SAVABEEL SPEARHEADS WAIKATO STUD ROSTER PAGE 22 Monday, May 3, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here BOWNESS STUD RAISE ANOTHER STAR - PAGE 25 THE WEEK AHEAD - PAGE 29 Shamus Award has Read Tomorrow's Issue For service fee increased after Kiwi Chronicles Stallion Watch What's on daughter’s Oaks victory Race meetings: Gunnedah (NSW), Taree Starspangledbanner returns for another season at Rosemont (NSW), Kyneton (VIC), Ipswich (QLD) Stud with newcomer Hanseatic joining Victorian roster Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Gunnedah (NSW), Randwick (NSW), Taree (NSW), Horsham (VIC), Burrumbeet (VIC), Cranbourne (VIC), Lark Hill (WA) International meetings: Bath (UK), Beverley (UK), Windsor (UK), Curragh (IRE) International Group races: Curragh (IRE) - Mooresbridge Stakes (Gr 2, 1m 2f), Athasi Stakes (Gr 3, 7f) Sales: Magic Millions HTBA May Yearling Sale, Magic Millions Online May Sale Shamus Award ROSEMONT $33,000 (all fees inc GST), up from the 2020 fee BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS SALES NEWS of $19,800, to lead a roster of six stallions which osemont Stud has recognised the also includes first season sire Hanseatic (Street Trader's make their mark feats of versatile stallion Shamus Boss) and proven shuttler Starspangledbanner on day one of HTBA May Award (Snitzel), the sire of (Choisir). Yearling Sale Saturday’s progressive Australasian Rosemont Stud general manager of The “Scone sale”, held in Sydney last year by OaksR (Gr 1, 2000m) winner Media Award, by bloodstock Ryan McEvoy believes Shamus necessity but by choice 12 months later, yesterday increasing the Cox Plate (Gr 1, 2040m) winner’s Award, who enters his third season in Victoria continued the now predictable surge in yearling service fee for the 2021 season. after standing his first five years at Widden Stud, prices, as demand for ready to run stock came to The growing Victorian farm yesterday is “a stallion who has continued to rise and the fore at Inglis’ Riverside Stables. confirmed that Shamus Award would stand for r i s e ”. Continued on page 3>> Sales News page 15 >> SUNDAY 2ND - MONDAY 3RD MAY 2021 INGLIS HTBA MAY YEARLING SALE SALE LIVE - CLICK HERE Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by The only dual Gr.1-winning 2YO ever Dual Group 1 winner at 2 by sire of sires REDOUTE’S CHOICE 1st ATC Sires’ Produce Stakes-Gr.1 beating Prague, Very closely related to leading sire Ole Kirk, Mamaragan, Glenfiddich etc. NOT A SINGLE DOUBT 1st ATC Champagne Stakes-Gr.1 beating Glenfiddich, Ole Kirk, Holyfield etc. From the family of top sire SNIPPETS 1st BJ McLachlan Stakes-Gr.3 beating Every Rose. Group 1-placed at 3 3rd ATC Golden Rose Stakes-Gr.1 defeating Rothfire, Peltzer, Mamaragan etc. “He’s an exceptional colt... He’s the full package” HUGH BOWMAN, JOCKEY An exceptional looker – purchased as a yearling by James Harron for $1,400,000 Fee $33,000 (INC. GST) Colm Santry, John Kennedy, Paddy Oman, Tom Moore, Rob Archibald or Emma Pugsley Tel: 02 6576 4200. New Zealand: Gordon Calder Tel:+64 218 41612. www.coolmore.com Shamus Award has fee increased after daughter's Oaks victory | 3 | Monday, May 3, 2021 << Continued from page 1 “His oldest are only five, so we’re The sire of 12 stakes winners, Shamus Award covered 177 mares last incredibly excited about what the future holds. The fact that he has 140- year, his biggest book of mares since retiring to stud in 2014. odd live foals on the ground followed by 160-plus pregnancies, you’d “We love the fact that he gets sprinters like It’s Me, who is undefeated expect that the best years are ahead of him,” McEvoy said. in winning the Kosciuszko and has a big turn of foot, fillies like Swats That “He is certainly entitled to an increase and I feel like a fee of $33,000 who are winning stakes races at a sprint trip and running placings in races is an incredibly fair fee and I’d like to think that it still provides breeders like the Coolmore and the Lightning,” McEvoy said. great value, but also acknowledges what the stallion has achieved in the “But he also has Group 1-winning milers like Mr Quickie and, of past 12 months. course, Oaks winners like Media Award on Saturday over 2000 metres and “His successes include eight individual Australia-based stakes Edward Cummings’ filly Duais, who won the Adrian Knox a few weeks ago winners, six of them are Group winners and two of them are Group 1 and flashed home to run second in the Australian Oaks. winners. I think Written Tycoon is the only Victorian-based sire to have “I don’t think there are many other stallions in Australia that had more. Those numbers are a reflection of a great 12 months but also it demonstrate the versatility which Shamus Award does “ highlights what great value he is as well.” Another proven sire returning to the Rosemont roster is Starspangledbanner, the sire of 15 stakes winners with homebred mare ROSEMONT STUD ROSTER Brooklyn Hustle among them. Owned in partnership with Coolmore, the 2021 2020 shuttler will stand for a slightly decreased fee of $16,500 this year. Shamus Award (Snitzel) $33,000 $19,800 McEvoy said: “One thing we’re really proud about is the stallions we Hanseatic (Street Boss) $17,600 new do offer, who have had runners, do provide a good opportunity to breed Starspangledbanner (Choisir) $16,500 $19,800 a stakes winner. Strasbourg (I Am Invincible) $11,000 unchanged “Shamus Award, of the leading stallions in the state, has the highest Nostradamus (Medaglia D’Oro) $4,400 $5,500 stakes-winners-to-runners percentage and Starspangledbanner is not far Starcraft (Soviet Star) Private $8,800 behind him. We counted the other day that he’s had 16 individual stakes *all fees inclusive of GST horses since April 1 last year. Continued on page 5>> Follow us @anz_news | 3 | Brought to you by Discounts MultipleApplied Bookings For SHAMUS AWARD $33,000 STRASBOURG $11,000 Emerging as elite, Snitzel’s Dominant Sire-Son The Stunning, Group Winning 2yo by ‘Vinnie’ HANSEATIC *NEW* $17,600 NOSTRADAMUS $5,500 Brilliant, explosive 2yo son of Sreet Boss Multiple Group Winning sprinter by Medaglia D’Oro STARSPANGLEDBANNER $16,500 STARCRAFT (NZ) Private Champion sprinter & sire of multiple G1 winning 2yo’s Internatioanl Supertstar, Hong Kong sire sensation (fees including GST) All Rosemont Stallions – Payment on Live Foal Dynamite 2yo HANSEATIC – almost full in 2021 www.rosemontstud.com.au Ryan McEvoy (0439 802 837) Anthony Mithen (0413 486 767) Anna Furniss (03 5220 6501) Shamus Award has fee increased after daughter's Oaks victory | 5 | Monday, May 3, 2021 << Continued from page 3 “Clearly, he’s got great ability to get you a high-class stakes performer, a high-class sprinter, and he’s the sire of two Group 1-winning two-year-olds (The Wow Signal and Millisle), which not many other stallions in Victoria have been able to do.” The recent acquisition of Group 2-winning juvenileHanseatic , whose fee of $17,600 had already been announced by Rosemont, is the next step in the Nigel Austin and Anthony Mithen-led operation’s desire to become one of Victoria’s premier stallion farms. Hanseatic standing at Rosemont follows on from the 2020 launch of another Group 2 winner in I Am Invincible’s (Invincible Spirit) Strasbourg, whose fee remains at $11,000. “These things obviously don’t happen overnight and we’ve put some Hanseatic ROSEMONT plans in place to try and provide a stallion roster which is appealing to breeders, and I think we’re starting to get there,” he said. 2-winning, pre-Christmas-winning son of I Am Invincible, who was super “We’ve introduced a new horse this year in Hanseatic who has been popular in his first season, so it’s exciting times for Rosemont. unbelievably popular and we feel like we’ve priced him really well. “We’re working hard on the stallion roster and, in addition, we’ve “He was a dynamite two-year-old with huge ratings and a big profile got the Victorian Alliance (colts fund) and we’ve made no secret of our by the right stallion and from arguably the best family in the Stud Book.” ultimate objective of using that as our vehicle to try and find our next one. Of Strasbourg, McEvoy said: “He is the most magnificent stallion I’ve Hopefully, we have found a fast one or two among them.” just about ever seen. He’s just gorgeous and he’s let down into an absolute The Rosemont roster is rounded out by Nostradamus (Medaglia d’Oro) adonis of a horse, so we’re really keen to see the foals that he can deliver ($4,400), the sire of star Perth filly Clairvoyance, and veteran Starcraft this year. (Soviet Star), whose progeny are highly sought after in Hong Kong. His fee “He was an expensive yearling purchase himself; he’s a Group will be private this year. Do you have a friend who would benefit from reading ANZ Bloodstock News? 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