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Sunday, August 30, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here MORNING BRIEFING - PAGE 6 SOCIAL HUB - PAGE 13 YESTERDAY'S RACE RESULTS - PAGE 16 Behemoth joins Group 1 Read Tomorrow's Issue For: fray with Memsie triumph The Week Ahead Melbourne’s first feature of the season goes to Adelaide raider What's on Metropolitan meetings: Devonport (TAS) for Jolly, Grand Syndicates under top Williams ride Race meetings: Wyong (NSW), Mudgee LATEST NEWS FROM THE WEEKEND'S RACING (NSW), Sale (VIC), Casterton (VIC), Sunshine Coast (QLD), Port Augusta (SA), Carnarvon (WA) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Mudgee (NSW) International meetings: Kranji (SIN), Sapporo (JPN), Niigata (JPN), Kokura (JPN), Goodwood (UK), Great Yarmouth (UK), Deauville (FR), Saratoga (USA) International Group races: Sapporo (JPN) - Keeneland Cup (Gr 3, 1200m). Niigata (JPN) - Niigata Nisai Stakes (Gr 3, 1600m). Goodwood (UK) - Supreme Stakes (Gr 3, 7f). Deauville (FR) - Grand Prix de Deauville (Gr 2, 2500m), Prix Quincey (Gr 3, 1600m), Prix de Meautry (Gr 3, 1200m). Saratoga (USA) - Shuvee Stakes (Gr 3, 9f) Behemoth RACING PHOTOS Penny Banger by Zedrich) - who was purchased BY ANDREW HAWKINS | @ANZ_NEWS for $6,000 as a yearling - entered the Memsie ehemoth by name and by nature - Stakes off a dominant first-up win in the Spring but not by sales price - Behemoth Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m) at Morphettville. is now among that most exclusive Sent out as $3.30 favourite, Behemoth of clubs for racehorses as a Group looked poised to justify that support throughout B1 winner after he scored his first success at after he was given a soft run by Craig Williams the highest level in yesterday’s Magic Millions from gate two. LATEST NEWS Memsie Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) at Caulfield. Landing in a handy spot behind a Long touted as a Group 1 winner in the solid tempo set by Begood Toya Mother Vale Subzero making, a view only solidified by his narrow (Myboycharlie) and the pressing Streets Of One of the racing industry’s most beloved defeat in The Goodwood (Gr 1, 1200m) as a Avalon (Magnus), the hulking bay assuaged pre- ambassadors, Melbourne Cup winner Subzero, three-year-old at just his seventh start, the race concerns as he never appeared cluttered was humanely euthanised yesterday at the age David Jolly-trained Behemoth (5 g All Too Hard - for room at any point. Continued on page 2>> of 32. Latest News page 11 >> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Behemoth joins Group 1 fray with Memsie triumph | 2 | Sunday, August 30, 2020 << Continued from page 1 Tracking up sweetly on the home turn as Streets Of Avalon wilted under pressure, Williams was able to force off the fence with ease early in the straight and from there it was simply a question of margin. The answer was a length and a half, holding off the late-charging Queensland Derby (Gr 1, 2400m) winner Mr Quickie (Shamus Award), who made a pleasing return. Glenfiddich (Fastnet Rock), the first three-year-old to contest the Memsie in more than a generation, ran a strong third two and a quarter lengths from the winner in what marked the return of 53-time Group 1-winning trainer Peter Moody to the big leagues. "When he landed in the right spot I thought he'd be hard to beat," said Jolly, who was forced to watch from Morphettville in Adelaide due to Covid-19 border restrictions. "When we drew inside some people thought that wasn't a good thing but I was happy. He was able to take a spot and Craig Williams RACING PHOTOS stretch out. "I said to Craig to use him from the gate, be a little aggressive. It worked This was evident in his game fourth in the inaugural $7.5 million out so well. I'd have loved to have been there." Golden Eagle Stakes (1500m) at Rosehill last year, finishing in front of Honest charges Cascadian (New Approach) and So Si Bon (So You highly-touted horses like Arcadia Queen, Beat Le Bon (Wootton Bassett), Think) performed solidly for fourth and fifth respectively, while two-time Classique Legend (Not A Single Doubt) and Brutal (O’Reilly), as well as Australian Cup (Gr 1, 2000m) winner Harlem (Champs Elysees) worked filling the same spot in this year’s The Goodwood. home well enough for a never-nearer seventh. It was a fitting reward for Jolly as he picked up his first Group 1 win However, the spring campaigns of All-Star Mile (1600m) winners in 18 years; his last came in The Goodwood with Zip Zip Aray (Bellotto) Mystic Journey (Needs Further) and Regal Power (Pierro) appear up in in 2002. the air after they finished tenth and 12th respectively. “It’s been a long time since my last Group 1 win in The Goodwood,” Regal Power’s stablemate Arcadia Queen (Pierro) also remains under Jolly reminisced, “but I’ve had a few near misses in Adelaide and a cloud after she was scratched from the Memsie due to hoof issues, while Melbourne.” P B Lawrence Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) victor Savatiano (Street Cry) was a late After yesterday’s win, Behemoth’s prize-money haul now sits at withdrawal after she reared up in the tie-up stalls. $1,324,810, having won six of his 16 starts and recorded a further four In the end, though, all honours were with Behemoth, who has, this seconds. preparation, furnished into the elite-level racehorse he long promised to That pales in comparison to his purchase price as a yearling, when the be. Peter and Karen Morley-owned Grand Syndicates paid just $6,000 for him It has been a case of slowly, slowly, for Jolly as he has nurtured at the 2017 Magic Millions National Yearling Sale - he has earned more Behemoth along: a city winner in both Adelaide and Melbourne in his than 220 times that to date. second preparation, a Group 1 runner-up in his third campaign, a stakes That $6,000 purchase came less than a year after he sold for $120,000 winner in his first month as a four-year-old and a solid Group performer from the Tyreel Stud draft at the 2016 Inglis Great Southern Weanling Sale by the time he reached the Adelaide features in May. Platinum Session. Continued on page 3>> ONLINE STALLION PARADE SUNDAY 30TH AUGUST 2:30PM (NZST) 12:30PM (AEST) JOIN US LIVE ON FACEBOOK AND YOUTUBE Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by Behemoth joins Group 1 fray with Memsie triumph | 3 | Sunday, August 30, 2020 << Continued from page 2 Linda Monds recalled of Behemoth San Domenico muddies as a foal: “I loved him, he was full of character, he really had such a big Everest picture for Aquis personality. He was such a giant weanling, that’s why we put him through the Great Southern Sale early on and while he kept growing after that, boy can he run. “He was absolutely one of the biggest weanlings we’d had but that said, we’d had big before so it just proves again that Group 1 winners can come in all shapes and sizes.’’ Not much had changed by the time he came into Grand Syndicates’ ownership a year later, according to racing manager Sam Lyons. "He was very big, but not really in proportion body-wise and had a very interesting big boofhead,” Lyons told Racing.com earlier this week. "That's why he hasn't been over raced and we've allowed him time to grow into himself.” Yesterday, Lyons added: "It's a big thrill. David has been so patient with him. People have dropped off him along the way too. He just needed time." Behemoth is the second Group 1 winner for Black Caviar’s half-brother All Too Hard (Casino Prince), having produced his first - Australian Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) conqueror Alligator Blood - earlier this year. Bred by Wallings Bloodstock, the breeding outfit of Tyreel Stud’s Linda and Laurence Monds, Behemoth is the fourth of five foals for the now- deceased mare Penny Banger (Zedrich). While Penny Banger won the Schweppervescence Sprint (Listed, 1000m) for juveniles at Flemington in 2008 and was quite precocious, she Anders SPORTPIX was a half-sister to Master Minx (Surtee), who won the Aquanita Stakes (Listed, 1650m) and was placed in both the WATC Derby (Gr 1, 2400m) Aquis Farm faces a potential dilemma ahead of the world’s richest and the Perth Cup (Gr 2, 3200m). turf race, The Everest (1200m), after Anders streeted his rivals in the San While Behemoth is yet to race beyond 1500 metres and holds Domenico Stakes (Gr 3, 1100m) at Rosehill yesterday. favouritism for the Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) at Caulfield next The Aquis Farm-owned Anders (3 c Not A Single Doubt - Madame month, his stamina could potentially be tested at a mile next time out in Andree by War Emblem) lived up to his first-up win in The Rosebud the Makybe Diva Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m), a race that in turn could also lead (Listed, 1100m), leading every step of the way under James McDonald to a Cox Plate (Gr 1, 2040m) berth. to defeat the highly-touted Peltzer (So You Think) by three and a quarter He has also shortened into equal favouritism for the Toorak Handicap lengths with the Group 1-placed Mamaragan (Wandjina) a further three- (Gr 1, 1600m) alongside Buffalo River (Noble Mission) and Showmanship quarters of a length away in third.