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Wednesday, March 4, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here CONFESSIONS: I LOVE RANDWICK, FLEMINGTON, GELDINGS...AND I’M WARMING TO SYDNEY - STEVE MORAN - PAGE 13 Premier back on track What's on Stakes races: Bunbury (WA) - Bunbury after big finish to Stakes (Listed, 1400m) Metropolitan meetings: Kensington (NSW), Flemington (VIC), Doomben (QLD), Showcase Session Hobart (TAS) Street Boss filly makes $180,000 as world health crisis makes little Race meetings: Bunbury (WA), Murray impact at Oaklands Junction Bridge (SA), Otaki (NZ) International meetings: Happy Valley (HK) five on the leading purchaser list by aggregate yesterday were also Victorian-based trainers. Despite the downturn of financial markets in recent weeks, caused by concerns over the growing coronavirus outbreak, the depth of the buying bench at the Showcase Session did not Lot 627 Street Boss - Irish Teardrop filly INGLIS seem to faze those speculating on young horses. The Victorian sale last night ended with The rebadged Book 2 session averaged BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS 236 six-figure yearlings, up 192 on 2019 across $45,788, up nearly 31 per cent, with 177 lots nvestors again appeared to shrug off Books 1 and 2, after yesterday’s Showcase selling at a clearance rate of 76 per cent. The any fears about flagging consumer Session was backed by a buying bench that median was $36,000, up $10,000 year-on-year, confidence impacting world markets was headed by home-state trainers who in a market that saw a filly by back-in-favour with demand for quality stock showing demonstrated their willingness to support the stallion Street Boss (Street Cry) make $180,000. noI signs of abating as the Inglis Melbourne local breeding industry. The aggregate of $8,104,500 was up almost Premier Yearling Sale came to a close yesterday, Ciaron Maher Racing again led the way 40 per cent compared to last year’s auction. with the auction’s figures finishing well ahead with five lots added to his swag of yearlings Inglis general manager of bloodstock sales of the corresponding sale last year. secured on Sunday and Monday, while the next and marketing Sebastian Hutch said yesterday’s session topped off a successful three days for PAGE 17 the company. Continued on page 2>> Follow us @anz_news: click here | 1 | Brought to you by Premier back on track after big finish to Showcase Session | 2 | Wednesday, March 4, 2020 << Continued from page 1 “We are really satisfied with not just "We always continue to re-evaluate the sale structure and the sale how today played out but the last three days,” Hutch said. season, but I think the setting on where the sale sits on the calendar is an “The clearance rate over the first two days has grown steadily in the 24 appropriate one." hours since the completion of the main session (to 82 per cent) without Lauriston Thoroughbred Farm’s James O’Brien, who is also the compromising the average figure to any significant degree - so that is president of Thoroughbred Breeders Victoria, described the past three really pleasing. days as being “a magnificent sale overall”. “The nature of the better horses in the Showcase Session was really “The good horses sell well as we saw with the Manhattan Rain quite extraordinary. What was particularly encouraging about it was the (yesterday),” he said. diversity of the people involved and there were a lot of people that made “I think the middle ground still struggles a bit and we’ve had a few that their way on to the buyers sheet today because they couldn’t just not buy have fallen into that middle ground, but the sale’s just been magnificent as a horse, they couldn’t even get a bid in (on days one and two).” it is for Melbourne to have such a sparkling industry.” On Monday, leading vendor Phil Campbell of Blue Gum Farm stuck The Magic Millions Adelaide and QTIS March Yearling Sales will be with his long-held conviction that the Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale held in consecutive weeks before the focus switches to Inglis’ flagship, the should remain in early March and Hutch holds the same view. Australian Easter Yearling Sale. "We've been at pains to stress to all our stakeholders, be they vendors Hutch is confident that leading buyers from around the world would or buyers, that we are not again be at the Riverside Stables complex in Sydney for the auction early We always continue ignorant of ways things may next month. to re-evaluate the be done better. We are always "We get a degree of feedback about Easter through this sale and sale structure and considering improvements," through Classic. Obviously a significant number of the participants here the sale season, but Hutch said. will be involved in Easter and the feedback has been that those people are I think the setting on "But there was a genuinely looking forward to that sale," he said. where the sale sits held conviction that this was "The response to the catalogue has been extremely positive. We will on the calendar is the appropriate slot for the sale. start to get some feedback though pre-sale inspections over the next few an appropriate one We asked vendors to support us weeks when people go to various farms. with quality stock, and we are "I don't think we have any reason other than to be optimistic. delighted with the manner in Consistently the industry has demonstrated itself to be very robust. SEBASTIAN which they have done so and are “It is built on a good set of fundamentals. It’s not something we HUTCH satisfied with the outcome of the ever want to be complacent about, but I think there's every reason to be sale. optimistic." Continued on page 4>> TOP PURCHASERS - SHOWCASE SESSION DAY THREE Name Lots Aggregate ($) Average ($) Ciaron Maher Racing 5 400,000 80,000 Lindsay Park Racing / Andrew Williams Bloodstock 2 240,000 120,000 Paul Moroney Bloodstock / Ballymore Stables Australia 3 205,000 68,333 Mick Price Racing 3 195,000 65,000 McDonald Racing 1 180,000 180,000 Salanitri Racing 2 175,000 87,500 Upper Bloodstock 1 175,000 175,000 John Foote Bloodstock 2 170,000 85,000 Simple Bloodstock Services 2 170,000 85,000 All State Breeding & Racing Farms P/L 8 165,000 20,625 Blackall, QLD Follow us @anz_news: click here | 2 | Brought to you by ENTRIES CLOSING SOON 2019 Average of $422,455 and a clearance rate of 93% RIVERSIDE STABLES, SYDNEY THE CHAIRMAN’S SALE Friday 8 May 2020 Sheamus Mills I had FOMO an hour before it started because I could Bloodstock Agent “ see what an amazing sale it was going to be and I was proven right .” “ We got exceptionally well rewarded. All the right Treen Murphy people were here to buy them. ” Sledmere Stud Bruce Slade It’s almost embarrassing that there was no (sales) Newgate Farm “ commission on it to be honest. It was above and beyond what we had experienced before. ” “ I wish I’d had more mares there. We had a bumper Peter O’Brien sale. I’ve never seen anything like it. ” Segenhoe Stud inglis.com.au McDonald beats Maher for Street Boss filly | 4 | Wednesday, March 4, 2020 McDonald beats Maher for Street Boss filly Rival Caulfield trainers Ciaron Maher and Clinton McDonald went Lot 775 head to head for a Street Boss filly out of the Rosemont Stud draft but it Breeding: Reward For Effort - Viva Dubai (Dubai Destination) colt was the latter who came out on top, securing the daughter of the Darley- Price: $155,000 based stallion for $180,000. Buyer: John Salanitri Racing “Ciaron Maher, I don’t like Ciaron Maher, I’ll have to belt him Vendor: Two Bays Farm tomorrow,” McDonald joked. “Let’s hope he’s a good judge, he buys John Salanitri struck late in the day of the final session of the enough of them.” Inglis Premier Yearling Sale to secure a Reward For Effort (Exceed Catalogued as Lot 627, the filly is the third foal out of the four-time And Excel) colt for $155,000 from the draft of Two Bays Farm. “He winning Fastnet Rock (Danehill) mare Irish Teardrop, who was bought for just stood out,” Salanitri said. “He ticked a lot of boxes that I look $51,000 at the 2017 Inglis Australian Broodmare Sale by agent Sheamus for in a horse. You’ve got to pay for what you want sometimes and Mills before being mated with Street Boss. She was subsequently sold last unfortunately he was pretty strong today. I didn’t expect to pay year for $75,000. that much. Right through the page is a winning family and he was Irish Teardrop’s second dam, Is Amazing (Laranto), won 11 races, an outstanding type himself, hence the reason he went for the two of which were at stakes level, and produced six foals to race who price he did.” were all winners. Further down the page is BMW Stakes (Gr 1, 2400m) and Victorian Derby (Gr 1, 2500m) winner Preferment (Zabeel) as well as Mithen added: “There were plenty of people waiting around to buy Group 1 winner Ancient Song (Canny Lad). her, that’s for sure, and she was worth the wait. McDonald also broke the news that he is set to bring on a co-trainer “She was for great clients, of course, who have been great supporters later in the year but is yet to announce who it will be.