Sunday, June 6, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here SECOND STAKES WINNER FOR ASTERN - PAGE 10 MORNING BRIEFING - PAGE 7 Shamus tops the charts as What's on Duais lands stallion a third Metropolitan meetings: Devonport (TAS) Race meetings: Murwillumbah (NSW), elite level winner of season Muswellbrook (NSW), Bairnsdale (VIC), Edward becomes the latest Cummings to add Group 1 training Geelong (VIC), Ipswich (QLD), Pinjarra Park (WA), Roebourne (WA), Port Augusta (SA), win from illustrious racing family with Queensland Oaks victory Wingatui (NZ) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Murwillumbah (NSW) International meetings: Sha Tin (HK), Tokyo (JPN), Chukyo (JPN), Goodwood (UK), Listowel (IRE), Chantilly (FR), Mulheim (GER) International Group races: Tokyo (JPN) - Yasuda Kinen (Gr 1, 1600m). Chantilly (FR) - Prix du Jockey Club (Gr 1, 2100m), Prix de Sandringham (Gr 2, 1600m), Prix du Gros-Chene (Gr 2, 1000m), Grand Prix de Chantilly (Gr 2, 2400m), Prix de Royaumont (Gr 3, 2400m). Mulheim (GER) - Grosser Preis der rp Gruppe (Gr 2, 2200m) Duais MICHAEL MCINALLY Sales: Inglis Digital June (Early) Sale Group 1 winners for the campaign, ahead of a host BY ALEX WILTSHIRE | @ANZ_NEWS of leading sires on two, including Snitzel, Fastnet osemont Stud’s Shamus Award Rock (Danehill), Exceed And Excel (Danehill), (Snitzel) moved to the top of the Frankel (Galileo), All Too Hard (Casino Prince) Group 1-winning sire charts for and Savabeel (Zabeel). the 2020/21 season after siring Duais became Shamus Award’s second Rhis third Group 1 winner this term courtesy of individual Oaks winner for the season, following yesterday’s Queensland Oaks (Gr 1, 2200m) on from Media Award’s win in the Australasian winner Duais (3 f Shamus Award - Meerlust by Oaks (Gr 1, 2000m) last month, a feat only Johannesburg). achieved by Redoute’s Choice (Danehill) (2013) The son of Snitzel (Redoute’s Choice), who in the last 20 years, when the champion stallion ADAYAR CAUSES AN UPSET AS GODOLPHIN has just four crops of racing age, drew level with won the Australian Oaks (Gr 1, 2400m) with Royal COLT BAGS EPSOM DERBY Written Tycoon (Iglesia), leader of the general Descent and the Tasmanian Oaks (Listed, 2100m) - PAGE 12 classification sire standings this season, on three with Global Balance. Continued on page 2>> FRI 4TH - WED 9TH JUN 2021 INGLIS DIGITAL JUN (EARLY) SALE SALE LIVE - CLICK HERE Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Shamus tops the charts as Duais lands stallion a third elite level winner of season | 2 | Sunday, June 6, 2021 << Continued from page 1 Mr Quickie, a first-crop flagbearer Out of Meerlust, Duais became the first for the Cox Plate- (Gr 1, 2040m) winning stallion, claimed the Toorak Group 1 winner in the southern hemisphere Handicap (Gr 1, 1600m) in October last year, adding to his Queensland by a Johannesburg (Hennessy) mare, Derby (Gr 1, 2400m) win of 2019. despite the stallion boasting winners of The win was also a momentous occasion for a great family of Australian a Preakness Stakes (Gr 1, 9f), Irish Oaks racing, as Edward Cummings, grandson of Bart, son of Anthony and (Gr 1, 1m 4f), Irish 1,000 Guineas (Gr 1, brother of James, won his first Group 1 since leaving a partnership with 1m) and the Middle Park Stakes (Gr 1, 7f) his father and going it alone at the start of 2019. at Newmarket in a broodmare sire capacity. Duais, a homebred for Matthew Irwin and his family, won the Adrian Percy Sykes Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) winner Jamaea Knox Stakes (Gr 3, 2000m) at Randwick on April 10, before backing up (Headwater) became the first Group 2 winner in Shamus with a second in the Australian Oaks a week later, and was freshened Australia out of a Johannesburg mare in April this year. Award up ahead of this Group 1 assignment in Brisbane, in an adept training Meerlust was purchased by Matthew Irwin for just performance from the latest Cummings to add his name to the Australian $22,000 as a yearling from the Scone May sale in 2009 and, despite Group 1-winning trainer list. claiming just the one win at Grafton in a five-race career, has been a Sent off the $2.80 favourite, Hugh Bowman took Duais straight to the prolific producer in the breeding barn. back pair of the 13-runner field, a position she assumed until turning for Her second foal is Sunshine Coast Guineas (Gr 3, 1600m) winner home as the pace ebbed and flowed up front, with Ruru (So You Think) Baccarat Baby (Casino Prince), while Duais, her fourth named foal, making a mid-race move to keep the tempo honest. becomes her second stakes winner. Baccarat Baby was sold for $650,000 Bowman swung off heels, picking a gap between horses down the centre to Spendthrift Australia as the curtain came down on her 27-start career of the track in the straight, and finished much the dominant force to win by a which yielded eight wins, including two at stakes level. going-away two and a half lengths ahead of New Zealand-bred duo Charms The mare has a two-year-old sister to Duais named Amity Gal who Star (Per Incanto) and Signora Nera (Sweynesse), to cue a clench of the fist from is trained by David Van Dyke, while she was served by All Too Hard last the jockey as he crossed the line and euphoria from Cummings and his team. year. Nature’s Light, delivered using smart Stable Lights and mobile Light Masks. We’ve been using Equilume Light Masks on our dry mares for early cycling since 2013 and find them a very useful operational tool. 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Anthony took the baton, while the contemporary is James. And the latest; Edward. The Cummings family name is synonymous with some of the most iconic moments of Australian racing history. And yesterday it was Edward Cummings who carved his name into the Cummings’ Group 1-winning tradition. Duais became Edward Cummings’ first stakes winner when winning the Adrian Knox Stakes in April, and secured a first Group 1 win for the blue-blooded trainer yesterday, with this a training performance his ancestors and decorated family members would have been proud of. Edward Cummings and Hugh Bowman MICHAEL MCINALLY In a preparation that began with her maiden win at Newcastle on December 20, Cummings campaigned the filly via a freshen up to wins at that. We discussed it beforehand and he had a very clear idea of what he Warwick Farm on March 31 and the Adrian Knox just ten days later, while should be doing at about the half-mile and that’s how it panned out. He’s running second in the Australian Oaks behind Hungry Heart (Frankel) the best in Australia in my mind and I think he’s proven that again today. just a week after that. “This is all very surreal,” said Cummings. “I suppose I will come to Coming off an absence of seven weeks yesterday, the trainer terms with it in the next few hours, the next few days and maybe the next rejuvenated his stable star to deliver a scintillating performance at Eagle few months. There is something about this game that makes you want to Farm, with a visibly emotional Cummings overawed in the aftermath of get up the next day and work harder and prove it again and again. the result. “While I’m very thankful for the opportunity, I’m thrilled with today’s “It’s definitely been an interesting experience,” he said. “I suppose I result. No one really knows what the future holds and all you can do is thought she could win that way and I’m glad she did. the best. We’ve worked our butts off. We started from zero, had no horses “We’ve done it before already in the prep (freshen the horse up). She in the stables and we built that up, day by day, week by week, month by was about seven weeks between runs from Hawkesbury to Warwick Farm. month, and kept believing in ourselves, and here we are. We took her to the trials about three weeks out from Warwick Farm and we “I’d like to think that the same ethic will carry us a long way into the put Hugh (Bowman) at the trials and Hugh on at Warwick Farm and she future. ran a PB and we’ve just done the same thing. Bowman praised the filly, while he was also proud to deliver a first “She’s that sort of a filly (a straightforward one),” Cummings continued.