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Monday, May 24, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here MORNING BRIEFING - PAGE 8 Our Broodmare Report analyses up to 250 Stallions A detailed report identifying the top 40 stallions (out of 250) for your broodmare based on a set of criteria determined by you. Each report includes: • G1 Goldmine Rating • Impact Profile: highlight positive & negative crosses within a pedigree • Aptitude Profile: Visually see past stakes success for Age & Distance • Stallion Match: Duplicate proven pedigrees To order visit www.g1goldmine.com Monday, May 24, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here MORNING BRIEFING - PAGE 8 THE WEEK AHEAD - PAGE 21 Melody Belle displayed Read Tomorrow's Issue For special qualities right Kiwi Chronicles Stallion Watch from day one: Autridge What's on Experienced trainer recounts champion mare’s early days Race meetings: Albury (NSW), Taree at Te Akau as she prepares for sales ring (NSW), Sportsbet-Ballarat (VIC) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Taree (NSW), Wodonga (VIC), Cranbourne (VIC), Mortake (VIC), Belmont (WA), Longford (TAS) International Group races: Cologne (GER) – Mehl-Mulhens-Rennen, German 2000 Guineas (Gr 2, 1600m), Preis der Annette Hellwig Stiftung (Gr 3, 1300m). Longchamp (FR) – Prix Hocquart (Gr 2, 2200m), Prix Saint-Alary (Gr 1, 2000m), Prix Vicomtesse Vigier (Gr 2, 3100m) International meetings: Wolverhampton (UK), Brighton (UK), Windsor (UK), Cologne (GER), Longchamp (FR) Melody Belle MAGIC MILLIONS training partner during the early part of Melody BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS Belle’s racing career, yesterday revealed that he hampion mare Melody Belle could sense the 14-time Group 1 winner was a (Commands), one of the rare gems bit different from an early age. Panfield soars to the top of to be offered at this week’s star- Te Akau’s David Ellis paid a relatively low Hong Kong’s staying ranks studded Magic Millions Gold Coast NZ$57,500 for Melody Belle at the 2016 New A perfect ride aboard Tony Millard-trained CNational Broodmare Sale, has been credited with Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sale. Panfield (Lookin At Lucky) delivered Karis helping shape the stunning career trajectory of He bought 17 yearlings from the Premier Teetan success in the Standard Chartered New Zealand trainer Jamie Richards. session and just one was cheaper than Champions & Chater Cup (Gr 1, 2400m) at Sha But Stephen Autridge, Richards’ senior Melody Belle. Continued on page 2>> Tin yesterday. Hong Kong News page 19 >> FRI 21ST - WED 26TH MAY 2021 INGLIS DIGITAL MAY (LATE) SALE SALE LIVE - CLICK HERE Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Melody Belle displayed special qualities right from day one: Autridge | 2 | Monday, May 24, 2021 << Continued from page 1 However, Autridge was immediately taken by the Marie Leicester-bred filly when canvassing the latest batch of yearlings who would come under his and Richards’ tutelage when scouring the paddocks at Te Akau Stud. “Well, I tell you what, it goes back to the first day I saw her in the paddock at Te Akau Stud as an unbroken yearling,” Autridge told ANZ Bloodstock News yesterday. “She just had a standout beautiful head. That day I had a drive around Te Akau Stud looking at all the yearlings I was going to train and she was the standout type. “She was just a perfect horse to do anything with.” Autridge trained Melody Belle with Richards in her first 12 starts before the partnership ended and the latter was appointed in sole charge of Te Akau Racing. During that time, Melody Belle would progress from an October two-year-old debut winner at Ruakaka before showing her class three starts later with victory in the NZ$1 million Karaka Million (RL, 1200m). She would go on to win the Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) prior to embarking on a successful two-start Queensland Winter Carnival campaign in which she took out the BRC Sires’ Produce Stakes (Gr 2, 1400m), defeating Taking Aim (Choisir) and subsequent Group Melody Belle MAGIC MILLIONS 1-winning sprinter Pierata (Pierro). Continued on page 4>> Online Timed Auction TATTERSALLS ONLINE MAY 25th SALE BIDDING OPENS 24/05 at 12.00pm BST CLOSES 25/05 at 12.00pm BST Catalogue Online T: +44 1638 665931 [email protected] www.tattersallsonline.com Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by Melody Belle displayed special qualities right from day one: Autridge | 4 | Monday, May 24, 2021 << Continued from page 2 The experienced Autridge, who has The Fortuna Thoroughbreds syndicate, who own the mare, has more than 1,000 winners to his credit of which nearly 100 are at stakes entrusted Julian Blaxland’s Blue Sky Premium Consignment with selling level, recalled: “The only time she disappointed us was her lead-up run to Melody Belle who ended her 41-start racing career when running on from her Karaka Million win. last to finish fifth in Saturday’s Doomben Cup (Gr 1, 2000m). “We had to give her a run at Ellerslie (two weeks earlier), she drew “She’s the best performed mare to go to auction probably anywhere badly and got a bump and she ran nearly last (eighth of ten). We were in the world from a Group 1 point of view and I am just really excited for a bit concerned, but we brushed it off and said, ‘she’ll be right’, and we Tuesday,” Blaxland said yesterday. were. “There’s 34 owners in this mare and it’s the end of a long and very “That night in the Karaka Million we got the gun run from the exciting journey for all of those owners and, of course, Jamie Richards. gun jockey (Opie Bosson) and now it’s history what she’s gone on to “Jamie’s obviously a very accomplished trainer now, but this mare achieve.” really put him on the map and she’s just a wonderful mare. Autridge, now training in partnership with Kris Shailer at Matamata, “It’s the last chapter for them and the beginning of a new chapter with has marvelled at Melody Belle’s racetrack feats season after season. the start of her breeding career.” The rising seven-year-old mare’s win the Bonecrusher Stakes (Gr 1, Melody Belle is out of Meleka Belle (Iffraaj) who is a half-sister to four 2000m) at Ellerslie was her 14th at the highest level and the victory also stakes-placed horses including the Group 1-placed filly Tsarina Belle saw her surpass fellow champion New Zealand mare Sunline (Desert Sun) (Stravinsky). for her number of Group 1 successes. “I’ve been lucky, especially in the past few years, to spend time around “Nine times out of ten, a horse who shows you something would go some top horses and they certainly have something about them,” Blaxland sore, train off or whatever but she never did,” he said. said. “She was a very rare mare to have. It was just so good to see so many “They have a presence and Melody Belle knows she’s good. She is very of her owners enjoy the ride. There’s quite a few of them and they loved athletic. You can see that she’s got an enormous overstep, a beautiful head every day of it.” on her. Continued on page 6>> Follow us @anz_news | 4 | Brought to you by Won 2,000 Guineas-Gr.1, by 2½ lengths (PICTURED) beating Gr.1 winners King of Change, Ten Sovereigns, Advertise etc. He won it in a faster time than Frankel! 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New Zealand: Gordon Calder Tel:+64 218 41612. www.coolmore.com Melody Belle displayed special qualities right from day one: Autridge | 6 | Monday, May 24, 2021 << Continued from page 4 “Athleticism is the first thing that comes to mind when you look at her and I think she should appeal to all big breeders and operations. “From a pedigree and performance point of view, she wouldn’t be out of place in any broodmare band anywhere in the world and if she can throw a type like herself, you’re going to get an athletic racehorse out of her.” With Melody Belle sure to capture international attention from buyers, Blaxland was keeping an open mind on what price the Commands (Danehill) mare could make tomorrow. “I think if you compare her to the Sunlights and those types of mares and the Unforgottens of last year, she’s certainly in the $2.5-$4.5 million bracket,” he said. “The market is very strong and these big breeding operations want mares like her. She’s a collector’s item. She represents an enormous opportunity for any stud that wants one of the best mares in the world in their broodmare band.” Melody Belle, catalogued as Lot 510, will be the seventh horse to go through the ring at the Gold Coast tomorrow.