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CON TE PARTIRO CONFIRMED FOR KEENELAND SALE - PAGE 13 Sunday, September 13, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here SINGAPORE NEWS- PAGE 14 MORNING BRIEFING - PAGE 6 YESTERDAY'S RACE RESULTS - PAGE 18 History for Fierce What's on Impact as Rothfire Metropolitan meetings: Devonport (TAS) Race meetings: Coffs Harbour (NSW), Dubbo (NSW), Cranbourne (VIC), Sunshine Coast stands tall in Rose prep (QLD), Oakbank (SA), York (WA), Taupo (NZ) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Coffs Harbour Japanese import completes Toorak Handicap, Cantala Stakes, (NSW), Dubbo (NSW) Makybe Diva Stakes treble as Queenslander sweeps into Sydney International meetings: Sha Tin (HK), LATEST NEWS FROM THE WEEKEND'S RACING Nakayama (JPN), Chukyo (JPN), Bath (UK), Chelmsford (UK), Wolverhampton (UK), Curragh (IRE), Longchamp (FR), Baden- Baden (GER), Scottsville (SAF) International Group races: Nakayama (JPN) - Keisei Hai Autumn Handicap (Gr 3, 1600m). Chukyo (JPN) - Sankei Sho Centaur Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m). Curragh (IRE) - Irish St Leger (Gr 1, 1m 6f), Vincent O’Brien National Stakes (Gr 1, 7f), Moyglare Stud Stakes (Gr 1, 7f), Flying Five Stakes (Gr 1, 5f), Blandford Stakes (Gr 2, 1m 2f). Longchamp (FR) - Grand Prix de Paris (Gr 1, 2400m), Prix Vermeille (Gr 1, 2400m), Prix Foy (Gr 2, 2400m), Prix du Petit Couvert (Gr 3, 1000m), Prix du Pin (Gr 3, 1400m). Rothfire SPORTPIX Baden-Baden (GER) - Grosser Preis Von Baden (Gr 1, 2400m) and Cantala Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m) double BY STEVE MORAN & ANDREW HAWKINS International sales: Keeneland September last spring - a feat achieved only five times Yearling Sale - Book 1 (USA) ierce Impact became the first horse, previously and - of that quintet - only All Shot in successive seasons, to claim (Idomeneo) added a then-Group 2 Craiglee Melbourne’s spring Group 1 mile Stakes, two years later, to his resume. treble and continued jockey Mark It was a fortuitous 17th Group 1 success FZahra’s stellar start to the 2020-21 season when for winning jockey Mark Zahra whose luck he won yesterday’s incident packed Makybe was in and perhaps deservedly so as it was Diva Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m) at Flemington. Fierce Impact, then ridden by Craig Williams, The Matthew Smith-trained Japanese- who denied Zahra aboard Fifty Stars (Sea The bred son of Deep Impact (Sunday Silence) had Stars) by a short half head in the 2019 Cantala completed the Toorak Handicap (Gr 1, 1600m) Stakes. Continued on page 2>> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by History for Fierce Impact as Rothfire stands tall in Rose prep | 2 | Sunday, September 13, 2020 << Continued from page 1 Zahra was riding Fierce Impact (7 Zahra, who has ridden at least one winner at the past five Saturday h Deep Impact - Keiai Gerbera by Smarty Jones) for the first time with meetings in Melbourne and snared five stakes wins in that run, conceded Williams committed to Melbourne Cup (Gr 1, 3200m) winner Vow And the race panned out well for him. Declare (Declaration Of War) and the in-form jockey was similarly “My horse actually jumped in and took both the leaders out of play fortunate to pick up the mount on Bobbie Lewis Quality (Gr 2, 1200m) and I thought, ‘oh jeez’. I was closer than he normally is but we were going victor Zoutori (Zoustar) with his “usual” riders Jamie Kah and Damian at a hack canter. I got out and I thought I was going to win easier but Lane both suspended. obviously Russian Camelot’s a very good horse and it took a while to fight “He’s good in a fight. He beat me in a fight here before so it was good him off,” he said. to switch and be on his back and on the same side,” Zahra said of Fierce “The good draw just gave me a soft run and he did the rest. Flemington Impact in reference to the Cantala and to yesterday’s duel with the much- suits and a bit of rain helped as well.” spruiked Russian Camelot (Camelot), who was beaten a head at his spring Trainer Smith was delighted: "He was super. For a small stable like resumption. ours to have a horse like that, it's fantastic,” he said. “He’s the type of horse Zahra was able to provide Fierce Impact with the perfect run from that always just does enough. Russian Camelot got the jump on us a bit barrier five while Damien Oliver was caught deep throughout, from gate but given that he's a horse that only does as much as he has to, it was 14, on Russian Camelot in a race run at a pedestrian tempo after expected better that he had something to chase. leader Gailo Chop (Deportivo) missed the start and Gatting (Hard Spun), "Mark rode him perfectly, judged it perfectly and we couldn't be who was expected to go forward, was hampered when the winner jumped happier. These races are so hard to win. You can make all the plans, have awkwardly and shifted in abruptly. the horse ready, draw a good barrier but it all still needs to work out. It was further disorganised when the 2019 winner Gatting broke Russian Camelot is a serious horse, too. To fend him off was something." down shortly after the start and Miami Bound (Reliable Man), Vow And Fierce Impact, stakes-placed from David Simcock’s yard in England, Declare and Kings Will Dream (Casamento) were severely hampered. was consigned to the 2017 Tattersalls Autumn Horses In Training Sale The Peter Moody-trained Gatting sustained a fractured shoulder and was where Smith purchased him for 120,000 guineas (approx A$221,500). He euthanised. has now earned A$3,186,330 in his 27 starts. Continued on page 4>> Tattersalls Autumn HIT Group 1 Winner FIERCE IMPACT MAKYBE DIVA STAKES, Gr. 1 sold Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale by Jamie Railton (Agent) to Matthew Smith Racing for 120,000 gns also 2nd RUSSIAN CAMELOT Next Sale sold Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, Book 1 by October Yearling Sale, Book 1 6th - 8th October Camas Park Stud to Jeremy Brummitt for 120,000 gns Jenny McAlpine Tel:+61 411 504803 [email protected] www.tattersalls.com Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by History for Fierce Impact as Rothfire stands tall in Rose prep | 4 | Sunday, September 13, 2020 << Continued from page 2 It was an eventful race for trainer Danny O’Brien. Aside from Russian Camelot undergoing a veterinary examination after being fractious in the barriers and then being condemned to race four-wide without cover, stablemates Vow And Declare and Miami Bound struck severe interference. Melbourne Cup winner Vow And Declare recovered to finish a more than encouraging ninth, beaten less than five lengths, while Miami Bound was eased out of the race. A post-race veterinary examination failed to reveal any abnormalities with the 2019 VRC Oaks (Gr 1, 2500m) winner. All the talk, though, as it’s been for some time, was of South Australian Derby (Gr 1, 2500m) hero Russian Camelot. O’Brien said: "He was obviously wide and without cover, but it was probably the only option from that gate and as it was he avoided all that interference when the Pretty Brazen RACING PHOTOS horse broke down in the back half of the field. "He was beaten by a top-class miler, who’s a three-time Group 1 winner “She won the Sandown Guineas at Group 2 level and was the first filly at a mile now and he's been beaten a neck, so for a first-up performance for some 14 years to do so and we will consider backing up in the Rupert for the spring, I don't think we could ask for much more. Clarke Stakes next week,” McEvoy said. [Cayambe (Danehill), in 2005, was "Without winning, he really couldn't have gone any better. There the previous female Sandown Guineas winner.] wasn't much speed and I don't think Damien (Oliver) could have ridden “We’ll just see how she pulls up as it’s quite firm out there today,” him differently, he did the right thing to worry about the horse and how he McEvoy added. was travelling rather than trying to get some cover. Flemington remarkably missed the bulk of the heavy rain which "He was beaten by a good horse in Fierce Impact and I suppose we drenched the rest of Melbourne yesterday. Four mares have won the Sir were the most vulnerable at the mile first-up. Fierce Impact probably put Rupert Clarke Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) in the past 30 years and three had a length on him and he really fought back." finished either first or second in the Let’s Elope - Mannerism (Amyntor) Both Fierce Impact and Russian Camelot are now likely Cox Plate in 1992, Rewaaya (Singspiel) in 2006 and Response (Charge Forward) in (Gr 1, 2040m)-bound although it is sobering to consider that Northerly 2010. (Serheed) in 2002 is the only Cox Plate winner, in the past 30 years, to progress via the Makybe Diva (Craiglee) Stakes. Rothfire sizzles as Bowman is burned Zoutori (5 g Zoustar - Atotori by Haradasun), Zahra’s earlier winner, An inquiry into Hugh Bowman’s handling of Golden Slipper Stakes may be bound for the 2020 Cantala Stakes after beginning his spring (Gr 1, 1200m) winner Farnan (Not A Single Doubt) has been adjourned campaign, just as he did last year, with victory in the Bobbie Lewis Quality. after he was beaten for just the second time in yesterday’s The Run To The In 2019 his margin was a decisive two lengths but yesterday it was just a Rose (Gr 2, 1200m) at Rosehill.