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KIWI CHRONICLES Tuesday, May 25, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here TREASURE TROVE OF QUALITY MARES TO LIGHT UP MAGIC MILLIONS SALES RING - PAGE 1 KIWI CHRONICLES Tuesday, May 25, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here FOURTH GROUP 1 WINNER FOR WOOTTON BASSETT - PAGE 14 MACAU NEWS - PAGE 23 Treasure trove of quality Read Tomorrow's Issue For mares to light up Magic Focus Asia Steve Moran What's on Millions sales ring Race meetings: Armidale (NSW), Kembla Changing face of Australian market on show as Arcadia Queen Grange (NSW), Stawell (VIC), Rockhampton and Melody Belle headline day one (QLD), Te Rapa (NZ) Barrier Trials/Jump-outs: Armidale (NSW), Bendigo (VIC), Caulfield (VIC), Pakenham (VIC), Te Rapa (NZ) International meetings: Musselburgh (UK), Lingfield (UK), Newcastle (UK) Sales: Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale, Inglis Digital May (Late) Sale International Sale: Tattersalls Online May Sale Attunga Stud team with Missybeel and Miss Sentimental MAGIC MILLIONS National Broodmare Sale starts on the Gold BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS Coast this morning. urther proof of a market squeeze, An array of elite race fillies and mares, to Peltzer to stand at Twin Hills spurred on by high-end weanlings be sold in the opening session, may set the Unbeaten two-year-old and Group 2-winning realising yearling prices, could tone for the changing marketplace in which three-year-old Peltzer (So You Think) has flow on to the breeding stock sales skyrocketing yearling prices experienced this been retired to Twin Hills Stud in southern asF buyers shut out of the foal segment seek year has forced more end-users to consider the NSW for the 2021 breeding season. He will race fillies or mares in foal in order to acquire weanling market. stand at a fee of $16,500 (inc GST). Trained desirable trade stock for the years ahead. In turn, some industry observers predict more by Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexiou, Peltzer Evidence of the shift in the dynamic of the buyers to consider entering the market earlier by was the winner of all three of his races as a Australian bloodstock industry is tipped to be purchasing mares off the track or mares in foal with juvenile and he is the highest-rated two-year- on show when the three-session Magic Millions commercial coverings. Continued on page 2>> old by his sire. Conrinued on page 18 >> TUE 25TH - THU 27TH MAY 2021 MAGIC MILLIONS NATIONAL BROODMARE SALE SALE LIVE VIEW HERE Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Treasure trove of quality mares to light up Magic Millions sales ring | 2 | Tuesday, May 25, 2021 << Continued from page 1 “We were actually talking about this (on Sunday) night: how many weanlings were purchased by end users last week and we thought around 75 to 100 out of that Magic Millions catalogue (of 340 sold) were purchased by end users by the Ciaron Mahers and the like,” Attunga Stud’s Brian Nutt said yesterday. “That just indicates that they are willing to hang on to those horses for an extra year hoping that they’ve got a bit of a bargain by buying them as weanlings. “It does take those 75 to 100 horses out of the sales circuit next year, which means it might create a few opportunities for breeders like us to get something into a yearling sale that may not have got in prior to the end users buying all those weanlings.” Nutt suggested the movement of buyers down the so-called food chain, with more end users pushing into the weanling market, could Lot 523: Miss Sentimental MAGIC MILLIONS see foal pinhookers pay closer THE GREATEST attention to the mares’ market. “The mares who are carrying foals to stallions whose service fees have COLLECTION OF MARES “The way the industry gone up like Deep Field and Capitalist, there are still going to be some YOU’LL EVER SEE ARE is heading, there are some opportunities to buy those sorts of mares at this sale.” opportunities to be buying The Australian broodmare market kicked off with gusto at the Chairman’s BEING SOLD HERE these race fillies off the track, for Sale earlier this month and the level of demand for elite mares is expected to (TODAY) example, and maybe even putting continue this week, but vendors and buyers will receive a clearer guide on just - BARRY BOWDITCH them in foal and turning them how much bloodstock values have increased year-on-year inside the first hour of over again next year,” he said. the race fillies and mares session this morning. Continued on page 4>> IT PAYS TO RACE QUEENSLAND BRED Over $12 million as a matter of fact With over $10M+ in QTIS prizemoney bonuses across all of Queensland all year, $2M Jewel Raceday and the $1M QTIS Open on Gold Coast Magic Millions Day, there’s never been a more rewarding time for owners to ‘Breed Queensland, Race Queensland’. Also, QTIS registered winners of all Black Type and selected Feature races now take home an additional QTISx bonus. Visit racingqueensland.com.au/QTIS or call Vicki Ace on 07 3869 9709 Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by Champion 2YO and U.S. Triple Crown winner Already sire of Gr.1 winners in America, Europe and Japan First Australian 2YO crop includes Chris Waller’s Gr.1 prospect Head of State Recent highlights include… On Sunday: Hudson Ridge (RIGHT) becomes his latest Stakes winner on turf when winning the Cinema Stakes at Santa Anita On Saturday: As Time Goes By lands another big prize, the Santa Maria S.-Gr.2 at Santa Anita On Saturday: Gr.1-winning 2YO on turf Van Gogh was third in the Irish 2000 Guineas-Gr.1 8th May: Gr.1-winning 3YO on turf Harvey's Lil Goil won the Beaugay Stakes-Gr.3 at Belmont Park 2021 Australian yearlings sold for $650,000, $625,000, $425,000, $400,000, $360,000, $350,000, $320,000, $320,000, $300,000 etc. Selected Second Crop Yearling Sires of 2021 Stallion 2021 Median Yrl Price 2021 Fee Extreme Choice $140,000 Private American Pharoah $130,000 $49,500 Shalaa $130,000 $44,000 Capitalist $120,000 $99,000 Frosted $80,000 $44,000 Flying Artie $50,000 $33,000 16 Star Turn $50,000 $16,500 STAKES WINNERS FROM HIS FIRST Fee $49,500 (inc. GST) 2 U.S. CROPS 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 Treasure trove of quality mares to light up Magic Millions sales ring | 4 | Tuesday, May 25, 2021 “It’s a treasure trove and we’re very excited that it’s here as we’ve been working hard on this for months now and it’s exciting that these mares have made it here.” Attunga Stud will offer two high-class mares about three quarters of an hour into the session, New Zealand Oaks (Gr 1, 2400m) winner Miss Sentimental (Reliable Man) (Lot 523) and dual Group 3 winner Missybeel (Savabeel) three lots later. “I think there are a lot of buyers here and there’s a lot of quality buyers here as well,” Nutt said. “It is nice to see the Kiwis back on the sales circuit. You’ve got Cambridge Stud, Pencarrow Stud and Little Avondale’s Sam Williams and some of the major New Zealand breeders represented, then you’ve got all the Australian studs as well, so I think there will be enough money to spread around. Lo 510: Melody Belle MAGIC MILLIONS “It’s going to be a very exciting sale for vendors, in particular.” Some mare owners will be tempted to keep hold of their mares rather Champion New Zealand mare Melody Belle (Commands) and than selling given the demand that has been experienced at the yearling Group 2 winner Mizzy (Zoustar) will go through early before Bella Vella and weanling sales this year, but Nutt has advised his clients to take (Commands), Fiesta (I Am Invincible) and Arcadia Queen (Pierro) are advantage of the current market. sold later in the day, prior to the Shadwell Stud Australasia unreserved “There will be (a temptation to hold stock), but I have told a few clients dispersal of race fillies and mares in foal taking place. that I think they’re selling at the top of the market,” he said. In all, there are eight Group 1-winning mares to go under the hammer today. “It is not a bad play to take some cash when it is on offer and, in “The greatest collection of mares you’ll ever see are being sold here particular, I refer to Tsaritsa, a Group 2 winner in foal to I Am Invincible (today),” Magic Millions managing director Barry Bowditch said. who we are selling. Continued on page 6>> Online Timed Auction TATTERSALLS ONLINE MAY 25th SALE BIDDING CLOSES 25/05 at 12.00pm BST Catalogue Online T: +44 1638 665931 [email protected] www.tattersallsonline.com Follow us @anz_news | 4 | Brought to you by LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON By a sire of 3 Group 1 winners from his 2nd crop CASTELVECCHIO THE BEST SON OF DUNDEEL SECOND SEASON FEE: $33,000 INC GST JON FREYER +61 408 583 888 | SALLY GORDON +61 421 080 021 PETER JENKINS +61 408 667 876 | ALISON BRASSIL +61 439 338 630 Treasure trove of quality mares to light up Magic Millions sales ring | 6 | Tuesday, May 25, 2021 << Continued from page 4 “Some of these race fillies we’ve got have to be sold because they’re owned by big syndicates but I think the timing is perfect to have a nice mare in the sale and you are letting someone else have the risk going forward.” Big stud farms to make presence felt One of the key segments of the buying bench will be the farms investing in mares to support their young stallions and the competition from those players is expected to be fierce.