Everest-Winning Colt Yes Yes Yes' Career Cut Short After Tendon Injury
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Tuesday, February 4, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here AMERICAN PHAROAH LANDED HIS FIFTH INDIVIDUAL STAKES WINNER ON SUNDAY - STALLION WATCH PAGE 8 Everest-winning colt What's on Race meetings: Albury (NSW), Yes Yes Yes’ career cut Gosford (NSW), Warrnambool (VIC), Townsville (QLD) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: short after tendon injury Cranbourne (VIC), Caulfield (VIC), Royal Ascot campaign abandoned as son of Rubick retired to Eagle Farm (QLD), Taupo (NZ) Coolmore Stud MORNING BRIEFING Magic Millions March Sale catalogue released The catalogue for the 2020 Magic Millions Gold Coast March Yearling Sale has been released online. The sale will see 412 select lots, all of which have been subject to the first Yes Yes Yes SPORTPIX payment for QTIS, go under the hammer over Lightning Stakes (Gr 1, 1000m) at Flemington two days. Buyers will have the opportunity to BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS on Saturday week in a campaign that was scoop $67,200 (colts and geldings) and $79,450 he Coolmore hierarchy is disappointed directed towards the Diamond Jubilee Stakes (fillies) every Saturday for a Queensland that The Everest (1200m) winner Yes (Gr 1, 6f) at Royal Ascot in June. metropolitan two and three-year-old win for Yes Yes (Rubick) did not get the chance But the racing career of the Todman fully paid QTIS youngsters. A record 113 lots to race on the international stage nor Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m)-winning juvenile, who are BOBS eligible in a further boost for buyers. Tadd a Group 1 to his CV, but they believe the three- cemented his stallion credentials with a victory The sale will be held on Monday 16 and year-old has done more than enough to warrant a in last year’s $14 million Everest, came to an Tuesday 17 March following the massive $1.6 spot on their stallion roster. immediate halt with confirmation that the colt million Jewel Raceday at the Gold Coast Turf There were plans for the Chris Waller- had sustained a tendon injury to his nearside Club on March 14. Click here to view the full trained colt to resume in the Black Caviar foreleg. Continued on page 2>> catalogue. Morning Briefing page 5 >> Follow us @anz_news: click here | 1 | Brought to you by Everest-winning colt Yes Yes Yes’ career cut short after tendon injury | 2 | Tuesday, February 4, 2020 << Continued from page 1 Coolmore’s Tom Magnier yesterday said that while a “wonderful journey has ended” for Waller and his team “another was just beginning”. “Like all at Chris Waller Racing and anyone else ever involved with this son of Rubick, we are certain that Yes Yes Yes takes to his new career at stud with credentials that will see him succeed in transmitting to his progeny the same qualities of speed and precocity, allied with a wonderful temperament, that took him to the pinnacle of achievement on the track,” Magnier said. Coolmore bought a 50 per cent stake in Yes Yes Yes after he won last season’s Todman Stakes. He would subsequently come from last to finish seventh in the Golden Slipper Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) two weeks later on a Heavy 8 surface. He returned in the spring to finish second twice to Bivouac (Exceed And Excel) in the Run To The Rose (Gr 2, 1200m) and Golden Rose (Gr Yes Yes Yes pictured as a yearling MAGIC MILLIONS 1, 1400m) before the gamble to run him in The Everest paid significant dividends. premier 1200-metre sprint in Australia,” Howard told ANZ Bloodstock Yes Yes Yes’ introductory service fee has already been discussed by News. Coolmore decision-makers, but a firm price and public release will not be “It’s run at weight for age and it attracts the best possible field, so if made until later in the autumn, most likely around Inglis Australian Easter anything, it’s the equivalent to a ‘super Group 1’ without actually having Yearling Sale time in April. the Group 1 tag next to its name.” With competition from potential first season stallions this year, Howard predicted a game of cat and mouse between studmasters as including Group 1-winning three-year-olds Bivouac (Exceed And Excel), they attempt to set competitive service fees for the 2020 breeding season. Exceedance (Exceed And Excel) as well as Microphone (Exceed And “There’s a lot of water to flow under the bridge before they announce Excel), Super Seth (Dundeel) and Castelvecchio (Dundeel), how Yes Yes the fee (for Yes Yes Yes),” he said. Yes’ service fee is priced will be “What Rubick does in the next month or two might have a bearing on It has been a brief but one of the key talking points. the service fee as well. amazing ride with a Randwick Bloodstock “It will also depend on what some of the other horses going to stud wonderful colt and Agency’s Brett Howard believes stand for. Traditionally, Coolmore tends to be near the end in terms of I am sure will make the fact that Yes Yes Yes does farms announcing their fees.” a great stallion in not have a Group 1 victory How emerging stallions such as Rubick (Encosta De Lago), the future given the on his record is more than who stood for an increased fee of $38,500 (inc GST) in 2019, Deep talent and ability counteracted by his track record- Field (Northern Meteor) and first crop two-year-old sires including he possessed as a breaking Everest win where he Vancouver (Medaglia d’Oro), Pride Of Dubai (Street Cry), Headwater racehorse defeated ten individual elite (Exceed And Excel) and Press Statement (Hinchinbrook) perform in CHRIS level winners. the coming months could also determine the price bracket the new WALLER “I think The Everest is the brigade fit into. 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Michael Kirwan, John Kennedy, Colm Santry, Paddy Oman, Tom Moore or Rob Archibald Tel: 02 6576 4200. New Zealand: Gordon Calder Tel:+64 218 41612. www.coolmore.com Everest-winning colt Yes Yes Yes’ career cut short after tendon injury | 4 | Tuesday, February 4, 2020 << Continued from page 2 “It just gets down to how some of the it could quickly become a more significant stallions with now two-year-olds, three-year-olds and even four-year-olds problem and, as with any horse, this cannot - the first, second and third crop stallions - fare over the next three or four be contemplated. months. They will have an influence on how the first season stallions are “It has been a brief but amazing ride received (by breeders),” Howard said. with a wonderful colt and I am sure will “If some of those horses really fire up, it draws breeders’ focus to those make a great stallion in the future given the horses. People are then happy to support those stallions and likewise the talent and ability he possessed as a racehorse.” proven horses as well. A $200,000 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling “Ideally, breeders can’t send all their mares to unproven stallions. Sale graduate bought by John Foote and the colt’s former trainer Given the choice, I think every breeder in Australia would love for there to Darren Weir, Yes Yes Yes was bred by Wagga-based Brett Bradley who be more proven stallions in the market. raced his mother Sin Sin Sin (Fantastic Light) before retaining her as “But the fact is, that’s not the case, so you have to mix it around with a broodmare. the unproven and proven stallions.” A half-sister to the stakes winners Hot As Hell (County), Flaming Hot Yes Yes Yes was set to participate in an exhibition gallop at Randwick’s (County) and Craig’s Dragon (Catbird), Sin Sin Sin is also a half-sister to Expressway Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) meeting on Saturday, but Waller called that off juvenile winner Hell It’s Hot (Zeditave), the dam of dual Group 1-winning after heat in a leg was detected in the morning. Scans subsequently confirmed sprinter In Her Time (Time Thief). the tendon injury, which forced connections to retire the valuable colt. Sin Sin Sin’s three foals to race are all winners headed, of course, by Waller announced Yes Yes Yes’ retirement in a statement early Yes Yes Yes and the stakes-placed mare Dee Nine Elle (Duporth). yesterday after revealing that the “very special colt” would need nine to 12 Sin Sin Sin’s yearling colt by Sebring (More Than Ready) was months’ recuperation if he was to race again. purchased for $700,000 at the recent Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling “Yes Yes Yes does not present as lame or sore,” Waller said.