HONG KONG NEWS BREEDING NEWS INTERNATIONAL SALES NEWS FOWNES ON TOP, MOREIRA THE BELLES OF KEENELAND SEPTEMBER SEALS THREE AND TEETAN TRENTHAM CONTINUE ENTERS NEW REALM WITH DOUBLES UP - PAGE 13 TO FLOURISH - PAGE 11 BOOK 2 SESSION - PAGE 10 Friday, September 18, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here MAIDEN OF THE WEEK | NO FILTER (NZ) - PAGE 15 Mandela’s Group 1 moment What's on ‘overwhelming’ for Stakes races: Newcastle (NSW) - Newcastle Gold Cup (Gr 3, 2300m), Cameron Handicap (Gr 3, 1500m), Tibbie Stakes (Gr Tasmanian breeder Gunn 3, 1400m) Brother to Brunton’s stakes-winning sprinter likely to be offered Race meetings: Newcastle (NSW), Geelong at Melbourne Premier Sale (VIC), Canberra (ACT), Kilcoy (QLD), Carnarvon (WA), Ashburton (NZ) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Canberra (ACT), Flemington (VIC), Echuca (VIC) International meetings: Catterick (UK), Newbury (UK), Ayr (UK), Kempton (UK), Chantilly (FR), Nantes (FR), Fairview (SAF), Gulfstream Park (USA) International Group races: Chantilly (FR) - Prix Eclipse (Gr 3, 1200m), Prix Bertrand de Tarragon (Gr 3, 1800m) Sales: Inglis Ready 2 Race Warwick Farm Breeze Up (NSW) International sales: Keeneland September Yearling Sale - Books 3-6 (USA) Mandela Effect SPORTPIX Millions sale each February, says the ongoing BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS uncertainty caused by the coronavirus and andy Gunn admits that what restrictions will be in place next year her trusted adviser, Blue meant she was likely to keep the colt in Gum Farm’s Chris Kent, is Victoria. likely to get his way with Gunn sold Mandela Effect’s sister at the theM Tasmanian breeder set to accede to his Tasmanian Yearling Sale earlier this year for request and offer the brother to tomorrow’s Sir $80,000, the second highest-priced lot at the Rupert Clarke Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) contender Launceston auction. Mandela Effect (Turffontein) at a mainland sale “(Mandela Effect’s part-owner) Andrew MORNING BRIEFING next year. Scanlon bought her and I’ve actually retained BOWMAN SUSPENDED The Motree Thoroughbreds proprietor, a a share in that one,” Gunn told ANZ Bloodstock FOR 20 DAYS - PAGE 5 staunch supporter of her home state Magic News. Continued on page 2>> FRIDAY 18TH SEPTEMBER 2020 READY2RACE SALE WARWICK FARM BREEZE UP - CLICK HERE Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Mandela’s Group 1 moment ‘overwhelming’ for Tasmanian breeder Gunn | 2 | Friday, September 18, 2020 << Continued from page 1 “She’s been broken in and the breaker really likes her, so that’s good, and I’ve got a full-brother to Mandela Effect, a black colt, at Blue Gum.” Gunn revealed she would reluctantly leave the eye-catching yearling at Phil Campbell’s Euroa property to be prepared for the Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale but she will still be supporting her local auction next year. “I think Chris might have won this year because we’re so up in the air with Tasmania,” she said. “To bring him back here and then if it’s an online sale or something, it’s not worth all the disruption. I think we’ll head to Inglis with him just because of Covid really. “I think all you can do is breed the stock and present them. It would Mandela Effect's sister sold for $80,000 this year MAGIC MILLIONS be lovely if we could have a live sale in Tasmania, but if that’s not possible, I guess our prep will be a lot shorter and it’ll be an online presentation. of his 24 starts, when the gelding ran fifth in the Chandler Macleod Stakes “It’s not ideal circumstances for the industry at the moment but the (Listed, 1200m) at Moonee Valley on September 5. industry still seems to be going along well.” The fact Mandela Effect has graduated to Group 1 level was not lost on There is no suggestion, at this stage, that the Tasmanian sale will not Gunn when she was contacted this week. be conducted as a live auction. “You make me cry - it’s overwhelming. It’s very, very exciting,” she said. Meanwhile, Mandela Effect, a three-time stakes winner in Tasmania “Banca Mo ran in a Group 1 for me up in Brisbane once and I still who is trained by Scott Brunton, has drawn barrier two in the Sir Rupert have his saddle cloth from that day, but I bought him, so to actually be Clarke Stakes with Craig Newitt taking the ride. able to breed a horse that’s running in a Group 1 is really significant Newitt was on board the six-year-old, who has been victorious in 12 for us.” Continued on page 4>> Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by ROTHFIRE Won JJ Atkins Plate-Gr.1, Run to the Rose S.-Gr.2, Champagne Classic-Gr.2 BEAT THE CLOCK Won Aus$9.3m, HKJC Centenary Sprint Cup-Gr.1-twice, Hong Kong Sprint-Gr.1, Chairman's Sprint Prize-Gr.1, Sprint Cup-Gr.2 PRESS STATEMENT Won JJ Atkins S.-Gr.1, Caulfield Guineas-Gr.1, Hobartville S.-Gr.2, Stan Fox S.-Gr.2 FOXPLAY Won Queen of the Turf S.-Gr.1, Phar Lap S.-Gr.2, Tea Rose S.-Gr.2, Furious S.-Gr.2 SPRIGHT Won Sangster S.-Gr.1, Star Kingdom H.-Gr.3, WJ Healy S.-Gr.3 VOLPE VELOCE Won Railway S.-Gr.1, Eight Carat Classic-Gr.2, Westbury Classic-Gr.2, Japan-New Zealand International Trophy-Gr.2 RANGIPO Won New Zealand Derby-Gr.1, Great Northern Guineas-Gr.2, Avondale Guineas-Gr.2, Waikato Guineas-Gr.2 LEICESTER/HELENE LEADINGSTAR (HK) Won South Australian Derby-Gr.1, Chairman's S.-Gr.3 URBAN FOX Won Pretty Polly S.-Gr.1 MAID OF HEAVEN Won Spring Champion S.-Gr.1 7 sons of SEABROOK Won Champagne S.-Gr.1, Sweet Embrace S.-Gr.2 Fastnet Rock TRAVELLING LIGHT Won Levin Classic-Gr.1, Soliloquy S.-Gr.3 have sired Gr.2 winners included the brilliant SMART MELODY as well as: Gr.1 winners! 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New Zealand: Gordon Calder Tel:+64 218 41612. www.coolmore.com Mandela’s Group 1 moment ‘overwhelming’ for Tasmanian breeder Gunn | 4 | Friday, September 18, 2020 << Continued from page 2 Mandela Effect’s dam Morell (West about her because she then goes on and produces Quest) is in foal to Blue Gum Farm resident sire Manhattan Rain (Encosta a lovely foal.” De Lago) and Gunn has her tentatively booked into Sun Stud’s Magnus The Motree Thoroughbreds broodmare (Flying Spur) this year. band has expanded to more than 20 - twice as As well as producing Mandela Effect, she is also the mother of the many as Kent suggests she should have - and talented Brunton-trained Galenus (Magnus), a winner of three of his four Gunn admits she’s gone a bit “mad” after a run of starts, who came under the attention of Hong Kong buyers after his last- success but she wouldn’t have it any other way. start victory at Cranbourne in May. She supports a range of studs and stallions with her mares, “She’s a mare that takes 12 months to foal and because she’s a late with Rosemont’s Shamus Award (Snitzel), Blue Gum’s Turffontein cover, she’s due October 28, but honestly it will probably foal to November (Johannesburg), Sun Stud’s Magnus and Fiorente (Monsun), 28,” the breeder said. Spendthrift Australia’s shuttlers Vino Rosso (Curlin) and Omaha Beach “She just holds onto them (War Front) as well as Overshare (I Am Invincible), Swettenham’s SHE’S A MARE THAT for that long. We know her now Highland Reel (Galileo) and Darley pair Impending (Lonhro) and TAKES 12 MONTHS TO and that’s what happens. If she Holler (Commands). has a foal in late October it Gunn is also sending a mare to Twin Hills’ Hallowed Crown (Street FOAL AND BECAUSE will be a huge shock and she’ll Sense) at Cootamundra in NSW and home-state sires Alpine Eagle (High SHE’S A LATE COVER, probably head off to Magnus Chaparral), Stratosphere (Snitzel), Mawingo (Tertullian) and Zululand SHE’S DUE OCTOBER for a late cover, but I’d say (Fastnet Rock). 28, BUT HONESTLY IT she definitely won’t foal until She employs a similar strategy when placing her horses with various WILL PROBABLY FOAL the third or fourth week of trainers throughout Tasmania. TO NOVEMBER 28 November, so I’d say she’ll be “It’s good to share it around and it’s also good if your horses can - CHRIS KENT having a year off. perform because then it's not just one person who’s getting the most out “We’ve given up worrying of them,” Gunn added. 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