Wednesday, December 23, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here STEVE MORAN PART 3 - PAGE 11 GOFFS SALES REPORT - PAGE 9 YESTERDAY'S RACE RESULTS - PAGE 18 Record-breaking first- Read Tomorrow's Issue For: season sire Mehmas It’s In The Blood What's on Metropolitan meetings: Warwick Farm continues to impress (NSW), Sandown Lakeside (VIC), Doomben The six-year-old is now the second most successful (QLD), Oakbank (SA), Ascot (WA) two-year-old sire of all time Race meetings: Matamata (NZ) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Geelong (VIC), Mornington (VIC) International meetings: Happy Valley (HK), Kenilworth (SAF), Greyville (SAF) MORNING BRIEFING Kluger and Victoire Pisa Mehmas TALLY-HO STUD to stand at stud in Turkey in 2017, has achieved more juvenile winners Kluger (King Kamehameha), the last of 25 horses BY TOMMY CHURCHYARD | @ANZ_NEWS than Mehmas, with leading Japanese sires Deep to fill the runner-up spot behind champion ally-Ho Stud’s first-season sire Impact (Sunday Silence) (54 in 2017) and Sunday Winx (Street Cry) during her 33-win streak, has Mehmas (Acclamation) became Silence (Halo) (51 in 2004) third and fourth been retired and will stand at stud in Turkey, the second most successful two- behind the son of Acclamation (Royal Applause) the Turkish Jockey Club announced last night. year-old sire of all time on Sunday respectively. Kluger, who finished second in the 2019 Queen Tnight, as the Richard Hughes-trained Nelson Mehmas had already etched his name into the Elizabeth Stakes (Gr 1, 2000m) and fourth in the Gay (2 g ex Rublevka Star by Elusive Quality) history books in October, when he became the most Doncaster Mile (Gr 1, 1600m) the week before, landed a maiden at Southwell to bring up his 55th successful European first-season sire in history also finished 13th in the Cox Plate (Gr 1, 2040m) individual winner of the season. with his 38th individual two-year-old winner. He last year, making him the second horse from that Only fellow Tally-Ho stallion Kodiac overtook Iffraaj (Zafonic), who sired 37 first-crop race to be retired this week after Te Akau Shark (Danehill), who sired 61 two-year-old winners winners in 2010. Continued on page 2>> (Rip Van Winkle). Morning Briefing page 4 >> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Record-breaking first-season sire Mehmas continues to impress | 2 | Wednesday, December 23, 2020 << Continued from page 1 Mehmas, a six-year-old out of Lucina (Machiavellian), was retired to stud following an eight-race two-year-old campaign under the care of Richard Hannon for Al Shaqab Racing. He ended the 2016 season as a dual Group 2 winner, having taken NEW YEAR out the July Stakes (Gr 2, 6f) at Newmarket before defeating subsequent multiple Group 1 winner Blue Point (Shamardal) in the Richmond Stakes NEW (Gr 2, 6f) at Goodwood. OPPORTUNITY View the online catalog for the 2021 SHE IS A THREE-YEAR-OLD IN Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale. AUSTRALIA AND SHE’S WORKING Discover quality broodmares, broodmare WELL. I EXPECT SHE WILL BE OUT prospects, short yearlings, horses of racing ON THE TRACK IN A FEW MONTHS, age and more, as well as rare offerings from I’M REALLY LOOKING FORWARD the dispersals of Sam-Son Farm, Paul P. TO SEEING HER RUN. Pompa, Jr. and Spry Family Farm. PAT O'CALLAGHAN He has gone on to make an electric start at stud, with Middle Park Stakes (Gr 1, 6f) winner Supremacy and Gimcrack Stakes (Gr 2, 6f) scorer Minzaal among four individual stakes winners from his 103 runners to date. While most of his crop are residing in Europe, Miss Zenara, a filly foaled in February 2018 out of Zenara (Sea The Stars), will give Australians a first-hand glimpse of his progeny, with the filly with Paul Preusker in Victoria. She is expected to make her debut in the new year and breeder Pat O’Callaghan, brother to Tally-Ho Stud owner Tony O’Callaghan, believes she could be a smart filly. “She is a three-year-old in Australia and she’s working well. I expect she will be out on the track in a few months, I’m really looking forward to seeing her run,” he told ANZ Bloodstock News. “Mehmas is an excellent stallion. I’ve always had a lot of faith in him and used him every year since he went to stud, which I’ll continue to do.” JANUARY MON. 11 - THURS. 14 VIEW CATALOG Roger (left) and Tony O'Callaghan TATTERSALLS Tally-Ho Stud’s Roger O’Callaghan, has been delighted with the start Mehmas has made to his stud career, noting that his progeny appear to have inherited his immense will to win. Continued on page 3>> Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by Record-breaking first-season sire Mehmas continues to impress | 3 | Wednesday, December 23, 2020 << Continued from page 2 “We’re chuffed, it’s been beyond our wildest expectations. It’s taken a bit of hard work from ourselves in getting the numbers out, but he has been very well supported and the breeders have been great,” O’Callaghan told ANZ Bloodstock News. “His will to win makes him special. He loves life, he has the right attitude and it looks like his stock has the right attitude.” The achievements of Mehmas’s first crop on the track has certainly led the sales ring to take notice, with his progeny most recently lighting up the opening day of the Goffs November Foal Sale on Friday. His colt out of Vida Amorosa (Lope De Vega), an unraced half-sister to the dam of Listed winner Garrus (Acclamation) from the family of Danehill Dancer (Danehill), was bought by the O’Callaghan’s for €75,000 (approx. AUD$121,600), with the family knowing all too well how valuable his progeny are. Mehmas TALLY-HO STUD “We sold the yearling full-brother this year for £26,000 and he is with Richard Hannon. This colt is a much better model than him and he will be stallion to be offered at €25,000 (approx. AUD$40,500), a 233 per cent rise for resale next year," said Tony O’Callaghan on Friday. from his 2020 mark of €7,500. His top successes at the sales this year include a colt out of Ashtown O’Callaghan expects Mehmas to be in demand in the new year, adding: Girl (Exceed And Excel) selling for 320,000gns (approx. AUD$596,100) “We’re expecting him to keep going and it looks like every european in Book 2 of the Tattersalls Yearling Sales, while a daughter of Big Boned breeder expects him to keep going too. I hope they’re right!” (Street Sense) fetched £330,000 (approx. AUD$585,450) at the Goffs Orby However, unfortunately for southern hemisphere breeders, the Yearling Sale in September. prospect of Mehmas gracing the Australasian turf, like fellow Tally-Ho “The sales come with the success on the track. If you win on the track, stallion Vadamos (Monsun), had been ruled out for now, with O’Callaghan you’ll win at the sales,” Roger O’Callaghan said. keen to keep their prized possession on home soil. The stud fee for Mehmas has been given a justifiable hike by Tally- “There’s been plenty of enquiries about him shuttling, but Mehmas Ho ahead of the 2021 breeding season, with the young Mullingar-based will be staying at Tally-Ho,” he said. “He covered a couple of southern hemisphere mares up here and he could do that all of April, but he’s not going down there.” Vadamos has spent the southern hemisphere breeding season situated at Rich Hill Stud in New Zealand, and he currently has 14 winners to his name from 52 runners. However, on the track Vadamos, out of Celebre Vadala (Peintre Celebre), produced his best form when winning the Prix du Moulin de Longchamp (Gr 1, 1600m) at five, and O’Callaghan is expecting much more to come from the northern hemisphere nine-year-old, who has a fee of €5,000 (approx. AUD$8,095) for the upcoming breeding season in Ireland. “He’s had a very good season. It’ll be next year and the year after we find out how good he really is. This year is only a bonus,” he said. “He enjoys heading to New Zealand - he’d make Hugh Heffner look Vadamos TALLY-HO STUD like an alter boy!” LINK US TO YOUR INSTAGRAM POSTS FOR A CHANCE TO FEATURE ON OUR DAILY SOCIAL HUB Follow us @anz_news | 3 | Brought to you by Morning Briefing -Sponsored by Woodside Park Stud Wednesday, December 23, 2020 SEE A MAGIC MILLIONS DRAFT DRAFT BY THE PROVEN & ELITE between Caulfield to Flemington and he will need Prezado (Denman) on his most recent outing in AUSTRALIA to be closer in the run but I think he can. He's a the Living Legends Sprint (1000m) at Flemington First for Winning Rupert gelding – we're not after a Black Caviar stretch of on December 12. "He was going to have to go Newgate stallion Winning Rupert (Written wins. He's got to learn to handle these tracks." In three weeks between runs into the Christmas Tycoon) got off the mark with his first winner terms of the Australian Guineas at Flemington on Stakes if we didn't drop him back to 1000 metres at Townsville yesterday, courtesy of the Roy February 27, Hickmott said Beltoro would need to at Flemington last start so we backed him up off a Chillemi-trained Vienna Cruise (2 f ex Vienna go close to winning at Caulfield.