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MAPPERLEY STUD ROARS TO LION’S SUCCESS PAGE 14 KIWI CHRONICLES Tuesday, March 9, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here MACAU: CHIN STRETCHES LEAD - PAGE 17 WINX STATUE UNVEILED - PAGE 8 STALLION WATCH - PAGE 19 Sales spotlight turns to Read Tomorrow's Issue For Adelaide as state in midst It’s In The Blood What's on Race meetings: Wagga (NSW), Wyong of racing turnaround (NSW), Ballarat (VIC) Local breeders confident about future on eve of Magic Millions auction Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Wagga (NSW), Caulfield (VIC), Sunshine Coast (QLD), Longford (TAS), Rangiora (NZ), Ruakaka (NZ) International meetings: Southwell (UK) Sales: Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale MORNING BRIEFING First for Astern The Mark Kavanagh-trained Seradess (2 f ex Obsidian Dragon by Hidden Dragon) took Inspections take place at Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale MAGIC MILLIONS out the Cinderella Stakes (Listed, 1050m) in South Australian vendor Ross Hatton of emphatic fashion at Morphettville yesterday BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS Rathmore Lodge are both optimistic about the to provide Darley Stud’s Astern (Medaglia he South Australian racing industry future of the local industry, as well as what will D’Oro) with his first stakes winner. The two- could be on the verge of a revival take place at the Morphettville sales complex year-old filly was sent off a $51 chance when and the first signs of that renewed over the next two days. dead-heating with Cloudy (Frosted) on debut enthusiasm for the sport is “Genuinely, I feel that everyone wants at Bendigo last month and she remained Texpected to be witnessed at the Magic Millions to reinvest back in the business in South unbeaten yesterday with a five-and-a-quarter- Adelaide Yearling Sale, which begins today. Australia,” Hayes told ANZ Bloodstock News length trouncing of her six rivals under Jamie Cornerstone Stud’s Sam Hayes and fellow onsite yesterday. Continued on page 2>> Kah. Morning Briefing page 6 >> TUE 9TH - WED 10TH MAR 2021 MAGIC MILLIONS ADELAIDE YEARLING SALE SALE LIVE - VIEW HERE Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Sales spotlight turns to Adelaide as state in midst of racing turnaround | 2 | Tuesday, March 9, 2021 << Continued from page 1 “The trainers, the breeders, we’re thinking about stallions again, we’re thinking about what mares we need to buy, we’re thinking about bolstering the broodmare band in South Australia and that’s positive and I am hoping that the South Australian breeders get a result this week.” The recently rebranded Racing South Australia, under the leadership of chief executive Nick Redin, has increased prize-money levels as well as revamped its SABOIS scheme, now called Racing Rewards, which Hayes says is resonating with local trainers and owners. “I have got to take my hat off to Racing SA, Nick Redin and the board, they have really invested in our breeders’ incentive scheme and that has the local buying bench fired up to buy local and we feel that that will make a big difference at this sale,” he said. Suman Hedge and Elizabeth Ryan MAGIC MILLIONS “This is a sale where you can buy a really good horse for under $100,000 and I think there will be plenty of opportunities for that over the on the ground with a catalogue half the size of what might have been in next two days.” another state last week, I have come to be a bit bullish about the sale. Hatton, who established Rathmore Lodge near Adelaide two years ago, “I think there’s a really good buzz around the place.” echoed Hayes’ sentiments about South Australian racing’s turnaround. Among those undertaking inspections at the complex yesterday were “From where we were when we set up our farm just over two years agents George Moore, Julian Blaxland, Dave Mee, Johnny McKeever and ago, I think it has come a long way with prize-money increases and the Louis Le Metayer, while trainers such as John McArdle, Simon Zahra, Dan Racing Rewards program, which has been a fantastic move by Racing SA,” Bowman, Mick Kent Jr, Tony and Calvin McEvoy, Troy Corstens and Will Hatton said. Clarken were also casting their eyes over yearlings before the Adelaide “I think it has really reinvigorated trainers and owners within the Cup race meeting at the adjacent Morphettville racecourse. state. It is looking pretty promising going forward.” Traders seeking stock for the two-year-old breeze-up sales later in the Recent graduates from the sale include Group 1 winners Begood Toya year were also on the complex ahead of the auction. They included Mel Mother (Myboycharlie), a $28,000 purchase, and Warning (Declaration Of O’Gorman, Dean Harvey, David Raphael, Tal Nolen and David “Butch” War) for $65,000 and Irishman Hatton says the Adelaide sale’s reputation Bourne. for producing quality horses for relatively modest prices can continue in Barry Bowditch, Magic Millions’ managing director, believes the 2021. renewed confidence in the local industry combined with the general IF I WAS A TRAINER, “If I was a trainer, this would upward trend of the market Australia-wide augurs well for the Adelaide THIS WOULD BE MY be my number one sale and I auction. know it is for a lot of trainers,” “We’re dealing with a strong market at present and there’s plenty NUMBER ONE SALE he said. of people here on the ground,” Bowditch told ANZ Bloodstock News AND I KNOW IT IS FOR “There’s been a huge yesterday. 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New Zealand: Gordon Calder Tel:+64 218 41612. www.coolmore.com Sales spotlight turns to Adelaide as state in midst of racing turnaround | 4 | Tuesday, March 9, 2021 << Continued from page 2 “Although we would love another 50 better horses next year,” Hayes said. horses in the catalogue, I think the quality of the horses is outstanding. It’s good to “We have got a horse out see some of the local farms starting to keep horses here in the state to sell. there (parading) at the moment “There’s key horses here that in the past haven’t been sold here and I by Capitalist and I reckon some of suspect buyers will have to up their sights for those horses.” the biggest buyers in the country Magic Millions has compiled a catalogue of 408 horses which features will be on him. We will find out on high-profile colts by Australia’s leading first crop sire Capitalist (Written Wednesday, but I get the sense that Tycoon), champion stallion Fastnet Rock (Danehill), Written Tycoon he might make as much money (Iglesia) and Deep Field (Northern Meteor). here as he would at anywhere else. Goldin Farms offers a Fastnet Rock brother to this season’s Inglis “Capitalist had the winner Barry Bowditch MAGIC MILLIONS Banner (RL, 1000m) and Golden Gift (1100m) winner Sneaky Five (Lot of the Black Opal on Sunday 22), while Cornerstone Stud’s Hayes has a potential star attraction in a (Kalashnikov) who was out of a Flying Spur mare and our boy is out of a son of Newgate Farm’s Capitalist Flying Spur mare, too, so we are pretty excited about him.” (Lot 286) who will be offered While records have been broken at recent Magic Millions and Inglis THERE’S KEY HORSES tomorrow. yearling sales, Hatton warned buyers were still being selective in the stock HERE THAT IN THE PAST “I guess like a winemaker, they were prepared to bid on. HAVEN’T BEEN SOLD this vintage is always the best, “All the other sales have been up, but that hasn’t meant that it’s been HERE AND I SUSPECT but I feel like we have brought easy at the other sales, you have got to have the right horse,” he said. BUYERS WILL HAVE TO some of our nicest horses off “To me, it seems like everyone wants the same ones, but the UP THEIR SIGHTS FOR the farm to this sale this year competition is there, there’s positivity in the market and let’s hope THOSE HORSES and I am feeling like we might Adelaide can follow suit from the other sales.” - BARRY BOWDITCH get rewarded.