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KIWI CHRONICLES Tuesday, July 13, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here MACAU: ANOTHER WIN FOR IRISH FLYER FASUBA - PAGE 15 SENOR TOBA SOLD TO HONG KONG - PAGE 9 Melbourne businessman Read Tomorrow's Issue For Hirsch buys Rowsthorn’s Focus Asia What's on Woodside Park Stud Race meetings: Albury (NSW), Ballina Stallion venture to complement United Petroleum founder’s (NSW), Ballarat (VIC), Cairns (QLD), Tylden training centre Sunshine Coast (QLD) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Rangiora (NZ), Ballina (NSW), Kembla Grange (NSW), Belmont (WA) International meetings: Bath (UK), Beverley (UK), Killarney (IRE), Brighton (UK) International sales: Fasig-Tipton The July Sale (USA), JRA Select Sale (JPN) From left: Anthony Bueti - general manager, Eddie Hirsch, Luci Leptos with Foxwedge and Mark Dodemaide WOODSIDE PARK STUD The deal, after months of negotiations, HIRSCH HAPPY BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS TO BE IN THE was finally completed late last week between BACKGROUND ark Rowsthorn has sold Rowsthorn and the United Petroleum co- PAGE 5 Woodside Park Stud, the founder, who in 2019 also bought the nearby stallion farm which gave training facility from his fellow Melbourne- MORNING BRIEFING rise to this season’s soon-to- based businessman. Mbe crowned champion Australian sire Written Foxwedge (Fastnet Rock), who was already JPN: She Will Reign’s first Tycoon (Iglesia). owned by Hirsch and whose three-year-old son foal makes 165 million yen Woodside Park Stud, based at Tylden, has Lunar Fox won the Australian Guineas (Gr 1, The first foal out of 2017 Golden Slipper Stakes been purchased by fellow Victorian breeder and 1600m) in February, Rich Enuff (Written Tycoon) (Gr 1, 1200m) winner She Will Reign (Manhattan racehorse owner Eddie Hirsch who is adding and Tosen Stardom (Deep Impact) will remain Rain) was sold at the yearling session of JRHA the stallion arm to his growing bloodstock standing at Woodside Park this year and beyond Select Sale yesterday for 165 million yen (approx. portfolio. as part of the buyout. Continued on page 2>> AU$2 million). Continued on page 11>> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Melbourne businessman Hirsch buys Rowsthorn’s Woodside Park Stud | 2 | Tuesday, July 13, 2021 << Continued from page 1 However, Rowsthorn’s Morningside, “A lot of people get into racing purely for the racing side of it, but Eddie an 1100-acre property on the Goulburn River near Nagambie, is not part loves the breeding side at least as much. of the Woodside Park sale, which has been under his ownership since “He’s enjoyed watching all those Foxwedges run and he’s going to do 2012 after being founded by his father, Peter Rowsthorn Sr. the same with the Rich Enuffs and Tosen Stardoms.” Long-time Inglis employee Mark Dodemaide, who left the auction Former Caulfield-based trainers John and Frank Salanitri, who won house after three decades in April, has joined Woodside Park Stud while the Wangoom Handicap (Listed, 1200m) with Royal Island (Dubawi) in Hirsch also has former Darley employee Dave Collison on board as 2015 and Yarra Valley Cup (1950m) with Hard Call (Hard Spun) in 2017 broodmare manager. among several other city winners, are now preparing horses from Hirsch’s “It has been many, many months of work and that is why I couldn’t Tylden property, Hirsch Park. really say anything (before now) as I had to deal with other parties as well More than $3 million has been spent since its acquisition to improve and shareholders in the other two stallions. There was a lot of dotting the the camber of the two training tracks and other facilities, on what is one of Is and crossing the Ts, so to speak, to get it done,” Hirsch, 67, told ANZ the few private training facilities in the state. Bloodstock News. Hirsch has also made a concerted effort in recent years to upgrade the “I will be spending more time away from the (United Petroleum) quality of his broodmare band of 30, which are now almost exclusively business now and spending more time with the stallion operation side of stakes-performed or stakes producing mares, in an investment he hopes it. I am just lucky to have guys like Dods and David Collison and those starts to pay dividends on the racetrack and in his support of the Woodside people around me to guide me through it. stallions. “Getting these quality people into the organisation is a big winner for “I am in the petroleum business, that is the business I am actually in, m e .” but the horse side of the business has always been a passion of mine and I Dodemaide said: “I don’t want to be getting too carried away and am starting to lean over a bit more to that side as I am slowing down in the saying it’s the rebirth of Woodside, but Eddie’s got a passion for breeding. United world, so to speak,” he said. From the barn having a new lick of paint, to trying to get a new stallion, “I decided that if we are going to go into this breeding, let’s just go with it’ll be the whole thing. better broodmares.” Continued on page 4>> Justify colt ex. 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HARRY ANGEL Dark Angel – Beatrix Potter $16,500 inc GST Melbourne businessman Hirsch buys Rowsthorn’s Woodside Park Stud | 4 | Tuesday, July 13, 2021 << Continued from page 2 Hirsch added to his broodmare band weanling and yearling markets in recent years and plans to head back to this year with the $190,000 purchase of stakes winner Lady Melksham the sales next year to add to his thoroughbred arsenal. (Artie Schiller), who is in foal to Justify (Scat Daddy), at the Inglis “I have got a couple of two-year-olds who look pretty good at the Chairman’s Sale in May, while he bought two more mares at the Australian moment. The I Am Invincible colt (Mighty Hercules, out of Lonhro mare My Broodmare Sale and three at the Magic Millions Gold Coast National Sale. Goodness) I bought at Easter and a filly who is a half-sister to September Run He also has Obsequious (Lonhro), the dam of this season’s Maribyrnong by American Pharoah (My Yankee Girl) is showing good signs. Trial Stakes (Listed, 1000m) and Talindert Stakes (Listed, 1100m) winner “They are at the Salanitris’ and they are very exciting, those two.” Ingratiating (Frosted), in his possession. She has a weanling brother to Hirsch also has unraced juveniles by Zoustar (Northern Meteor), Ingratiating and Hirsch sent her to Russian Revolution (Snitzel) in 2020. Astern (Medaglia d’Oro), Choisir (Danehill Dancer), Kermadec (Teofilo) “If you talk about the top end of the market, I have been buying at the and Star Turn (Star Witness) on the books and, as a parochial Victorian, Chairman’s Sale now for three or four years and improving my band of Dodemaide reinforced his new boss’s commitment to the state’s industry. broodmares, so we do buy at the top end,” he said. “The good thing about Tylden and where Woodside Park is, it’s ten “Also, I recently bought a few up at the Gold Coast Magic Millions sale. minutes to Kyneton, ten minutes to Woodend, ten minutes to Trentham. I bought a Frankel mare (Collection Privee, in foal to Too Darn Hot).” The location is surprisingly good,” Dodemaide said. While his focus has been on broodmares, now that Hirsch owns Woodside “A lot of people have a go and say it’s a little bit cold, but horses are Park, which has the capacity for six stallions, he will be looking to add to the roster. bred in Kentucky and Newmarket, and a lot of the best horses in the world “Hopefully one of our own horses that we breed can become a stallion. are bred in a climate like this. That would be the icing on the cake if we could get some of the horses that “Eddie’s not going anywhere. Put it this way, Woodside Park will be I am racing to become stallions,” he said. going for as long as Eddie’s going.” “But if the opportunity is out there to buy a stallion, we will be there Hirsch’s decision to dramatically scale up his racing interests has him negotiating, there’s no question about it.” excited about the future. Hirsch has predominantly bred his own horses to race and, while “I am looking forward to it. It is going to take a bit of time, but we will that is likely to remain the mantra, he has also become more active in the get there,” he said.