Saturday, February 22, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here DIRECT TO YOUR INBOX EVERY MORNING Hanseatic could be What's on Stakes races: Caulfield (VIC) - Blue the top colt to continue Diamond Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m), Oakleigh Plate (Gr 1, 1100m), Futurity Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m), Autumn Classic (Gr 2, Street Cry sire line 1800m), Angus Armanasco Stakes (Gr 2, 1400m), Peter Young Stakes (Gr 2, 1800m), Godolphin homebred leads way but Darley sires also have strong Mannerism Stakes (Gr 3, 1400m), Zeditave Blue Diamond hand Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m). Rosehill (NSW) - Hobartville Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m), Silver Slipper Stakes (Gr 2, 1100m), Millie Fox Stakes (Gr 2, 1300m), Parramatta Cup (Listed, 1900m). Ascot (WA) - Detonator Stakes (Listed, 1800m). Otaki (NZ) - Haunui Farm Classic (Gr 1, 1600m). Matamata (NZ) - Matamata Breeders’ Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m), Waikato Stud Slipper (Gr 3, 1200m), Kaimai Stakes (Listed, 2000m) Metropolitan meetings: Rosehill (NSW), Caulfield (VIC), Eagle Farm (QLD), Ascot (WA), Morphettville Parks (SA), Darwin (NT), Otaki (NZ), Matamata (NZ) Race meetings: Albury (NSW), Newcastle (NSW), Orange (NSW), Yarra Valley (VIC), Gold Coast (QLD), Mackay (QLD), Toowoomba (QLD), Kingscote (SA) International meetings: Taipa (MAC) Hanseatic SPORTPIX one of a handful of yearlings Godolphin sends BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS the Victorian stable’s way each year, leads the odolphin power brokers will charge ahead of Ideas Man (Brazen Beau), Aryaaf have their eyes firmly cast (Epaulette) and Night Of Thunder’s (Dubawi) pair on unbeaten colt Hanseatic A Beautiful Night and Riverina Storm. (Street Boss) during the The feature Caulfield meeting, and that of runningG of the Blue Diamond Stakes (Gr Sydney’s premier meeting at Rosehill, promises 1, 1200m) but should the favourite strike to give a glimpse of not only Darley’s current MS CATHERINE PROVIDES trouble, their attention will quickly switch to enviable stallion roster but of what promises to SHOOTING TO WIN WITH his four Darley-sired rivals. come including stud prospect Hanseatic in the $1.5 MILESTONE IN TYPHOON TRACY - PAGE 11 The Anthony Freedman-trained Hanseatic, million Blue Diamond. Continued on page 2>> Follow us @anz_news: click here | 1 | Brought to you by Hanseatic could be the top colt to continue Street Cry sire line << Continued from page 1 “It is the first Group 1 of the season for two-year-olds and it is an important race for a number of reasons, but we’re obviously looking at it from a future stallion’s and our current stallions’ point of view,” Darley’s head of sales Alastair Pulford said yesterday. “A good representation by our stallions is obviously very pleasing and Hanseatic would be our best result because we still own him and would become a future stallion, but equally, we’d be delighted to see an Ideas BEST OF Man or an Aryaaf succeeding as well.” The on-track deeds of Hanseatic this season clearly illustrates the justification for Darley’s decision four years ago to provide greater mare support to its diverse stallion roster including Victorian-based shuttler Street Boss (Street Cry). LUCK Street Boss flew under the radar despite Group 1-winning sprinter The To the Magic Millions graduates Quarterback emerging from his first southern hemisphere crop and Group running in today’s feature races 3 winner Petits Filous from his second, but in 2016 breeders took notice, CAULFIELD (MRC) MANNERISM STKS GR3 as did Darley, who lifted his fee from $11,000 (all inc GST) to $27,500 that Spanish Reef ............. Patinack Farm year, after starting his Australian stud career in 2009 at $16,500. BLUE DIAMOND STKS GR1 The Stylist ................. Westbury Stud Rathlin ........................Kitchwin Hills Pulford revealed that a pre-existing leg injury stopped him from Tanker ..................... Edinburgh Park ROSEHILL (ATC) returning to Northwood Park in 2010, a move that halted the upward Tagaloa ....................Arrowfield Stud Rulership ...........Yarraman Park Stud SILVER SLIPPER STKS GR2 trajectory of the Street Cry (Machiavellian) stallion. Glenfiddich ............... Edinburgh Park Farnan ...........................Vinery Stud Away Game ............... Mill Park Stud Global Quest ............ Highgrove Stud “He had put his leg through the fence in America, so we were restricted Letzbeglam ....................Vinery Stud Every Rose ......................Tyreel Stud in the number of mares we could cover with him and probably by that FUTURITY STKS GR1 MILLIE FOX STKS GR2 stage he was a first crop Street Cry and he hadn’t really hit his straps as a Black Heart Bart ..... Lakeside T’breds Irithea .......................Arrowfield Stud stallion,” he said. OAKLEIGH PLATE GR1 HOBARTVILLE STKS GR2 Warning..................... Mill Park Stud “He didn’t get the support that he probably deserved and then he had Bold Star .................... Brooklyn Park Free of Debt .......Phoenix Broodmare Prince Fawaz ..............Baramul Stud to miss a year to recover from that injury because it took a long time to Farm Pancho ......................Sledmere Stud Reloaded ..................Arrowfield Stud clean up his hock. ANGUS ARMANASCO STKS GR2 “He came back but we’d lost the momentum by that stage and, while Westport ................... Torryburn Stud OTAKI (NZ) Snapdancer ...............Sledmere Stud he still got reasonable numbers, he didn’t ever get the quality. From his HAUNUI FARM CLASSIC GR1 PETER YOUNG STKS GR2 The Mitigator ..............Amarina Farm first crop he got the Newmarket Handicap winner The Quarterback and Levendi ........................Widden Stud MATAMATA (NZ) then along came Petits Filous, so he looked like being a pretty handy AUTUMN CLASSIC GR3 MATAMATA BREEDERS’ STKS stallion who also had a couple of decent horses in America.” Hi Stranger ...............Riverina Downs Rebel Racer ................ Mill Park Stud GR2 That was when Darley, and fellow breeders, upped the ante with the Influential Jack ........... Armidale Stud Amosia ........................ Chanti Creek quality of mares covered by Street Boss. ZEDITAVE STKS GR3 WAIKATO STUD SLIPPER GR3 He’ll Haunt Us .............Kitchwin Hills Need I Say More ....Burnewang North “We sent a number of high-class mares to him including Hanseatic’s Pastoral Sansom ......................Kitchwin Hills dam Itameri but others as well. “This is the first crop where he has stood at a decent fee - he stood at $25,000 (plus GST) - and he was very popular. “A lot of good breeders It is the first Group 1 supported him, including us, of the season for two- and we told everyone that in the year-olds and it is an past couple of years and we have important race for a number of reasons, continued that support. We have but we’re obviously ten two-year-olds, ten yearlings looking at it from a and a number of foals by him future stallion’s and and mares in foal still. our current stallions’ “We have really backed the point of view horse in for the past four years because we know that he is certainly ALASTAIR capable and has done it from a very PULFORD slow start off limited opportunity.” Continued on page 4>> www.magicmillions.com.au Follow us @anz_news: click here | 2 | Brought to you by BIG EARNING PREMIER GRADUATES BEAT THE CLOCK $70,000 Yearling Prizemoney $10,284,957 Kenedna SANTA ANA LANE $80,000 Yearling Prizemoney $7,478,836 SCALES OF JUSTICE $180,000 Yearling Prizemoney $2,301,600 KENEDNA $80,000 Yearling Prizemoney $2,122,895 Nature Strip HEY DOC $85,000 Yearling Prizemoney $2,423,300 NATURE STRIP Prizemoney $3,981,785 PREMIER YEARLING SALE 1-3 March 2020 Oaklands, Melbourne inglis.com.au Hanseatic could be the top colt to continue Street Cry sire line | 4 | Saturday, February 22, 2020 << Continued from page 2 Hanseatic may well prove to be Street Boss’ best - and certainly most valuable - judging by the manner of his three victories to date, in the Merson Cooper Stakes (Listed, 1000m), the Blue Diamond Preview (C&G) (Listed, 1000m) and Blue Diamond Prelude (C&G) (Gr 3, 1100m) respectively. His pedigree, being out of a three-quarter sister to Schillaci Stakes (Gr 2, 1000m) winner Wilander (Exceed And Excel) and from the same family as Magnus (Flying Spur), Black Caviar (Bel Esprit) and All Too Hard (Casino Prince), also excites Pulford. “He is by a son of Street Cry and out of an Exceed And Excel mare, so he is ‘very Darley’, but he has already proven himself to be a high-class horse,” he said. “He has got to step up to Group 1 level tomorrow but if it is not Ideas Man (blue/green hoops cap) SPORTPIX tomorrow, then I am sure it will be some time in the future because he does show an enormous amount of ability.” for the past three years. Whether that makes a difference or not, we don’t Meanwhile, the Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-trained Inglis know. Previous history says that it doesn’t really affect fertility but we will Banner (RL, 1000m) winner Ideas Man, a $575,000 Inglis Melbourne see going forward.” Premier Yearling Sale purchase, also has the chance to increase his stallion Another Darley stallion whose Australian stud career was curtailed currency and boost the credentials of his Darley-based sire Brazen Beau due to a setback is Night Of Thunder who shuttled to Victoria for just one (I Am Invincible). season in 2016 where he covered 96 mares, producing 58 live foals. Another juvenile colt by Brazen Beau, $800,000 Melbourne Premier A back injury flared during that southern hemisphere season and graduate North Pacific, also debuts in today’s Silver Slipper Stakes (Gr 2, prevented him from returning the following year. 1100m) at Rosehill. From that one small southern hemisphere-bred crop, he has two “These Brazen Beau two-year-olds, they look even better than his first winners - Blue Diamond Preview (F) (Gr 3, 1000m) winner A Beautiful crop at this stage,” Pulford said.