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International dreaming Read Tomorrow's Issue For: Timeform leaves food Peter Moody for thought Vendor Profile What's On Metropolitan meetings: Randwick Steve Moran | Page 13 (NSW), Sandown (VIC), Doomben (QLD), Wednesday, April 3, 2019 Ascot (WA) Race meetings: Gawler (SA), Launceston Castelvecchio primed (TAS), Phar Lap (NZ) International meetings: Sha Tin (HK) for tilt at Inglis Sires' ‘Hot-blooded’ Dundeel colt pleases trainer with final gallop ahead of Group 1 By Tim Rowe ichard Litt is confident the decision to bypass the Golden Slipper Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) with Stud News Castelvecchio (Dundeel) can pay Eurozone heads south to Roff in the Inglis Sires’ (registered as ATC Sires’ Bellereve Stud Produce Stakes) (Gr 1, 1400m) at Randwick, describing his talented colt as the fresh horse in the race. The Inglis Millennium (RL, 1200m) winner, who was given a short break after his third- placed run in last month’s Skyline Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) at the course, is one of 14 juveniles to have accepted for Saturday’s $1 million race. He will take on the Godolphin-owned Eurozone NEWGATE Golden Slipper quinella of Kiamichi (Sidestep) and Microphone (Exceed And Excel) as well as Eurozone (Northern Meteor) will relocate Castelvecchio SPORTPIX Loving Gaby (I Am Invincible), Tenley (Medaglia from the Hunter Valley to Bellereve Stud near d’Oro) and Dubious (Not A Single Doubt). race for him. We identified that quite early, so Canberra in 2019 as he enters his sixth year The quintet all competed in the Slipper on a we ran him in the Skyline, which didn’t knock at stud. Heavy 8 track on March 23. him around too much. Canberra businessman Chris Burke, a Castelvecchio won his first start at “If he had won that we probably would have racehorse owner and breeder, has negotiated Canterbury on January 18, coming from last to gone to the Slipper. He finished off well - he a deal for the stakes-winning stallion to move score over 1200 metres, before backing it up went enormously - and that made our mind up to southern NSW after starting his career at with a last-to-first victory in the inaugural $2 where we were going. Newgate Farm. million Inglis Millennium on his home track of “I am glad I have got the freshest horse in With his oldest progeny rising four-year- Warwick Farm. the race and he just has to turn up on the day olds, Eurozone is the sire of 16 individual “He always looked like he was going to need and have a little bit of luck.” winners, including stakes winners Krone and the extra ground in every run that he has had,” Josh Parr, who rode Castelvecchio in Saturday’s Bendigo Guineas (Listed, 1400m) Litt told ANZ Bloodstock News. a Randwick 1045-metre barrier trial last winner Mystery Love, a three-year-old filly “As much as it would have been lovely to Friday, will retain the mount on the colt this who is unbeaten in three starts for trainer have a runner in the Slipper, this is the main weekend. Continued on page 3>> Mick Price. Stud News page 11 | 1 | Brought to you by The past Group One Derby and12 Oaks winners have all been Australian-bred. It pays to buy Australian. 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Tom Marquand got off him and said, ‘Richard, Loving Gaby, who drew barrier five, is the $6.50 favourite. you’ve got a nice horse here’ and I said, ‘OK, thank you’,” Litt, 29, recalled Litt was pleased with his colt’s closing fourth in Friday’s barrier trial yesterday. and noted that the horse did not wear blinkers in the hit out. “He said throw a set of blinkers on him and you won’t see which way Castelvecchio also galloped on the Warwick Farm course-proper he went. I thought ‘whatever’ but Tom was right. yesterday. “We put the blinkers on and away he went.” “There is going to be plenty of speed in the race. He’ll be back, He added: “He is a highly-strung horse, put it that way, very much like smoking his pipe and staying out of trouble. We’ll bring him to the outside his father (Dundeel) and his father High Chaparral. He has that hot blood and what will be, will be,” he said. in him, which keeps him naturally fit, and he is very easy to do most things “He is a very fit horse, he goes on all ground and he’ll be there in the with.” finish.” Litt could extend Castelvecchio’s two-year-old season beyond the A $150,000 purchase by colt’s “grand final”, the Sires’, and run him in the ATC Champagne Stakes Galletta Constructions from the (Gr 1, 1600m) at Randwick on April 20. Arrowfield Stud draft at the 2018 However, Litt was also mindful that there were spring goals in mind for Inglis Classic Yearling Sale, the son of Dundeel (High Chaparral), including the Golden Rose Stakes Castelvecchio has impressed (Gr 1, 1400m) should he prove up to the class. Litt from “day one”, which saw “There are no huge ambitions. We are just taking each day as it comes him contest a Randwick barrier and the Champagne is there if we want to (press on). He is going to have trial last September. a great three-year-old career,” he said. However, it was visiting Related Links | Saturday’s Randwick Group 1 acceptances Richard Litt SPORTPIX British jockey Tom Marquand | 3 | Brought to you by Tivaci, Turn Me Loose, Vadamos, Tarzino, Preferment, Belardo, Rageese, Vanbrugh, Wrote, Telperion, Puccini, Unusual Suspect, Verdi, Prince of Brooklyn. Visit. Invest. Win. www.nztm.co.nz Morning Briefing | sponsored by Westbury Stud | 5 | Wednesday, April 3, 2019 International stage Redzel set to Australia awaits Santa bounce back in T J Sunlight up to T J challenge Foreign excursions await Santa Ana Lane In other TJ Smith news, Kerrin McEvoy is Tony McEvoy is confident three-time Group 1 (Lope De Vega) after the Anthony Freedman- confident Redzel (Snitzel) had legitimate winner Sunlight (Zoustar) can rise to her biggest trained six-year-old lines up in the TJ Smith excuses for his last-start defeat in The Galaxy test so far after the three-year-old galloped at the weekend, for which he is a $7 chance. (Gr 1, 1100m) and is predicting the dual winner at Randwick yesterday morning ahead of her "Santa Ana Lane is confirmed on a flight of The Everest (1200m) to bounce back to form outing in Saturday’s TJ Smith Stakes (Gr 1, to Hong Kong to run in the same race as from barrier five on Saturday. “This has always 1200m). “She's run in the Magic Millions, she's Chautauqua won (Chairman's Sprint Prize) been his main aim and you can’t forget that,’’ run in the Golden Slipper and they're high- and pending some quarantine issues in McEvoy told Racing NSW. “For me, you just put pressure contests and she's handled herself the UK at the moment, he’s then likely to a line through his last start. We got a bad bump very well in those and I expect her to do the head over to Royal Ascot,” Sam Freedman, at the 600 metres and it cost us momentum - same here,” McEvoy said. “I saw her pull up and assistant trainer to his father, told Racing. he got unbalanced and that’s always hard when she had a nice healthy glow and looked like she com. "He'd likely head to the 1200-metre you’re in a handicap with a big weight. It’s all needed the gallop, which she does, and she's (Golden Jubilee) race on the final day. A about trying to obtain the best position and in good order. She's really tough, she loves her stiff 1200 (metres) on a rising track would making the most of your luck. I know if I can ride role and knows exactly what's needed." definitely suit him.” him how I want he'll be very hard to beat.” DISCOVER GREATNESS Lot 310 Inglis Easter 2017 Snitzel-Response filly | 5 | Brought to you by Morning Briefing | sponsored by Westbury Stud | 6 | Wednesday, April 3, 2019 Kluger has a motor: Berry 1992 winner Soho Square (Jugah). Widgee Turf the Rosehill Guineas (Gr 1, 2000m) and Pike Tommy Berry has issued a positive bulletin on will be partnered by Billy Egan and the pair will added: “He had to make a long-sustained run the Tomokazu Takano-trained Kluger (King break from barrier 17.