Monday, June 29, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here THE WEEK AHEAD - PAGE 15 GLOBAL GROUP 1 RACES - PAGE 18 YESTERDAY'S RACE RESULTS - PAGE 21 Bloodstock agent Moore Read Tomorrow's Issue For: preparing for the future Stallion Watch Son of champion Hong Kong trainer looking ahead with What's on business model set for change in coming months Race meetings: Albury (NSW), Taree (NSW), Wangaratta (VIC) Barrier trials/ Jump-outs: Albury (NSW), Taree (NSW), Cranbourne (VIC) International meetings: Yarmouth (UK), Windsor (UK), Thirsk (UK), Limerick (IRE), Kilbeggan (IRE), Kenilworth (SAF) International sales: Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2YOs In Training Sale (US) George Moore INGLIS MORNING BRIEFING prevent any international visitors who are not BY ANDREW HAWKINS | @ANZ_NEWS already in the country from being at Inglis’ Great Southern Sale he Inglis Australian Easter Warwick Farm complex, creating a different moved to Sydney Yearling Sale Round 2, to be held market for a prized group of yearlings. Inglis announced yesterday that the Great in conjunction with the Inglis Among those who will be absent is Hong Southern Sale, which was set to be held in Scone Yearling Sale at Riverside Kong-based bloodstock agent George Moore, Melbourne, will be brought forward and StablesT on Sunday, will be the latest unusual with quarantine ensuring that he is logistically conducted in Sydney on July 9 in the wake of a quirk in a sales season that has been upended, unable to be in Sydney for the sale before spike on Covid-19 cases in Victoria. “Following rearranged and impacted heavily by the returning to the Asian mecca as his father John significant consultation with vendors and buyers, Covid-19 pandemic. wraps up his Sha Tin training operation after 35 it has been agreed to move the Great Southern Sale Australia’s strict quarantine protocols will years. Continued on page 2>> to Sydney,” Inglis said. Continued on page 8 >> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Bloodstock agent Moore preparing for the future | 2 | Monday, June 29, 2020 << Continued from page 1 “Unfortunately, I won’t be able to buy at Easter Round 2 as I really would want to be down there inspecting these horses,” Moore told ANZ Bloodstock News yesterday. “I’m really not one to be buying blind and we did already buy four horses at the initial Easter sale, so I won’t be involved. “Easter was stronger than I expected given everything that’s happening, I reckon that could be the same for Round 2, but I’m not sure that we’d have any more space to add some more yearlings to dad’s new Australian stable. “There will always be money from Hong Kong though so I’m sure there will be Hong Kong interest.” While John Moore still has five meetings to go in Hong Kong before the season ends at Happy Valley on July 15, he has already begun to John Moore HKJC implement programs with his brother Gary that will ensure that the training partnership can hit their straps quickly when they officially begin The Moores will have 24 boxes at Rosehill and their stables will be full of working together on August 1. some of the most expensive horseflesh in the land. Among their supporters “We’re not sure at the moment when dad will get to Australia, it will be China Horse Club, Newgate Farm and Arrowfield Stud, while Hong depends on a few different things, but he is excited to get there,” George Kong-based owner Boniface Ho is set to join forces with the Moores; that Moore said. “We’ve got some really nice horses going into the stable and will be a new association, with John Moore not training any of Ho’s horses they all need to be prepped so I’m pushing for dad to get down there in Hong Kong. earlier, even if he has to do the two weeks of quarantine. He’s changing his However, the issue may not be filling the boxes but it may be finding the mind a bit but it won’t be too long before he’s in Australia. The horses are space, especially given the Moore family already owns a number of horses that already under their system and on their feed so it’s a process.” race in their white and maroon colours as well. 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(1731) and prize-money (almost will take the place of “We’ve got two big lots from Arrowfield, a Snitzel and a Not A Single HK$2 billion or AUD$375 million). Ascot and I think that Doubt, they are two million-dollar horses. We’ve got the half-brother to However, the effect of Moore’s Aethero and Classique Legend, Bon Ho bought him for $1.1 million at departure from Hong Kong is more will be keen to Easter, that’s already in the stable. We’ve got a Capitalist colt for Bon Ho more widespread as it will change sell after Goodwood too and dad has a Siyouni filly from a good European family, so that’s five. the operation of his son’s George “And then we’ve got a couple of Vincent Li’s horses, one of the owners Moore Bloodstock operation, with - George Moore from Hong Kong - he has Larson and Shouson with us in Hong Kong at the the 38-year-old one of the major moment - as well as our purchases from Easter and from Magic Millions, players in the lucrative market. so that’s another eight or so. We’ve got some horses with stables in Sydney That said, the younger Moore says it will be mainly a superficial that will come across to us and we have to fit in our personally-owned change, with the agent buying horses like J J Atkins (Gr 1, 1400m) third horses too - I have shares in nine different horses and, while some of them The Drinks Cart (Unencumbered) for Hong Kong clients in recent may be heading to Hong Kong and won’t go through his stable, five or six days. of them will be with him. Dad has got shares in some too. “I’m staying here in Hong Kong - my business is separate to dad’s “We don’t have much room, but dad wants to have a very exclusive business,” he said. “I will still be selling to my own clients and I guess the stable with high-level horses.” major difference is that we have to figure out which stables they will be A lot of the focus has been on John Moore’s forced retirement in Hong going to now. 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