KING OF COMEDY TO NOVARA PARK "I have been following him for a year hoping that I’d be able to get him" - Page 16 Wednesday, May 19, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here SULLIVAN EMBARKS ON NEW VENTURE AFTER SUCCESS PERIOD AT NOORILIM PARK - PAGE 1 KING OF COMEDY TO NOVARA PARK "I have been following him for a year hoping that I’d be able to get him" - Page 16 Wednesday, May 19, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here LARNEUK STUD ANNOUNCES FEES - PAGE 4 FOCUS ASIA - PAGE 18 Sullivan embarks on new Read Tomorrow's Issue For venture after success period It's In The Blood What's on Metropolitan meetings: Ipswich (QLD), at Noorilim Park Kensington (NSW) Popular Kiwi offering draft of five weanlings at Magic Millions Race meetings: Ballarat (VIC), Pinjarra Park Gold Coast National Sale (WA), Bordertown (SA), Cambridge (NZ) International meetings: Yarmouth (UK), Kempton (UK), Ayr (UK), Cork (Ire), Happy Valley (HK) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Scone (NSW), Wagga Riverside (NSW), Moe (VIC), Warrnambool (VIC), Mornington (VIC), Wangaratta (VIC), Bordertown (SA) Sales: Magic Millions National Weanling Sale - inspections MORNING BRIEFING Great Southern Sale Sherah Sullivan (centre) and her team MAGIC MILLIONS catalogue released Peter and Glen Carrick at Noorilim Park, will The catalogue for the Inglis Great Southern Sale BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS for the first time consign five weanlings under has been released, with 408 weanlings and 125 ullivan Bloodstock might not yet be her own banner at this week’s Magic Millions broodmares set to be offered across the two- a name which instantly resonates National Sale on the Gold Coast. day sale on June 13 and 14. In what represents as among the leading vendors in The expatriate Kiwi, 38, has abandoned the final chance to purchase a weanling or Australia, but the face behind the the security of a regular paycheque to broodmare at a live action this Australasian newS venture is experienced, well known and go out on her own, working from a 50- sales season, the Great Southern Sale features already has plans for expansion. acre property in Victoria’s Goulburn weanlings by leadings stallions such as Talented Victoria-based horsewoman Valley region, close to the state’s breeding Capitalist (Written Tycoon), Written Tycoon Sherah Sullivan, a long-time employee of heartland. Continued on page 2>> (Iglesia)... Morning Briefing page 4 >> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Sullivan embarks on new venture after success period at Noorilim Park | 2 | Wednesday, May 19, 2021 << Continued from page 1 “I have been with Noorilim for quite “We have a pretty neat some time and I’ve actually been on the farm for 11 years, so it’s sad to bunch of horses to start with,” IT’S A LOVELY FARM, leave, but I just thought I’d take up the opportunity with our own property, said Sullivan, who is also GREAT PEOPLE TO which we’ve had for three years and developed off a blank canvas and contemplating being on the WORK FOR AND I that’s all set up now,” Sullivan said to ANZ Bloodstock News yesterday. buyers’ sheet. COULDN’T THANK “I just thought this was an opportunity to go back to doing more “First things first, hopefully THEM ENOUGH. boutique numbers and focus on quality. we will sell the one we’ve got and THEY’VE LET ME RUN “We started out with about 15 horses there at Noorilim and built it to then we will look to reinvest into about 170. It’s a lovely farm, great people to work for and I couldn’t thank a mare in foal.” THE SHOW AND GAIN them enough. They’ve let me run the show and gain experience through it. Now that Sullivan, with the EXPERIENCE THROUGH “Now it’s time to go out on our own.” help of her Shepparton-based IT. NOW IT’S TIME TO Sullivan’s last sale with Noorilim Park was the recent Inglis Chairman’s architect husband Michael, has GO OUT ON OUR OWN Sale where she oversaw the selling of four mares headed by Lankan Star embarked on her new business, - SHERAH SULLIVAN (Nicconi), a Blue Diamond Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) placegetter, who was sold she is scouting for land in the for $710,000. Goulburn Valley to allow the There was no time to rest after the Inglis select broodmare sale, scope for growth. however, with Sullivan’s attention immediately switching to her weanling She sees no reason to move from the area, let alone the state. draft: colts by Capitalist (Written Tycoon), Pierro (Lonhro) and Written “I’ve only got 50 acres (about 15 minutes’ drive from Noorilim Park) at Tycoon (Iglesia) and fillies by Street Boss (Street Cry) and Toronado (High the moment, so the intention is to look to sell that and buy 100 to 150 acres Chaparral) all feature. in the next six to 12 months,” Sullivan said. The Toronado filly out of We’ll Never Know (Starspangledbanner) is “Victoria is starting to get a lot more recognition. There’s a lot of good owned by Sullivan, who bought the mare carrying the foal online last year mares in Victoria now and with the Victorian Alliance, Darley’s brought for $37,500, while the other four are being offered on behalf of clients. some nice horses to Victoria, Yulong and others, the stallion base is getting a lot better. “It’s a great place to be, the horses grow out well there and are getting good results on the racetrack, so we will stay where we are.” Sullivan is firmly entrenched in the Victorian breeding industry in a career direction which was crystallised as a teenager, having lived close to Rich Hill Stud at Matamata. Her early hands-on thoroughbred horse experience was courtesy of breeders John and Karen Hogan. “I actually travelled the world doing sales for three or four years. I went to France, Europe and the States and I prepped a lot of horses in New Zealand where I also worked at a vet clinic over there for about five years,” she said. “I actually came over to Australia to do a sale over here for what is now Noorilim Park, just to lead a couple of horses … as I wanted to get a bit more into pinhooking and that’s a bit harder in New Zealand. “I’ve been here ever since. I’ve got married, so I am stuck here now, really.” The Magic Millions Gold Coast National Weanling Sale starts Sherah Sullivan MAGIC MILLIONS tomorrow at 10am. DIRECT TO YOUR INBOX EVERY MORNING YOUR ESSENTIAL DAILY READ THIS WEEK IN Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by Watch out for his exceptional first crop weanlings at the Gold Coast ❝This one was certainly in the mould of her sire and that is what was really appealing about her. He really stamped her. 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New Zealand: Gordon Calder Tel:+64 218 41612. www.coolmore.com Morning Briefing -Sponsored by Woodside Park Stud Wednesday, May 19, 2021 MORNINGSIDE WORLD - CLASS THOROUGHBRED PROPERTY MORNING BRIEFING with a record of five wins from 33 starts, Endless Brandenburg on song for AUSTRALIA Drama also placed at Group 1 level in both the Doomben Cup Great Southern Sale northern and southern hemisphere. Former John Sargent is full of confidence with catalogue released Newgate stallion Wandjina, who stood for $11,000 Brandenburg (Burgundy) ahead of the Doomben The catalogue for the Inglis Great Southern Sale last year, joins Larneuk with a Group 2 winner to Cup on Saturday. The four-year-old was victorious has been released, with 408 weanlings and 125 his name courtesy of Mamaragan. A $1 million over 1600 metres at the Gold Coast and Sargent broodmares set to be offered across the two- yearling, who later became a Group 1 winner, said the now gelding has been concentrating day sale on June 13 and 14. In what represents Wandjina’s oldest progeny are currently four- more on the job at hand. “I think he has taken the final chance to purchase a weanling or year-olds. Incumbent stallion Cluster (Fastnet a lot of confidence out of it.