MAIDEN OF THE WEEKPAGE 22 Friday, April 23, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here WINGMAN CUTTING PREVIEW - PAGE 20 TWO FOR SWEAR - PAGE 8 FINALISTS ANNOUNCED FOR GSSSA - PAGE 19 Japan’s Maurice and newcomer Read Tomorrow's Issue For Admire Mars to shuttle to Saturday Spotlight What's on Arrowfield Stud in 2021 Race meetings: Tamworth (NSW), Shalaa earns fee increase as Snitzel and Dundeel remain Cranbourne (VIC), Werribee (VIC), Gatton unchanged on nine-strong roster (QLD), Canberra (ACT) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Flemington (VIC), Kilmore (VIC), Rockhampton (QLD), Canberra Acton (ACT) International meetings: Fairview (RSA), Sandown (UK), Doncaster (UK), Keeneland (US) International Group races: Sandown (UK) - bet365 Mile (Gr 2, 1m), Gordon Richards Stakes (Gr 3, 1m2f), Classic Trial (Gr 3, 1m2f). Keeneland (US) - Bewitch Stakes (Gr 3, 12f) Sales: Inglis Digital April (Late) Sale International sales: OBS Spring Sale of 2YOs in Training (US) Shalaa, Dundeel, Snitzel, Admire Mars and Maurice ANZ would rejoin its stallion roster after a one-year BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS hiatus caused by the restrictions emerging from merging Japanese sire Maurice the Covid-19 pandemic, while also sourcing (Screen Hero) and Grade 1-winning another Japanese shuttler to accompany him. companion Admire Mars (Daiwa The latest major stud to release its service MORNING BRIEFING Major) will shuttle to Australia later fees, Arrowfield will offer a nine-stallion line-up, Ethis year as Arrowfield Stud returns to the Land led by four-time reigning champion sire Snitzel Twin Hills Stud of the Rising Sun in search of the magic outcross (Redoute’s Choice), whose fee will fee remain announces fees stallion for the country’s Danehill- (Danzig) unchanged at $165,000. Unchanged fees have Twin Hills Stud has announced fees for its four dominated broodmare population. also been announced for barnmates Dundeel stallons ahead of the 2021 covering season. Smart Arrowfield Stud yesterday confirmed that (High Chaparral) ($66,000), The Autumn Sun Missile’s (Fastnet Rock) fee has reduced to $16,500 Maurice, whose first southern hemisphere- (Redoute’s Choice) ($66,000) and Castelvecchio (including GST), having stood for $20,000 the past bred two-year-old crop are showing promise, (Dundeel) ($33,000). Continued on page 2>> two years. Morning Briefing page 8 >> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Japan’s Maurice and newcomer Admire Mars to shuttle to Arrowfield Stud | 2 | Friday, April 23, 2021 << Continued from page 1 Pariah (Redoute’s Choice) ($16,500) commercial, really, for what he and Showtime (Snitzel) ($11,000) will also have their fees kept at 2020 has achieved. You look at horses levels, but European shuttler Shalaa (Invincible Spirit) has earned a fee in Australia who have won three increase from $33,000 to $44,000 this year on the back of his strong start Group 1s, and two Group 1s at with his first crop two-year-olds, which has yielded five stakes-performed two, that are at stud and I don’t juveniles this season. think you’ll find any around Maurice, Japan’s current leading second season sire and so far the sire $20,000.” of five Australian-bred first-crop winners, including two stakes-placed Admire Mars is out of a juveniles, will also stand for a fee of $44,000, up from $27,500 in 2019. Group 3 winner in France, Via “He’s a complete outcross for everything that’s down here and he’s Medici (Medicean), and is a showing promise,” Arrowfield Stud chairman John Messara said yesterday. half-brother to European stakes “We didn’t think his progeny would show much at two, but it might winners Via Firenze (Dansili) be a sign of things to come when they’re three-year-olds, so we’re very and Via Pisa (Pivotal), while his hopeful. own sire Daiwa Major (Sunday “He stands for a fee over there of AU$100,000 equivalent, so we’re Silence) is responsible for six going to stand him for $44,000 here, so that’s a pretty good deal, I’d say. Grade 1 winners and his overall John Messara ARROWFIELD “He’s shown he can produce two-year-olds and we’ve just had a figures demand great respect, glimpse of what can happen there and there’s an enormous amount of according to Messara. interest in him. “When you look at the stakes winners over there, you have got to “His stock are willing, they are strong and the trainers like them. We’ll multiply them by two because their ratio to stakes races to overall races is get more enquiries about him than just about any other horse on our less than half of ours,” he said. roster.” “He has 37 stakes winners, so when you multiply that by two, (a fair Arrowfield’s sole newcomer for 2021, Japan’s champion juvenile comparison is) more like 75 stakes winners in Australia.” Admire Mars, like Maurice, was successful in Hong Kong, bringing down Messara’s long-term investment in Japanese bloodlines, he says, is the jurisdiction’s own champion Beauty Generation (Road To Rock) in the starting to be recognised by the wider Australasian yearling market after 2019 Hong Kong Mile (Gr 1, 1600m). years of shuttling their stallions and also sending mares over to be covered A winner of the Asahi Hai Futurity Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m) at two and by the late, great Deep Impact (Sunday Silence). the NHK Mile Cup (Gr 1, 1600m) at three before his international success, “If you have a look at the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale results, you will see Admire Mars will stand for $22,000 in his opening southern hemisphere Australians are becoming enamored with Japanese horses now. They’ve season after starting his stud career this year at Shadai Stallion Station. understood them,” he said. “He’s an interesting horse because he was a champion two-year-old “Every time the Japanese travel overseas to compete in other over there and his two Group 1 wins were over a mile and then he came jurisdictions, they really make an impact. Whenever they’ve come to out as a three-year-old and beat the best horse in Hong Kong in the Hong Australia with proper horses, they’ve done the same. Kong Mile,” Messara said. “I think there’s a great underlying respect for Japanese racing and “He is totally free of Danzig and Danehill and all that and he’s got Japanese horses and that was reflected at the Easter sale when you look some interesting blood running through his veins. at the prices for the Maurices, the Just A Ways and all the others that we “He’s a nice horse to bring out and he is at a fee that is super sold.” Continued on page 4>> ARROWFIELD STUD STALLION ROSTER 2021 2020 Snitzel (Redoute’s Choice) $165,000 unchanged Dundeel (High Chaparral) $66,000 unchanged The Autumn Sun (Redoute’s Choice) $66,000 unchanged Maurice (Screen Hero) $44,000 $27,500 (in 2019) Shalaa (Invincible Spirit) $44,000 $33,000 Castelvecchio (Dundeel) $33,000 unchanged Admire Mars (Daiwa Major) $22,000 new Pariah (Redoute’s Choice) $16,500 unchanged Showtime (Snitzel) $11,000 unchanged *all fees inclusive of GST. Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by 2021 ARROWFIELD STALLIONS SNITZEL $165,000* CASTELVECCHIO $33,000 DUNDEEL $66,000 ADMIRE MARS $22,000 NEW THE AUTUMN SUN $66,000 PARIAH $16,500 MAURICE $44,000 SHOWTIME $11,000 SHALAA $44,000 THE AUTUMN SUN 5 X G1 WINNING CHAMPION ALL FEES INCLUDE GST *LIVE FOAL TERMS JON FREYER +61 408 583 888 | SALLY GORDON +61 421 080 021 PETER JENKINS +61 408 667 876 | ALISON BRASSIL +61 439 338 630 Shalaa to be popular again | 4 | Friday, April 23, 2021 Shalaa to be popular again horses, his fee of $44,000 was increased as he prepares for his fifth season Another shuttler on the Arrowfield roster is Shalaa whose appeal at Arrowfield. has been heightened by the deeds of the Chris Waller-trained juvenile While Shalaa warranted a fee increase, Messara said Arrowfield was Shaquero, a colt who has won the ATC Breeders’ Plate (Gr 3, 1000m), the inclined to be conservative. Magic Millions 2YO Classic (RL, 1200m) and the Pago Pago Stakes (Gr 3, “We’ve got a lot of early demand for him and we take a longer term 1200m) this season. view on all these things,” he said. As a result of Shalaa’s success of five first-crop winners and four stakes “We don’t want to squeeze the lemon too fast (with these stallions) and make sure we continue to get good books for them. “We let them find their feet and find their way before we get more serious about fees.” Shalaa covered 170 mares at a fee of $33,000 in 2020. Status quo for Snitzel Keeping Australia’s champion sire Snitzel at a fee of $165,000 - he stood for $220,000 in 2019 and 2020 - was the cause of much debate in the Arrowfield Stud office in recent weeks, but again Messara was keen to maintain a conservative approach with the farm’s roster. This season, Snitzel has sired ten stakes winners and had star New Zealand Group 1-winning two-year-old colt Sword Of State, Saturday’s Arrowfield 3YO Sprint (Gr 2, 1200m) winner Wild Ruler and smart Sydney filly Four Moves Ahead flying the flag for the rising 19-year-old. “Compared to a lot of the other horses around, he looks cheap at $150,000 Castelvecchio ARROWFIELD (plus GST) and we argued over that,” Messara revealed.