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TRAGEDY TURNS TO JOY MORNING BRIEFING FOR NEWLYWEDS AT SALE 200 FOR DUBAWI OF COLT - PAGE 21 PAGE 29 Wednesday, April 7, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here FOCUS ASIA | MILE OPTIONS NEXT FOR GRAN ALEGRIA - PAGE 30 NZB WEANLING SALE CATALOGUE ONLINE - PAGE 27 Arrowfield’s $2.5 million Snitzel What's on colt tops record-breaking Inglis It’s In The Blood What's on Easter Yearling Sale session Metropolitan meetings: Canterbury (NSW), Eleven lots sell for $1 million or more as high demand for Launceston (TAS) Race meetings: Sale (VIC), Bunbury (WA), bloodstock continues at Riverside Ashburton (NZ) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Gosford (NSW), Kembla Grange (NSW), Camperdown (VIC), Mornington (VIC), Wangaratta (VIC) International meetings: Lingfield (UK), Catterick (UK), Nottingham (UK), Newcastle (UK), Gowran (IRE) Sales: Inglis Easter Yearling Sale (AUS), South Island Sale (Gavelhouse Plus) (NZ), Magic Millions Online April Sale (AUS) Lot 45 Snitzel - Rising Romance colt INGLIS SALES LATEST Setting the tone for a day of remarkable, BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS yet predictable, competition from buyers at Extraordinary day for CONTACT TIM AT THE SALES @ROWE_TIM Riverside Stables, Vinery Stud sold an Exceed Vinery with three wo colts broke the $2 million mark And Excel (Danehill) colt for $2.1 million less million-dollar yearlings and another nine yearlings made than 15 minutes after the sale started. The Easter sale also provided a milestone $1 million or more in a stunning It was later eclipsed by a well-admired colt for Vinery Stud and Exceed And Excel when a opening session of the Inglis by champion stallion Snitzel (Redoute’s Choice) powerful colt by the champion Darley stallion TAustralian Easter Yearling Sale, with yesterday’s from Arrowfield Stud who made $2.5 million, the made $2.1 million just minutes into the auction, trade the highest on a single day at a southern most expensive yearling sold Down Under in the the first of three lots sold by the farm for more hemisphere yearling auction. past two years. Continued on page 2>> than seven figures on day one. Cont, page 8 >> INGLIS AUSTRALIAN EASTER YEARLING SALE | TUESDAY 6TH APRIL - WEDNESDAY 7TH APRIL SALE LIVE VIEW HERE Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Arrowfield’s $2.5 million Snitzel colt tops Inglis sale | 2 | Wednesday, April 7, 2021 << Continued from page 1 Trainers Michael, Wayne and John here, and so this guy will be Lot 5: Exceed And Excel ex Peace Hawkes, who have been capitalising on their on-track reputation as heading down the similar Force (Bernadini) colt “stallion makers” through the likes of Exceedance (Exceed And Excel), path. She was an Oaks winner, Price: $2.1 million Brutal (O’Reilly) and the just-retired North Pacific (Brazen Beau), made Rising Romance, and we have Vendor: Vinery Stud the strong statement with the purchase of the session-topping yearling. got the full sister at home, who Buyer: Tony Fung Investments Ciaron Maher Racing pushed the Hawkes team to the eye-watering is very, very smart.” Profile: The most expensive figure during a flurry of activity which showed no signs of abating through On Yearning, the sister Exceed And Excel colt to be sold nearly nine hours of selling. to today’s high-priced colt in the southern hemisphere. He is “He just oozed class. We got here last Tuesday and he was the second who was runner-up on the out of Group 3 winner Peace Force, horse we saw Tuesday afternoon, and Dad turned to me and Michael, Kensington track on March a half-sister to five-time Group 1 and said ‘we are taking this one 25, Hawkes said: “She's only winner Eremein. home by hook or by crook’,” had one start and ran second What they said: “He is YOU DON'T EVER WANT Wayne Hawkes said. the other day, but I think all obviously by a fabulous sire and he’s TO GET CAUGHT UP “He's (John Hawkes) got the good judges realise that a gorgeous individual who looks IN BUYING THE FULL- such a great record of success she was in the wrong part of sharp and early. He really suited our BROTHER OR SISTER out of buying from this sale and the track and they came down mould as an early running two-year- FOR THE SAKE OF IT, hopefully this guy can go on to the outside fence, and she was old type” Shane McGrath BECAUSE MICHAEL be the one. back on the inside.” LOOKS LIKE AN “He is probably more of a Despite the Hawkes’ high opinion of the two-year-old sister Yearning, ATHLETE AND I DON’T, Snitzel type. We've had a bit of the family-run stable made sure they weren’t unduly swayed by the fact IT’S AS SIMPLE AS THAT luck with them here. Just looking they trained his classy sibling. - WAYNE HAWKES up on the wall at Estijaab, who “Even though they are brother and sister, you have to like the was a top-priced Snitzel filly individual,” he said. Continued on page 4>> BENEFITS OF CORRECT LIGHTING FOR STALLIONS: We were very pleased with the returns from all stallions under the Equilume Stable Lights, but particularly our French ● Improve early season fertility. shuttle stallion Almanzor and first season sire Embellish, both of whom ● Strengthen immune system. covered books in excess of 140 mares and achieved pregnancy rates in the low ● Boost mood and overall well-being. 90’s after all testing was complete.” Henry Plumptre, CEO, Cambridge Stud [email protected] +61 4 19 940 636 AUS: 1800 189 693 NZ:0800 002 607 Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by SO YOU THINK has been riding“ “the crest of a winning wave Breednet.com.au, 8th March His Gr.1 winners include Quick Thinker, Inference, Nakeeta Jane, La Bella Diosa, D’Argento, Sopressa and now Think It Over… Think It Over winning the George Ryder Stakes-Gr.1 over 1500m on 27th March Leading Sires of Stakes winners in Australia in 2020/21 RK STALLION SWs 1 Written Tycoon 12 2 I Am Invincible 11 3 FASTNET ROCK 10 4 SO YOU THINK 9 - Snitzel 9 6 Not A Single Doubt 8 - Zoustar 8 Arion Pedigrees, 6th April Nimalee wins Saturday’s Emancipation Stakes-Gr.2 over 1500m The best racehorse and sire by HIGH CHAPARRAL Colm Santry, John Kennedy, Paddy Oman, Tom Moore, Rob Archibald or Emma Pugsley Tel: 02 6576 4200. New Zealand: Gordon Calder Tel:+64 218 41612. www.coolmore.com Arrowfield’s $2.5 million Snitzel colt tops Inglis sale | 4 | Wednesday, April 7, 2021 << Continued from page 2 “You don't ever want to get caught up Lot 45: Snitzel ex Rising Romance (Ekraar) colt in buying the full-brother or sister for the sake of it, because Michael looks Price: $2.5 million like an athlete and I don’t, it’s as simple as that. Vendor: Arrowfield Stud “She looks more like an Oaks filly, and this guy is a dead-set two- Buyer: Hawkes Racing year-old, He looks like the real deal and he'll be going to get broken in on Profile: The second highest-priced yearling to have been sold in Monday and it’s 49 weeks to the Golden Slipper.” Australia since 2014, the colt is out of Group 1 Australian Oaks winner The conviction the trio have about the colt’s credentials led to them Rising Romance, a runner-up at Group 1 level on five occasions. Out running the phone for the past week to ensure they had the clients on of a mare by Ekraar (Red Ransom), this is a similar cross to Hawkes board to support the high-priced purchase. Racing’s Golden Slipper winner Estijaab, while the training team “We thought he'd be around the $2 million mark, but you never, never have his two-year-old sister named Yearning within their ranks. She quite know. We are just lucky to have a good bunch of owners that have finished runner-up on the Kensington track on debut in March. gone and had a crack,” he said. What they said: “He just oozed class. We got here last Tuesday “When John Hawkes turns to you the first time he looks at you and and he was the second horse we saw Tuesday afternoon, and Dad tells you this horse has got to go home. He's the bloke that has bought turned to me and Michael, and said we are taking this one home by a stack of Group 1 winners out of this sale. You have to make it happen, hook or by crook” Wayne Hawkes when he says that.” The colt comfortably surpassed the reserve placed on him by “His sister, who looks more scopey than him which John trains, is Arrowfield principal John Messara. “We thought it was a sensible reserve running in the Percy Sykes.” of $1 million and that’s a lot of money in itself but it went straight past Offered as Lot 45, he is the second foal out of Australian Oaks (Gr that,” he said on the top-priced colt.