Tuesday, September 8, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here STALLION WATCH | SHALAA SIRES THREE WINNERS IN LAST WEEK - PAGE 13 Glimpse of first season What's on Race meetings: Queanbeyan (NSW), Scone sires’ stock on show in (NSW), Moe (VIC), Mackay (QLD) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Randwick Sydney and Melbourne (NSW), Queanbeyan (NSW), Caulfield (VIC), Wangaratta (VIC), Burrumbeet (VIC), Juveniles to step out in barrier trials and jump outs as build up Doomben (QLD), Toowoomba (QLD), to October races continues Longford (TAS), Rangiora (NZ), Foxton (NZ), Ellerslie (NZ) International meetings: Catterick (UK), Goodwood (UK), Newcastle (UK), Galway (IRE), Durbanville (SAF) MORNING BRIEFING Negative result after Flemington Covid scare Training at Flemington will go ahead as normal this morning after a staff member of Gai (Left to Right) Divine Prophet, Maurice, Extreme Choice and Shalaa ANZ Waterhouse and Adrian Bott’s Melbourne stable In Sydney this morning, two juvenile barrier was cleared of Covid-19. The champion trainer’s BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS trials will be conducted at Randwick, a precursor Melbourne stable was closed yesterday as fears hey don’t pay you for winning to the official two-year-old heats scheduled for grew about the possibility of an employee, who barrier trials, but a lot can hinge the Kensington track in 13 days’ time, and the had gone home sick earlier in the day, had on the early season results for the progeny of a number of first season sires such contracted the coronavirus but Racing Victoria heavily invested studmasters who as Extreme Choice (Not A Single Doubt), Shalaa last night confirmed that a test for the illness had haveT two-year-olds by their unproven young (Invincible Spirit), Maurice (Screen Hero), and returned negative. Morning Briefing page 6 >> stallions hitting the track as the latest breeding Divine Prophet (Choisir) will step out in public GLOBAL SALES DATES - PAGE 18 year reaches its peak. for the first time. Continued on page 2>> ENTER NOW JULY 24 -29 ONLINE SALE ENTRIES CLOSE JULY 22. Featuring broodmares, yearlings and racing stock. FRICatalogue 4TH-WED available at inglisdigital.com 9TH SEPTEMBER 2020 INGLIS DIGITAL SEPTEMBER (EARLY) SALE: SALE LIVE - VIEW HERE Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Glimpse of first season sires’ stock on show in Sydney and Melbourne | 2 | Tuesday, September 8, 2020 << Continued from page 1 Winning Rupert (Written Tycoon) and Flying Artie (Artie Schiller) are also represented. In Melbourne on Thursday, a number of juveniles by first season sires, including Golden Slipper (Gr 1, 1200m) winner Capitalist (Written Tycoon), Woodside Park’s shuttler Cable Bay (Invincible Spirit) and Eureka Stud’s Defcon (Choisir) will be represented in the jump outs scheduled at Sandown. Arrowfield’s Paul Messara, who plays on both sides of the fence as a studmaster and trainer, will be represented by a Shalaa colt he prepares Silver City who is in heat 11 over 740 metres. “The Shalaa I obviously train, so I know a little bit about him. He’s pretty straightforward but I’m not sure he’ll show his best tomorrow,” Messara said yesterday. Defcon SPORTPIX “I think he’ll improve a lot for the outing because he’s a very relaxed horse, so he hasn’t really switched on yet but hopefully that will be about them, and with his speed over the top I can imagine plenty of them activated tomorrow.” being around. Messara’s prediction that Shalaa could challenge for champion two- “I know Kris Lees, who I spoke to the other day, he told me his best year-old sire by the end of the season may prove accurate with four two- two-year-old was a Shalaa and that was encouraging, so around the traps year-olds by the sire also slated to jump out at Sandown, including an once again there’s plenty of talk which is encouraging.” unnamed Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-trained half-sister to David Fellow Arrowfield shuttler Maurice, dubbed The Beast from the East, Payne’s VRC Oaks (Gr 1, 2500m) bound Montefilia (Kermadec) with has Maurice’s Medad trained by Bjorn Baker in heat 11 at Randwick, while stablemate Seasmit by the sire entered for heat seven. filly, I Love Lucy (Lee Curtis), is accepted for heat ten. Fellow Caulfield trainer John Moloney will unveil Shalaa filly Shalam “We didn’t dream that he would have horses at the trials this early. We and John Sadler will let Cheerful thought he’d be a post-Christmas type of a stallion, just given his profile Legend off the leash in heat six. and the types of horses that he’s thrown but obviously they’re showing a SHALAA HAS CROSSED “We’ve been getting very lot of ability and speed,” Messara said. BEAUTIFULLY WITH OUR good feedback and we’d expect “I know Trent Busuttin has had a few Maurices who have had unofficial STOCK OUT HERE IN them to be early, good and trials down at Cranbourne and he had a couple who cleared out and won AUSTRALIA, OUR LOCAL two-year-olds given he was trials by a big space, so I know he is very keen on them. BREEDS WITH A BIT the champion two-year-old in “The talk around town is very positive.” OF PRECOCITY ABOUT Europe and won a couple of Eureka Stud’s Black Opal Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m) winner Defcon THEM, AND WITH HIS high-class Group 1s at two,” he (Choisir) will also be represented at the Sandown jump outs with the SPEED OVER THE TOP I said. Maher and Eustace-trained Defcon One, an $85,000 Magic Millions Gold CAN IMAGINE PLENTY OF THEM BEING AROUND “Shalaa has crossed Coast Yearling Sale graduate, entered in heat eight. - JOHN MOLONEY beautifully with our stock out A colt by Woodside Park Stud shuttler Cable Bay (Invincible Spirit) named here in Australia, our local Telegraph, who was a $160,000 Magic Millions purchase by co-trainer Mick Price breeds with a bit of precocity and agent Dermot Farrington, is in heat eight. Continued on page 4>> Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by Leading 3rd crop sires Mr Mosaic (Rubick) made it in Australia in 2020/21 three wins in four starts when he ARNINGS # S TALLION E blitzed his Warwick Farm rivals yesterday and in the process came 1 RUBICK $516,630 agonisingly close to setting a new 2 Brazen Beau $502,430 track record. The Gerald Ryan and 3 Better Than Ready $484,465 Sterling Alexiou-trained four-year- 4 Shooting to Win $429,745 old got to within 1/100th of a 5 Deep Field $415,420 second of Snitzerland’s 1000-metre 6 Wandjina $310,990 track record when covering the 7 Toronado $290,300 course in a speedy 56.17 seconds. Source: Stallions.com.au, 7th Sept. ANZ 3rd Sept. 2020 YES YES YES Won the $14m The Everest and Todman S.-Gr.2, both in record time RUBISAKI 8 wins including the Kewney S.-Gr.2, earnings in excess of $1,150,000 CAFÉ RIZU City-winner for Mick Price & Michael Kent Jnr “Cafe Rizu strides into VRC Oaks picture at Flemington” Racenet.com.au 8th August 2020 MONTELENA Stakes-placed 5-time city winner of almost $320,000 “Star jockey Chris Parnham believes Montelena could develop into a Perth Cup contender next season”- Ozrace.com.au 24th August EXCESS FUNDS Winner of the $500,000 Inglis Dash THE FACE 3rd ATC Rosebud H.-L. for Gerald Ryan & Sterling Alexiou JET PROPULSION Impressive last start winner for Ciaron Maher & David Eustace runs next in the ATC Dulcify H.-L. 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New Zealand: Gordon Calder Tel:+64 218 41612. www.coolmore.com Glimpse of first season sires’ stock on show in Sydney and Melbourne | 4 | Tuesday, September 8, 2020 << Continued from page 2 Woodside Park Stud chief executive James Price said two-year-olds who were capable of trialling and racing at this time of year were indicative of mature and professional horses. “I think it’s all part of when these buyers go to the yearling sales, it’s not all just about the pedigree and physique, it’s the horse’s temperament and if they can cope with a yearling sale it generally translates to coping with stable life which is so important, particularly for these early two-year- old trials,” Price said. “Even to get to this point with trials and a race, you have got to have a pretty mature physical and probably even more important is a pretty mature mind, so it’s very important, especially when we’re only in early September.” The flow-on effect from an eye-catching trialler for studmasters Extreme Choice NEWGATE STUD standing the traditionally tricky fourth-season stallions can also help in attracting breeders this year. The Lloyd Kennewell-trained Abseiler will also compete in heat seven “You only need one good trial performer and word starts to get at Sandown later in the week. around,” Price said. “Extreme Choice has got a very small crop of 40-odd, so to have a “Trainers start to talk to each other and talk to their owners.