the karaka Experience Your ultimate guide from our team of experts click here Friday, January 22, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here INTERNATIONAL BUYERS CALL ON LOCALS TO HELP NEGATE KARAKA TRAVEL BAN - PAGE 1 LOOKING FOR A CLASSIC WINNER? Owner/trainer Denis Pagan and jockey Lachlan King celebrate Johnny Get Angry’s win in the Gr.1 Victoria Derby. TAVISTOCK 35 YEARLINGS ON OFFER AT KARAKA 2021 the karaka Experience Your ultimate guide from our team of experts click here Friday, January 22, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here MAIDEN OF THE WEEK: REMARQUE (AUS) - PAGE 14 FEATURE: ALMANZOR - PAGE 16 International buyers call What's on Stakes races: Moonee Valley (VIC) - on locals to help negate Australia Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) Metropolitan meetings: Canterbury Park Karaka travel ban (NSW), Moonee Valley (VIC) Race meetings: Port Macquarie (NSW), Overseas buying bench tipped to hold up as key players use expert eyes Mornington (VIC), Dalby (QLD), Sunshine of domestic contacts for yearling inspections ahead of NZB auction Coast (QLD), Esperance (WA), Port Lincoln (SA), Canberra (ACT) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Port Macquarie (NSW), Flemington (VIC), Kilmore (VIC), Bunbury (WA), Esperance (WA), Canberra (ACT) International meetings: Fairview (SAF), Lingfield (UK), Chelmsford (UK) Sales: Inglis Digital January (Late) Sale, NZB National Online Yearling Sale (Gavelhouse Plus) (NZ), gavelhouse.com Thoroughbred 25 January Auction (NZ) Lot 454 - $875,000 Savabeel colt: second top lot at the 2020 Karaka Yearling Sale TRISH DUNELL 1 on behalf of various clients, including leading BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS Brisbane trainer Tony Gollan, Swettenham he international buying bench, Stud and for Hong Kong owners, spending up the backbone of the New Zealand to $220,000 to be third leading purchaser by Bloodstock Karaka Yearling Sale, aggregate behind Te Akau’s David Ellis and may be locked out of the country’s Peter Moody. Tbiggest thoroughbred auction, but major Kiwi agent Guy Mulcaster, who arrived in RANGAL PARK’S overseas investors are still largely expected to Australia before Christmas to ensure he could attend BUTTLER TO PUT make their presence felt when the hammer the Magic Millions and upcoming Inglis sales, BROODMARES begins to fall on Sunday. bought 12 Book 1 lots last year, either in conjunction THROUGH ONLINE Last year, renowned Queensland-based with premier Sydney trainer Chris Waller or for AUCTION agent John Foote bought 18 yearlings from Book other clients. Continued on page 2>> - PAGE 12 ENTER NOW JULY 24 -29 ONLINE SALE ENTRIES CLOSE JULY 22. Featuring broodmares, yearlings and racing stock. FRI Catalogue22ND available at inglisdigital.com - WED 27TH JANUARY 2021 INGLIS DIGITAL SALE JANUARY (LATE) SALE LIVE - VIEW HERE Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by International buyers call on locals to help negate Karaka travel ban | 2 | Friday, January 22, 2021 << Continued from page 1 Mulcaster, who inspected Karaka- bound yearlings prior to jetting across the Tasman, and Foote are both expected to be active at the national sale this year but to what degree remains the question. A number of lower-profile agents who were active at the Magic Millions sale also indicated they planned to participate in the Karaka auction despite not being able to attend in person. Phill Cataldo, who bought 16 yearlings last year to be third behind only Ellis (30) and Foote (18) in terms of numbers, is one agent who chose to remain in New Zealand, and he has aspirations of once again being a major player on the buying bench. “We’ve had more enquiries than normal years from Australia, that’s for sure,” said Cataldo, who often acts for OTI Racing’s Terry Henderson Phill Cataldo SPORTPIX and prominent Melbourne trainers Mick Price and Mick Kent jr. “The quality is really good, I am very happy with it and the Australians potential upswing in domestic buyers due to local economic confidence will be shopping here for the middle-distance horses and there’s a really as the country emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic, but there is no good selection of those here.” shying away from the fact that the Kiwi sale relies heavily on the export However, Cataldo warned against vendors becoming too confident market. about buyers’ appetite for stock despite a record-breaking week at Magic Of the Kiwis who made an impact in 2020, syndicator Go Racing Millions. bought 14 lots for a spend of nearly $1.8 million while trainers Tony “It is hard to forecast whether there will be a flow-on effect. You’d Pike and Graeme Rogerson bought ten yearlings each. Paul Moroney, like to think there will be but they are different horses, a different buying in conjunction with his brother Mike’s Ballymore Stables, bought a bench, so I wouldn’t read too much into the results on the Gold Coast in combined 15 yearlings for his Matamata and Flemington operations. relation to our sale,” the experienced agent said. Australian trainer Ciaron Maher, whose large-scale outfit was a sales “In the current state the world is in, I think the vendors will be ring Goliath at the Magic Millions season-opening auction, bought nine setting their reserves yearlings at Karaka last year, ranging from $6,000 to a high of $500,000 for THE QUALITY IS REALLY GOOD, a little bit lower and a Showcasing (Oasis Dream) colt who is now named Golden Vitrine. I AM VERY HAPPY WITH IT I am sure NZB will Will Bourne, Maher and co-trainer David Eustace’s bloodstock AND THE AUSTRALIANS WILL be encouraging that manager, yesterday suggested the training powerhouse had already BE SHOPPING HERE FOR THE to get them on the compiled a shortlist of yearlings that would come under consideration at market. I think that is Karaka. MIDDLE-DISTANCE HORSES the wise thing to do.” “We are very lucky as buying horses (without being able to inspect AND THERE’S A REALLY GOOD Earlier this week, them) is a trust thing because there’s only so much you can see on a video. SELECTION OF THOSE HERE NZB managing But Sarah Worker, who was with us for two years and Darren Weir before - PHILL CATALDO director Andrew that, moved home about four months ago, so she has been doing our Seabrook flagged a shortlist for us,” Bourne said. Continued on page 4>> HAUNUI FARM YEARLING PREVIEW Extensive photos, videos & reports for our Karaka 2021 Yearling Draft FIND YOUR NEXT... FURORE WINNING DREAMER CROSSHAVEN MELODY BELLE SHOWMANSHIP Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by Of the past 12 Group 1 Derbies in Australia, % 83were won by Australian-bred horses. THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY Aushorse.com.au International buyers call on locals to help negate Karaka travel ban | 4 | Friday, January 22, 2021 << Continued from page 2 “We would have been a bit lost and not sure what we were going to do, but the fact that she is there and knows what we like in a horse, we can trust her immensely.” Despite investing so much money in yearlings at the Gold Coast, Bourne said there was demand from Maher and Eustace’s existing clients to buy horses from New Zealand, describing the various levels of interest as “horses for courses”. “Ciaron has had a lot of luck out of Karaka. He paid $130,000 for Global Exchange and he sold for about $1.6 million as a Group 2 winner by Dundeel,” he said. “He has also had good luck with Fascino, who is a Group 2-winning filly who he actually owns a quarter of - she is a $40,000 Charm Spirit - so Ciaron’s always found a nice horse out of there.” Bourne indicated that last year’s Kiwi crop of Maher and Eustace- trained yearlings has also given the team confidence to go back for more. “We haven’t had a runner yet from last year’s (group) where we bought about ten horses, but they are all going the right way,” he said. Dundeel RACING POST “They are all obviously not near the track yet but we are happy with what we brought back. There’s no buyers’ regret with the stock we have got streaming the Karaka sales and hosting some owners in a bid to emulate from last year’s Karaka sale.” being on site, with the likes of Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott, Trent While it is almost certain some regular international buyers will not Busuttin and Natalie Young and Mitch Beer to name a few. be active at Karaka this year, New Zealand Thoroughbred Marketing chief “The vendors have done a great job in arming potential buyers with executive Andrew Birch says graduate success will still fuel demand from as much information as possible for this year, and I believe it will carry on overseas parties. into the post-Covid era.” “Many are as keen as ever and will utilise the services of local agents Birch added: “We also have a proud record of supplying top-flight or New Zealand industry contacts. At the other end of the spectrum there winners in Australia for more than a century to fall back on and Kiwi are some regular horses are having another great season, supplying around 23 per cent of buyers who believe the Group 1 winners and regular metro winners. CIARON HAS HAD A LOT OF they can’t purchase “In Hong Kong, New Zealand-bred horses have won 31 per cent of LUCK OUT OF KARAKA. HE without being on races this season, easily outperforming supply, and we continue to have PAID $130,000 FOR GLOBAL site and physically full confidence in the product.