'I Loved His Fight and That Was Important for Me at This Time in My Life'

Monday, June 21, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here HONG KONG NEWS - PAGE 12 THE WEEK AHEAD - PAGE 15 ‘I loved his fight and that Read Tomorrow's Issue For was important for me at Kiwi Chronicles Macau News this time in my life’ Stallion Watch Emotional Creswick Stakes win for Free To Move’s What's on breeder Smith Race meetings: Muswellbrook (NSW), Wangaratta (VIC) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Randwick (NSW), Cranbourne (VIC), Belmont (WA) International meetings: Greyville (SAF), Chepstow (UK), Wolverhampton (UK), Windsor (UK), Ballinrobe (IRE) Free To Move RACING PHOTOS MORNING BRIEFING “It certainly came at the right time. My Ten for Astern BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS mum passed away earlier in the week, so it Asherla (2 f ex Heritage Lane by Charge Forward) ome victories mean more than others and did make for a shining light with everything showed superior speed to win her maiden at for Leeanne Smith, the breeder of Saturday’s that’s happening at the moment,” Smith said start four against older horses over 1000 metres A R Creswick Stakes (Listed, 1200m) yesterday. at Kempsey yesterday to become the tenth winner Free To Move (Unencumbered), “Watching him win and watching his first crop winner for her Darley sire Astern theS timing and the manner of the little gelding’s tenacity to hit the line was incredible. I was (Medaglia d’Oro), and eighth in Australia. performance could not have been better. very, very happy. I loved his fight and that was Trained by Kris Lees, the Australian Bloodstock- The Flemington win of the Ken and Kasey important for me at this time in my life. owned, Yarraman Park Stud-bred Asherla led Keys-trained Free To Move, a $101 outsider “I also know how much the horse throughout and won by one and three-quarter who Bucklee Stud principal Smith sold for just means to Kasey Keys and definitely that was lengths over Just Ziggy (Denman), with three and $8,000 as a yearling, came just days after the important because I know what it’s like to a quarter lengths back to All A Lady (Albrecht) in death of her mother Lois Smith. love a horse. Continued on page 2>> third. Morning Briefing page 6 >> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by ‘I loved his fight and that was important for me at this time in my life’ | 2 | Monday, June 21, 2021 << Continued from page 1 “We can all like them, but I know initiates Vobis, and he’s been very generous to me with his Vobis,” she said. Kasey loves him. He’s very special to her and so that was very special to “God bless Kasey for putting him in Vobis races. If I ever do sell one me also.” for a price that perhaps isn’t quite as much as I would have hoped for, if Free To Move is the second last foal out of Canhill (Dangerous), they stay in Victoria and they get their Vobis bonuses (then I am happy). a half-sister to Perth Listed-winning juvenile Western Zip (Zephyr “I walked out (of the Oaklands Junction sales ring) and the consolation Zip), who Smith bought in 2009 for a paltry $2,000 at the Inglis Great was that he was going to be in a great stable.” Southern Sale. Free To Move was the fifth individual stakes winner and fourth this Smith said: “She was just my kind of mare. She was a lovely, strong season for Unencumbered, whose loss has been exemplified by his string mare and she wasn’t very big. She had a beautiful backend and ... her page of talented horses to emerge in the past 12 months. He died in March read okay at the time and she was at the right price.” 2018, a year before Canhill also died after producing a filly by Trust In A So, when a then colt from Gust (Keep The Faith) the previous October. WATCHING HIM WIN the second last crop by Three “She died and is now kicking goals as is Unencumbered, which is AND WATCHING HIS Bridges Thoroughbreds’always the way,” she said. Unencumbered (Testa Rossa) “The Liston family did send me a text message this morning TENACITY TO HIT THE went through the Melbourne congratulating me, which was lovely, and I returned the same. Well done LINE WAS INCREDIBLE. Gold Yearling Sale in 2019, his to them, too.” I WAS VERY, VERY price tag did not match the The fact the Bucklee Farm-bred stakes winner occurred in the A HAPPY. I LOVED HIS opinion Smith had of the horse. R Creswick Stakes, a race named after Sir Alec Creswick who was the FIGHT AND THAT WAS “I did think that he would Victoria Racing Club chairman from 1969 to 1977, was not lost on Smith. IMPORTANT FOR ME AT bring more money, but the way “I worked for Bonny Hoysted and he trained a lot of top horses for Sir THIS TIME IN MY LIFE I looked at it was, he was going Alec, which I strapped,” she said. - LEEANNE SMITH to a great stable and that he “It was a bit special because I am still very good friends with Sir Alec’s was staying in Victoria, which daughter Sally. Sally lives up here (in north east Continued on page 4>> “As soon as Ole Kirk got within a length you just knew he was going to put the race away. He’s got that superior finish. Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by BY THE WORLD’S BEST SIRE FIERCE IMPACT Deep Impact x Keiai Gerbera (Smarty Jones) $16,500 (INC GST) 2YO winner - 3x Group 1 winner - Champion Miler BY THE GREAT INVINCIBLE SPIRIT ROYAL MEETING Invincible Spirit x Rock Opera (Lecture) $11,000 (INC GST) Group 1 winning 2YO - Outstanding physical specimen Mitch Brown: 0447 366 790 | [email protected] Brian Byrnes: 0478 010 364 | [email protected] www.lenevapark.com/stallions ‘I loved his fight and that was important for me at this time in my life’ | 4 | Monday, June 21, 2021 << Continued from page 2 Victoria) and is only 15 minutes from where I “We couldn’t get them in front of the public to see the yearlings, so it’s am and we do keep in contact. (great to be getting) the weaners there this year. “I am absolutely delighted.” “We have a mare selling online in a sale coming up, but your weanlings Bucklee Farm, a 70-acre property at Greta West between Benalla and and your yearlings, they really need to be out there.” Wangaratta, will offer eight weanlings at the delayed Inglis Great Southern She added: “I have a really, really strong buying bench of people who Sale on July 4 and 5, including a Street Boss (Street Cry) colt out of city- do come and look at either our weanlings or our yearlings. We’re quite winning mare Gwenneth (Reward For Effort) and fillies by Highland Reel lucky, we have a good strike rate for a little farm.” (Galileo) and Foxwedge (Fastnet Rock). It is an important sale for breeders, particularly the Victorians who rely on the cashflow the market provides, and it carries even more weight this year after the 2020 auction was forced online due to the Covid-enforced lockdown of the state. The Melbourne Gold Sale, where Smith sold Free To Move’s half-sister for just $4,000, also had to be conducted through the Inglis Digital platform. “After last year with the Gold sale, it was - and I don’t know the right word - for me just horrible when it kept getting bumped back and back and back,” she said. “In the end, it cost the farm a lot of money. Financially, last year was disastrous. “I don’t recommend selling yearlings or weanlings (online). You can certainly sell your broodmares because you have got a catalogue page to look at, but to sell a weanling or yearling, and we ourselves being a small farm, we sell on type and that is what we missed out on last year. Free To Move as a yearling INGLIS STALLION WATCH STALLION WATCH BRINGS YOU THE LATEST NEWS FROM THE STALLION WORLD INCLUDING NEW STAKES WINNERS AND LEADING TABLE SIRES. Follow us @anz_news | 4 | Brought to you by Feelin’ Nine in-foal mares averaged $482,000 across Inglis Chairman’s and Magic Millions with a top price of Hot $1.35 million. Nine G1-winning mares in foal amongst 26 Group winners including Catchy, Maybe Discreet, Earthquake, Hot Cosmic Endeavour, Planet Rock and more. The next breed-shaping stallion? A G1 winner, by a G1 winner, from a G1 winner, just like Dubawi, Galileo, Hot Deep Impact, Kingman and Street Cry. TOO DARN HOT Dubawi - Dar Re Mi $44,000 inc GST Morning Briefing -Sponsored by Woodside Park Stud Monday, June 21, 2021 MORNINGSIDE WORLD - CLASS THOROUGHBRED PROPERTY MORNING BRIEFING his season tally of Group 1 wins to 16. While he former Mick Price and Mick Kent Jr-trained AUSTRALIA won't break his Australian record of 18 majors four-year-old made it two wins in a row for Ten for Astern secured in 2018-19, he can close out another Bobbin when landing a Benchmark 76 (1600m) Asherla (2 f ex Heritage Lane by Charge Forward) incredible term when he starts Madam Rouge in South Australia on Saturday. “We could power showed superior speed to win her maiden at (Zoustar), Subpoenaed (Rip Van Winkle) and on through the winter and try to win a city race or start four against older horses over 1000 metres in-form mare Nudge (Fastnet Rock) in the final we could think a little bit long term,” Bobbin told at Kempsey yesterday to become the tenth first Group 1 race of the season.

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