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Tuesday, August 4, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here PAGE 23 Well-bred Gooree colt by READ TOMORROW'S EDITION FOR: STEVE Shalaa comes up trumps MORAN DON’T MISS STEVE MORAN’S LATEST COLUMN - VIEWS, ANALYSES AND TIPS FROM ONE OF THE INDUSTRY’S LEADING VOICES. EVERY WEDNESDAY What's on at National Yearling Sale Race meetings: Scone (NSW), Moruya Agents combine to land son of Shalaa for $360,000 at (NSW), Pakenham (VIC), Townsville (QLD) competitive Gold Coast auction Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Rosehill (NSW), Scone (NSW), Moruya (NSW), Caulfield (VIC), Stawell (VIC), Wodonga (VIC), Sunshine Coast (QLD), Ruakaka (NZ), Ashburton (NZ) International meetings: Beverley (UK), Catterick (UK), Lingfield (UK), Durbanville (SA) Sales: Magic Millions National Yearling Sale (QLD), Magic Millions National Racehorse Sale (QLD) Lot 1493 Shalaa - Crowned Glory colt MAGIC MILLIONS show of the industry’s ability to defy wider BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS economic factors. he half-brother to Group The supplementary entry, the highlight of 1-winning sire Hallowed Crown the unreserved dispersal of the late Eduardo (Street Sense) by Arrowfield Cojuangco’s bloodstock interests, was Stud’s shuttler Shalaa purchased by Andrew Williams Bloodstock 2020 GLOBAL SALES DATES & T(Invincible Spirit), the last lot to be offered on behalf of a client of Victorian trainer Matt PINHOOKER TABLES FROM PAGE 29 in Book 1 of the Magic Millions National Laurie who relied on the Sydney agent’s Yearling Sale, last night sold for $360,000 evaluation of the colt before committing to NSW/QLD/WA DOMESTIC BLACK-TYPE CALENDAR - PAGE 33 to put an exclamation mark on another purchasing him. Continued on page 2>> MON 3RD - TUE 4TH AUGUST 2020 NATIONAL YEARLING SALE: SALE LIVE - VIEW HERE TUESDAY 4TH AUGUST 2020 NATIONAL RACEHORSE SALE: VIEW CATALOGUE HERE Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Well-bred Gooree colt by Shalaa comes up trumps at National Yearling Sale | 2 | Tuesday, August 4, 2020 << Continued from page 1 Also a half-brother to the now Aquis bought for Laurie) but because Farm-based stallion Needs Further (Encosta De Lago) as well as Twin of Covid reasons he was stuck HE’S DEFINITELY AN Hills’ Hallowed Crown, the colt is the tenth living foal out of Crowned and couldn’t get up here, so he EASTER STYLE OF COLT Glory (Danehill), the Group 3 winner who was narrowly beaten in the relied on my fantastic videoing - ANDREW WILLIAMS Golden Slipper Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m). and pictures. Matty’s over the Williams, bidding from the back of the Magic Millions auditorium moon. for Laurie and fellow agent Justin Bahen, was in no doubt that the colt “He’s definitely an Easter style of colt, so God knows what he could deserves to lead the Magic Millions National Sale honour roll. have made at that level and we put him in that bracket, so it’s great to “He’s got a stallion’s pedigree. He’s a horse who is a half-brother to secure a style of horse like him. Golden Rose-Randwick Guineas horse (Hallowed Crown) who is also “He’s going to go straight down to (Laurie’s) and go through orientation from the family of Zabeel and we and learn a bit more in new surroundings and go from there.” thought he might be a three-year-old Gooree Park group of companies business manager Jeanette style of horse,” he said. Tioseco believes Cojuangco would have been pleased to see such strong “However, given he’s a Shalaa, competition on the Gooree-bred horses at yesterday’s sale. he has a bit of Invincible Spirit blood “(Mr Cojuangco) has always made an impression… he has always there as well and, first and foremost, emphasised the quest for excellence, so am sure he would have been very I thought he was a ripping sort with happy with that result,” Tioseco said. lovely size and scope and comes from “The family will continue his legacy of breeding good-quality, strong one of the great nurseries in Australia.” horses. I must admit, I had to make sure that the horses go to good quality Williams is a fan of the Shalaas farms. I think he would be happy. who have sold strongly at the southern “The farm remains in the family and we still have a few broodmares hemisphere yearling sales this year. and racehorses as well weanlings which hopefully some will be sold here Matt Laurie SPORTPIX He said: “This is the first horse (I’ve (at Magic Millions) in January.” Continued on page 4>> Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by Colourful Snitzel filly joins Legend brigade | 4 | Tuesday, August 4, 2020 Colourful Snitzel filly joins Legend brigade A Snitzel (Redoute’s Choice) filly, the last foal out of champion South African mare National Colour (National Assembly), was also hotly contested before making $300,000 in a bittersweet moment for her breeders which brought to an end their association with a highly successful family. On a day where buyers gravitated towards the better-credentialed new season two-year-olds in which vendors were prepared to meet the market to achieve a clearance rate of 75 per cent, there were 37 six-figure lots at an average of $53,866, it was prominent Hong Kong-based owner Bon Ho who made a splash on the Gold Coast via the phone, continuing his large-scale investment in young stock this year. Under the banner of Legend Racing, Ho bought the two highest- priced yearlings yesterday, the session-topping Snitzel filly and a $270,000 son of Dundeel (High Chaparral), who were both consigned Lot 1276-Snitzel - National Colour colt MAGIC MILLIONS by Arrowfield Stud. Ho was also a big-spender at the Magic Millions in January, buying Grade 1 winners Rafeef (Redoute’s Choice) and Mustaaqeem (Redoute’s yearlings up to $650,000, and at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale Choice). he purchased nine horses for a total of $4.35 million including the So You She was catalogued as Lot 1276 by Arrowfield Stud who has nurtured Think (High Chaparral) half-brother to his star sprinter Classique Legend the family of South Africa’s 2005-06 champion older female sprinter (Not A Single Doubt) for $1.1 million. National Colour who died in November 2018. The Snitzel filly hails from one of the most potent South African Arrowfield Stud bloodstock manager Jon Freyer admitted that it was a families of recent years, being a three-quarter sister to South African difficult decision for the breeders to part with the filly. Continued on page 6>> Inspired by the Past, Present and Future RELIABLE MAN Proven sire of Oaks winning fillies Miami Bound and Sentimental Miss, and the impressive Group winner Kinane. STUD FEE $ ,000 15 +GST Miami Bound The shape of things to come. www.westburystud.com Follow us @anz_news | 4 | Brought to you by European sires with two-year-olds Timeform-rated 90+ Timefrom ratings as at 29 July 29 at as ratings Timefrom 90+ 2YOs SIRES 5 Territories 5 Kodiac 5 Starspangledbanner 4 Night Of Thunder 4 Dark Angel Quality, 4 Frankel early speed. 4 Kingman 3 Dubawi 3 Exceed And Excel 3 Acclamation 3 War Front TERRITORIES Invincible Spirit - Taranto $11,000 inc GST Colourful Snitzel filly joins Legend brigade | 6 | Tuesday, August 4, 2020 << Continued from page 4 “She is owned by Klawervlei Stud in “It’s very sad news for us. South Africa who are friends and partners of ours in a number of mares National Colour was a beacon of SHE’S A GRAND FILLY and National Colour was a great race mare for them. She was a champion hope and excellence for Chris and WITH GREAT QUALITY in South Africa and she competed really well at Group 1 level in England Erich van Niekerk, Sean Tarry and AND BALANCE. SHE’S and she’s done an amazing job at stud,” Freyer told ANZ Bloodstock News. Klawervlei,” Koster said. GOT LOVELY DEPTH “She’s had two Group 1-winning colts who were both bought by Angus “We mourn her passing and TO HER. SHE’LL BE A Gold for Sheikh Hamdan, and Rafeef had his first yearlings go through we celebrate her brilliance as a STAR TWO-YEAR-OLD, I the sale only a few days ago (in South Africa) and everyone was super racehorse and broodmare. May THINK. impressed with those. she gallop freely in the greenest “Having a filly out of that mare I think will be a great investment by pastures, into eternity.” - JON FREYER Bon Ho for many years to come.” The second purchase by Ho The well-credentialed Snitzel filly was entered for the Australian was another new season two-year-old offered by Arrowfield Stud by the Easter Yearling Sale in April, but was withdrawn by Arrowfield Stud after farm’s exciting stallion Dundeel from the family of Group 1 winner Irish the auction house initially moved to an online selling format due to Lights (Fastnet Rock) and Group 2 winner Omei Sword (High Chaparral). government restrictions imposed because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Also a withdrawal from the Easter auction, the colt is the second foal Freyer said: “(Klawervlei Stud) were quite reluctant to put her through out of the winning Aspen Summit (Fastnet Rock) whose first foal, the given she’s the last chance to retain some of the family but with Covid and three-year-old Solar Apex (Deep Impact), ran on strongly to finish third the way things are in South Africa, they were reluctantly forced to meet the on debut at Gosford on July 25 for trainer Chris Waller.