Wednesday, November 25, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here KAH LEADS THE PACK IN RACE TO COMPLETE EXTRAORDINARY ACHIEVEMENT - PAGE 12 YESTERDAY'S RACE RESULTS - PAGE 20 Gangemis’ Magic touch Read Tomorrow's Issue For: It's In the Blood with tried horses on What's on Stakes races: Launceston (TAS) - Newmarket Handicap (Listed, 1200m) show in Winterbottom Metropolitan meetings: Warwick Life left in veterans as trio line up in Perth’s $1 million feature Farm (NSW), Sandown Hillside (VIC), Ipswich (QLD), Morphettville Parks (SA), Launceston (TAS) Race meetings: Swan Hill (VIC), Bunbury (WA), Te Rapa (NZ) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Gosford (NSW), Geelong (VIC), Horsham (VIC), Mornington (VIC), Pakenham (VIC), Wangaratta (VIC) International meetings: Happy Valley (HK), Lingfield (UK), Kempton (UK), Dundalk (IRE), Kenilworth (SAF) Sales: Inglis Digital November (Late) Sale International sales: Tattersalls December Sale - Weanlings (UK) Rock Magic RACING PHOTOS tried horses sourced from NSW or Victoria, BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS in Saturday’s Winterbottom Stakes (Gr 1, erth-based brothers Chris and 1200m) at Ascot. Michael Gangemi have made an Gangemi-trained veterans Rock Magic artform out of raiding eastern- (Redoute’s Choice), a former Arrowfield- state stables searching for relative owned gelding who has won 12 races and PAGAN DIPS INTO Pdiamonds in the rough in order to uncover had multiple Group 1 placings since since DECEMBER YEARLING horses capable of being rejuvenated in the west. switching stables, and nine-year-old near $1 SALE AS SEA THE STARS The exercise has been rather lucrative million earner Durendal (Medaglia d’Oro) STEALS THE SHOW WITH for the West Australia training partners who are guaranteed starts in the $1 million feature 300,000GNS TOP LOT AT could have up to three runners, all of them sprint. Continued on page 2>> TATTERSALLS - PAGE 14 ENTER NOW JULY 24 -29 ONLINE SALE ENTRIES CLOSE JULY 22. Featuring broodmares, yearlings and racing stock. FRICatalogue 20TH available at inglisdigital.com - WED 25TH NOV 2020 INGLIS DIGITAL NOVEMBER SALE (LATE): SALE LIVE - VIEW HERE Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Gangemis’ Magic touch with tried horses on show in Winterbottom | 2 | Wednesday, November 25, 2020 << Continued from page 1 Relative stable newcomer Condor Heroes (Not A Single Doubt), a former Sun Stud-raced six-year-old gelding, is the emergency for the Winterbottom having already paid his new owners back “tenfold” since being purchased for just $10,000 in (FR) October last year. LILAC FAIRY The Gangemis’ trio all clashed last start in the Colonel Reeves Stakes A YOUNG STAKES-WINNING (Gr 3, 1100m) at Ascot last Saturday week when striking a heavy track. DAUGHTER OF CHAMPION SIRE & Rock Magic, Durendal and Condor Heroes ran fifth, sixth and eighth BROODMARE SIRE REDOUTE’S CHOICE respectively. The wet track counted against Rock Magic, according to Michael Gangemi, and he is positive the 11-year-old can run another big race in the Winterbottom, having ran third in 2016 and again last year. > Only mare offered in foal to “Jarrad (Noske, jockey) said that he travelled into it but that he just Champion Sire Lope De Vega couldn’t hit that top gear that he’s got, so we’re really looking forward (SH time) in 2020. to getting him on top of the ground this week again,” Gangemi told ANZ Bloodstock News yesterday. > In foal on a September 15 cover at “It was only 12 months ago when he ran fourth in a Manikato behind only her second season at stud. Loving Gaby and behind Hey Doc in a Winterbottom, and he’s only 12 months older than that, He’s 11 but if he managed to do that at ten there’s no reason why he can’t do it again at 11.” > First foal is an outstanding filly In 2014, a deal was negotiated between the Gangemis and Arrowfield’s by Siyouni. John and Paul Messara, who was training Rock Magic at the time, and the new owners have enjoyed a tremendous ride ever since. “He was a Redoute’s Choice who had shown a really good form early, CLICK HERE but then he dropped right off the boil at his last few and he’d had a few FOR MORE INFO issues,” Gangemi recalled. “He was the sort of profile we look for - a horse who had shown a lot but gone off the boil. We were lucky enough to get him back and he has just been a Godsend to the family and all his owners for a long period of time. “He’s taken everyone on an amazing ride. He has run fourth in a Newmarket, fourth in a Manikato, a William Reid, a Lightning Stakes. Third in two Winterbottoms, second in a Schillaci, if anyone deserves to win a Winterbottom, it is probably him.” Durendal, a horse initially raced by prominent Victorian owner- breeder David Moodie and trained by Mathew Ellerton and Simon Zahra, has also been a good investment for the Gangemis. “He always takes a few runs to come right and, now that he is older, he’s taken even longer but he wanted to do it the other day,” Gangemi continued. “He showed he had that zest back for racing and we wanted to see that Lope De Vega because his first two runs this preparation were pretty LOT 1449 SELLING AT TATTERSALLS plain, but we were really happy DECEMBER MARE SALE with his run the other day and he doesn’t really stretch out on the SELLING MONDAY, 30 NOVEMBER heavy, either. 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 Gangemis’ Magic touch with tried horses on show in Winterbottom | 4 | Wednesday, November 25, 2020 << Continued from page 2 “He’s only small and he’s up in the The brothers rely on some trusted contacts to ratings, so he always has to carry weight and he needs things to go his help them identify the right candidates they way in races. He is just shy of a million dollars in prize-money, so he’s believe they can turn around and others been a super horse.” who are unlikely to meet their criteria. As for Condor Heroes, a sprinter who spent time firstly with Gerald “We have a lot of mates over east, Ryan before a brief stint at Lindsay Park, has already put his new which comes in handy, so we ask them a owners in front. lot of questions. We ask around and see He led the Colonel Reeves field up before tiring late. what we can find out,” he said. Gangemi said: “He has several issues and it’s very hard to get runs “There’s certain things we know that into him and get him fit, which probably told on him last start, but he we can’t fix and there are certain things that had also missed the Prince Of Wales and he had missed a few weeks’ we might be able to patch up, so it comes down work as well. to horses for courses. There are certain things we “But now that he has got that 1100-metre run on a bog track under try to avoid, particularly if they have had certain injuries. him, I expect him to improve dramatically from a fitness point of view “We don’t win them all but we have managed to have a little bit of Saturday.” success.” While there is arguably now more competition from buyers seeking At the other end of the scale, the Gangemis are also behind tried horses than there was previously, Gangemi says the digitisation King’s Troop (Redoute’s Choice) - another tried horse purchase from of the marketplace has helped them find more horses to syndicate. Arrowfield Stud whose career did not reach the heights in Perth of his “To be honest, it was a lot harder previously because they were only stablemates - but his pedigree demanded he find a home at stud. (being sold) through a few bloodstock agents and it was really hard to Runner-up to subsequent Group 1 winner Japonisme (Choisir) find a nice one,” he said. at his first start as a two-year-old, he was also runner-up to the same “We have a good horse at three in the San Domenico Stakes (Gr 3, 1100m) before relationship with Arrowfield another seven runs for Sydney trainer Gerald Ryan before being sold WITH INGLIS DIGITAL, where we bought a few of to the Gangemis. GAVELHOUSE AND their tried horses with a fair He ran three times, all at Listed level, in Perth before being retired PLACES LIKE THAT, bit of success, and that is to Oakland Park Stud in 2017 where he has covered small books of IT MAKES THESE where Rocky (Rock Magic) mares. came from. “We bought him off Arrowfield and he had a couple of runs over TRIED HORSES MORE “But just recently, with here in the west, but unfortunately he succumbed to an injury,” says AVAILABLE, BUT these online digital platforms Gangemi. YOU’VE STILL GOT TO with Inglis Digital, Gavelhouse “Being a three-quarter brother to Snitzel, there was definitely no SIFT THROUGH TO and places like that, it makes blood like him over here in the west, so we thought we’d stand him. FIND THE DIAMONDS these tried horses more “He’s thrown some unbelievable types and his oldest are two-year- AMONGST THEM. available, but you’ve still got olds at the moment and there’s massive raps on them already.