INTERNATIONAL SALES NEWS | HARSH REALITY HITS BREEZE-UP MARKET AS NIGHT OF THUNDER COLT STARS - PAGE 10 Saturday, June 27, 2020 | Subscribe for free: Click here Mares aim for Group win What's on Stakes races: Rosehill (NSW) - McKell Cup (Listed, 2000m), Civic Stakes (Listed, 1350m). before Magic Millions Doomben (QLD) - Sapphire Stakes (Gr 3, Delectation Girl, Krone, Strome and Mewstone Rock can add 1600m), Premiers Cup (Gr 3, 2200m), Spear Chief Handicap (Listed, 1350m). Belmont one final feature to their record before they go through the Gold (WA) - Strickland Stakes (Gr 3, 2000m) Coast sales ring next month Metropolitan meetings: Rosehill (NSW), Caulfield (VIC), Doomben (QLD), Morphettville Parks (SA), Belmont (WA), Darwin (NT), Riccarton (NZ) Race meetings: Newcastle (NSW), Gundagai (NSW), Casterton (VIC), Gatton (QLD) International meetings: Sha Tin (HK), Hanshin (JPN), Tokyo (JPN), Hakodate (JPN), Turffontein (SAF), Kenilworth (SAF), Newcastle (UK), Newmarket (UK), Redcar (UK), Lingfield (UK), Curragh (IRE) International Group races: Curragh (IRE) - Irish Derby (Gr 1, 1m 4f), Vintage Crop Stakes (Gr 3, 1m 6f), Alleged Stakes (Gr 3, 1m 2f). Newcastle (UK) - Chipchase Stakes (Gr 3, 6f), Hoppings Fillies’ Stakes (Gr 3, 1m 2f). Newmarket (UK) - Criterion Stakes (Gr 3, 7f). Turffontein (SAF) - Premier’s Champions Challenge (Gr 1, 2000m), Computaform Sprint (Gr 1, 1000m), Empress Club Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m), SA Nursery (Gr 2, 1160m), SA Fillies Nursery (Gr 2, 1160m), Camellia Stakes (Gr 2, 1160m), Gold Bowl (Gr 3, 3200m). Kenilworth (SAF) - Legal Eagle Stakes (Gr 3, 1800m). Belmont (USA) - Just A Game Stakes (Gr 1, 1m), Krone RACING PHOTOS New York Stakes (Gr 2, 10f), True North Stakes (Gr 2, 6.5f), Vagrancy Handicap (Gr 3, 6.5f) next month’s Magic Millions National Broodmare BY ANDREW HAWKINS | @ANZ_NEWS Sale, with all of them likely to be having either oday’s Sapphire Stakes (Gr 3, their penultimate or their final start here. 1630m) at Doomben shapes as the Black-type racing will continue in last opportunity for a number of Brisbane over the next three Saturdays, with mares to add a Group win to their one further Group race - the Winx Guineas recordT before they are retired to stud. (Gr 3, 1600m) for the three-year-olds at the Delectation Girl (Delegator), Krone Sunshine Coast - but for the older mares, this (Eurozone), Strome (Smart Missile) and is their last opportunity to add a Group win or Mewstone Rock (Fastnet Rock) are all entered for placing to their page. Continued on page 2>> TODAY'S STAKES FIELDS | FIRST SEASON SIRE RUNNERS | HK CARDS - PAGE 26 Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Mares aim for Group win before Magic Millions | 2 | Saturday, June 27, 2020 << Continued from page 1 The one who could most benefit from takes the ride on Strome, will be aiming to cap a breakout season by a win today is Strome who, for all her consistency throughout her career, scoring her first Group win too, having ridden her first Listed winner in is yet to add black type - either a win or a placing - to her record. She has November. Thornton and Strome will jump from barrier seven. only lined up in stakes races twice, with a first-up sixth in the Hawkesbury "Stephanie is a patient rider and the barrier looks ideal for Strome's Crown (Gr 3, 1300m) behind Sweet Scandal (Sepoy) and In Her Time style of racing," Portelli said. “Her work on Tuesday morning suggests she (Time Thief) giving Gary Portelli confidence that she can gain that elusive will be right in the race. She worked brilliantly on Tuesday and that was on black type today. a firm surface. Her form is pretty ordinary on the wet. “She’s probably a horse that’s “She will be retired to stud soon and I tell you what, it will be a job well She will be underrated in this race,” Portelli done if we’re able to get a Group 3 win before she’s retired, that’s for sure.” told Perth’s TABRadio. “I know Mewstone Rock has a Listed placing to her name, but the John Symons retired to stud she’s at big odds but if you go and Sheila Laxon-trained eight-year-old is yet to record a black-type win. soon and I tell you through her form, she’s matched it A victory today would make her a valuable commodity, as a Fastnet Rock what, it will be a job against some pretty handy horses mare that is from the family of multiple Group 1 winners Danzdanzdance well done if we’re in town down here. (Mastercraftsman) and Lucia Valentina (Savabeel). able to get a Group “I don’t think this race in Krone is a two-time Listed winner who also boasts a Group 2 placing Brisbane looks like it is a genuine to her name. The Tony Gollan-prepared mare has only had three runs in 3 win before she’s Group race. I think it’s a pretty his care, the best of those a second in the Helen Coughlan Stakes (Listed, retired, that’s for sure handy race, don’t get me wrong, 1350m) to stablemate Shalwa (O’Reilly). - Gary but if she gets any luck at all on "Her first run for us was at the Gold Coast and it was pretty ordinary, Portelli a track that should be a lot better but we made a slight change to her race gear and her other two runs than what she’s been racing, she here have been very good,” Gollan said earlier this week. "She has been should have her chance.” getting back in her races but the pace is usually on in 1600-metre races at Stephanie Thornton, who Doomben so that should suit her." 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Prince). “They’ve been hugely important to our stable, they’ve been great The Maloney- supporters,” Lees told SEN. “Jamie (Lovett) and myself go back a long Vandyke partnership way, back to our teenage years. They are a growing influence in racing and has already struck it’s been great for us that we’ve been able to build that relationship with success with Australian horses like this.” Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) Switched from Bryan Smart to Andreas Wohler, she made it three from winner Alligator three when winning the Schwarzgold-Rennen (Gr 3, 1600m) at Cologne Blood (All Too Hard) Baccarat Baby RACING PHOTOS before facing defeat for the first time in the French 1,000 Guineas (Gr 1, this season. Vandyke 1600m). is hoping that a change of rider may help Baccarat Baby, with Maloney At three, she added one more win, a runaway success in the Grosse replacing Micheal Hellyer, who has ridden the four-year-old at 19 of her Europa Meile des Porsche Zentrum (Gr 3, 1600m) at Dusseldorf, while she 22 starts. also finished fifth in the Falmouth Stakes (Gr 1, 1m) at Newmarket. "She pulled up so well we decided to have another shy at the stumps," She subsequently had five starts in the United States, joining the Vandyke said.