Steve Moran Winx: still possibly the best ever Wednesday, April 17, 2019 Kelvinside, NSW EXCEED AND EXCEL Danehill – Patrona (Lomond) $88,000 LONHRO Octagonal – Shadea (Straight Strike) $77,000 ASTERN Medaglia d’Oro – Essaouira (Exceed And Excel) $33,000 NEW KEMENTARI Lonhro – Yavanna (Redoute’s Choice) $33,000 Speed. EPAULETTE Commands – Accessories (Singspiel) $27,500 EXOSPHERE Lonhro – Altitude (Danzero) $22,000 NEW HARRY ANGEL Dark Angel – Beatrix Potter (Cadeaux Genereux) $22,000 RIBCHESTER Iffraaj – Mujarah (Marju) $22,000 Class. SHOOTING TO WIN Northern Meteor – Listen Here (Elusive Quality) $22,000 KERMADEC Teofilo – Hy Fuji (Fuji Kiseki) $16,500 TERRITORIES Invincible Spirit – Taranto (Machiavellian) $16,500 Brilliance. HALLOWED CROWN Street Sense – Crowned Glory (Danehill) $11,000 Northwood Park, VIC BRAZEN BEAU I Am Invincible – Sansadee (Snaadee) $49,500 FROSTED Tapit – Fast Cookie (Deputy Minister) $27,500 STREET BOSS Street Cry – Blushing Ogygian (Ogygian) $27,500 IMPENDING Lonhro – Mnemosyne (Encosta de Lago) $22,000 SEPOY Elusive Quality – Watchful (Danehill) $11,000Plus GST. Payment on 42-day PPT, free return (conditions apply). ’HOLLER Commands – Shouts (Strategic) $8,800 NZ NZ terms Telemon19 Stud, QLD SIDESTEP Exceed And Excel – Dextrous (Quest For Fame) $22,000 Haunui Farm, NZ IFFRAAJ Zafonic – Pastorale (Nureyev) NZ$25,000 BELARDO Lope de Vega – Danaskaya (Danehill) NZ$12,000 Mapperley Stud, NZ CONTRIBUTER High Chaparral – Serisia (Exit To Nowhere) NZ$12,500 COMPLACENT Authorized – Insouciance (Quest For Fame) NZ$5,000 Westbury Stud, NZ Including GST. Payment on live foal (conditions apply). TELPERION Street Cry – Yavanna (Redoute’s Choice) NZ$5,000 Ter ms Start with a Darleystallion and the rest will follow... To book nominations or discuss your options, call Alastair, Adam, Allison or Luke on 02 6543 9000 or Andy or Lisa on 03 5735 8100. www.darley.com.au Winx: still possibly the Read Tomorrow's Issue For: best ever? Timeform What's On Metropolitan meetings: Warwick Farm Steve Moran (NSW) Race meetings: Geelong (VIC), Ipswich Page 16 (QLD), Murray Bridge (SA), Pinjarra (WA), Wednesday, April 17, 2019 Matamata (NZ) Exceed And Excel’s International meetings: Happy Valley (HK) excellent season results in fee increase Fellow Kelvinside mainstay Lonhro also gets boost as Darley announces 2019 roster Stud News Denman relocates to Twin Hills Twin Hills Stud at Cootamundra will be the new home for former Darley stakes-producing sire Denman (Lonhro) in 2019 after proprietor Olly Tait bought a significant share of the stallion. The deal was announced yesterday, on the same day that Darley revealed its stallion roster for this year, and it comes 12 months after Tait was able to secure fellow Hunter Valley-based sire Smart Missile (Fastnet Rock) for stud duties at Twin Hills. Denman is the sire of 14 stakes winners, including star Hong Kong sprinter Hot King Prawn, this season’s Group 3-winning juvenile Whiskey Neat and Saturday’s three-year-old Exceed And Excel daRLEY SAJC Redelva Stakes (Listed, 1100m) winner Humma Humma. veteran Lonhro has had his fee increased from Denman, who has sired 79 winners this By Tim Rowe $66,000 to $77,000 this year. season to put him inside the top 20 Australian hampion stallions Exceed And The duo form part of an 18-strong stallions, has a superior winners-to-runners Excel (Danehill) and Lonhro stallion roster across Darley’s Kelvinside percentage than the likes of Fastnet Rock (Octagonal), who have experienced and Northwood Park properties in NSW and (Danehill), Not A Single Doubt (Redoute’s a resurgence on the racecourse Victoria, while Golden Slipper Stakes (Gr Choice), Nicconi (Bianconi) and Star Witness Cand in the sales ring this season, will lead the 1, 1200m) winner Kiamichi’s sire Sidestep (Starcraft). Darley Stallions roster in 2019 with increased (Exceed And Excel) will remain at Telemon “We are delighted to be standing Denman service fees. Thoroughbreds in Queensland this season. and to have purchased a significant interest in On the back of their successes, particularly Five other Sheikh Mohammed-owned him,” Tait said. with Group 1-winning juveniles Microphone stallions, led by the Haunui Farm-based Iffraaj “I love his pedigree, which features the Golden and Lyre respectively, Exceed And Excel will (Zafonic), will also stand in New Zealand this Slipper winners Vain, Marscay, Dark Eclipse and, stand for $88,000 (all inc GST) and fellow Darley year. Continued on page 3>> of course, Kiamichi. Stud News page 13 | 1 | Brought to you by KARAKA MAY SALE /// 2019 Yourdeel (NZ) Yourdeel Marlborough (NZ) | Dundeel Ballochdale, 2017 NZB Karaka May Sale, NZ$30,000 2017 NZB Karaka May Sale, (Dundeel x Miss Zapper) | D.J. Myers | Little Avondale Stud Avondale | Little Myers D.J. | 2019 G1 Sires’ Produce 2019 G1 Sires’ NZB Karaka May Sale graduates have claimed 79 Stakes wins and 7 Group One wins in the past five seasons, more than any other mixed bloodstock sale in Australasia. Join us at New Zealand’s largest breeding stock Sale of the year, brimming with pinhooking, breeding and investment potential. FRIDAY 17 MAY AT KARAKA WEANLINGS, YEARLINGS, TWO-YEAR-OLDS RACEHORSES & BROODMARES www.nzb.co.nz • +64 9 298 0055 • [email protected] Exceed And Excel's excellent season results in fee increase | 3 | Wednesday, April 17, 2019 << Continued from page 1 Darley Stallions’ head of sales Alastair Darley Stallions 2019 roster Pulford told ANZ Bloodstock News that Exceed And Excel and Lonhro (fees inc GST) (2018 in brackets) were both deserving of modest fee increases given their success this Kelvinside season. Stallion Fee “Neither have slowed down an inch. Because of advancing years they Exceed And Excel $88,000 ($82,500) will cover restricted books, but their racetrack results this season have Lonhro $77,000 ($55,000) been spectacular really,” Pulford said. Astern $33,000 (unchanged) “In the current market they both look extremely good value. They have Kementari $33,000 (new) both just enjoyed their best sales ever - Exceed And Excel with a $1.7 Epaulette $27,500 (unchanged) million colt, Lonhro with a $1.4 million filly and Exceed And Excel with a Exosphere $22,000 (unchanged) $1.2 million filly. “The buying bench are well on top of them and I would have thought Harry Angel $22,000 (new) the people who are using them are in for a good time.” Ribchester $22,000 ($24,750) As well as the Godolphin-owned and James Cummings’-trained Shooting To Win $22,000 (unchanged) Inglis Sires’ (registered as ATC Sires’ Produce Stakes) (Gr 1, 1400m) Kermadec $16,500 (unchanged) winner Microphone, Exceed And Excel is also the sire of juvenile stakes- Territories $16,500 (unchanged) winning stablemate Bivouac and the Peter and Paul Snowden-trained Hallowed Crown $11,000 ($16,500) Canonbury Stakes (Gr 3, 1100m) winner McLaren, who are among his 13 Northwood Park stakes winners in six countries this season. Brazen Beau $49,500 ($38,500) Blue Diamond Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) winner Lyre and VRC Oaks (Gr 1, Frosted $27,500 ($33,000) 2500m) winner Aristia, meanwhile, have flown the flag for grand stallion Street Boss $27,500 (unchanged) Lonhro, who along with Exceed And Excel, I Am Invincible (Invincible Impending $22,000 (unchanged) Spirit) and Snitzel (Redoute's Choice) are the four Australian stallions to Sepoy $11,000 (unchanged) sire three or more juvenile stakes winners this season. Holler $8,800 ($11,000) The promising start to the stud career of Brazen Beau (I Am Invincible), Telemon Thoroughbreds, QLD who has sired four first crop two-year-old winners this season - headed Sidestep $22,000 ($7,700) by Inglis Nursery (RL, 1000m) winner Accession and the stakes-placed New Zealand (plus GST) Tassort and First Dawn, will see him stand for an increased fee of $49,500 Haunui Farm at Northwood Park in 2019. Iffraaj NZ$25,000 (unchanged) His progeny have also been well received in the sales ring this NZ$12,000 (unchanged) year, with a colt by the sire selling for $1.15 million at last week’s Inglis Belardo Australian Easter Yearling Sale, while his progeny also topped the Inglis Mapperley Stud Classic Yearling Sale and the Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale. Contributer NZ$12,500 (unchanged) “The sales results have been absolutely phenomenal and that is Complacent NZ$5,000 (unchanged) based on the few very good winners, but we know there is a lot more to Westbury Stud come,” Pulford added. “He wasn’t an early two-year-old himself, but they Telperion NZ$5,000 (unchanged) don’t achieve those sales results without someone knowing something.” “Tassort is an extremely exciting horse for us and he was favourite for the Golden Slipper for a Kementari (Lonhro) will stand his first season at Kelvinside for a fee of long time. He will come $33,000 this year, while it was revealed last week that Group 1-winning "Tassort is an back aiming at the top European sprinter Harry Angel (Dark Angel) would shuttle to Australia at spring three-year-old a fee of $22,000. extremely exciting races, probably the “We have taken a conservative approach to all our fees. We Coolmore, but equally acknowledge everyone in the game has to stay in the business, otherwise horse for us and he there are plenty of we are all out of business, and I genuinely think our stallions look was favourite for the others in other stables unbelievable value across the board,” Pulford said. who have shown their “If you look at a horse like Kermadec, with the sales he has had this Golden Slipper for a trainers plenty.” year, he is standing for absolutely nothing at $15,000 (plus GST). The Darley has already response we have had to Harry Angel in the four days since we announced long time" announced that him - most people thought he would be a lot more expensive.