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FOCUS ASIA SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE DIRECT TO YOUR INBOX EVERY WEEK ANZBLOODSTOCKNEWS.COM/ASIA Wednesday, June 2, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here SALES RESULTS BY SIRE - PAGE 21 WALLER TO TRAIN FINAL REDOUTE’S CHOICE THROUGH RING - PAGE 9 Buyers hold upper hand after Read Tomorrow's Issue For It's In The Blood day one of ‘polarising’ Magic What's on Metropolitan meetings: Warwick Farm Millions National Yearling Sale (NSW), Sandown Hillside (VIC), Doomben Clearance rate cops a hit at end-of-the-line sale as market (QLD), Belmont (WA) struggles to find happy medium Race meetings: Gawler (SA), Cambridge (NZ) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Sale (VIC), Mornington (VIC), Hamilton (VIC), St Arnaud (VIC) International meetings: Happy Valley (HK), Greyville (SAF), Nottingham (UK), Ayr (UK), Kempton (UK), Ripon (UK), Curragh (IRE) International Group races: Curragh (IRE) - Ballyogan Stakes (Gr 3, 6f) Sales: Magic Millions National Yearling Sale International sales: Tattersalls Ireland Goresbridge Breeze Up Sale (UK) Lot 1619: Snitzel ex Walk With Attitude colt MAGIC MILLIONS sales, buyers took the upper hand yesterday, BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS leading to a depressed clearance rate which agic Millions will attempt to hovered around the 50 per cent mark for most MORNING BRIEFING cultivate a happy medium of the six hours of trade which saw seven select between buyers and sellers sale yearlings make $200,000 or more. Great Southern Sale after a “far from satisfactory” A Snitzel (Redoute’s Choice) colt was the pushed back Mstart to the Magic Millions National Yearling most expensive yearling at $500,000 while a Inglis has delayed the Great Southern Sale as purchasers appeared unwilling to son of I Am Invincible (Invincible Spirit) sold Sale by three weeks with the threat of compromise on quality despite apparent for $320,000 and a Dundeel (High Chaparral) Covid-19 restrictions severely impacting the unprecedented demand for racing stock. colt and an Extreme Choice (Not A Single Melbourne weanling and broodmare auction After months of vendors holding court at Doubt) filly made $220,000 each on the if it was to be held as scheduled on Sunday the Australian yearling and breeding stock opening day. Continued on page 2>> week. Morning Briefing page 14 >> TUE 1ST- THU 3RD JUN 2021 MAGIC MILLIONS NATIONAL YEARLING SALE SALE LIVE VIEW HERE Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Buyers hold upper hand after day one of ‘polarising’ Magic Millions National Yearling Sale | 2 | Wednesday, June 2, 2021 << Continued from page 1 Magic Millions managing director (up 25 per cent year on year). The clearance rate had improved to 57 per Barry Bowditch cut to the chase last night when assessing the session. cent by the close of business with the expectation more sales will be made “I think it’s an extremely polarising market and the clearance rate today. is far from satisfactory and over the next 24 hours we’ll be working very Bowditch understood the reasons why many buyers, even in the hard to increase the clearance rate to a satisfactory level,” Bowditch absence of a number of Victorian participants, were not prepared to said. exceed their budgets to purchase horses. “Buyers, agents, trainers and owners out there need to be paying “I think they’re being selective. They are at an end-of-the-line yearling attention to this sale. They need to be doing their research overnight sale,” he said. leading into (today and tomorrow) because there’s so much opportunity They don’t need a lot of horses, so they are pinning their ears back on out there. the ones they really like. WE HAD A LOT OF “On the other side of the “I think quality lots were still sought after today and that was evident INSIDER KNOWLEDGE coin, I think vendors need to whether it be Guy Mulcaster and Chris Waller or Suman Hedge, they’ve ABOUT THIS HORSE. set their reserves low and give got an eye for detail and they’re finding those horses here and making the market an opportunity sure they secure them.” SCOTT (HOLCOMBE to gain some confidence and FROM MILBURN CREEK) obviously give themselves Third time lucky for Milburn’s $500,000 HAS BEEN TELLING ME an opportunity to sell these Snitzel colt ABOUT THIS HORSE horses.” The session-topping colt changed hands in the dying moments of the FOR A VERY LONG TIME Last night, 111 yearlings day with Victorian agent Suman Hedge going hard for a son of Snitzel, ABOUT HOW MUCH HE had been sold for a total of a colt offered by John Muir’s Milburn Creek, after twice having to be LOVED HIM $7,091,500 at an average of withdrawn from earlier yearling sales. - SUMAN HEDGE $63,887 (up 19 percent year on Hedge had to go to $500,000 to land the colt after strong competition year) and a median of $45,000 from an online bidder. Continued on page 4>> Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by THE AGA KHAN STUDS Success Breeds Success THE EUROPEAN SIRE SENSATION SIYOUNI 5 46 93 Classic Stakes Stakes Winners Winners Performers including Champion 2YO ST MARK’S BASILICA and Arc winner SOTTSASS. Available to Southern Hemisphere time in 2021 Third time lucky for Milburn’s $500,000 Snitzel colt | 4 | Wednesday, June 2, 2021 << Continued from page 2 “We had a lot of insider knowledge Hedge moves on Extreme Choice about this horse. Scott (Holcombe from Milburn Creek) has been telling collector’s item me about this horse for a very long time about how much he loved him,” Earlier, an endorsement from trainer Mick Price was enough for Hedge said. Hedge to buy an Extreme Choice filly, who will now head to Victoria to “They were devastated that they couldn’t get him through the sales the stable who prepared the exciting sire whose yearlings are a “limited earlier in the year, which was really bad luck that he didn’t come through. edition”. “Had he gone through earlier he would have made significantly more, Hedge, on the Gold Coast but bidding via the phone through Magic so armed with all that knowledge and seeing his pedigree, we thought he Millions consultant Ben Culham, went to $220,000 on behalf of a client was clearly the standout horse here, comfortably.” to purchase the Bowness Stud-consigned filly and he confessed to having The colt, who had to be withdrawn from both the Magic Millions Gold more money for her if required. Coast and Inglis Australian Easter Yearling sales owing to niggling issues, Price and his training partner Mick Kent Jr also signed on for the filly. is the fifth foal out of stakes winner Walk With Attitude (Hussonet) who is “We thought she was very reminiscent of the sire. Mick Price, who is going already the dam of the stakes-placed two-year-old winner Spend (Snitzel), to train her, trained Extreme Choice and when we saw her we asked him what himself a $1.55 million Easter graduate. He was catalogued as Lot 1619. he thought and he said, ‘she’s all Extreme Choice’, so we think she’s an ideal Hedge would not disclose the ownership group behind the high- type to get broken in and she will be nice and early,” Hedge said. priced purchase while a trainer has not been decided. “The stallion is doing such a good job - his numbers are through the “We had him vetted and our vets were really happy with him and roof - so when we were trying to value her we just thought, ‘how would we’ve got a pretty strict criteria. With our pinhooking and yearlings, we you value an I Am Invincible, a Snitzel or a Zoustar?’ because we value are very, very conservative by nature and they were all very happy with Extreme Choice in the same way. him,” he said. “In that context, we were quite comfortable with where we were (price wise).” “He presented very well. He’s a lovely moving horse, he’s strong, he’s Catalogued as Lot 1553, the filly is the first foal out of four-time winner active. He paraded as well today as he did on the first day, so they are all She Brings Hope (Sebring) who was trained by Peter Moody and then the signs of a good horse.” David Brideoake. Continued on page 6>> IT PAYS TO RACE QUEENSLAND BRED Over $12 million as a matter of fact With over $10M+ in QTIS prizemoney bonuses across all of Queensland all year, $2M Jewel Raceday and the $1M QTIS Open on Gold Coast Magic Millions Day, there’s never been a more rewarding time for owners to ‘Breed Queensland, Race Queensland’. Also, QTIS registered winners of all Black Type and selected Feature races now take home an additional QTISx bonus. Visit racingqueensland.com.au/QTIS or call Vicki Ace on 07 3869 9709 Follow us @anz_news | 4 | Brought to you by Winner of the G1 Blue Diamond beating Hanseatic, Personal & Away Game “He’s a top-class colt this one!” Lord Kanaloa - Vasilissa Michael Walker, jockey $33,000 inc GST YULONG Troy Stephens 0455 316 666 Sam Fairgray 0418 427 568 Luke Wilkinson 0413 489 736 www.yulonginvest.com.au Hedge moves on Extreme Choice collector’s item | 6 | Wednesday, June 2, 2021 << Continued from page 4 “We will probably put something together to race her, but the client will hopefully breed from her later on,” Hedge said. “We see that any progeny from this sire is a bit of a collector’s edition because there’s only going to be so many available by him, so when we saw a filly by him that we liked physically we wanted to try and get hold of her.