Tuesday, February 25, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here STALLION WATCH - PAGE 13 MACAU RACING NEWS - PAGE 16 YESTERDAY'S RACE RESULTS - PAGE 23 Griffiths and Ford What's on Race meetings: Tamworth (NSW), Bendigo (VIC), Cairns (QLD) swoop on classy Barrier trials / Jump outs: Rosehill (NSW), Alpine Eagle filly Caulfield (VIC), Avondale (NZ) Daughter of Armidale Stud’s first season sire heads to Victoria with $95,000 price tag MORNING BRIEFING Catalyst ready for Guineas Clayton Chipperfield is confident Catalyst (Darci Brahma) can turn the tables on his CS Hayes Stakes (Gr 3, 1400m) conqueror Alligator Blood (All Too Hard) in Saturday’s Australian Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m), with New Zealand’s star three-year-old set to meet his old rival on one kilogram better terms under set weight conditions. “He's third-up now. We're meeting them at equal weights and he's been looking for a mile,” Chipperfield said. “He's only had the one mile Group 1 race in New Zealand and won it very easily, with the best final 600 Lot 37 Alpine Eagle - Must Be Mink filly MAGIC MILLIONS metres he's ever run. Hopefully we can get a their move for a filly by his new season sire Alpine decent track on Saturday and we'll see that BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS Eagle at the Magic Millions Tasmanian Yearling Sale. brilliance he's got in the finish that we didn't espected Victorian trainer Robbie The combination parted with $95,000, the really see in the Hayes because of the rain Griffiths and his trusted ally, agent top price at yesterday’s Tasmanian auction, to and the downgrade of the track.” Regarding Peter Ford, have zeroed in on sons secure the Armidale Stud-consigned filly, who Catalyst’s final preparations, Chipperfield of the late top-class stallion High is by the local farm’s Group 2-winning sire continued: “I gave him an easy gallop on ChaparralR (Sadler’s Wells) and yesterday they made Alpine Eagle. Continued on page 2>> Saturday and he went unbelievable. I'm very, very happy with him. He'll be at his peak for PAGE 19 the Guineas.” Morning Briefing page 9 >> Follow us @anz_news: click here | 1 | Brought to you by Griffiths and Ford swoop on classy Alpine Eagle filly | 2 | Tuesday, February 25, 2020 << Continued from page 1 She was one of 22 yearlings at the yesterday, was trained by Tony McEvoy to win four races from 12 starts, record-breaking sale to make $50,000 or more, which helped Magic including the MRC Autumn Classic (Gr 2, 1800m) during an injury Millions break the $3 million barrier for the first time at this sale. interrupted career. The average closed at $30,568, the median was also up year on year at “If he had been a little bit better, we wouldn’t have been able to access $26,000, while the clearance rate was a healthy 81 per cent. him this easily, I would say,” Ford said. Ford yesterday revealed that he and Griffiths were unabashed fans of “He was a horse that was just short of being great and if he had been the High Chaparral sire line and that the pedigree of their top-priced filly a little bit better he probably would have ended up at Arrowfield or also matched well genetically. Coolmore or somewhere.” The agent said that sire line, along with I Am Invincible and his own Griffiths inspected the Alpine Eagle filly in Launceston on Sunday sire Invincible Spirit (Green Desert), were the ones that he and Griffiths before returning to Melbourne and bidding over the phone. favoured. Catalogued as Lot 37, the filly is the first foal out of the four-time “We love (High Chaparral’s son) Toronado - we’ve got a couple of great winner Must Be Mink (Musket), who in turn is out of the Tasmanian Toronados in the stable - and we love Dundeel as well, but we haven’t Guineas (Listed, 1600m) winner Di’s Angel (Racer’s Edge). been able to get at him just yet,” Ford said. Must Be You started her career in Tasmania for Bill Ryan before “Any of these sons of High Chaparral, and Tivaci is another one...we proving successful at metropolitan level in Victoria for Darren Weir. are finding they might be the way and they will probably get a little bit “As a type she is outstanding. She is beautiful, has a great head, and a further than some of the Invincible Spirit breed. great walk,” Griffiths said. “We love that line as well such as Shalaa, Territories has a few nice “Alpine Eagle was a great racehorse by High Chaparral who is turning ones and Cable Bay is really good, too. out to be a great sire of sires. The Tornados are flying and so are the “They are the sire lines that we seem to like in the stable. They are fairly Dundeels. durable types of horses and, more importantly, ones people want to buy “The filly is bred on the same cross as Dundeel and the mother of the i n t o.” filly is by a stallion who is a half-brother to the great mare Makybe Diva by Alpine Eagle, whose progeny averaged $35,000 with 21 lots sold Redoute’s Choice. Continued on page 4>> A GOOD REPUTATION DOES NOT JUST HAPPEN... 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Griffiths and Ford swoop on classy Alpine Eagle filly | 4 | Tuesday, February 25, 2020 << Continued from page 2 “When you start talking about Redoute's Choice, Zabeel and High Chaparral and you get down to Group 1 performers in the family, it all works. She has got the best blood, athleticism and walk to be really good and I think this stallion will really make it.” The sister to Scott Brunton’s dual stakes-winning four-year-old Mandela Effect (Turffontein) will also join the leading Tasmanian trainer’s stable after connections went to $80,000 to land the filly one lot earlier. The Motree Thoroughbreds-consigned filly is the fourth foal, whose three to race have all won, out of the West Quest (Gone West) mare Morell. She was catalogued as Lot 36. Andrew Scanlon, the managing owner of Mandela Effect, who will attempt to make it three wins in succession in tomorrow’s Mowbray Stakes (Listed, 1600m) at Launceston, signed for the youngster yesterday. Lot 26 Dream Ahead - Luloah filly MAGIC MILLIONS Brown buys brother “He was one of the picks of the sale of the colts. The brother is a good to his Firstclass Dreamer horse - he has got little issues that hold him back from showing his true Young Cranbourne trainer Matthew Brown also stuck to a family ability, but he has shown that he is well above average,” Brown said. he knows well by going to $75,000 to secure the Dream Ahead (Diktat) “(The yearling) is probably a bit scopier with a similar body type, but brother his stakes-placed sprinter Firstclass Dreamer. he probably has a bit more going for him than his brother. Brown bought Firstclass Dreamer for $35,000 at the 2018 Magic “The family’s gone on a little bit (since I bought Firstclass Dreamer) Millions Gold Coast 2YOs in Training Sale, with the now four-year-old with Silverhawk winning in town and my bloke got a little bit of black-type. gelding going on to win three races and $131,445 in prize-money, but he I am still confident that I can win another one in town with him. He was was prepared to pay more than double that for his sibling. a bit unlucky the other night at Moonee Valley. Continued on page 6>> NEED I SAY MORE (2yo, dam by Fastnet Rock) is pictured winning the Waikato Stud Slipper-Gr.3 over 1200m at Matamata on Saturday by 2 lengths for Te Akau Racing, trainer Jamie Richards and breeder Burnewang North. He will run next in the Sistema Stakes-Gr.1 on 7th March. One of the best young sires in Europe and proven with Danehill line mares. 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