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Sunday, July 19, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here TWILIGHT PUTS DAYLIGHT BETWEEN HIMSELF AND THE REST IN CURRAGH ROMP - PAGE 10 MORNING BRIEFING - PAGE 6 Gollan's Solar Star caps Read Tomorrow's Issue For: stellar year with Gai The Week Ahead What's on Waterhouse Classic win Metropolitan meetings: Hobart (TAS) Race meetings: Scone (NSW), Narrandera Zoustar mare’s value skyrockets ahead of Magic Millions sale (NSW), Pakenham (VIC), Wodonga (VIC), LATEST NEWS FROM THE WEEKEND'S RACING Sunshine Coast (QLD), Port Augusta (SA), Kalgoorlie (WA), Phar Lap Raceway (NZ) International meetings: Hakodate (JPN), Hanshin (JPN), Fukushima (JPN), York (UK), Newbury (UK), Curragh (IRE), Chantilly (FR), Greyville (SAF), Saratoga (USA), Del Mar (USA) International Group races: Hanshin (JPN) - Toyota Sho Chukyo Kinen (Gr 3, 1600m). Hakodate (JPN) - Hakodate Kinen (Gr 3, 2000m). Chantilly (FR) - Prix d’Ispahan (Gr 1, 1800m), Prix Robert Papin (Gr 2, 1200m). York (UK) - Summer Fillies’ Stakes (Gr 3, 6f). Curragh (IRE) - Airlie Stud Stakes (Gr 2, 6f), Sapphire Stakes (Gr 2, 5f), Kilboy Estate Stakes (Gr 2, 1m 1f). Greyville (SAF) - Track And Ball Oaks (Gr 2, 2400m). Saratoga (USA) - Lake Placid Stakes (Gr 2, 9f). Del Solar Star RACING QUEENSLAND Mar (USA) - Eddie Read Stakes (Gr 2, 9f) last year’s Magic Millions Gold Coast National BY TIM ROWE & GEORGIE DENNIS Broodmare Sale and eighth overall, also backed olar Star (Zoustar) significantly up the judgment of well-known agent Damon increased her value as a breeding Gabbedy and his client John Baxter who bought prospect just nine days prior to the mare 14 months ago. going under the hammer with a Solar Star, who resumed in February after a Sbreakthrough stakes win in the Gai Waterhouse successful first campaign for Gollan last spring, won Classic (Listed, 1350m) at Ipswich yesterday. at Eagle Farm in June, prompting Gollan to give her The victory, her fourth since joining the stable a chance at stakes level in yesterday’s $125,000 fillies of leading Brisbane trainer Tony Gollan after and mares feature race. Continued on page 2>> STAKES RESULTS FROM | IPSWICH, BELMONT & MORPHETTVILLE | PAGE 12 Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Gollan's Solar Star caps stellar year with Gai Waterhouse Classic win | 2 | Sunday, July 19, 2020 << Continued from page 1 She led on a track many pundits believed to be favouring those on-pace and closest to the rails to hold off the challenge of Jami Lady (Spirit Of Boom) by three quarters of a length. Multaja (Medaglia d’Oro) was another half length away in third. Strome (Smart Missile) and Shalwa (O’Reilly), who will join Solar Star in the Gold Coast sales ring next week, ran fourth and fifth respectively. "John Baxter bought her at last year's sales and gave her to me to train for a year," Gollan said of Solar Star. "She has now won three from three at Ipswich and is a black-type winner. "It means she really is a nice broodmare prospect and now she is going back to the sales. "The win puts the icing on what has been a great season for everyone Tony Gollan SPORTPIX at the stable." Robbie Fradd, who rode the rising five-year-old mare, also believes Baxter’s Ruane Menangle operation and is catalogued as Lot 76 at this Solar Star has the credentials to become a high-class broodmare. year’s sale where she will be offered on Monday week. She is being "She is a lovely tough mare and hopefully she will go to a really top consigned by Milburn Creek. sire," the jockey said. Solar Star’s dam Petty Cury, who is a half-sister to the dual New Solar Star’s Listed win took her record to 25 starts for eight wins and Zealand Listed winner Rio Fortune (Captain Rio), was also a Group 3 seven placings. She has banked $263,430 in the process. winner across the Tasman before being retired to stud. Originally purchased for $190,000 by BBA Ireland and Freedman Petty Cury has an unraced two-year-old named Rose Crescent (So You brothers at the 2017 New Zealand Bloodstock Karaka Yearling Sale, Solar Think) in New Zealand and she has a weanling filly by American Pharoah Star (4 m Zoustar - Petty Cury by Not A Single Doubt) was on-sold at last (Pioneerof The Nile). year’s Magic Millions Gold Coast National Broodmare Sale for $105,000. Solar Star also becomes the 14th individual stakes winner for Widden She was selected by Gabbedy’s Belmont Bloodstock Agency for Stud’s reverse shuttler Zoustar (Northern Meteor). ENTER NOW JULY 24 -29 ONLINE SALE ENTRIES CLOSE JULY 22. Featuring broodmares, yearlings and racing stock. Catalogue available at inglisdigital.com Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by Turning heads $350,000 $250,000 $210,000 $150,000 $110,000 $110,000 First-crop yearlings in the sales ring TERRITORIES Inivincible Spirit - Taranto $11,000 inc GST Bandipur back to winning ways at Ipswich | 4 | Sunday, July 19, 2020 Bandipur back to winning One of Queensland's biggest owners, Crooks liked Purdy's work ethic ways at Ipswich and thus gave her Bandipur. "I was so thrilled to get a good horse from Mick. It makes getting up in the morning worthwhile," Purdy said. "We have won with Bandipur but he should have won a few more. He has had nothing but luck during the winter. "He saw a lot of the outside fence at his last start in the Grafton Ramornie. "I could see he was travelling so well today but I thought he might not get out. Thankfully the runs came for Jag." Purdy said Bandipur would now be spelled and come back to chase a wild card to the Magic Millions carnival. Guthmann-Chester was Brisbane's leading apprentice three years ago but has struggled for recognition since a stint in Sydney. However, he is gradually climbing back to the top with the support of several Gold Coast stables, where he is based. The jockey said it was good to get a Listed win to put his name back in discussions. "This is my first Listed win and it is great to get it for Kelly who has stuck by me," Guthmann-Chester said. "I don't know how I got some of the runs I got. I had a lot of horse under me and I just need luck." Kelly Purdy RACING QUEENSLAND Bandipur (5 g Commands - Pattamada by Viscount) has now had 33 starts for ten wins and seven placings, earning $722,805 in prize-money. Almost three years to the day since taking out the Lightning Stakes Bred by Godolphin, he is one of two winners from three to race out of (Listed, 1050m) at Morphettville, former Godolphin galloper Bandipur Pattamada (Viscount) who herself is out of Dalquarren (Canny Lad). (Commands) landed his second black-type win in the Eye Liner Stakes Dalquarren is also responsible for 2009 Queen Of The Turf (Gr 1, (Listed, 1200m) at Ipswich yesterday. 1500m) and Millie Fox Stakes (Gr 3, 1300m) victor Neroli (Viscount), as Stuck behind a wall of horses in home straight, Jag Guthmann- well as Chai (Viscount), the dam of Wellington Cup (Gr 3, 3200m) scorer Chester opted to ride for luck, sticking to the inside. And luck he did get, as Magic Chai (Magic Albert). a narrow gap opened on the rails and allowed Bandipur to burst through Badipur’s third dam is Ivy Cottage (Star Way), who is also the third and take out the race by half a length. dam of BRC TJ Smith Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m) scorer Benfica (Lonhro) and Favourite Boomsara (Spirit Of Boom) flashed home for second with the fourth dam of stakes winners Multaja (Medaglia d’Oro) and Veranillo Monsieur Gustave (Al Maher) a nose away in third. (Medaglia d’Oro). The five-year-old topped last year’s Magic Millions National Racehorse Pattamada has a yearling filly by Puccini (Encosta De Lago) and Sale when purchased by Mick Crooks’ Mishani Enterprises for $260,000 missed to Sacred Falls (O'Reilly) in 2019. and joined the stables of Richard Laming, before relocating to the care of Bandipur is one of 80 stakes for the late Darley sire Commands Kelly Purdy in Queensland earlier this year. (Danehill), who died suddenly in 2014. The stallion menu gives immediate access to: Sales results including Check out I Am Invincible’s sale results on the Global Stallions App averages and medians Figures for foals, yearlings and each year two-year-olds broken down by year Updated daily, the information on each stallion includes; top performers, recent race & auction results, upcoming rate entries, sire statistics, hypothetical pedigrees with Truenicks. FREE TO DOWNLOAD: Follow us @anz_news | 4 | Brought to you by Not A Single Doubt filly an Instant hit with Oaklands Plate win | 5 | Sunday, July 19, 2020 Not A Single Doubt filly an Instant “It didn’t work out today, but she was too good and probably made hit with Oaklands Plate win Kayla look good last start and today,” Tommy Stokes told Racing.com. “It was a super effort and it’s a real credit to the team.” Instant Celebrity won her first start over 1050 metres at Morphettville on June 20 by two lengths, and the Stokes’ were forced to take her back to the jump-outs to prepare her for the Oaklands Plate due to a lack of suitable races. “I have got a really big opinion of this horse, although I was a bit worried just because the preparation hasn’t worked out 100 per cent right,” Tommy Stokes said.