KIWI CHRONICLES Tuesday, July 27, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here MACAU: DERBY GLORY FOR MOK’S ONLINE BARGAIN - PAGE 13 EVEREST TARGET FOR STAY INSIDE - PAGE 6 Asia success adding to Read Tomorrow's Issue For Focus Asia stellar domestic season What's on Race meetings: Cowra (NSW), Taree for All Too Hard (NSW), Gatton (QLD) Hard Too Think’s Singapore Derby win is the latest triumph for Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Randwick Vinery Stud’s blueblood stallion (NSW), Cowra (NSW), Taree (NSW), Sunshine Coast (QLD), Devonport (TAS), Ashburton (NZ) International meetings: Beverley (GB), Goodwood (GB), Yarmouth (GB), Galway (IRE), Compiegne (FR), Vaal (SAF) International Group races: Goodwood (GB) - Goodwood Cup (Gr 1, 2m), Vintage Stakes (Gr 2, 7f), Lennox Stakes (Gr 2, 7f) Sales: Inglis Digital July (Late) Sale (AUS) International sales: Hokkaido Select Sale (JPN) All Too Hard VINERY Chairman’s Sprint (Gr 1, 1200m) victor BY ALEX WILTSHIRE | @ANZ_NEWS Wellington have seen the stallion’s stock rise in STALLION WATCH Group 1-winning Hong Kong the region, while overseas success has arrived PAGE 19 sprinter and a Singapore Derby in tandem with domestic accolades, where (Local Gr 1, 1800m) winner All Too Hard, propelled by Group 1 winners MACAU NEWS have spearheaded success for Behemoth and Forbidden Love, is set to secure AVinery Stud’s All Too Hard (Casino Prince) a first top ten finish in the sires premiership at Derby Glory for in the lucrative Asian jurisdictions over the the season’s end. Mok’s Online Bargain last six months, success that is fueling a new “The result was fantastic,” Vinery’s When bargain hunting owner Mr. Mok Shing Fung commercial market for the blueblooded bloodstock manager Adam White told ANZ was perusing the May 2020 Inglis Online Sale stallion. Bloodstock News in reference to the Stephen Catalogue, a victory in the Macau Derby (Local The exploits of Sunday’s Singapore Derby Gray-trained Hard Too Think’s Singapore Derby Gr 1, 1800m) would have not been foremost in winner Hard Too Think and progressive victory. Continued on page 2>> his mind. Continued on page 13 >> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Asia success adding to stellar domestic season for All Too Hard | 2 | Tuesday, July 27, 2021 << Continued from page 1 “It’s great for Gerry Harvey, who bred the horse. And to see All Too Hard get a winner like that is no surprise and it looks like he's going to go on to bigger and better things over there, which is really exciting. “To have that sort of exposure in those Asian jurisdictions is really important from an ongoing point of view, for us. It gives breeders a lot of confidence that they can breed to him with the knowledge that the Hong Kong market, certainly, is going to be seeking out more of them.” In Hong Kong, Wellington made the tough graduation from three- to four-year-old, claiming four wins from six starts this season just passed Hard Too Think STC under the guidance of Richard Gibson, which culminated in his crowning Chairman’s Sprint Prize victory in April, firing his sire into the top ten in out of Raischek (Mossman) and True Malt (Elusive Quality) snapped up the Hong Kong stallion ranks from just 12 runners. by Hong Kong interests at the Inglis Melbourne Premier Sale, while last However, that’s a number that looks set to swell in the coming years. year a colt out of Nakataan (Zabeel) was purchased for $200,000 by Astute “Wellington is a really fast, speed sort of horse, and then out here in Bloodstock and is in training with Richard Gibson. Australia he’s got Behemoth who’s really effective around the 1400-metre Moreover, Sandown Guineas (Gr 2, 1600m) winner Allibor was the mark and there’s Forbidden Love who won her Group 1 over 1500 and looks a subject of a lucrative offer to head to the jurisdiction, where he has made good miler, and he’s popping up with some good two-year-olds as well. a solitary start for David Hayes, now named Helene Allibor. “These results on the track, certainly here in Australia with a few more There are 13 active sons of All Too Hard in Hong Kong, six of them Group 1 winners, we’re finding them come out of their box a little more winners, while a further two are unraced. as yearlings which is great and it’s being reflected in the sales results, and And in Singapore, in addition to Derby winner Hard Too Think, he especially with those results in Asia, too.” has the stakes-placed three-year-old Infinite Wisdom and six-time winner At public yearling auctions in Australia this year, the stallion had colts Ocean Crossing. Continued on page 4>> The only son of Champion 2YO and 3YO Camelot at stud in Australia Camelot has phenomenal stats in the Southern Hemisphere: 91 runners | 66 winners | 19 Stakes horses | $13.6m earnings That’s 20% Stakes horses and average earnings of $150k per runner! 2021 STANDING FEE | $22,O00 inc. GST 03 5428 5168 | WIDDEN.COM Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by We need your help! We’re raising important funds to support CatWalk and spinal cord injury research. The FINAL NOMINATION in Too Darn Hot this season is up for auction. By Champion Dubawi Champion two and three-year-old Covered nine individual G1 winners in his first book including Catchy, Earthquake and Cosmic Endeavour. Auction opens at midday on Wednesday, 28 July Auction closes from 4pm on Thursday, 29 July Auction times Australian Eastern Standard Time www.magicmillions.online Asia success adding to stellar domestic season for All Too Hard | 4 | Tuesday, July 27, 2021 << Continued from page 2 “He didn’t have a lot go over, “It wasn’t until the later crops came through that they realised they might particularly to Hong Kong, in the early days. I think it was just lack of be better off giving them a little bit of time. He can certainly come up with opportunity,” said White. a good two-year-old, he had two stakes-winning two-year-olds last season. “He always had a few good ones, but then they don’t push their two- “So I think the trainers have certainly worked them out.” year-olds over there at all, so he’s certainly a breed that benefits from that Buyers have been rewarded for their faith in All Too Hard, who this and then Wellington popped up, who’s obviously a serious horse, and season has broken into the top ten on the general sires list, with his then a few young horses that started off there and went over there. progeny earning just shy of $10 million in prize-money. “I think that owners and trainers over there have recognised that Among those stallions still active in the top ten, his service fee of the stallion is doing a really good job, and with horses in Australia like $30,000 (exc GST) sees him placed $40,000 cheaper than any other and Alligator Blood and Behemoth, there’s now more heading over there.” one of only two advertised at less than $100,000. His success in the Asian jurisdictions, who typically target horses at His book last year, at 191, was the highest number of mares the stallion their four-year-old Triple Crown events, has coincided with an upturn in had covered and, reflective of his on-track success, leapt from the lowest success in Australia, where White believes trainers now have a handle on number of mares to visit him in 2019, at 109. how to get the best out of his progeny. “We put him in where we had Mossman and Testa Rossa for a long “They’ve taken a little while to come to hand,” said White. “The last 12 time and they were around that $30,000 service fee and were a great to 18 months he’s been on a real high, which is great, and I think breeders source of winners and stakes winners and breeders could get a great have recognised what a great source of Group 1 horses he is, and what return in the sales ring for their service fee outlay,” White said. "And that’s terrific value he is around that $30,000 service fee. where All Too Hard is. He boosts our roster at that $30,000 and he’s just a “We found that talking to the trainers in the early days, they’ve got great horse to have. such great attitudes and I think when they were young horses, being two- “I think with so many young, unproven stallions around, I think that year-olds in those first couple of crops, because of their great attitudes the buying bench, your syndicators and trainers etc, they’re not going to trainers actually thought they were a little more ready than they actually look at a yearling draft without getting the All Too Hards out. They can buy were and hence ran them. with confidence when they’re buying an All Too Hard.” ONE OF THE WORLD’S LEADING SIRES LOPE DE VEGA . 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