Tuesday, February 18, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here DIRECT TO YOUR INBOX EVERY MORNING Nutt and Clarke head Read Tomorrow's Issue For: west to score prized Steve Moran What's on War Chant filly Race meetings: Muswellbrook (NSW), Half-sister to Group 2 winner Quilista makes $240,000 at Benalla (VIC), Warwick (QLD) Magic Millions Perth Yearling Sale Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Werribee (VIC), Caulfield (VIC) Sales: Magic Millions Perth Yearling Sale - Book 2 SALES TALK Lot 166 War Chant - Brocky's Ace filly MAGIC MILLIONS Birthday girl Cheng celebrates a half-sister to Group 2-winning mare Quilista with War Chant pair BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS (Scandal Keeper) by Yarradale Stud’s War Chant, Singapore owner Constance Cheng, under her trong demand for the progeny of made $240,000 while a further 29 lots made Thoroughbred Owners Association and Sports leading Western Australian stallion $100,000 or more including a Victoria-bound Trust (TOAST) banner, bought two yearlings War Chant (Danzig) and a quality $200,000 son of Newgate Farm’s young stallion. by Yarradale Stud’s flagship stallion War Chant, colt by first season sire Winning In contrast, there were 24 yearlings who a colt for $120,000 and a $180,000 filly who SRupert (Written Tycoon) has helped fuel a made six figures last year to a top of $260,000 momentarily held the status as the highest- buoyant Magic Millions Perth Yearling Sale, with three breaking $200,000 at the Magic priced lot of the sale. continuing the upward market trend of 2020. Millions’ purpose-built Swan Valley selling The filly, who was catalogued asLot 133, The most expensive yearling sold yesterday, complex. Continued on page 2>> is a half-sister to the 11-time winner Lamasery (Commands) who was successful at stakes level YESTERDAY'S RACE RESULTS FROM | ASCOT PARK | PAGE 15 four times. Sales Talk page 2 >> Follow us @anz_news: click here | 1 | Brought to you by Nutt and Clarke head west to score prized War Chant filly | 2 | Tuesday, February 18, 2020 << Continued from page 1 The Book 1 average was last night The first horse to hit the $200,000 barrier was the Western Breeders sitting at $71,302, up 9.7 per cent year on year, with a clearance rate of 73 Alliance-consigned colt by Newgate Farm’s young Group 2-winning per cent compared to 77 per cent in 2019. sprinter Winning Rupert who was purchased by Victorian trainer Matt Sydney-based agent Jim Clarke and Attunga Stud’s Brian Nutt signed Laurie. for the top-priced War Chant filly on behalf of Victorian owner Geoff He was consigned by Western Breeders Alliance (Darling View Stud) Walsh who is set to race her on the eastern seaboard. as Lot 161 and is the second foal out of the winning mare Bitter Twist “War Chant has got a very good Group 1-winning filly in Silent Sedition (California Dane), herself a sister to the stakes-placed Inspector and half- in the east already who subsequently sold very well as a broodmare ($1.5 sister to Perth Listed winner Hoegaarden (Flying Spur). million) and he is a proven stallion,” Clarke told ANZ Bloodstock News. “I thought he was a standout and obviously I had to bid pretty hard to “The filly has got a very big pedigree and she is going to have very good get him but he is a really forward, well-muscled, well-balanced colt who is residual value with Quilista … who is in foal to I Am Invincible, so there’s a typical early running sort of horse,” Laurie said. a lot of upside. Physically, I thought she was the most impressive type of “He is from a tough family, speed on speed, and his physical attributes the sale. matched his page and we’re thrilled to get him.” “Brian Nutt and I looked at every horse in Book 1, but before we got here she was one that we had earmarked on pedigree as one of the ones Birthday girl Cheng celebrates we were particularly interested in and she had looks to match.” with War Chant pair Catalogued as Lot 166 from the Willow Dale Farm draft, the Ellie Giles-bred filly is eighth foal out of the stakes-placed juvenile winner Brocky’s Ace (Surtee), making her a half-sister to five winners including Listed winner Red Can Man (Gingerbread Man) and ATC Sapphire Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) winner Quilista. Nutt’s Attunga Stud sold Quilista at last year’s Magic Millions Gold Coast National Broodmare Sale for $950,000 to Aquis Farm’s Tony Fung and the popular Hunter Valley breeder consulted the sprinter’s original trainer Justin Warwick before committing to buying the filly. “He was instrumental in my buying her. He gave me the confidence I probably didn’t have five days ago. I was very happy to get her," Nutt said. Clarke, who was attending his second Perth sale, has been buying fillies at the recent yearling sales for a separate syndicate with the view of trading them at the end of their racing career. He thought yesterday’s purchase for a client of Nutt’s hit the mark Constance Cheng and the TOAST team MAGIC MILLIONS price wise. “I think, from a value point of view, it was probably pretty well spot on Singapore owner Constance Cheng, under her Thoroughbred Owners what she was worth,” he said. Association and Sports Trust (TOAST) banner, bought two yearlings by “Certainly, on pedigree she was an obvious standout in the catalogue Yarradale Stud’s flagship stallion War Chant, a colt for $120,000 and a and the fact she had the physique to back up her pedigree was the reason $180,000 filly who momentarily held the status as the highest-priced lot why we thought she was worth what we paid for her.” of the sale. Continued on page 4>> PRESS STATEMENT Gr.1 winner at 2 and 3. Sire of 2 first crop winners inc. INCREDULOUS DREAM - 1st Bendigo 2yo Fillies Mdn 1100m on debut. Follow us @anz_news: click here | 2 | Brought to you by ENTRIES CLOSE 13 MARCH TheBestTiming& THE BIGGEST BUYING BENCH IN 2019 RECORD INTERNATIONAL SPEND OF $8,394,000 30% OF THE GROSS 228 INDIVIDUAL BUYERS FROM 8NATIONS ARECORD 96 WEANLINGS SOLD FOR $100,000+ 29 INDIVIDUAL BUYERSSPENT $250,000+ RECORD AVERAGE $63,499 GOLD COAST NATIONAL WEANLING SALE I 21-22 MAY Enter online at www.magicmillions.com.au Birthday girl Cheng celebrates with War Chant pair | 4 | Tuesday, February 18, 2020 << Continued from page 2 The filly, who was catalogued asLot 133, is a half-sister to the 11-time winner Lamasery (Commands) who was successful at stakes level four times. She is the 11th foal from the unraced Verse (Quest For Fame), herself a half-sister to Group 1 winner Anthems (Palace Music) and Listed winner Vocalist (Bluebird). The filly is also from the same family as ATC Sires’ Produce Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) winner Microphone (Exceed And Excel) whose second dam is Vocalist. Cheng, who races horses in Singapore, Australia and Hong Kong, believes she was “the top filly of the sale”. “I really liked her as a type - with a deep girth and beautiful hips,” said Cheng who was also celebrating her birthday yesterday. “It was great to be able to buy her off Yarradale Stud as I have had a lot of success with stock from the farm.” Her $120,000 colt, who was catalogued as Lot 50, is closely related Lot 5 War Chant - Diamonds'n'dreams filly MAGIC MILLIONS to talented Group 2-winning three-year-old Dalasan (Dalakhani) being out of La Rochelle (Honour And Glory) and a half-brother to the stakes- has 75 per cent of the colt sold with breeder Ron Sayers of Yarradale Stud placed Khandallah (Kitten’s Joy). also set to retain a share. She in turn is the mother of the Leon Macdonald and Andrew Gluyas- Catalogued as Lot 5, he is the fourth foal out of the Viscount (Quest For trained Danehill Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) winner Dalasan. Fame) mare Diamonds’N’Dreams, making him a half-brother to three- time winners Together We Dream (Discorsi) and Deadly Shot (Musket). Parnham delivers $170,000 knockout blow Parnham said the quality horses stood out and vendors who did This season’s Kingston Town Classic (Gr 1, 1800)-winning trainer present better-credentialled lots were well rewarded. Neville Parnham was the first to make a statement at the Perth sale, The declining clearance rate, therefore, was not a complete surprise securing a colt by War Chant with a single $170,000 bid just ten minutes to the trainer. into the auction. “I think it has been a pretty handy sale,” he said. Parnham was aware of the presale hype about the colt but the “There has been a few passed in lots but some of those were similarities between his new acquisition and the trainer’s 2019 WA disappointing horses. The lots that are nice have made their money.” Guineas (Gr 2, 1600m) winner War Saint were unmissable. Fellow prominent Perth trainer Simon Miller also struck yesterday, “I thought he was the best of the War Chants and we have had a bit going to $170,000 for a colt by WA’s late champion sire Blackfriars of luck with the War Chants over the years and then we won the Guineas (Danehill) from the family of dual Group 1 winner Scenic Shot (Scenic). with War Saint last November,” Parnham told ANZ Bloodstock News.