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KIWI CHRONICLES Tuesday, August 10, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here MACAU NEWS - PAGE 19 SALES NEWS: TATTERSALLS RELEASE OCTOBER BOOK 1 CATALOGUE - PAGE 13 Australian Bloodstock Read Tomorrow's Issue For Focus Asia moves on ‘fast European What's on Race meetings: Gunnedah (NSW), stayer’ Rodrigo Diaz Hawkesbury (NSW), Ballarat (VIC), Mackay (QLD), Broome (WA) Lovell confident David Simcock-trained stayer will pass Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Gunnedah stringent veterinary tests with Melbourne Cup the target (NSW), Deagon (QLD), Hobart (TAS), Foxton (NZ), Cambridge (NZ) International meetings: Kenilworth (SAF), Wolverhampton (UK), Nottingham (UK), Lingfield (UK), Chelmsford (UK) Sales: Inglis Digital August (Early) Sale MORNING BRIEFING Rosemont alter stallion parade format Rodrigo Diaz MARK CRANHAM Rosemont Stud has changed its upcoming stallion parade due to the current Covid-19 BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS stake in the David Simcock-trained Rodrigo situation in Victoria. What was originally scheduled amie Lovett is confident that European Diaz, a closing second in the Bahrain Turf as an “open to all” event, the stallion parade will now stayer Rodrigo Diaz (Golden Horn) Series Handicap (2m, 0.5f) at Newbury on be open to smaller groups throughout August 17 will pass Racing Victoria’s stringent July 17. and 19. “We will now run small parades at 10am, veterinary checks to allow the lightly “He has still got a few boxes to tick. He 12pm and 2pm next Tuesday (17th) and Thursday Jraced gelding to travel Australia and compete hasn’t met the qualifying conditions as yet but (19th) for those that can make it either from in this year’s Melbourne Cup (Gr 1, 3200m). certainly we have got a couple of races in the regional Vic or on a work permit,” Stud principal The Australian Bloodstock director UK in the next few weeks where we are hoping Anthony Mithen said. Mithen was excited to yesterday confirmed he and business partner to tick that box,” Lovett told ANZ Bloodstock show off the stud's new arrival, Starspangledbanner Luke Murrell had purchased a 50 per cent News. Continued on page 2>> (Choisir). Continued on page 11>> FRI 6TH - WED 11TH AUG 2021 - INGLIS DIGITAL AUG (EARLY) SALE SALE LIVE - CLICK HERE Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Australian Bloodstock moves on ‘fast European stayer’ Rodrigo Diaz | 2 | Tuesday, August 10, 2021 << Continued from page 1 “Regardless, he will come here for the hemisphere) with him but if he ever ended up here in Australia full time, spring and there’s plenty of races here where we can meet the qualifying he would be competitive in Tancreds and those mile and a half races conditions and hopefully get him in on the limit weight, that would be ideal.” because he’s quite a fast horse.” Simcock, who has won four races from ten starts with the four-year- Australian Bloodstock reached a deal with Rodrigo Diaz’s owner old (five-year-old by southern hemisphere time), will attempt to qualify Quantum Leap Racing after the horse underwent a veterinary examination Rodrigo Diaz for the Melbourne Cup either in the Geoffrey Freer Stakes but he is yet to have the scintigraphy test which Racing Victoria has (Gr 3, 1m 5f) at Newbury on Saturday or the Chester Stakes (Listed, 1m mandated for international horses entered for the Melbourne Cup. 6f 87y) on August 21 before the “He has done 80 per cent of the vetting and we are more than FROM WHAT I HAVE SEEN horse enters quarantine. comfortable to head that way (to Australia),” he said. WITH THIS HORSE, IF “As they call them in “My view on that is, if you have got a sound horse you proceed as THEY FIND A REASON TO Europe, he is a fast stayer. planned. We have taken 65 streams on X-ray, we have vetted him as He’s not a dour grinder. Those thoroughly as you possibly can and he’s certainly got no existing injuries. FAIL HIM, THEN IT WILL horses are all well and good “That holds no fears. I think he will be fine but obviously the way the BE AN EMPTY AIRCRAFT only if they get a crazy speed,” rules are, he has got to have the scintigraphy done seven days prior to BECAUSE OUR VET MADE he said. going into quarantine. THE COMMENT, AND HE “Jamie (Spencer) rides him “From what I have seen with this horse, if they find a reason to fail IS RELATIVELY LIGHTLY cold a lot of the time but he is a him, then it will be an empty aircraft because our vet made the comment, RACED, THAT HE HAS A horse who can run a sectional and he is relatively lightly raced, that he has a very clean set of legs and all VERY CLEAN SET OF LEGS which would have him the things you want to see.” AND ALL THE THINGS YOU competitive in the (Australian) If, as expected, he leaves Australia after the Melbourne Cup, the Turf WANT TO SEE autumn as well as the spring. Stayers Handicap (3000m) in Saudi Arabia or the Dubai Gold Cup (Gr 2, - JAMIE LOVETT “Our intention is to 3200m) on World Cup night are on the table for the gelding before returning go back (to the northern to Simcock’s Newmarket stable in the UK. 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There’s a fair bit of money there and in US dollars, “Jamie Lovett and Luke Murrell clearly share our enthusiasm for the so we would be pretty keen to do that,” Lovett said. horse and having considerable experience in travelling European horses “We’d give him a fairly light season where he would run at Royal Ascot to Australia, including Protectionist to win the Cup in 2014, his team’s in the perfect world and then come back for next year’s cup. experience will be invaluable,” O’Connor said. “He’s one of those two milers where they might only have five or six “This is especially so this year where many Europeans have decided starts over a year, but running for good money in all of them.” that the hurdles in getting to the Cup are insurmountable.” Quantum Leap Racing’s Eamonn O’Connor, in a statement, said he The acquisition of Rogrido Diaz may not be the last of Australian Bloodstock’s European purchases this year. “We are hoping to nail another overnight. There are a couple there that we are keen on. It is just a matter of whether we can work out the vetting in the time frame (required),” Lovett said. “Certainly, there’s a few there and there’s a few more that will come out, but they’re not for the feature races.” Despite the new Racing Victoria protocols regarding international horses, implemented in the wake of a spate of fatalities in the Melbourne Cup, competition remains strong from buyers Down Under attempting to purchase talent. Lovett said: “None of them look cheap, but I think like everywhere, albeit we are in a pandemic, the market is still very strong over there for the right horse. 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Stokes is also confident improvement from Crosshaven (Smart Missile) Phillip Stokes is hoping Sansom (Charm Spirit) Sansom can stretch out beyond Saturday's as he returns to action in the Regal Roller can raise the bar higher when he contests the 1400-metre trip, which is the furthest he Stakes (Listed, 1200m) at Caulfield on Saturday.