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NEWGATE BUYS INTO SPEEDSTER PIPPIE EXCITING TWO-YEAR-OLD HEADING TO CAPITALIST COLT PROFITEER CHAIRMAN'S SALE Monday, February 1, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here RACING PAUSED IN WA AFTER LOCKDOWN ANNOUNCED - PAGE 6 HONG KONG NEWS - PAGE 11 Monday, February 1, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here RACING PAUSED IN WA AFTER LOCKDOWN ANNOUNCED - PAGE 6 HONG KONG NEWS - PAGE 11 Newgate buys into BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS uling odds-on Inglis Millennium (RL, 1200m) favourite Profiteer exciting two-year-old will have a new majority owner when the Capitalist (Written RTycoon) colt runs in Saturday’s $2 million Capitalist colt Profiteer juvenile race after Newgate Farm negotiated a deal to buy into the son of its promising Golden Slipper-winning sire. Newgate Farm managing director Henry Field late yesterday announced that the Hunter Valley operation had agreed to terms with Roll The Dice Racing to buy a controlling interest in the Mick Price and Mick Kent Jr- trained colt. Industry News page 5 >> Read Tomorrow's Issue For Stallion Watch What's On Race meetings: Dubbo (NSW), Newcastle (NSW), Donald (VIC) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Warwick Farm Pippie (left) and Profiteer (right) SPORTPIX / RACING PHOTOS (NSW), Dubbo (NSW), Cranbourne (VIC), Rockhampton (QLD), Belmont (WA) International meetings: Wolverhampton Speedster Pippie (UK), Dundalk (IRE), Greyville (SAF) heading to Chairman's outcross mare, will be offered at this year’s BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS Chairman’s Sale. nglis has landed the first blow in the Gold Coast-based owner Glenn Heran has competitive auction house rivalry to committed to selling the Chris Meagher-trained acquire high-end breeding stock with five-year-old after her brief late summer-autumn confirmation that dual Group 1-winning campaign targeting two Group 1 sprint races on sprinterI Pippie (Written Tycoon), a valuable the eastern seaboard. Continued on page 2>> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Speedster Pippie heading to Chairman’s Sale | 2 | Monday, February 1, 2021 << Continued from page 1 Pippie is scheduled to run first- up on February 13 in the Black Caviar Lightning Stakes (Gr 1, 1000m) SHE IS A DAUGHTER OF WRITTEN TYCOON AND at Flemington where she is set to take on Nature Strip (Nicconi) and September Run (Exceed And Excel) prior to a trip to Sydney for The Galaxy I THINK IT’S FAIR TO SAY THERE IS NO BETTER- (Gr 1, 1100m) at Rosehill on March 20. PERFORMING STALLION AT THE MOMENT THAN Sebastian Hutch, Inglis’ general manager of bloodstock sales, declared WRITTEN TYCOON AND SHE IS RIGHT UP THERE Pippie, last year’s Oakleigh Plate (Gr 1, 1100m) and A J Moir Stakes (Gr 1, AT THE TOP OF THAT LIST 1000m) winner, as a mare with a seven-figure price tag “every day of the week”. - GLENN HERAN “I think the Chairman’s sale has earned the right to catalogue mares of Pippie’s quality regularly,” Hutch said. “People talk about wanting to see sales demonstrating themselves to Enthaar, a two-year-old filly by Written Tycoon (Iglesia), is also the be consistent and reliable for the market and I think that is the epitome short-priced favourite for the Blue Diamond Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) and of what the Chairman’s Sale is in terms of elite breeding stock and elite Golden Slipper (Gr 1, 1200m) after her dominant first-up win in the breeding prospects. Chairman’s Stakes (Gr 3, 1000m) at Caulfield on Saturday to further “You can bring stock (to Riverside Stables) and be confident that illustrate the current potency of the Arrowfield Stud-based stallion who there’s going to be a very strong buying bench and the stock are going to is the leading active Australian stallion this season with progeny prize- make, arguably in the majority of cases, more than what they are worth money earnings of more than $10 million. because of the emotion of an auction and that is what is fun about it.” The high-balling sprinter, who showed dashing speed to win her two Pippie is by the same sire as this season’s MRC Thousand Guineas Group 1s, was a $60,000 purchase by John Meagher from the 2017 Inglis (Gr 1, 1600m) winner Odeum (Written Tycoon) as well as Golden Rose Classic Yearling Sale on behalf of Heran from the Eureka Stud draft. Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) and Caulfield Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) winner Ole Kirk “In somewhat timely fashion, she is a graduate of the Classic Yearling (Written Tycoon), Group 2-winning sprinter Dirty Work (Written Tycoon) Sale, so she has been a great demonstration of the quality that is available and progressive Group 3 winner Written Beauty (Written Tycoon). for a value price,” Hutch said. Continued on page 3>> Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by Speedster Pippie heading to Chairman’s Sale | 3 | Monday, February 1, 2021 << Continued from page 2 “She was a $60,000 yearling at a time when Written Tycoon didn’t have the profile that he does now and I Possible race mares for sale in 2021 think both the vendor and the buyer will concede that she was probably Pippie (Written Tycoon) – Inglis Chairman’s Sale undersold at that yearling sale. Melody Belle (Commands) “I know one Sydney trainer at least who laments the day she went Avantage (Fastnet Rock) through the ring as he wasn’t concentrating when she went through. I Mizzy (Zoustar) won’t name names, but I have had a conversation with said Sydney trainer Fiesta (I Am Invincible) and he’s still a bit emotional about it.” Tofane (Ocean Park) A candid Heran said Pippie was too valuable for him to retain as a Bella Vella (Commands) breeding proposition and he also did not want to overtax the valuable mare Krone (Eurozone) on the racecourse, which led to the decision to sell her through the Inglis Nettoyer (Sebring) auction. Sisstar (Zoustar) “She is a daughter of Written Tycoon and I think it’s fair to say there is From Within (Not A Single Doubt) no better-performing stallion at the moment than Written Tycoon and she Danzdanzdance (Mastercraftsman) is right up there at the top of that list,” Heran said. Sweet Deal (Casino Prince) “She’s made a name for herself as being a world-class sprinter and I Miss Siska (So You Think) have no doubt she will also be a world-class broodmare.’’ The early recruitment of pin-up mare Pippie could be the catalyst for other owners of desirable broodmares and race fillies to follow suit and Syndicator John Galvin of Fortuna revealed yesterday that all three commit to offering their stock through Chairman’s, which last year sold companies had submitted proposals in a bid to have Melody Belle sold dual Group 1-winning sprinting mare In Her Time (Time Thief) for $2 through their auction house but as yet no decision by the owners had million as well as three others for more than $1 million, been made. The 2019 Chairman’s Sale saw prized mare Maastricht “She will be sold either by way of private sale if we had a really (Mastercraftsman), the mother of Group 1-winning filly Loving Gaby compelling offer or alternatively she will go to a public auction but that (I Am Invincible), and Srikandi (Dubawi) sell for $2.25 million and $2 venue is not yet decided,” Galvin told ANZ Bloodstock News yesterday. million respectively. There were two further mares who made $1.7 million “We’ve asked for the various auction houses to put forward marketing and $1.2 million on the night. and selling proposals for her and I have those in hand, but we’re not ready Rival company Magic Millions has also had the duty of selling elite mares to make that decision to which auction house will sell her.” in recent years, none more so than Coolmore Stud Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) and While aware of managing the syndicate’s expectations when it comes William Reid Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) winner Sunlight (Zoustar) who made $4.2 to selling Melody Belle, who will attempt to win her 14th Group 1 win the million last July – the most expensive price paid for a mare in the southern Herbie Dyke Stakes (Gr 1, 2000m) at Te Rapa on February 13, Galvin is hemisphere since Milanova (Danehill) made $5 million in 2008. confident the world’s major commercial breeders will also express an One mare all three auction houses – New Zealand Bloodstock, Magic interest in the daughter of Commands (Danehill). Millions and Inglis – will be keen to offer this year is champion New “The weight is probably more on my shoulders than the syndicate Zealander Melody Belle (Commands) who on Saturday equalled Sunline members as many of them have said to me, ‘she doesn’t owe us a cent’ (Desert Sun) with her 13th Group 1 victory in the Thorndon Mile (Gr 1, and they know that she is going to be sold and, if she does go to auction, it 1600m) at Trentham. will be on an unreserved basis,” he said. Continued on page 4>> 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 | 3 | Brought to you by Speedster Pippie heading to Chairman’s Sale | 4 | Monday, February 1, 2021 << Continued from page 3 “Sunlight at last year’s (Magic Millions) sale is obviously a benchmark, making $4.2 million after winning three Group 1s, and I guess it could be reasonable to expect that Melody Belle could surpass that but that is up to the market to decide, not me.” The confirmed Chairman’s Sale entry Pippie, meanwhile, won her first start as a late season two-year-old by five lengths and has an overall race record of 13 starts for six wins and prize-money of more than $1.2 million.