Thursday, March 25, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here SHADWELL FOUNDER AND MELBOURNE CUP-WINNING OWNER HAMDAN AL MAKTOUM DIES - PAGE 7 IT’S IN THE BLOOD | DAILY BUGLE BY TREVOR MARSHALLSEA - PAGE 16 Doncaster winner Nettoyer added to Chairman’s Sale as catalogue confirmed Inglis releases select 60-lot offering of elite breeding stock for one of the industry's night of nights Read Tomorrow's Issue For Maiden of the Week What's on Race meetings: Kensington (NSW), Wagga (NSW), Kilmore (VIC), Pakenham (VIC), Rockhampton (QLD), Pinjarra (WA) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Newcastle (NSW), Wagga (NSW) International meetings: Vaal (RSA) Maastricht in the sales ring in 2019 INGLIS foreshadowed many of its star attractions - BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS Group 1 winners Pippie (Written Tycoon), he Inglis Chairman’s Sale, described Celebrity Queen (Redoute’s Choice), In Her Robinson steps up by Sebastian Hutch as one of the Time (Time Thief), El Dorado Dreaming as Magic Millions year’s premier bloodstock events (Ilovethiscity) and Danzdanzdance bloodstock manager on the Australasian bloodstock (Mastercraftsman) - and, upon finalising the Respected Magic Millions bloodstock manager Tcalendar, will feature a select 60-lot offering of make-up of the elite sale, yesterday announced Clint Donovan will step back from the high-end race fillies and broodmares in Sydney that Doncaster Mile (Gr 1, 1600m) winner thoroughbred auction house on a full-time on May 7. Nettoyer (Sebring) would also be offered at the basis after taking up a business opportunity on The sales company had already auction. Continued on page 2>> the Gold Coast. Industry News page 14 >> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Doncaster winner Nettoyer added to Chairman’s Sale as catalogue confirmed | 2 | Thursday, March 25, 2021 << Continued from page 1 The rising eight-year-old mare, trained by Wendy Roche at Warwick Farm, also won three Group 3 races leading up to last year’s crowning glory, her sensational come-from-behind AVALON Doncaster victory. Nettoyer will be offered as Lot 41 through the Middlebrook Valley Lodge draft at the Chairman’s Sale, which features as the highlight in a EQUINE week-long series of breeding stock sales at Inglis’ Riverside Stables, with LODGE the session starting at 5.30pm on Friday, May 7. “It is the best catalogue we have put together for a Chairman’s Sale - the quality is exceptionally high,” said Hutch, Inglis’ general manager of Available for sale or lease bloodstock sales and marketing. “It is a boutique sale, but by the same token, it is not just a catalogue of inaccessible stock. “For a 60-horse catalogue, there’s fabulous variety in it. There’s top- class race mares, there’s two-year-olds, some very well-bred mares and some proven producers among them. “There’s something for a very broad spectrum of buyers.” Mares will be offered in foal to some of the most IT IS THE BEST proven commercial stallions CATALOGUE WE HAVE in Australia, including I Am PUT TOGETHER FOR Invincible (Invincible Spirit), A CHAIRMAN’S SALE Fastnet Rock (Danehill), Lonhro - THE QUALITY IS (Octagonal), So You Think (High EXCEPTIONALLY HIGH Chaparral), Written Tycoon - SEBASTIAN HUTCH (Iglesia), Zoustar (Northern THE PROPERTY Meteor), Deep Field (Northern - 50 acres Meteor) and Capitalist (Written Tycoon). - 1000-metre all-weather sand track - 5000 sq metres of under roof training, stables, Mares in foal to high-profile first season sires Too Darn Hot (Dubawi), Pierata saddling area etc (Pierro), Exceedance (Exceed And Excel), Microphone (Exceed And Excel) and - Water walker (six horse) - Dry Walker (12 horse) Brutal (O’Reilly) will also be centre stage at the Friday night session. - Two by treadmills First season Victorian-based sires Alabama Express (Redoute’s - Horse scales - Sand round yard Choice) and I Am Immortal (I Am Invincible) also have mares in foal set - Land Bank Opportunity to go through the ring. Twin Hills Stud will offer UK two-year-old winner Mia Diva (Exceed OTHER AMENITIES - Three bedroom home And Excel) in foal to Darley’s European-based sire Night Of Thunder - Two offices, kitchen, tea room, shower facilities & toilets (Dubawi) to southern hemisphere time at the Chairman’s Sale. The 2,000 - Bitumen Roads - Town water Guineas (Gr 1, 1m) winner sired three stakes winners from just 18 runners - Large dam as his first and only crop of southern hemisphere-bred runners took to the - 260,000 litre water catchment (tanks) - 27 day paddocks track for the 2019/20 season. - Full irrigation to paddocks and track Mia Diva, a sister to Group 3 winner Queen Of Bermuda, was bought LOCATION at last year’s Tattersalls July Sale by Kern and Lillingston Association for - 10 mins outside Geelong 28,000gns. - 10 mins to Geelong-Melbourne Freeway Twin Hills’ Olly Tait is offering Mia Diva, who he describes as a “fairly - 15 mins to Avalon Airport - 15 mins to Geelong Racecourse unique commodity given that she is in foal to Night Of Thunder who has been so successful with his only Australian crop”, on behalf of clients. PROPERTY AVAILABLE FROM MAY 2021 “Mia Diva is obviously an Exceed And Excel mare who won at two, so there is a good Australian flavour there in herself, but the covering will garner the most interest given she is one of the very few in foal to that Enquiries to stallion (to southern hemisphere time),” Tait told ANZ Bloodstock News Garry Snow - [email protected] yesterday. Continued on page 4>> Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by Doncaster winner Nettoyer added to Chairman’s Sale as catalogue confirmed | 4 | Thursday, March 25, 2021 << Continued from page 2 “They bought her as a mare to go to Night Of Thunder because they felt she’d be suitable for him and they are going to see what the market thinks of her.” Tait predicts the mares’ market to follow the trend experienced at the Australian yearling sales so far this year which, across the board, have reached record levels. “It is logical that it will and mares are without doubt the safest investment in bloodstock,” he said. “They hold their value very well, particularly a mare like Mia Diva. The opportunity to get out Nettoyer RACING PHOTOS on the pregnancy is absolutely realistic and then you have got Cootamundra-based Tait said: “Over time it’s increasingly common a nice valuable mare that is paid that mares are covered to southern hemisphere time in the northern for.” hemisphere and, as a result, there is a greater quantum of successful The offering highlights horses bred that way. how the globalisation of the “Frankel, for instance, has had great success in Australia and I think bloodstock industry continues to that will continue to happen. We’ve got a Kingman foal here on the farm, grow, with breeders increasingly so there are a number of mares who are being covered by the elite stallions taking on a world view with their in the northern hemisphere and brought down here.” Olly Tait DARLEY matings. Twin Hills will also consign the early- Continued on page 6>> ONLINE, ONLINE MIAMI VOICE, winner on his debut ON TIME ! 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EARTHLIGHT Shamardal - Winters Moon Doncaster winner Nettoyer added to Chairman’s Sale as catalogue confirmed | 6 | Thursday, March 25, 2021 << Continued from page 4 running two-year-old and MRC a mare in foal, to take advantage of the hot market, there is the opportunity Chairman’s Stakes (Gr 3, 1000m) winner Mildred (Hinchinbrook) at the to be part of the wildcard session.” Chairman’s sale for her owner Neville Begg. The Chairman’s Sale will be preceded by the HTBA Yearling Sale on The winner of three of her first four starts in a career that started as a May 2 and 3 and the Australian Weanling Sale on May 6. September two-year-old, Mildred is being offered as a breeding prospect The Australian Broodmare Sale is scheduled to be held on Sunday. only. May 9. “She was an absolute quality two-year-old filly and … when you’re The catalogues for the weanling sale and broodmare sale, comprising selling yearlings, the horses who the market thinks can run early are 264 lots and 237 lots respectively, were also released yesterday. highly sought after and Mildred is that horse,” he said. The HTBA Yearling Sale catalogue will be available next week. “It was certainly Neville’s choice that he send Mildred to the “There’s going to be plenty of interest in the weanling sale, which has a Chairman’s Sale but, again, the results of the Chairman’s sale over the great record in producing some fantastic pinhook results and some really past few years for these elite fillies and mares has been very strong good racehorses have come out of the sale as well,” Hutch said. and buyers would find a horse of the quality of Mildred wherever she “The mare sale on the Sunday, there are plenty of stories from people landed.