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GST - no payment until live foal PHIL MARSHALL - 0407 853 782 • ADAM HENRY - 0428 036 472 • ASH RICHARDS - 0416 334 338 [email protected] • sunstud.com.au Monday, August 31, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here MORNING BRIEFING - PAGE 5 WEEK AHEAD - PAGE 14 YESTERDAY'S RACE RESULTS - PAGE 19 Sleeper stallion Read Tomorrow's Issue For: All Too Hard an Stallion Watch What's on emerging Behemoth Race meetings: Grafton (NSW), Tamworth Memsie Stakes winner signals consistent high-class horses (NSW), Pakenham (VIC) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Rosehill Vinery Stud sire can produce (NSW), Grafton (NSW), Tamworth (NSW), Cranbourne (VIC), Casterton (VIC), Belmont (WA) International meetings: Southwell (UK), Ripon (UK), Sandown (UK), Roscommon (IRE), Fairview (SAF) Sales: Gavelhouse August Sale (NZ) All Too Hard VINERY STUD SINGAPORE RACING NEWS made comparisons between All Too Hard Inferno wins Singapore BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS and that of long-time stud servants Mossman Classic in a canter ll Too Hard (Casino Prince), a (Snippets) and Testa Rossa (Perugino) after the Rising star Inferno (Holy Roman Emperor) gave dynamic racehorse who downed half-brother to Black Caviar sired Saturday’s another glimpse of his bombproof qualities after he the champion of his generation in Memsie Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) Behemoth. scored a thumping win in the S$250,000 Singapore Pierro (Lonhro), has taken longer The David Jolly-trained Behemoth, a pinhook Classic (Gr 2, 1400m) on Sunday, probably one of his toA establish himself as a sire of note than his disaster-turned-racetrack moneyspinner, is the most impressive to date. Coolmore contemporary but it is two of Vinery second Group 1 winner for All Too Hard after From the way the even-money favourite Stud’s former stallions and a Hunter Valley another of his sons, Alligator Blood, took out effortlessly strolled to the line at the expense of some newcomer that he has the potential to replicate. the Australian Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) earlier this very smart just-turned four-year-olds, the Singapore That is the view of Adam White, Vinery year in a breakthrough milestone victory for the Guineas (Local Gr 1, 1600m) on September 26 looks Stud’s bloodstock manager, who yesterday stallion. Continued on page 2>> his for the taking. Singapore News page 12 >> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Sleeper stallion All Too Hard an emerging Behemoth | 2 | Monday, August 31, 2020 << Continued from page 1 “I think last season people really started to take notice because he came up with the star that he needed in Alligator Blood and he had ten individual stakes winners all-up,” White said. “He’s rolled that into the new season as well and started off with a Group 1 winner and he’s currently second on the leading sires table by earnings now, which is good, and he’s getting a nice book of mares because of it. He represents fantastic value. He can get a top-class runner, the trainers like them and they sell well at the sales.” A four-time Group 1 winner as a three-year-old in 2012-13, including when defeating Pierro in the Caulfield Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m), All Too Hard covered more than 100 mares in each of his seven years at stud and White revealed he already has 140 booked in this term. White expects the momentum All Too Hard has generated in recent Behemoth RACING PHOTOS times to continue. “He’s probably not renowned as being a two-year-old sire - although into them and he’ll give you a great chance of getting the mare underway as a he did get two stakes-winning two-year-olds last season - but generally producer with his record now. There’s a lot we’ve learnt in that respect.” they are a breed, a bit like Behemoth, that show good talent early and the Underlining the All Too Hard-Danehill (Danzig)-line cross, the most older they get, the better they get,” he said. expensive yearling sold this year by All Too Hard was the Vinery Stud- “He is similar to Written Tycoon. He was a horse who started off consigned first foal out of stakes-placed two-year-old Spoils (Snitzel) at moderately and hovered around that $25,000 to $30,000 service fee for $300,000 at the Magic Millions Yearling Sale on the Gold Coast in January. quite a number of years until a lot of crops came up under him and he That colt was purchased by Hawkes Racing and White said trainers went to another level. were now understanding how to best look after All Too Hard’s progeny. “Who knows if All Too Hard goes on to do that, but he’s certainly got “Because All Too Hard was a Group-winning two-year-old, trainers the numbers to back him up and now he’s proven he can get a good Group probably pushed them a little early,” he said. 1 horse, and two Group 1 horses this year, he could reach bigger things.” “They’ve got great attitudes, so they probably thought they were able He added: We’ve looked at All Too Hard coming into this season a bit to do that at the time, but I think they’ve become accustomed to them not like a Mossman or a Testa Rossa. They were at that level for a long time. being two-year-olds now and that they’re better left alone and they get They were good proven horses who were popular at the sales. We see him better as they get older. as that sort of stallion and getting a good book because of that. “From the trainers’ point of view, they’re being a bit more patient with “In the years to come he could even go back to a higher level.” them and that’s why we’re seeing the results now.” This year, All Too Hard stands for an unchanged fee of $27,500 (inc Behemoth, meanwhile, was runner-up in the 2019 The Goodwood and GST). fourth in this year’s race before scoring at the highest level at Caulfield on Saturday. “He works pedigree wise with a lot of different lines of mare. Certainly, He was a $120,000 Inglis Great Southern Weanling Sale purchase in he has worked with More Than Ready, you’d expect that with our support, 2016 but 12 months later the big colt was overlooked by most and was but interestingly enough he’s worked with other Danehill-line mares,” subsequently traded on for the paltry sum of $6,000 to Grand Syndicates White said. at the 2017 Magic Millions National Yearling Sale. “He’s had Hard Landing and Cuba and a few other stakes winners like White praised the patience of Jolly and Grand Syndicates throughout that out of Snitzel and Redoute’s mares, so he’s crossing well with other Behemoth’s 16-start career. Danehill-line mares, so you can certainly do that. Because he’s a grandson “David’s managed the horse really well. He didn’t tax him too much of Flying Spur, the Danehill’s far enough back and, physically, you can just early on and there’s still plenty of racing upside left in him yet. He’s placed about send any type of mare to him. him really well and it’s good to see him come to the fore yesterday.” “He is good for maiden mares because he puts plenty of size and strength Click here to see Vinery Stud’s 2020 virtual stallion parade. Logo (without secondary wording) MAGNUS Champion Victorian Based Sire Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by Morning Briefing -Sponsored by Woodside Park Stud Monday, August 31, 2020 2020 VIRTUAL ONLINE STALLION PARADE NOW MORNING BRIEFING plans to withdraw from British racing while contender, is set to resume in the John F AUSTRALIA authorities in France have banned the Feehan Stakes (Gr 2, 1600m) at Moonee Valley Phoenix buys into Pierata operation from racing horses in the country. on Saturday. The six-year-old gelding, who won After selling down its stake in Golden Slipper five of his 11 starts during an extended first winner Farnan (Not A Single Doubt) and Darley stallions on preparation, ran fifth in last year’s Melbourne parting with high-class colt Prague (Redoute’s display in virtual parade Cup and was spelled with the sole focus on Choice), Phoenix Thoroughbreds has Darley became the latest operation to engage returning to the race on the first Tuesday in purchased a significant share in Aquis Farm’s in a virtual stallion parade yesterday, with November. ‘’We are not tippy toeing on egg- first season sire, the Group 1-winning sprinter Covid-19 making the traditional functions shells,’’ trainer Paul Preusker told Racing.com.