Thursday, November 12, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here IT'S IN THE BLOOD - PAGE 13 YESTERDAY'S RACE RESULTS - PAGE 17 Odeum’s owners make Read Tomorrow's Issue For: late bid for mother and Maiden Of The Week What's on sister of Toronado stakes Race meetings: Port Macquarie (NSW), Wangaratta (VIC), Pakenham (VIC), Gatton (QLD), Bunbury (WA) winner Shelby Cobra Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Rosehill (NSW), Port Macquarie (NSW), Murray Bridge (SA), Mills sets Inglis Digital broodmare record after Ellerslie (NZ) paying $325,000 for two-in-one package International meetings: Chelmsford (UK), Greyville (SAF) International sales: Bloodstock South Africa National 2YO Sale (SAF), Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale (USA) MORNING BRIEFING Segenhoe Valley INGLIS First for Worthy Cause Victorian agent Sheamus Mills yesterday Ain’t She Lovely (2 f ex Backpacker Express by BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS combined with loyal clients Heath Newton Big Brown) took out a 1100-metre maiden at he syndicate behind Thousand and Anthony Roberts to secure Segenhoe Ipswich yesterday to provide first-season sire Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) winner Valley (Dane Shadow), who has a filly Worthy Cause (Choisir) his maiden winner with Odeum (Written Tycoon) have foal at foot by Swettenham Stud shuttler just his second runner. The John Zielke-trained swooped on a valuable two-in- Toronado (High Chaparral), for $325,000 in Ain’t She Lovely, bred by Dovedeen Stud, had oneT mare and foal package which gained a the Inglis Digital November (Early) Online finished unplaced in her first two starts but was significant pedigree update a day after bidding Auction. nothing short of impressive yesterday. in an online auction had started. Continued on page 2>> Morning Briefing page 6 >> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Odeum's owners make late bid for mother and sister of Shelby Cobra | 2 | Thursday, November 12, 2020 << Continued from page 1 The filly’s three-year-old brother her narrow defeat in the Empire Rose Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m) on Derby Day Shelby Cobra, one of two stakes winners at Flemington for Toronado on at Flemington to become number one seed in the group’s select group of Saturday, won the Springtime Stakes (Listed, 1400m) at just his third start quality race fillies and broodmares. for trainer Mike Moroney. Mills is confident that Segenhoe Valley and her foal will prove to be a Mills was impressed by the manner of Shelby Cobra’s victory, but it well-bought addition to the group’s bloodstock portfolio. was only earlier this week when he thought the mare and foal deserved “You pick up any catalogue and look at 1000 mares, how many of them strong consideration, will produce a stakes horse in their first three foals?” he pondered. “Funnily enough, I only spotted the horse and started to pay attention “I don’t know the answer to that question but I am tipping it is less to her on Tuesday after I saw the ad in the ANZ, so you can say that the full- than five per cent. I think what this mare has done needs to be recognised. page ad worked there,” Mills told ANZ Bloodstock News last night. “When you start to think about it more, we go to the yearling sales and “I had seen her mentioned, but the ad twigged a memory. I rang spend $300,000 to $400,000 trying to buy a nice yearling. With this, you Russell Osborne to ask if I could go and have a look. I did the run to have essentially bought the foal and you have got mum as well. Riverbank Farm at Benalla today and inspected her. I liked her, so I spoke “If I went to the sales and said to Newhaven Park’s John Kelly that we to my clients and we want Odeum and Odeum’s mum for $400,000, you would get laughed off had a bid.” the place. I said to the boys, ‘it’s the time of year and the situation that I ONLY SPOTTED THE HORSE The Newton,we’re all in, maybe the true value of this horse won’t get recognised’ and AND STARTED TO PAY Mills and Roberts personally I think that’s the case.” ATTENTION TO HER ON TUESDAY partnership enjoyed Segenhoe Valley’s dam Scone (Zabeel) is from a potent and current AFTER I SAW THE AD IN THE Group 1 success last family with the likes of Listed winner Roulettes (Flying Spur) and her ANZ, SO YOU CAN SAY THAT THE month with the Mick offspring Sun City (Zoustar) and Parlophone (I Am Invincible), as well FULL-PAGE AD WORKED THERE Price and Mick Kent as talented stakes-winning sprinter Vezalay (Shamardal), out of Tactfully - SHEAMUS MILLS Jr-trained Odeum, (Flying Spur), herself Group-placed. who was spelled after Mills will have Segenhoe Valley vetted this Continued on page 4>> Sale of Two-Year-Olds 18 & 19 November, 1PM (NZT) Register for Online Bidding at bidonline.nzb.co.nz GROUP ONES In the last six seasons, NZB Ready to Run Sale graduates have claimed 20 Group One accolades and 135 stakes wins, compared with just three Group Ones and 69 stakes wins for both Australian two-year-old sale graduates combined. www.nzb.co.nz Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by Odeum's owners make late bid for mother and sister of Shelby Cobra | 4 | Thursday, November 12, 2020 << Continued from page 2 morning in the hope that she could be mated with an as-yet undecided stallion, while he is delighted with what he saw when inspecting the mare and her three-week-old foal. “I love this family. I’d say I have clients who have three or four mares from that family,” he said. “There’s Parlophone and Vezalay and, the thing about it is, in another year or two you will be struggling to fit the stakes winners on the page. It’s that depth of pedigree that had me interested.” Segenhoe Valley is the second highest-priced lot sold through an Inglis Digital sale and the most expensive broodmare to be put through the virtual marketplace. Stakes-winning race mare Manaya (Hinchinbrook) holds the company record at $400,000 after being sold in the July 2019 auction. Segenhoe Valley, who raced three times for two placings including Shelby Cobra RACING PHOTOS a first-start second at Newcastle as a two-year-old for Gerry Harvey, was sold for just $5000 to Queensland hobby breeder Laurelle Owen at the year’s Inglis Premier Sale and started receiving reports that he was showing 2018 Inglis Great Southern Sale when she was in foal to Starcraft (Soviet lots of promise in the stable, so I rang Russell Osborne at Riverbank and Star). The now unraced two-year-old colt has been named Star Acclaim told him I wanted to send the dam to Toronado and everything since has while she missed in 2018 before heading to Toronado last year. just fallen into place. “The only reason I bought this mare is because I saw Shelby Cobra “It’s a credit to Russell and Caroline Osborne at Riverbank Farm, go through as a weanling at the same sale for $70,000 to Maluka they’ve done a fabulous job looking after my girls then ensuring we got Thoroughbreds,” Owen said. the right certificates completed to upload to this mare’s listing, plus videos “I’ve been following Shelby Cobra, I saw him make $130,000 at last and photographs completed (by Digital Media Creations).” 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 | 4 | Brought to you by Morning Briefing -Sponsored by Woodside Park Stud Thursday, November 12, 2020 G3 G1 G1 G1 G2 G3 WRITTEN DIRT Y WORK FINANCE BEAUTY PIPPIE ODEUM OLE KIRK T YCOON G3 WRIT TEN T YCOON G3 ENTHAAR #REWRITINGHISTORY RICH HIPS MORNING BRIEFING Preusker revealed the race took a lot out of the just needs trips and as he’s gotten older he’s got a AUSTRALIA six-year-old. "He had a stretch out and he wasn't couple of habits where he’s jumped slow, so he’s First for Worthy Cause quite where I wanted him to be," the trainer said. a horse that needs everything to go right for him.” Ain’t She Lovely (2 f ex Backpacker Express by "He's not 100 per cent and it's probably the right Big Brown) took out a 1100-metre maiden at time to put him out and chase a bit of spring Aysar out to silence the Ipswich yesterday to provide first-season sire grass. I was looking forward to him starting at doubters Worthy Cause (Choisir) his maiden winner with Sandown with the sting out of the track but you Tom Dabernig and Ben Hayes are also hot on the just his second runner. The John Zielke-trained don't want to take him there and waste a run. It's chances of Aysar (Deep Field), who is set to line up Ain’t She Lovely, bred by Dovedeen Stud, had only eight days since the Melbourne Cup and in the Sandown Guineas (Gr 2, 1600m). The colt finished unplaced in her first two starts but was he hasn't quite recovered." Preusker will give has been installed as the hot favourite following nothing short of impressive yesterday. Sent off Surprise Baby a break and then set him for the $5 two consecutive runner-up performances in the a $4.40 chance under Georgina Cartwright, million All-Star Mile (1600m) at Moonee Valley Caulfield Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) and Carbine the filly made all and quickened nicely in the in March next year.