Sunday, August 9, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here GLOBAL SALES CALENDAR - PAGE 11 MORNING BRIEFING - PAGE 6 SINGAPORE NEWS - PAGE 9 Pride fires Everest Read Tomorrow's Issue For: Missile with Eduardo The Week Ahead Lightly raced gelding makes it two from two for Sydney What's on trainer with Group 2 success Metropolitan meetings: Devonport (TAS) Race meetings: Dubbo (NSW), Wagga LATEST NEWS FROM THE WEEKEND'S RACING (NSW), Bendigo (VIC), Casterton (VIC), Sunshine Coast (QLD), Port Augusta (SA), Kalgoorlie (WA) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Dubbo (NSW), Wagga (NSW) International meetings: Taipa (MAC), Niigata (JPN), Sapporo (JPN), Salisbury (UK), Thirsk (UK), Windsor (UK), Curragh (IRE), Greyville (SAF), Deauville (FR), Hoppegarten (GER), Del Mar (USA) International Group races: Curragh (IRE) - Phoenix Stakes (Gr 1, 6f), Phoenix Sprint Stakes (Gr 3, 6f). Deauville (FR) - Prix Maurice De Gheest (Gr 1, 1300m), Prix De Reux (Gr 3, 2500m). Hoppegarten (GER) - Grosser Preis von Berlin (Gr 1, 2400m). Niigata (JPN) - Leopard Stakes (Gr 3, 1800m). Sapporo (JPN) - Elm Stakes (Gr 3, 1700m). Del Mar (USA) - La Jolla Handicap Eduardo SPORTPIX (Gr 3, 8.5f) ago, joined Pride’s Warwick Farm stable in late BY TIM ROWE AND GEORGIE DENNIS May and has since taken out the July Sprint oe Pride has cast humbly bred sprinter (1100m) and yesterday’s Missile Stakes (Gr 2, Eduardo (Host), a lightly raced former 1200m) at Rosehill. Melbourne gelding, as a potential candidate Ridden by Nash Rawiller, who also rode for this year’s The Everest (1200m) after the Eduardo in the July Sprint, he was sent straight seven-year-oldJ made it two wins from as many to the lead and found under pressure to score starts for his new trainer in Sydney. by one-and-a-half lengths over MRC Thousand Eduardo, a Caulfield Sprint (Gr 2, 1000m) Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) winner Flit (Medaglia winner at just his fifth start nearly two years d’Oro). Continued on page 2>> YESTERDAY'S STAKES RESULTS FROM | ROSEHILL AND FLEMINGTON | PAGE 14 Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Pride fires Everest Missile with Eduardo | 2 | Sunday, August 9, 2020 << Continued from page 1 The Chris Waller-trained European James Cummings, who prepared Home Of The Brave import Imaging (Oasis Dream), who won the Ajax Stakes (Gr 2, 1500m) in (Starspangledbanner) to win the Aurie’s Star Handicap (Gr 3, 1200m) at the autumn, copped a check when Eduardo rolled back to the fence just as Flemington yesterday, was happy with the first-up performance ofFlit . jockey Tommy Berry was asking him for an effort. He finished a long neck "Brilliant return from Flit but a clever ride from the winner," Cummings back in third in the six-horse field which was decimated by scratchings on said. a Heavy 9 surface. The Jamie Richards-trainedMelody Belle (Commands), who has “Nash said to me before the race, ‘I’d rather they come at me at the 100 been prepared from Randwick since her Australian autumn campaign (metres) than have them flying at the line’ and that is the way it panned without returning to New Zealand, went back to last and failed to threaten out,” Pride said post-race. but jockey Kerrin McEvoy was satisfied with her return saying the race “He recognised that he’s got a little bit of ticker. He’s able to make his didn't pan out for them. own luck up on speed and then he’s got a good kick. "I thought she still ran fine," McEvoy said. “He’s certainly enthusiastic about the whole thing. He looks like he’s "She pulled up having a nice blow. She just found that race a little bit running along for fun. He’s beaten some good horses and you’d have to sharp for her given the circumstances." say he’s improved a couple of lengths on what he did the other day.” Meanwhile, Eduardo (7 g Host - Blushing by Fantastic Light), a The Missile Stakes effort prompted Pride to float the richest turf race homebred, has won five of his 14 starts and has earned $476,900 in prize- as an option for the gelding, who was acquired earlier this year by his money. clients, including some who raced the likes of Group 1 winners Terravista He is one of three winners for the unraced mare Blushing (Fantastic (Captain Rio) and Tiger Tees (Dubawi) with the Sydney trainer. Light) with the only other stakes performers in the first three dams being Some members of the original ownership group retained shares in the seven-time winner and Group 3 successful Peggy Ann (Bletchingly). the talented sprinter, who was initially trained at Cranbourne by Sarah Blushing has not been covered since foaling Eduardo in October 2013. Zschoke. Eduardo is one of six stakes winners by Willow Grove Stud’s late “I want two slots, is that greedy?" Pride said. sire Host (Hussonet), who initially started his Australian stud career at "He is an exciting horse. Although he is a seven-year-old, I think in Swettenham Stud in Victoria. The gelding joins Philippi, Hosting, Mighty real terms he is much younger than that because he wasn't broken in until Like, Miss It And A Bit and Conflight as the stallion’s other stakes winners. he was three and there is plenty of racing left in him." Eduardo firmed from $101 into a typically conservative $26 for The Everest, the same price for three-year-old Anders (Not A Single Doubt) who impressively won the Rosebud (Listed, 1100m) earlier on the card. HOME Pride’s other contender, five-year-old Fasika (So You Think) who trialled at Warwick Farm last week ahead of a seasonal return, is quoted at OF THE BRAVE $34 for the $15 million race to be run at Randwick on October 17. g.2012 STARSPANGLEDBANNER x BLISSFUL BEAT It was also the third time Pride has won the Missile Stakes, having taken it out twice with Rain Affair (Commands) in 2011 and 2013 for his owner, the late Don Storey. © Agence G / MD © Rawiller, who rode a winning double but was also twice suspended at Rosehill, said: “He’s got a motor. He showed exceptional speed out of the gates today and really got into his comfort zone quickly. He travelled really well, but then he got very lost in the straight. He stepped around a few times but when I got stuck into him inside the 150 metres he knuckled down to the line well.” The heavyweight hoop was confident that Eduardo would be able to reproduce his first-up win. Aurie’s Star Handicap (Gr3) “When Joe’s horses win first-up for you like he did, you know there’s Flemington always a little bit left in the locker and he’s let the horse do the talking,” Owner ................................ Godolphin he said. Trainer ................................. James Cummings Breeder ............................. Ecurie du Grand Chêne “He probably came here underdone the other day and he’s taken that natural improvement from the run and I still think there’s still a little bit 2013 AUGUST YEARLING SALE Price ................................... €85,000 left in the locker.” Buyer .................................. Flemington Bloodstock Rawiller’s suspensions will be served cumulatively, starting Vendor ............................... Coulonces Consignment immediately and expiring on September 1, ruling Rawiller out of the Winx Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) meeting on August 22. Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by Anders blitzes rivals in Rosebud | 4 | Sunday, August 9, 2020 Anders blitzes rivals in Rosebud Ciaron Maher and David Eustace could have another star sprinter on their hands after Anders (Not A Single Doubt) blitzed his rivals in the Rosebud (Listed, 1100m) at Rosehill yesterday. The three-year-old son of Not A Single Doubt (Redoute’s Choice), who is owned by Aquis Farm, led from point to post, eventually scoring by an official margin of four and three-quarter lengths under Jason Collett. The well-bred Ole Kirk (Written Tycoon) was second with Gerald Ryan’s The Face (Rubick) holding on to finish a length and three-quarters away in third. Annabel Neasham, who was attending her second-last Saturday meeting as Maher and Eustace’s assistant trainer before she begins her own training career, said Anders was finally delivering on the promise he had always shown at home. "We always knew he had an awful lot of ability but he was just doing a Anders SPORTPIX few things wrong," Neasham said. "In those early stages he was head-to-head with Gerald's horse (The "Aquis have a slot in The Everest, so you never know. He is very fast. Face) and I think the old Anders would have fired up a bit." "He is probably too brilliant for a Golden Rose but you never know. There Anders is set to head to the San Domenico Stakes (Gr 3, 1100m) in is always a Coolmore as well, but I think they will aim high with him." three weeks time and with Aquis Farm holding a slot for The Everest Collet echoed Neasham’s opinion of the colt. (1200m), Neasham said he could be one to fill it. "I actually trialled him as an early two-year-old and he won by about "He is a proper colt. They are going to have an awful lot of fun with eight or nine lengths and I came out with the statement that he’s a serious him," she said. racehorse," the jockey said. Continued on page 5>> Follow us @anz_news | 4 | Brought to you by Anders blitzes rivals in Rosebud | 5 | Sunday, August 9, 2020 << Continued from page 4 "Things didn’t quite turn out but he looks like he might be living up to that.