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TIGER ROARS FOR YOUNG BREEDERS Page 11 Sunday, May 30, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here VEGA’S THE ONE IN THE KINGSFORD-SMITH - PAGE 4 SINGAPORE NEWS - DOUBLE FOR BURRIDGE - PAGE 14 Kukeracha steals Explosive’s Read Tomorrow's Issue For Thunder as New Zealand The Week Ahead What's on breds clean sweep Derbies Metro meetings: Devonport (TAS) Night Of Thunder lands first Group 1 winner in quinella for Race meetings: Gunnedah (NSW), trainer Chris Waller in Queensland Derby Wellington (NSW), Mildura (VIC), Ballarat (VIC), Gatton (QLD), Kalgoorlie (WA), Port Hedland (WA), Penola (SA), Pioneer Park (NT) Barrier Trials/Jump-outs: Wellington (NSW), Kalgoorlie (WA), Penola (WA) International Group races: Longchamp (Fr) - Prix d’Ispahan (Gr 1, 1850), Prix du Palais-Royal (Gr 3, 1400m). Santa Anita (USA) – Monrovia Stakes (Gr 2, 6.5f), Summertime Oaks (Gr 2, 8.5f). Sha Tin (HK) - Lion Rock Trophy (Gr 3, 1600m). Tokyo (JPN) - Tokyo Yushun, Japanese Derby, (Gr 1, 2400m), Meguro Kinen (Gr 2, 2500m) International Meetings: Navan (IRE), Longchamp (FR), Santa Anita (USA), Sha Kukeracha (white silks) defeating Senor Toba MICHAEL MCINALLY Tin (HK), Tokyo (JPN), Chukyo (JPN) whether anything could stop Explosive Jack BY ALEX WILTSHIRE | @ANZ_NEWS (Jakkalberry) in his rampaging quest for arley’s 2,000 Guineas- (Gr 1, a record-equalling fourth Derby this year, 1m) winning stallion Night Of having won the Tasmanian (Listed, 2200m), Thunder (Dubawi) broke through Australian (Gr 1, 2400m) and South Australian for his first worldwide Group (Gr 1, 2500m) editions of the race. D1 winner at stud as the Chris Waller-trained Despite a valiant effort from the Ciaron Kukeracha (3 g ex Portrait Of A Lady by A.P. Indy) Maher and David Eustace-trained star three- prevailed in an epic duel with stablemate Senor year-old, he could only manage third, a Toba (Toronado) to win the Queensland Derby length behind the winner, when sent off the (Gr 1, 2400m) at Eagle Farm yesterday. $2.50 favourite, as the surging Kukeracha saw Morning Briefing The question pre-race for the Queensland off the rallying grey Senor Toba on its outside, Magic Millions broodmares Classic, returning after its cancellation in to claim victory by the barest of margins at killed in truck crash - page 6 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, was the post. Continued on page 2>> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Kukeracha steals Explosive’s Thunder as New Zealand breds clean sweep Derbies | 2 | Sunday, May 30, 2021 << Continued from page 1 It is yet another big-race success for the silks of Neville Morgan this season, with Kukeracha adding to Group- race victories for Shaquero (Shalaa) and triumph in the All Aged Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) for Kolding (Ocean Park). The win had a distinct New Zealand flavour to it, as Kiwi-born trainer Waller teamed up with leading hoop James McDonald for success on the $130,000 NZB Karaka Yearling Sale graduate, who was consigned by Waikato Stud and bred by their veterinarian, Dr Chris Phillips. The result meant that every Australian Derby this season has gone to a New Zealand-bred horse with Kukeracha’s Queensland triumph and Explosive Jack’s three Derbies added to by the Bob Peters-owned Western Empire (Iffraaj) in WA and Denis Pagan’s Johnny Get Angry (Tavistock) in the VRC Derby (Gr 1, 2500m). For Waller, it was his second victory in the race, his first coming in 2013 with the triumph for Hawkspur (Purrealist) and, on this occasion, it was domination for the champion trainer, who saddled the first two home, as well as fourth-placed Achiever (Pride Of Dubai). Chris Waller SPORTPIX “When I saw Explosive Jack kicking I thought we were going to run a nice second or third,” Waller said. “Chris (Waller) makes the decisions, and I was lucky enough to be on “We had a great opinion of him as a two-year-old, but he lost his way a the right horse today. They say jockeys are the worst decision-makers, so bit. He was gelded and taken through the system.” I’m happy I did not have that choice, ” McDonald said. Kukeracha, now the winner of three of his 13 starts and $583,245 in Kukeracha is one of 58 live foals from the one and only southern prize-money, arrived at the race off the back of a second placing behind hemisphere crop of Night Of Thunder, a crop which has yielded five stakes Criminal Defence (Nicconi) in the Rough Habit Stakes (Gr 3, 2000m). A winners plus a further stakes-placegetter, with yesterday’s Derby hero the winner at Geelong on debut, his second success would not come until first Group 1 winner worldwide for the Darley stallion. Boxing Day last year when taken to Eagle Farm. Out of Portrait Of A Lady (A.P. Indy), Kukeracha descends from “He ran a good race up here in the Grand Prix in the summer,” Champion 3YO filly in Ireland, the Irish Oaks (Gr 1, 1m 4f) winner continued Waller. “I wanted to give him some experience on the track as Alydaress (Alydar), a sister to Park Appeal (Ahonoora), the dam of Cape he was not racing that well then. Cross (Green Desert), as well as Flames Of Paris (Blushing Groom), the “I think that was a good move because his run in the Queensland Guineas dam of BTC Cup (Gr 1, 1200m) winner Hot Snitzel (Snitzel). was good, his last start in the Rough Habit was good and today he was brilliant.” Park Appeal is also the dam of Pastorale (Nureyev) and Arvola Meanwhile, McDonald was rewarded for heading north for the (Sadler’s Wells), in turn the dams of Iffraaj (Zafonic) and Diktat (Warning). Queensland carnival rides at the risk of losing his jockey’s title in Sydney Portrait Of A Lady was purchased by Dr Chris Phillips for $40,000 in to Tommy Berry, who clawed another winner back at Randwick yesterday foal to the Night Of Thunder colt that would go on to be named Kukeracha. to leave the margin at 13. He is one of nine named foals for the mare, who has a yearling colt by However, post-race, the leading hoop admitted that, given the choice, Sacred Falls (O’Reilly) and a weanling filly by Ocean Park (Thorn Park), a he would have partnered runner-up Senor Toba. stallion she returned to last year. ONE OF THE WORLD’S LEADING SIRES LOPE13TH GROUP DE 1VEGA WINNER. VEGA ONE flies home to take the 1/26 f Group 1 Kingsford-Smith Cup at Eagle Farm. LOPE DE VEGA will be available to cover a strictly limited book of select mares on Southern Hemisphere time BALLYLINCH STUD +353 (0)56-7724217 • [email protected] www.ballylinchstud.com Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by Listed Tasmanian Derby (2200m) Winner: Explosive Jack (NZ) (Jakkalberry) Gr.1 Victoria Derby (2500m) Gr.1 Australian Derby (2400m) Winner: Johnny Get Angry (NZ) (Tavistock) Winner: Explosive Jack (NZ) (Jakkalberry) Gr.1 South Australian Derby (2500m) Winner: Explosive Jack (NZ) (Jakkalberry) Gr.1 Queensland Derby (2400m) Gr.2 Western Australia Derby (2400m) Winner: Kukeracha (NZ) (Night Of Thunder) Winner: Western Empire (NZ) (Iffraaj) New Zealand-breds have won all six Derbys in Australia this season. Visit. Invest. Win. www.nztm.co.nz Vega’s the one in the Kingsford-Smith | 4 | Sunday, May 30, 2021 Vega’s the one in the Kingsford-Smith The second Group 1 feature on the Eagle Farm card, the Kingsford- Smith Cup (Gr 1, 1300m), also went the way of a northern hemisphere- based former shuttle stallion that has exerted great influence Down Under. Whereas Night Of Thunder kicked off with his first winner at the elite level, Ballylinch Stud’s Lope De Vega (Shamardal) scored his fourth Australian Group 1 winner, and 13th worldwide, as Vega One (5 g ex One Funny Honey by Distorted Humor) dropped from the clouds in again leading home a quinella training performance, this time for local handler Tony Gollan. A $75,000 graduate of the Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale from the Stockwell Thoroughbreds draft, Vega One became a notable sixth Vega One MICHAEL MCINALLY Group 1 winner from the auction since 2016. In a fiercely contested renewal of the Kingsford-Smith Cup, race leader The extraordinary ride earned Kah a sixth Group 1 success, leaving Jonker (Spirit Of Boom) looked to have repelled the onslaught of a wall of her out on her own as the winning-most Group 1 female rider in Australia, challengers entering the straight, including Trekking (Street Cry) on his breaking Michelle Payne’s record of five. outside and Signore Fox (Exceed And Excel) to the inner, with Vega One Gollan was overawed at the result on his home track, a fifth Group 1 held up in behind under Jamie Kah. However, with turf rapidly running success for the trainer, and reflected on the challenge of getting the five- out, Kah steered Vega One into clear air with no more than 100 metres to year-old to the race in the first instance, with Vega One having suffered the winning post, and burst through to, in the end, win by a comfortable several setbacks since his fourth-placed finish in the Stradbroke Handicap half-length margin over Jonker, with the Peter and Paul Snowden-trained (Gr 1, 1400m) a year ago, with his place in yesterday’s race under a cloud Signore Fox a short-head back in third. even this week. Continued on page 5>> ANZ Another VEGA ONE Lope de Vega-One Funny Honey BRC KINGSFORD-SMITH CUP G1 Breeder: Emirates Park Pty Ltd $75,000 2017 Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale Vendor: Stockwell Thoroughbred (As Agent for Emirates Park) Buyer: John Thompson | Earnings: $1,498,900 Owners: Grandlodge Racing Pty Ltd (Mgr: P Anastasiou), Ken Bee Sports (Aust) Pty Ltd (Mgr: KE Biddick), Emirates Park (Mgr: NAH Lootah) & D Findlay Trainer: Tony Gollan Congratulations to all Connections www.magicmillions.com.au Follow us @anz_news | 4 | Brought to you by Vega’s the one in the Kingsford-Smith | 5 | Sunday, May 30, 2021 << Continued from page 4 “I’m just so proud of these horses,” said Gollan.