CAMBRIDGE STUD RIP VAN WINKLE AND ROAD TO THE LOOKS AHEAD CHARM SPIRIT HEAD MELBOURNE CUP AFTER HORROR WINDSOR PARK ROSTER BEGINS WITH ANDREW YEAR - PAGE 2 - PAGE 8 RAMSDEN - PAGE 12 Friday, May 15, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australiasian bloodstock industry subscribe for free: Click here DIRECT TO YOUR INBOX EVERY MORNING The best in the business! Leading Sires of 3YOs Leading Sires in Australia in 2019/20 ARNINGS RK STALLION E in Australia in 2019/20 RK STALLION EARNINGS 1 Snitzel $14,843,287 1 2 PIERRO $14,176,399 RUBICK $9,863,838 2 Exceed and Excel $5,405,756 3 I Am Invincible $13,541,704 3 I Am Invincible $4,963,427 4 Not A Single Doubt $11,181,571 4 FASTNET ROCK $4,924,653 5 FASTNET ROCK $10,216,826 6 Sebring $10,142,898 7 RUBICK $10,104,598 Leading First Crop Sires in Australia in 2019/20 Leading Second Crop Sires RK S TALLION E in Australia in 2019/20 ARNINGS ARNINGS 1 PRIDE OF DUBAI $989,355 RK S TALLION E 1 RUBICK $10,104,598 Leading First Crop Sires in America in 2019 RK STALLION EARNINGS 1 AMERICAN PHAROAH US$2,873,170 15th May Arion Pedigrees, Source: CLICK HERE TO SEE OUR ROSTER & FEES FOR 2020 Michael Kirwan, Colm Santry, John Kennedy, Paddy Oman, Tom Moore, Rob Archibald or Emma Pugsley Tel: 02 6576 4200. New Zealand: Gordon Calder Tel:+64 218 41612. www.coolmore.com CAMBRIDGE STUD RIP VAN WINKLE AND ROAD TO THE LOOKS AHEAD CHARM SPIRIT HEAD MELBOURNE CUP AFTER HORROR WINDSOR PARK ROSTER BEGINS WITH ANDREW YEAR - PAGE 2 - PAGE 8 RAMSDEN - PAGE 12 Friday, May 15, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here Almanzor back at Cambridge, Charm Spirit heads Windsor Park roster Read Tomorrow's Issue For: Stakes Fields What's on Stakes races: Scone (NSW) - Scone Cup (Listed, 1600m). Sunshine Coast (QLD) - Wayne Wilson Handicap (Listed, 1600m), Chief De Beers Handicap (Listed, 1000m) Metropolitan meetings: Sunshine Coast (QLD) Race meetings: Albury (NSW), Scone (NSW), Geelong (VIC), Cranbourne (VIC), Toowoomba (QLD), Albany (WA), Charm Spirit, Almanzor and Embellish ANZ Mount Gambier (SA) eading New Zealand farms Windsor Park’s seven-stallion roster is Barrier trials / Jump outs: Randwick Cambridge Stud and Windsor Park headlined by the reliable Rip Van Winkle (NSW), Flemington (VIC) Stud announced yesterday their (Galileo) at NZ$12,500. Three-time Group 1 International meetings: Taipa (MAC) fees for the 2020 breeding season. winners Mongolian Khan (Holy Roman Emperor) LCambridge Stud will feature French star and Turn Me Loose (Iffraaj) will stand for Almanzor (Wootton Bassett) at NZ$30,000 NZ$10,000, Shamexpress (O’Reilly) at NZ$8,000 (all fees plus GST), with New Zealand 2,000 and Rageese (Street Cry) and Vanbrugh (Encosta Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) winner Embellish De Lago) at NZ$5,000. Charm Spirit (Invincible (Savabeel) available at NZ$4,000. Spirit), a strong performer for Windsor Park this season with three-year-olds like Scorpz, 2020 STALLION FEES - PAGE 28 Fascino and Aretha, has his price available on MAIDEN OF THE WEEK - PAGE 25 application. Continued on page 2>> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Cambridge Stud looks ahead after horror year | 2 | Friday, May 15, 2020 Cambridge Stud looks ahead after horror year By Andrew Hawkins fter what has been a difficult 12 months, to put it mildly, Cambridge Stud is now focused on the future with the announcement of its stallion fees for 2020. Cambridge Stud announced yesterday that French shuttle stallionA Almanzor (Wootton Bassett) would again stand for NZ$30,000 (plus GST), placing him among the top three most valuable stallions in New Zealand this season. Almanzor, a 3YO European Champion in 2016, who won eight of his 11 starts including the Prix du Jockey Club (Gr 1, 2100m), the Irish Champion Stakes (Gr 1, 1m 2f) and its English equivalent, the Champion Stakes (Gr 1, 1m 2f), is set to have Almanzor CAMBRIDGE STUD his first European yearlings go through the sales ring later this year. “Almanzor attracted a high quality group of mares for his first book in “In his third season in France, European breeders took note of his New Zealand in 2018, including 50 stakes winners and stakes producers,” exceptional foal sales at Tattersalls and Arqana and he is booked out at 140 Cambridge Stud CEO Henry Plumptre told ANZ Bloodstock News mares again. yesterday. “He was well received in both hemispheres covering full books “He is a great physical specimen and has thrown a very consistent line of 140 and 160 mares in New Zealand in his first two seasons. The feedback of foals – good bone, correct with great tops. His sire Wootton Bassett has from breeders on his foals is very strong and we are particularly pleased also been instrumental in Almanzor’s popularity with his fee in France that our shareholders seem delighted with his stock. rising from €6,000 in 2018 to €40,000 in 2020.” Continued on page 4>> CHAMPION young sire SIRED phenomenal GR.1 TRIFECTA in the COOLMORE STUD STAKES at Flemington Produces a MAGNIFICENT SALE YEARLING – $1.1m, $1.075m, $1m, $1m, $900k, $900k Sire of superstar SUNLIGHT 2020 STANDING FEE $121,000 inc. gst 02 6549 9999 WWW.WIDDEN.COM Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by Cambridge Stud looks ahead after horror year | 4 | Friday, May 15, 2020 BEST OF Embellish RACING PHOTOS LUCK Joining Almanzor on the roster is New Zealand 2,000 Guineas (Gr 1, To the Magic Millions graduates 1600m) winner Embellish (Savabeel), who served his first season at stud running in this weekend’s feature races last year. He is the only Group 1-winning son of five-time New Zealand MORPHETTVILLE (SAJC) GOLD COAST (GCTC) Champion Sire Savabeel (Zabeel) at stud and will stand for a fee of $4,000 THE GOODWOOD GR1 GOLD COAST GUINEAS GR3 (plus GST). Santa Ana Lane ......... Patinack Farm The Odyssey ..................... Millbrook “Embellish’s CV reads well from start to finish,” Plumptre said. “A Sunlight .......................Widden Stud Hightail .............Woodside Park Stud The Inevitable .........Cornerstone Stud Ruuca ......................Segenhoe Stud NZ$775,000 yearling, a blue chip New Zealand pedigree containing the Behemoth ....................... Riversdale Scathing .................. Turangga Farm classic Zabeel/O’Reilly cross, a Group 1 and Classic-winning three-year- Bold Star .................... Brooklyn Park Exhilarates .....................Vinery Stud Free of Debt .......Phoenix Broodmare Zac Attack .................. Mill Park Stud old and lightly raced. Farm Swan Island ..................Eureka Stud Li’l Kontra.....................Rosden Park Final Declaration ......... Rothwell Park “Once again, like his fellow sire Almanzor, Embellish is a great physical NATIONAL STKS GR3 specimen combining the best of his sire Savabeel and maternal grandsire KEN RUSSELL MEMORIAL Yule My Hero ................... Flower Hill CLASSIC GR3 O’Reilly. Extra Time .................. Armidale Stud Wisdom of Water ...........Eureka Stud Capricorn Ridge ....... Rosebank Farm Kavak ...............Alexia Fraser B’stock “As the only Group 1-winning son of Savabeel standing at stud, Yes Baby Yes ..............Sledmere Stud Saffiano .................. Newhaven Park Embellish represents amazing value coming as he does from New Zealand’s Tick Tock Boom ..... Musk Creek Farm SA FILLIES CLASSIC GR3 Bangers and Mayo ...... Amber Lodge prepotent sire line and with a magnificent pedigree. He bred 138 mares last Angel Rock .................Lauriston Park Daring Man .......Alexia Fraser B’stock season and Cambridge Stud will again be strong supporters in 2020.” RA LEE STKS GR3 Neutron .................... Serene B’stock Minjee ..................... Highgrove Stud Cambridge Stud has long been one of New Zealand’s leading nurseries. Hussybay ..............Cornerstone Stud All Too Huiying ....................Mill Park Always On Show ........Bhima T’breds Under the stewardship of Sir Patrick Hogan, the farm became the home of Roselli Sting .............. Patinack Farm Chapel City .....................Dingelydell ROSEHILL (ATC) champion stallions Sir Tristram (Sir Ivor) and Zabeel (Sir Tristram) and Aristocratic Miss ........ Newgate Farm DARK JEWEL CLASSIC GR3 produced a plethora of champions. Snogging ................ Newhaven Park Amangiri .....................Kitchwin Hills Nipperkin .................... Balcrest Stud Sold by Hogan in late 2017 to Brendan and Jo Lindsay, Cambridge Stud Irithea .......................Arrowfield Stud PROUD MISS STKS GR3 Dyslexic .................... Newgate Farm looked poised to enter an exciting new chapter with a five-strong roster Ready to Prophet ....... Torryburn Stud Everyday Lady ...........Arrowfield Stud Romani Girl ............... Westbury Stud Be My Star ...................Widden Stud last season that included flagship Into the Abyss ................Vinery Stud Kenyan Wonder ............Attunga Stud stallion Tavistock (Montjeu), Once again, Bayou ........................Goldin Farms ASCOT (PERTH) exciting addition Roaring Lion Schilldora .................Riverina Downs like his fellow ROMA CUP GR3 (Kitten’s Joy) and reliable mainstay Black Heart Bart ..... Lakeside T’breds sire Almanzor, Burgundy (Redoute’s Choice). Man Booker ..................Korilya Stud Disposition .......... Peters Investments Embellish is a great However, Roaring Lion suffered physical specimen a colic attack soon after his arrival combining the best in New Zealand in July and after a of his sire Savabeel second attack weeks later, he was euthanised. and maternal In December, Cambridge grandsire O’Reilly Stud lost both Burgundy,