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Tuesday, April 28, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australiasian bloodstock industry subscribe for free: Click here DIRECT TO YOUR INBOX EVERY MORNING NEW IN 2020 RIBCHESTER Champion European Miler – Twice 4-time G1 winner & rated 129 by Timeform IFFRAAJ’s best son $15,000 + GST BELARDO Champion 2YO & Dual G1 winner LOPE DE VEGA’s only son at stud in Australasia First crop 2YO’s 2020 $10,000 + GST Tuesday, April 28, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here STALLION WATCH - PAGE 14 MACAU RACING NEWS - PAGE 12 What's on Ribchester to replace Race meetings: Kembla Grange (NSW), Taree (NSW), Sale (VIC), Mackay (QLD) Barrier trials/ Jump-outs: Taree (NSW), top-class sire Iffraaj Warrnambool (VIC), Caulfield (VIC), Ballarat (VIC), Bendigo (VIC), Camperdown at Haunui Farm (VIC), Deagon (QLD), Belmont (WA) Strong link between New Zealand studmaster Chitty and Darley to see champion miler cross Tasman MORNING BRIEFING Five quality mares added to Chairman’s Sale The catalogue for next week’s Inglis Chairman’s Sale has been finalised with five quality mares added to cap a 90 lot offering. Group 1 winners Volpe Veloce (Foxwedge) and Go Indy Go (Bernardini) are among the latest additions as well as the dam of Group 1-winner sprinter Gytrash (Lope De Vega), Miss Barley (Fastnet Rock), Group 1 performer Happy Hannah Ribchester HAUNUI FARM (More Than Ready), who will be offered in foal Godolphin, the owner of both Richester and to Zoustar (Northern Meteor) and well bred BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS Iffraaj, last night confirmed the decision had filly Invictus Salute (Exceed And Excel). “This hampion European miler been made to stop shuttling the popular really is one of the best catalogues of race fillies Ribchester has been ushered rising 20-year-old son of Zafonic (Gone West) and broodmares ever assembled for a breeding in to replace his top-class sire “solely in the best interests of the horse”. stock sale in the southern hemisphere,’’ Inglis’s Iffraaj (Zafonic) at Haunui Farm, The intention was for Iffraaj to return to NSW Bloodstock Manager Chris Russell said. Cafter the curtain was closed on his southern New Zealand in August for a 13th season, but “There are rare gems in the catalogue that hemisphere stud career after 12 successful Darley’s stallion managers at Dalham Hall Stud simply do not reach the open market very years of shuttling to New Zealand. in the UK had noticed a change in the sire’s often.” The Chairman’s Sale will take the format Haunui Farm’s Mark Chitty and demeanour in recent months which led to a of a Virtual Auction on Friday, May 8 online at 2020 STALLION FEES - PAGE 16 change of heart. Continued on page 2>> inglis.com.au. Morning Briefing page 6 >> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Ribchester to replace top-class sire Iffraaj at Haunui Farm | 2 | Tuesday, April 28, 2020 << Continued from page 1 It was then that Darley and Chitty came to an agreement for his best-credentialed son to fill the void after starting his southern hemisphere stud career in Australia. He will stand for a fee of NZ$15,000 (plus GST) this year, a slightly reduced fee to what he stood for last year (AUD$22,000). Ribchester, who raced 16 times for six wins, earned his title as Europe’s champion miler in 2016 and 2017 on the back of four Group 1 wins over the distance including the Queen Anne Stakes (Gr 1, 1m) in record time and the Lockinge Stakes (Gr 1, 1m) at Newbury. Importantly, he also won the Mill Reef Stakes (Gr 2, 6f) as a juvenile before returning at three to win at Group 1 level in France over 1600 metres, but it was during his four-year-old season when he exerted his dominance with three Group 1 victories. Ribchester - Tupancy Links colt DARLEY “I think the mile is that ultimate distance for stallions, especially from our New Zealand perspective. I think the horses will get a bit further a suitable replacement to shuttle to New Zealand once the decision was across our general broodmare band,” Chitty told ANZ Bloodstock News. made to stop sending Iffraaj to the southern hemisphere. “These high-quality horses, you only start to appreciate when these “This is as much a game about relationships as it is horses and our races become very familiar to you. Like the Lockinge and the Queen Anne, relationship with Haunui goes back to the days of Carnegie,” Cox said. you know where they are in the calendar and you know that all the best “Haunui has managed the southern hemisphere stud career of Iffraaj horses are trying to get to them. in exemplary fashion so it is fitting that Ribchester can fill the gap he will “When you think in his race career of 16 starts, every start bar one leave. which was his debut, was in Group company which shows you the type of “We are extremely confident of the prospects for the stallion – he has horse that he was.” covered good quality mares in each of his two seasons at stud to date This is as Godolphin Australia managing and we have a lovely half-sister to Trekking amongst a very good group director Vin Cox said Darley’s long- of weanlings that will find their way into the Godolphin training system. much a game standing relationship with Haunui “We also have the stakes winning three-quarter sister to Colette and about relationships Farm meant that the organisation the dam of Chenier amongst a dozen Godolphin mares due to foal to him as it is horses and wanted to ensure that there was this season. New Zealanders can breed to him with confidence.” our relationship with Ribchester, who has shuttled to Darley’s Kelvinside property in Australia for the past two years, covering 63 and 53 mares respectively, Haunui goes back to is out of Mujarah (Marju), in turn a half-sister to Dubai Group 1 winner the days of Carnegie Matterhorn (Raven’s Pass) and fellow stakes winners Bangkok (Australia), - Vin Cox Tactic (Sadler’s Wells) and Yaazy (Teofilo). Chitty said: “To have the opportunity to have 50 to 60 foals sitting in Australia is a big plus for a third season stallion here in New Zealand and Ribchester ones that are so closely affiliated with the Godolphin racing regime is - Our Lonnie colt DARLEY fantastic. Continued on page 4>> REGISTER TO BID APRIL 24-30 ONLINE SALE SALE NOW OPEN Catalogue available at inglisdigital.com Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by IN THE WORDS OF TRAINER, JOHN GOSDEN... “He was a very positive horse. He was out there every morning wanting to give it his best. He’s very good looking, very strong mind, very genuine and fast.” NEW for 2020 TOO DARN HOT Dubawi - Dar Re Mi $44,000 inc GST Ribchester to replace top-class sire Iffraaj at Haunui Farm | 4 | Tuesday, April 28, 2020 << Continued from page 2 “We know about Iffraaj and we actually stood his dam sire Marju for one season here in New Zealand as well, so we know a lot about his pedigree. “I daresay, there’s been very few of the European horses who have come to Australia in his ilk in terms of his ability and raced in Australia. “There’s a lot of lesser lights who have gone there and performed admirably, so I see no reason why Ribchester wouldn’t have done the same thing and been a high-class miler.” Chitty yesterday also paid tribute to Iffraaj, a stalwart of the Haunui Farm roster, who has provided his supporters with some tremendous highs. “When you stand a horse for 12 years and you go through all the emotional rollercoasters of standing stallions, he certainly provided that. He was a great servant and he was such a lovely horse,” he said. “He was such a gentleman. But you know these things have to come to an end one day and that day is upon us. Iffraaj HAUNUI FARM “He’s one of those sires who could give you a colt, he could get you a filly that could perform as a two-year-old, a three-year-old and they could (plus GST), a small decrease on train on and run into nice milers at weight-for-age races. last year. When you “He was a very versatile stallion and hopefully his legacy will live on His first crop yearlings sold stand a horse through his mares and hopefully through a stallion or two including a this year, with Australian buyers for 12 years and horse like Ribchester.” embracing his progeny including Iffraaj is the sire of 26 southern hemisphere-bred stakes winners comeback trainer Peter Moody you go through including sire sons, the Group 1-winning Turn Me Loose and Jon Snow, paying NZ$210,000 for a colt all the emotional while he also had Gingernuts and the recently retired Wyndspelle score and Adelaide Group 1-winning rollercoasters of at the highest level. trainer Gordon Richards paying standing stallions, he Iffraaj, who covered 79 mares last year, is also the dam sire of the ten- NZ$90,000 for another yearling. time Group 1-winning champion Belmont Bloodstock’s Damon certainly provided New Zealand mare Melody Belle Gabbedy also purchased a filly that. He was a great (Commands), as well as the stakes- from the New Zealand Bloodstock servant and he was placed Excelida (Exceed And Karaka Yearling Sale Book 1 such a lovely horse Excel), Centimental (Snitzel) and session in January.