magic Millions at the Gold Coast over 11 days in the June 4-18 period. They have 103 lots spread over the two catalogues covering the sale including 48 yearlings and 49 mares.
The appearance of the yearlings means that Baramul will have had over 100 in this age group at the Gold Coast sales this year as they were the biggest vendor at the January series with 55 lots. This huge contribution is not surprising as Harvey is now the second biggest owner of breeding stock in Australia next to Woodlands.
Because all their offspring can't get into the January sale, there could be many good prospects in the yearlings, one which opens the huge June sale, selling next Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. They include progeny of Encosta de Lago, Anabaa, King Cugat, Bite the Bullet, Secret Savings, Lion Hunter, Reenact, Danehill Dancer, Flying Spur and Strategic.
Breeders at all levels could find it valuable to take home mares on offer from Baramul. They include daughters of Quest for Fame, Sir Tristram, Woodman, Whiskey Road, Bletchingly, Flying Spur,Timber Country, Langfuhr, Century, Shovhog, Best Western, Palace Music and Jade Robbery.
Most of these mares are in foal to either Reenact, the high class Marscay two and three-year-old Harvey and the Geoff Whites stand at Baramul, or King Cugat, the American champion grass horse who shuttles to the neighbouring Widden Stud. Both sires have been given big opportunities to succeed as sources of good winners.
Baramul's yearlings are among 701 lots in the catalogue covering this section of Magic Millions National June sale. It is the second biggest collection of 2006, headed only by the Australian record 1375 lots catalogued for the Coast in January.
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| Runners for Saturday, May 27 |
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Runners for Saturday, May 27 are....................................
DESERT DANE (Danehill/Regina Madre 2000 gelding, sold)
DARWIN Race 3 No 1 at 4.18pm
FLYING SPECIAL CONDITIONS PLATE (1000m)
SUCCEEDING (Staging/Flying Spur 2001 filly, Shaun Dwyer)
DOOMBEN Race 1 No 13 at 12:05pm
AIR NEW ZEALAND CLASS 6 PLATE (1350m)
LOUGHNAN (Grand Cindy/Bite The Bullet 2001 gelding, sold)
DOOMBEN Race 2 No 19 at 12:40pm
HARDY BROTHERS JEWELLERS TWO METRO WINS-LAS (1620m)
STYLIZED (Minuette/Anabaa 2003 filly, Bruce McLachlan)
DOOMBEN Race 3 No 15 at 1.15pm
BRISBANE RIVERVIEW DOOMBEN SLIPPER QTIS 2-Y (1350m)
NEVIS (Tartan Tights (NZ)/Danehill (USA) 2001 filly, David Payne)
GR 1 DOOMBEN Race 7 No 15 at 3.55PM
CARLTON DRAUGHT DOOMBEN 10000 SWFA (1350m)
FASHIONS AFIELD (Redoute's Choice/Attire 2001 filly, Gai Waterhouse)
GR 1 DOOMBEN Race 7 No 16 at 3.55pm
CARLTON DRAUGHT DOOMBEN 10000 SWFA(1350m)
DOUBLE STRENGTH (Reinforce/Danehill 2002 filly, Guy Walter)
NEWCASTLE Race 3 No 5 at 1.20pm
THE AUSTRALIAN THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS CLUB FILLIES MAIDEN (1400m)
DERRYDANE (Irish Truce/Danehill 2002 filly, Kim Waugh)
NEWCASTLE Race 3 No 4 at 1.20pm
THE AUSTRALIAN THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS CLUB FILLIES MAIDEN (1400m)
PRINCESSE DE PARIS (Mulan Princess/Belong To Me 2002 filly, Kim Waugh)
NEWCASTLE Race 4 No 10 at 3.55pm
AFF FINANCIAL SERVICES MAIDEN HANDICAP (1850m)
FAME AND FINESSE (Exquisite Lass/Quest For Fame 2002 gelding, sold, Brian Firth)
NEWCASTLE Race 8 No 4 at 4.30pm
GRIFFITHS COMPUTERISED ENGINEERING CLASS 4 (1400m)
PETULENGRO (Gypsy Glory/Jade Robery 01 gelding, Pat Webster)
RANDWICK Race 1 No 1 at 11:52pm
AJC MEMBERS HANDICAP (2400m)
SHINES (Danamani/Timber Country 2000 geld, Joseph Pride)
RANDWICK Race 3 No 10 at 1.02pm
TOP OF THE RISE WELTER HANDICAP (1800m)
DANOISERIE (Isolda/Danehill 2002 filly, Graeme Rogerson)
RANDWICK Race 4 No 7 at 1.37pm
RANDWICK BETTING AUDITORIUM HANDICAP (1400m)
STORMY MISS (More Than Ready/Croatian Storm (Electrique/Last Tycoon)
RANDWICK Race 5 No 12 at 2.17pm
PRINCESSES APPROVE HANDICAP (1300m)
DANCESTEPS (Cannyanna/Danehill 2002 filly, Pat Webster)
RANDWICK Race 5 No 6 at 2:17pm
PRINCESSES APPROVE HANDICAP (1300m)
OSTRAS (Aphrodisiac/Woodman 2001 gelding, sold)
TOOWOOMBA Race 4 No 7 at 5.40pm
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Runners for Saturday, May 20 are.........................................
VILLA BLED (Palatious/Danehill 2001 filly, Clarry Conners)
DOOMBEN Race 2 No 10 at 12.40pm
GR 3 EARLEE PRODUCTS LORD MAYOR'S CUP WFA (1615m)
PREND (Talent Plus/Honour & Glory 2002 filly)
DOOMBEN Race 5 No 8 at 2.30pm
GR 3 WWW.HAWKINSBLOODSTOCK.COM DOOMBEN ROSES (2020m)
EARLA MARGARET (Dazzle Light/Grand Lodge 2002 filly)
DOOMBEN Race 5 No 19 at 2.30pm
GR 3 WWW.HAWKINSBLOODSTOCK.COM DOOMBEN ROSES (2020m)
CARNEGIE LANE (Joie De Vivre/Carnegie 2003 colt, Mike Moroney)
FLEMINGTON Race 2 No 9 at 12.50pm
LISTED GIBSON CARMICHAEL STAKES (1620m)
HE'S A PERLA (Perla Di Sasso/Red Ransom 2000 gelding, Mick Kent)
FLEMINGTON Race 5 No 8 at 2.40pm
LISTED ANDREW RAMSDEN STAKES (3200m)
PORT HEADLAND (Patou/Woodman 2001 colt)
CHELTENHAMPARK Race 5 No 8 at 2.17pm
DISTINCTIVE HOMES HANDICAP (1800m)
SUCCEEDING (Staging/Flying Spur 2001 filly, Shaun Dwyer)
DOOMBEN Race 1 No 18 at 12.05pm
XXXX GOLD ONE METRO WIN-LAST YEAR HANDICAP (1200m)
SISSANO (Last Tycoon/Tristera 1998 gelding, Robbie Laing)
FLEMINGTON Race 1 No 1 at 12.15pm
J.J. HOULAHAN HURDLE (3200m)
CLASSIC REWARD (Genuine Offer/Belong To Me 2003 colt, Bede Murray)
KEMBLA GRANGE Race 2 No 4 at 12.45pm
RAY BANNISTER 2YO OPEN HANDICAP (1400m)
DERRYDANE (Irish Truce/Danehill 2002 filly, Kim Waugh)
KEMBLA GRANGE Race 8 No 18 at 4.30pm
LISA WHITAKER CLASS 1 HANDICAP (1600m)
PRINCESSE DE PARIS (Mulan Princess/Belong To Me 2002 filly, Kim Waugh)
KEMBLA GRANGE Race 8 No 19 at 4.30pm
LISA WHITAKER CLASS 1 HANDICAP (1600m)
EARLA MARGARET (Dazzle Light/Grand Lodge 2002 filly)
ROSEHILL Race 4 No 17 at 1.37pm
INGHAMS LOVE'EM HANDICAP (1800m)
THE JACKAL (Positive Surprise/Bite The Bullet 2002 geld, Paul St Vincent)
ROSEHILL Race 5 No 1 at 2.17pm
SCRUFFY MURPHY'S HOTEL HANDICAP (1300m)
OSTRAS (Aphrodisiac/Woodman 2001 gelding)
TOOWOOMBA Race 5 No 3 at 6.30pm
TRIMMINGHAM TRANSPORT CLASS 2 HANDICAP (1850m)
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Meanwhile her stablemate Nevis is ready to head to Brisbane where she will have a short campaign before being readied for the spring.
Nevis will only have the two runs in Queensland the first of which is the Doomben 10000 (1350m) on May 27 before running in the Stradbroke (1400m) on June 10.
”Nevis will head to Queensland next week and I am very happy with her progress,” he said.
”She has come back good but she will only have a short preparation before I also prepare her for the spring.
”She will only have two runs in the 10000 and the Stradbroke and I am going to put the blinkers on her to make sure she is sharp enough but I’m confident she will run well.”
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By: Clinton Payne - Thursday, May 11, 2006
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| One Heck of a Weekend for Gerry! |
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Greg Irvine writes on Cyberhorse about Gerry's weekend...............................
Gerry Harvey, one of the industry's most powerful and influential figures, celebrated a number of significant victories over the weekend.
The country's second biggest breeder - behind Bob Ingham's Woodlands Stud - Harvey is quickly establishing himself as a force in the breeding of quality racehorses.
Over recent years the Harvey Norman boss and Magic Millions chairman and part owner has been building up one of the most impressive broodmare bands in the Southern Hemisphere.
And the results of both Group One races at Morphettville on Sunday would have delighted the billionaire businessman.
The Group One SA Derby was captured by the AJC Derby placegetter Testafiable - making him the first Group One winner for former Magic Millions hero Testa Rossa.
Last week Vinery Stud, now part owned by Harvey, confirmed a deal to stand the son of Perugino at their property in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales. He has previously stood his entire stud career at Yallambee Stud in Victoria.
The Derby triumph was just what Harvey and his fellow Vinery Stud owners (including John Singleton) would have been hoping for.
Things just got better for the Vinery Stud team when Perfectly Ready stuck to the inside rail to win the Group One Goodwood Handicap.
Prepared from Caulfield by Mick Price, Perfectly Ready bounced back from a disappointing effort when down the track in the Golden Shaheen in Dubai in March.
Perfectly Ready is another Group One winner for Vinery's top shuttle sire More Than Ready - the sire of the recently retired Derby hero Benicio.
The maiden Group One win of Perfectly Ready was especially sweet for Harvey who a year ago forked out $550,000 to buy his dam Elle Duccio in foal to Dehere.
The resultant foal, a filly, is a three quarter sister to multiple Group One winner Belle Du Jour (formerly part owned by Singleton) as Elle Duccio is a half sister to the former Golden Slipper and Newmarket Handicap winning heroine. Reports from Baramul suggest the filly is a "cracker."
Elle Duccio, I am pleased to report, is safely back in foal to More Than Ready - therefore carrying a full relation to a Group One winner.
Meanwhile, Harvey and Singleton were celebrating on Saturday when their outstanding three-year-old filly Fashions Afield scored a dominant win in the listed Gold Coast Guineas.
Bound for the Doomben 10,000, Fashions Afield is one of (if not) the most valuable female galloper in the country at present.
She was purchased by Harvey and Singleton for an disclosed seven figure amount at the conclusion of her two-year-old season when she was voted the champion of her generation of any sex.
Fashions Afield like other Harvey connected fillies still racing will ultimately retire to stud and boost his incredible broodmare band.
Stakes winning mares that are based at Baramul Stud include the likes of Fair Embrace, Inaflury, Isolda, Light Up the World, Magic Music, Moonflute, Mulan Princess, My Sienna, Northern Song, Palatious, Platonic, Primrose Sands, Savannah Success, Settlers Cove, Tartan Tights and World Peace.
Also grazing in the paddocks are the dams of stakes stars including Catbird, Magically, Lotteria, Savabeel, Danbird, Danelagh, Into the Night, Arlington Road, Casino Prince, Lord of the Land, World Peace, Halibery and Polar Success.
Harvey's current group of (stakes winning) race fillies also eventually headed to a life as a broodmare include the likes of Magically, Nevis, Lotteria, Kakakakatie, Presenting,
While many would be looking at slowing down their life and winding back their business when the roll past 60, this isn't the case with Harvey.
He is already gearing up for the Southern Hemisphere's largest ever bloodstock auction - Magic Millions' National Sale to be staged on the Gold Coast in June.
Baramul have about 80 horses catalogued for the sale including yearlings by prominent sires including Anabaa, Encosta de Lago, Strategic, Secret Savings, Flying Spur, Danehill Dancer, Carnegie and Lion Hunter.
A Lion Hunter youngster sold by Harvey at last year's National Yearling Sale was an impressive all the way two-year-old winner at Sandown for the Danny O'Brien stable on Sunday!
Despite blowing out 66 candles at his last birthday Harvey has plenty to look forward to in the future.
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