Tuesday, August 11, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here STALLION WATCH - FORMER ARROWFIELD SHUTTLER MAURICE SIRES THREE NEW FIRST-CROP WINNERS IN JAPAN - PAGE 16 Aristia ready for the What's on Race meetings: Gosford (NSW), P B Lawrence after Ballarat (VIC), Rockhampton (QLD) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Randwick enjoying decent spell (NSW), Caulfield (VIC), Otaki (NZ) Sales: Inglis August (Early) Online Sale, Group 1-winning Lonhro mare set for final season of racing Inglis Great Southern Sale, Magic Millions with Group 2 Caulfield test Mungrup Stud Complete Dispersal Online Sale MORNING BRIEFING Lawrence return for Aristia CREDIT Cape Of Good Hope and Simon Zahra-trained VRC Oaks (Gr 1, After trialling at Flemington yesterday, Lindsay BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS 2500m) winner, hopes that the five-year-old Park’s Caulfield Stakes (Gr 1, 2000m) winner uch is the importance of Aristia can deliver more highlights on the racetrack Cape Of Good Hope (Galileo) will begin his (Lonhro) to the success and before the valuable broodmare prospect is spring campaign in the P.B. Lawrence Stakes subsequent growth of First Light sold. (Gr 2, 1400m) at Caulfield on Saturday, with the Racing that the Group 1-winning Aristia will run first-up in Saturday’s P B Underwood Stakes (Gr 1, 1800m) his current Smare has a farm set up by the Melbourne Lawrence Stakes (Gr 2, 1400m) at Caulfield after aim Morning Briefing page 6 >> syndicator named in her honour. being given the tick of approval after her jump- And Tim Wilson, the principal of First out performance at Flemington yesterday in heat 2020 GLOBAL SALES DATES - PAGE 19 Light Racing who races the Mathew Ellerton three over 800 metres. Continued on page 2>> FRI 6TH - TUE 11TH AUG 2020 MAGIC MILLIONS MUNGRUP DISPERSAL SALE: VIEW CATALOGUE ENTER NOW JULY 24 -29 ONLINE SALE ENTRIES CLOSE JULY 22. Featuring broodmares, yearlings and racing stock. FRICatalogue 7TH available at inglisdigital.com- WED 12TH AUG 2020 INGLIS DIGITAL AUGUST SALE (EARLY): SALE LIVE - VIEW HERE Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Aristia ready for the P B Lawrence after enjoying decent spell | 2 | Tuesday, August 11, 2020 << Continued from page 1 She has not raced since finishing she’s in for her best campaign seventh in the Sunline Stakes (Gr 2, 1600m) at Moonee Valley on March probably since her three-year- 20 which brought an end to her three-start summer-autumn campaign. old spring preparation (when she “She ran second-up in the All-Star Mile in the autumn and things won the VRC Oaks). Her trial this didn’t go her way that day and that was when Covid first broke out morning was sensational. She everywhere in Australia,” Wilson said yesterday. was never off the bit and she’s “The team backed her up in gone across the line about half a six days and gave her a run at length off Pretty Brazen and she SHE’S ALWAYS HAD Moonee Valley with the fear that had Hanseatic behind her and THAT GOOD HORSE’S racing would be put on hold Jamie (Kah, jockey) was like a Melody Belle SPORTPIX PROBLEM WHEREBY for a period of time. As a result, statue on her.” ONE CARNIVAL ENDS we ended up putting her in the While optimistic about the prospects of Aristia breaking her losing AND THE NEXT ONE paddock at the end of March, so streak dating back to her 2018 VRC Oaks win, Wilson suggested that COMES UP SO QUICKLY she’s had a ten-week spell which connections may look to avoid the top-line open company horses this THAT YOU ARE ALWAYS she’s never had in her life. campaign. RACING AGAINST THE “She’s always had that good The Empire Rose Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m), a fillies and mares race she CLOCK, SO FOR HER horse’s problem whereby one finished runner-up to Melody Belle (Commands) in last year, looms as a TO HAVE TEN WEEKS carnival ends and the next one probable target. IN THE PADDOCK IS comes up so quickly that you are “If she ran top three on Saturday you could put her down that old, always racing against the clock, traditional race path or, if she’s not quite up to it on Saturday, you can go UNHEARD OF so for her to have ten weeks in to the Empire Rose,” Wilson said. - TIM WILSON the paddock is unheard of. “There’s a 1400-metre race in two weeks and then we will use the Let’s Elope “Every sign so far is that on September 12 as a mid-range target for her. Continued on page 4>> TIME IS RUNNING OUT SELLING CLOSES FROM 12PM (AWST) TODAY MUNGRUP STUD COMPLETE DISPERSAL ONLINE SALE UNRESERVED FROM THE STUD THAT HAS PRODUCED THE WINNERS OF TWO RAILWAY STAKES, FOUR KARRAKATTA PLATES, FIVE MAGIC MILLIONS WA 2YO CLASSICS AND SIX WESTERN AUSTRALIAN GUINEAS 157 LOTS INCLUDING 69 YEARLINGS, 13 TWO-YEAR-OLDS, ONE THREE-YEAR-OLD AND 74 BROODMARES www.magicmillions.online Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by Aristia ready for the P B Lawrence after enjoying decent spell | 4 | Tuesday, August 11, 2020 << Continued from page 2 “The beauty of her now is that the He said: “We’ve had some sunset clause has kicked in for her on those set weights and penalties fantastic partners along the way IT’S A BALANCING ACT races. Last spring it was tough as everywhere we went with her she had 59 but our vision has always been FOR THE OWNERS, kilograms but now … she will be back to the minimum because she hasn’t for First Light to do everything BUT IN MY OPINION won a stakes race for 18 months.” end-to-end and it gives us a SELLING HER OFF THE The way Aristia, who was bred by Greg Perry under his Greenwich great opportunity now to get our TRACK AT THE END OF Stud banner, has returned after a lengthy spell has Wilson convinced that clients involved in breeding if HER FIVE-YEAR-OLD he and his fellow owners have made the right call to race on the daughter they want to go down that path. SEASON IS THE PRIME of Lonhro (Octagonal) for another season rather than selling her as a well- “The horses are always in TIME TO REALISE HER credentialled broodmare prospect. our care and we see it as a huge “She didn’t win a race last season but she still won $250,000 in prize- client entertainment facility RESIDUAL VALUE money, so it’s a balancing act for the owners, but in my opinion selling in due course. It’s a beautiful - GREG PERRY her off the track at the end of her five-year-old season is the prime time to property and I’d love to be doing realise her residual value,” he said. yearling parades and having owners out there offering accommodation. “You have probably got to treat these next 12 months like they are her They can come out and spend the night, then do the feed run in the last, and a lot of good mares have raced on into their six-year-old season, morning and have a bit of fun.” but she’s probably got to give us a compelling reason to do that because Wilson, in conjunction with agent Paul Willetts, meanwhile, came she might lose ten per cent of her value for racing on for another 12 away with six new season two-year-olds at last week’s Magic Millions months and that’s a significant figure.” National Yearling Sale on the Gold Coast headed by a $100,000 Dundeel How Aristia performs on Saturday will also be a guide as to what (High Chaparral) colt out of Group 1-winning mare Alverta (Flying Spur) difference First Light Racing’s investment earlier this year in a spelling and a $52,000 All Too Hard (Casino Prince) filly out of Group 3-winning, property at Koo Wee Rup, south east of Melbourne, is making to its racing Group 1-placed Galapagos Girl (Dehere). The All Too Hard filly is a team. half-sister to last season’s Gerald Ryan-trained stakes winner Villami Named after the syndicator’s Group 1 winner, Aristia Park is a purpose- (Foxwedge). built horse property with a capacity for 120 horses, sand training tracks, “We had so many new owners come in this year with one, two and an equestrian area, tie-ups and round yards overseen by farm manager three degrees of separation from existing First Light owners or even just Marnie Holloway. new people. We’ve still been able to have a good year despite Covid,” he “It’s brand-new for us. We took ownership of it in March and it’s just said. such an asset. It’s probably not a coincidence but the first two horses that “We haven’t overbought and we were fortunate with … the Magic have raced off that farm who have spelled there were Squami and Rich Millions sale being pushed all the way out to August, that really worked Hips,” Wilson said. for us. “Squami won first-up and Rich Hips went to Sandown and won first- “That sale is normally in May/June and in May we are usually carrying up and she’s in for a ‘career prep’ as well. Aristia will be the third horse a lot of stock but by the time we got to August our numbers were quite to go to the races off the property.