Wednesday, February 26, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here DIRECT TO YOUR INBOX EVERY MORNING Fierce Impact’s potential What's on Chipping Norton milestone Stakes races: Launceston (TAS) - Launceston Cup (Gr 3, 2400m), Gold for his sire Deep Impact Sovereign Stakes (Listed, 1200m), Mowbray Stakes (Listed, 1600m) Hastings (NZ) - Japanese-bred entire joins Blue Diamond winner Tagaloa on Lowland Stakes (Gr 2, 2100m) studmasters’ radar Metropolitan meetings: Sandown Hillside (VIC), Toowoomba (QLD), Ascot (WA), Launceston (TAS) Race meetings: Gosford (NSW), Terang (VIC), Penola (WA), Hastings (NZ) Barrier trials / Jump outs: Geelong (VIC) International meetings: Happy Valley (HK) MORNING BRIEFING Sidestep to stay at Telemon Sidestep (Exceed And Excel), the sire of first Fierce Impact SPORTPIX crop Golden Slipper Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) includes the likes of sire-sons Real Impact, Mikki winner Kiamichi, will remain at Queensland’s BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS Isle, Saxon Warrior and Tosen Stardom, but the Telemon Thoroughbreds for at least a third ierce Impact’s bid to win the Chipping Matthew Smith-trained entire gets the chance to season. Darley, who owns the rising ten-year- Norton Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m) could eclipse that benchmark at Randwick on Saturday. old stallion, yesterday confirmed that the Pago create a new milestone for his Prominent Victorian owner Ozzie Kheir has Pago Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) winner would not champion Japanese sire Deep Impact already been appointed to handle negotiations return to NSW this season. “We think it’s a F(Sunday Silence) and enhance the import’s with studmasters from Australia and overseas pretty special time for this sire line,” Telemon stallion credentials both domestically and on behalf of the Seymour Bloodstock-led Thoroughbreds’ Dan Fletcher said. “Sidestep internationally. syndicate who part-own the six-year-old Toorak went to stud as Exceed And Excel’s only No son of the late Deep Impact has won Handicap (Gr 1, 1600m) and Cantala Stakes (Gr champion two-year-old colt and has emulated more than two races at the highest level, which 1, 1600m) winner. Continued on page 2>> Continued in Morning Briefing page 6 >> Follow us @anz_news: click here | 1 | Brought to you by Fierce Impact’s potential Chipping Norton milestone for his sire Deep Impact | 2 | Wednesday, February 26, 2020 << Continued from page 1 Melbourne-based Kheir is also in the “You can draw the analogy that Lord Kanaloa is the I Am Invincible on enviable position of part-owning Saturday’s Blue Diamond Stakes (Gr 1, the way up and Deep Impact is the Redoute’s Choice of Australia,” he said. 1200m)-winning colt Tagaloa, himself by Japan’s new emerging super sire “Fierce Impact, if he wins the Chipping Norton, becomes the first Lord Kanaloa (King Kamehameha). three-time Group 1-winning colt by the champion sire Deep Impact Stallion farms have already anywhere in the world, so it is pretty significant for him with that race on Fierce Impact, been circling Kheir about Saturday. if he wins the potentially buying into the Trent “When you are talking about the burgeoning Japanese influence they Chipping Norton, Busuttin and Natalie Young- are having on the industry, (Tagaloa and Fierce Impact) are two colts that becomes the first trained Tagaloa, who is likely to are probably front and centre of all the studmasters from literally around three-time Group head to Sydney for the Golden the world now.” 1-winning colt Slipper Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) in Lord Kanaloa is the sire of star Japanese mare Almond Eye, who is by the champion an attempt to further enhance among his 15 stakes winners to date, and he is currently third on Japan’s his value as a stud prospect leading general sires table this year, trailing Deep Impact and Heart’s Cry sire Deep Impact which skyrocketed after his Blue (Sunday Silence). anywhere in the Diamond victory. He was also crowned Japan’s leading first season sire in 2017 world, so it is Agent Mark Pilkington, who with 32 individual juvenile winners, while Deep Impact, who died pretty significant manages Darren Thomas’ Seymour in July last year aged 17, is on track to win his ninth consecutive sire for him with that Bloodstock portfolio of racing premiership this year. race on Saturday and breeding stock, and also has “As a breed on the whole, the Japanese are internationally very well a close association with Busuttin respected and you only have to see what happened at last year’s spring MARK and Young, revealed yesterday carnival here in winning the Caulfield Cup and Cox Plate, they have PILKINGTON that Kheir had fielded calls about winners everywhere and they are a bloodline that Australia is yearning for Tagaloa and Fierce Impact. really,” Pilkington said. Continued on page 4>> THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE DIGITAL TOOLKIT FOR BREEDERS. 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Follow us @anz_news: click here | 2 | Brought to you by Fierce Impact’s potential Chipping Norton milestone for his sire Deep Impact | 4 | Wednesday, February 26, 2020 << Continued from page 2 “Arrowfield Stud’s John Messara has been ahead of his time in getting all those breeds down here in consultation with (Shadai Stallion Station’s) Katsumi Yoshida. “I am sure we will be doffing our hats to them in years to come.” Fierce Impact was sourced from the 2017 Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale in Europe for 120,000gns by Smith and the now six-year-old returned from his stellar spring campaign with a first-up second in the C F Orr Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) at Caulfield on February 8 before returning to Smith’s Sydney stable. “Fierce Impact was tried as a stayer in Europe and the Deep Impact GETTY IMAGES philosophy (for buying him) was that he had a pedigree to be a miler,” Pilkington said. Pilkington believes Tagaloa will hold a lot of currency at stud even if “Funnily enough, not long after we bought him, there was a full-brother he does not add to his Group 1 record. to him in Japan (Keiai Nautique) who won a two-year-old Group 1 mile. “There’s a lot of appeal and he is by the young and up-and-coming sire “Once we worked out to keep Fierce Impact at a mile, he won those in Japan and he is Danehill-free, which is great as well,” he said. two miles during the spring and he has got a proper maternal pedigree. Tagaloa was a $300,000 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale “We can’t put a two-year-old record alongside him now, but he could purchase by Busuttin Racing from the Arrowfield Stud draft, with the be the winningest (Group 1) colt by Deep Impact. “all Japan-bred” colt the first-named foal out of the winning Heart’s Cry “There is international interest in him as well, so I would say it is (Sunday Silence) mare Vasilissa, who in turn is a half-sister to Listed exciting times for the Japanese breed and the integration of it down here.” winner Tricolore Bleu (Stay Gold). 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The Brendan and his great sire in achieving champion first season Jo Lindsay-owned Probabeel returned to New sire status. He’s a horse that’s had to ‘build his Zealand where she scored back-to-back wins own house’ insofar as he’s started at a modest including in the Karaka 3YO Classic (RL, 1600m) fee with lesser opportunity. 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