A DAY ON THE RIVERINA ROADS Saturday, August 15, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here A DAY ON THE RIVERINA ROADS WITH MAGIC MILLIONS - PAGE 11 Gytrash to hit the road What's on Stakes races: Caulfield (VIC) - P.B for shot at Everest riches Lawrence Stakes (Gr 2, 1400m), Vain Adelaide sprinter to wear Inglis colours in $15 million slot race Stakes (Gr 3, 1100m), Quezette Stakes (Gr 3, 1100m), Regal Roller Stakes (Listed, 1200m). Morphettville (SA) - Spring Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m). Belmont (WA) - Belmont Newmarket (Listed, 1200m). Riccarton (NZ) - Winter Cup (Gr 3, 1600m) Metropolitan meetings: Randwick (NSW), Caulfield (VIC), Eagle Farm (QLD), Belmont (WA), Morphettville (SA), Riccarton (NZ) Race meetings: Kembla Grange (NSW), Casino (NSW), Narrandera (NSW), Tatura (VIC), Gold Coast (QLD), Toowoomba (QLD), Roma (QLD), Katherine (NT), Ruakaka (NZ) International meetings: Newbury (GB), Deauville (FR), Saratoga (USA) International Group races: Newbury (GB) - Hungerford Stakes (Gr 2, 7f), Geoffrey Freer Stakes (Gr 3, 1m 5.5f). Deauville (FR) - Prix De Lieurey (Gr 3, 1600m), Prix Gontaut-Biron (Gr 3, 2000m). Saratoga (USA) - Alabama Stakes (Gr 1, 10f) Gytrash LISA GRIMM 1000m) winner, would be its representative in BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS the fourth edition of the rich slot race to be run ark Webster is confident that at Randwick on October 17. Group 1-winning sprinter Inglis managing director Mark Webster Gytrash (Lope De Vega) revealed that the auction house, which has is Inglis’ best chance of a non-compete clause written to its Everest collectingM a major share of the $15 million up contract preventing Magic Millions or another for grabs in this year’s The Everest (1200m). rival from participating, had cast the net far and The sales company yesterday confirmed wide, including internationally, searching for that the Gordon Richards-trained Gytrash, potential Everest candidates, but it was Gytrash this year’s Black Caviar Lightning Stakes (Gr 1, who stood out. Continued on page 2>> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Gytrash to hit the road for shot at Everest riches | 2 | Saturday, August 15, 2020 << Continued from page 1 “Nature Strip is the favourite, who is spread of infection in Victoria, another Inglis graduate but he’s out of play, so we’ve selected a horse who has racehorses from that state are AN IMPORTANT WAY beaten Nature Strip and a number of other horses who are in the market for currently prevented from racing the race. From our end, he ticks a lot of boxes,” Webster said yesterday. or being trained in NSW in a ruling TO LOOK AT IT IS, YES, “An important way to look at it is, yes, he’s got ability and he’s won at implemented by Racing NSW HE’S GOT ABILITY AND Group 1 level but what I really like about this horse is that he’s run 19 times chief executive Peter V’landys. HE’S WON AT GROUP and he’s run top three in 18 of those starts. “We did raise that with Racing 1 LEVEL BUT WHAT I “There’s only one occasion where he hasn’t finished top three and NSW a week or so ago as a slot REALLY LIKE ABOUT that’s in all his races, as a two-year-old, the whole lot. Even in his trials he’s owner that it is something that THIS HORSE IS THAT always a top three finisher. He has something about him and he doesn’t needs to be clarified because we HE’S RUN 19 TIMES like being beaten. all need to be locking in horses and AND HE’S RUN TOP “That consistency of being a top-three performer is really important it’s difficult to do that when there’s THREE IN 18 OF THOSE for The Everest because the prize-money of the top three is where it really no guarantee that the horse can STARTS makes a difference when you have to pay $600,000 for a slot. come,” Webster said. - MARK WEBSTER “You want to be top-three otherwise it’s costing you as a slot owner.” “It’s not only about attending The Adelaide-trained Gytrash ($15) is the third sprinter to be locked on race day, but it’s about being away for this year’s 12-slot race, joining Nature Strip (Nicconi) (Tabcorp) able to come up and settle in as horses like to do. and Classique Legend (Not A Single Doubt) (Bon Ho). “We did raise that and we were told that it wasn’t going to be changed Rubisaki (Rubick), an Inglis Classic graduate, and $22,500 Inglis right now and that it would be reviewed in a few weeks. Digital buy Bella Vella (Commands), a last-start Robert Sangster Stakes “I still think, in the end, and we went through a very thorough process, (Gr 1, 1200m) winner for Will Clarken, were also contenders for the that Gytrash was right up there anyway. I am not saying we chose him auction house’s slot, as was Loving Gaby (I Am Invincible). because we couldn’t have a Victorian horse, but it did make it easier for us Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly given the rate and to make that decision.” Continued on page 4>> NEW Tattersalls August Sale FIXTURE August 24 - 26 Three Day Sale 700+Horses/Fillies in Training, Broodmares, etc. Including consignments from Ballydoyle Stables, Godolphin, Juddmonte Farms, Rabbah Bloodstock & Shadwell Stud RIVER BOYNE PATRICK SARSFIELD ENTREAT Frank E Kilroe Mile Stakes, Gr. 1 Meld Stakes, Gr. 3, 3rd in Grosser dam of GOLDEN HORDE purchased at Tattersalls Dallmayr-Preis, Gr. 1 winner of Commonwealth Cup, Gr. 1 Autumn Horses in Training Sale purchased at Tattersalls July Sale purchased at Tattersalls July Sale for 70,000 gns for 230,000 gns for 14,000 gns Australian/New Zealand Representative: Jenny McAlpine Tel: +61 411 504803 Internet Bidding [email protected] www.tattersalls.com Live available Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by FAST, FASTER, ’ FROSTED S forward first crop “She’s a sharp running horse... much like Hanseatic. Very straightforward and knows her job.” Sam Freedman, trainer of Godolphin yearling filly byFROSTED x Itameri, half-sister to Hanseatic. FROSTED Tapit - Fast Cookie $22,000 inc GST Gytrash to hit the road for shot at Everest riches | 4 | Saturday, August 15, 2020 << Continued from page 2 Gytrash, who has not raced since finishing runner-up in The Goodwood (Gr 1, 1200m) in May, will have an exhibition with two stablemates at Morphettville today before Richards and his wife Jacqui set off with the five-year-old gelding in tow for a three- day, 1650-kilometre trip. A mirror in the float will keep Gytrash company until they arrive at Clare Cunningham’s Warwick Farm stables on Tuesday. “We’ll have a good sleep Saturday night and then we’ll head off just before midday on Sunday to head to Broken Hill. We can’t go through Victoria to get there, so we have got to go through NSW,” the trainer said. “He’s used to travelling in the float. I have towed him to Melbourne when we used to take him across and race him and bring him back the next day. “They are ten-hour trips, so he will take this trip in his stride. It’s probably five and a half to six hours to Broken Hill. We will stay the night Gytrash LISA GRIMM and then it’s about eight to Dubbo and then five or six into Warwick Farm, so we will break it up into three days and stop overnight. “I never heard from them again and I had interest from two other slot “He’s a pretty casual bugger, so I don’t think that will worry him too holders and I was doing presentations for them, but then Inglis came back much. I’d rather do it now so he has time to get up there and he is going to the other day and jumped in. They trumped them and the others were still trial at Warwick Farm next Friday. It’s only 800 metres and it’s just to give thinking about it. him a go that way of going.” “We bought him at the Inglis sales, so we’re rapt. We would have been Richards said there was interest from two other slot holders but when happy to get a slot with anyone, but I am really happy that it is with Inglis. Inglis returned with an offer this It’s great.” week, connections jumped at Richards and his wife will stay at the William Inglis Hotel for the HE’S A PRETTY CASUAL the chance to link with the sales duration of Gytrash’s Everest campaign, which is expected to start in the BUGGER, SO I DON’T company which sold Gytrash to Concorde Stakes (Gr 3, 1000m) at Randwick on September 5 before using THINK THAT WILL the Adelaide trainer for $40,000 The Shorts (Gr 2, 1100m) or the Premiere Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) as the WORRY HIM TOO at the 2017 Melbourne Premier gelding’s lead-up run. MUCH. I’D RATHER Yearling Sale. “I know it’s an old cliche, but he seems to be getting better every prep. DO IT NOW SO HE HAS He said: “It’s fantastic, it You can see little things that he’s doing wrong in other preps (that he isn’t TIME TO GET UP THERE really is. Inglis approached me now),” he said.