KIWI CHRONICLES STUD NEWS A WEEKEND FOR THE UNHERALDED DARLEY ANNOUNCES PROVES EVERY STALLION CAN HAVE SERVICE FEES FOR VINERY STUD - PAGE 23 HIS DAY - PAGE 20 SHUTTLE SIRES - PAGE 19 Tuesday, April 6, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here ‘THE SALES THIS YEAR HAVE BEEN EXTREMELY STRONG AND I CAN’T SEE THAT CHANGING’ - PAGE 1 KIWI CHRONICLES STUD NEWS A WEEKEND FOR THE UNHERALDED DARLEY ANNOUNCES PROVES EVERY STALLION CAN HAVE SERVICE FEES FOR VINERY STUD - PAGE 23 HIS DAY - PAGE 20 SHUTTLE SIRES - PAGE 19 Tuesday, April 6, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here HONG KONG NEWS | GIANT UPSET FOR CALLAN AND YIU IN EASTER MONDAY’S CHAIRMAN’S TROPHY - PAGE 26 ‘The sales this year have What's on been extremely strong and Race meetings: RGrafton (NSW), Tamworth (NSW), Bendigo (VIC) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Grafton (NSW), I can’t see that changing’ Tamworth (NSW), Cranbourne (VIC), Stawell High expectations as global market turns its attention to Inglis (VIC), Sandown (VIC), Sunshine Coast (QLD), Australian Easter Yearling Sale Lark Hill (WA), Longford (TAS), Ellerslie (NZ) International meetings: Pontefract (UK), Bath (UK), Chelmsford (UK), Saint-Cloud (FRA) International Group races: Saint-Cloud (FRA) - Prix Penelope (Gr 3, 2100m) Sales: Inglis Easter Yearling Sale (AUS).South Island Sale (Gavelhouse Plus) (NZ), Magic Millions Online April Sale (AUS) Darby Racing during inspections at Riverside INGLIS SALES NEWS the first as a virtual auction and the second as BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS a live sale in July, Inglis is preparing for today’s Blockchain ownership is ebastian Hutch has unwavering opening session in a more traditional setting coming to horse racing confidence that the Inglis Australian amidst a market which has been booming all In what is a world-first led by some of Easter Yearling Sale, the company’s year. Australasian racing’s biggest and most influential global showpiece event on the “There’s been 23 Group 1 winners out of players, including Arrowfield’s John Messara, Scalendar, can once again lay claim to what he the sale since 2018. The quality of stock here Arthur Inglis and prominent Hong Kong-based believes is one of the world’s best thoroughbred is unparalleled anywhere in Australasia and, owner David Boehm, the International Racehorse auctions. statistically, this is one of the best yearling sales, Owners Network (IRON) is set to launch a Twelve months after the Easter sale was if not the best yearling sale in the world,” said revolutionary global initiative that will see shares decimated by the impact of the Covid-19 Hutch, Inglis’ general manager of bloodstock in racehorses digitised and sold as cryptocurrency pandemic, forcing it to be split into two rounds, sales and marketing. Continued on page 2>> tokens. Sales News page 14 >> INGLIS AUSTRALIAN EASTER YEARLING SALE | TUESDAY 6TH APRIL - WEDNESDAY 7TH APRIL SALE LIVE VIEW HERE Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by ‘The sales this year have been extremely strong and I can’t see that changing’ | 2 | Tuesday, April 6, 2021 << Continued from page 1 “You are more likely to buy a stakes- winning two-year-old here, you’re more likely to buy a Group 1-winning colt, you’re more likely to buy a Group 1-winning filly. “At every metric this is the best sale that you can get to and we expect good horses will sell really well here. “That is the standard the vendors and buyers expect here and I think we’ll see that again over Tuesday and Wednesday.” Yearlings by champion stallions Exceed And Excel (Danehill), Snitzel (Redoute’s Choice) and Fastnet Rock (Danehill), as well as progeny of I Am Invincible (Invincible Spirit) and Written Tycoon (Iglesia) are expected to be highly sought after on day one. Kia Ora Stud, which is on the verge of relaunching its stallion arm led by last year’s Golden Slipper Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) winner Farnan (Not A Single Doubt), has a strong hand at this year’s sale with a draft of 13 yearlings, including a Written Tycoon half-brother to Group 2-winning stallion Zululand (Fastnet Rock) (Lot 283) and an I Am Invincible half- sister to this season’s Skyline Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) winner O’President (Fastnet Rock) (Lot 458). “Our second inspections are under way and it’s a good sign when we’re getting multiple second looks,” Kia Ora’s breeding and bloodstock manager Shane Wright said. “People are coming down with six, seven and eight horses on the list and it is always great seeing that.” Wright believes there has been no indication that the AT EVERY METRIC THIS significant upward trend of the IS THE BEST SALE THAT market will not be maintained YOU CAN GET TO AND over the next two days as the WE EXPECT GOOD select 466-lot offering is sold. HORSES WILL SELL “The sales this year have REALLY WELL HERE been extremely strong and I - SEBASTIAN HUTCH can’t see that changing at this stage,” he said. Continued on page 4>> Debbie Kepitis (centre) INGLIS Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by ‘The sales this year have been extremely strong and I can’t see that changing’ | 4 | Tuesday, April 6, 2021 << Continued from page 2 “It is not a huge catalogue - there’s 400 horses - but it’s high-quality and I think it’s going to be quite strong.” The heavy-hitting colts syndicates are expected to play a major role at the top-end of the market, but champion Hong Kong trainer John Moore believes the fillies can hold court over the next two days. “I was having a chat with James Harron (on Sunday) night and I said, ‘you know James, I think there’s better fillies here than colts’,” said Moore, LOTS TO WATCH Lot 5 Exceed And Excel - Peace Force (Bernardini) colt - Vinery Stud Lot 45 Snitzel - Rising Romance (Ekraar) colt - Arrowfield Stud Lot 135 Deep Field - Touch Of Greatness (Don Eduardo) - Kris Less INGLIS Newgate Farm who is in the process of setting Lot 149 I Am Invincible - Vezalay (Shamardal) filly - Widden Stud up a Gold Coast stable. Lot 173 I Am Invincible - Zamzam (Redoute’s Choice) colt - OUR SECOND “They’re very athletic, Yarraman Park Stud light on their feet, they have INSPECTIONS ARE Lot 222 Capitalist - Bonnie Mac (Thorn Park) colt - Yarraman Park Stud reasonable pedigrees without UNDER WAY AND Lot 283 Written Tycoon - Dream Play (Hennessy) colt - Kia Ora Stud being the absolute top, so I am IT’S A GOOD SIGN Lot 330 Snitzel - Harlow Gold (Tavistock) colt - Glenlogan Park excited about that. WHEN WE’RE GETTING Lot 340 I Am Invincible - Hips Don’t Lie (Stravinsky) - Coolmore Stud “I have never worked MULTIPLE SECOND Lot 377 Zoustar - Lady Jivago (Beneteau) colt - Widden Stud with them in a sense. I had LOOKS Lot 392 I Am Invincible - Listen Here (Elusive Quality) filly - one or two fillies in the - SHANE WRIGHT Cressfield Continued on page 6>> IT PAYS TO RACE QUEENSLAND BRED Over $12 million as a matter of fact With over $10M+ in QTIS prizemoney bonuses across all of Queensland all year, $2M Jewel Raceday and the $1M QTIS Open on Gold Coast Magic Millions Day, there’s never been a more rewarding time for owners to ‘Breed Queensland, Race Queensland’. Also, QTIS registered winners of all Black Type and selected Feature races now take home an additional QTISx bonus. Visit racingqueensland.com.au/QTIS or call Vicki Ace on 07 3869 9709 Follow us @anz_news | 4 | Brought to you by In the last years, have won of the biggest races in the country ‘The sales this year have been extremely strong and I can’t see that changing’ | 6 | Tuesday, April 6, 2021 << Continued from page 4 stable in Hong Kong. I owned fillies, but I didn’t train them.” Last year’s Easter Round 1 sale averaged $306,189 despite the uncertainty and a number of withdrawals from the catalogue, including Arrowfield Stud’s entire draft. In 2019, 349 Easter yearlings changed hands at an average of $353,511 with a median of $260,000. “It has been a challenging 12 months, as we know, but I think what it Milburn Creek has done is really educate people on the mechanisms that are in place to 2021 WILLIAM buy horses in absentia,” Hutch said. INGLIS EASTER “Vendors have been very obliging with the volume of information they’re prepared to share with the buying bench, whether it’s getting Yearling Sale horses weighed and measured, as you can do here, whether it is circulating various reports, the nature of the videos and the photographic content that has been generated has gone to another level. “We find more and more with each sale that people are not only using videos and photographs around sale time, they are using it for the preparation of the sale.” Hutch predicted a number of international buyers would call on that information over the next two days despite being unable to attend in person. “We obviously have a significant number of interested buyers who can’t physically be here, but I think there will still be great international participation, whether it’s from the Far East or some European or American buyers who have Australian affiliates or Australian agents representing them,” he said. “People get engrossed in the big prices that horses make and sometimes gloss over the fact that there are horses bought here for value for anywhere between LOTS TO WATCH - continued $50,000 and $300,000.