Peters' Queen Makes $2.5 Million at Chairman's Sale As Coolmore
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RACING NEWS - PAGE 23 DANERICH AND TRAINER BID FOR FIRST GROUP 1 Saturday, May 8, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here SATURDAY SPOTLIGHT | LIQUEURO - PAGE 18 INGLIS CHAIRMAN'S SALE STATISTICS - PAGE 14 Peters’ Queen makes $2.5 million What's on at Chairman’s Sale as Coolmore Stakes races: Morphettville (SA) - South Australian Derby (Gr 1, 2500m), SA Sires’ backs Wootton Bassett Produce Stakes (Gr 3, 1400m), Adelaide In Her Time also makes $2.2 million in stunning three hours of Guineas (Listed, 1600m). Gold Coast (QLD) high-end mare trade - Hollindale Stakes (Gr 2, 1800m), Gold Coast Guineas (Gr 3, 1200m), Ken Russell Memorial Handicap (Gr 3, 1200m), Gold Coast Bracelet (Listed, 1800m), Silk Stocking (Listed, 1400m), Hot Tomato Goldmarket (Listed, 1200m). Gosford (NSW) - Gosford Gold Cup (Listed, 2100m), Takeover Target Stakes (Listed, 1200m). Te Rapa (NZ) - Waikato Equine Veterinary Centre 2YO Stakes (Listed, 1100m). Riccarton (NZ) - Great Easter Stakes (Listed, 1400m), Champagne Stakes (Listed, 1200m) International Group races: Chukyo (JPN) - Kyoto Shimbun Hai (Gr 2, 2200m). Lingfield (UK) - Chartwell Fillies' Stakes (Gr 3, 7f). Naas (IRE) - Blue Wind Stakes (Gr 3, 1m 2f). Belmont (US) - Man o' War Stakes (Gr 1, Lot 11 Celebrity Queen INGLIS 11f), Beaugay Stakes (Gr 3, 8.5f), Peter Pan with Group 1 winners Celebrity Queen Stakes (Gr 3, 9f), Runhappy Stakes (Gr 3, 6f), BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS (Redoute’s Choice) ($2.5 million), El Dorado Vagrancy Handicap (Gr 3, 6.5f). Santa Anita oolmore has continued its Dreaming (Ilovethiscity) ($1.35 million) (US) - Santa Barbara Stakes (Gr 3, 12f) extraordinary spending spree and Savanna Amour (Love Conquers All) Sales: Inglis Digital May (Early) Sale with a view of mirroring a strategy ($1.25 million), who is in foal to Fastnet Rock employed to support unbeaten (Danehill), all destined for the stallion in the CUS Triple Crown champion Justify (Scat Daddy) new season. on another high-profile shuttler, European star In Her Time (Time Thief), one of the sire Wootton Bassett (Iffraaj). other star attractions at the select Chairman’s Tom Magnier, the principal of Coolmore’s sale, sold to Yulong for $2.2 million and Australian arm, signed for three of the seven another high-class sprinter, Pippie (Written million-dollar mares sold at yesterday’s Inglis Tycoon), was bought by Cressfield Stud for Chairman’s Sale, billed as a night of nights, $1.8 million. Continued on page 2>> FRI 7TH - WED 12TH MAY 2021 INGLIS DIGITAL MAY (EARLY) SALE SALE LIVE CLICK HERE Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Peters’ Queen makes $2.5 million at Chairman’s Sale Saturday, May 8, 2021 << Continued from page 1 Widden Stud went to $1.2 million for Meuse (Snitzel), who is in foal to Dundeel (High Chaparral), while Ridgmont Farm, Boutique Thoroughbreds and agent Jim Clarke secured Group 3 winner Shoko (Sebring), who is in foal to I Am Invincible (Invincible) for $1 million during what was an extraordinary three hours of trade at Riverside Stables. Magnier last night reiterated Coolmore’s belief that the Australian BEST OF thoroughbred industry will arguably remain the envy of world racing. “Where we see the Australian market, we feel it is extraordinary at the moment, you see what is happening at the yearling sales and we are trying to bring the best stallions in the world down here, with Justify, American LUCK Pharoah, etc,” Magnier said. To the Magic Millions graduates running “We've gone along and acquired Wootton Bassett, and we think he is a in today’s feature races stallion that is really going to suit Australia. MORPHETTVILLE (SAJC) Apple Tart ..................... Segenhoe Stud “We are taking the same approach we did to Justify. We're going to go Dovetail Diva ....................Baramul Stud out and buy the best mares for him.” SOUTH AUSTRALIAN DERBY GR1 GOLD COAST GUINEAS GR3 Royal Mile.......Wellington Park North A winner of the Oakleigh Plate (Gr 1, 1100m) in February, Celebrity Amish Boy ........................... Widden Stud Liqueuro ....................Willow Grove Stud Master Red .....................Bowness Stud Queen was offered as a breeding prospect only by owner Bob Peters Azaly ..................................Arrowfield Stud The Actuary ...................... Widden Stud through the Holbrook Thoroughbreds draft. Abreed .......................Western Breeders Celebrity Queen was also a Group 3 winner and a Winterbottom Alliance GOOD LUCK TO OUR Token Spirit...............................Gilgai Farm NATIONAL SALE BOUND Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) placegetter in a 14-race career that yielded seven STAKES RUNNERS SA SIRES’ PRODUCE STKS GR3 wins and over $825,000 in prize-money. Three Kings........................ Widden Stud GOLD COAST (GCTC) The rising five-year-old mare is a daughter of Peters’ Listed winner Knightstown .............Summerset Park AD HOLLINDALE STKS GR2 Celebrity Miss (More Than Ready), herself a sister to stakes-placed Stud Melody Belle ..........Blue Sky Premium Rafferty, a three-quarter sister to stakes winner Dreamaway and a half- Biscayne Bay................... Widden Stud Consignment Forever And A Day ...Coolmore Stud sister to Karrakatta Plate (Gr 2, 1200m) winner Confront (Bluebird). KEN RUSSELL MEMORIAL Princess Raffles ..............Cornerstone CLASSIC GR3 Further back in the family, cultivated by leading Western Australian Stud Angel Like ................Blue Sky Premium breeder Peters over many years, is Group 1 winner Miss Margaret GOLD COAST (GCTC) Consignment (Marscay) and this season’s Listed winner Stageman (Written Tycoon). SILK STOCKING LR AD HOLLINDALE STKS GR2 Her first four dams were all successful at stakes level. Sofie’s Gold Class ...................Bahrinna The Candy Man........Lyndhurst Stud Goldifox .........Newgate Consignment Farm Celebrity Queen’s price tag exceeded Peters’ expectations, who valued Purroni..................Yarraman Park Stud his mare at $2 million and he believes it is money well spent. KEN RUSSELL MEMORIAL CLASSIC GR3 GOSFORD (GRC) “You could just about say that if you were writing the history of Baby Wong........................Baramul Stud GOSFORD GOLD CUP LR breeding in Australia, you could use her as a prime example - you look Ranch Hand .................Turangga Farm Polly Grey .........................Oxford T’breds at her page and there’s her sire Redoute’s Choice, which also gives you Debussy ............................Twin Hills Stud Aliferous ..............Yarraman Park Stud Danehill, there’s Sir Tristram, Marscay, More Than Ready, etc, all of them Le Force .............................Coolmore Stud London Bell ...............Willow Park Stud RICCARTON (NZ) champions, just as she was,” Peters said from Perth. Rhapsody Rose ..........Bhima T’breds GREAT EASTER STKS LR “There’s a Group 1 winner on every level of the pedigree. It’s just Invisible Tears ............Arrowfield Stud Pullyoursocksup ...........Attunga Stud outstanding and it’s a great result. “Inglis has done a great job with the promotion of her which I’m grateful for and, while I’m not at the sale, I’m aware it’s a great night there tonight.” Bidding on the most expensive of Coolmore’s haul, the sale-topping Celebrity Queen, opened at $800,000 before pushing through the million- dollar mark and, in typical Magnier fashion, did not make his move before required. Celebrity Queen was soon in Coolmore’s possession with the $2.5 million price tag, the highest-priced mare sold through the Inglis Chairman’s Sale. “She was a quality mare who is a lovely physical. Obviously, Redoute's Choice is a very good broodmare sire,” said Magnier. Cont.on page 4>> www.magicmillions.com.au Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by “A dream come true. He’s Australia’s greatest colt. We are all shaking. That’s what FARNAN does to you!” Gai Waterhouse FARNAN Not A Single Doubt x Tallow (Street Cry) | $55,000 (inc. GST) NEW TO KIA ORA IN 2021 kiaorastudscone.com.au | Shane Wright 0401 406 120 | Michael Kirwan 0411 171 069 Peters’ Queen makes $2.5 million at Chairman’s Sale | 4 | Saturday, May 8, 2021 << Continued from page 2 “We are looking for mares for Wootton In Her Time to be covered by Written Tycoon Bassett now and she's a standout. We thought she was a queen. We are just very lucky to have her. “Bob Peters is an unbelievable breeder, and anything that he is associated with is always of a very high calibre and we were just delighted to get her.” El Dorado Dreaming was sold by Torryburn Stud for her owner Yvonne Pearce, who raced the ATC Sires’ Produce Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) winner ,while B2B Thoroughbreds’ Ricky Surace parted with Savanna Amour for the seven-figure sum. In recent years, Coolmore has acquired the likes of Sunlight (Zoustar) ($4.2 million), Global Glamour (Star Witness) ($1.55 million), Maastricht Lot 27 In Her Time INGLIS (Mastercraftsman) ($2.25 million) and Srikandi (Dubawi) ($2 million), all elite mares, to back their young sire Justify, whose first southern Yulong Stud’s Yuesheng Zhang recently orchestrated the stunning hemisphere-bred weanlings hit the market at Riverside Stables on deal to stand Written Tycoon (Iglesia) at his operation and the Victorian Thursday, selling to $300,000. farm added to the Chinese businessman’s extensive elite broodmare band Maastricht was the previous highest-priced mare sold at a Chairman’s Sale. by buying In Her Time for the $2.2 million figure, 12 months after narrowly Wootton Bassett, who was purchased by Coolmore in a sensational missing out on the mare. play last year, will stand his first southern hemisphere season at $71,500 She was bought with the intention of sending her to Written Tycoon after transferring from France to Ireland in time for the 2021 northern “Mr Zhang, obviously having Written Tycoon, wants to continue the hemisphere breeding season where he stands for €100,000. process of buying these really nice mares to add to our broodmare band Coolmore has already reported that the “house full” sign has been and he’s always loved In Her Time,” Yulong’s chief operating officer Sam placed on the stallion’s southern hemisphere book.