Sunday, August 16, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here MORNING BRIEFING - PAGE 9 HIGHCLERE BUY GREAT HOUSE - PAGE 14 YESTERDAY'S STAKES RESULTS - PAGE 19 Fresh is best for Savatiano What's on in P.B. Lawrence Stakes Metropolitan meetings: Devonport (TAS) Race meetings: Moruya (NSW), Narromine Godolphin filly adds another Group race to her (NSW), Coleraine (VIC), Cranbourne (VIC), CV to kick start spring carnival Kilcoy (QLD), Kalgoorlie (WA) International meetings: Kranji (SGP), LATEST NEWS FROM THE WEEKEND'S RACING Taipa (MAC), Niigata (JPN), Kokura (JPN), Deauville (FR) International Group races: Deauville (FR) - Prix Jacques Le Marois (Gr 1, 1600m), Prix Minerve (Gr 3, 2500m), Prix Francois Boutin (Gr 3, 1400m). Niigata (JPN) - Sekiya Kenin (Gr 3, 1600m). Kokura (JPN) - Kokura Kenin (Gr 3, 2000m) Savatiano RACING PHOTOS Ridden by Mark Zahra, who guided fellow BY GEORGIE DENNIS AND TIM ROWE STUD NEWS Godolphin runner Viridine (Poet’s Voice) he James Cummings-trained to victory in the Regal Roller Stakes (Listed, ‘Coolmore’s Wootton Bassett Savatiano (Street Cry) maintained 1200m) a race earlier, Savitiano settled one coup an endorsement of her exceptional first-up record back on the fence before peeling out around Cambridge Stud sire’ with a tough win in yesterday’s P.B. the turn and sprinting home to defeat the Nick Cambridge Stud yesterday welcomed news that LawrenceT Stakes (Gr 2, 1400m) at Caulfield. Ryan-trained Sircconi (Nicconi) by a head. international giant Coolmore had purchased The six-year-old mare has won first-up from Group 1 winner Kings Will Dream Wootton Bassett (Iffraaj), France’s rising star a break five times, including when taking out (Casamento) ran home well at his first-up run stallion, in a high-priced deal that Henry the Millie Fox Stakes (Gr 2, 1300m) at her first for the spring, finishing a further length and a Plumptre believes underlines the value of the run in the autumn earlier this year. half away in third. Continued on page 2>> sire line. Stud News page 13 >> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Fresh is best for Savatiano in P.B. Lawrence Stakes | 2 | Sunday, August 16, 2020 << Continued from page 1 Godolphin's Melbourne stable foreman Grant Williams said of his runners: "Disappointing were my first Sean Keogh said Cummings wanted to replicate Savatiano's preparation at thoughts but just watching the replay, both pulled far too hard." the start of the year when she won the Millie Fox Stakes first-up at Rosehill. "We had to come (to Victoria) a month early and we didn’t get the "She came into this preparation similar to the way she entered the trials into them I would have liked. Regal Power had one and Arcadia autumn," Keogh said. (Queen) went into that without a trial so her effort was pretty good and "We saw that pattern play out really well when she won the Millie Fox and Damian (Lane, jockey) said he thought she was still going okay on the line. showed herself to be a top flight racemare and the same recipe worked for us "Regal Power was wide and never really settled and they’ll both take today. benefit from this." “She only had the one public trial so she’s definitely going to derive some Savatiano (6 m Street Cry - Retsina by Redoute’s Choice) has won ten natural benefit from the race and we’re very happy with her.” of her 33 starts for prize-money of $1,761,910, with yesterday’s Group 2 Zahra said he watched Savatiano's recent trial win in Sydney and felt she success bolstering her improving family. cruised home with James McDonald aboard. She is one of three named foals out of the winning, stakes-performed "When I drew well it was just going to be a matter of getting luck at the Retsina (Redoute’s Choice), making her a half-sister to the four-time right time and it panned out perfect," Zahra said. stakes-placed Athiri (Lonhro) - who narrowly missed out on scoring a The winning jockey said with 300 metres to go he was confident his victory herself at Randwick yesterday - and Athens (Medgalia d’Oro), who mount would cruise past Sircconi, but he was surprised at how strongly the sold for $160,000 at this year’s Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale. runner-up fought back. Savatiano is also a granddaughter of QTC Sires’ Produce Stakes (Gr 1, "I just had to give her a bit of a shake up. I always thought I was going to 1400m) winner Star Shiraz (Sequalo). get there but it was harder than I thought," he added. Retsina has an unraced two-year-old colt by Hallowed Crown (Street The Bob Peters-owned and Grant and Alana Williams-trained Arcadia Sense) named Vilana and a weanling by Lonhro (Octagonal), while she is Queen (Pierro) kicked off her campaign with a solid run to finish fifth, while currently in foal to Street Boss (Street Cry). All-Star Mile (1600m)-winning stablemate Regal Power (Pierro) failed to fire, Savatiano is one of 131 stakes winners for the late Darley sire Street coming home in ninth position. Cry (Machiavellian) who died in 2014 from a neurological condition. ENTER NOW AUGUST 21-26 ONLINE SALE ENTRIES CLOSE AUGUST 19. Featuring broodmares, yearlings and racing stock. 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Co-trainer Troy Corstens said inexperience had played against the runner-up Ranting. “He’s still immature but he did a really good job. He’ll take a lot of fitness out of that. We know he deserves his place in these races,” Corstens told Racing.com. “Dwayne Dunn (jockey) thought they were home, Mick Price’s horse (Our Playboy) had the drop on us. “But we were so impressed with how he went again when he was headed and fought back. We haven’t really looked past today but a race like the McNeil Stakes or the Danehill Stakes are options. Hydro Star (Headwater), who was the $4.80 second-favourite on the back of an impressive first-up win at Sandown on July 22, settled last and was unable to make ground when asked to make a long and wide run by Our Playboy RACING PHOTOS jockey Jamie Mott. He finished last, beaten five and a quarter lengths, in the field of nine and is likely to head to the paddock. Mick Price has unearthed a talented sprinter after Our Playboy A $210,000 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale graduate from the (Sebringl) upstaged a number of well touted three-year-olds in yesterday’s Widden Stud draft for Price and Kent, Our Playboy (3 c ex Mischief Night by Vain Stakes (Gr 3, 1100m) and the senior trainer says the son of Sebring Shamardal) has now won three of his five starts and $139,205 in prize-money. (More Than Ready) will not be asked to extend out over significantly He is the first foal to race for Mischief Night, who is a half-sister to longer distances. Group 1-winning sprinter Pierata (Pierro) and the Group 3 scorer Ashokan The in-form Caulfield trainer, who operates in partnership with (More Than Ready). Mick Kent Jnr, made the prediction after Our Playboy claimed the first Mischief Night, who was bought for $85,000 by Widden Stud at the 2016 Melbourne three-year-old stakes race of the new season. Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale before being traded at the same The winner of a Terang maiden and midweek Sandown Hillside auction last year for $200,000 to Matthew Sandblom’s Hollymount Stud. victory in April, the colt was first-up in the $160,000 feature where he was The unraced Mischief Night’s younger half-brother Jet Propulsion ridden for the first time by Ben Melham. (Rubick), a $900,000 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale purchase, won Our Playboy ($12) defeated Ranting (Zoustar) by a length, with nicely at Newcastle last week at just his second start for Ciaron Maher and favourite Rulership (I Am Invincible) another length and a quarter away David Eustace. in third. Our Playboy’s Your Song (Fastnet Rock) half-brother made $20,000 at Price described Our Playboy as “a real sprinting son of Sebring and this year’s Inglis Classic Yearling Sale while Mischief Night had a Pierro that’s what we bought him for”. (Lonhro) colt last September and is due to foal to Capitalist (Written "I think we just need to keep him to sprinting," Price said post-race.