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KIWI CHRONICLES Tuesday, July 6, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here HIGH CHAPARRAL PASSING CLASS AND VERSATILITY THROUGH HIS OWN AND SIRE-SONS - PAGE 26 So You Think colt comes Read Tomorrow's Issue For Steve Moran out on top on day two of Focus Asia What's on Great Southern Sale Race meetings: Gunnedah (NSW), Warren Too Good Too Hard also sets broodmare session record at (NSW), Sportsbet-Ballarat (VIC), Townsville (QLD) $560,000 as Melbourne sale comes to an end Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Gunnedah (NSW), Warren (NSW), Warwick Farm (NSW), Bendigo (VIC), Pakenham (VIC), Caulfield (VIC), Doomben (QLD), Toowoomba (QLD), Hobart (TAS), Taupo (NZ), Foxton (NZ) International meetings: Wolverhampton (UK), Pontefract (UK), Brighton (UK), Turffontein (SAF), Parx Racing (USA). International Group races: Parx Racing (USA) - Dr James Penny Memorial (Gr 3, 8.5f) Sales: Magic Millions Online July Sale International sales: Aomori Prefecture Hachinohe Yearling Sale (JPN) Lot 321 So You Think - Collins colt INGLIS was delayed three weeks due to a Covid-19 BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS outbreak in Victoria, was purchased by Mitchell he highest-priced weanling sold on Bloodstock on behalf of a client and helped the second day of the Inglis Great the 2021 Great Southern Sale to across the INDUSTRY NEWS Southern Sale, a So You Think (High board records, surpassing the 2019 benchmark Chaparral) colt from the family of results. Aidan O'Brien is nervous - Tchampion mare Makybe Diva (Desert King), The So You Think colt was one of 32 he knows this horse could may be retained to race with the buyer of the weanlings to make $100,000 or more during fill a Galileo-shaped hole $290,000 foal in no rush to commit to putting the two-day auction, which averaged $40,738 If you were in the grandstands or betting ring on a him back through a sale in 2022. at a median of $22,000. The aggregate was last humid afternoon at Sandown, you will have heard The second most expensive weanling sold night at $11,203,250 at a clearance rate of 78 the occasional burst of Football's Coming Home or at this year’s Oaklands Junction sale, which per cent. Continued on page 2>> God Save The Queen. Continued on page 32 >> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by So You Think colt comes out on top on day two of Great Southern Sale | 2 | Tuesday, July 6, 2021 << Continued from page 1 The broodmare session also achieved develops in the coming months before deciding whether to reoffer him at records despite a smaller offering. next year’s yearling sales or retain him to race. Meanwhile, Coolmore-based So You Think was Australia’s most The son of So You Think is the third foal out of the unraced Collins popular sire in 2020, covering 261 mares, as breeders began to recognise (Desert King), a sister to three-time Melbourne Cup (Gr 1, 3200m) heroine the star racehorse’s growing achievements in the stallion barn and that Makybe Diva. Her first foal, the unraced juvenile filly Just Get It Done fact was not lost on agent James Mitchell who had to extend the budget (Brazen Beau), is in training with Colin Little while her second, a colt by for day two’s top Lot. All Too Hard (Casino Prince), was bought by fellow Caulfield trainer John “He’s a hugely underrated stallion, I believe. He’s been doing a good Moloney for $110,000 at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale in job for years now,” Mitchell said. January. Bred and sold by Makybe Stud, he was catalogued as Lot 321. “He wins Derbies, he wins Mitchell has been in attendance at the Melbourne sale this week and Group 1s regularly, he’s a very was glad he was on the ground, coming away with seven weanlings for a HE WINS DERBIES, good stallion and this is a nice spend of $671,000. HE WINS GROUP 1S colt out of a full-sister to one of He said: “There’s some good-quality weanlings here. Inglis has done a REGULARLY, HE’S A the best mares you’ve ever seen great job and obviously with the permit I am on, I’ve been just going from VERY GOOD STALLION (Makybe Diva). the hotel to the sale and back, but it’s certainly been worth it to come down.” AND THIS IS A NICE “The client was obviously Joe Murray, who runs Tony Santic’s Makybe Stud near Geelong, COLT OUT OF A FULL- pretty bullish. We probably believes the colt had plenty of commercial appeal if the buyer chose to SISTER TO ONE OF THE spent a little bit more than I was re-offer him next year. BEST MARES YOU’VE expecting but it’s the market we “He’s been a bit of a marquee item being out of a full-sister to Makybe EVER SEEN (MAKYBE are in and he wanted him, so Diva,” Murray said. DIVA) that is where we ended up.” “He looks like a So You Think with the forelock and everything like - JAMES MITCHELL Mitchell said the client that, so most people who saw him came back for a second look. would assess how the colt “The x-ray hits were coming through, so Continued on page 4>> Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by PRECOCIOUS ENOUGH TO WIN THE PAGO PAGO & CANONBURY, RACES WON BY GROUP 1 SIRES: NOT A SINGLE DOUBT HINCHINBROOK ALL TOO HARD SEBRING STRATUM So You Think colt comes out on top on day two of Great Southern Sale | 4 | Tuesday, July 6, 2021 << Continued from page 2 we knew he would be popular. We didn’t think we’d have to protect him at all because the market was strong on him straight away.” Trainer Little described the two-year-old half-sister as “tough”’ and Murray believes the weanling sibling is in the same mould. “We’ve got a bit of a saturation of the Makybe family, so we had to bring a couple here,” he said. “We weren’t selling him for any reason other than we’ve got other yearlings who will come through. “His x-rays were clean and we weren’t going to bring him here if he had any issues. You are only going to walk away disappointed if you bring a horse with issues and with a pedigree like that, he was always going to match up.” Lot 543 Capitalist - Sebrina colt INGLIS Cangon Stud cashes in Capitalist colt at was bought by Victorian agent Suman Hedge in conjunction with his $250,000 pinhooking partners including Silverdale Farm. The fanfare around Newgate Farm’s Capitalist (Written Tycoon), the “He’s a colt we haven’t had for very long, he’s only been on the farm sire of 18 individual first crop winners this season, saw Cangon Stud a week and we knew he was a special colt as soon as he got off the truck,” proprietors Jock and Jennifer Mackay make the last-minute call to send Widden Victoria’s Phil Marshall said. a third crop colt from the Hunter Valley to Melbourne and the decision “A big thanks to Jennifer and Jock Mackay at Cangon Stud for proved justified yesterday. trusting us with the horse, they brought him down in pretty good The third foal out of the stakes-placed Sebrina (Sebring), offered as order and he hasn’t really had a prep, so he’s going to improve from a supplementary through the Widden Stud draft, realised $250,000 and here. Continued on page 6>> “Doubtland is an exciting addition to the Victorian stallion ranks. He has a fascinating pedigree that suits the Australian market perfectly and with his good looks he is sure to make an impact. I am sending four of Gilgai Farm’s mares to him this season and taking not one, but two breeding rights as a long term play in him.” Rick Jamieson 2021 STANDING FEE | $16,500 inc. GST 03 5428 5168 | WIDDEN.COM Follow us @anz_news | 4 | Brought to you by sourcing quality bloodstock Your new home for from your desktop! THE CLOCK IS TICKING BIDDING CLOSES FROM 12 NOON WEDNESDAY www.magicmillions.online 96 LOTS INCLUDING • 3-time Flemington winner Bumper Blast • Short Stories, city winner from 4 starts • Untapped youngsters from Shadwell’s Australian Racing Stable • Impeccably bred juvenile Fastnet Rock filly Pink Gin • 3YO Sydney winner Vigorous Flow • Listed 2YO winner Casquets • Lightly raced city winning 4YO mare Shezawitness • A share in Gr1 winning son of Deep Impact, Fierce Impact MAGIC MILLIONS 5-7 JULY ONLINE SALE Cangon Stud cashes in Capitalist colt at $250,000 | 6 | Tuesday, July 6, 2021 << Continued from page 4 “He's a lovely horse and has plenty of scope for a Capitalist, which I think the buyers really liked, and he also had such a great attitude and I’d be surprised if he doesn’t make it into a really good racehorse with that temperament.” Sebrina, a winner of four races and herself a daughter of Group 3 winner Crown Princess (Beautiful Crown), has had two other foals sell so far, a $150,000 Not A Single Doubt (Redoute’s Choice) colt purchased by Sun Bloodstock and an Exceed And Excel (Danehill) colt who made $140,000 to agents Bevan Smith and Johnny McKeever at this year’s Inglis Classic Yearling Sale. The colt was catalogued as Lot 543. “He’s a lovely horse, extremely athletic, beautiful-moving and very well put together and Widden did a great job presenting him,” Hedge said.