Saturday, April 3, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here QUEENSLANDERS BUY WELL-KNOWN SCONE STUD GLASTONBURY FARMS - PAGE 1 IF HIS HEAD WAS DOWN IN THE GOLDEN ROSE, IT WAS A $20M DIFFERENCE “(TO HIS VALUE).” – CO-TRAINER WAYNE HAWKES Parading this Sunday at Riverside at 4pm. 202472-NorthPacific-WHawkes-falseCover-ANZ-print.indd 1 3/31/21 10:41 AM Saturday, April 3, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here MELODY BELLE CLEARED TO START IN TANCRED - PAGE 10 SAIF: SATURDAY SPOTLIGHT - PAGE 12 Queenslanders buy What's on well-known Scone stud Stakes races: Rosehill (NSW) - H E Tancred Stakes (Gr 1, 2400m), Vinery Stud Stakes (Gr 1, 200m), Emancipation (Gr 2, 1500m), Glastonbury Farms Tulloch Stakes (Gr 2, 2000m), Doncaster Dunemann’s rapid industry rise takes on new Prelude (Gr 3, 1500m), Neville Sellwood Stakes (Gr 3, 2000m), Star Kingdom Stakes dimension with acquisition of Hunter Valley property (Gr 3, 1200m), T L Baillieu Handicap (Gr 3, 1400m). Oakbank (SA) - Oakbank Stakes (Listed, 1100m). Caulfield (VIC) - Easter Cup (Gr 3, 2000m), Victoria Handicap (Gr 3, 1400m), Redoute’s Choice (Listed, 1200m). Ascot (WA) - Karrakatta Plate (Gr 2, 1200m), Awapuni (NZ) - Manawatu Sire Produce Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m), North Awapuni Gold Cup (Gr 2, 2000m), Manawatu Classic (Gr 3, 2000m), Flying Handicap (Listed, 1400m), Riverton (NZ) - Riverton Cup (Listed, 2147m) Metropolitan meetings: Rosehill (NSW), Caulfield (VIC), Eagle Farm (QLD), Ascot (WA), Oakbank (SA), Awapuni (NZ) Race meetings: Kembla Grange (NSW), Moruya (NSW), Port Macquarie (NSW), Kerang (VIC), Warracknabeal (VIC), Gold Coast (QLD), Gatton (QLD), Dongara (WA), Glastonbury Farms GLASTONBURY FARMS Clare (SA), Pioneer Park (NT), Ellerslie (NZ), Riverton (NZ) sprinter Spirit Of Boom (Sequalo) and his BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS brother Temple Of Boom, has partnered ndrew Dunemann’s burgeoning with fellow Queenslanders Gary and Lorilie thoroughbred interests have reached Cunningham and their son Mitchell as well as new heights with the Queensland- Neil Douglas to take on the Scone stud. based owner and breeder and The deal, negotiated in the middle of last Aformer National Rugby League player buying year after initially being floated in late 2019, will Hunter Valley nursery Glastonbury Farms. come into effect on June 30 and it will see the Dunemann, whose scale of investment has semi-retirement of Glastonbury Farms co-owners skyrocketed since racing dual Group 1-winning Duncan and Di Grimley. Continued on page 2>> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Yearling market on the rise, will stallion fees follow suit? | 2 | Saturday, April 3, 2021 << Continued from page 1 Fellow Glastonbury principals Yvonne The trio also recently signed a contract to purchase the neighbouring and Mark Clerke will stay on as managers of the operation, which is to be farm, taking their total land holding to more than 200 hectares, which also rebranded as Ridgemont Farm. encompasses a 700-megalitre water right. Dunemann told ANZ Bloodstock News his rapid rise from racehorse Glastonbury’s 45-hectare Gundy Road property, about ten minutes’ owner and breeder to stud master came about after a discussion with drive from the main farm, is not part of the buyout and it will remain Duncan Grimley about the potential sale of the farm and business came under the ownership of the Grimleys. to light in late 2019. “It probably took three or four months to get the deal done and we From there, the proposal was put by Dunemann to the partners in his now own this property and we’ve been lucky enough to get next door breeding operation, Boutique Thoroughbreds, who agreed to dramatically because, as most people know, getting next door is worth more to us than expand their bloodstock interests by investing in the farm. anyone else,” he said. “We were actually driving down (to the Hunter Valley) last year “We want to grow and we want to get to 120 mares on-farm if we can, to undertake inspections for the Chairman’s Sale and I mentioned it and to do that we need extra land. The advantage is, it’s right beside us.” in the car and the boys’ (Cunningham and Douglas) ears pricked up,” Dunemann, who plans to appoint a yearling manager in the near Dunemann revealed yesterday, future, has already moved from Brisbane to Scone to oversee the venture. “By the end of that inspection period, we decided to have a look at “You just don’t get a better location in the Valley in terms of the golden it, see what it was about and get triangle. With our new farm, we’re literally across the road from Darley, WE WANT TO GROW some figures on the table and go you have got Vinery down the road, you’ve got Arrowfield, Kia Ora and from there.” Segenhoe all in that golden triangle,” he said. AND WE WANT TO GET They took ownership of “At worst, we have got a nice land grab and I wouldn’t think that it will TO 120 MARES ON- the main Glastonbury Farms go backwards in price any time soon. FARM IF WE CAN property on Segenhoe Road, “We want to be successful in breeding and selling horses but the - ANDREW DUNEMANN which is 101 hectares, in fallback is that you’re always going to have property that is going to be September last year. valuable.” Continued on page 4>> Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by NEW FOR 2021 One of Europe’s most exciting sires Already sire of European Champion and triple Gr.1 winner Almanzor (his first southern hemisphere yearlings in 2021 made up to $800,000), 2020 Breeders’ Cup winner Audarya, 2020 Gr.1-winning 3YO sprinter Wooded, 2020 Gr.2-winning 2YO Chindit, 2020 Gr.2-winning miler Tamahere etc. All his Gr.1 winners to date are from only €4,000 and €6,000 nominations! Unbeaten Gr.1-winning Champion 2YO with a great pedigree outcross for Danehill line mares Colm Santry, John Kennedy, Paddy Oman, Tom Moore, Rob Archibald or Emma Pugsley Tel: 02 6576 4200. New Zealand: Gordon Calder Tel:+64 218 41612. www.coolmore.com Queenslanders buy well-known Scone stud Glastonbury Farms | 4 | Saturday, April 3, 2021 << Continued from page 2 He added: “Glastonbury has been pretty much a closed farm, so they have never needed too many outside clients. They have got friends really who have mares at the farm and we definitely want to keep them because they are invaluable. “But we are going to definitely try and bring in new clients. People talk about what’s been bred on the farm and every year you get some of the best broodmares in Australia coming here to be bred (from Strawberry Hill Stud). “They come here, they foal down and then they stay until weaning age and then they go back and then there’s other clients of the farm as well.” To support the acquisition of the two land holdings, Ridgemont Farm will also ramp up its broodmare band at the upcoming sales to help Gary and Mitchell Cunningham bolster their breeding stocks ahead of the 2021 season. “With the broodmare market being as strong as what I think it’s going While Dunemann raced the Boom brothers, he also currently has a to be, we haven’t put a number on what we want yet,” Dunemann said. share in star three-year-old Isotope (Deep Field), while Douglas has raced “But we plan to stick to our mentality and that’s going to be to buy the Stuart Kendrick-trained pair Eric The Eel (Olympic Glory) (who now in the upper middle market, buying nice covers with mares in foal, and races as Tourbillon Diamond in Hong Kong) and Fullazaboot (Sepoy). trying to be in the bottom end of the top market, or the top-end of the The Cunninghams have also invested significantly in young horses with middle market. trainer Tony Gollan. “We’re probably not there to stretch the big guys yet by buying the But the launch of Ridgemont Farm is likely to see the trio reduce the really expensive ones, but anything in the $300,000 to $500,000-$600,000 level of their racing interests, at least in the short term, while they focus on range, that’s what we will be looking at.” growing the full-service stud. 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