Wednesday, February 12, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here BELLA FEVER AND DE KOCK BREAK FRESH GROUND FOR URUGUAY IN DUBAI - PAGE 10 Classic format set What's on Stakes races: Warwick Farm (NSW) - Inglis Millennium (RL, 1200m) to stay after resurgent Metropolitan meetings: Warwick Farm (NSW), Sandown Lakeside (VIC), Ascot Inglis opener (WA), Launceston (TAS) Race meetings: Stony Creek (VIC), Townsville Smaller catalogue achieves balance as Deep Field continues (QLD), Gawler (SA), Te Aroha (NZ) momentum at Riverside International meetings: Happy Valley (HK) MORNING BRIEFING Waller thrilled with Nature Strip Nature Strip (Nicconi) is TAB’s red-hot $1.55 favourite to land the Black Caviar Lightning Stakes (Gr 1, 1000m), which would enhance his OVERALL SALES STATISTICS - PAGE 6 record up the Flemington straight to five wins from five starts, and Chris Waller was delighted Sales ring INGLIS with the gelding yesterday morning, who The sale’s “consolidation'' this year, which completed his weekend preparations with a BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS resulted in an average increase of nearly 15 per track gallop under James McDonald. "To my eye, he format of this year’s Inglis cent compared to the expanded 2019 auction, it looked pretty good," Waller told Racing.com. "I Classic Yearling Sale, a condensed came despite the coronavirus outbreak in haven't spoken to James yet, but it took a while to three-day auction consisting of 613 China impacting a number of international pull him up and he was nice and relaxed when Book 1 horses, is set to be replicated buyers as well as heavy rain making it difficult he did pull up and walked back without a care in inT 2021 after the company’s season opener was for domestic owners to travel to Inglis’ Riverside the world, so he's a pretty happy horse. He's in a deemed a success by the management. Stables this week. Continued on page 2>> good space and his confidence is at an all-time high and obviously, up the straight, his record is PAGE 12 impeccable." Morning Briefing page 7 >> Follow us @anz_news: click here | 1 | Brought to you by Classic format set to stay after resurgent Inglis opener | 2 | Wednesday, February 12, 2020 << Continued from page 1 There were four yearlings who made $200,000 or more on the final day of the Classic sale, taking the total number Lot 593 to reach that mark to 33, helping the Book 1 aggregate hit $41,690,500 with a Breeding: Written Tycoon - Amoret (Snitzel) filly median of $75,000. The clearance rate had climbed to 84 per cent last night. Price: $200,000 Inglis’ managing director Mark Webster is confident the company Buyer: Godolphin Australia has got the balance right between buyer demand and vendors’ need for Vendor: Redbank North/Huntworth Stud opportunities to sell stock at the Classic sale. Godolphin continued its “measured” approach to the yearling “Last year we had 2600 entries and we had 800 the year before, so it sale market with the addition of a Written Tycoon (Iglesia) filly, was difficult (not to increase the size of the 2019 catalogue),” Webster said. who is out of a half-sister to Group 1-winning mare Single Gaze “We put 200 more in last year than what we would have liked to have (Not A Single Doubt), who recently had a colt by star Japanese done to try and help clear their stock, but it didn’t quite work. stallion Lord Kanaloa (King Kamehameha). “We have made “I think this year’s results feel better and I think it is more workable for the no secret that our primary objective is to source fillies from big buyers to get it done in three days, rather than five, which is what we did last year.” families that can not only do it on the racecourse but ultimately Star Thoroughbreds and Randwick Bloodstock Agency were the will join our broodmare band and can contribute over a long leading buyers by aggregate and average (three or more lots), with a period of time,” Godolphin bloodstock manager Jason Walsh said. spend of $1,320,000 on six yearlings, while Darby Racing and Will Johnson Godolphin also bought a Hinchinbrook (Fastnet Rock) filly on day Bloodstock combined for seven Book 1 yearlings. one for $140,000 and a Teofilo (Galileo) colt for $105,000 yesterday. Ciaron Maher Racing was active, buying 15 lots with various partners. “We are measured in what we are doing and assigning values and “There’s a good spread of buyers and I think that is healthy for the participating in the market, but not in any way underpinning it,” industry,” Webster said. he said. “It is all about sourcing quality for our broodmare band “The other big story is that, aside from the local trainers, there are a lot and if we find colts we like, particularly by our stallions, we are of people here from Hong Kong. Upper Bloodstock, Ricky Yiu and the Hong very interested as well, and it’s great to be back participating in Kong Jockey Club were able to get on the sheet and they weren’t here last year, the market.” while George Moore was here buying, and they are the ones who are targeting the better types. Asian buyers could have been even higher had the coronavirus emergency I think this year’s “If you go back five years you not occurred in recent weeks. results feel better wouldn’t find anyone from Hong “Could the sale results have been better than they are? Yes, they could, and I think it is more Kong at a Classic sale, so it has there is no doubt that we were missing a bunch of buyers,” he said. workable for the evolved.” “I am estimating around 15 or so that we know of that didn’t come buyers to get it done Hong Kong buyers or agents from either Singapore, Hong Kong or China and even some from New in three days, rather acting for clients from the region Zealand because they didn’t want to travel during the outbreak of this than five, which is secured 39 yearlings, including virus. what we did last year the top-priced $380,000 Deep “Then, from a weather sense, there would be others, but I can’t quantify Field (Northern Meteor) colt it at this point in time. There are people who normally drive in from the MARK and three others inside the top south coast (of NSW), the north coast and people who come in from over the WEBSTER ten lots. mountains to buy one or two, and there is no doubt that some of those people Webster said the presence of didn’t come and that it has affected us. Continued on page 4>> LEADING BUYERS BY AGGREGATE - BOOK 1 Name Bought Aggregate ($) Average ($) Star Thoroughbreds / Randwick Bloodstock Agency (FBAA) 6 1,320,000 220,000 Breeze Up Bloodstock 9 915,000 101,667 Matthew Smith Racing / John Foote Bloodstock 7 825,000 117,857 John Foote Bloodstock 8 723,000 90,375 George Moore Bloodstock 2 700,000 350,000 McEvoy Mitchell Racing / Belmont Bloodstock Agency (FBAA) 4 650,000 162,500 Nat McCall Racing Pty Ltd 7 643,000 91,857 Triple Crown Syndications 6 610,000 101,667 Ciaron Maher Racing 6 575,000 95,833 Mitchell Bloodstock (FBAA) 5 570,000 114,000 Follow us @anz_news: click here | 2 | Brought to you by Leading Sires of Season 2019-2020 (Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Macau & South Africa) RK STALLION (SIRE) GR WNRS EARNINGS AUS$ 1 PIERRO (Lonhro) 8 11,001,220 2 I Am Invincible (Invincible Spirit) 4 10,764,211 3 Snitzel (Redoute's Choice) 5 10,395,834 4 Exceed and Excel (Danehill) 7 10,298,616 5 Zoustar (Northern Meteor) 6 9,838,334 6 Fastnet Rock (Danehill) 7 9,438,892 Source: bloodhound.net.au, 11th Feb. Already 21 SWs from his first 3 crops including: PIERATA (ATC All Aged S.-Gr.1) ARCADIA QUEEN (Kingston Town Classic-Gr.1) REGAL POWER (Railway S.-Gr.1) LEVENDI (ATC Australian Derby-Gr.1) SHADOW HERO (ATC Spring Champion S.-Gr.1) PINOT (VRC Oaks-Gr.1) FURORE (Hong Kong Derby-Gr.1 HK) 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 Classic format set to stay after resurgent Inglis opener | 4 | Wednesday, February 12, 2020 << Continued from page 2 “The results, particularly noting that, “He has a good scope, clean x-rays, so he ticked all those boxes. He are very good and the format and everything else for next year is unlikely looks like a real runner as he is a really nice mover. to change because under better circumstances it will be even better.” “We weren’t confident of being able to get him, but we were hopeful, and we went quite hard on the horse. We went a little bit over budget.” Session-topping Deep Field colt Crawford added: “He will go back to us (at Cambridge) and we will set to return to sales ring break him in, get him going and he could possibly come back here for the Meanwhile, the highest-priced yearling sold on day three was a son Ready 2 Race Sale. of Newgate Farm’s Deep Field after a consortium of buyers joined forces “Karaka is also a possibility, but I think it is more likely that he will to secure the colt with the intention of trading him on as a two-year-old.