Coolmore to Shuttle Europe's Unlikely Wonder Stallion Wootton Bassett
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Monday, March 22, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here COOLMORE TO SHUTTLE EUROPE’S UNLIKELY WONDER STALLION WOOTTON BASSETT - PAGE 1 Monday, March 22, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here MIRACULOUS ESCAPE FOR STOCK AT COLT PROSSER'S STABLE - PAGE 12 MORNING BRIEFING - PAGE 6 Coolmore to shuttle Read Tomorrow's Issue For Kiwi Chronicles Europe’s unlikely wonder Stallion Watch What's on stallion Wootton Bassett Race meetings: Queanbeyan (NSW), Tamworth (NSW), Wingatui (NZ) Remarkable sire son of Iffraaj, whose first crop included Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Queanbeyan Champion Almanzor, to make Jerrys Plains home in 2021 (NSW), Cranbourne (VIC), Eagle Farm (QLD), Lark Hill (WA), Oakbank (SA) International meetings: Greyville (RSA) Sales: gavelhouse.com Thoroughbred 22 March Auction, Gavelhouse Plus Valachi Downs Reduction Sale International Sales: Tattersalls Online HONG KONG NEWS Wootton Bassett COOLMORE Sky Darci takes Hong Kong last night confirmed Wootton Bassett would Derby for Fownes and Moreira BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS join the stud’s Australian roster at Jerrys Plains An inspired Caspar Fownes training performance, ootton Bassett (Iffraaj), who later this year, standing alongside the likes crowned by a supreme Joao Moreira ride, allowed defied his minnow start at of fellow shuttlers Justify (Scat Daddy) and Sky Darci (Darci Brahma) to overcome serious stud in France to become American Pharoah (Pioneerof The Nile). stamina doubts while delivering dramatic Hong one of Europe’s most sought “We are very excited by this opportunity to Kong Derby (Listed, 2000m) success at Sha Tin Wafter proven stallions, will shuttle to Australia offer Australasian mare owners a proven sire of yesterday. later this year, less than 12 months after coming Wootton Bassett’s calibre,” Magnier said. The gelding was plucked from New Zealand’s under the ownership of the powerful Coolmore “He is a magnificent dark brown horse with a Highden Park as a PPG (Privately Purchased empire. fabulous head and eye – a deep-girthed individual Griffin), joining the Fownes stable in 2019 when After running a teaser campaign at the with a very good hindquarter and hip and a really unraced. Less than two years later, he is part of Hong weekend, Coolmore principal Tom Magnier good, purposeful action. Continued on page 2>> Kong racing folklore. Continued page 14 >> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Coolmore to shuttle Europe’s unlikely wonder stallion Wootton Bassett | 2 | Monday, March 22, 2021 << Continued from page 1 “Wootton Bassett is by a sire well known to Australasians, Iffraaj, sire already of ten Group 1 winners, five in WITH HIS BEST-BRED CROPS YET TO RUN, I HAVE each hemisphere, including Australian and New Zealand Group 1 winners NO DOUBT THAT HE HAS A BRILLIANT FUTURE like Jungle Cat, Jon Snow, Turn Me Loose, Gingernuts and Wyndspelle. AHEAD OF HIM AND THE QUALITY OF THE “We can’t wait to show Wootton Bassett off and are confident that BROODMARE BAND AT COOLMORE WILL GIVE HIM Australasian mare-owners will see him for the great opportunity and great A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY TO CONTINUE HIS value he represents.” UPWARD TRAJECTORY - NICOLAS DE CHAMBURE Coolmore has already announced the retirement of dual Group 1-winning two-year-old King’s Legacy (Redoute’s Choice) to add to its southern hemisphere offering, which also features champion sire Fastnet Rock (Danehill), Pierro (Lonhro) and So You Think (High Chaparral), who covered the highest number of mares of any stallion in Australia in 2020, with 261. Compared by some observers to sires I Am Invincible (Invincible Spirit), Encosta De Lago (Fairy King) and Danehill Dancer (Danehill) for his rise from obscurity, Coolmore orchestrated the purchase of Wootton Bassett from France’s Haras d’Etreham last August. Emerging from that first crop of just 23 foals at a fee of €6,000 was 2016 European champion three-year-old Almanzor, the Cambridge Stud shuttler whose first southern hemisphere-bred yearlings have taken all before them at the 2021 Australasian yearling sales, selling to a top of $800,000 and at an Wootton Bassett COOLMORE average of $200,777 from 56 lots sold. Continued on page 4>> DON’T FOLLOW THE CROWD... ...let the crowd follow you. ENABLE JAPAN MAGIC WAND GHAIYYATH won nine times Standing at by a combined 41 lengths GHAIYYATH NORTHWOOD PARK, VICTORIA Dubawi - Nightime (Galileo) Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by Perfect PERFORMANCE Longines World’s Best Racehorse for 2020 Cartier Horse Of The Year for 2020 Four G1 wins beating Enable, Magical, Stradivarius Perfect BREEDING The highest-rated son of Dubawi from a G1-winning Galileo mare. The same cross as Night Of Thunder Standing at Perfect NORTHWOOD PARK, SALES HORSE VICTORIA A €1.1 million foal at Goffs GHAIYYATH Dubawi - Nightime (Galileo) Coolmore to shuttle Europe’s unlikely wonder stallion Wootton Bassett | 4 | Monday, March 22, 2021 << Continued from page 2 Wootton Bassett is also the sire of Prix Jean Romanet (Gr 1, 2000m) and 2020 Breeders’ Cup Fillies and Mares Turf (Gr 1, 9.5f) winner Audarya, conceived off a €4,000 fee, and Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp (Gr 1,1000m) winner Wooded, among 17 individual stakes winners. He is also the sire of current three-year-olds Chindit, a winner of the Champagne Stakes (Gr 2, 7f 6y) at Doncaster at two, and the talented Hiroo Shimizu-trained Midlife Crisis, a winner of two of his three starts in France as a juvenile. After the deeds of his first crop on the racetrack, Wootton Bassett’s fee was increased to €20,000 for the 2017 season. In 2020, he stood for €40,000 and that was more than doubled to €100,000 (Approx. AU$154,000) this year, his first at Coolmore in Ireland. Wootton Bassett’s own sire Iffraaj (Zafonic) shuttled to New Zealand’s Wootton Bassett COOLMORE Haunui Farm for 12 years, a stint which produced 27 stakes winners and only came to an end in 2019 due to Darley’s wish to protect its aging Haras d’Etreham’s Nicolas de Chambure said: “It has been an amazing stallion, who turned 20 at the turn of this year. journey, a real pleasure and a great pride for everybody at Etreham to be Unbeaten in five starts as a juvenile for trainer Richard Fahey, involved in Wootton Bassett’s stud career as he established himself as the Wootton Bassett, now 13, won two valuable sales events before taking out most exciting up-and-coming sire in Europe. the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere (Gr 1, 1400m), a performance which led him “With his best-bred crops yet to run, I have no doubt that he has a brilliant to be rated champion two-year-old colt. He is out of the European stakes- future ahead of him and the quality of the broodmare band at Coolmore will placed mare Balladonia (Primo Dominie). give him a wonderful opportunity to continue his upward trajectory." At the time of Coolmore’s private acquisition of Wootton Bassett, A service fee for Wootton Bassett will be released at a later date. Online Timed Auction TATTERSALLS ONLINE 23rd MARCH SALE BIDDING OPENS 22/03 at 12.00pm GMT CLOSES 23/03 at 12.00pm GMT featuring the final instalment of the Brittas House Stud dispersal Catalogue Online T: +44 1638 665931 [email protected] www.tattersallsonline.com Follow us @anz_news | 4 | Brought to you by Morning Briefing -Sponsored by Woodside Park Stud Monday, March 22, 2021 HISTORY IS BEING WRITTEN MORNING BRIEFING suitable for racing, consideration will be given through the sentimental value through my AUSTRALIA to transferring to the Kensington Track at grandparents so it is a big thrill.” Five for Vital Equine Randwick prior to acceptances being finalised. Profiteer to suit Paynes team up wet conditions in familiar silks Co-trainers Mick Price and Michael Kent jr have Patrick and Michelle Payne successfully expressed their relief that the Golden Slipper teamed up for the first time since 2018 when Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) has been pushed back Douceur (No Nay Never) took out the second a week with the pair confident that favourite division of the 1100-metre two-year-old plate Profiteer (Capitalist) will cope with the testing at Ballarat yesterday. Trained by Patrick conditions if the track is wet on Saturday. "He and ridden by his sister Michelle in the Tait was peaked for Saturday, as was everyone else, family silks, Douceur got her career off the but I'm glad we didn't run," Kent Jr said. "He's a Vital Equine ROSELEE PARK to the perfect start by defeating Under The brilliant horse and brilliant horses don't need to Dunes (Under the Louvre) by half a length be running on Heavy 15 tracks. I think he'll get Bella's Idol (7 g ex Bella Contessa by Bel Esprit) with Tonquani (Reset) another two and a through it. He's a horse that travels deep into his got off the mark in stakes company on his 42nd quarter lengths back in third. The siblings have races. It's when they come off the bridle, that's career start yesterday when landing the South partnered 93 winners together since the start when they can flounder in the ground and he West Autumn Cup (Listed, 2219m) at Bunbury. of the 2007-08 racing season and have been will be at the front of the race, which again is The win earned Vital Equine (Danetime) his successful six of the last ten times they have going to be a big help on soft ground.” Kent fifth individual stakes winner.