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Thursday, October 15, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here TREVOR MARSHALLSEA'S IN-DEPTH PEDIGREE ANALYSIS - PAGE 11 YESTERDAY'S RACE RESULTS - PAGE 16 Small field but Blue What's on Race meetings: Kembla Grange (NSW), Warrnambool (VIC), Mackay (QLD), Sapphire provides Northam (WA), Otaki (NZ) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Avondale (NZ) plenty of talking points International meetings: Lingfield (UK), Southwell (UK), Chelmsford (UK), Curragh Ranting causes upset in Group 3, Coolmore next for (IRE), Vaal (SAF), Keeneland (USA) Corstens’ son of Zoustar International Group races: Keeneland (USA) - Sycamore Stakes (Gr 3, 12f) Sales: Gavelhouse Plus Spanish Whisper Auction (NZ) International sales: Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, Book 3 (UK) MORNING BRIEFING 15 for Zoustar Widden Stud’s Zoustar (Northern Meteor) Ranting RACING PHOTOS brought up his 15th individual stakes winner yesterday as Ranting (3 c ex Vanilla Ice Cream by Ranting ($11) enhanced his own credentials BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS More Than Ready) took out the Blue Sapphire by downing last season’s brilliant two-year- Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m) at Caulfield. Zoustar stands he three-horse field drew derision old Hanseatic (Street Boss) ($3.90) and at Widden for a fee of $121,000 (inc GST) this year. from some in the lead-up to the Anders (Not A Single Doubt) ($1.35 favourite). Blue Sapphire Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m) Ranting, remarkably, over raced early and but the trio’s clash provided a was caught three wide outside Hanseatic, who Nine for Shamus Award Tspectacle worthy of the $400,000 on offer and kicked up to sit outside the Ciaron Maher and Rosemont Stud’s Shamus Award (Snitzel) registered it was Ranting (Zoustar), a maiden before David Eustace-trained Anders, who was having his ninth individual stakes winner yesterday when yesterday, who rallied to take the major prize. his first start back from an elevated temperature Sovereign Award (5 m ex Sovereign Charm by Show In doing so, Vain Stakes (Gr 3, 1100m) and which ruled him out of of the A J Moir Stakes (Gr A Heart) took out the Ladies’ Day Vase (Gr 3, 1600m) Danehill Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) placegetter 1, 1000m) last month. Continued on page 2>> at Caulfield. Morning Briefing page 5 >> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Small field but Blue Sapphire provides plenty of talking points | 2 | Thursday, October 15, 2020 << Continued from page 1 Just as Hanseatic, who finished second, and Anders appeared to be fighting it out, Ranting balanced up to close well in the last 50 metres to win by a half-neck. Hanseatic, who was found to have bled from both nostrils and will incur a three-month ban from racing, had a short-head to spare over third-placed Anders in a thrilling finish. Anders was later diagnosed with heat stress. Such is Troy Corstens’ belief in Ranting’s ability, he refused to send the colt to a maiden and now, after the colt’s breakthrough Group 3 win, the trainer will attempt to land the Coolmore Stud Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m), a victory that would ensure the son of Zoustar’s (Northern Meteor) appeal as a stallion prospect. "When Hanseatic RACING PHOTOS they started to WHEN THEY STARTED TO drop him off I "I've got two really nice horses going to the Coolmore. He's going to DROP HIM OFF I THOUGHT thought he was be a very valuable colt one day and hopefully we can run really well in the HE WAS GOING TO BE A BIT going to be a bit Coolmore." DISAPPOINTING BUT HE JUST disappointing but Corstens, who trains in partnership with his father Leon, already has TOOK THAT TIME TO BALANCE UP he just took that three-year-old filly Swats That (Shamus Award), the winner of Saturday’s AND I LOVE THE WAY HE FOUND time to balance up Thoroughbred Club Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m) at Caulfield. THE LINE and I love the way Ranting’s jockey Ben Melham admitted to some curse words at the -TROY CORSTENS he found the line," 600-metre mark, but was confident the colt would be able to run on under Corstens said. pressure. Continued on page 3>> 2nd A striking A brilliant fastest breeze type breeze 10.17s 10.30s 10.47s Like father, like son! Eye-catching turn of foot! Ready to run two-year-old! - Precocious two-year-old type! - Beautiful progressive colt - A strong, two-year-old type! - Out of a classy, stakes-winning dam! - By a leading Hong Kong sire - By a champion two-year-old sire! ‘Glenn Haven Thoroughbreds is proud to showcase our facility Contact: Matt Vella and the work Matt and his team do with our first Inglis Ready To Run draft. Phone: +61 466 873 980 We take pride in the work we do and in the draft we have put together.’ Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by Small field but Blue Sapphire provides plenty of talking points | 3 | Thursday, October 15, 2020 "They got away from me a little. I let him drift a bit in the straight away from them and he was too strong late," Melham said. "It was no surprise to me that he won today. Onwards and upwards for him." Jockey Mark Zahra admitted Anders, who was secured by Widden Stud for stallion duties, after his stunning San Domenico Stakes (Gr 3, 1100m) victory on August 29, ran a disappointing race and also said he was shocked that his two rivals were able to remain so close to him early. Ranting, who was bred by Gerry Harvey, was purchased by Flemington Bloodstock and Malua Racing for $280,000 at the 2019 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale from the Westbury Stud draft. From six starts, he has now been placed on five occasions including his Blue Sapphire Stakes success. He has now earned $323,800 in prize- money. Sovereign Award RACING PHOTOS He is the first foal out of the placed mare Vanilla Ice Cream (More Award as O’Brien looks to capitalise on her strong form this campaign. Than Ready) who in turn is a daughter of the five-time stakes-placed “We’ll think about it (the Empire Rose),” O’Brien said. mare Villa Bled (Danehill), a sister to Blue Diamond Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) “We’ll possibly go back to Moonee Valley (for the Tesio Stakes) on winner Danelagh. Saturday week. She does love The Valley. But she’s in a rare vein of form so Corstens also sought out the second and last foal of Vanilla Ice Cream, we certainly won’t be turning her out.” a Tarzino (Tavistock) colt, who made NZ$95,000 at this year’s New Zealand Sovereign Award, a winner of her previous start at Moonee Valley, Bloodstock Karaka Yearling Sale. defeated stablemate Fabric (Ocean Park) by a long neck with the previously Vanilla Ice Cream died before foaling in 2019. unbeaten Chaillot (Testa Rossa) another short-half head away in third. Zoustar, who stands at Widden Stud for a fee of $121,000 (inc GST) this O’Brien praised Jamie Kah for her connection to Sovereign Award. year, is the sire of 15 stakes winners including Group 1 winner Sunlight “She’s really clicked with Jamie Kah. She’s had two rides on her now who sold for $4.2 million as a broodmare at the Magic Millions National for two wins,” the trainer said. Sale on the Gold Coast earlier this year. “She has been a challenging mare so credit to everyone at home that they’ve persisted with her so far. Sovereign Award latest Shamus Award “You would have got long odds about her being a stakes winner 12 to hit the board at Caulfield months ago but she’s won a Group 3 race here today so it’s fantastic.” The hot run of form by Rosemont Stud’s recruit Shamus Award (Snitzel), Kah said: “She’s a different horse when she doesn’t get cover. the sire of three stakes winners already this season including Saturday’s "She got going at the 800 metres - she really wanted to win today. She Toorak Handicap (Gr 1, 1600m) scorer Mr Quickie, continued on the middle was probably a little plain late but that was only because she wanted to get day of the Caulfield Cup carnival with two victories yesterday. going a bit early. The Cox Plate (Gr 1, 2040m)-winning stallion started the day with “She’s just in form at the minute. She’s going super, she’s got a lot of Embolism winning a three-year-old ratings race, with trainer Danny talent. When she learns to drop the bridle a little bit more, I think she’ll be O’Brien indicating the colt would step up to a Group race next start, before a really nice 2000-metre horse.” it was stablemate Sovereign Award who made it seven wins from 15 starts Sovereign Award, a five-year-old mare who is from the first crop of in the MRC Ladies’ Day Vase (Gr 3, 1600m), her first at stakes level. Shamus Award who relocated from Widden Stud to Rosemont Stud in Victoria The Empire Rose Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m) looms large for Sovereign last year where he covered 149 mares, has earned $347,175 so far in her career. She is one of two winners and the first at stakes level out of six-time winner Sovereign Charm (Show A Heart) whose third dam Sixpence (One Pound Sterling) is responsible for producing Western Australian stakes winner Potential (Southern Appeal).