14TH EDITION /OCTOBER 2014 GAI’S GAZETTE Hampton Court and Duccio Quinella the Dulcify Cover photo: Need for Steed Aus GAI’S GAZETTE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF he Spring Carnival has begun with all its anticipations and excitement. Edition 14 is Lea Stracey full of information about Gai’s charges and their goals in the coming months. T“And now for something completely different.” (To CONTRIBUTORS coin a well-worn Monty Python phrase.) I have been Gai Waterhouse absent from Sydney but racing was never far from Rob Waterhouse my thoughts. I have, in fact been part of the Sydney Zeb Armstrong University Archaeological Institute in the Athens Lea Stracey archaeological dig at the ancient site of Zagora which Madison Whant is a promontory on the Cycladic Greek Island of An- Emma Pearce dros. Three weeks ago on the other side of the world, Petrea Vela in a quaint tavern in Batsi in Andros I met a young man from Sydney who was also a Joe Callan volunteer on this dig. Imagine my surprise when he enthusiastically told me that that James Harron morning his mare had dropped a Casino Prince colt. It doesn’t matter where you are in Adrian Bott the world there’s always a connection. The young man was there for the whole three months, but our exposure was one GRAPHIC DESIGN & laYOUT week of a fascinating insight into the archaeologist’s world. On this site, the Meltemi winds had already started and they were violent enough to break the mast of a sailing Madison Whant yacht that was seeking refuge in the bay below us. I found life on the dig grueling with [email protected] this impediment as, because we were digging and the winds were fierce, there was not an orifice of my body that wasn’t filled with dust. The days comprised of an early breakfast at 5.30am, a forty minute drive on hairpin bends, and a one hour hike to the CHIEf photogrAPHER site. Work started at 7am and with two short breaks for lunch and tea, completed at 2:30pm, whereupon we dragged our weary bones up the hill (which took much longer) Bradley Photographers and collapsed into the shower before dinner. My job on the dig was to expose an www.bradleyphotos.com.au external wall of what appeared to be a factory of sorts. There were ten trenches full of enthusiastic second and third year students of archaeology and volunteers like us, each Editorial PhotogrAPHER with a leader. I much preferred my time in the bowels of the museum of Andros where I washed the mud of two and a half thousand years off the finds from the trenches. This Amanda Wood was also back-breaking work as we were doubled over buckets and weren’t allowed to Need for Steed Aus scrub but only soak and gently wipe the finds in one direction. The advantage was no www.needforsteed.com.au wind, cappuccinos and a regular loo with a door as opposed to a limed long-drop with Aegean views. So what connection is there between Ancient Greece and horse racing? The Ancient ADVertisers Greeks of course loved horse and chariot racing. They raced in a hippodrome which lit- Trivette Aston Martin erally means road (dromos) of the horse (hippo), or racetrack. In my travels, specifically Ranvet in the Museum on Delos, I saw several horse statues with bareback riders using bridles Ambassador Travel and the classical horse image was of a conformation that was strong and majestic. Victoria Racing Club Horse racing was introduced to Greece by an Englishman called William Reese in New Zealand Bloodstock 1927 and a race course was built on the outskirts of Athens with Acropolis views. By Magic Millions the 1960s racing had slipped into a decline in Greece and it wasn’t until the Athens Coolmore Olympics that the Greek government was convinced to include a race course as part of Bradley Photographers the horse facilities, due to the Olympic Equestrian events. Since then, racing is gaining Round Table Racing a higher profile but it has a long way to go. At this stage, only Greek-bred horses can race in Greece, but with the interests in racing on the world stage by famous wealthy ADVertising MaNAGER Greek families such as Niarchos, Goulandris and Marinopoulos, there is hope that rules will be changed to entice ownership back home. The new race course is fantastic and is Ric Chapman of the standard of Dubai’s original Nad Al Sheba, being built by the same contractors. [email protected] It is also interesting to note that Greek racing has a Tote monopoly. Greece has 500 betting shops which generate 2.6 million euros on race days, three times a week. PRINTERS Greece may yet be embraced by European racing and it may be sooner rather than later. Perhaps when this happens, we may one day see a Greek-bred horse join the European Graphic Impressions invasion in Melbourne come the first Tuesday in November. Yassas (good health to you all). Lea Editor-in-Chief 4 www.gaiwaterhouse.com.au Contents 2013 Yearbook of Chinese in Australia Page 18 Bruce and Angelo Konstantatos Page 9 Page 6 Performance of the month: Hampton Court... by Zeb Armstrong Pages 8-9 From the Pen of the Lady Trainer Page 10 It’s About the Journey... by Bruce Slade Pages 12-13 The Sydney Spring Means One Thing... by Zeb Armstrong Pages 14-15 The Path from Europe to Tulloch Lodge is a well-trodden One... by James Harron Pages 16-17 European Stayers to Dominate on Aussie Turf... by Bruce Slade Pages 18-21 “We All Floated as One”... Interview by Zeb Armstrong Pages 22-23 Corporate Bookmakers Debate... by Rob Waterhouse Pages 26-27 Veteran Jockey Neil Paine - Behind the Scenes at Trackwork... Interview by Zeb Armstrong Pages 28-29 Spring in Full Swing Across the Gai and Bloodstock Manager, Adrian Bott Tasman... by Petrea Vela Page 16 Pages 30-35 The Best of the Best... by Zeb Armstrong Page 37 Never a Dull Moment with the Lady Trainer... by Joe Callan Page 38 A Morning at the Track with Gai... from the 2014 Darley Flying Start Trainees Page 39 Bucket List - Come and Join Me... an invitation from Mark Newnham Page 40 And from you... Page 41 Track Snaps... by Need for Steed Aus Pages 42-43 Recent Winners Pages 44-45 A Promising Performance... by Emma 2YO Trials // Vancouver Pearce Page 8 www.gaiwaterhouse.com.au 5 Hampton Court winning his first Stakes race Photos by Lisa Grimm by Photos Gai and international jockey Joao Moreira Hampton Court Performance of the Month By Zeb Armstrong ampton Court has simply been but with the talented Duccio out in front toria, and, as above-mentioned, by the time looking for more ground in his bowling along, it was never going to be a you read this, with a bit of luck Hampton races and by the time you have walk in the park. Early in the straight, Duc- Court would have run really well in future read this dear readers, the colt cio was off and gone and Hampton Court Group 1 endeavours. Hampton Court is a Hwould have hopefully run really well in the seemingly looked under pressure. But with progressive colt in the truest sense. He has 2000m Spring Champion Stakes. On Epsom a couple of brisk swishes with the whip, developed rapidly after winning as a two- Saturday the colt, by 2013 / 2014 champion Joao got the colt’s mind back on the job year-old last season and he is getting better Australian sire Redoute’s Choice, overcame and once the gap appeared Hampton Court and better with age. a very talented stablemate, and a little bit of It is interesting that the colt’s third dam a troublesome run, to win the Dulcify going “This stamina, together also appears on the dam’s side of Makybe away by just under a length. This win was with the brilliance that Diva’s pedigree chart. He is of course by more than brilliant enough to allow Hamp- the super sire Redoute’s Choice, but he does ton Court to be awarded the October 2014 Redoute’s Choice brings have plenty of stamina through his pedigree Performance of the Month title. to the pedigree, will chart on his dam’s side. This stamina, Dulcify, for whom this great race is together with the brilliance that Redoute’s named after, was a brilliant horse. After allow this colt to rise to Choice brings to the pedigree, will allow starting at 300-1 in a lowly maiden in Group 1 level...” this colt to rise to Group 1 level over the Adelaide at his first start (he won), the hall 2000m and he will run with distinction. of fame horse went on to win plenty of pounced. Hampton Court was the race fa- Stay tuned! great races including the Cox Plate by an vourite, while Duccio was the outsider and Congratulations to all the owners of this equal record margin. He more than deserves the bookies hope, despite the stable feeling colt. He is now a Stakes winner and he is a race named after him, and it’s a real thrill he had more than a fair chance in the race. getting better and better. Well done also to for everyone at the stable that the horse It took a brilliant finishing burst to pick up Joao. Joao lobbed into Australia and quick- won the race.