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Australian Racing Industry Pays Tribute to Might and Power | 2 | Monday, April 13, 2020 Monday, April 13, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here MORNING BRIEFING - PAGE 7 HONG KONG NEWS - PAGE 10 THE WEEK AHEAD - PAGE 13 Australian racing Read Tomorrow's Issue For: industry pays tribute Stallion Watch What's on to Might And Power Metropolitan meetings: Warwick Farm Connections remember two-time Horse of the Year, who died on (NSW), Sandown (VIC) Sunday morning at Werribee Equine Centre aged 26 Race meetings: Muswellbrook (NSW), Ipswich (QLD), Gawler (SA), Bunbury (WA) RACING NEWS Richards trio bound for Lime Country While they couldn’t find the winners’ enclosure Might And Power NZ RACING NEWS at Randwick on Saturday, trainer Jamie Richards Werribee Equine Centre on Saturday night, was more than satisfied with what his trio of BY ANDREW HAWKINS | @ANZ_NEWS having been diagnosed with colic. Despite stable stars have achieved during their extended erhaps it is only fitting that Might emergency surgery, he was unable to be saved. autumn campaigns in Australia. And Power (Zabeel), the horse “I got a text this morning saying the big Three-year-old filly Probabeel (Savabeel) named by owner Nick Moraitis horse had gone and it is a very sad day,” regular found the Heavy 8 track surface too tough an ask after hearing a church choir sing of rider Jim Cassidy told ANZ Bloodstock News when plodding home for eighth in the Australian Pthe “might and power of Jesus Christ”, died as yesterday. “But there were so many great Oaks (Gr.1, 2400m) while even noted wet track Easter Sunday dawned. memories as well and that’s how I’d like to performers Te Akau Shark (Rip Van Winkle) and The 26-year-old Might And Power was remember him today. He took me places I Melody Belle (Commands) struggled in the gluey rushed from his home at Living Legends to never thought I’d go.” Continued on page 2>> conditions as they battled gamely for fifth and sixth respectively in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes YESTERDAY'S RACE RESULTS START ON | PAGE 14 (Gr 1, 2000m). Racing News page 9 >> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Australian racing industry pays tribute to Might And Power | 2 | Monday, April 13, 2020 << Continued from page 1 The death of Might And Power early yesterday morning was, in many ways, the final curtain call for a golden age of racing. The early to mid 1990s was a halcyon era for Australian racing: think Super Impose (Imposing), Better Loosen Up (Loosen Up), Let’s Elope (Nassipour), Schillaci (Salieri), Naturalism (Palace Music), Octagonal (Zabeel), Saintly (Sky Chase), even Might And Power’s old sparring partner Doriemus (Norman Pentaquad). All are gone. Few remain from that period; among them is the legendary Subzero (Kala Dancer), now the only Melbourne Cup winner from before 1999 still alive. As good a horse as he was on the track, it is his exploits away from racing that will remain his lasting legacy. Might And Power SPORTPIX For Might And Power, his legacy will always be linked to his tremendous ability, his dominant, pulverising front-running style that first visit to Kaapstad in 1990 producing Miss Priority, the dam of Hong saw him win a Caulfield Cup (Gr 1, 2400m) stylishly, a Melbourne Cup Kong Mile (Gr 1, 1600m) winner Lucky Owners (Danehill). (Gr 1, 3200m) tenaciously and a Cox Plate (Gr 1, 2040m) aggressively. He “Benediction was bought on an overseas trip to England by Nelson remains one of only two horses to have won all three of Melbourne’s most Schick, co-owner of Windsor Park,” recalled Steve Till, long-time general prestigious races, alongside Rising Fast (Alonzo). manager of Windsor Park Stud, to ANZ Bloodstock News yesterday. From Ireland to the UK to New Zealand to Australia “She had above-average talent as a racemare being stakes-placed and The seeds for the Might And Power story hark back to the UK in 1989, although she was by an unfashionable stallion Day Is Done she did come when Listed-placed Irish filly Benediction (Day Is Done) was sold for from a good branch of a family descending from the great racemare and 17,000 gns at the Tattersalls’ December Sales. Purchased by Windsor Park broodmare Selene, as did our own champion sire Star Way and the great Stud principal Nelson Schick, she was shipped to New Zealand, with her stallion Sir Tristram.” Continued on page 4>> ENTER NOW APRIL 24-29 ONLINE SALE ENTRIES CLOSE APRIL 22. Featuring broodmares, yearlings and racing stock. Catalogue available at inglisdigital.com Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by MICROPHONE Australian Champion Two-Year-Old by Champion Sire Exceed And Excel Three global CHAMPIONS TOO DARN HOT European Champion Two-Year-Old by Champion Sire Dubawi BLUE POINT European Champion Sprinter by Champion Shamardal NEW for 2020 Australian racing industry pays tribute to Might And Power | 4 | Monday, April 13, 2020 << Continued from page 2 It was her third New Zealand mating in that sort of action wouldn’t be an issue for him in his racing career, given that 1992, when she visited Cambridge Stud’s unproven second-season stallion he had a pedigree that said he’d be at the races at three and four and beyond, Zabeel (Sir Tristram), that resulted in the birth of a bay or brown foal in those other likely issues became less likely. October, 1993. “That was the thought process and it turned out to be reasonably accurate.” “Might And Power resulted from the decision to send Benediction to At the same time as Cummings was taking possession of Might And Zabeel on the share Windsor Park owned in him. We felt that both were at a Power, the colourful Cassidy was watching his career fall apart. The “jockey similar stage in their respective stud careers and, importantly, we felt Zabeel tapes” scandal saw him disqualified for 21 months, not for fixing races but for had the right physical attributes to compliment Benediction. We also liked pretending to fix races. The suspension took effect right in the middle of the the fact that it was quite a complementary line-breeding mating. 1995 Sydney autumn carnival, too. “As a foal and a weanling, Might And Power was taking time to develop and, “In 1995 and 1996 was all about the jockey tapes and I got rubbed out, they even as a yearling, he wasn’t quite forward enough to take to the New Zealand tried to bury me,” he said. “I couldn’t take a trick. No matter what I did, they just yearling sales. As a result, we decided he would be best offered at the Inglis Easter kept rubbing me out. In one respect, it was probably the best thing that happened yearling sales in Sydney. He was initially passed in, however, he was sold a short but they took five or six years off me in suspensions and that was the hardest one. while later to Anthony Cummings for his reserve price of $40,000.” I needed a miracle to get back to the top.” Cummings remembers that April day in 1995 when the colt failed to While Cassidy was sitting on the sidelines, Cummings was preparing the attract sufficient interest, despite the fact that first season sire Zabeel had just now Moraitis-owned Might And Power for his first racing campaign. Gelded produced his first Group 1 winner with Octagonal’s victory in the AJC Sires’ early in his two-year-old days, he was given his name by his new owner after Produce Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m). a church service. “My granddaughter received her first Holy Communion - and the choir was singing about ‘the might and power of Jesus Christ’,” Moraitis told Helen Thomas for her book, A Horse Called Mighty. “And because his mother is Benediction, I said to my partner Judy, ‘That’s a wonderful name for a horse, Might And Power!’ She said, ‘How dare you think of a horse at Mass!’ And I said, ‘It’s an inspiration.’” He debuted at Canterbury late in his two-year-old career in June 1996, coming from last to finish fourth over 1290-metre no metro win event for colts and geldings. At start three, he broke through to win at Randwick over 1400 metres, before he finished second over 1500 metres at Rosehill three days into his three-year-old season. “The first part of it was about looking after him and keeping him in one piece,” Cummings said. “He was always precocious, he always looked like he Might And Power SPORTPIX was ready to go but we slowed the process down and made sure that he was “I’d seen him in the days leading up to the sale,” reminisced Cummings given the time to cope with those deviations from the norm that he had. We last night. “I was buying horses for Nick Moraitis and for other people as well. tried to help him to become the racehorse that he ought to have been. At that stage, they’d finished what they were doing, they’d reached their limit “I had him for his first four starts, he broke his maiden and then ran with Inglis and what have you and so I didn’t have a client for him. I bought a second at Rosehill. That’s where, in the run, he looked like he was going to win few on the way through. on the turn, but he lost some ground and then he made good ground again on “He was passed in, so I went straight over to where Windsor Park was at the line.
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