Maher Read Tomorrow's Issue For: counting on Peter Moody innovation to stay one step What's On Metropolitan meetings: Warwick Farm ahead (NSW), Sandown (VIC), Ascot (WA) Race meetings: Ipswich (QLD), Steve Moran | Page 13 Naracoorte (SA), Matamata (NZ) Wednesday, March 13, 2019 International meetings: Happy Valley (HK) Sales: Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Dundeel filly shines on Sale - Day Two day one of Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale McEvoy Mitchell Racing take home Rushton Park-consigned yearling for $250,000 Morning Briefing Three Coolmore Classic runners for Lees Princess Posh SPORTPIX Kris Lees is set to launch a three-pronged attack on Saturday’s Coolmore Classic (registered as TAD Kennedy Stakes) (Gr 1, 1500m) Lot 157 Dundeel - Swan River filly MAGIC MILLIONS at Rosehill, with last-start Newcastle Newmarket was “over the moon” following the high-priced Handicap (Gr 3, 1400m) winner Princess Posh By Tim Rowe result, which also proved his judgment right (Canford Cliffs) joining stablemates Invincible $250,000 filly by emerging sire in targeting the South Australian sale with the Gem (I Am Invincible) and El Dorado Dreaming Dundeel (High Chaparral) will join September-born Dundeel filly. (Ilovethiscity) in the line-up for the $600,000 the Group 1-winning stable of “We thought she'd suit the sale really well contest. “All three are in great order and going Tony McEvoy after the standout and would be a bit of a standout,” Johnson told into the race in good form,” Lees said. “Princess Alot came out on top on day one of the Magic ANZ Bloodstock News. Posh and Invincible Gem have come through Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale. “I've sold a couple of other Dundeels the Newmarket without any problems, and El Yesterday’s session started slowly before throughout the year and it was just a matter of Dorado Dreaming has trained on well since her buyers and vendors found an equilibrium that splitting them up a bit. good third in the Surround Stakes at Randwick saw key market indicators down by five per “She's a star and hasn't turned a hair last Saturday week.” Brenton Avdulla will ride cent year on year, while a total of 16 yearlings all week. She just cops everything in her El Dorado Dreaming, Kerrin McEvoy will ride fetched $100,000 or more. stride and was easy to deal with. She’s a real Princess Posh and Jason Collett stays aboard Vendor David Johnson of Rushton Park professional.” Continued on page 2>> Invincible Gem. Morning Briefing page 10 | 1 | Brought to you by Dundeel filly shines on day one of Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale | 2 | Wednesday, March 13, 2019 << Continued from page 1 Bloodstock agent Suman Hedge was Dundeel, whose oldest the under bidder on the filly but later bought into the daughter of Dundeel progeny are three-year-olds, with McEvoy. sired his second Group 1 winner AS LONG AS I'VE Johnson added: “The reserve was $50,000 and I thought she could at the weekend when Yourdeel BEEN WORKING make $150,000 but I knew there were a lot on her. But you don’t know at won the Sistema Stakes (Gr FOR TONY, that level what people are thinking.” 1, 1200m) at Ellerslie in New Consigned by Rushton Park on behalf of Willaroon Thoroughbreds’ Zealand. WE HAVEN’T Sally Watkins, the Danny Molloy-bred filly is the sixth foal out of Swan River He is also the sire of BOUGHT A (Danehill Dancer) who is a sister to the Alister Clark Stakes (Gr 2, 1600m) Cutadeel and this season’s Inglis BETTER FILLY winner Lieutenant and a half-sister to Tulloch Stakes (Gr 2, 2000m) winner Millennium (RL, 1200m) winner Count Encosta (Encosta De Lago). She was catalogued as Lot 157. Castelvecchio, who are among THAN HER McEvoy Mitchell Racing’s bloodstock manager Rick Connolly was in his seven stakes winners from no doubt that the Dundeel filly was a standout, not only of the Adelaide his first two crops of racing age. sale but of the entire yearling sale season. Aside from the $250,000 sale topper bought in conjunction with “As long as I've been working for Tony, we haven’t bought a better filly Suman Hedge, McEvoy Mitchell Racing bought four other yearlings than her,” Connolly said. “She's a very nice filly, fluid in her action and has yesterday, two of them for more than $100,000, to be second leading a lot of class. buyer with a total spend of $347,000 at an average of $86,750. “You'd think she'd (be an Oaks filly) being by Dundeel and the sire can Johnson said the day one Adelaide market continued on what had do no wrong at the moment. transpired at other Australasian yearling sales this year. “He'd a two-year-old Group 1 winner (Yourdeel) in New Zealand on “The market's strong enough for the right horses,” he said. “For the Saturday and has that very smart horse (Castelvecchio), who won the quality of horses that we've been selling, they've been making fair money. Inglis race and who looks like he's a Sires’ contender. “I found the really nice horses that vet up well, you're getting very well “She was always going to be at the higher end (price wise) just rewarded, and the other horses that are back in the ruck, you've just got because of her quality.” to get them sold.” Continued on page 4>> GOLD STANDARD G2-Winning Son of Sebring SPEED & VERSATILITY Sebring – Coniston Gem, by Greig Australia | 2 | Brought to you by PURCHASE PRICE: $350,000 PRIZEMONEY: $1,660,000 MERCHANT NAVY FASTNET ROCK X LEGALLY BAY DUAL HEMISPHERE G1 WINNER AND STALLION INGLIS EASTER. BEST OF THE BEST. 9 & 10 April Riverside Stables, Sydney Easter Catalogue available now inglis.com.au Strong sale for Grenville Stud | 4 | Wednesday, March 13, 2019 Strong sale for Grenville Stud Tasmanian breeders Graeme and Bart McCulloch of Grenville Stud were also rewarded with strong sale results in Adelaide yesterday, selling three yearlings for a combined $490,000, and setting a new auction benchmark for their operation. Grenville Stud, one of the leading vendors at the recent Magic Millions Tasmanian Yearling Sale, brought a select three-lot draft to Adelaide headed by a $190,000 filly by champion first-season sire Zoustar (Northern Meteor) and a colt by exciting young sire Brazen Beau (I Am Invincible), who also fetched $190,000. The most expensive horses ever sold by Grenville Stud, the Zoustar filly was purchased by Mornington trainer John McArdle in conjunction with CB Bloodstock, while the Brazen Beau colt went the way of fellow Victorian trainer Lloyd Kennewell. Lot 72 Brazen Beau - Natural Swinger colt MAGIC MILLIONS A colt by first-season sire Mongolian Khan (Holy Roman Emperor), a stallion the McCullochs bred and then sold as a yearling, also made winner a couple of days after the sale. On the flipside here, the Brazen $110,000 to trainers Leon Macdonald and Andrew Gluyas during the Beaus are going brilliantly and Sunlight winning the Newmarket (for session. Zoustar) was excellent.” Bart McCulloch understandably was “rapt with the result”. The first Grenville Stud-offered horse through the ring was the Brazen “We thought we'd three nice horses coming here but sometimes you Beau colt, with the result continuing the recent yearling sale popularity of find you can be proven wrong or you don’t get the results you are after,” he the Darley-based sire’s progeny. told ANZ Bloodstock News. Kennewell and his agent, Group 1 Bloodstock’s Mathew Becker, “Brazen Beau has got a couple of the best two-year-olds going outlasted the competition to secure the yearling after bidding around in his first crop and this game is all about timing. opened at $100,000 before going up in $5,000 and $10,000 “In the Tassie sale we had a number of Mawingos and he had his first increments. Continued on page 6>> Leading sires by aggregate Sire Sold Minimum ($) Maximum ($) Average ($) Aggreagte ($) Unencumbered 7 48,000 90,000 70,000 490,000 Nicconi 9 16,000 135,000 52,000 468,000 Akeed Mofeed 6 16,000 115,000 60,333 362,000 Exosphere 3 30,000 180,000 113,333 340,000 Dundeel 1 250,000 250,000 250,000 250,000 Written Tycoon 2 60,000 180,000 120,000 240,000 Fighting Sun 7 15,000 90,000 34,000 238,000 Magnus 6 11,000 70,000 35,083 210,500 Brazen Beau 2 10,000 190,000 100,000 200,000 Smart Missile 4 17,000 110,000 49,500 198,000 Sensational results in recent Australian auction - top price $105,000! $50,000 $35,500 $105,000 $45,000 $29,000 SOLD on gavelhouse.com SOLD on gavelhouse.com SOLD on gavelhouse.com SOLD on gavelhouse.com SOLD on gavelhouse.com NEXT FORTNIGHTLY AUSSIE AUCTION ENTRIES ARE DUE MONDAY AT 7PM AEDT. ENTER ONLINE NOW OR CONTACT THE TEAM TO DISCUSS YOUR OPTIONS ON 03 9614 4882. | 4 | Brought to you by ENTRIES CLOSING SOON The Proven Sale FOR AUSTRALIA’S FINEST RACEFILLIES SINCE 2014 THIS IS THE ONLY AUST. MARE SALE TO SELL LOTS FOR $1.4 MILLION+ IN 2018 STAKES WINNERS SOLD AT AN AVERAGE OF $615,250 TOTAL RACEFILLY SPEND OF $29,870,000 for 186 LOTS 88% CLEARANCE RATE CONTINUAL GROWTH 2014: 8 SOLD FOR $500,000+ 2015: 11 SOLD FOR $500,000+ 2016: 14 SOLD FOR $500,000+ 2017: 16 SOLD FOR $500,000+ 2018: 19 SOLD FOR $500,000+ GOLD COAST NATIONAL BROODMARE SALE I 28-31 MAY Enter via email at [email protected] or online at www.magicmillions.com.au Strong sale for Grenville Stud | 6 | Wednesday, March 13, 2019 << Continued from page 4 The Brazen Beau colt is the fifth living foal out of Natural Swinger (Viking Ruler), a winning half-sister to the Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed La Italia (Stravinsky).