Friday, December 18, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here MAIDEN OF THE WEEK | ACROBAT - PAGE 16 YESTERDAY'S RACE RESULTS - PAGE 21 Southern NSW breeders get What's on chance to showcase Magic Metropolitan meetings: Moonee Valley (VIC), Morphettville (SA) Race meetings: Goulburn (NSW), Lismore Millions yearlings to buyers (NSW), Yarra Valley (VIC), Rockhampton On-farm inspections becoming increasingly popular (QLD), Geraldton (WA), Otaki (NZ) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Rosehill (NSW), with trainers and bloodstock agents Wyong (NSW), Goulburn (NSW), Lismore (NSW), Flemington (VIC), Bendigo (VIC), Pakenham (VIC), Bunbury (WA) International meetings: Taipa (MAC), Southwell (UK), Wolverhampton (UK), Dundalk (IRE), Fairview (SAF), Greyville (SAF) Sales: Gavelhouse December 21 Auction International sales: Goffs November Foal Sale (IRE) Twin Hills TWIN HILLS STUD MORNING BRIEFING consultants started their two days of BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS inspections in the Southern Highlands, Vale Danewin n-farm yearling sale inspections visiting Steve Grant’s Silverdale Farm, Five-time Group 1 winner and successful sire across Australia and New Zealand Milburn Creek, Lime Country, Rheinwood Danewin (Danehill) died on Wednesday aged is nothing new, but bloodstock Pastoral and Ricky Surace’s B2B Bloodstock 29. Danewin was humanely euthanized at agents and trainers are placing property. Emirates Park, his home for almost 25 years. Oincreasing importance on the exercise as they The second day consisted of inspections After a successful career on the track, in which attempt to lessen their respective workloads at Redbank North near Jugiong, Twin he won 13 of his 31 starts, Danewin managed in the lead-up to the 2021 series of auctions. Hills Stud at Cootamundra, Bowness Stud to sire 25 individual stakes winners despite Earlier this week, an entourage of about near Young and Newhaven Park near suffering from well-documented fertility 20 agents and Magic Millions bloodstock Boorowa. Continued on page 2>> issues. Morning Briefing page 6>> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Southern NSW breeders get chance to showcase Magic Millions yearlings to buyers | 2 | Friday, December 18, 2020 << Continued from page 1 “Rarely do we have on-farm with Kelly that the southern NSW inspections but this year we’ve had quite a few. I think that people region is an important piece of the I THINK THAT PEOPLE enjoy looking at the horses in their home environment and to see how Australian thoroughbred breeding ENJOY LOOKING AT much they improve and, with the size of the scope of the Magic Millions industry. THE HORSES IN THEIR catalogue, they wanted to get on top of it,” Newhaven Park’s John Kelly “Between us, Newhaven Park, HOME ENVIRONMENT said on Tuesday. Bowness and Redbank North, just AND TO SEE HOW “It’s changed a little bit down here (in southern NSW) with Olly in our immediate area, there is a MUCH THEY IMPROVE (Tait) going to Twin Hills and John North at Bowness, so suddenly down very good number of horses going AND, WITH THE SIZE here, if you do those three farms in the day, you see 80 yearlings, so it is a to the Gold Coast, so it is worth OF THE SCOPE OF significant percentage of the sale and people are prepared to come down people’s while coming to see here and have a look at them and we’re happy to host them. them,” Tait said. THE MAGIC MILLIONS “We’ve enjoyed today and we’ve enjoyed everyone who has come and “We think this is as good a CATALOGUE, THEY looked at them.” place as any to breed horses and WANTED TO GET ON Kelly, whose farm will consign 29 yearlings at the Gold Coast, is the record of the farms that I have TOP OF IT maintaining a conservative outlook in 2021, despite optimism among just mentioned proves that, so it is - JOHN KELLY many industry stakeholders heading into the New Year. nice that people have come to see He said: “I just think that after the year we’ve been through that it may the yearlings now and you obviously get a different perspective on horses not be quite as simple as everyone thinks it’s going to be, but of course I a month out from the sale compared to what you do on the sales grounds. hope it is. “We are very proud of the horses that we have got and we think that “We just want to get our horses on the market and we are going to set they are in good shape at the moment.” very realistic reserves.” Tait added: “Pre-sale inspections in the Hunter Valley have been going Twin Hills’ Tait, who acquired the former Transmedia Park, Woodlands on for quite some time, but we’ve had a lot of interest in our yearlings at and Godolphin/Darley property with wife Amber in early 2017, agrees the farm this year and I know we and other Continued on page 4>> STALLION WATCH STALLION WATCH BRINGS YOU THE LATEST NEWS FROM THE STALLION WORLD INCLUDING NEW STAKES WINNERS AND LEADING TABLE SIRES. Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by SEE PARIAH’S FIRST 28 YEARLINGS AT MAGIC MILLIONS IN JANUARY Southern NSW breeders get chance to showcase Magic Millions yearlings to buyers | 4 | Friday, December 18, 2020 << Continued from page 2 farms in southern NSW have had a good includes a Zoustar (Northern Meteor) half-sister to Group 1 winner Single stream of people through. Gaze (Not A Single Doubt). “Magic Millions has brought a good bunch of buyers, so it’s very “I am relaxed about (on-farm parades), to be honest. If people want to encouraging that the interest is there and it was nice to not only be able to come and see them we are more than happy to show them. We have only show them our yearlings but our farm.” had them in for four weeks, so they don’t look their best and we don’t rug Agents such as Merrick Staunton, Will Johnson, Aquis Farm’s Shane them - because we don’t believe in rugging - as we are all about trying to McGrath, Michael King and Kacy Fogden, Jamie Walter, Damon Gabbedy, get good racehorses, not show ponies,” Middleton said. Johnny McKeever, Peter Twomey, Dave Mee and Emirates Park’s Bryan “Even when our horses get to the Gold Coast, we see a huge Carlson were among those who were guests on the Magic Millions tour. improvement during that week. Ciaron Maher came through (on Victorian agent Peter Ford also headed north to inspect yearlings in Wednesday) and Bill Mitchell and Annabel Neasham turned up the week preparation for his alliance with Cranbourne trainers Robbie Griffiths and before to look at our yearlings.” Mathew de Kock. Magic Millions managing director Barry Bowditch, who led the “There’s a few more horses to get through in the catalogue and, while I contingent alongside Dane Robinson and Tim Brown, believes the on-farm am used to seeing the mares on farms and things like that, it seemed like a inspections have become part of the spectacle of the Gold Coast auction. good idea to bowl over a couple of hundred (yearlings) on the farm before “In years gone by, this has been a huge part of the lead-up to the sale, we get to the Coast,” Ford said. but this year I think it has become part of the event really,” Bowditch said. “Also, I hadn’t been to Newhaven before and it’s a magnificent 7,000- “Since Covid, people want to get out and get their work done. It’s a acre farm and it’s worth seeing given the standard of horses that they huge catalogue and the anticipation and build-up starting so early is produce. It was also good to go to Twin Hills, which has got a lot of history, exciting for the team at Magic Millions..” and of course John Muir’s at Milburn Creek is a lovely farm. The Hunter Valley has been the principal destination for pre-sale “Hopefully I have found enough nice horses to add to the list for inspections but Bowditch said agents and trainers had been criss-crossing Griffiths de Kock Racing.” borders in recent weeks to take a look at as many lots as possible ahead of Bowness Stud is another farm to open its gate to an increased number the seven-day sale, which starts on January 12. of visitors and principal North said traffic had been constant over the past “We’ve had some good parades in Victoria, we’re doing Queensland three weeks. next week and to do the Southern Highlands and southern NSW this week “Gai (Waterhouse) has been down a few times in the past, but this is the with a huge team was fantastic,” he said. largest volume of potential buyers that have come to the farm,” North said. “I think it’s great to see our buyers get to the farms and see behind the “They are coming every second and third day in December and scenes what these farms are about and see the history behind them, where everyone you talk to says they are going to be on the Coast in January, so I the horses are raised because it’s an important part of the whole process.” think it’s going to be a very popular sale.” Since announcing an extended schedule, with 1,273 Book 1 and Book Bowness Stud paraded 26 yearlings in front of the potential buying 2 lots going through the ring over seven days, Bowditch says buyers have bench and the experienced breeder says the exercise will help his draft’s been complimentary about the horses on offer.