Mula Keeping Faith in Caulfield Guineas Hope Mamaragan
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INGLIS READY 2 RACE SALE INTERNATIONAL SALES HONG KONG NEWS VENDOR PROFILE NEWS | GODOLPHIN'S CLASSIC UNICORN DEAN HARVEY SEVEN-FIGURE SPREE SCORES CLASSY VALLEY BAYSTONE FARM - PAGE 11 CONTINUES - PAGE 15 VICTORY - PAGE 13 Friday, October 9, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here MAIDEN OF THE WEEK | FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS (NZ) - PAGE 12 Mula keeping faith Read Tomorrow's Issue For: in Caulfield Guineas Path to the Everest What's on Race meetings: Port Macquarie (NSW), hope Mamaragan Ballarat (VIC), Cranbourne (VIC), Interstate trip to do the trick for Thompson’s Group 1-placed Sunshine Coast (QLD), Cloncurry (QLD), Wandjina colt Canberra (ACT) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Warwick Farm (NSW), Flemington (VIC), Oakbank (SA), Canberra (ACT) International meetings: Newmarket (UK), York (UK), Kempton (UK), Dundalk (IRE), Fairview (SAF), Keeneland (USA) International Group races: Newmarket (UK) - Fillies’ Mile (Gr 1, 1m), Challenge Stakes (Gr 2, 7f), Cornwallis Stakes (Gr 3, 5f), Oh So Sharp Stakes (Gr 3, 7f), Pride Stakes (Gr 3, 1m 2f). Keeneland (USA) - Franklin County Stakes (Gr 3, 5.5f) Sales: Magic Millions 2YOs In Training Breeze-Up (VIC) Mamaragan SPORTPIX 2, 1200m) winner who was twice Group BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS 1-placed in the Golden Slipper Stakes ohn Thompson has adopted a proven (1200m) and Inglis Sires Produce Stakes training technique often used by the late (1400m) to round out his two-year-old Bart Cummings in an attempt to extract season, has already arrived in Melbourne the best out of his exciting three-year- from trainer Thompson’s Randwick stables Sydney but connections decided head to oldJ Mamaragan (Wandjina) not only for the ahead of tomorrow’s Guineas. Victoria as has last-start Golden Rose Stakes Caulfield Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) but for the The son of Wandjina (Snitzel), after three (Gr 1 ,1400m) winner Ole Kirk (Written longer-term benefit of the colt. runs this preparation, was also accepted Tycoon) and third placegetter King’s Legacy Mamaragan, the Skyline Stakes (Gr for the Stan Fox Stakes (Gr 2, 1500m) in (Redoute’s Choice). Continued on page 2>> ENTER NOW JULY 24 -29 ONLINE SALE ENTRIES CLOSE JULY 22. Featuring broodmares, yearlings and racing stock. FRICatalogue 9TH-WED available at inglisdigital.com 14TH OCTOBER 2020 INGLIS DIGITAL OCTOBER (EARLY) SALE SALE LIVE - VIEW HERE Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Mula keeping faith in Caulfield Guineas hope Mamaragan << Continued from page 1 “One reason we’ve taken him down there is that John believes that he is still very immature and Bart always liked to take horses interstate as he felt that it matured them,” breeder and part-owner Wilf Mula said yesterday. “We’d already accepted and it’s $11,000 to scratch him, so going down there is two-fold. Hopefully we have some luck for a change and, secondly, the trip gives him that experience as we’ll probably see the best of him in the autumn. “John says he looks better than ever.” Michael Rodd will ride Mamaragan from barrier 12 following the scratching on Tuesday of Bill Stutt Stakes (Gr 2, 1600m) winner Glenfiddich Cambourne RACING PHOTOS (Fastnet Rock). Last start, Mamaragan ran sixth in the Golden Rose after being ridden “I had three horses for sale that day and I sold them all pretty well, so aggressively out of the barriers by Nash Rawiller to hold out favourite I kept a share in all of them,” he said. Rothfire (Rothesay) for the early lead. “I happened to be standing next to John and I said, ‘who have you Mula has put the disappointment of the Golden Rose behind him and bought the horse for?’ and he said nobody, so I said I’d take 30 per cent.” he does not expect the colt to take any ill-effects from the experience of Mula has since on-sold Forbidden, but he has kept a yearling filly by being ridden forward. Foxwedge (Fastnet Rock). “We’ve never lost faith in Mamaragan and John said he’s just unbelieve “I have retained her because I sold the mother to a good friend of on the track - he’d beat anything. It’s just a matter of getting his head right,” mine. The Foxwedge fillies are going well and Paul (Whelan) and I bred he said. Foxwedge, so I have been able to keep the family going that way.” “He’s a horse who does what you want him to do (in the run). We Forbidden is being covered by Snitzel (Redoute’s Choice) this year. like the horse, we know he has Mula’s involvement in the Caulfield Guineas does not end with ability and we’ve worked him (in Mamaragan, with the Aston Bloodstock principal also breeding and co-owning I HAVE RETAINED HER the anti-clockwise) way of going the Mick Price and Mick Kent Jr-trained Cambourne (Redoute’s Choice). BECAUSE I SOLD THE for a couple of weeks and he’s The colt, who was co-bred and sold by the late Paul Whelan’s Luskin MOTHER TO A GOOD landed on the right foot every Park Stud at the 2019 Magic Millions sale for $300,000, has progressed FRIEND OF MINE. THE time.” rapidly to justify his place in the Guineas. FOXWEDGE FILLIES ARE Mula bought Forbidden Cambourne won his first start at Donald in country Victoria on GOING WELL AND PAUL (General Nediym) carrying September 4 before again winning at Bendigo 12 days later. He then ran (WHELAN) AND I BRED Mamaragan for $65,000 at fourth in the Caulfield Guineas Prelude (Gr 3, 1400m), finishing two and a FOXWEDGE, SO I HAVE the 2017 Inglis Australian quarter lengths behind Crosshaven (Smart Missile). Broodmare Sale and was able to “Mick believes he is a miler. It’s been a very compressed preparation BEEN ABLE TO KEEP retain 30 per cent of the colt after as he only started racing just over a month ago, but I think the horse has THE FAMILY GOING selling him for $180,000 at the ability and is up to black-type,” Mula said. THAT WAY - WILF MULA 2019 Magic Millions Gold Coast “We sold him for $300,000 and I kept a fair bit of him as well as I don’t Yearling Sale. like to let them go just in case one of them is a champion.” Outstanding first-crop soldiers! ex. Koritsi Mou ex. Ladder ex. Atomic Meteor ex. Comme Ca ex. Fivestar Lass ex. Warnock ex. Monaliesha ex. Gig ex. Choice Words Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by TEOFILO TEOFILO was good. KERMADEC is going better. KERMADEC Teofilo - Hy Fuji$13,750 inc GST Morning Briefing -Sponsored by Woodside Park Stud Friday, October 9, 2020 2020 VIRTUAL ONLINE STALLION PARADE NOW MORNING BRIEFING horses. Their main targets since early in the Blinkers go on Icebath AUSTRALIA year was to run well in the Spring Champion so Connections of Icebath (Sacred Falls) have Lion’s Roar value in we're really happy with where they have ended elected to refit blinkers to the mare in an Spring Champion up." attempt to get her back to winning ways When John O'Shea went to the yearling sales in tomorrow’s Silver Eagle. “I raced her in 18 months ago intent on buying the progeny of Distance to suit Flit blinkers once as a two-year-old but to be fair Group 1 winner Contributer (High Chaparral), she probably shouldn’t have had that start,’’ one colt stood out, and now that horse is one trainer Brad Widdup told Racingnsw.com. “I’ve of two the trainer has in tomorrow’s Spring kept them off her but I think now is the time. Champion Stakes (Gr 1, 2000m). O’Shea trained It’s been frustrating that she hasn’t won, she’s Contributer during his time at the helm of loomed up, so I hope they do the trick. Her Godolphin and when he saw Lion's Roar, he did benchmark rating shouldn’t be what it is. It’s a a double take. "He looks exactly the same. He is throw at the stumps, we had the Golden Eagle a deep bay, he's got a big, deep girth and he's as a target if she’s going well enough. It’s all a got a bit of character about him," O'Shea said. pipe dream at the moment.” "He is just a replica of his father." Lion’s Roar Flit SPORTPIX was scratched from the Gloaming Stakes (Gr 3, Dry track key to Superium 1800m) after he had a reaction which required Godolphin will rely on classy mare Flit (Medaglia Joe Pride is hopeful the return to a quicker treatment, forcing him to run last Saturday at d’Oro) in tomorrow’s Silver Eagle (1300m) after surface will result in a turnaround in fortunes Newcastle and he duly won. O'Shea says the scratching promising stablemate Criaderas for Superium (Verrazano). The four-year-old hiccup has had no bearing on the three-year- (Lonhro) from the $500,000 Randwick feature. lines up in a Benchmark 78 over 1000 metres at old's Spring Champion preparation and he is Trainer James Cummings has opted to take a Randwick tomorrow looking for a first win since surprised by his $18 quote. "It's hard to work softer option with Criaderas, who will instead December last year. Despite his losing run, out because the other day he was going to start contest a Benchmark 88 on the undercard. It Superium has not been beaten far on his most 7-2 behind Love Tap in the Gloaming and he's leaves Flit as their sole Silver Eagle runner and recent starts and Pride told Racingnsw.com: subsequently come out and won when he was Cummings is anticipating a form turnaround “I’m convinced he was going really well but he $1.70, so there you go," O'Shea said.