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Saturday, September 12, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here DRAMA IN DEAUVILLE AS EMERGING FORCES LAND €2.5 MILLION SIBLING TO SOTTSASS - PAGE 11 Hall reflects on What's on Stakes races: Flemington (VIC) - Makybe Diva Makybe Diva as legend Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m), Bobbie Lewis Quality (Gr 2, 1200m), Danehill Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m), Let’s Elope Stakes (Gr 2, 1400m), Exford Plate (Listed, 1400m), The Sofitel (Listed, 1400m), recognised at Flemington Cap D’Antibes Stakes (Listed, 1100m). Rosehill The three-time Melbourne Cup winner’s first trainer speaks to (NSW) - The Run To The Rose (Gr 2, 1200m), Theo Marks Stakes (Gr 2, 1300m), Sheraco ANZ Bloodstock News from Hong Kong Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m), Dulcify Stakes (Listed, 1500m). Doomben (QLD) - Brisbane Handicap (Listed, 1600m). Belmont (WA) - Farnley Stakes (Listed, 1400m) Metropolitan meetings: Rosehill (NSW), Flemington (VIC), Doomben (QLD), Morphettville (SA), Belmont (WA), Darwin (NT) Race meetings: Kembla Grange (NSW), Griffith (NSW), Gunnedah (NSW), Warracknabeal (NSW), Gold Coast (QLD), Toowoomba (QLD), Carnarvon (WA), Ellerslie (NZ), Riccarton (NZ) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Armidale (NSW) International meetings: Kranji (SIN), Nakayama (JPN), Chukyo (JPN), Doncaster (UK), Chester (UK), Lingfield (UK), Musselburgh (UK), Leopardstown (IRE), Kentucky Downs (USA), Woodbine (CAN) International Group races: Nakayama (JPN) - Shion Stakes (Shuka Sho Trial) (Gr 3, 2000m). Doncaster (UK) - St Leger Stakes (Gr 1, 1m 6.5f), Champagne Stakes (Gr 2, 7f), Park Stakes (Gr 2, 7f). Leopardstown Makybe Diva SPORTPIX (IRE) - Irish Champion Stakes (Gr 1, 1m 2f), and Sydney Cup (Gr 1, 3200m) scorer Honor KPMG Champions Juvenile Stakes (Gr 2, BY ANDREW HAWKINS | @ANZ_NEWS 1m), Boomerang Mile (Gr 2, 1m). Kentucky Babe (Honor Grades). Downs (USA) - Kentucky Turf Cup (Gr 3, 12f), eventeen years ago this week, trainer Pentastic scored his first Group win that Runhappy Turf Sprint (Gr 3, 6f), Ladies Sprint David Hall departed Flemington with September day, having placed in the Victoria (Gr 3, 6.5f), Ladies Turf (Gr 3, 8f). Woodbine (CAN) - Canadian Stakes (Gr 2, 9f) the favourite for the Melbourne Cup Derby (Gr 1, 2500m), the Canterbury Guineas (Gr 1, 3200m); earlier that afternoon, (Gr 1, 1900m), the Rosehill Guineas (Gr 1, SHall’s Pentastic (Pentire) had arrived in the 2000m) and the AJC Derby as a three-year-old last stride to take out the Craiglee Stakes (Gr 2, before adding two 2000-metre Listed wins at 1600m), coming out on the top of a five-horse four. He was also second to the great Lonhro photo from Blamey Stakes (Gr 2, 1600m) winner (Octagonal) in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes Walk On Air (Eire), South Australian Derby (Gr (Gr 1, 2000m) and fifth in Media Puzzle’s 1, 2500m) hero Mummify (Jeune), AJC Derby (Theatrical) Melbourne Cup during his four- (Gr 1, 2400m) runner-up Strasbourg (Umatilla) year-old season. Continued on page 2>> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Hall reflects on Makybe Diva as legend recognised at Flemington | 2 | Saturday, September 12, 2020 << Continued from page 1 As Hall walked out of the Flemington gates that day in 2003, little could he have known that, within four years, the Craiglee Stakes would be renamed after one of his stable stars. Even more unlikely was that the name would be changed not for the 2003 Craiglee winner, but to recognise his stablemate, a mare who was at home in her box that day and who would never actually contest the 1600-metre feature throughout her long career. That mare, of course, was the Tony Santic-owned Makybe Diva (Desert BEST OF King), the three-time Melbourne Cup winner who, along with Sunline (Desert Sun), Black Caviar (Bel Esprit) and Winx (Street Cry), has been responsible for a golden era of fillies and mares down under. LUCK Pentastic would go on to run an honourable fourth in the 2003 Melbourne Cup, just pipped on the post for third. However, it was his To the Magic Millions graduates stablemate who began her run into the history books on that sunny first running in today’s feature races Tuesday in November. ROSEHILL (ATC) LET’S ELOPE STKS GR2 “We actually had three Spanish Reef ............. Patinack Farm RUN TO THE ROSE GR2 runners in that Melbourne Cup, Farnan ...........................Vinery Stud Fidelia .........................Attunga Stud WE KNEW THAT SHE Piachay - who was owned by the King’s Legacy ............Segenhoe Stud She Shao Fly .......... Ambergate Farm WAS STILL NOT REALLY Mamaragan .............. Newgate Farm same guy as Pentastic, Ray Orloff Peltzer ....................... Mill Park Stud BOBBIE LEWIS QUALITY GR2 FULLY MATURE, SHE - he finished near last I think THEO MARKS STKS GR2 The Inevitable .........Cornerstone Stud WAS PRETTY DELICATE. (20th of 23) so we had them at Tyzone .....................Kenmore Lodge Bold Star .................... Brooklyn Park Special Reward.............Taunton Vale SHE HAD WON SIX both ends! We won the race, Banquo ..................... Mill Park Stud SHERACO STKS GR2 RACES IN A ROW THE ran fourth and at the tail end as DANEHILL STKS GR2 Shout the Bar .......... Newhaven Park PREPARATION BEFORE, well,” Hall told ANZ Bloodstock Outback Barbie ..............Eureka Stud Prague ......................Bhima T’breds Invictus Salute .............Kitchwin Hills Wisdom of Water ...........Eureka Stud IT WAS ALL SORT OF News yesterday. Hard Landing .................Vinery Stud “Pentastic was probably FLEMINGTON (VRC) HEADED TOWARDS THE Extra Time .................. Armidale Stud MAKYBE DIVA STKS GR1 MELBOURNE CUP more the focus horse going into Amish Boy ...................Widden Stud Levendi ........................Widden Stud the spring, not so much after the - DAVID HALL Warning..................... Mill Park Stud Ranting ..................... Westbury Stud Caulfield Cup because everyone Quick Thinker .........Holbrook T’breds On the Lead ...................Aquis Farm started to warm to Makybe Diva when you could see she was coming on. There were two horses that I had, both of them were pretty exciting going into the spring.” Foaled at Britton House Stud in Somerset, Makybe Diva was the first foal of the twice-raced Juddmonte mare Tugela (Riverman). Tugela had been purchased by Santic’s agent John Foote at the 1998 Tattersalls December Mares Sale in 1998, in foal to Desert King (Danehill); the resulting foal, arriving March 21, 1999, was the filly who would become Makybe Diva. Offered at the 1999 Tattersalls December Foal Sale as lot 1088, there were no takers for the nine-month-old filly, something that didn’t surprise Hall either when she arrived at his stable in late 2000, having been shipped from the UK to Australia with her dam. “We knew that she was a horse that was going to need time,” he said. “She was passed in at the foal sales, nobody wanted her. She was a big, tall, weak, leggy staying-type filly and that’s how she arrived. It was no shock to see her like that, we knew she was going to take a fair bit of time being northern hemisphere-bred and the breed and the type that she was.” It was almost two years before she would debut in July, 2002 in a nondescript maiden at Benalla over 1200 metres, finishing fourth. 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Colm Santry, John Kennedy, Paddy Oman, Tom Moore, Rob Archibald or Emma Pugsley Tel: 02 6576 4200. New Zealand: Gordon Calder Tel:+64 218 41612. www.coolmore.com Hall reflects on Makybe Diva as legend recognised at Flemington | 4 | Saturday, September 12, 2020 << Continued from page 2 Wangaratta 1600-metre maiden victory to taking the Werribee Cup (Listed, 2000m) and the Queen Elizabeth Stakes (Gr 2, 2500m) and qualifying for the 2003 Melbourne Cup in the process. “Her (2003 spring) preparation was really targeted at that race,” Hall said. “We knew that she was still not really fully mature, she was pretty delicate. She had won six races in a row the preparation before, it was all sort of headed towards the Melbourne Cup. Because she’d qualified, we weren’t under pressure so we were able to cuddle her a bit. “She had all these races leading up to it where she drew the outside gate, was going out the back and was working home and she continually improved, she kept running well and she kept hitting the line. We were really looking forward to (getting her up to) the distance, because we were really confident about her staying.” Makybe Diva SPORTPIX While Pentastic was bound for the Craiglee Stakes on his way to the Cups, Makybe Diva was instead bound for the Stocks Stakes (Gr 3, 1600m) for the performance heading towards the Melbourne Cup, Pentastic weakened to mares at Moonee Valley on the Feehan Stakes (Gr 2, 1600m) undercard, finish 14th, almost eight lengths from Mummify. finishing fourth to AJC Oaks (Gr 1, 2400m) winner Sunday Joy (Sunday “I was pretty disappointed that Pentastic didn’t actually win the Silence).