27 JULY, 2018 ISSUE #365 GROUP 1 Weekend AWARDS Waikato Stud will collect three Group One Awards at tonights NZTBA Waikato Branch Group @Waikato One Awards Dinner 2 GROUP 1 AWARDS PAGE 4 TOP MARE NEARING RACEDAY RETURN IN AUSTRALIA PAGE 7 Staff Profile Emma Dench PAGE 12 At the Farm Savabeel 2 / GROUP ONE AWARDS NZTBA GROUP ONE AWARD WINNERS BRED BY WS www.waikatostud.com Waikato Stud will pick up three Group One Awards at tonights NZTBA Waikato Branch Group One Awards for breeding Group One Classic winners Savvy Coup, Hasahalo and Embellish. SAVVY COUP GROUP 1 NZ OAKS Savvy Coup / By Savabeel, from Eudora (by Pins) 1st Gr.1 New Zealand Oaks 1st Gr.3 Hawkes Bay Lowland Stakes 1st Gr.3 Manawatu RC Eulogy Stakes 3rd Gr.1 WRC Levin Classic 3rd Listed ARC Karaka Million 3YO Classic (R) Trainers: Michael & Matthew Pitman Owners: Mrs A M, A R, C J, F H & J F Bruford, Mrs J D, L R & R A Coupland Waikato Stud sold at the NZB Premier Yearling Sale in 2016 for $65,000 to Jim Bruford. HASAHALO EMBELLISH GROUP 1 ONE THOUSAND GUINEAS GROUP 1 TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS Hasahalo / By Savabeel, from Halloween (by Encosta De Lago) Embellish / By Savabeel, from Bling (by O’Reilly) 1st Gr.1 New Zealand 1000 Guineas 1st Gr.1 New Zealand 2000 Guineas 2nd Listed ARC Karaka Million 3YO Classic (R) Trainer: Stephen McKee Owners: Go Racing Fright Night Breeding Partnership (Mgr Trainer: Stephen Autridge and Jamie Richards Albert Bosma) Owners: Te Akau 2016 Breeding Syndicate (Mgr: K W Fenton- Ellis MNZM), B J Lindsay MNZM & Mrs J E A Lindsay Waikato Stud sold at the NZB Premier Yearling Sale in 2016 for $110,000 to Go Racing Waikato Stud sold at the NZB Premier Yearling Sale in 2016 for $775,000 to Mr DC Ellis 3 / NEWS KAONIC ON GROUP ONE PATH www.waikatostud.com Chris Waller will follow a similar path followed by multiple Group One winner Boban with his impressive Randwick winner Kaonic. Waller said the talented son of “I’ll look to go on a similar path with him mightn’t we,” Waller said. “That Savabeel headed into his autumn Kaonic and we’ll see how far he gets.” was a 10 out of 10 ride there.” three-year-old campaign as one of Kaonic was successful under leading A $425,000 yearling at Karaka, Kaonic the stable’s leading Randwick Guineas New Zealand apprentice Sam is out of the Fastnet Rock mare Fast contenders, but the trainer feels it Weatherley, who showed patience Love and the family of the multiple “might have all come too quickly” beyond his years waiting for a rails run, European Group One winner Midway for the colt which went some way to before diving into the smallest of gaps Lady. redeeming his reputation on Saturday. and pouncing. “Go back to a horse like Boban who The victory gave the young Kiwi jockey won a similar race to this and went his first Sydney metropolitan double. on and won five in a row including an Epsom and an Emirates,” Waller said. “You might be hearing more about BELOW / Kaonic 4 / NEWS TOP MARE NEARING RACEDAY RETURN IN AUSTRALIA www.waikatostud.com Well performed The four-time stakes winner, including “There weren’t any options with us twice at Group Two level, has been given she is by Savabeel out of an mare Coldplay is transferred to the powerful Chris Waller O’Reilly mare so the thought was to operation by owner Gary Wallace, who give her a campaign in Sydney before coming to hand races the Savabeel mare in conjunction mating her in September and racing nicely in her new with Waikato Stud’s Garry Chittick. her on for the appropriate period if she justifies that. Sydney environment Wallace had entered the mare in the recent Gold Coast National “It all really depends on how she as she prepares for Broodmare sale but after failing to performs but I certainly think she is up her last campaign reach her reserve, he took the decision to group quality over there if Chris can to send her to Waller for one more get her up to her best. campaign before visiting Australian on the track before Chittick also has high hopes for sire, Snitzel. commencing a Coldplay’s younger sister, Eleanor “Gary put her in at the Gold Coast with Rigby, who he co-owns with Wallace. breeding career. the plan of selling her if he could get “We’ve got Eleanor Rigby with Murray the right price for her,” said Chittick. Baker and Andrew Forsman and she is “When she didn’t meet expectations progressing nicely,” he said. we had a chat about it and he settled “She is rising three and has been to on sending her to Snitzel. the trials for educational purposes a couple of times. She has pleased the BELOW / I Am Coldplay stable, who think quite a bit of her, so Photo Credit: Lisa Grimm I’m looking forward to seeing how she goes when she gets to the races. “She is nearly ready to trial again so a race start shouldn’t be too far off which I would think will depend on what sort of tracks we get over the next couple of months.” – NZ Racing Desk 5 / NEWS ROCK ‘N’ POP’S ROLL CONTINUES www.waikatostud.com The quaintly-named Horsey Horse Horse has continued an excellent season for the regally-bred Rock ‘n’ Pop. Horsey Horse Horse credited the By Fastnet Rock out of the Gr.1 New Waikato Stud-based stallion with his Zealand Derby winner Popsy, Rock ‘n’ 15th individual winner when she struck Pop lived up to his illustrious pedigree at Matamata on Wednesday. Trained during his racing career when winning by Linda Laing, Horsey Horse Horse the Group One Two Thousand was successful over 2000m at her sixth Guineas. appearance. The three-year-old is out of the Zabeel mare Lady Whinfell, who is a daughter of the Gr.1 WATC Derby winner Capricious Lass. BELOW / Horsey Horse Horse Photo Credit: Kenton Wright 6 / NEWS GOLD AMBITION BACK TO WINNING FORM www.waikatostud.com Rejuvenated On a day when horses in the lead for four runs. were suited, Gold Ambition ($5) “I spoke to Bjorn at length about charged down the outside for jockey Savabeel gelding him and he said the horse had lost Scott Galloway to score an easy win confidence to be racing against Gold Ambition has in Wednesday’s Class Five Handicap Sydney class. He said he would be (1660m). bounced back to better placed here,” Costa said. As a three-year-old Gold Ambition something like his “Gold Ambition got out to a ran third to Le Romain and Press distance to suit him and we can now old Group One form Statement in the 2016 Group One think about heading to Saturday Randwick Guineas (1600m). with a last-to-first metropolitan racing.” But he lost form and had not won Galloway said he believed the now win at Doomben on a race since taking a Bathurst Class five-year-old would develop into One race in January 2017. Wednesday. a good Saturday middle distance Warwick Farm trainer Bjorn Baker horse. - AAP recommended Gold Ambition be sent north to Gold Coast trainer BELOW / Gold Ambition Michael Costa who has now had him 7 / STAFF PROFILE STAFF PROFILE EMMA DENCH www.waikatostud.com The WS foaling unit will be bustling with activity in no time so this week we caught up with Day Foaling Unit Manager Emma Dench to find out how she got involved in the Thoroughbred Industry and why she loves working in the foaling unit. Q How did you get involved Q What is your favourite part of Q What’s your secret talent that in the thoroughbred industry? what you do? no one knows about? A Through riding trackwork for A Bringing life into the world and A I can backflip. David Haworth, he’s good friends being a huge part of a promising with Mark and I came to Waikato and bright future. Q What’s the craziest thing you Stud for a yearling prep and never have ever done? Q If you could give one piece of left. A I wouldn’t say crazy but shooting advice to someone looking to my first stag was certainly an Q What attracted you to working get involved in the thoroughbred adrenaline rush and spiked a new in the foaling unit? breeding industry what would it be? hobby for me. A If I’m really honest, it was the cute A Experience all parts/departments foals. of the industry. You may find a Q Do you have a favourite hidden passion you never knew was broodmare on the farm? there. A Eudora. The reason being is she’s Q What are you watching on an overall sweetheart and easy to Netflix at the moment? do anything with. She might only A I just finished watching have one eye but she sure does Orphan Black and would highly keep a firm one on her foals and is recommend. such a good mother. LEFT / Click the video to watch Emma and the foaling team in action 8 / STAFF PROFILE STAFF PROFILE EMMA DENCH (CONT’D) www.waikatostud.com ABOVE / Emma with WS mare Brampton Loco LEFT / Emma checking mares in the foaling unit. Pictured is Trocair, the dam of Gr.1 VRC Cantala Stakes winner Shillelagh (by Savabeel) and Listed CJC Spring Classic winner Grazia (by Savabeel).