MAIDEN OF THE WEEK INTERNATIONAL SALES HONG KONG | 500 AT THE READILY AVAILABULL NEWS | EVERGREEN VALLEY FOR FOWNES AS - PAGE 12 IFFRAAJ SEES OFF YOUNG MOREIRA AND PURTON PRETENDERS - PAGE 16 TAKE THREE EACH - PAGE 18 Friday, November 27, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here YESTERDAY'S STAKES RESULTS - PAGE 23 FIRST SEASON SIRE RUNNERS | PAGE 29 ‘If you can provide buyers What's on Metropolitan meetings: Canterbury (NSW) with all the information, they Race meetings: Muswellbrook (NSW), Wodonga (VIC), Cranbourne (VIC), Dalby (QLD), Sunshine Coast (QLD), Port Lincoln are certainly willing to bid’ (SA), Mount Barker (WA), Canberra (ACT), Kooringal to sell entire foal crop unreserved through an online auction Cromwell (NZ) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Muswellbrook (NSW), Flemington (VIC), Bunbury (WA), Mount Barker (WA), Canberra (ACT) International meetings: Kranji (SIN), Southwell (UK), Chelmsford (UK), Dundalk (IRE), Fairview (SAF), Greyville (SAF), Churchill Downs (USA), Aqueduct (USA), Del Mar (USA) International Group races: Churchill Downs (USA) - Clark Handicap (Gr 1, 9f). Aqueduct (USA) - Comely Stakes (Gr 3, 9f). Del Mar (USA) - Hollywood Turf Cup (Gr 2, 12f) International sales: Tattersalls December Sale - Weanlings (UK) Ancestry RACING PHOTOS including Magic Albert (Zeditave), Duporth BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS MORNING BRIEFING (Red Ransom), Impending (Lonhro), ooringal Stud is a fixture at the The Brothers War (War Front), Epaulette Spectators return to majority of the eastern seaboard (Commands) and Super One (I Am Invincible) Victorian racetracks sales and a regular vendor through the Inglis Digital platform. Racing Victoria and Country Racing Victoria in Adelaide, but this year the Like almost every business sector, breeders have announced spectators will be able to return KLamonts have made the bold decision to offer have had to adapt the way they sell their horses to racetracks from tomorrow. Operating under its yearling crop entirely online, bypassing the because of the pandemic and it is for that reason that COVIDSafe protocols, up to 500 spectators will traditional market. stud manager Angus Lamont made the call to skip be permitted to attend tomorrow’s meeting The southern NSW family-owned stud the 2021 sales series to instead sell their yearlings at Yarra Valley and Warrnambool’s fixture on will next month sell 21 yearlings by stallions before Christmas. Continued on page 2>> Sunday. Morning Briefing page 6>> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Kooringal to sell entire foal crop unreserved through an online auction | 2 | Friday, November 27, 2020 << Continued from page 1 “At the time we made the decision, it was a pretty uncertain time. I didn’t know if Victoria was going to open up or whatever else where we might be sitting and that led to the decision,” Lamont said yesterday. (FR) “Even though the borders have now opened up, we’re happy to back LILAC FAIRY the decision and go that way. A YOUNG STAKES-WINNING “Some of the yearlings were certainly in the Classic sale, but we just DAUGHTER OF CHAMPION SIRE & decided rather than pulling the draft apart, we would just go all online.” BROODMARE SIRE REDOUTE’S CHOICE The costs associated with preparing yearlings for various sales, such as Inglis’ Classic and Premier and Magic Millions’ Adelaide auctions, was also a factor behind the move. “The preps you have to do with them, accommodation and transport, > Only mare offered in foal to x-rays and scopes and all the bells and whistles, it certainly adds up, so Champion Sire Lope De Vega this way I think we can find a home for them,” Lamont said. (SH time) in 2020. “We might take a hit on some, but hopefully we will have a few surprises with some of the others and it will even out in the wash.” > Lope De Vega, sire of Australian The Kooringal-consigned yearlings will be offered unreserved and an Gr.1 winners Santa Ana Lane, on-farm inspection, hosted by Inglis’ Jonathan D’Arcy, will be held at the Vega Magic and Gytrash – combined Riverina property at Harefield next Friday from midday. earnings of over $15m. Transparency has been bandied around all year as vendors and auction houses have > 6% stakes winners to runners for played to a bigger online buying Redoute’s Choice’s daughters. bench. Lamont has watched closely and, in his view, “horses seem to be making their value”. CLICK HERE “If you can provide buyers FOR MORE INFO with all the information, they are certainly willing to bid,” he said. “The class of horse we’ve Angus Lamont got there, from nice winning families, are not the top-end syndicators’ horses in some respects, but they are good trainers’ horses. These trainers who are buying these sorts of horses can’t afford the time to get up to a Classic sale and then they are getting blown out of the water on the ones they want anyway. “This is probably a bit more of a market for trainers who are sitting at home and looking at these sales online. We thought ‘why not try it?’ “We are either going to look like geniuses or idiots, so we will know afterwards, won’t we?” Described as well-grown WE MIGHT TAKE A and well-educated horses by HIT ON SOME, BUT Lamont, the young studmaster HOPEFULLY WE believes the draft will also appeal to traders looking for WILL HAVE A FEW stock to prepare for next year’s Lope De Vega SURPRISES WITH SOME two-year-old sales. OF THE OTHERS AND IT “We have some lovely LOT 1449 SELLING AT TATTERSALLS WILL EVEN OUT IN THE colts by Duporth and Magic DECEMBER MARE SALE WASH Albert and there’s a really nice - ANGUS LAMONT Impending colt as well,” he said. SELLING MONDAY, 30 NOVEMBER Continued on page 4>> Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by RECENT ARROWFIELD GRADUATES: TAGALOA - ANDERS - MISSILE MANTRA - ESTIJAAB INVADER - SHOWTIME - MAID OF HEAVEN - DOUBTLAND - SUPER SETH - KENEDNA Kooringal to sell entire foal crop unreserved through an online auction | 4 | Friday, November 27, 2020 << Continued from page 2 “They are pinhooker sort of horses for people who could turn them around and get them up to a ready-to-run sale. “There is an option there to do that and, the other thing is, all the sires bar Impending have got runs on the board. Duporth and Magic Albert - people have seen a lot of them. They can look at them online and they will see that they are certainly not the culls. “They are a good line of horses overall.” Kooringal Stud, where Phillip Stokes’ Listed-winning sprinter Ancestry (The Brothers War) was bred and raised, has this year welcomed the first foals by ATC Champagne Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m) and Victoria Derby (Gr 1, 2500m) winner Prized Icon (More Than Ready), and his presence could herald an immediate return to the public yearling sale ring in 2022. Ancestry RACING PHOTOS WE ARE EITHER “You have probably got to GOING TO LOOK LIKE take a first season horse like Adelaide, it is probably the way we are going to have to go initially, but Prized Icon to the buyers a bit there will also be horses available online throughout the year. GENIUSES OR IDIOTS, more and he is throwing some “Whether this is a one-off, we will certainly know after we assess how SO WE WILL KNOW outstanding types,” Lamont it goes.” AFTERWARDS, WON’T said. People wishing to inspect the Kooringal draft on December 4 must WE? “If we can get a number up RSVP by Tuesday to enable the farm to comply with Covid-19 regulations. - ANGUS LAMONT to the Gold Coast and Sydney The yearlings will be offered through the Inglis Digital December 11 to 16 and Melbourne as well as auction. Follow us @anz_news | 4 | Brought to you by DECIDING WHERE YOU’LL BE THIS JANUARY? EASIEST WINNER YOU’LL PICK all Year MAGIC MILLIONS 2021 GOLD COAST YEARLING SALE & $10.25 MILLION RACEDAY I 12-18 JANUARY View the catalogue online at www.magicmillions.com.au or via the Equineline catalog app for iPad Morning Briefing -Sponsored by Woodside Park Stud Friday, November 27, 2020 G3 G1 G1 G1 G2 G3 WRITTEN DIRT Y WORK FINANCE BEAUTY PIPPIE ODEUM OLE KIRK T YCOON G3 WRIT TEN T YCOON G3 ENTHAAR #REWRITINGHISTORY RICH HIPS MORNING BRIEFING the track tomorrow, similar to what it has done AUSTRALIA at its most recent Friday night meeting, before Spectators return to looking to increase the numbers next week. Victorian racetracks "Plans are afoot for having a limited number Racing Victoria and Country Racing Victoria of members on track on December 4," Browell have announced spectators will be able told Racing.com. The MVRC is currently to return to racetracks from tomorrow. working through applications with the Operating under COVIDSafe protocols, up Victorian Department of Health and Human to 500 spectators will be permitted to attend Services regarding the return of punters, with tomorrow’s meeting at Yarra Valley and confirmation of numbers allowed to be decided Richard Litt SPORTPIX Warrnambool’s fixture on Sunday. Spectators in the near future. That number would not be at these meetings will be allocated a seat and any higher than 5,000. "We might not be able to professional, she never does much wrong. She's will be unable to move around the racecourse get to that (5,000) number because there might a ready-made racehorse really. She seems to be except for specific reasons, such as purchasing be square meterage limitations in rooms...if straightforward in her own way but also has a food.