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EQUESTRIAN FLAIR JO MCKINNON ON THE HORSE MEN AND WOMAN MAKING A DIFFERENCE - PAGE 16 Friday, June 11, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here VITEK JOINS RIDGMONT FARM HIERARCHY - PAGE 12 FIRST SEASON SIRE RUNNERS - PAGE 33 Beast from the East set Read Tomorrow's Issue For to create deep impact in Saturday Spotlight What's on southern hemisphere Race meetings: Dubbo (NSW), Wagga Maurice answering more than the Danehill call for Arrowfield (NSW), Swan Hill (VIC), Dalby (QLD) Stud as Port Louis and Invinsible Tears bid for first Group 1 Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Warwick Farm (NSW), Dubbo (NSW), Flemington (VIC) International race meetings: Taipa (MAC), Chepstow (UK), Sandown (UK), York (UK), Goodwood (UK), Fairyhouse (IRE) International Sales: OBS June 2YOs and Horses of Racing Age (USA) MAIDEN OF THE WEEK ARGENTIA (AUS) - PAGE 19 INDUSTRY NEWS Maurice ARROWFIELD Figtrees sells for $5.35 Snowfall’s (Deep Impact) incredible million to private investors BY ALEX WILTSHIRE | @ANZ_NEWS 16-length victory in last Friday’s Epsom Oaks The Murray and Sue Murdoch-owned Figtrees n 2013, Galileo’s (Sadler’s Wells) (Gr 1, 1m 4f) was yet another example of the has been sold for $5.35 million in a joint venture dominance in Europe, both on the track late Deep Impact’s extraordinary influence with Magic Millions and iThink Property, the and subsequently in the broodmare when crossed with Galileo mares, as she real estate agency run by former Magic Millions band, prompted Coolmore to look East became the second Classic winner bred on the auctioneer Clint Donovan. Ito the rising sun of Japan to source an outcross cross, after Coolmore’s 2018 2,000 Guineas (Gr The Hinterland property, which features stallion to send a handful of their high-class 1, 1m) winner Saxon Warrior. While the cross 195 acres of land and three homes, has Galileo mares to, namely the all-conquering features a further two Grade 2 winners in Japan been developed over the last 13 years by Japanese champion sire Deep Impact (Sunday and French Group 3 winner Harajuku, all from the Murdochs and sold to private investors Silence). just 31 runners. Continued on page 2>> yesterday. Industry News page 15 >> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Beast from the East set to create deep impact in southern hemisphere | 2 | Friday, June 11, 2021 << Continued from page 1 In Australia, likewise, in the years since that, and his two contenders for this weekend’s J J Atkins Plate (Gr 1, 1990 when Arrowfield’s John Messara first acquired Danehill (Danzig) 1600m) at Eagle Farm, out of a Tale Of The Cat (Storm Cat) and Invincible to stand in the country, the gradual dominance of the stallion and his Spirit (Green Desert) mare respectively, are testament to that, as the Beast prevailing sire sons in the proceeding years saw Arrowfield, in 2019, to from the East seeks to claim a first success at the highest level. also look East to provide the sought-after outcross for their exceptionally- “(The cross with Danehill-line mares) is exactly the reasoning behind talented pool of dominant Danehill-line mares. it,” said Arrowfield’s bloodstock manager Jon Freyer, on the operation’s Indeed, the prospect for decision to shuttle Japanese stallions in 2019, and again in 2021 after a success of the cross can trace year hiatus induced by the outbreak of Covid-19. HE’S (MAURICE) back through his lineage, with “But it’s not necessarily the Danehill lines. We thought the Danehill PROBABLY GOING TO SUIT A LOT OF THOSE Maurice descending back to lines would suit him and be very popular with breeders and would suit a (AUSTRALIAN) MARES, Hail To Reason (Turn-To), lot of our mares, but he’s been successful across the board. AND PHYSICALLY HE whose son Sunday Silence “The horse that’s running in the J J Atkins, Port Louis, is out of a Tale SUITS THEM AS WELL, crossed with Danehill mares Of The Cat mare and the other one is out of an Invincible Spirit mare, so HE’S A BIG STRONG at a 36 per cent strike rate of there’s some very good blood there. HORSE, BUT YOU CAN stakes winners to runners, and “We’re very positive about him and the market is positive about him MATCH HIM WITH A included Australian Oaks (Gr 1, and we’ve just been inundated with bookings for him for the coming BIGGER MARE AND YOU 2400m) winner Sunday Joy and season.” GET AN ADMIRABLE American Grade 2 winner Silent Although both maidens, last-start BRC Sires’ Produce (Gr 2, RESULT. ON ALL COUNTS Name. 1400m) runner up Port Louis and BRC Champagne Classic (Gr 2, HE’S WORKING WITH Yet, in their headline 1400m) second Invinsible Tears have the chance to claim Group 1 A WIDE SPECTRUM OF Japanese shuttler Maurice success tomorrow for Maurice, who scored his sixth individual winner MARES (Screen Hero), he is showing the on Wednesday when the Julius Sandhu-trained Sharp Response won a - JON FREYER potential of clicking far beyond maiden at Sale. Continued on page 4>> LEADING SIRES IN AUSTRALIA by Stakes Winners for 2020-21 Season RK STALLION FEE SW SW/R% 1 FASTNET ROCK $165,000 14 6.42% 2 SO YOU THINK $77,000 12 4.72% - I Am Invincible $220,000 12 3.52% - Written Tycoon $165,000 12 3.34% Source: arion.co.nz, 9th June ENOUGH SAID Colm Santry, John Kennedy, Paddy Oman, Tom Moore, Rob Archibald or Emma Pugsley Tel: 02 6576 4200. New Zealand: Gordon Calder Tel:+64 218 41612. www.coolmore.com Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by Beast from the East set to create deep impact in southern hemisphere | 4 | Friday, June 11, 2021 << Continued from page 2 He, again, is out of a diverse bloodline to them, so they’re going to the Japanese horses and the likes of Shalaa through Host (Hussonet) mare Marli Magic. While earlier in the spring, and Dundeel, so, I’d say it would be about 75 per cent, being mares with and flying the flag for the Danehill-line mare, is the Peter and Paul Danehill blood.” Snowden-trained Mazu, who won a maiden at Canterbury before running This season, Arrowfield have bolstered their Japanese sire ranks third in the Pago Pago Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m) in a bid to qualify for the with Admire Mars (Daiwa Major), a Group 1-winning juvenile, who following week’s Golden Slipper (Gr 1, 1200m). went on to score at the elite level over a mile in Japan and Hong “We thought he (Port Louis) was about the pick of all our Maurice’s Kong. from that first crop,” said Freyer. “Katsumi Yoshida bought him privately “He’s an exceptional racehorse, a very good two-year-old, and when the Easter live sale was cancelled. From day one Ciaron Maher was competed internationally in Hong Kong successfully,” said Freyer. “He’s giving us very good reports about him and and was very positive about got a nice pedigree, he’s a very good looking horse. Daiwa Major we think him, and his judgement’s been vindicated, here he is in a Group 1 and he will work very well with Danehill mares, he has in Japan, and I think he’s was probably a shade unlucky in the Champagne Stakes. very competitively priced. “The good thing is, he’s (Maurice) probably going to suit a lot of “We’ve recognised for some time that Japanese form and Japanese those (Australian) mares, and physically he suits them as well, he’s a bloodstock is of a particularly high calibre, and we wanted to use a certain big strong horse, but you can match him with a bigger mare and you get amount of it through the stud, with our broodmare band and obviously an admirable result. On all counts he’s working with a wide spectrum with the stallions as well. of mares. “We’ve seen all around the world, wherever Japanese horses have “We’ve just finalised all our matings with our own mares and we’ll be competed, they’ve been remarkably successful, and now we’re seeing, looking to send him around 44 mares this season, so we’re really getting with the likes of Snowfall and Saxon Warrior before them, that with Deep behind him. Impact they’re of a Group 1 standard in Europe. “There’d be a good proportion of Danehill mares. When we balance “It would be foolish not to have an element of that in the stud and, if up our portfolio, obviously with the likes of The Autumn Sun, Snitzel, the right opportunity comes along, we’d be happy to invest further, but Pariah and Showtime, we’re not sending a lot of the Danehill-line mares we’re very happy with what’s gone on so far.” Continued on page 6>> Follow us @anz_news | 4 | Brought to you by VINERY STALLIONS Vinery welcomes dual Gr.1 winner ALL TOO HARD $33,000 CASINO PRINCE $5,500 EXCEEDANCE $33,000 HEADWATER $16,500 OLE KIRK (NEW) $55,000 PRESS STATEMENT $13,750 STAR TURN $16,500 All fees include GST. Payment on live foal. ADAM 0414 800 918 • HARRY 0401 970 006 • PETER 0418 276 454 (02) 6543 8333 VINERY.COM.AU Heinrich’s Tears hope to prove Invinsible | 6 | Friday, June 11, 2021 Heinrich’s Tears hope to prove Invinsible The only filly in Saturday’s J J Atkins field is the Gillian Heinrich- trained Invisible Tears, who arrives into the race after a luckless ninth in the BRC Sires’ Produce, and a second placing in the Champagne Classic, one of three times she’s filled the runner-up spot in her five-start career.