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Currie saga in danger of Read Tomorrow's Issue For: Pedigree Page casting very The Blue Pages dark shadow over racing What's On Metropolitan meetings: Sandown (VIC), Ascot (WA) Steve Moran | Page 25 Race meetings: Gosford (NSW), Ipswich Wednesday, April 10, 2019 (QLD), Balaklava (SA), Otaki (NZ) International meetings: Snitzel colt sets Riverside Happy Valley (HK) Sales: Inglis Australian Easter ring alight on remarkable Yearling Sale - Day 2 day at Inglis Easter New single-day trade record set with almost $62 million turned over Morning Briefing Winx faces eight rivals in career swansong A field of nine have accepted for the Queen Elizabeth Stakes (Gr 1, 2000m) at Randwick on Saturday, with Winx (Street Cry) currently priced as the white- hot $1.06 favourite to extend her winning streak to 33 and complete the perfect farewell. She will face only one stable companion this time, with Chris Waller also accepting Shillelagh (Savabeel), while the main Lot 49 Snitzel - Ichihara colt INGLIS resistance - if any materialises - looks set to yearling sale I have ever been to’, the top-priced come from British import He’s Eminent (Frankel) By Tim Rowe & Lydia Symonds colt was one of 11 seven-figure yearlings sold, ($17) and old foes Happy Clapper (Teofilo) and Snitzel (Redoute’s Choice) colt while the likelihood of him reaching the seven- Hartnell (Authorized), who are currently priced became the most expensive ever figure milestone was never in doubt, with the at $21. Morning Briefing page 20 sold by the champion stallion bidding opening at $1 million. after perennial big-spending Harron, with the support of his colts Pedigree Aagent James Harron paid an eye-watering $2.8 syndicate clients, chimed in as the bidding hit Page special million during an extraordinary first session the $2 million barrier, eventually having to go Winx: simply of the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale to well-beyond that figure to secure the colt, the best yesterday. who will head into training with Peter and Paul Described by one agent as ‘the strongest Snowden. Continued on page 2>> Page 22 | 1 | Brought to you by Snitzel colt sets Riverside ring alight on remarkable day at Inglis Easter | 2 | Wednesday, April 10, 2019 << Continued from page 1 The underbidder was Jadeskye Catalogued as Lot 49, the colt is out of the Group 2-winning General Racing’s Damion Flower, who raced Snitzel, and was also underbidder on Nediym (Nediym) mare Ichihara, who is herself a sister to the Listed- last year’s top-priced Easter yearling, the Fastnet Rock (Danehill) brother winning pair Au Chocolat and Isurava. to multiple-Group 1 winner Shoals. Isurava produced Run To The Rose (Gr 2, 1200m) winner Menari Harron, who has tasted huge success in the past with Golden Slipper (Snitzel) and further back this is the same family as multiple-Group 1 Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) winner Capitalist (Written Tycoon), Wandjina (Snitzel) winner Tie The Knot (Nassipour). and young Group 3-winning sire Pariah (Redoute’s Choice), said the “I have seen him plenty of times during the week and he hasn’t turned Corumbene Stud-bred and sold colt was the best he had seen in years. a hair and he has been very busy,” Harron said. It was for that reason that Harron, who is no stranger to buying $1 “He is a blood brother to Menari and he looks very precocious. He million yearlings, had the conviction to go the highest bid he has ever has come off a great farm in Corumbene. He really does, for the want of a offered for a horse. better word, tick all the boxes. He is also the fifth most-expensive yearling ever sold in Australia and “I thought he would breeze past the $2 million mark and after that you the highest priced since 2013. don’t really know. It was strong competition, but he was the highest-rated “He is a very, very special horse of the year and he was the one everyone wanted.” horse. I haven’t slept too well Toby Frazer, stud manager at Corumbene Stud, told ANZ Bloodstock since I saw him and I have been News that he had high expectations heading into the sale, but the figure thinking about him a lot,” Harron the colt fetched far superseded his expectations. said. “He is an exceptional colt,” said Frazer. “He’s a lovely type that has “He is one of the best everything right. His x-rays were good, his scope was good. He is just a yearlings I have seen forever, so I really special colt. am very excited to get him. “I thought he would sell very well because everybody loved the horse “He has a beautiful pedigree - he is just a beautiful horse. He also had a great mind and a great brain and a beautiful physique with a on him - you would have thought he was an older horse who had been James Harron INGLIS great attitude.” here before.” Continued on page 4>> A RARE OPPORTUNITY TO BUY A THOUSAND GUINEAS WINNER ALOISIA LOT 34 – 2019 INGLIS CHAIRMAN’S SALE • An outstanding winner of the G1 Thousand Guineas in which she emphatically defeated a vintage field including G1 winners Shoals, Alizee and Booker • Exceptional as a 2YO when beaten just 0.3 lengths into 2nd in the G1 JJ Atkins, having defeated dual G1 winner Grunt over 1400m at Flemington on her previous start • “Aloisia is just a high class individual. She showed a lot of precocity and went on to have a faultless 3YO Spring campaign. Aloisia has been a bit unlucky with barrier draws, but she always puts herself into the race with her great turn of foot. She’s had a very good prep thus far and we’d love for her to stay in the stable to target races this winter like the Group 1 Tatt’s Tiara.” – Ciaron Maher The Chairman’s Sale Friday 3 May 2019 – Evening Session Riverside Stables, Sydney Catalogue available now inglis.com.au | 2 | Brought to you by ANGEL OF TRUTH ARISTIA EXTRA BRUT DARK DREAM ‘19 Australian Derby Gr.1 ‘18 VRC Oaks Gr.1 ‘18 Victoria Derby Gr.1 ‘18 Queensland Derby Gr.1 The past Group One Derby13 and Oaks winners have all been The run continues... Australian-bred. It pays to buy Australian. 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Earlier in the session, Arrowfield Stud also sold a well-related filly by their Her second dam is Monsoon Wedding (Danehill), who is a stakes- resident sire Snitzel for a cool $1 million. The colt hails from the prodigious placed sister to Redoute’s Choice and Platinum Scissors and a three- family of Manhattan Rain (Encosta De Lago) as well as star mare Shoals. quarter sister to Sliding Cube (Rock Of Gibraltar), the dam of exciting The filly was one of four lots bought yesterday by New Zealand young Coolmore Stud-based sire Rubick (Encosta De Lago). agent Dean Hawthorne, who was acting on behalf of prominent owner Two lots earlier, Hawthorne bought the Coolmore-consigned and breeder Jonathan Munz of GSA Bloodstock, who is a part-owner in Savabeel filly, who is the first foal out of the winning mare Love Triangle Shoals. (Encosta De Lago), a half-sister to the Group 3 winner Queen Of Diamonds Not long before buying the Snitzel filly, Hawthorne also went to (Savabeel), while the filly’s third dam is Tristalove (Sir Tristram). She was $850,000 for a filly by New Zealand’s champion stallion Savabeel (Zabeel). catalogued as Lot 98. “If you have been following GSA for a couple of years, what we have Hawthorne’s four yearlings cost a total of $2,855,000 at an average been doing is buying really quality fillies who go into our race system. of $713,750. 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