Squillani Park's Kermadec Colt Tops Day One with $270,000
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Wednesday, March 11, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here SAUDI CUP WINNER JASON SERVIS AMONG 27 FACING DOPING-RELATED CHARGES IN US - PAGE 14 Squillani Park’s What's on Metropolitan meetings: Warwick Farm (NSW), Kermadec colt tops day Sandown Hillside (VIC), Doomben (QLD), Race meetings: Bordertown (SA), Matamata (NZ) one with $270,000 bid International meetings: Happy Valley (HK) Momentum picks up at Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale after Sales: Magic Millions Adelaide slow start Yearling Sale (Day 2) MORNING BRIEFING: HASAHALO OFFERED FOR SALE ON GAVELHOUSE - PAGE 11 It was at 76 per cent last night after being around 60 per cent earlier in the day. “The buyers are doing their due diligence. They are being very selective on what they walk in and bid on,” Bowditch told ANZ Bloodstock News last night. “If they meet all their criteria - be it pedigree, Lot 211 Kermadec - Bay Breeze colt MAGIC MILLIONS type, vet - they bid up and on those right horses The auction opened with a six-figure lot they were very strong, but if they were at all off the BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS while, another broke the $100,000 mark about pace, the market has become quite polarising.” aulfield trainer Clinton McDonald an hour into the sale, before heating up late With the momentum of the sale picking continued his strong yearling in the day when four were sold for the figure up, the median of $30,000 was up $2000 on sales season by landing the inside 18 lots to enter the ring, including the the same session last year, while the average of highest-priced lot on day one of most expensive yearling of the day. $39,617 was down four per cent year on year. Cthe Magic Millions Adelaide auction, going Magic Millions managing director Barry The slight decline in the average is against to $270,000 for a colt by young Darley stallion Bowditch said vendors and buyers took time to find the trend of the 2020 yearling sales and that of Kermadec (Teofilo), in a session that got off to a a happy medium on the value of stock, but once that pre-sale expectations, but Magic Millions has “very sticky start”. was achieved the clearance rate picked up. compiled a larger Book 1 catalogue in Adelaide this year, enabling buyers to be even more PAGE 16 selective. Continued on page 2>> Follow us @anz_news: click here | 1 | Brought to you by Squillani Park’s Kermadec colt tops day one with $270,000 bid | 2 | Wednesday, March 11, 2020 << Continued from page 1 The financial markets have also Emotional result for Squillani Park fluctuated wildly in recent weeks as the seriousness of the coronavirus outbreak sweeping the world becomes apparent, which comes as Hong Kong deals with political unrest. Bowditch said: “Who knows whether that is having an effect. It is hard for me to comment, but it is affecting the world, so why wouldn’t it be affecting a horse sale? “Of course, that may have a significant bearing on what is going on, but the sale, from lot 70 or 80 onwards, was quite pleasing, “Vendors were meeting the market and buyers were bidding with confidence. To have the clearance rate finish, from where it was earlier in the day, at 76 per cent was a great effort.” Agent Will Johnson, who was involved in the purchase of a $140,000 Lot 211, Terry Board, Justin Bahen and Squillani Park Tbds team MM Street Boss (Street Cry) colt yesterday, admitted that the economic downturn could have clouded the opening session. The session-topping Kermadec colt, who was bought by McDonald “The sale was strong in parts, but after a very turbulent week on the stock and Hong Kong-based Australian agent Justin Bahen, was consigned by market with uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus, this matched the South Australian farm Squillani Park Thoroughbreds. atmosphere in the air at the sale and the economy at large,” Johnson said. Offered asLot 211, the colt is a half-brother to the Listed winner Falcool “Like any sale the nicer horses were well found and vendors have to (Falvelon) and the stakes-placed I’m Cool (Falvelon). He is the eighth foal out meet the market to ensure that trade is strong, so no doubt there will be of the placed mare Bay Breeze (Belong To Me), who has the perfect record so plenty of trade on those horses that didn’t sell in the ring after hours.” far, with five foals to race for five winners. Continued on page 4>> Follow us @anz_news: click here | 2 | Brought to you by Emotional result Squillani Park | 4 | Wednesday, March 11, 2020 << Continued from page 2 He was bred by the late Terry Board, McEvoy continues Zoustar love affair the proprietor of Squillani Park, who lost his battle with cancer last November, and the first yearling the operation has sold for more than $100,000. “It’s just fantastic, it’s absolutely brilliant. It definitely exceeded our expectations and we are thrilled to bits," Squillani Park's Kerrie van Tijn said. "He spent more time out of his box than in it over the past few days. He was extremely popular and he sold himself. He's a nice colt. He is impressive to look at, from a good family, so there wasn't a lot not to like about him." Bahen was given the authority by McDonald to keep bidding to ensure the son of Kermadec returned to Victoria. "I thought he was one of the nicest colts on the complex," Bahen told Lot 35 Zoustar - Phyl's Choice filly MAGIC MILLIONS Racing.com. "We got pushed pretty hard on him. He was a nice relaxed colt and I've Trainers often develop an affinity with the progeny of certain stallions got a good opinion of Kermadec. and Tony McEvoy makes no secret of his love affair with the offspring "Clinton was very keen on him, he popped over and looked at him of Zoustar (Northern Meteor) who, of course, is the sire of his brilliant over the past couple of days and said ‘just buy him’." multiple Group 1-winning mare Sunlight. Since the success of Sunlight, who emerged from the first crop of the LINK US TO YOUR INSTAGRAM POSTS now permanently Widden Stud-based reverse shuttling sire, McEvoy has FOR A CHANCE TO FEATURE ON OUR endeavoured to secure the best-credentialled yearlings by the stallion DAILY SOCIAL HUB each year. Continued on page 6>> Follow us @anz_news: click here | 4 | Brought to you by NOMINATE YOUR MATE for the STUD AND STABLE STAFF AWARDS Our remarkable horses have remarkable people. Let’s honour them. CLOSING THIS FRIDAY visit studandstablestaffawards.com.au The Stud and Stable Staff Awards recognise the extraordinary hard work and dedication of Australia’s thoroughbred staff. McEvoy continues Zoustar love affair | 6 | Wednesday, March 11, 2020 << Continued from page 4 So, yesterday, he landed another filly Murphy snaps up I’ll Have A Bit’s brother by the champion first season sire of 2017-18, for $160,000 from the draft of Tasmanian farm Armidale Stud, in conjunction with his agent Damon Gabbedy of Belmont Bloodstock. “Zoustar I love, of course, and she was very different to my star mare Sunlight, this filly,” McEvoy told Racing.com. “She has a lot of scope and reminded me a lot of a filly I train called Zoulah who won really well the other day and I think is up to black-type standard. “She’s just a beautiful, flowing filly with a lot of scope who looked to have a lot of class, to me. “I’ve seen her five times and her temperament has stayed the same all the way through. Zoustar fillies can be a bit feisty but I think this filly was Lot 126 Smart Missile - Take All Of Me colt MAGIC MILLIONS just gorgeous, so I am very happy to buy her.” Catalogued as Lot 35, the filly is a half-sister to three multiple winners, Well-known South Australian trainer Sue Murphy also struck for being the fifth foal out of the juvenile-winning mare Phyl’s Choice (Savoire a yearling from the draft of Armidale Stud, purchasing a Smart Missile Vivre), who in turn is a sister to the stakes-placed, 11-time winner With (Fastnet Rock) brother to the Group 2-winning, Group 1-placed sprinter Decorum. I’ll Have A Bit. Later, McEvoy Mitchell Racing and Belmont Bloodstock combined for The Naracoorte-based Murphy was taken with the look of the colt as another six-figure yearling, going to $110,000 for a colt by Brazen Beau (I soon as she inspected him at Morphettville and stretched the budget to Am Invincible) from the draft of NSW vendor Edinburgh Park Stud. ensure he joined her stable. Continued on page 8>> PURCHASER LOCATIONS Location Bought Average ($) Min ($) Max ($) Gross ($) VIC 69 44,971 5,000 270,000 3,103,000 SA 47 36,691 5,000 160,000 1,724,500 NSW 18 36,611 6,000 140,000 659,000 QLD 12 34,000 18,000 85,000 408,000 HONG KONG 6 60,833 15,000 90,000 365,000 WA 11 25,591 7,000 60,000 281,500 NEW ZEALAND 8 30,500 16,000 60,000 244,000 TAS 5 26,000 10,000 62,000 130,000 SOUTH AFRICA 1 80,000 80,000 80,000 80,000 NZ 1 75,000 75,000 75,000 75,000 UNITED KINGDOM 1 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 NT 1 11,000 11,000 11,000 11,000 Follow us @anz_news: click here | 6 | Brought to you by + + + BID NOW MARCH (EARLY) ONLINE SALE catalogue highlights FINAL COUNTDOWN OF BIDDING 3pm Wednesday, March 11 Register to bid - www.inglisdigital.com Murphy snaps up I’ll Have A Bit’s brother | 8 | Wednesday, March 11, 2020 << Continued from page 6 “He is a lovely type and he attracted us as soon as he came out.