It's in the Blood - Trevor Marshallsea Column | 15 | Thursday, July 15, 2021
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IT’S IN THE BLOOD Thursday, July 15, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here FIRST FOR BOBBY'S KITTEN - PAGE 6 SHAMARDAL FILLY IMPRESSES - PAGE 6 Funstar snapped up by Read Tomorrow's Issue For Northern Farm for $2.7 million Maiden of the Week Group 1-winning mare to head to Japan after extraordinary What's on Inglis Digital auction Race meetings: Gosford (NSW), Moree (NSW), Bendigo (VIC), Ipswich (QLD), Northam (WA), Wanganui (NZ) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Moree (NSW), Caulfield (VIC), Cranbourne (VIC) International meetings: Chepstow (UK), Epsom (UK), Hamilton (UK), Leicester (UK), Leopardstown (IRE) International Group races: Leopardstown (IRE) - Meld Stakes (Gr 3, 1m1f). Saratoga (USA) - Quick Call Stakes (Gr 3, 5.5f), Schuylerville Stakes (Gr 3, 6f) Funstar winning the Flight Stakes at Randwick SPORTPIX SALES NEWS See’s Lonhro vision BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS Sale catalogue was released, a $1 million bid pays off in Japan unstar (Adelaide) will head to Japan saw the former Chris Waller-trained rising five- Singapore owner and breeder Jayven See and join her high-class sibling year-old mare put on the market. compares his hobby of breeding mares to Youngstar (High Chaparral) after the Bidding stalled for the following four days Australian stallions to northern hemisphere time Group 1-winning mare was bought before a flurry of action yesterday saw her price and exporting them to Japan as the reverse Fby powerful breeder Katsumi Yoshida’s Northern rise to $1.4 million with 30 minutes remaining business model to that of Arrowfield Stud Farm through Inglis Digital for $2.7 million, a until the final countdown started. supremo John Messara. On Tuesday, See and new world record for an online thoroughbred Then the drama, one for the true his partners in the Japanese mare venture sale and the second highest price for a bloodstock sale junkies, saw a drawn out reaped a big reward when a colt by champion broodmare in the southern hemisphere this year. bidding war involving numerous parties Australian Darley stallion Lonhro (Octagonal) After optimistic buyers showed their hand which lasted nearly one and three-quarter fetched ¥42 million (AU$507,438) at the JHRA last Friday, minutes after the July (Early) Online hours. Continued on page 2>> Select Foal Sale. Continued on page 13 >> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Funstar snapped up by Northern Farm for $2.7 million | 2 | Thursday, July 15, 2021 << Continued from page 1 The major players - there were three “There is something particularly appealing about her physically and still active at $2.1 million and above - clashed via a click of the mouse as with her general demeanour, but for her to make $2.7 million and to be the one combatant was quick to press the button while others bided their time most expensive mare sold ‘under the hammer’ this year is extraordinary. before making their next move in $25,000 increments. “Obviously we’ve had some fantastic mares sold this year but it’s Eventually, though, it was Yoshida who won out, ensuring Funstar almost incomprehensible that she could make $2.7 million.” would be reunited with her half-sister and former stablemate Youngstar Funstar was sold by her ownership group which included Olly (High Chaparral) at Northern Farm. Koolman, his father Anton, Arthur and Charlotte Inglis and her breeder “I am so thrilled that we were able to purchase a beautiful mare,” Jack Sheather after the rising five-year-old’s racing career was brought to Yoshida said. a halt after she finished well back in the Dane Ripper Stakes (Gr 2, 1300m) “We have her sister Youngstar and also have mares related to the at Eagle Farm on June 12. granddam, User Friendly. She retired as the winner of five of her 18 starts and $1.14 million “We are looking forward to seeing their progenies winning in Japan.” in prize-money with her stakes record boosted by wins in the Tea Rose Yoshida paid $1.4 million for Youngstar at the 2020 Chairman’s Sale and he Stakes (Gr 2, 1400m), Flight Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m) and the Phar Lap Stakes has also invested heavily in other well-performed Australian mares in recent (Gr 2, 1500m) at three. She also won both her public appearances as a late years, most notably in Golden Slipper Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) winner She Will season two-year-old. Reign (Manhattan Rain), dual Group 1 winner Yankee Rose (All American) Koolman, who went to $80,000 at the 2018 Inglis Australian Easter and Thousand Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) winner Amphitrite (Sebring). Yearling Sale to buy Funstar, last night revealed that connections had At this week’s JRHA Select Weanling Sale Yoshida’s Northern Farm rejected a $2.5 million offer for her as a three-year-old at the height of her sold a Lord Kanaloa (King Kamehameha) colt out of Yankee Rose for ¥370 racing career and the sudden end less than three months out from the million (AU$4,485,936) and a yearling colt by Heart’s Cry (Sunday Silence) start of the breeding season had left the syndicate in a quandary with what out of She Will Reign at the JRHA Select Yearling Sale for ¥165 million to do with her. (AU$2.004 million). “We announced a reserve of $1 million and as soon as the sale Inglis general manager of opened a million-dollar bid came in straight away, so the mare was ‘sold’,” bloodstock sales and marketing Koolman said. ARTHUR AND I Sebastian Hutch was “stoked” “I was surprised to see it climb so early this morning and I really have WERE WATCHING IT with how Funstar, whose pedigree been blown away. TOGETHER AND WE has been enhanced over the past “What I would like to make known, the big sales (Inglis Chairman’s THOUGHT THEY WERE two seasons through the deeds and Magic Millions) had passed when she had been retired and we made AT OVERTIME FOR A of close relation and three-time a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. LONG TIME. IF IT WAS A Group 1 winner Tofane (Ocean “There is no way she would have earned any more at a live auction. FOOTBALL MATCH YOU Park), was received by the global From what we understand and the attention that was paid to her, and the WERE WATCHING, THEY online marketplace. inspections that we had through the week, it was an absolute credit to the WOULD HAVE BEEN “I have seen the mare a crew at Inglis’ to be able to attract a buying bench like they did.” number of times at the races The selling of Funstar yesterday continued an incredible Australian OUT ON THEIR FEET and a couple of times in the past sales season, in which demand for elite-level bloodstock across all sectors - OLLY KOOLMAN fortnight. I genuinely think she’s a from weanlings, yearlings, race fillies and broodmares almost had no beautiful mare,” Hutch said. ceiling. Continued on page 4>> THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY Help us tell the world... We're looking for our next Marketing & Communications Manager at Aushorse & TBA CLICK FOR MORE INFORMATION Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by PRECOCIOUS ENOUGH TO WIN THE PAGO PAGO & CANONBURY, RACES WON BY GROUP 1 SIRES: NOT A SINGLE DOUBT HINCHINBROOK ALL TOO HARD SEBRING STRATUM Funstar snapped up by Northern Farm for $2.7 million | 4 | Thursday, July 15, 2021 << Continued from page 2 Group 1 winners Celebrity Queen (Redoute’s Choice) and In Her Time (Time Thief) sold for $2.5 million and $2.2 million respectively in May at the Chairman’s Sale and, weeks later, Arcadia Queen (Pierro) fetched $3.2 million, after initially being passed in, while Melody Belle (Commands) ($2.6 million), Mizzy (Zoustar) ($2.2 million) and Qafila (Not A Single Doubt) ($2 million) all reached the $2 million mark at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale on the Gold Coast. Naturally, Funstar became the most expensive thoroughbred sold through an online auction, smashing the mark set last October by New Zealand Bloodstock’s Gavelhouse when Spanish Whisper (Lope De Vega), a Group 2 winner in both Australia and New Zealand, made NZ$1,202,500. Funstar is one of six winners out of European-bred mare Starspangled (Danehill) who is also the dam of the stakes-placed Eleven Seconds (Encosta De Lago) and Baggy Green (Galileo), herself the dam of the Mike Maximak RACING PHOTOS Moroney-trained Tofane, the winner of the Stradbroke Handicap (Gr 1, 1400m) and Tattersall's Tiara (Gr 1, 1400m) in Brisbane last month. “We really, really liked this mare and that’s why we were so strong in Hutch says the Japanese stallion ranks will have plenty to offer Funstar the bidding. when she arrives later this year. “She’s been bought for a client of mine that has supported me from “Northern Farm is a phenomenal breeding operation; the strength of the start, we haven’t decided yet if we race her on but, stallion-wise, she the stallion crop up there is really incredible,” he said. will be visiting Dundeel if we opt to retire her. Maximak has a two-year- “For so long, Japan has been so synonymous with one stallion up old half-sister by Dundeel that sold for $320,000 at Inglis Easter, so we there in Deep Impact but I believe the figures that they had 16 stallions hope that filly comes out and is a star and this mare’s offspring is an Easter with progeny who realised the equivalent of a million dollars or more graduate in years to come.