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Longchamp (FR) - Prix du Moulin de Longchamp (Gr 1, 1600m), Prix La Rochette (Gr 3, 1400m), Prix du Prince d’Orange (Gr 3, 2000m), La Coupe De Maisons-Laffitte (Gr 3, 2000m). Baden-Baden (GER) - Casino Baden-Baden Goldene Peitsche (Gr 3, 1200m). Saratoga (USA) - Spinaway Stakes (Gr 1, 7f), Honorable Miss Handicap (Gr 2, 6f). Del Mar (USA) - Del Mar Debutante Stakes (Gr 1, 7f), Del Mar Derby (Gr 2, 9f) LATEST NEWS FROM THE WEEKEND'S RACING Gytrash SPORTPIX The Gordon Richards-trained Gytrash (5 g BY STEVE MORAN | @ANZ_NEWS Lope De Vega - Miss Barley by Fastnet Rock) he spring’s sprint racing action relegated Chris Waller’s Nature Strip to another began exactly as it did last autumn first-up loss, his fourth straight defeat when when South Australian star Gytrash resuming from a spell and one which mimicked (Lope De Vega) upstaged the world’s the autumn’s Lightning Stakes (Gr 1, 1000m) at Thighest-rated sprinter Nature Strip (Nicconi) Flemington when both horses returned with the SINGAPORE NEWS | FIRST DERBY with a decisive victory in the Concorde Stakes former winning and the latter beaten at $1.45 - FOR CLEMENTS, DURIC AS TOP KNIGHT SHINES - PAGE 14 (Gr 3, 1000m) at Randwick yesterday. as he was yesterday. Continued on page 2>> ENTER NOW JULY 24 -29 ONLINE SALE ENTRIES CLOSE JULY 22. Featuring broodmares, yearlings and racing stock. FRICatalogue 4TH-WED available at inglisdigital.com 9TH SEPTEMBER 2020 INGLIS DIGITAL SEPTEMBER (EARLY) SALE: SALE LIVE - VIEW HERE Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Gytrash again upstages Waller’s Nature Strip | 2 | Sunday, September 6, 2020 << Continued from page 1 The Lightning was a breakthrough While victory obviously Group 1 success for Gytrash and his 68 year-old trainer while the Concorde augurs well for Gytrash’s later Stakes was his ninth win in a 20-start career which has seen him just once spring prospects, defeat has only finish outside the first three. limited significance in terms of The TAB, sponsors of yesterday’s race and the $15 million The the same for Nature Strip. Everest (1200m), cut Gytrash from $11 to $6 for the October 17 Everest The Chris Waller-trained while easing Nature Strip from $2.60 to $3. No other runner, including gelding, rated 124 on the world the only “locked-in” contenders Classique Legend (Not A Single Doubt) rankings and 121 domestically, and Rothfire (Rothesay) bar was an emphatic winner of his yesterday’s protagonists, is at second and third runs in the I DON'T KNOW NOW single-figure odds. autumn and twice won Group 1 WHETHER I WOULD GIVE Gytrash stalked Nature races after being beaten first-up HIM ANOTHER RUN OR Strip, who was unable to cross in the 2019 spring. GO STRAIGHT TO THE leader Ball Of Muscle (Dubawi), Gytrash, who has no such Gytrash SPORTPIX EVEREST. HE COULD before drawing clear to win by glitches on his form card, will DO IT. HE WAS FIRST-UP a length and a half in a quick obviously remain in Sydney given Covid-19 travel restrictions and may TODAY, WITH ONE EASY 55.81 seconds for the 1000 proceed to The Everest without another run. TRIAL WHEN HE FIRST metres - just a blink slower than "I don't know now whether I would give him another run or go straight CAME OVER HERE. HE’S the track record time of 55.73 to The Everest. He could do it. He was first-up today, with one easy trial GOOD WHEN FRESH set by Redzel (Snizel), a two- when he first came over here. He’s good when fresh,” Richards said. - GORDON RICHARDS time Everest conqueror and the “I’m loving it now, not homesick anymore,” said Richards of the Concorde Stakes winner of the relocation with the gelding who was sold, as a weanling and a yearling, three previous years. by Inglis and has secured the Inglis Everest slot. Continued on page 4>> Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by Aim to how to breed Keep your cash Lower your risk Protect your profits your mare So...foal share or Breed Secure? in a pandemic FOAL SHARE BREED SECURE You provide the mare. Send your mare to an eligible Spendthrift stallion. Stallion farm provides the stallion service. 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GST all reward If the yearling makes more than $10,000* + service fee, you keep all the profit. www.spendthrift.com.au Office: 03 5421 5600 *$5,000 for a weanling Gytrash again upstages Waller’s Nature Strip | 4 | Sunday, September 6, 2020 << Continued from page 2 "I thought he was in trouble turning Sea Wolf (9 g Amadeus Wolf - for home when the other two kicked and they did kick but when he Rose de France by Diktat) and knuckles down, he's a good horse and I think the 1200 metres (of The annexed the trifecta with Yulong Everest) is better for him as he can balance up and he’ll learn from that Prince (Gimmethegreenlight) today,” he said. and Finche (Frankel) filling the Nature Strip's rider James McDonald was laconic but seemingly not placings. unduly disappointed. Post Chelmsford, Waller "Good. He felt terrific,” he said before adding he “executed well” - was more focused on paying whatever that might mean! tribute to fellow trainer Rick Gytrash was purchased for $40,000 at the 2017 Inglis Melbourne Worthington who died, from Premier Yearling Sale by Richards from the Maluka Thoroughbreds cancer, yesterday. draft. He had been first offered at the 2016 Inglis Great Southern “It was a pretty special race, Weanling Sale where he made $70,000 to the bid of New Zealander wasn’t it? All the trainers learned John Corcoran. about half an hour ago and there Gytrash was bred by Packing Investments Australia and Haltrow was an air of silence. To lose a and Glastonbury Farms, who consigned him as a weanling at Oaklands man like Rick at such a young Mister Sea Wolf SPORTPIX Junction. age - too young. He was the first Miss Barley was sold for just $4,000 to Perth trainer Justine Erkelens person to help if someone was doing it tough. He has done it tougher than at the 2017 Magic Millions Perth Winter Mixed Sale. She had Gytrash’s anybody in the last few years. He’d be the last one to show it. It is a sad unraced three-year-old half-sister Outlaw Miss (Rubick), who has been day,” he said. Continued on page 6>> retired without racing, and has two-year-old filly Pouakai (Demerit), who has trialled three times in 2020. Waller pays tribute to Worthington Waller’s day, typically, was not fruitless despite the hiccough with Nature Strip. Tattersalls He produced veteran gelding Humidor (8 g Teofilo - Zalika by Zabeel) to win the Feehan Stakes (Gr 2, 1600m) and a ticket to the Cox Plate (Gr 1, Guineas HIT 2040m) at his first run for the stable. The horse, who ran Waller’s heroine Winx (Street Cry) to a long neck in the 2017 Cox Plate, had not won for Group 2 Winner two years but was able to defeat Melbourne Cup (Gr 1, 3200m) favourite Surprise Baby (Shocking) by a long neck with a nose back to Harbour Views (Le Havre) in third. MISTER SEA WOLF "I've watched him at trackwork a lot over the past few weeks this CHELMSFORD STAKES, Group 2 horse since I've been back and he's looked in great condition and he's sold Tattersalls Guineas Horses in Training Sale trialled up really well,” rider Damian Lane told Racing.com. "It was by Denton Hall Stables very unfortunate for Damien Thornton to get hurt on Monday and I to BBA Ireland was very fortunate to pick up the ride. I was happy to take it from what for 32,000 gns I had seen at work and he gave me a great ride here today. I AS I'VE PROBABLY loved being back on him.