Sunday, October 18, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here DIRECT TO YOUR INBOX EVERY MORNING LEGEND. 2020 The Everest Winner CLASSIQUE LEGEND Not A Single Doubt | Pinocchio CongratulationsBON HO, Owner LES BRIDGE, Trainer KERRIN MCEVOY, Jockey CARMEL SIZE, Manager TYREEL STUD, Breeder Sunday, October 18, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here ADDEYBB GOES ONE BETTER THAN LAST YEAR FOR JOYOUS HAGGAS AND TRIUMPHANT MARQUAND - PAGE 11 Elleegant Caulfield Cup Read Tomorrow's Issue For: as Zed trumps Galileo The Week Ahead What's on Legend bound for Hong Kong, Belle edges closer to Sunline and Stakes races: Kilmore (VIC) - Seymour Addeybb a ‘Champion’ after thrilling spring raceday Cup (Listed, 1600m). Ashburton (NZ) - Barneswood Farm Stakes (Gr 3, 1400m) Race meetings: Lismore (NSW), Nowra (NSW), Kilmore (VIC), Horsham (VIC), Sunshine Coast (QLD), Kalgoorlie (WA), Ashburton (NZ) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Lismore (NSW), Nowra (NSW) International meetings: Tokyo (JPN), Kyoto (JPN), Niigata (JPN), Sha Tin (HK), Naas (IRE), Baden-Baden (GER), Greyville (SAF), Keeneland (USA), Santa Anita (USA), Woodbine (CAN) International Group races: Kyoto (JPN) - Shuka Sho (Gr 1, 2000m). Sha Tin (HK) - Premier Bowl (Gr 2, 1200m), Sha Tin Trophy (Gr 2, 1600m). Baden-Baden (GER) - Preis Der Winterkonigin (Gr 3, 1600m), Baden-Wurttemberg-Trophy (Gr 3, 2000m). Keeneland (USA) - Dowager Stakes (Gr 3, Verry Elleegant RACING PHOTOS 12f). Santa Anita (USA) - Twilight Derby world’s finest bloodlines against those which, at (Gr 2, 9f). Woodbine (CAN) - E P Taylor BY ANDREW HAWKINS | @ANZ_NEWS one time, were destined to die out. Stakes (Gr 1, 10f), Northern Dancer Turf he romance of the Australian turf So it proved yesterday in one of Australia’s Stakes (Gr 1, 12f), Nearctic Stakes (Gr 2, 6f) has always been idealised in its role greatest races as a daughter of the once- as a great leveller, with a system of banished Zed (Zabeel), Verry Elleegant, held off predominantly handicaps - even an Epsom Derby winner by the world’s greatest atT the highest level - acting as an equaliser that stallion Galileo (Sadler’s Wells), Anthony embodies Australia’s egalitarian self-identity. Van Dyck, to take out the Caulfield Cup (Gr 1, Even as class casts aside the weights, there 2400m), the first of Melbourne’s three spring is still magic to be found in testing some of the features. Continued on page 2>> YESTERDAY'S STAKES RACE RESULTS | PAGE 23 Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Elleegant Caulfield Cup as Zed trumps Galileo | 2 | Sunday, October 18, 2020 << Continued from page 1 Derby (Gr 1, 2400m) before injury brought his career to a premature In fact, Very Elleegant was one of three Group 1 winners yesterday - end, boasted a handy pedigree, being out of the Group 1-winning mare in three different countries, no less - to come out of the Queen Elizabeth Emerald Dream (Danehill). Stakes (Gr 1, 2000m) at Randwick in April. Winner Addeybb (Pivotal) His brother Zabene and his half-brother Knight’s Command (Pins) were scored a first British Group 1 win in the Champion Stakes (Gr 1, 1m 2f) at decent stakes winners at a trip, but it was hoped that his lineage - which traces Ascot, while Melody Belle (Commands) lifted the Livamol Classic (Gr 1, back to blue hen Eight Carat (Pieces Of Eight) - could shine through at stud. 2040m) at Hastings to record Group 1 win number 12. And according to Verry Elleegant’s breeder Don Goodwin, who It was Verry Elleegant, though, who was the star of the show with her belongs to the Zed Partnership Syndicate that owns the stallion, he would tenacious Caulfield Cup success. have been a special horse if he had not broken down at the beginning of In a case of class conquering the handicaps, five-time Group 1 winner his career. and favourite Verry Elleegant (5 m Zed - Opulence by Danroad) held off “I’ve got shares in Zed so it cost me nothing,” Goodwin said. “He top-weight Anthony Van Dyck to win by a short neck with three-quarters wasn’t [a high profile horse] but if he hadn’t broken down, he would of a length to longshot The Chosen One (Savabeel) back in third. have been. He could gallop as good as she [Verry Elleegant] can, he was Prince Of Arran (Shirocco) produced an eye-catching Melbourne Cup something else. (Gr 1, 3200m) trial, flashing home for fourth, just under two lengths from “Originally, he was coming over to Australia as a two-year-old to the the winner. Freedmans, but a horse went berserk in the float with him and he got quite Unfortunately, due to Covid-19, it was a Caulfield Cup run in front of badly injured. We bought him back as a three-year-old, he won his first empty grandstands. The usual throngs who would flock to Melbourne’s start and he was favourite for the Waikato Guineas. He broke down, but east were instead at home, weary after weeks of a city-wide lockdown. still finished sixth. We tried to get him back but we weren’t very successful.” A shame, too, given this was a Caulfield Cup for the ages, despite a Purchased by Little Avondale Stud, he stood his first season for NZ$500. strangely-run race and any number of incidents of interference, hard luck Shipped to Erewhon Station, nestled among New Zealand’s Southern stories and perplexing efforts. 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Win. www.nztm.co.nz Elleegant Caulfield Cup as Zed trumps Galileo | 4 | Sunday, October 18, 2020 << Continued from page 2 Eventually finding his way to Grangewilliam Stud as his slow-maturing progeny began to hit their straps, he has since sired 12 individual stakes winners from 251 runners, with Survived his only other Group 1 winner along with Verry Elleegant. His most popular horse aside from his Caulfield Cup winner has arguably been Zed Em, the now ten-year-old who has earned more than AUD$1 million through his wins in some of Australia’s biggest steeplechases. “He’s never been high profile and never will be,” said Goodwin. “At the last sales in January, I think we sold six of them and three of them went to Australia. The Aussies like him more as a sire than the Kiwis do. “I used to watch her work and I told one of the members of the leasehold group when I saw her gallop, well before she had been to a trial, this filly will win an Oaks. Not dreaming that it was going to be an Australian Oaks at Randwick, but she was something else. Classique Legend SPORTPIX “Melody Belle (Commands) won the big Group 1 in New Zealand today and won it brilliantly, but I think she is as good as Melody Belle.” on him. That is a great horse, we have seen something special today,” she Goodwin was unable to travel to Caulfield to watch the star mare, but said. instead cheered her on at home with his wife. “I’m so proud of the horse. To think I bought him as a yearling and I’ve “I would have been there with bells on today,” said Goodwin. “It’s only been able to look after him, it’s just been the world to me. I might have to the two of us here but we shouted her down. I knew we’d hold on. The last retire now. 50 metres she is strong. She can gallop further than anyone else. She’s won “He was on the flight twice, it got shot down and he came back to me. at all the top courses.” He’s been in the stable since March 21, a very unorthodox preparation, Zed stands at Grangewilliam Stud for a fee of NZ$6,000 (plus GST) in but gee, what a marvel Les Bridge is. He’s a legend.” 2020. If he had gone, he would have tackled the Four-Year-Old Classic Series, featuring the Hong Kong Classic Mile (Listed, 1600m), the Hong Kong Legend scales Everest, Hong Kong next Classic Cup (Listed, 1800m) and the Hong Kong Derby (Listed, 2000m); The Hong Kong Jockey Club will grant an exception to The Everest all three legs were won by Golden Sixty (Medaglia d’Oro), the new star on (1200m) winner Classique Legend (5 g Not A Single Doubt - Pinocchio the Hong Kong scene. by Encosta De Lago) to join the stable of Caspar Fownes, with owner However, if Ho’s plan comes to fruition, perhaps the mantle of Hong Bon Ho keen to tackle the world - starting with the Hong Kong Sprint Kong’s leading horse will be up for debate over the coming months.