IT’S IN THE BLOOD Thursday, July 8, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here 16 FOR OCEAN PARK - PAGE 8 EIGHT FOR CHURCHILL - PAGE 16 Propelle to get heart Read Tomorrow's Issue For pumping for Cranton Maiden of the Week What's on Bloodstock’s Franklin Stakes races: Grafton (NSW) - Grafton Cup Sir John Monash Stakes test for Ellerton and Zahra’s Smart (Listed, 2350m) Missile mare chasing first black-type success at Caulfield Race meetings: Grafton (NSW), Cranbourne (VIC), Pinjarra Park (WA), Ipswich (QLD), Kembla Grange (NSW), Ashburton (NZ) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Mortlake (VIC) International meetings: Carlisle (UK), Doncaster (UK), Newmarket (UK), Epsom (UK), Newbury (UK), Leopardstown (IRE), Vaal (SAF) International Group races: Newmarket (UK) - Bahrain Trophy (Gr 3, 15mf), Tattersalls July Stakes (Gr 2, 6f), Princess Of Wales’s Tattersalls Stakes (Gr 2, 1m4f). Leopardstown (IRE) – Stanerra Stakes (Gr 3, 1m6f) International sales: Tattersalls July Sale (UK) Propelle RACING PHOTOS weeks into his recovery from triple heart bypass BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS surgery and Propelle is a welcome distraction. f Propelle (Smart Missile) looms up in The Mathew Ellerton and Simon Zahra- the home straight in Saturday’s Sir John trained rising six-year-old has been under Monash Stakes (Gr 3, 1100m), her first Franklin and friend Matthew Bracchi’s attempt at Group level, her co-owner ownership after completing the private MORNING BRIEFING IPeter Franklin will soon know if his new-look purchase of the mare in March last year. ticker is in full working order. A winner of $359,000 and five of her 27 starts UK: Widden and Tweenhills The Melbourne owner, a former long-time - two of them for Franklin and about $150,000 - buy Nozhar for Zoustar Victorian pre-trainer for John Hawkes and Propelle will be given her chance to add to her David Redvers went to 85,000gns to secure Peter Snowden during the Ingham and later value in the $160,000 Group 3 test at Caulfield Nozhar (Iffraaj) in partnership with Widden Darley reign over the Woodlands empire, is two on Saturday. Continued on page 2>> Stud at Tattersalls. Continued on page 17>> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Propelle to get heart pumping for Cranton Bloodstock’s Franklin | 2 | Thursday, July 8, 2021 << Continued from page 1 “She was in the BenchMark 78 and concentrate on the younger stock. They have Astronomicelle, the Zoustar that wasn’t an easy race, either, so we decided to have a throw at the and a Brazen Beau (yearling) but unfortunately he was recently killed in stumps and go for the black type,” Franklin said yesterday. an accident on a walker when he was being broken in, so they decided to “She has already won $360,000, so she is quite a competent mare, and concentrate on the younger horses and put Propelle up for sale. if she gets black type, when we go to sell her, you get really good money.” “Because I have horses with Ellerton Zahra, Simon rang me and said Propelle is the first foal out of the Listed winner Elite Elle (Shamardal), she was for sale and would I be interested. I said yes and went in with a who incidentally was runner-up in the 2013 Sir John Monash Stakes and, good mate, Matt Bracchi.” while Franklin wouldn’t disclose the purchase price, it is needless to say Propelle won in Adelaide in March but Ellerton and Zahra were forced that he and his partners are now in front on the deal. to ease up on the mare after she suffered a temperature after that race. She “She was bred by the owners resumed at Sandown on June 12 before finishing runner-up at Flemington I HAD A MESSAGE of Elite Elle. They have got a two weeks later, narrowly being beaten by Absolute Flirt (Stratum) when FROM DAMON Zoustar with Grahame Begg flying home from the rear. GABBEDY, ‘YOU WOULD called Galaxy Ruler who ran Her last start came just three days after Franklin had undergone the fourth at Pakenham the other invasive bypass surgery and was still laid up in hospital. HAVE HAD ANOTHER day and fourth at Bendigo “I was in hospital after the operation when she ran second the other BLOODY HEART before that and Astronomicelle, day and I tried to keep myself nice and calm,” he said. ATTACK AFTER THAT’, Ellerton Zahra had her, but “I had a message from Damon Gabbedy, ‘you would have had another BUT THANKFULLY she was a little unsound in the bloody heart attack after that’, but thankfully everything’s fine, I am one of EVERYTHING’S FINE, knees. Chris Hyland has her now the lucky ones.” I AM ONE OF THE and he has done a good job with “I am back up to walking and I think I walked seven and a half LUCKY ONES her just pottering her around. kilometres yesterday, so I am going OK.” - PETER FRANKLIN “The group of owners While most people would be taking it easy after major surgery, who had Propelle decided to Franklin, who operates under his Cranton Continued on page 4>> His first and only Australian crop has yielded 8.3% Group winners to runners — including two G1 colts. That far outstrips every other stallion to retire in Australia since 2000. The stallion who’s made the best start in Australia this century. Night Of Thunder, now available to southern hemisphere mares. Please call +353 (0)45 527600 or email [email protected] 18% Stakes winners/first-crop runners in Europe. At the same stage, his sire, Dubawi, was on 15% and his broodmare sire, Galileo, 13%. Wow! Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by His wins were Explosive UNBEATEN 2YO Winner of the G1 C F Orr Stakes BEATING older horses at WFA, the FIRST 3YO since All Too Hard and his own sire REDOUTE’S CHOICE He’s ALABAMA Express Redoute’s Choice - Lago Ovation $24,750 inc GST Troy Stephens 0455 316 666 Sam Fairgray 0418 427 568 Luke Wilkinson 0413 489 736 www.yulonginvest.com.auwww.yulonginvest.com.au Propelle to get heart pumping for Cranton Bloodstock’s Franklin | 4 | Thursday, July 8, 2021 << Continued from page 2 Bloodstock banner, is weighing up whether to send Propelle to stud this year. “If she doesn’t get black type on Saturday she might go to Caulfield in a fortnight for the BenchMark 90 there over 1100 metres,” said Franklin. “I have got a booking to Ole Kirk, but the way race fillies sold at the Magic Millions this year, I think it’s better to put them through the ring not in foal. It doesn’t make sense,” he said. “I sold one up there who was in foal to Exceedance (Something Silver for $210,000 to Twin Hills Stud). “She was a Medaglia mare, she’s won six in town, but her equivalent in the race fillies session were making more money than mares were in foal. Propelle is sound and if she stays sound, we could Propelle RACING PHOTOS run her on. “She’s up to $360,000 in stake-money and if she can win another race Now retired after pre-training for Hawkes for 18 years and another or two she easily gets to $500,000 and, all of a sudden, they are super five years working with Peter Snowden when he was placed in charge commercial mares at that level. of running Crown Lodge and Carbine Lodge for the Inghams and “She’s a super type. She’s probably a fraction light in bone, but that’s later Darley, Franklin dabbles in trading mares and racing a few with just a female thing. She’s the loveliest mare, a great type of horse.” Bracchi. Continued on page 6>> “Ole Kirk must be THE hottest stallion prospect in Australia. Stakes winner on debut at 2, Gr.1 winner at 3, Danehill free, stallion’s pedigree – All Too Hard & Magnus, by Written Tycoon, & throw back to Black Caviar in there – he ticks all the boxes!” Follow us @anz_news | 4 | Brought to you by ❝CALYX always had that rare brilliance you only see in champions❞ John Gosden, trainer ❝This horse, like I Am Invincible, Not A Single Doubt, Written Tycoon and Deep Field might not have won a Group One race but had more speed than most who have. Like they, he is by a sire of extraordinary merit. At his fee I couldn’t find better value anywhere and I bred to him accordingly!❞ James Bester Calyx defeats triple Gr.1 winner t Advertise in the Coventry Stakes-Gr.2, 1200m, Royal Ascot Top-class speed from the Invincible Spirit sire line, just like I AM INVINCIBLE • Brilliant Group-winning sprinter at 2 and 3 by sire sensation KINGMAN. • His dam is a Group-winning 2YO and a full-sister to Gr.1-winning 3YO sprinter AFRICAN ROSE. Fee $13,750 (inc GST) Colm Santry, John Kennedy, Paddy Oman, Tom Moore, Rob Archibald or Emma Pugsley Tel: 02 6576 4200. New Zealand: Gordon Calder Tel:+64 218 41612. www.coolmore.com Propelle to get heart pumping for Cranton Bloodstock’s Franklin | 6 | Thursday, July 8, 2021 << Continued from page 4 The pair combined late last year when “We just take turns in buying I Am Verve (I Am Invincible) for $40,000 from trainer Gerald Ryan whose colours the horses race I HAVE GOT A BOOKING through Inglis Digital. She raced four times last preparation under the in. Matt has his colours on TO OLE KIRK, BUT THE tutelage of Ellerton and Zahra, winning a Bendigo maiden in April.