Tasmanian- trained filly Read Tomorrow's Issue For: Peter Moody Mystic Journey Timeform creates history What's On Metropolitan meetings: Randwick (NSW), Doomben (QLD), Pedigree Page | Page 18 Race meetings: Bendigo (VIC), Wednesday, March 6, 2019 Murray Bridge (SA), Bunbury (WA), Riccarton Park (NZ). Orbis Bloodstock flexes International meetings: Happy Valley (HK) sales ring muscle to land Sale: Inglis Premier Yearling Sale - Day four second Brazen Beau colt Trainer Michael Costa given boost after Inglis Premier sale spending spree Morning Briefing Melbourne Cup winner Americain to stand at Daisy Hill Americain SWETTENHAM STUD Melbourne Cup (Gr 1, 3200m) winner Lot 452 Brazen Beau - Sistine Princess colt INGLIS Americain (Dynaformer) will transfer to Daisy In truth, Springmount’s Flannery has Hill as its foundation stallion for the 2019 By Tim Rowe and Steve Moran gradually built to such a result but this was breeding season after spending seven years at t would be unfair to describe yesterday’s certainly a suitable reward for the experienced Swettenham Stud. Inglis Premier Yearling Sale top lot as horseman’s decision to relocate from Western Americain, who won the 2010 renewal coming from an unexpected source. Australia in 2015. of the Flemington showpiece for owners Just as it would be to assert that the And while nobody would argue that Costa Gerry Ryan and Daisy Hill proprietors Kevin I$560,000 Brazen Beau (I Am Invincible) colt, is not an extremely promising trainer, even he and Colleen Bamford, is the sire of US secured by Orbis Bloodstock, is going to an could see the irony in acquiring such a high- stakes winner Causeforcommotion and unlikely home. priced yearling - indeed the second coming the Australian stakes-placed Amerock and However, the delight of vendor Michael Flannery his way via the Paul King-managed Orbis American Joy. He is also the sire of the David and prospective trainer Michael Costa could hardly Bloodstock - after putting his own hand up for Payne-trained Costello, who is being set be disguised after the sale of the colt out of the a $26,000 Press Statement (Hinchinbrook) filly for the Australian Derby (Gr 1, 2400m) at O’Reilly (Last Tycoon) mare Sistine Princess. earlier in the day. Continued on page 2>> Randwick on April 6. Stud News page 14 | 1 | Brought to you by Orbis Bloodstock second Brazen Beau colt | 2 | Wednesday, March 6, 2019 << Continued from page 1 “Yes, I was certainly buying at the other was born. He was here to be sold and he was on the market at $180,000,” end of the spectrum….and I think I need to go for a run,” Costa said in Flannery said, before adding that the mare Sistine Princess had a Street reference to gathering his thoughts after Orbis had entrusted him not Boss (Street Cry) filly foal at foot and was in foal to Written Tycoon (Iglesia). only with this Brazen Beau colt but also a Zoustar (Northern Meteor) colt, “But I think she’ll going back to Brazen Beau,” he said with a smile and who sold for $500,000. understandable intent. "It is a different strawberry for me, not kicking off on a shoestring Flannery sold the colt’s sister to Ontrack Thoroughbreds for $150,000 budget, so to have the support of Orbis and the flywheel gathering at Premier last year. momentum in the stable, this is a huge asset. King said the colt was “very high” on his Premier list, while it was the "I knew Paul when I was in Sydney and he has been watching the third purchase of the week for Orbis Bloodstock after also securing Lot 4, stable for a long time. Statistically, we have been running very well with another son of Brazen Beau, for $800,000 on Sunday. limited stock and he was impressed by that. “That’s us done for the week. We’re very pleased with the three colts “The integrity of the stable is another thing he has been impressed we’ve secured. They’re all quality and you’d expect them to go very well. I with. It was pretty much a cold call, then we had a couple of meetings and guess we will know in 18 months’ time whether we’re right or wrong,” he he liked what I had to say and it has blossomed from there. said. “I’ve been very fortunate. I think the fact that we have a Queensland “This colt had a great attitude, a nice walker. He’s very athletic with operation was suitable as a third leg for Orbis. I came down last Monday scope to improve. I told the boss ‘I love him’ when he was on the end of the and looked at every lot.” phone as the bidding went on and he was asking me whether we should The competition was keen for Springmount’s colt keep going.” with at least three bidders in play near the end, The colt, who was catalogued as Lot 452, was the fourth most including underbidder Henry Field of Newgate expensive lot sold during Book 1 of the 2019 Premier sale, which saw ten Farm, and Flannery was pleased with the yearlings sell for $400,000 or more and to a top of $800,000. outcome after one temporary lull in the auction Darley’s Victoria-based second crop sire Brazen Beau was process. responsible for five of the top ten lots and averaged $285,294 from “He’s been a trouble free colt from the day he 17 lots sold. Continued on page 4>> ENTRIES FOR THE 2019 AUSTRALIAN BROODMARE & WEANLING SALE CLOSE FRIDAY MARCH 8 FIRST IN BEST DRESSED SELL YOUR BREEDING STOCK AT RIVERSIDE STABLES IN MAY AND BE PAID THE PROCEEDS IN JUNE NO PASS-IN COMMISSION RISK-FREE TRADE SELL QUALITY & KEEP THE UPSIDE NO COMMISSION ON BALANCE ABOVE $100,000 TIMING AND CONVENIENCE SELL IN A CENTRAL LOCATION AT THE OPTIMUM TIME FOR PREGNANT MARES Australian Weanling Sale – Thursday 2nd May Australian Broodmare Sale – Sunday 5th & Monday 6th May | 2 | Brought to you by Beautiful... $800k $575k $560k The sale-topper and second-highest priced yearling ever to sell in Victoria. Both the top colt and the top filly. The second-top price of day two – and top again on day three! All by the amazing Brazen Beau. The premier stallion at Inglis Premier. darley.com.au Darley Big pinhook result for Maluka as Zoustar colt makes $500,000 | 4 | Wednesday, March 6, 2019 Big pinhook result for Maluka as Zoustar colt makes $500,000 Orbis Bloodstock’s other purchase of the day was a colt by Widden Stud’s exciting young sire Zoustar (Northern Meteor), who they secured for $500,000 from the Maluka Thoroughbreds draft. The purchase also signalled a significant windfall for Maluka Thoroughbreds, who re-offered him in Melbourne yesterday after buying him for $230,000 as a weanling last year. The colt was one of two expensive yearlings by the sire yesterday, following on from a filly who snapped up by trainer Tony McEvoy for $380,000 earlier in the session. Luke Anderson of Maluka Thoroughbreds was delighted as well as relieved with the sales ring result, which justified his decision to go hard to buy the colt at the Magic Millions Gold Coast National Weanling Sale last May. “We purchased the colt with Peter McIntyre of Milawa Park who is a great judge of horses,” Anderson told ANZ Bloodstock News. “What we are essentially trying to do is buy supreme racehorses, Lot 425 Zoustar - Saffie Darling colt INGLIS so we picked him out as a cracking type at the sales. We loved him, we believe in him as a racehorse in the future as he has so much speed and The colt is the ninth foal out of the juvenile winner Saffie Darling presence about him. (Catrail), who is a half-sister to former Hong Kong Horse of the Year “We developed him to come to the sales and ideally make a profit. We Sacred Kingdom (Encosta De Lago) and is the dam of five individual want to sell Blue Diamond winners and to do that you have to push the winners. The most expensive weanling bought by Maluka Thoroughbreds boat out a bit at the weanling sales and buy the ones we want and that’s and also the highest-priced yearling the Andersons have sold, the colt what we did.” was catalogued as Lot 425. Continued on page 6>> | 4 | Brought to you by VIDDORA AMPHITRITE BOOMSARA I’M A RIPPA G1 WATC Winterbottom Stks G1 MRC Thousand Gns, G2 VRC Edward G3 BRC Vo Rogue Plate & G3 BRC Sprint & & G1 MVRC AJ Moir Stks Manifold Stks & G3 VRC The Vanity RL GCTC Magic Millions 3YO Gns G3 BRC George Moore Stks MM Adelaide Class of 2014 MM Adelaide Class of 2017 MM GC March Class of 2017 MMGC March Class of 2015 Cost: $40,000 | Earnings: $2,710,180 Cost: $50,000 | Earnings: $567,405 Cost: $40,000 | Earnings: $1,566,400 Cost: $55,000 | Earnings $1,193,757 ADELAIDE YEARLING SALE 12-13 MARCH GOLD COAST MARCH YEARLING SALE 18-19 MARCH www.magicmillions.com.au MAGICMILLIONS @MMSNIPPETS MAGICMILLIONS THEMAGICMILLIONS Big pinhook result for Maluka as Zoustar colt makes $500,000 | 6 | Wednesday, March 6, 2019 << Continued from page 4 “He is a lovely type and very much has his old man’s head, he is a good walker and very athletic,” Orbis Bloodstock manager Paul King said. “I was actually pretty happy at $500,000 and if I had to go higher I would have without a doubt.