THURSDAY, 19 JULY 2018 PURSE HIKES IN NEW SOUTH WALES PRIMO GAMBLE PAYS OFF Racing NSW will, from Sept. 1, implement prizemoney FOR HODSON & MOULE increases across all three racing sectors that will see purses boosted by A$24-million annually. After the increases, New South Wales will be paying A$260-million annually in purses and bonuses, the highest of any state in Australia. Metropolitan Saturday and midweek racing and TAB Highway racing will see purse increases of 25%. Metropolitan public holiday racing will be up 20%, while provincial racing will be up 16.7% and country racing 10%. Country horses will also have a shot at a A$1.3-million pot in the newly announced The Kosciuszko, which will be held on The Everest undercard on Oct. 13. The majority of increases will be for horses finishing fourth through 10th. In an effort to improve cash flow for trainers, for the first time part of the increased prizemoney will be paid directly to the trainer, with these amounts credited as a prepayment to the owners= accounts. Cont. in Worldwide News p8 Little Kim (left), one of two stakes winners out of Gary Hodson and Peter Moule=s young mare Primo Lady | Racing Post IN TDN AMERICA TODAY LADY AURELIA RETIRED Stonestreet Stables and Peter Leidel’s MG1SW Lady Aurelia By Tom Peacock (Scat Daddy) has been retired. Click or tap here to go straight Marrying up business and pleasure can be a difficult task when to TDN America. taking an active interest in bloodstock. For first-time breeders Gary Hodson and Peter Moule, Primo Lady (GB) (Lucky Story) has given them the best of both worlds. A filly who cost just ,5,000 at Doncaster in 2009 reclaimed five times that amount on the track when trained by Gay Kelleway, including the Listed Marygate S. at York. Now a broodmare boarding at Barton Stud near Bury St Edmonds, she has delivered stakes winners from her first two foals in Out Of The Flames (GB) (Showcasing {GB}) and Little Kim (GB) (Garswood {GB}). AWe were looking for a 2-year-old at the time and Gay bought her as a yearling,@ explains Hodson, who runs his own electrical wholesale company in Hertfordshire. AShe was racy and compact and turned out to be very good herself. We went to all the best places, she ran well in the Queen Mary at Royal Ascot, finished ninth from the wrong side of the track, ran in the Molecomb at Goodwood and the Empress at Newmarket.@ Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 2 OF 10 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 19 JULY 2018 He continued, AI get on great with Tom Blaine and his team at Barton Stud. With the ground there, it=s the best place to bring up young horses. Obviously I know you=ve got the likes of Cheveley Park on another level, but for my level it=s the perfect fit.@ AIf you look back, her dam Lady Natilda (GB) (First Trump {GB}) has produced six winners; nearly all of hers so far have won. A friend of mine owns the dam=s half-sister Diane's Choice (GB) (Komaite) and she=s three from four as a broodmare as well. But I=d be lying to say it hasn=t gone better than we thought it would.@ There are many more to come. A Due Diligence (War Front) colt picked up for 60,000gns by David Myerscough at last year=s December Foal Sale is anticipated to return this October, whilst the latest offering is a colt by Newsells Park=s Equiano Gary Hodson and Primo Lady (Fr) (Acclamation {GB}). Primo Gamble Pays Off For Hodson & Moule Cont. from p1 AI have to say, the Due Diligence colt was the best looking out AShe was very, very quick and just what we wanted, and ran of the first three,@ Hodson said. AThe Equiano is also a lovely colt some good races when she was older but was always carrying a who=ll probably go to the foal sale, and she=s now in foal to lot of weight. By the time she got to the end of her career, Kevin Muhaarar (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}). We=ve upgraded the stallion Jarvis, one of the original owners, came out, and Peter and I, now and it wasn=t a matter of luck, it has been a lot of going who have been friends for years, decided to keep her as a through stallions which I thought would suit her.@ broodmare and see what she produced. Originally we thought AIt was great to have got Showcasing at a really good price as we=d maybe breed to race, but then thought perhaps we should he=s ,35,000 now and I think he was only a fraction of that at sell and see what happened.@ the time. I thought everything clicked and as she was so quick Out Of The Flames reached 37,000gns at Tattersalls Book 2 herself, there was never any question of going for anything but before making ,190,000 when reappearing at last year=s Goffs stallions with speed. Garswood was unproven but Little Kim has UK 2yo Breeze-Up Sale, joining Qatar Racing through David proved fantastic and I know Karl Burke thinks the world of her. I Redvers. Third for Richard Hannon in the G2 Queen Mary S. and liked Garswood as a racehorse and he looked a good option, as the Breeders= Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint S. , she is now with Simon to be honest at the time we were perhaps dipping our feet in Callaghan in California and earned listed honours in the and not wanting to spend ,20,000 on a stallion.@ Mizdirection S. at Aqueduct in April. AObviously now she=s produced two stakes winners, I=ve Meanwhile Little Kim, who joined a Nick Bradley Racing turned down numerous offers over the last few weeks. It=s a syndicate with Karl Burke for 45,000gns at Book 2, built on her substantial amount of money, but I felt that everything she is eighth in last month=s Queen Mary by taking the G3 Prix du Bois producing is correct and nice.@ Cont. p3 S. at Deauville. London-born Hodson is largely self-taught in racing, nurtured from being taken by his father to Alexandra Palace as a boy. He is the more hands-on of the pair and took a firm view on the mating plans. AWe syndicated and leased a horse called Piccadilly Filly (Ire) (Exceed And Excel {Aus}), who was third in the 2010 Nunthorpe,@ he recalled. AWhen I was getting involved I spent bit of time with Eddie Creighton, who trained her, and he=s a good friend of Bobby O=Ryan. I just got interested in it all.@ AThe other reason I wanted to keep Primo Lady as a broodmare was, for want of a better expression, because she=s bullet proof. She got through training as 2-year-old no problems and maybe in the nine years we=ve had her, she once needed a vet when she had an abscess on foot which needed a poultice.@ Out Of The Flames, the first foal out of Primo Lady | Racing Post TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 3 OF 10 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 19 JULY 2018 Primo Gamble Pays Off For Hodson & Moule Cont. AI know it=s a long way off, but I imagine when we get to the stage of the Muhaarar hitting the ground, if everything was right, it could be something big in the sales.@ Hodson tries to see Primo Lady every couple of weeks, knowing that her progress is being monitored closely by an old friend in Newmarket. AGay had a third-share and when I said I was going to breed, she said I could have her share, which she reminds me about on Vice President, International Operations a daily basis,@ he chuckled. AShe=s on my case that she gets the Gary King next filly, and I wouldn=t dream of sending it anywhere else. Twitter: @garykingTDN Peter only came into it for fun, he didn=t know a lot about [email protected] racing, but he=s one of those guys in life that whatever he + 1.732.320.0975 touches turns to gold. At one stage he said to me >with your International Editor knowledge and my luck, we=ll be all right.=@ Kelsey Riley AIt=s actually a dream come true. There are mares who cost lot Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN more than her that haven=t produced two Royal Ascot [email protected] 2-year-olds one after another.@ European Editor Emma Berry Twitter: @collingsberry [email protected] GRAND PRIX SUCCESS FOR NOOR AL HAWA Only once out of the first three in 18 starts, Hamad Al Attiyah=s Associate International Editor Noor Al Hawa (Fr) (Makfi {GB}) was at his consistent best on Heather Anderson Wednesday night as he captured the G3 Grand Prix de Vichy. 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