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Friday, November 20, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here MAIDEN OF THE WEEK | AVONALLO (NZ) - PAGE 16 YESTERDAY'S RACE RESULTS - PAGE 20 New Zealand Bloodstock What's on Metropolitan meetings: Rosehill (NSW), savours ‘remarkable’ Moonee Valley (VIC) Race meetings: Orange (NSW), Terang (VIC), Townsville (QLD), Naracoorte (SA), Ready to Run Sale New Plymouth (NZ) $700,000 Savabeel two-year-old takes sale day honours late on Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Orange (NSW), final day at Karaka Flemington (VIC), Moe (VIC), Naracoorte (SA) International meetings: Newcastle (UK), Dundalk (IRE), Fairview (SAF) continued on from a strong start on Wednesday, Lot 298 Savabeel - Miss Opulence colt NZB led to 185 horses changing hands at an average of the two-day juvenile sale in which overseas of $95,349, up on the same sale last year, at a BY TIM ROWE AND LLOYD JACKSON buyers and a tight-knit community of local clearance rate of 77 per cent. The median of he undoubted success of this agents helped the auction house achieve $60,000 was the same as 2019. week’s New Zealand Bloodstock “remarkable” results. “It’s been an amazing success and I can’t Ready to Run Sale, which was After ten horses were traded for $200,000 quite believe it, actually,” Seabrook told ANZ capped with a record late-session or more on day one, headlined by a $525,000 Bloodstock News. $700,000T Savabeel (Zabeel) colt and five other Sacred Falls (O’Reilly) colt, the bidding “Up until last week we were apprehensive, lots breaking the $300,000 mark yesterday, competition remained strong on day two in but we started to get cautiously optimistic has given the company immense confidence which a son of Exceed And Excel (Danehill) when we started to get all the registrations to heading into 2021. ($525,000) and a Tavistock (Montjeu) colt bid online. We were still very nervous about Andrew Seabrook, NZB’s managing ($450,000) both made big sums. how it was all going to unfold, so it exceeded all director, last night was elated with the outcome The surge in sales yesterday, which expectations. Continued on page 2>> ENTER NOW JULY 24 -29 ONLINE SALE ENTRIES CLOSE JULY 22. Featuring broodmares, yearlings and racing stock. FRICatalogue 20TH available at inglisdigital.com - WED 25TH NOVEMBER 2020 INGLIS DIGITAL (NOVEMBER LATE) SALE LIVE - VIEW HERE Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by New Zealand Bloodstock savours ‘remarkable’ Ready to Run Sale | 2 | Friday, November 20, 2020 << Continued from page 1 “We had people bidding online and if busy. I normally flick one onto they weren’t bidding online, they were bidding through their counterparts them but they were so busy I here. It was quite remarkable.” ended up bidding on horses, WE WERE STILL VERY Australian auction houses Inglis and Magic Millions had ramped which i haven’t done for ages. NERVOUS ABOUT up their digital presence significantly and encouraged greater use of “Sometimes there were four HOW IT WAS ALL online bidding at their respective yearling, breeding stock and two- bidders online and another four GOING TO UNFOLD, year-old sales. in the ring. It was quite amazing.” SO IT EXCEEDED ALL While the backend platform was already available, NZB elected to The NZB sale, according to EXPECTATIONS build its own bespoke online bidding service and the investment paid Seabrook, sold horses to buyers - ANDREW SEABROOK off at the two-year-old sale and Seabrook believes its effectiveness will who had never bought a horse boost buyer and vendor confidence at company’s Karaka Yearling Sale in out of New Zealand before. January. “I think that there is no doubt that is going to be the way of the future. I The NZB Sale, it could be argued, faced greater uncertainty than its still don’t think you can beat being on the grounds here, but I think people Australian counterparts with the international border closure and its are going to be more akin to and happier to bid remotely when they have weaker domestic market but was able to achieve the highest-priced lot to,” he said. of the three recent auctions, the second-highest average and the highest “These results definitely give us confidence at a time when the industry clearance rate. definitely needed it but there’s a bit of positivity around the moment. “It proved that you don’t actually have to be here on the ground to buy “There’s light at the end of the tunnel and the sale just adds to the and you don’t need to take the horses to the buyers,” he said. news of Avondale, Ellerslie and Counties racing clubs (merging into a “The bidding platform, combined with all the transparency and super centre) during the week and the betting turnover is flying. information now that the buyer is being blessed with from the vendors, I “The pinhookers are also going to walk away after the past couple think it is only going to get better going forward. of days with a bit of confidence, which is good heading into the yearling “Even I was bidding on horses because some of our agents were so sales.” Continued on page 4>> Updated daily, the information on each stallion includes; top performer, recent race & auction results, upcoming race entries, sire statistics, hypothetical pedigrees with Truenicks Over 36,000+ 400,000 users in sessions Over 2019 5.2m screen views Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by Cherry Tortoni back on track after Vase win | 4 | Sunday, October 25, 2020 << Continued from page 3 He finished seventh and left Payne Tortoni, Cherry Tortoni’s mother, won a Wagga maiden in 2013 shortly rueing his decision, but yesterday Cherry Tortoni firmed into $6 second before being retired. She has a yearling filly by Coolmore shuttler Churchill favourite behind Young Werther (Tavistock) ($4.50). (Galileo) and was covered by Mendelssohn (Scat Daddy) last year. "It's amazing how things can turn around, I was dirty on myself after the Sydney run but today was much better," Payne told Racing,com. Tough Dissident filly lands Fillies Classic "From a trainer's point-of-view, I didn't think he had a hard run. We'll never know but I still think he had something left in the tank. "He looked like he wanted to stargaze when he got to the front but, still, it was good to see him back winning like that." Jockey Billy Egan was able to circle the field on Cherry Tortoni to defeat Khoekhoe (Turffontein) by a short neck with Johnny Get Angry (Tavistock) seven lengths away in third. "Once we got down the side, I just gave him breathing room and let him build his momentum and swoop on them over the top," Egan said. "I know he's won a couple of races, but he's got the on-and-off ability without knowing what he is doing. "He's got a lot of learning to do. To see what he's doing now, all natural ability, is really nice." Yes Baby Yes RACING PHOTOS Troy Corstens has praised Yes Baby Yes’ (Dissident) constitution after the three-year-old filly broke through for her first stakes victory in the Moonee Valley Fillies Classic (Gr 2, 1600m) at her ninth start in a preparation that started ten months ago. Runner-up to Incredulous Dream (Press Statement) at her previous start at Caulfield on October 17, jockey Craig Williams was able to dictate the pace of the $300,000 Group 2 three-year-old fillies race. She had a margin of three and three-quarter lengths over Ecumenical (Zebedee), who ran fourth in the MRC Thousand Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m), ROAD TO THE MELBOURNE INGLIS READY 2 RACE INDUSTRY NEWS | 'PRIZE- CUP | READ THE THOUGHTS VENDOR PROFILE MONEY DISTRIBUTION VITAL with another two lengths back to Miss Inbetween (Fighting Sun). OF OTI RACING'S TERRY BLAKE RYAN FACTOR IN RISING STRENGTH OF "She's as tough as nails," trainer Corstens said. "You wouldn't believe HENDERSON - PAGE 12 - PAGE 17 AUSTRALIAN RACING' - PAGE 14 it, but she's been up since January this girl. ROAD TO THE MELBOURNE INGLIS READY 2 RACE INDUSTRY NEWS | 'PRIZE- "Raced as a two-year-old, right into her three-year-old year. Nine runs CUP | READ THE THOUGHTS VENDOR PROFILE MONEY DISTRIBUTION VITAL Cherry Tortoni RACING PHOTOS OF OTI RACING'S TERRY BLAKE RYAN FACTOR IN RISING STRENGTH OF HENDERSON - PAGE 12 - PAGE 17 AUSTRALIAN RACING' - PAGE 14 for this prep." Morning line favourite Young Werther, who was runner-up in the Corstens acquired a farm near Benalla and he credited the property Super Impose Stakes (Listed, 1800m), was scratched from the Vase by for being able to keep Yes Baby Yes in work for so long. Tuesday, October 6,Tuesday, 2020 October | Dedicated 6, 2020 | Dedicated to the to Australasian the Australasianbloodstock industry - subscribe bloodstockfor free: Click here industry - subscribe for free: Click here STALLION WATCH - PAGE 19 YESTERDAY'S RACE RESULTS - PAGE 28 trainer Danny O’Brien after the track was downgraded to a Soft 7 earlier in "She goes (to the farm) on a Monday morning and she'll go out in the Nature Strip named STALLION WATCH - PAGE 19 Read Tomorrow's Issue For: YESTERDAY'S RACE RESULTS - PAGE 28 the day. The Derby remains on the agenda. paddock for three or four days - she still works while she's up there," said Australian Racehorse Steve Moran What's on Keeping in mind what Payne considers as an error of judgment by Corstens who trains in partnership with his father Leon.