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RACING NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS DOSH DOMINATES FILLIES, GHAIYYATH CROWNED BEAU BEST IN BLUE DIAMOND THE BEST IN 2020 PREVIEWS - PAGE 12 - PAGE 16 Wednesday, January 27, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here DOMESTIC BUYERS STAND TALL IN FACE OF ADVERSITY DURING BOOK 1 AT KARAKA - PAGE 1 NEW ZEALAND BLOODSTOCK THANK ALL THE BUYERS, CONNECTIONS, OUR AMAZING WAIKATO STUD TEAM YOU AND ALL WHO MADE THIS SALE A SUCCESS! Karaka might be over, but the opportunities are not. Selling with Glenn Lee Thoroughbreds at Inglis Classic, Stonehouse Thoroughbreds at Inglis Premier and Sledmere Stud at Inglis Easter. Look for the WS. RACING NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS DOSH DOMINATES FILLIES, GHAIYYATH CROWNED BEAU BEST IN BLUE DIAMOND THE BEST IN 2020 PREVIEWS - PAGE 12 - PAGE 16 Wednesday, January 27, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here NZB KARAKA YEARLING SALE STATS - BOOK 1 | PAGE 6 FIRST SEASON SIRE RUNNERS - PAGE 11 Domestic buyers stand Read Tomorrow's Issue For tall in face of adversity It’s In The Blood What's on Metropolitan meetings: Ascot (WA), during Book 1 at Karaka Launceston (TAS) Almanzor the new kid on the block as Seabrook believes ‘things Race meetings: Gosford (NSW), Geelong are on the up’ for New Zealand industry (VIC), Mackay (QLD), Bordertown (SA) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Rosehill (NSW), Caulfield (VIC), Mornington (VIC), Warrnambool (VIC), Deagon (QLD), Bordertown (SA) International meetings: Happy Valley (HK), Lingfield (UK), Kempton (UK), Greyville (SAF) Sales: Karaka Premier Yearling Sale - Book 2 (NZ), Inglis Digital January (Late) Sale Lot 520 Savabeel - Lovetessa colt RACING NEWS NZ the rest of the world, NZB pushed ahead with its BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS traditional January format amid agitation from SALES PREVIEW ew Zealand Bloodstock some circles to delay the auction until April in the KARAKA DAY 4: managing director Andrew hope of a more favourable travel environment. ANZ BLOODSTOCK NEWS’ TOP LOTS Seabrook’s immediate emotion However, at the conclusion of Book 1, - PAGE 14 was an overwhelming sense of 74 of the 414 yearlings traded had sold for Nrelief after the curtain came down on Book 1 $200,000 or more, including a Savabeel of the NZB Karaka Yearling Sale yesterday, the (Zabeel) colt who fetched $720,000 during STEVE MORAN first staged without international buyers at the the third session to be the second highest- THE RON HUTCHINSON STORY sales complex in almost a century. priced yearling of the sale behind a Zoustar AND AUSSIES ABROAD (PART 7) Faced with immense uncertainty for more (Northern Meteor) filly who made $800,000 HUTCHINSON SPEAKS OF HIS GREAT RIVALS - PAGE 18 than six months with the country shut off from on Sunday. Continued on page 2>> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Premiership-winning Walker won’t follow rivals in closing the book on successful Singapore chapter | 2 | Wednesday, January 27, 2021 << Continued from page 1 “For the past six months we’ve been course not given they couldn't building for these three days and we didn’t really have any idea how it be here, but it was encouraging I WAS CONFIDENT THAT would go,” Seabrook told ANZ Bloodstock News last night. that the online system and the THE NEW ZEALANDERS “I was confident that the New Zealanders would spend more given bidding over the phone was WOULD SPEND MORE the economy here, and the confidence in the domestic racing industry, embraced. GIVEN THE ECONOMY and they would step up, but probably not to the level they did. It was quite “I am relieved and I am HERE, AND THE amazing. also very happy to be able to CONFIDENCE IN THE “The big unknown, of course, was to what level the internationals check an 81 per cent clearance. DOMESTIC RACING would use the online system and bidding over the phone. Even I bid for I would take that all day.” INDUSTRY, AND THEY ten or 12 Australians and I had to come off the bench just to do that.” NZB still has a two-day Book The Book 1 aggregate was $50.998 million at an average of $123,184 2 offering starting today and WOULD STEP UP, BUT and a median of $95,000, the latter two measures down by 11 and 12 per an online Book 3 catalogue to PROBABLY NOT TO THE cent respectively compared to 2020. A clearance rate of 81 per cent was up complete the National Yearling LEVEL THEY DID. IT two per cent year-on-year. Sale. WAS QUITE AMAZING The two decreased year-on-year metrics were in contrast to The leading buyer at Karaka - ANDREW SEABROOK what was experienced at the recent record Magic Millions Gold for 16 years in succession, Te Coast auction, but Seabrook suggested the New Zealand industry Akau’s David Ellis, added 11 yearlings to his portfolio yesterday, bringing banded together to do its best to ensure a competitive marketplace in his tally to 38 yearlings from Book 1 for a spend of $7.425 million at an unprecedented conditions. average of $195,000. “The New Zealand agents and the NZB agents here really stepped up New Zealand agents such as Bruce Perry, Phill Cataldo, Paul Willetts, in terms of engaging with the overseas people, but their spend was always Chris Rutten and Stuart Hale were also significant buyers. going to be down,” he reasoned. “Look at Graeme Rogerson, Tony Pike, Roger James and others, it was “Was Australia going to spend the same amount as last year? Of really good,” Seabrook said. Continued on page 3>> WAR DECREE WAR FRONT X ROYAL DECREE (STREET CRY) THE APPLES AREN’T FALLING FAR FROM THE TREE see for yourself at www.nzb.co.nz FIRST CROP YEARLINGS SELLING 2021 Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by Domestic buyers stand tall in face of adversity during Book 1 at Karaka | 3 | Wednesday, January 27, 2021 << Continued from page 2 “I genuinely believe that things are “He has a great temperament and so does she. The colt is very on the up here domestically and New Zealand is in a good place going uncomplicated and has always looked the part. forward because we have more to gain than most other countries in the “A most pleasing aspect was that Brendan and Jo have poured plenty world given our remoteness. in, so this is a nice return for a change. “I think the new digital space is going to stand us in good stead.” “After the horror year (2019), apart from Probabeel (winning), they The leading vendor by aggregate was Cambridge Stud, selling 45 deserve a change of fortune for the stud.” yearlings for $5.7 million at an average of $126,666, ahead of Waikato Stud, which sold 34 yearlings for $4.33 million. On average, the leading Almanzor talk at fever pitch right to the end vendor was Hallmark Stud, which sold 15 lots at $197,333 each, ahead of Trelawney Stud, which sold 13 yearlings at an average of $195,000. Savabeel colt tops day three at Karaka The most expensive lot sold on day three, a son of Savabeel from one of New Zealand’s most successful families, will head to Hong Kong after Ascot Farm’s Bruce Harvey signed for the $720,000 colt on instruction from the Jockey Club. With strong competition for many of the higher-profile lots, Harvey was relieved to have struck for the Cambridge Stud-consigned yearling. “We missed out on the top lot yesterday (Monday), the one that made $520,000 (Lot 367). I saw him (Savabeel colt) at the on-farm parade and I absolutely loved him, and I have loved him every time I have seen him,” Lot 578 Almanzor - Notice Received colt RACING NEWS NZ said Harvey, who broke in the colt’s third dam, Group 1 winner and champion producer Tristalove (Sir Tristram). Competition in the ring was “He was just a quality colt and he moved so well. He was our first pick evident right until the death, IF I’M WRONG (ABOUT of the sale, he ticked all the boxes for us.” with the last lot of Book 1 selling ALMANZOR), I WON’T Carrying the potent Savabeel-O’Reilly (Last Tycoon) cross, which is to prolific agent Bruce Perry, responsible for four Group 1 winners and 20 stakes winners at a 14 per who has been one of many BE HERE IN A YEAR OR cent strike rate, the youngster is the fifth foal out of the Group 3-placed industry experts relied on this TWO - BRUCE PERRY Lovetessa, a half-sister to Group 2 winner Queen Of Diamonds (Savabeel). week to assist international He was offered as Lot 520. buyers. The colt was Harvey’s third purchase for the HKJC after buying colts by Perry went to $560,000 - the fourth most expensive yearling of the sale Reliable Man (Dalakhani) and Per Incanto (Street Cry). - for the Hallmark Stud-consigned Almanzor (Wootton Bassett) colt, who “The Hong Kong Jockey Club, they want to buy quality horses,” Harvey is a half-brother to the Golden Pendant (Gr 2, 1400m) winner Subpoenaed said. (Rip Van Winkle). “That is the standard they want. It is about quality over quantity, and He was one of seven yearlings the Masterton agent has bought over he was the pick of the sale.” the past three days by the Cambridge Stud shuttle sire. Cambridge Stud chief executive Henry Plumptre welcomed the “I was acting for Brae (Sokolski), who is one of the main owners in the result, which potentially marks a turning point for owners Brendan and colt’s half-sister Subpoenaed and Chris Waller,” Perry said.