Lunar Fox: the colt nobody wanted Jo McKinnon Tuesday, March 2, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here $900,000 LORD KANALOA COLT ATTRACTS BIG PLAYERS AS MOMENTUM CONTINUES AT INGLIS PREMIER - PAGE 1 Impossible to ignore his Impeccable pedigree Prepare yourself for his impeccable yearlings... www.itsimpending.com.au Lunar Fox: the colt nobody wanted Jo McKinnon speaks to the breeders of the shock Classic winner - page 12 Tuesday, March 2, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here STALLION WATCH - PAGE 22 MACAU NEWS - PAGE 21 MB: ASM FIELD CONFIRMED - PAGE 14 $900,000 Lord Kanaloa What's on Race meetings: Kembla Grange (NSW), colt attracts big players Bendigo (VIC), Grafton (NSW), Emerald STALLION WATCH - PAGE XX (QLD) as momentum continues Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Grafton (NSW), Beaudesert (QLD), Belmont (WA), Longford (TAS), Arawa Park (NZ), Foxton (NZ) at Inglis Premier Sale International meetings: Newcastle (UK) Sales: Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Maher and Coolmore join forces to buy Arrowfield Sale (VIC), Magic Millions Online March Stud-bred son in Melbourne Sale (AUS), Gavelhouse Thoroughbred 08 March Auction (NZ ) Lot 504: Lord Kanaloa ex Believe Yourself colt INGLIS KIWI CHRONICLES a Lord Kanaloa (King Kamehameha) colt Underrated sires come to BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS for $900,000 on day two of the Melbourne the fore iaron Maher believes the rise of auction. BY LLOYD JACKSON | @ANZ_NEWS the Inglis Melbourne Premier After a Written Tycoon (Iglesia) colt made The race of the year.” At least so far, according Yearling Sale is a sign of things $1.1 million on Sunday, only the second to the reaction of many after a thrilling finish to come for a Victorian breeding horse to sell for seven figures in the Oaklands and sterling win by Verry Elleegant (Zed) in Cindustry in the midst of a reinvigoration Junction’s sale’s history, 20 yearlings made the Chipping Norton Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m) at after the prominent trainer leaned on an $300,000 or more yesterday, bringing the total Randwick on Saturday. This is what racing is all international powerhouse in order to buy to 35 for the sale so far. Continued on page 2>> about. Continued on page 18>> SUN 28TH FEB - TUE 2ND MARCH 2021 INGLIS MELBOURNE PREMIER SALE YEARLING SALE LIVE VIEW HERE Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by $900,000 Lord Kanaloa colt attracts big players as momentum continues at Inglis Premier | 2 | Tuesday, March 2, 2021 << Continued from page 1 Nine of the top ten-priced yearlings “He's a great colt, a really early horse, good have been colts with the most expensive of those yesterday the Lord muscle and did everything right and looked Kanaloa colt who co-trainers Ciaron Maher and David Eustace bought a treat. He did over 200 parades, which is a in partnership with Coolmore. The dual-state trainers already train this lot of parading, and Coolmore has bought season’s Inglis Nursery (RL, 1000m) winner Acrobat (Fastnet Rock) for him, so obviously they’ll look to win an Coolmore, among others. early race and get him to stud. With a strong working relationship already in place, Maher and the He's going to get every chance and Coolmore team agreed to team up on the session-leading colt after both I think Ciaron is the right trainer for him, parties assessed him on the sale grounds late last week. Whether it be in Melbourne or Sydney I'm sure “I saw the horse up at Kulani and they did a great job preparing horses he'll be in those early two-year-old races.” for the sale and he presented beautifully,” the leading trainer said. Signing under the Ciaron Maher Bloodstock banner, the trainer has “He has got a beautiful temperament. There was a horse playing up bought 16 yearlings with various parties so far this week and he described out the back next to him and he just went about his business. the sale as “very solid”. “That is something that is very important in colts. You want them to go on “You have got to do your homework and the horses you like, you have and be stallions and I think he’s got the necessary characteristics to do that. to always go a bid or two more,” he said. (A horse’s temperament) is a bit of an insight into how they handle pressure. “It’s always quite strong here in Melbourne and the studs like “I know they are only young and walking, but you see them on the Arrowfield have a draft through Kulani Park supporting the Victorian farm and you see them again when they first get to the sale and again breeding industry. That is great and I think the sale is getting stronger and when they have been out of their stables a lot of times, particularly the stronger each year. popular ones, so you can see how they react to that little bit of pressure.” “There are also more and more Victorian breeders and you’ve got the He added: “It was great to purchase another colt like this with likes of Toronado and Written Tycoon, who was standing here, Rosemont Coolmore. We’ve had the likes of Merchant Navy and some other really is expanding and getting more active, so it is really bright for the future of nice horses through the stable. We’ve got Loving Gaby’s sister as well out Victoria. of Magic Millions, so they are great to race with and hopefully we can find “It has always been second fiddle for the Hunter but it’s certainly the next Coolmore Stud Stakes or Royal Ascot winner.” improving each year.” Offered by Kulani Park on behalf of Arrowfield Stud as Lot 504, the While Maher and Eustace maintained their spot at the top of the buyers’ colt is the first foal out of ATC podium, fellow Victorian training partnerships Robbie Griffiths and Mathew THERE ARE MORE AND Sweet Embrace Stakes (Gr 2, de Kock and Lindsay Park have also been active, buying eight yearlings each, MORE VICTORIAN 1200m) winner Believe Yourself while Caulfield-based Clinton McDonald and agent-trainer brothers Paul BREEDERS AND (Sebring). and Mike Moroney have also each signed for eight yearlings. Kulani Park’s Rhys Smith The aggregate is already up 20 per cent year-on-year, with YOU’VE GOT THE LIKES had previously rejected $56,991,500 worth of yearlings already traded at the Melbourne sale at OF TORONADO AND overtures from Arrowfield to sell an average of $143,195, up 11 per cent compared to the 2020 auction. WRITTEN TYCOON, yearlings on their behalf, but The median of $110,000 has held firm, but the clearance rate of 86 per WHO WAS STANDING took on the opportunity for the cent shows the demand from a huge array of buyers to participate in HERE, ROSEMONT 2021 sale. the market. IS EXPANDING AND “Paul (Messara) had Last night, Inglis general manager of bloodstock sales and marketing GETTING MORE ACTIVE, approached me a few years ago Sebastian Hutch described the proceedings at the Premier sale so far as a SO IT IS REALLY BRIGHT and we wouldn't do it then, but “sterling two days”. FOR THE FUTURE OF we decided it would be a good “We knew there were some good horses right the way through the VICTORIA idea to do it this year,” Smith catalogue, and there are some good horses to come tomorrow, but the - CIARON MAHER said after the sale of the Lord nature of the competition on the really sought after horses was fantastic," Kanaloa colt. Hutch said. Continued on page 4>> DIRECT TO YOUR INBOX EVERY MORNING YOUR ESSENTIAL DAILY READ THIS WEEK IN Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by Champion 2YO and winner of 4 consecutive Gr.1 races. The only son of Galileo to win at Royal Ascot as a 2YO. CHURCHILL wins the 2,000 Guineas-Gr.1 in a faster time than top-class sires Frankel and Camelot. 20 sons of Galileo have sired Gr.1 winners to date! “Churchill’s a first season sire that I absolutely love. He’s probably one of the most serious racehorses to be imported into this country and is by the world’s leading sire in Galileo.” Damon Gabbedy of Belmont Bloodstock, purchaser of the $205,000 Churchill filly ex Magnesic from Blue Gum Farm at the Melbourne Premier Sale First southern hemisphere yearlings have already made: $250,000 (Anthony Freedman Racing/Blue Sky B’stock) $170,000 (Danny O'Brien Racing) $225,000 (Lindsay Park Racing) NZ$160,000 (Glen Harvey Racing) $205,000 (McEvoy Mitchell/Belmont B’stock) $160,000 (Kavanagh Racing) $200,000 (Paul Perry Racing) $160,000 (Francis Cook/John Foote B’stock) NZ$200,000 (Roger James/Robert Wellwood) $155,000 (Peter Morgan) $180,000 (Star T’breds/Randwick B’stock Agency) $150,000 (Lees Racing/Tasman B’stock). $180,000 (Mitch Freedman Racing) Colm Santry, John Kennedy, Paddy Oman, Tom Moore, Rob Archibald or Emma Pugsley Tel: 02 6576 4200. New Zealand: Gordon Calder Tel:+64 218 41612. www.coolmore.com $900,000 Lord Kanaloa colt attracts big players as momentum continues at Inglis Premier | 4 | Tuesday, March 2, 2021 "The Lord Kanaloa colt, anyone that saw him was particularly taken aback The Neil Werrett and Darren Thomas-bred son of I Am Invincible, by him. He is a beautiful colt by a fabulous stallion which has already bred a offered as Lot 287, is the first foal out of New Zealand 1000 Guineas (Gr 1, Blue Diamond winner out of a mare that had elite ability as a two-year-old.