Deep Field Filly Sizzles Home to Take out Gold Edition Plate Isotope Scores Unlikely Listed Win to Surge Into Magic Millions Guineas Favouritism
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INTERNATIONAL SALES NEWS MEHMAS IN DEMAND AT GOFFS AS SON OF RECORD-BREAKING SIRE BRINGS €75,000 - PAGE 11 Sunday, December 20, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here COLONIAL CHIEF STAKES WIN CAPS SUPER DAY FOR MAIA - PAGE 9 ‘Electric’ Deep Field filly sizzles home to take out Gold Edition Plate Isotope scores unlikely Listed win to surge into Magic Millions Guineas favouritism Read Tomorrow's Issue For: The Week Ahead What's on Metropolitan meetings: Devonport (TAS) Race meetings: Moruya (NSW), Taree (NSW), Horsham (VIC), Sale (VIC), Sunshine Coast (QLD), Port Lincoln (SA), Bunbury (WA), Pioneer Park (NT), Gore (NZ) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Moruya (NSW), Taree (NSW) International meetings: Sha Tin (HK), Hanshin (JPN), Nakayama (JPN), Chukyo (JPN), Southwell (UK), Scottsville (SAF) International Group races: Hanshin (JPN) Isotope, Tony Gollan and Ryan Maloney (inset) MICHAEL MCINALLY - Asahi Hai Futurity Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m) Sales: Gavelhouse December 21 Auction Isotope, who demonstrated her immense BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS International sales: Goffs November Foal talent as an autumn two-year-old with a ten- Sale (IRE) ony Gollan has always believed length maiden victory in April, was forced to Isotope (Deep Field) was a overcome a slow getaway at Doomben to run special filly but yesterday the down reigning Magic Millions 2YO Classic (RL, three-year-old produced a 1200m) champion Away Game (Snitzel) in the Tperformance which left jockey Ryan Maloney $200,000 Listed feature. “gobsmacked” after coming from a seemingly “That was a remarkable effort. I just haven’t impossible position to land the Gold Edition had one who has done what she did,” Maloney Plate (Listed, 1200m). revealed after the race. Continued on page 2>> FIRST SEASON SIRE RUNNERS | PAGE 10 Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by ‘Electric’ Deep Field filly sizzles home to take out Gold Edition Plate | 2 | Sunday, December 20, 2020 << Continued from page 1 “Alligator Blood had a really good turn of foot, but she was just so electric. You don’t do that from where she was and to give them that start with the run the second horse had and the form behind her, I’m gobsmacked.” Brisbane’s leading trainer, Gollan admitted to thinking Isotope would not be able to run down Away Game when Maloney was well back in the field and looking for runs heading into the straight. “I know Ryan is pretty cool in the saddle, but I don’t really know how we ended up where Isotope (outside) MICHAEL MCINALLY we did. It wasn’t by design, I can tell you, but he never panicked under pressure and he had a bloody good who underwent some barrier reeducation at Washpool Lodge after filly underneath him,” Gollan told Sky Racing. experiencing a mishap when runner-up at Doomben first-up on November “We weren’t chasing a slow one and she gave a really good kick. I’ve 7, admitted to being on the “back foot from the get-go” yesterday. trained a lot of winners here at Doomben and when they kick like Away “She was good in the gates, but the barrier attendant wanted to get up Game did off the dip, you are normally pretty comfortable that you are with her and I just said, ‘no, no, just leave her’ and she just stepped away going to win the race. slowly and I didn’t have the horse to muster,” he said. “I thought we were going to “I was on the back foot from the get-go and, the more the race went run a nice second and that we on, the more expletives were going through my head. The horses in front I THOUGHT WE WERE could take a lot out of it going of me just kept coming back into our lap. GOING TO RUN A NICE into the Millions, but she got “I eventually got out at the top of the straight and I saw the Ciaron SECOND AND THAT the job done. She’s just a bloody Maher horse, Away Game, who had a good margin and had a good run WE COULD TAKE A LOT good filly. and I was thinking, ‘this is not her day and she’s going to run a nice OUT OF IT GOING INTO “She is cool, calm and second’ but she kept picking up and picking up and I thought she was THE MILLIONS, BUT SHE collected and if there were any going to give it a shake. GOT THE JOB DONE. worries about her getting 1400 “Then all my thoughts went out of my head and I just hoped that she SHE’S JUST A BLOODY metres, there’s no worries (after) got it.” GOOD FILLY today. She is brilliant. I can’t Isotope ($1.50 favourite) defeated Away Game ($4.20) by a long head - TONY GOLLAN speak highly enough of this filly.” with three and a quarter lengths back to Apache Chase (Better Than Maloney said Isotope, Ready) ($91). Continued on page 3>> DEDICATED TO THE AUSTRALASIAN BLOODSTOCK & RACING INDUSTRY YOUR ESSENTIAL DAILY READ SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE: ANZBLOODSTOCKNEWS.COM/SUBSCRIBE Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by ‘Electric’ Deep Field filly sizzles home to take out Gold Edition Plate | 3 | Sunday, December 20, 2020 << Continued from page 2 The Gold Edition was Isotope’s second good when good horses race against each other and she delivered what I stakes win in succession, having won the Mode Plate (Listed, 1200m) a thought of her from before we ever raced her. fortnight earlier at Doomben, and Gollan plans to keep the filly away from “We haven’t had a really good one for a few years I guess, but she’s the races until the Magic Millions 3YO Guineas (RL, 1400m) at the Gold pretty special and she can do a really good job for our stable.” Coast on January 16. One of a batch of talented three-year-olds secured by Brian Siesmen’s A rematch is likely with the Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-trained and Harry McAlpine’s Black Soil Bloodstock operation in conjunction Away Game, who is also likely to bypass the Vo Rogue Plate (Gr 3, 1400m) with respected agent John Foote and Gollan Racing at the 2019 yearling on January 2. sales, Isotope was a $170,000 purchase at the Magic Millions Gold Coast “We’ll give her an easy time in the paddock, on the treadmill, then a Sale from the draft of Daandine Stud. couple of nice gallops and maybe a trial in between before you see her on The first foal to race out of Great Dansaar (Choisir), a Sydney Millions day,” Gollan said. metropolitan-placed, three-time winner who is a half-sister to dual Group “She’s the real deal, this filly, 1-winning filly Yankee Rose (All American), Isotope has won four of her SHE’S THE REAL DEAL, and she beat a good filly in Away seven starts and has earnings of $290,625. THIS FILLY, AND SHE Game, take nothing away from Great Dansaar, who was purchased by Daandine Stud and BEAT A GOOD FILLY her, but she is pretty good, this Boomer Bloodstock for $80,000 at the 2016 Magic Millions National one.” Broodmare Sale, has an unraced two-year-old filly by Winning IN AWAY GAME, TAKE Isotope ($4.50 to $3 Rupert (Written Tycoon) named Rupertaar in training with Bjorn NOTHING AWAY FROM favourite) and Away Game ($8 Baker for Darby Syndications and a Sebring (More Than Ready) HER, BUT SHE IS to $6) both firmed in betting for yearling colt who will be offered as Lot 357 at next month’s Magic PRETTY GOOD, THIS the $2 million Guineas on the Millions sale. ONE back of their respective runs She had a filly by Spirit Of Boom (Sequalo) born on August 9 this year - TONY GOLLAN yesterday. and is back in foal to Isotope’s sire Deep Field (Northern Meteor) with an Gollan said: “It’s always early cover this year. Updated daily, the information on each stallion includes; top performer, recent race & auction results, upcoming race entries, sire statistics, hypothetical pedigrees with Truenicks Over 36,000+ 400,000 users in sessions Over 2019 5.2m screen views Follow us @anz_news | 3 | Brought to you by Morning Briefing -Sponsored by Woodside Park Stud Sunday, December 20, 2020 SEE A MAGIC MILLIONS DRAFT DRAFT BY THE PROVEN & ELITE 1800m) win at the same track a fortnight ago AUSTRALIA with a one and three-quarter length defeat of Three for Flying Artie Trap For Fools (Poet's Voice), who attempted Rockin’ Artie (2 g ex Rock Beauty by Stratum) to steal the race from the front under Brad won the QTIS 2YO Maiden Plate (1200m) at Rawiller. Truly Great, under Willie Pike, swept the Gold Coast yesterday at his second start to round the outside with ease with 150 metres become the third first crop winner for Newgate to run to score an effortless victory. Platoon Farm’s young stallion Flying Artie (Artie (Playing God) finished two and a half lengths Schiller). The Scott Morrisey-trained juvenile behind the winner in third. Bred and owned won the $21,000 race by two and a quarter by Bob and Sandra Peters, Truly Great became lengths over Watachoice (Choisir). Spill The Dundeel’s third $1 million-plus earlier, after Diamonds (Spill The Beans), a stablemate of Castelvecchio and Super Seth, with his third the winner, was another length away in third. stakes success. Bred by Senga Bissett and sold by Ashleigh Soxagon MICHAEL MCINALLY Thoroughbreds, Rockin’ Artie was a $110,000 Dance Music proves the star purchase by John Morrisey from this year’s Barbie (Spirit Of Boom) finished one and a half of the show Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale.