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Monday, May 10, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here INGLIS BROODMARE SALE RESULTS - PAGE 13 THE WEEK AHEAD - PAGE 25 SINGAPORE NEWS - PAGE 22 Rosemont backs Hanseatic Read Tomorrow's Issue For with acquisition of $350,000 Kiwi Chronicles Stallion Watch What's on Fastnet Rock mare Race meetings: Murwillumbah (NSW), Strong demand for breeding stock continues at Inglis Quirindi (NSW), Echuca (VIC) Australian Broodmare Sale Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Hawkesbury (NSW), Murwillumbah (NSW), Quirindi (NSW), Cranbourne (VIC), Gold Coast (QLD), Rockhampton (QLD), Belmont (WA) International meetings: Catterick (UK), Lingfield (UK), Windsor (UK) Sales: Inglis Digital May (Early) Sale MORNING BRIEFING Oklahoma Girl INGLIS US: Kentucky Derby hero over the past week and yesterday he again made Medina Spirit tests positive BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS his presence felt with a knockout blow to land for banned substance reeders with shareholdings in a the highest-priced mare of the sale, the three- The Bob Baffert-trained Kentucky Derby (Gr range of young stallions in the time winner Oklahoma Girl (Fastnet Rock), for 1, 10f) winner Medina Spirit (Protonico) has infancy of their stud careers helped $350,000. tested positive for the banned raceday substance to create a fierce marketplace at The stud continued their strong backing of betamethasone. In a press conference outside his Byesterday’s Inglis Australian Broodmare Sale, new stallion Hanseatic, with the mare set to be Churchill Downs yard yesterday, Baffert protested following on from incredible demand at Friday sent to the Group 2-winning juvenile, a sprinting his innocence calling the finding ‘an injustice’ night’s Chairman’s Sale. son of Street Boss (Street Cry), who was secured after a post-race sample revealed 21 picograms of Rosemont Stud’s Anthony Mithen has been by Victoria’s Rosemont Stud from Godolphin the substance, more than twice the legal limit of a key figure at Inglis’ Riverside Stables complex earlier this year. Continued on page 2>> ten picograms. Morning Briefing page 21 >> FRI 7TH - WED 12TH MAY 2021 INGLIS DIGITAL MAY (EARLY) SALE SALE LIVE CLICK HERE Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Rosemont backs Hanseatic with acquisition of $350,000 Fastnet Rock mare | 2 | Monday, May 10, 2021 << Continued from page 1 Oklahoma Girl was one of nine mares “She is a true miler who stretched in her Classic year to run a place in to make $200,000 or more, with another 25 sold for between $100,000 and the Queensland Oaks, so she’s got the stamina there as well,” Rosemont $200,000, underlining the depth of the broodmare market and what can be Stud’s Antony Mithen said. expected at the upcoming Magic Millions Gold Coast National Broodmare “It’s a great family and they’re the sorts of broodmares, by a great Sale and next month’s Inglis Great Southern Sale. broodmare sire and great sire in general in Fastnet Rock, who we should Rosemont’s new addition, Oklahoma Girl, a half-sister to Group 3 winner be adding to our collection and giving our new boy Hanseatic a good Sure Knee (Snitzel), was sold in chance with.” IT’S A GREAT FAMILY foal to Widden Stud sire Zoustar Rosemont Stud also bought Meiji (Strategic), who is in foal to Star Turn AND THEY’RE (Northern Meteor) by Coolmore (Star Witness), for $38,000 yesterday after purchasing four mares at the THE SORTS OF on behalf of the Ingham family. Chairman’s Sale including Group-winning sprinter From Within (Not A BROODMARES, BY A A dual Group-placegetter, Single Doubt) for $800,000 who will be covered by Hanseatic later this year. Oklahoma Girl is out of stakes- Hanseatic will stand for an introductory fee of $17,600 (inc GST) in GREAT BROODMARE placegetter Shawnee Girl 2021. SIRE AND GREAT (Encosta De Lago), herself a “Our intent is pretty clear: we think he’s top class and we’ve been pushed SIRE IN GENERAL IN three-quarter sister to Northern along a bit and encouraged by the breeders who have jumped on board and FASTNET ROCK, WHO Meteor (Encosta De Lago) and taken breeding rights and booked mares into him,” Mithen said. WE SHOULD BE ADDING Listed winner Kiss From A Rose “Some very good breeders and interstate clients have jumped into him TO OUR COLLECTION (Encosta De Lago). at a hundred miles an hour. We’re certainly encouraged by the reaction to AND GIVING OUR NEW Her first foal is a yearling Hanseatic and, so much so, that we’ve upped our sights a bit in terms of BOY HANSEATIC A filly by Arrowfield Stud shuttler the mares we’ll be pooling together to send to him.” GOOD CHANCE WITH Maurice (Screen Hero), while Underbidder Paul Moroney was acting for two clients and - ANTHONY MITHEN she has a weanling colt by Mithen watched on with some amusement before playing his winning Nicconi (Bianconi). hand. Continued on page 4>> BIVOUAC Stallion Parade The Darley stallions’ team would like to offer you the opportunity to join us at Kelvinside, Aberdeen for FIRST-SEASON SIRE BIVOUAC’s premier stallion parade. When: 9.30am for a 10am parade on Friday, 14 May 2021 Where: Kelvinside stallion lawn, 401 Rouchel Road, Aberdeen, NSW Click here to register your attendance to the event. Alternatively register via email [email protected]. Registrations close Monday, 10 May 2021. Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by Rosemont backs Hanseatic with acquisition of $350,000 Fastnet Rock mare | 4 | Monday, May 10, 2021 “We had one more bid because of a very clever name. Debbie (Kepitis) and the Ingham family would be well-pleased to know that, I’m sure.” Coolmore’s Paddy Oman said of Oklahoma Girl: “She’s a beautiful mare, raised on the farm by the Ingham family and it is a family that just keeps producing good horses. “We’re very grateful to Nigel, Anthony and the team at Rosemont for their support. They are great friends of ours and hopefully she’s lucky for them.” Sokolski says Yes on $320,000 Aqueda Continuing the trend, Brae Sokolski’s quest to support his Everest- (1200m) winning stallion Yes Yes Yes (Rubick) at stud stepped up yesterday after the prominent racehorse owner bought the second highest-priced lot sold at Riverside Stables, General Nediym (Nediym) mare Agueda, for $320,000. A co-owner of Todman Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) winner and Everest champion Yes Yes Yes, who this year enters his second season at Coolmore, Sokolski went Agueda INGLIS to $320,000 for the stakes-placed Agueda, who is in foal to leading first season sire Capitalist (Written Tycoon) on an October 24 service date. “I thought he was bidding against himself, but he’s told me that he Matt Scown, who advises Yes Bloodstock’s Sokolksi, signed for the had two separate clients. He had to sit on one table and Catheryne Newgate Consignment-offered Agueda, catalogued as Lot 328. (Bruggeman) sat on the other, so I thought I’d save them the confusion Agueda, a juvenile winner who was also six times stakes-placed, is and step in over the top,” he said. already the dam of Enseguida (The Factor), a winner of three races. “It also helped that I had my brother-in-law on the phone. It is “We knew we were going to have to pay for her because we thought Mother’s Day and he’s married to an Oklahoma girl, would you believe as she was one of the better physicals, she did it on the track and she throws Melanie Austin, his wife, is from Oklahoma. very good sorts,” Scown said. Continued on page 6>> Follow us @anz_news | 4 | Brought to you by ADMIRE MARS Unbeaten Champion 2YO History Making 3YO Exceptional Outcross LANDING IN AUSTRALIA IN 2021 $22,000 INC GST JON FREYER +61 408 583 888 | SALLY GORDON +61 421 080 021 PETER JENKINS +61 408 667 876 | ALISON BRASSIL +61 439 338 630 Sokolski says Yes on $320,000 Aqueda | 6 | Monday, May 10, 2021 << Continued from page 4 “Symon Wilde had The Factor gelding “The fact she was in foal to Capitalist was just a bonus, we would have been who was a really good running horse and we love the Star Turn (yearling), pursuing her aggressively no matter who she was in foal to,” Sokolski said. so we were happy to go to that. “I love General Nediym mares and they’re not making any more of “We wanted to obviously buy her for a bit cheaper than that, but I them. When we bought the filly at Classic, I absolutely loved her as a think the ones you really love, you’ve got to stump up for.” physical so I know this mare can produce quality types. It’s nice to be able Sokolski already owns a daughter of Agueda, combining with Astute to call her mine now. Bloodstock’s Louis Le Metayer at this year’s Inglis Classic Yearling Sale to “She’s a natural fit for us. I’m looking to improve and enhance my buy her Star Turn (Star Witness) filly for $310,000. broodmare band with more quality and proven mares. She has a Prized Icon (More Than Ready) weanling colt on the ground. “I’ve got a lot of younger mares, but we want some more proven mares “We bought the filly by Star Turn at the Classic sale for $310,000 who we know can throw a nice type and she fits that bill.” and she is in work with Annabel Neasham,” Scown said.