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AWE (AUS) 2 F HINCHINBROOK - CRYSTAL WHIP BY LONHRO | PAGE 5 Saturday, March 13, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here ALL-STAR MILE FIELD | STAKES FIELDS - PAGE 22 178 FOR REDOUTE’S CHOICE - PAGE 3 Mizzy overcomes injury What's on misfortune and now Cummings Stakes races: Rosehill (NSW) - Coolmore Classic (Gr 1, 1500m), Ajax Stakes (Gr 2, plots Group 1 for mare 1500m), Phar Lap Stakes (Gr 2, 1500m), Magic Night Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m), Pago Trainer mulls options for daughter of Zoustar after wide Coolmore Pago Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m), Maurice barrier draw McCarten Stakes (Gr 3, 1100m). Moonee Valley (VIC) - Alister Clark Stakes (Gr 2, 2040m), St Albans Stakes (Listed, 1200m), Abell Stakes (Listed, 1200m). Ascot (WA) - JC Roberts Stakes (Listed, 1800m), Natasha Stakes (Listed, 2200m). Gold Coast (QLD) - Australian Turf Club Trophy (Listed, 1400m). Ellerslie (NZ) - Auckland Cup (Gr 1, 3200m), Bonecrusher NZ Stakes (Gr 1, 2000m), Sistema Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) Metropolitan meetings: Rosehill (NSW), Moonee Valley (VIC), Gold Coast (QLD), Ascot (WA), Morphettville (SA), Darwin (NT), Ellerslie (NZ) International Group races: Nakayama (JPN) - Nakayaka Himba Stakes (Gr 3, 1800m). Gulfstream Park (US) - Hurricane Bertie Stakes (Gr 3, 6.5f). Oaklawn Park Mizzy SPORTPIX (US) - Azeri Stakes (Gr 2, 8.5f), Rebel preparation with the five-year-old’s gallant Stakes (Gr 2, 8.5f). Santa Anita Park (US) BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS second in last Saturday’s Canterbury Stakes - Beholder Mile (Gr 1, 1m), San Simeon izzy (Zoustar) is no certainty (Gr 1, 1300m) at Randwick, her third start back Stakes (Gr 3, 6f) Inglis Digital March (Early) Sale to run in today’s Coolmore from a spell. Sales: Classic (Gr 1, 1500m) from “She strained a hamstring and had an a wide barrier as trainer ischial tuberosity fracture, which is where the MAnthony Cummings looks to maximise what hamstring attaches to the pelvic bone, and that could potentially be the mare’s final racing put her out for a while,” Cummings explained to campaign, now that she has regained form after ANZ Bloodstock News yesterday. a long injury layoff. “When she came back (last August- The talented mare raced just once last September) she was a bit big. We did some work calendar year before Cummings and his co- for her and it just wasn’t the right preparation for owners’ had their patience rewarded this her to go to the races. Continued on page 2>> ENTER NOW JULY 24-29 ONLINE SALE ENTRIES CLOSE JULY 22. Featuring broodmares, yearlings and racing stock. FRICatalogue 12TH available at inglisdigital.com - WED 17TH MARCH 2021 INGLIS DIGITAL MARCH (EARLY) SALE SALE LIVE Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Mizzy overcomes injury misfortune and now Cummings plots Group 1 for mare | 2 | Saturday, March 13, 2021 << Continued from page 1 “She had one run and then went back to the paddock. She’s had two four-month holidays to get over it completely and in the right shape and have a good racing prep.” Cummings’ aspiration is to retire Mizzy as a Group 1 winner, but barrier 15 in today’s race at Rosehill has put a spanner in the works. “In terms of mares’ Group 1s, the ones that are coming up is the one at Randwick (Coolmore Legacy), you have got the Tatts Tiara in Queensland and the Sangster in Adelaide, so it is just a matter of seeing what she BEST OF does, and whether 1400 to 1600 metres is looking most likely to produce a result,” he said. “I thought the Coolmore was the best option going in, and it still looks LUCK like it is despite the barrier, but we have the choice of holding back and To the Magic Millions graduates running waiting for the George Ryder next week, which on her last run, wouldn’t in todays feature races be silly, so we will just assess it all and work out what we do.” A $200,000 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale graduate, the Robert ROSEHILL (ATC) MOONEE VALLEY (MVRC) Crabtree-bred Mizzy is a daughter of, as the name suggests, the former COOLMORE CLASSIC GR1 ALL-STAR MILE Cummings-trained Missy Cummings (Magnus), a winner of three of her Krone .................................Rosemont Stud Behemoth ..................................Riversdale Mr Quickie .....................Rosemont Stud Madam Rouge ................. Widden Stud four starts which included a James Carr Stakes (Listed, 1400m) victory in Shout the Bar........... Newhaven Park Forbidden Love ...............Bhima T’bred her one and only racing preparation as a three-year-old. Still a Star .....................................Alva Stud Chaillot ..................................Baramul Stud Crabtree retains a share in Mizzy, whose first three dams are all stakes ALISTER CLARK STKS GR2 Vangelic ......................... Segenhoe Stud winners, under his Dorrington Farm banner while the trainer himself is Grandslam ................................Gilgai Farm PHAR LAP STKS GR2 also a co-owner. GOLD COAST (GCTC) Poland ............................. Segenhoe Stud Mizzy, who ran fourth in the 2019 Coolmore Classic behind Dixie Hungry Heart ..................................Yulong QTIS JEWEL 2YO Gemelon Bolt .Alexia Fraser B’stock Blossoms (Street Sense) as a three-year-old and returned later that year Miravalle ....................................Kulani Park I’ve Bean There ...........Gainsborough to win three Group races in succession, two of them at Rosehill, before AJAX STKS GR2 Lodge finishing third in the Silver Eagle (1300m) and the $7.5 million Golden Rock .....................................Coolmore Stud Ahooshu...........Lyndhurst Stud Farm Tikka Ready ...........Yarramalong Park Eagle (1500m). So far, she has won more than $1.5 million in prize-money MAGIC NIGHT STKS GR3 King Gutho .....................Redbank North in her 22-start career. Queen of Wizardry ............Tyreel Stud Sweet Dolly ........................Raheen Stud Mishani Enchanted ........KBL T’breds Jamaea ........................................Cressfield “We are talking about her going through a sale this year in one of the Alert and Ready ...............Eureka Stud Centro Storico....................Glastonbury Vienna Empress .................Aquis Farm various mares sales that are around, but it is form dependent,” he said. Farms Operations “If she races well enough we might race on for another 12 months. Doona Teela ....................Kingstar Farm QTIS JEWEL 3YO Having basically lost 12 months through injury, it wouldn’t be an PAGO PAGO STKS GR3 Apache Chase ..................Eureka Stud unreasonable thing to do and in the form she’s in, it would be fairly Shaquero ........................... Fernrigg Farm Rollinwiththeflow ......Daandine Stud lucrative as well, I’d say.” Head of State .................. Lime Country Mishani Miss ........................KBL T’breds T’breds Boomnova ............................Eureka Stud If Cummings elects to take his chances with Mizzy in the Coolmore, Awe .........................Yarraman Park Stud Miami Fleiss .........................Eureka Stud Regan Bayliss will take the ride on the mare. Nicci’s Spirit .........................Eureka Stud SKY HIGH STKS GR3 Better Get Set ............Lyndhurst Stud “She came out of that (Canterbury Stakes) run in great shape and, if Avion Fury ..............................Vinery Stud Farm anything, she looks to have improved. I am happy with her.” he said. MAURICE McCARTEN STKS GR3 ELLERSLIE (NZ) “You can have plans A, B, C and D but they all go out the window Plague Stone ............................Godolphin SISTEMA STKS GR1 when the barriers open, so you have just got to hope it works out.” Super ................................Arrowfield Stud Sword of State............. Newgate Farm Cummings, meanwhile, will also have promising two-year-old colt Tristate (Headwater) start in the Pago Pago Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m) in a last- ditch bid to make the Golden Slipper Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) field next week. The colt was ordered back to the barrier trials by Racing NSW stewards after a wayward last-start performance in the Skyline Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m), a race won by O’President (Fastnet Rock). “He was a little bit erratic at Randwick last start, but Nash (Rawiller) just changed his mind halfway around the bend and it got the horse off balance and the horse didn’t recover in time to get it right,” Cummings said. “We had to go back to the trials and he trialled well and he goes into this race in good shape.” www.magicmillions.com.au Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by Morning Briefing -Sponsored by Woodside Park Stud Saturday, March 13, 2021 HISTORY IS BEING WRITTEN MORNING BRIEFING was riding for his boss Mark Newnham. “I think as Still A Star (Toronado) flies the flag of AUSTRALIA she appreciated getting back on dry ground,” Tasmania in today’s All-Star Mile. "Health-wise, 178 for Redoute’s Choice the winning trainer said. “That’s what we’ve I'm not too bad, I just get very short of breath and been trying to get into her (a turn of foot). She’s very tired. Apart from that, you wouldn't know jumped at everything this week. She showed a there's anything wrong with me," the trainer little bit of dash today, which was good. We’re said. The four-year-old, who returned from a definitely going to the Vinery with Miravalle.” year’s absence to win the Vamos Stakes (Gr 3, 1400m) on February 24, taking her unbeaten Bar plates on, Arcadia streak to five, will have to overcome barrier 15 Queen still to pass vet check at Moonee Valley today. “She got off the boat, Arcadia Queen (Pierro) will wear front had a look around, put her head straight in the bar plates when she faces a third and final water bucket and the feed. She'll certainly have inspection by Racing Victoria vets this a red-hot crack at them, that's what she does," Miravalle SPORTPIX morning. The five-year-old, who has raced in Ryan continued. "She's never been further back Three-year-old filly Miravalle (3 f ex Condesaar bar plates previously, has also been cleared to than second and she's not really happy about by Xaar) became the 178th individual stakes wear the shoes should she make the line-up running second either.