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KIWI CHRONICLES Tuesday, June 1, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here CHESTER’S CHOICE PIECE OF HISTORY - PAGE 4 STALLION WATCH - PAGE 21 MACAU NEWS - PAGE 19 Confidence high despite Read Tomorrow's Issue For absence of some Victorian Focus Asia What's on buyers at the last minute Race meetings: Sapphire Coast Magic Millions National Yearling Sale set to get under way (NSW), Scone (NSW), Hamilton (VIC), with some well-credentialed horses on day one Rockhampton (QLD) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Sapphire Coast (NSW), Scone (NSW), Caulfield (VIC), Sunshine Coast (QLD) International meetings: Vaal (SAF), Brighton (UK), Redcar (UK), Leicester (UK), Lingfield (UK), Yarmouth (UK), Tipperary (IRE) Sales: Magic Millions National Yearling Sale Lot 1706 Real Impact ex Cash Bonus colt showing for Baramul Stud MAGIC MILLIONS hammer today and tomorrow before a third BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS session of 166 Book 2 yearlings are sold on MORNING BRIEFING he depth of the buying bench for the Thursday. Magic Millions National Yearling “There’s a great buzz on the grounds. I Messara appointed Sale has taken an unexpected hit, think our catalogue stacks up really well, both chair of Racing Australia but the auction house is confident on paper and physically and it is always a sale Arrowfield Stud's John Messara AM has been theT market strength that has been prevailing all where, if you’re willing to shop for a bit of value, appointed as an independent director and year will continue at the Gold Coast today. you’ll find it,” Magic Millions managing director elected as chair of Racing Australia, replacing The three-day sale, which comes on the Barry Bowditch said yesterday. Greg Nichols whose term concluded in April back of record weanling and broodmare “We’re hopeful there’s plenty of good 2021. It is the first time an independent director auctions in the past fortnight, has a 430-lot racehorses to set the track alight in the years has been appointed since the establishment of Book 1 catalogue of horses going under the to come.” Continued on page 2>> Racing. Morning Briefing page 6 >> TUE 1ST - THURS 3RD JUNE 2021 MAGIC MILLIONS NATIONAL YEARLING SALE SALE LIVE VIEW HERE Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Confidence high despite absence of some Victorian buyers at the last minute | 2 | Tuesday, June 1, 2021 << Continued from page 1 New Zealand buyers Phill Cataldo, we are trying to do our best to help facilitate them Paul Beamish, Paul Willetts and Roger Cooksley have been on the purchasing yearlings.” grounds inspecting yearlings and they have been joined by the likes of On day one, Torryburn Stud has an I Am Australian agents Suman Hedge, who has delayed his return to Victoria Invincible (Invincible Spirit) half-brother to this due to the Covid-19 outbreak, Sheamus Mills, Justin Bahen, Paul season’s Widden Stakes (Gr 3, 1100m) runner-up Moroney and trainer John McArdle. Centimental (Snitzel) (Lot 1547) set to go through Te Akau Racing’s David Ellis and Jamie Richards have also remained the ring, Milburn Creek has a Snitzel (Redoute’s Barry Bowditch in Australia after witnessing champion mare Melody Belle (Commands) Choice) brother to the stakes-placed Spend, being out of sell for $2.6 million last week and they, too, were busy inspecting stakes-winning mare Walk With Attitude (Hussonet) (Lot 1619), and Eureka yearlings yesterday. Stud will offer a Capitalist (Written Tycoon) three-quarter brother to Group Sydney trainers Annabel Neasham, Gerald Ryan, Lee and Cherie 3 winner Vibrant Rouge (Lot 1447). Curtis, Victoria’s Mick Price, Kiwi trainer Roger James, Western Australia’s On Wednesday, yearlings by Toronado (High Chaparral), Hellbent Ben Pearce and Tasmania’s Adam Trinder are also at the sales. (I Am Invincible), Zoustar (Northern Meteor), Almanzor (Wootton But at least nine Victorian buyers who arrived on the Gold Coast last Bassett), Exceed And Excel (Danehill) and Not A Single Doubt (Redoute’s week are unable to attend the Magic Millions sale due to Queensland Choice) could also feature prominently among the top lots. government restrictions imposed in response to Victoria’s seven-day While owners and trainers seeking racehorses are expected to be the Covid lockdown. major players, traders are also set to make their mark, says Bowditch. “Under the circumstances, we’ve missed quite a few inspectors who “Obviously, this is a sale where the breeze-up buyers have done couldn’t get here from Victoria, but in saying that, we think we’ve got a really well in the past. They have bought horses at a value price who have good cross-section of buyers,” Bowditch said. gone on and been really good breeze-up sale horses for them,” he said. “There’s quite a few Kiwis here, all the other states are well- “They like to go back to the well and this is a sale they’ve shopped represented and with Victoria there are still some here (who had arrived well at in the past.” for the weanling and broodmare sales), but the ones who can’t get here, The sale starts at 10am today. Updated daily, the information on each stallion includes; top performer, recent race & auction results, upcoming race entries, sire statistics, hypothetical pedigrees with Truenicks Over 36,000+ 400,000 users in sessions Over 2019 5.2m screen views Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by AUSTRALIA’S LEADING SIRES Rnrs Wnrs SHs Prizemoney** 2021 stud fee 1 Written Tycoon 369 168 20 A$15,770,260 $165,000 2 I Am Invincible 364 194 28 A$15,378,104 $220,000 3 Snitzel 339 156 25 A$15,342,358 $165,000 4 Exceed and Excel 224 95 18 A$15,238,471 $132,000 5 Zoustar 256 130 16 A$14,046,228 $154,000 6 Fastnet Rock 246 113 24 A$14,026,292 $165,000 7 All Too Hard 278 129 15 A$12,874,414 $33,000 8 So You Think 260 123 17 A$12,207,702 $77,000 9 DEEP FIELD 238 111 13 A$10,182,347 $88,000 10 Pierro 221 89 10 A$9,472,200 $110,000 Source: Arion, 28/4 **active sires by worldwide earnings Incredible achievement for a stallion whose oldest crop are just 4YOs Northern Meteor – Listen Here, by Elusive Quality | $88,000 incl. GST NEWGATE.com.au | +61 (02) 6543 8395 In-Foal Mares at Magic Millions averaged $390,667 Chester’s Choice piece of history as last Redoute’s yearling heads through the ring | 4 | Tuesday, June 1, 2021 Chester’s Choice piece of history as last Redoute’s yearling heads through the ring David Chester, an iconic Magic Millions figure, has many achievements to his name during his more than five decades in the industry and today he will add another piece of history when he opens today’s National Yearling Sale. Chester will sell Lot 1401 at 10am today, the first horse through the ring, who just happens to be the last yearling by champion stallion Redoute’s Choice to be sold at auction. Offered by Arrowfield Stud, he is the second living foal out of winning Japanese mare La Fouine Tail (Neo Universe). Chester also sold the first Redoute’s Choice yearling, a Newhaven Park-consigned colt, as Lot 11 at the 2003 Magic Millions Gold Coast David Chester with Lot 1401 by Redoute's Choice MAGIC MILLIONS Yearling Sale. Out of Star Way (Star Appeal) mare Nicety, the colt was bought by breed-shaper, he’s been a great stallion for a lot of people and he’s been trainer Alan Scorse for $50,000. Named Private Certifier, he went on to a great stallion for Australia’s industry.” win seven of his 64 starts with a further 14 placings. In 2003, Redoute’s Choice’s fourth season at stud, he had just 75 live “I don’t know whether you’d call it an honour - it just shows my age, foals, his lowest number until 2016 during 19 years standing at Arrowfield. selling the first and the last one,” he said yesterday. To date, the champion stallion of 2006, 2010 and 2014 has total progeny “Who would have thought Redoute’s Choice would have turned earnings of $178 million and an elite 11.8 per cent stakes winners to out the way he did. He’s just been amazing, a three-time Australian runners ratio. champion sire, so many Group 1 winners, I think it’s 39 Group 1 winners, Kelly recalls backing his judgment and supporting him that year and and to think you’d sell the first and last, I think it would create a bit of he was subsequently rewarded in spades through the sales ring. Nicety history. was one of those Newhaven mares, visiting Redoute’s Choice four years in “David Coles and John Inglis might have done it with some of the succession and producing three foals. great stallions like Star Kingdom and Without Fear and those sort of The last of those was Daaloob who was bought by Shadwell Stud’s horses. It’s quite unique.” Angus Gold for $600,000 at the 2006 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Chester had inspected the Arrowfield Stud colt and he’s impressed Sale, just as owners and trainers were starting to realise what an impact by what he’s seen. Redoute’s Choice was having. “I really like him. He’s first-up and it’s always difficult selling the first “We were very keen on Redoute’s Choice from the beginning.