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Saturday, October 31, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here SALES NEWS FASIG-TIPTON - PAGE 12 MORNING BRIEFING - PAGE 7 YESTERDAY'S RACE RESULTS - PAGE 16 ‘Our clients have got the What's on Stakes races: Flemington (VIC) - Victoria appetite for them, so you Derby (Gr 1, 2500m), Coolmore Stud Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m), Empire Rose Stakes (Gr 1, have got to keep buying them’ 1600m), Cantala Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m), Wakeful Stakes (Gr 2, 2000m), Linlithgow Stakes (Gr Is the influx of internationals detrimental to the Australian 2, 1200m), Hotham Stakes (Gr 3, 2500m), yearling market? Carbine Club Stakes (Gr 3, 1600m), Furphy Sprint (Gr 3, 1100m). Morphettville (SA) - John Letts Cup (Listed, 1800m). Ascot (WA) - Asian Beau Stakes (Gr 3, 1400m), Prince Of Wales Stakes (Gr 3, 1000m). Pukekohe (NZ) - Karaka Classic (Listed, 1600m). Awapuni (NZ) - Feilding Gold Cup (Listed, 2100m) Metropolitan meetings: Rosehill (NSW), Flemington (VIC), Doomben (QLD), Morphettville (SA), Ascot (WA) Race meetings: Newcastle (NSW), Coffs Harbour (NSW), Dubbo (NSW), Traralgon (VIC), Gold Coast (QLD), Beaudesert (QLD), Kalgoorlie (WA), Pioneer Park (NT), Pukekohe (NZ), Awapuni (NZ) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Coffs Harbour (NSW), Dubbo (NSW) International meetings: Kranji (SIN), Sir Dragonet RACING PHOTOS Taipa (MAC), Tokyo (JPN), Kyoto (JPN), Fukushima (JPN), Newmarket (UK), spend has led to the question being posed BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS Wolverhampton (UK), Chantilly (FR), about whether that demand and diverted Kenilworth (SAF), Turffontein (SAF), ictoria Derby Day, slated by many financial investment is negatively impacting on Belmont (USA) as the country’s most prestigious the Australian yearling market. race day, is upon us and so Sir Dragonet (Camelot), Saturday’s Cox too is the annual debate about Plate (Gr 1, 2040m) winner, recouped his Australia’sV apparent inability to breed quality purchase price, believed to be about $2.5 stayers capable of challenging the growing million, in the 100th running of the Moonee influx of internationals who are taking out our Valley weight for age championship and he is a biggest races with increasing regularity. leading contender in Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup Many of those imports are owned by (Gr 1, 3200m) after being purchased privately in Australians and the skyrocketing international August. Continued on page 2>> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by ‘Our clients have got the appetite for them, so you have got to keep buying them’ | 2 | Saturday, October 31, 2020 << Continued from page 1 The first four across the line in the Cox Plate were all bred in Ireland, while only three of the 14 runners were bred in Australia, Arcadia Queen (Pierro) the best-performed in fifth. Ozzie Kheir’s syndicate was behind the high-stakes purchase of Sir Dragonet, while the group also owns imported Cup hopefuls Admire Robson (Deep Impact) and Geelong Cup (Gr 3, 2400m) runner-up Le Don De Vie (Leroidesanimaux), among a host of internationally acquired horses. Australian Bloodstock has Mustajeer (Medicean) and Geelong Cup fourth Ashrun (Authorized), while Coolmore’s imported pair Tiger Moth (Galileo) and Caulfield Cup (Gr 1, 2400m) runner-up Anthony Van Dyck (Galileo) sit at the top of Melbourne Cup markets, indicating that the nation’s most famous horse race is likely to be won by an internationally bred horse. Industry observers suggest that up to $100 million each year is being spent on international horses to bring Down Under to race and that figure is Luke Murrell and Jamie Lovett SPORTPIX steadily increasing with a large contingent of Australians and New Zealanders active at this weeks’ Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale in the UK. “I can only speak from our own experience and we probably spend More than 30 horses are heading to Australia following this week’s three times as much as we do at the (Australian) yearling sales, but that is Tattersalls sale, with the likes of Chris Waller, Ballymore Stables’ Mike more our business model as opposed to any other reason,” he said. Moroney, Ciaron Maher and David Eustace, Annabel Neasham and Mick “It’s like any business, it’s supply and demand and our clients have an Price and Mick Kent Jr all set to prepare the horses purchased at the four- appetite for tried horses well over and above yearlings, so for me, we’ve day auction. just got to make sure we’ve got stock on the shelf, so to speak.” Australian Bloodstock’s Jamie Lovett, who along with business partner International Racehorse Transport’s Chris Burke said the number of Luke Murrell, purchased nine lots at Tattersalls and have been long-term horses being sent from Europe to Australia to race had been increasing importers of horses from Europe and Japan including 2014 Melbourne for at least a decade. Cup winner Protectionist (Monsun) and Toorak Handicap (Gr 1, 1600m) “If you look at the Melbourne Cup as an example, of the 41 horses who and Emirates Stakes (Gr 1, 2000m) winner Tosen Stardom (Deep Impact). are still eligible, all but ten flew into the country. Some of those are from “For us, it’s a case that we’re so fortunate with our prize-money New Zealand but the majority are from Europe,” Burke said. (in Australia), you can justify lifting your sights a little bit at the likes “The colonial-bred stallions are doing a great job with the speed horses of Tattersalls. You get the horse here and if he copes with the trip, he’s but for the staying horses, they are still looking overseas for a solution. straight into training and within a reasonable time-frame you’re getting a “It’s the direction the breeding industry has been going, therefore return on what you put in,” Lovett said yesterday. people go looking for staying horses elsewhere. “Of course, there are no guarantees, but historically we have had a fair “It’s a tough ask to breed stayers, because it’s a long wait and patience bit of luck out of that sale and obviously many private sales as well. For us, is required. A lot of owners, particularly new people to the industry, are it’s a case of our clients have got the appetite for them, so you have got to keen to see their horse out there racing quicker. keep buying them.” “Certainly the volume of tried horses has steadily been increasing Lovett found it hard to put a definitive figure on how much money was over the past ten years that we’ve been bringing horses in - that would be being spent on horses in the northern hemisphere to race in Australia. a fair statement” Continued on page 4>> Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by Magic Millions Online is the new home for internet based thoroughbred sales NEXT SALE TUESDAY 17 - THURSDAY 19 NOVEMBER Entries Open 4 November • User friendly design • Edited pedigrees • Global database of clients looking to invest • No hidden fees, no passed in commissions • Full catalogue available on Equineline • Customisable tabs for sellers It’s never been easier! www.magicmillions.online Saturday, October 31, 2020 Incentive needed for Australian-breds BEST OF LUCK To the Magic Millions graduates running in today’s feature races FLEMINGTON (VRC) Banquo ..................... Mill Park Stud Bold Star .................... Brooklyn Park EMPIRE ROSE STKS GR1 Mystic Journey ........... Armidale Stud CARBINE CLUB STKS GR3 Tony Williams AQUIS Madam Rouge .............Widden Stud Aysar ........................ Torryburn Stud Shout the Bar .......... Newhaven Park So Let’s Toast .........Willow Park Stud Tony “Tubba” Williams, who spent time in the UK at auction house Missile Mantra ...........Arrowfield Stud She Shao Fly .......... Ambergate Farm BEGONIA BELLE STKS GR3 Goffs before a stint with Aquis Farm, believes Australia’s preoccupation Exhilarates .....................Vinery Stud Chaillot .......................Baramul Stud with speed had not always been the case and he argues that there should Odeum ................... Newhaven Park Sisstar .........................Widden Stud Chica Fuerte ............. Rosemont Stud Fituese ...... Western Breeders Alliance be a greater financial incentive for owners to race Australian-bred stayers. Forbidden Love ...........Bhima T’breds From Within .......Yarraman Park Stud “At this point in time in Australia, it is about the colonial stallion with Prophet’s Thumb.....Bell River T’breds COOLMORE STUD STKS GR1 speed. If you turn the clock back to a bygone era, New Zealand were Farnan ...........................Vinery Stud ROSEHILL (ATC) Mamaragan .............. Newgate Farm renowned for breeding high-class stayers as was Australia earlier in the Glenfiddich ............... Edinburgh Park GOLDEN EAGLE 20th century,” Williams said. Ranting ..................... Westbury Stud Alligator Blood .............Baramul Stud Anders ......................Arrowfield Stud Reloaded ..................Arrowfield Stud “One of the problems we face in Australia, even though we say we Holyfield ...................Segenhoe Stud want to breed those horses and we say we should be breeding them, Extra Time .................. Armidale Stud ASCOT (WATC) Our Playboy .................Widden Stud trainers and owners predominantly still want the quick result. ASIAN BEAU STKS GR3 VICTORIA DERBY GR1 Man Booker ..................Korilya Stud “One of the reasons with those horses is that they aren’t actually given Token Spirit ....................Gilgai Farm Red Can Man ................Korilya Stud the time to mature, to be conditioned and developed. They are pushed Born to Succeed ........Arrowfield Stud Uni Time ........................Ian Roberts too hard, too early and so it’s a catch 22 here. They want it, but they’re not CANTALA STKS GR1 PRINCE OF WALES STKS GR3 Mr Quickie ............... Rosemont Stud prepared to spend an extra season (waiting).” Eeyore Wayz .........Western Breeders Rock ........................Coolmore Stud Alliance Offering a potential solution to Australia’s dearth of locally bred King’s Legacy ............Segenhoe Stud Mervyn ............ Quanah Park T’breds stayers, Williams poses: “If it was me personally, I would structure the WAKEFUL STKS GR2 Valour Road .............