MAIDEN OF THE WEEK Friday, August 13, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here MACAU: SCHEME TO BOOST RIDING RANKS - PAGE 15 SOCIAL HUB - PAGE 18 Group 2 winner Fasika to be Read Tomorrow's Issue For sold on Inglis Digital after Saturday Spotlight What's on Race meetings: Muswellbrook (NSW), Port Missile Stakes third Macquarie (NSW), Geelong (VIC), Ipswich Connections look to buoyant online market to offer ‘the perfect (QLD), Woodville (NZ) specimen’ as breeding season closes in Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Muswellbrook (NSW), Port Macquarie (NSW), Rosehill (NSW) International meetings: Fairview (SAF), Wolverhampton (UK), Nottingham (UK), Newbury (UK), Newmarket (UK), Curragh (IRE), Thirsk (UK) International Group races: Curragh (IRE) - Royal Whip Stakes (Gr 3, 1m 2f), Irish St Leger Trial Stakes (Gr 3, 1m 6f) Fasika SPORTPIX Sale and purchased her for $120,000 before BY JO McKINNON | @ANZ_NEWS managing her racing career, described the six- MORNING BRIEFING resh after her gallant third placing in year-old mare as “the perfect specimen’’. last Saturday’s Missile Stakes (Gr 2, “She’s what every colonial breeder is Tivaci doubles up 1200m) at Randwick, connections of looking for. Big, strong and powerful, a genuine Waikato Stud’s Tivaci (High Chaparral) delivered high class race mare Fasika (So You Group 1 mare that possesses sustained speed, his first winner on Wednesday and took no time Think)F have opted to sell her through the Inglis has an on-pace racing style, a powerful finish to add a second, when Mascherata cruised to Digital August (Late) Auction. and proven against the best. She’s the perfect victory in a 1200-metre Maiden Plate at Scone Tricolours Racing’s James Moss, who mare, the perfect specimen for a breeder,” Moss yesterday, making it two winners in successive selected Fasika at the Inglis Easter Yearling said. Continued on page 3>> days. Continued on page14>> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by “I’ve got 7 or 8 in my system and they’re extremely athletic. I really like them. THE Russian Revolution is without question my pick of the first-crop 2YO sires this season.” TRAINERS – Gerald Ryan RATE THEM “We’re very happy with the Russian Revolutions in our stable. They are very precocious, very switched on and they’ll ON TOP go early. Their attitudes and temperaments are great.” – Peter Snowden Australia’s most elite juvenile trainers like “We couldn’t be happier with the Russian Revolutions we have what they’re seeing. in the stable. At the sales, I was very impressed with their physical appearance, action, and temperament. I would be very optimistic that we will have a couple of them up and going quite early as they have impressed in their early preparations.” – Michael Freedman “In 2021, we made a conscious decision to target the progeny of Russian Revolution. That decision seems to have been validated, as to date, they have shown us great precocity and professionalism in their work, so we are expecting to see that translate into early results for us.” – Adrian Bott First 2YOs race this year Snitzel – Ballet D’Amour (USA), by Stravinsky Fee: $44,000 inc GST NEWGATE.com.au +61 (02) 6543 8395 Fasika to be sold on Inglis Digital after Missile Stakes third | 3 | Friday, August 13, 2021 << Continued from page 1 “I can’t imagine there’d be a stud Tofane (Ocean Park) and Bivouac (Exceed And Excel). master in the country or even further afield that wouldn’t want a mare like Fasika went on to win the Sapphire Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) and the heramongst their mares, she has all theattributes to make an outstanding Wenona Girl Handicap (Gr 3, 1200m) and finished third behind Group 1 broodmare.” winners Tofane and Pierata (Pierro) in the All Aged Stakes (Gr 1,1400m). Trained by Joe Pride, Fasika, a daughter of Redoute's Choice Fasika bled for the first time in her career last Saturday and this no (Danehill) mare Jarada, is renowned for her tough, on-speed racing doubt fast tracked her owners to make the move to sell with a view to pattern and has won five of her 15 starts amassing more than $760,000 marketing her as a prime breeding prospect. in prize-money. Once the decision was made, Moss said he didn’t hesitate to offer the As a three-year-old she won her first two starts comfortably before mare through the booming Inglis Digital sales platform. stepping up to stakes level for the first time at her third outing where “Inglis has been the market leader in this space for a long she won the South time now, the exposure you get through these Inglis Digital sales Pacific Classicis extraordinary and the results speak for themselves. I mean you I CAN’T IMAGINE THERE’D BE A (Listed,1400m) at only need to look at Funstar selling for $2.7m last month to Randwick during The realise top-level mares can make their price through Inglis STUD MASTER IN THE COUNTRY Championships in Digital. OR EVEN FURTHER AFIELD THAT 2019. “Those who get to see her in the flesh over the next couple of weeks WOULDN’T WANT A MARE LIKE After that she and those who see videos and photos that will be available will soon HER AMONGST THEIR MARES, raced exclusively in realise what a strong mare she has developed into physically and while it SHE HAS ALL THE ATTRIBUTES either Stakes company will be sad to say goodbye, she is going to make a lucky breeder extremely TO MAKE AN OUTSTANDING or newly formed ‘rich happy over the next decade or more,” he said. BROODMARE races’, defeating the Fasika is the latest in a growing number of top class race mares to - JAMES MOSS likes of Santa Ana be sold in this type of forum with vendors taking advantage of a white Lane (Lope de Vega), hot buyer’s market for breeding prospects of Continued on page 5>> Follow us @anz_news | 3 | Brought to you by Fasika to be sold on Inglis Digital after Missile Stakes third | 5 | Friday, August 13, 2021 << Continued from page 3 this calibre. “It presents a true and fair market and in many cases a very lucrative one,” said Inglis general manager bloodstock sales and marketing Sebastian Hutch. “The platform has proved itself as a medium capable of commanding a significant premium for a high-end race mare and that certainly appealed to the connectors of Fasika.” The trend to sell online is gaining momentum and provides a wider share of the market better opportunities to secure high quality bloodstock for their breeding portfolios. “James is a very methodical guy and worked through all the permutations very conscientiously before deciding to market her to a broad cross section of buyers across the globe,” Hutch continued. James Moss TRICOLOURS RACING AND SYNDICATIONS “The digital platform gives people options whereas the alternatives were for her to be traded privately or be offered for sale at a public auction next May or June. In this instance it allows connections to take advantage everyone can have a go. of what is a very strong market for desirable breeding stock. “The market is very strong and there's timeliness of digital sales to be “There’s a real confidence in the platform and that confidence has able to act now and not speculate what the market is going to be like in only grown to trade on bloodstock at all levels. The high end is getting seven or eight months' time.” stronger and stronger all the time. Entries for the Inglis Digital August (Late) Online Auction are now “Year after year you hear of high end mares that were traded privately open and close on Wednesday, August 18 at midnight. The sale runs from and breeders that wish they could have got them. 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