Saturday, August 22, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here COVID SCARE FORCES STABLE SHUTDOWN - PAGE 11 MORNING BRIEFING - PAGE 6 Growing frustration over What's on Stakes races: Randwick (NSW) - Winx ‘hypocrisy’ of Racing Stakes (Registered as Warwick Stakes) (Gr 1, 1400m), Silver Shadow Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m), NSW’s ban on horse Show County Quality (Gr 3, 1200m), Toy Show Quality (Gr 3, 1100m). Moonee Valley (VIC) - Carlyon Stakes (Listed, 1000m), movement from Victoria McKenzie Stakes (Listed, 1200m) Suggestion of quarantine hub could be Metropolitan meetings: Randwick (NSW), Moonee Valley (VIC), Doomben (QLD), implemented to end controversial policy Belmont (WA), Morphettville (SA) Race meetings: Gilgandra (NSW), Newcastle (NSW), Wangaratta (VIC), Toowoomba (QLD), Gold Coast (QLD), Pioneer Park (NT), Matamata (NZ), Awapuni (NZ), Te Aroha (NZ) International meetings: York (UK), Curragh (IRE), Del Mar (USA), Saratoga (USA) International Group races: York (UK) - Strensall Stakes (Gr 3, 1m 1f), City Of York Stakes (Gr 2, 7f). Curragh (IRE) - Debutante Stakes (Gr 2, 7f), Futurity Stakes (Gr 2, 7f). Del Mar (USA) - Pacific Classic Stakes (Gr 1, 10f), Del Mark Oaks (Gr 1, 9f). Saratoga (USA) - Fourstardave Handicap (Gr 1, 8f) Richard Callendar GETTY Amid growing frustration at the Peter BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS V’landys-instigated ruling on horses being quarantine hub could be put in unable to enter stables or licensed Racing place to allow Victorian racehorses NSW premises, which was brought into effect to cross the border into NSW which within a matter of hours on July 8 as a result of would bring an end to the ban Victoria’s second wave of Covid-19 infections, Awhich has been in place for more than six weeks, it is trainers located near the Murray River leaving some trainers crippled and stewards who have been impacted most by the investigating a number of apparent protocol ban. breaches. Continued on page 3>> ENTER NOW JULY 24 -29 ONLINE SALE ENTRIES CLOSE JULY 22. FRIFeaturing 21ST broodmares, yearlings and racing stock. 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Frustration over 'hypocrisy' of Racing NSW's ban on movement from Victoria | 3 | Saturday, August 22, 2020 << Continued from page 1 They include a vocal Mitch Beer, whose potential stable star Brander’s Rule (Brazen Beau) finished an eye- catching fourth in last week’s Vain Stakes (Gr 3, 1100m) at Caulfield for Peter Moody, rival Albury trainer Donna Scott as well as Corowa’s Geoff Duryea. Their predicament of having horses located in Victoria at spelling and pre-training properties and unable to return them to NSW because of the ban has been well documented, but Racing NSW’s perceived lack of consultation and assistance has turned understood inconvenience into increasing anger. NSW Trainers’ Association chief executive Richard Callander yesterday revealed that a possible solution had been floated with Racing NSW and was hopeful it would be implemented in the near future. “There’s (possibly) going to be a quarantine centre for a handover (of the horses from Victoria to NSW) and I think that might be the logical move,” Callander said. “I feel it’s not far away, but for some, it’s already too late - we know that. I wish it was a decision that we could make, but unfortunately it’s a Peter V'landys AAP decision that Racing NSW has made with its biosecurity expert and the government. "The problem is everyone's putting their $5 in and buying tickets and “All we can do is lobby and state our case every day and just hope that all this, and we don't know how we're going to get there or what we're in the near future that the borders open up and we can see horses move going to do." from ... Melbourne to Sydney.” Restricted to NSW country-trained horses, the Kosciuszko is Racing NSW general manager of regulatory services Keith Bulloch scheduled to be run at Randwick on October 17, the same day as the $15 yesterday confirmed the quarantine hub suggestion but he reaffirmed million Everest (1200m), with the race bankrolled largely by the selling of V’landys’ and chief steward Marc Van Gestel’s public statements that a $5 raffle tickets to potential slot holders who then share in the ownership change in policy would not occur until coronavirus case numbers had of a runner in the lucrative race. significantly decreased in Victoria. Another affected by the horse movement ban, Kurt Goldman, was “The quarantine hub has been talked about, but it’s certainly hard to yesterday able to end speculation that he was one of the NSW trainers say when that will be in place, but we will welcome that when the data says who had broken the rules with his leading Kosciuszko candidate Intuition it’s OK to do it,” Bulloch told ANZ Bloodstock News. (Street Cry). “I think that Peter has been very clear from the start that he relies on Intuition, who was bought specifically to be aimed at the race, has the information from the experts and the data numbers, so we think that been on the water walker at Rosemont Stud in Victoria since finishing fifth is a definite possibility, it’s just a matter of (case) numbers continuing to in the Sir John Monash Stakes (Gr 3, 1100m) at Caulfield on July 11 and he drop.” remains stranded there while the ban remains in place. Duryea this week threatened to abandon a planned tilt at the $1.3 Goulburn-based Goldman, who primarily trains for Alan Cardy million Kosciuszko (1200m) with favourite Front Page (Magnus) and from his private property, admitted he was running out of time to get his older sister News Girl if the ban was not lifted “within the next three his former Godolphin-owned gelding back to his stable to prepare for w e e k s ”. the race. "Until NSW do something about this shemozzle we're in down here, "I can't have him in training with another licensed trainer in until someone does something about it, we're in the lap of the gods," Melbourne (and) he's not allowed to be in a licensed premises in NSW," Duryea told The Daily Advertiser. Goldman told Racing.com. Continued on page 4>> Logo (without secondary wording) MAGNUS Champion Victorian Based Sire Follow us @anz_news | 3 | Brought to you by Frustration over 'hypocrisy' of Racing NSW's ban on movement from Victoria | 4 | Saturday, August 22, 2020 << Continued from page 3 "If The Kosciuszko wasn't there then he would have been left with Mick Price, it's as simple as that. He would have run in the Bletchingly, would have run against Viridine on Saturday. "We just decided to take the punt, hope the borders reopen, get the horse home and get him to the race. We will leave it at that and let the authorities work out when we can." BEST OF One trainer spoken to by ANZ Bloodstock News yesterday hit out at Racing NSW’s implementation and handling of the extended ban, calling the “hypocrisy mind-boggling”. “They go back to their biosecurity team and the report that they were LUCK given, which no one has seen. There’s 17,500 cases of Covid in Victoria and To the Magic Millions graduates not one of them has been traced back to the movement of a thoroughbred,” running in Saturday’s feature races they said.