THURSDAY, 24 DECEMBER 2020 MAGICAL 1000 WINS FOR MOREIRA ADDEYBB BEING PRIMED Hong Kong champion jockey Joao >Magic Man= Moreira FOR AUSTRALIAN RETURN became only the third jockey in Hong Kong history to ride 1,000 winners on the island. The Brazilian was successful aboard Incanto Prepared (NZ) (Per Incanto) in the Class 4 Uranus H. over 1650 metres at Happy Valley on Wednesday. He joins 13- time champion Douglas Whyte (1813) and fellow champion Zac Purton (1209) in this elite millennial club. AI can only describe it as a dream come true because I never dreamed that, to be honest, and I would never think that I could get to that mark in Hong Kong, knowing the place is such a tough place,@ Moreira told the Hong Kong Jockey Club notes team. AI didn=t get there by myself--I had great support behind my back, pushing forward in all ways.@ Cont. p5 The TDN offices will be closed Dec. 24 and 25 for the Christmas holiday. There will be no papers dated Dec. 25 or 26. The office will re-open Saturday, Dec. 26. Enjoy the holiday! Addeybb and Tom Marquand after winning the G1 QIPCO British Champion S. | Racingfotos.com IN TDN AMERICA TODAY By Emma Berry MALIBU S. ON TAP AT SANTA ANITA ON DEC. 26 Only three horses in the world finished the season with a The GI Malibu S. marks the Dec. 26 card at Santa Anita where rating higher than Addeybb (Ire) (Pivotal {GB}), and certainly Speightstown ‘TDN Rising Stars’ Nashville and Charlatan face none of them have won Group 1 races in two hemispheres off. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. within 2020. Sheikh Ahmed Al Maktoum's homebred 6-year-old may not have received the recognition he deserves for his exploits throughout the year, but it is safe to say that he is fully appreciated by his trainer William Haggas and jockey Tom Marquand. It is also not an exaggeration to say that, as much of the racing world went into lockdown and the start of the British turf season was delayed by more than two months, Addeybb's first Group 1 strike, in the Ranvet S. at Rosehill in March, brought a collective cheer to his home town of Newmarket when it was badly needed. "It was extraordinary really," says Haggas as he reflects on an ambitious Australian raid with Addeybb and Young Rascal (Fr) (Intello {Ger}), who won the G3 Manion Cup and was seventh in the G1 Sydney Cup before joining the Ballarat stable of Archie Alexander. "Essentially I thought that was the place for Addeybb as he had struggled to win a Group 1 in England, and I thought that if it rained he must have a chance of winning a Group 1 in Australia," he continues. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 5 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 24 DECEMBER 2020 Addeybb Cont. from p1 can be gleaned from Hollie's success in particular are fantastic for our sport." "The only blip we had was in the Sydney Cup [with Young While Doyle stayed in Britain through last winter, plying her Rascal] but the rest of it went absolutely swimmingly,@ said trade on the all-weather, Marquand became quite the darling of Haggas. AI said to [former assistant trainer] Harry Eustace when the Australian race fans and media during his fruitful spell in he got back, 'We'll try it every year now but it will probably Sydney. His return to the UK and continued association with never go that well again'. We had the right people, the right Addeybb saw the pair score their biggest home win on British conditions, and the right horses for the right races. And we had Champions Day, the same day that Doyle landed her first Group a jockey who knew the place and who was English and hungry 1 in the Sprint with Glen Shiel (GB) (Pivotal {GB}), trained by and was able to come and sit on the horse a few times before he Haggas's former assistant Archie Watson. ran. It just went to plan, it was very fortunate." Haggas is understandably protective of Addeybb. He says, For Marquand, who is not officially stable jockey to Haggas, "He's sort of been a little bit under the radar for most people but who rides out for him regularly and is generally first because of his love of soft ground. The more dour performances preference for the stable's mounts, the Ranvet victory was an come on this type of ground but you've still got to win it. important milestone in an extraordinary season. From that first Champions' Day, rightly or wrongly, is often run on soft ground, Group 1 success, he added another two on Addeybb, in the so that's an obvious target. A lot of the field were known to be Queen Elizabeth S. at Randwick suited by soft ground too, so it's and the QIPCO British Champion not as if they all failed. I S. back home at Ascot. He also watched him the whole way notched a first British Classic in and, I shouldn't really say this the St Leger aboard Galileo because it sounds arrogant, but Chrome (Ire) (Australia {GB}), as it was never really in doubt. He well as a first win at Royal Ascot. got a good position, travelled All that, and still Marquand has well and waited until the two, been somewhat usurped by his then he kicked and that was it." equally high-achieving girlfriend Addeybb has subsequently Hollie Doyle, with the pair enjoyed a well-earned spell in currently sitting in second and the paddock but has recently third position in the jockeys' returned to Haggas's Somerville table for the year. Lodge in preparation for "It has been a remarkable year another trip to Australia in for them," says Haggas. "For 2021. Addeybb & Tom Marquand winning the G1 Longines Queen Tom, who I know better and "I think we're going to try for Elizabeth S. Down Under | Bronwen Healy have obviously worked with a the same again," says the lot this year, it has been a really interesting year. He's obviously trainer. "The beauty of last year was the travelling. He travelled still a very young man but he lost the ride on English King (Ire) in immaculately and when he came back he was eight kilos lighter the Derby then finished second on an outsider. Then the real than when he left, which is extraordinary. He's old and he's a irony was that he took the ride back on English King for the St gelding, but he's a dude now and he doesn't take too much out Leger and then they rerouted [the horse] on declaration day to of himself. He's had a little time in the field, he looks big and the Grand Prix de Paris. Tom was going to be without a ride in well and his preparation will be geared up towards returning." the St Leger but then Shane Crosse tested positive for Covid and The return of Addeybb may not be music to the ears of Chris Tom got the ride on the winner. The luck has to go your way in Waller, whose Verry Elleegant (NZ) (Zed {NZ}) finished life, and in racing in particular luck went his way this year." runner-up to him in both his Group 1 victories, but Sydney's He adds, "Both the jockeys we are using at the moment, Tom champion trainer can at least count Haggas among the many and Cieren [Fallon Jr], have had nothing but progression all their owners in his stable. Humbolt Current (GB) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) racing lives but we have to prepare them for the bump in the joined Waller's stable from Haggas after the 2018 season and his road, which is inevitable. former trainer ended up buying a share in the Queen's AWhat Hollie has achieved is remarkable, and she and Tom are homebred, who, appropriately, has won three times in both very level-headed, normal people. And all the stories that Queensland this year. Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 5 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • 24 DECEMBER 2020 Addeybb Cont. Haggas explains, "Chris bought a horse from Her Majesty, and he bought him at the right time. I said to him that I thought he was the soundest horse I've ever trained. When Mathilde [Texier] vetted him she said she couldn't find one bit of him that wasn't perfect. So I rang the two people who had owned [G1 Dumb Cup winner] Beaten Up (GB) with us and I said 'Your Senior Vice President Gary King trainer has just bought this horse and I think you should buy a Twitter: @garykingTDN share in him'. So they did, and then Chris rang me and said, 'If [email protected] he's such a nice horse would you like a share?'" + 1.732.320.0975 International Editor Kelsey Riley Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN [email protected] European Editor Emma Berry Twitter: @collingsberry [email protected] Associate International Editor Heather Anderson Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN Sinjaari | Racingfotos.com Marketing Manager Alayna Cullen Addeybb is likely not to be Haggas's lone challenger in Sydney Twitter: @AlaynaCullen next year. The trainer also hopes to send Sinjaari (Ire) (Camelot [email protected] {GB}) and Favorite Moon (Ger) (Sea The Moon {Ger}). "Sinjaari was just beaten in a listed race the other day and is a Contributing Editors good, solid 106," he says.