Tuesday, September 15, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here STALLION WATCH - PAGE 14 YESTERDAY'S RACE RESULTS - PAGE 22 Rothfire lights up the Read Tomorrow's Issue For: Steve Moran track as Kingstar toasts What's on Race meetings: Corowa (NSW), Taree (NSW), Wodonga (VIC), Yeppoon (QLD) Arson Annie’s acquisition Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Rosehill (NSW), Half-sister to brilliant Run To The Rose winner headed Corowa (NSW), Taree (NSW), Caulfield to Unite And Conquer (VIC), Te Rapa (NZ) International meetings: Yarmouth (UK), Redcar (UK), Kempton Park (UK), Tipperary (IRE), Saint-Cloud (FR), Turffontein (SAF), Kentucky Downs (USA) Sales: Inglis Ready 2 Race Eagle Farm Breeze Up (QLD) International Sales: Goffs September HiT Sale Arson Annie MAGIC MILLIONS Blaxland’s Blue Sky Bloodstock Premium sold for $4.2 million, Unforgotten (Fastnet BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS Consignment, had been plucked from obscurity Rock) made $2.75 million and Champagne he sun had already set at the Gold after the emergence of her half-brother Rothfire Cuddles (Not A Single Doubt) fetched an even Coast and the action was winding (Rothesay) who had emphatically won the J $2 million. down after an epic day one of J Atkins Plate (Gr 1, 1400m) to go with his five Arson Annie, who has a Warwick maiden selling when Arson Annie (Nothing other two-year-old victories last season in the placing to her credit from seven career ToT Lose), a modestly performed maiden mare, weeks preceding the breeding stock sale. starts, would make just a fraction of those went through the Magic Millions National The opening session, after months of extraordinary figures when she entered the ring Broodmare Sale ring in late July. uncertainty about the prospects of the Magic as Lot 152, 16 lots from the end of the afternoon The supplementary entry, offered by Julian Millions sale going ahead, Sunlight (Zoustar) session. Continued on page 2>> TUESDAY 15TH SEPTEMBER 2020: READY2RACE SALE EAGLE FARM BREEZE UP - VIEW HERE Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Rothfire lights up the track as Kingstar toasts Arson Annie’s acquisition | 2 | Tuesday, September 15, 2020 << Continued from page 1 She would go on to make $42,500 after going “on the market” at $35,000 with Kingstar Farm’s Matthew Sandblom winning the bidding duel online. After Rothfire’s demolition of his high-class rivals in Saturday’s Run To The Rose (Gr 2, 1200m), and firming into clear favourite for the Golden Rose (Gr 1, 1400m) and justifying his selection as a leading contender for The Everest (1200m), the purchase of Arson Annie appears to be astute. Kingstar Farm’s Adam Cook says there was more to Arson Annie’s broodmare credentials than just the fact she was a half-sister to the Robert Heathcote-trained three-year-old sprinter. “You can probably tell the way we buy mares, we try to look for something that might be a relation to something that is up-and-coming and Rothfire was already a Group 1 winner by that time,” Cook said yesterday. “This mare, if you have a look at the photos, she looks quite similar to Matthew Sandblom and Adam Cook KINGSTAR FARM Rothfire in the markings as well. She’s a dark brown, black looking mare with a white stripe down her face and she’s very much in the same mould colts heading to the Golden Rose and Everest. Everything’s pointing to her as him. being a very astute buy.” “She’s by Nothing To Lose, who was a half-handy stallion up in Arson Annie is expected to be covered by Kingstar’s first season sire Queensland. She was a nice mare to buy and especially now that Rothfire’s Unite And Conquer (Hinchinbrook) by the end of this week. favourite for the Golden Rose. The dual stakes-winning two-year-old, whose racetrack career was cut “That was the cream of the crop on Saturday for the three-year-old short by injury, stands for $6,600 (inc GST). Continued on page 4>> Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by Aim to how to breed Keep your cash Lower your risk Protect your profits your mare So...foal share or Breed Secure? in a pandemic FOAL SHARE BREED SECURE You provide the mare. Send your mare to an eligible Spendthrift stallion. Stallion farm provides the stallion service. First $10,000 of yearling sale proceeds goes to you as an expense allowance. You cover all expenses of mare and resultant foal through to yearling sale. The service fee is paid to Spendthrift from yearling sale proceeds. You split the yearling sale proceeds 50:50. You keep the profit. 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GST all reward If the yearling makes more than $10,000* + service fee, you keep all the profit. www.spendthrift.com.au Office: 03 5421 5600 *$5,000 for a weanling Rothfire lights up the track as Kingstar toasts Arson Annie’s acquisition | 4 | Tuesday, September 15, 2020 << Continued from page 2 “Rothfire being a descendant of Last month, Kingstar launched an incentive for mare owners Fastnet Rock and Unite And Conquer is also a descendant of Fastnet Rock supporting Unite And Conquer at stud, with the breeders of his first as well being by Hinchinbrook, so you’re going to get a close relation to country, provincial, city and stakes winner receiving cash payments for Rothfire in a sense,” he said. $20,000, $25,000, $35,000 and $50,000 respectively. “But it’s also a very good mating for us standing Unite And Conquer “The procedure that we go through as far as what mares we look at in his first season and taking the resulting yearling filly or colt to a sale to is we essentially look at young mares and mares that haven’t had too represent the stallion.” many foals or if they’ve had a couple, they’ve produced something handy Kingstar Farm principal Matthew Sandblom is sending 15 mares to or have some upside going to deeper stallions with good pedigrees that Unite And Conquer while also supporting his other stallions Bull Point might be shining through to help our new stallions,” Cook said. (Fastnet Rock) and Lord Of The Sky (Danerich). “We can’t be going and spending $400,000 on these mares and supporting these stallions, we’ve got to be meticulous in what we purchase, so when we come across ones that we like such as Arson Annie and then Rothfire comes out and looks like an absolute superstar, it’s just great for us and Unite And Conquer.” The Hinchinbrook (Fastnet Rock) stallion has 98 mares booked to him so far and Cook expects that figure to increase as the breeding season progresses. “We should be able to raise the bat with him in the not too distant future with a century of mares,” said Cook who welcomed his offsider Conor Phelan to Kingstar Farm earlier this year. “He’s well supported from outside breeders because, quite simply, they come and have a look at him and if they don’t book on the spot, Unite And Conquer KINGSTAR FARM they’re ringing up Conor or myself the next day to get a spot.” Follow us @anz_news | 4 | Brought to you by Morning Briefing -Sponsored by Woodside Park Stud Tuesday, September 15, 2020 2020 VIRTUAL ONLINE STALLION PARADE NOW MORNING BRIEFING New Zealand Group 1 placegetter Harlech Rodd likely to ride Superstorm AUSTRALIA (Darci Brahma) on the cusp in 18th, Buffalo Michael Rodd is likely to get the leg-up on the Vancouver colt sets River looks to have a task to sneak into the Grant and Alana Williams-trained Superstorm breeze-up benchmark field. Buffalo River is yet to race against stakes (Sebring) in the Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes (Gr Shaun Nolen’s JCS Thoroughbreds has company but the English import is unbeaten 1, 1400m) with stablemate Showmanship prepared the two fastest breeze-ups at the from five starts in Victoria. "He's hasn't beaten (Showcasing) also gaining a run in Saturday’s Seymour session of the Inglis Ready 2 Race Sale much and he's been winning on tracks with a bit feature. The Australian Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) in Victoria yesterday, with a son of Vancouver of give in them. Also, I think he's a 1600-metre and All-Star Mile (1600m) runner-up finished (Medaglia d’Oro) running 10.16 seconds for the to 2000-metre horse," Moroney said. "There's ninth in The Heath 1100 (Listed, 1100m) first-up, 200-metre hit out. Galloping on the synthetic going to be good speed if he gets in and he's but with stable rider William Pike set to partner surface, Nolen’s Lot 176, the fourth foal out got such a high cruising speed. He should be emerging talent Showmanship, Rodd looks set of US mare Anatole (Quiet American) and an able to tuck in behind the likes of Begood Toya to be Superstorm’s new rider. “Michael Rodd will $80,000 Inglis Melbourne Premier graduate, Mother and Streets Of Avalon and then put the probably ride one of them, but we might not decide ran four tenths of a second faster than his pressure on them." until Wednesday when final jockeys are named,” stablemate, a colt by Unencumbered (Testa owner Bob Peters told Racenet.