Friday, September 4, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here VENDORS PRAGMATIC AS PREMIER SALE TURNOVER DROPS 38 PER CENT - PAGE 10 Te Akau eyes permanent What's on Stakes races: Wyong (NSW) - Wyong Gold Australian base as latest Cup (Listed, 2100m), Mona Lisa Stakes (Listed, 1350m) Metropolitan meetings: Darwin (NT) Race meetings: Wyong (NSW), Donald stars ready to start (VIC), Rockhampton (QLD), Phar Lap Raceway (NZ) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Flemington spring campaigns (VIC), Gawler (SA), Canberra (ACT) International meetings: Thirsk (UK), Foxbridge Plate pair Avantage and Prise De Fer could join Haydock (UK), Ascot (UK), Kempton Probabeel on Cox Plate trail (UK), Down Royal (IRE), Fairview (SAF), Churchill Downs (USA) International Group races: Churchill Downs (USA) - Kentucky Oaks (Gr 1, 9f), La Troienne Stakes (Gr 1, 8.5f), Alysheba Stakes (Gr 2, 8.5f), Edgewood Stakes (Gr 2, 8f), Eight Belles Stakes (Gr 2, 7f), Twin Spires Turf Sprint (Gr 2, 5.5f) Avantage SPORTPIX MORNING BRIEFING carnival with moves now afoot to eventually BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS Gytrash gunning for open a satellite operation in NSW. Nature Strip ew Zealand’s powerful Te Akau As Te Akau trainer Jamie Richards prepares Lightning Stakes (Gr 1, 1000m) winner Gytrash Racing outfit is still planning on to unveil a number of high-profile horses at (Lope De Vega) already boasts a win over Nature having a permanent presence in Timaru today and Te Rapa tomorrow, principal Strip (Nicconi) and he will bid to lower the Australia despite the pandemic David Ellis outlined an expanded set-up sprint star's colours again when the pair clash Nforcing the operation to shelve its application in Australia and pointed to Randwick as a in tomorrow’s Concorde Stakes (Gr 3, 1000m) at for a Flemington stable ahead of the spring preferred home. Continued on page 2>> Randwick. Morning Briefing page 5 >> ENTER NOW JULY 24 -29 ONLINE SALE ENTRIES CLOSE JULY 22. Featuring broodmares, yearlings and racing stock. FRICatalogue 4TH available at inglisdigital.com- WED 9TH SEP 2020 INGLIS DIGITAL SEPTEMBER SALE (EARLY) SALE LIVE - VIEW HERE Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Te Akau eyes permanent Australian base | 2 | Friday, September 4, 2020 << Continued from page 1 Flemington had been singled out as an option, with Ellis in April applying for 12 boxes at the Melbourne track with the backing of Cambridge Stud’s Brendan and Jo Lindsay, but Covid-19 put an end to that and now Sydney has emerged as the likely satellite arm of Te Akau. “With the coronavirus, no decision was made, but we were certainly looking at taking a dozen horses to Melbourne for the carnival,” Ellis told ANZ Bloodstock News yesterday. “We’ll still have some there, for sure, Avantage for example, and Prise De Fer could both finish up in the Cox Plate, as could Probabeel. “We have been taking horses to Australia to campaign for a long time and we have mainly targeted the tailend of Sydney and Brisbane (carnivals), but we’re buying horses to race at all the carnivals now.” Probabeel SPORTPIX A Te Akau staff member, Ashley Handley, remained in Sydney after the autumn carnival and has looked after the preparations of Melody that the Australian Turf Club had been extremely accommodating during Belle (Commands) and Probabeel (Savabeel), while La Vernazza Te Akau’s extended stay. (More Than Ready), a Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed filly in New Te Akau Racing’s main base is at Matamata in New Zealand, while Zealand owned by Cambridge Stud, joined Richards’ Australian team Mark Walker operates a Singapore stable for Te Akau. recently. Probabeel spelled in NSW after her autumn campaign and resumed “We love Randwick and we’d love to have, say, a dozen to 15 boxes with a second placing in the Show County Quality (Gr 3, 1200m) at there all the time. Last year, we campaigned three horses in Australia and Randwick on August 22 but stablemates running at Te Rapa this weekend they all won Group 1s, in Melbourne and Sydney,” said Ellis, who indicated could join her. Continued on page 4>> Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by THE SIMPLY PROVEN CROSS The VINO ROSSO sireline of Curlin & Smart Strike nicks beautifully with DANEHILL 8.06% SW to runners & DANZIG 8.98% SW to runners. VINO ROSSO CURLIN The most accomplished Outstanding sire and son of Curlin promising sire of sires NEW $13,750 inc. GST - Limited book in 2020 Curlin - Mythical Bride by Street Cry Te Akau eyes permanent Australian base | 4 | Friday, September 4, 2020 << Continued from page 2 Avantage (Fastnet Rock), a four-time While the immediate focus remains on the track, looking ahead is Group 1 winner who also landed the Karaka Million 2YO (RL, 1200m), never far from Ellis’ mind and he and Richards already have their sights resumes in the Valachi Downs Foxbridge Plate (Gr 2, 1200m) where she will set on claiming a fifth straight Karaka Million at Ellerslie next January. clash with stablemates Prise De Fer (Savabeel) and Scott Base (Dalghar). That goal, and Ellis’ endorsement of New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ellis was bullish about the prospects of Avantage, a pin-up mare for Te decision to keep its Karaka sale in January, has the key industry figure Akau over the past three seasons, while he suggested Prise De Fer would confident about what lies ahead for Te Akau. be peaking for the Windsor Park Plate (Gr 1, 1600m) and Livamol Classic “It’s an exciting time of the year and we’ve got some really nice horses (Gr 1, 2040m) at Hastings two weeks later. coming up. We have had a mild winter and everything’s really good,” he said. “Avantage has been flying in trackwork and she trialled up enormously “Karaka Million night is an important part of the sale and I think it’s two weeks ago and from Te Rapa she’ll go onto Hawkes Bay,” he said. one of the best race days in New Zealand now. “Prise De Fer is a hell of a good horse and he will be a very good horse “It gets a huge crowd, a big on-course betting crowd and huge interest from in about six weeks’ time. He is the sort of horse who could win the Group all the newspapers in New Zealand and all the TV news outlets want to cover it, so 1 mile and 2000 at Hawkes Bay.” I think it is an important element to the sale and it’s a hell of a fun night.” Two unbeaten Te Akau three-year-olds, Need I Say More (No Nay Richards had a colt by Newgate Farm’s first season sire Extreme Choice Never) and Yourpoint (Bull Point), will also resume in the Northland (Not A Single Doubt) win a juvenile barrier trial at Te Teko yesterday Breeders Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m) at Te Rapa. which came after a Brazen Beau (I Am Invincible) colt and fillies by I Am The shutdown of the New Zealand racing industry earlier this year Invincible (Invincible Spirit) and Hinchinbrook (Fastnet Rock) performed when the country went into government-enforced hibernation impacted well on August 18. the two-year-old campaign of Need I Say More who trialled at Matamata “We had another trial winner today who was very impressive and that in March but did not race again last season. was only our fourth two-year-old who has trialled,” Ellis said. Ellis said: “They are both horses who are coming to hand really well. “The other ones ran second and fourth. We have a vintage team to The No Nay Never horse is probably not quite there yet and will improve race, but there won’t be many who race before Christmas, but come the with the run and ... 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If we can stay in touch with them we has earned Orpheum (More Than Ready) a Hawkes Racing will utilise the claim of apprentice will be finishing off," Richards said. "The big chance against some of Sydney's best fillies Brock Ryan aboard emerging talent Masked thing is how hard they go in front and how far in tomorrow’s Furious Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) Crusader (Toronado) when the four-year- in front they get. It might be too much of an ask at Randwick. The three-year-old appreciated old chases his fourth career win at Randwick to peg them back.