HONG KONG’S CLOCK TICKS OUT FOR JOHN MOORE, THE BIG-RACE KING - PAGE 20 Friday, July 10, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here HONG KONG NEWS | PURTON DELIVERS FOR CRUZ AS YIU AND LUI STALL AT THE VALLEY - PAGE 17 Not A Single Doubt What's on Race meetings: Goulburn (NSW), Scone filly tops Inglis Weanling (NSW), Pakenham (VIC), Ipswich (QLD), Wanganui (NZ) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Randwick (NSW), Sale at $280,000 Scone (NSW), Flemington (VIC) Victorian vendor O’Brien relieved with strong result after International meetings: Busan (KOR), Newmarket July (UK), Musselburgh (UK), Bath stressful period (UK), Curragh (IRE), Hamburg (GER), Fairview (SAF), Keeneland (USA) International Group races: Newmarket July (UK) - Falmouth Stakes (Gr 1, 1m), Duchess Of Cambridge Stakes (Gr 2, 6f). Hamburg (GER) - Grosser Preis von Lotto Hamburg (Gr 3, 1200m). Keeneland (USA) - Maker’s Mark Mile (Gr 1, 1m), Beaumont Stakes (Gr 3, 7f) International sales: Tattersalls July Sale (UK) Lot 343 Not a Single Doubt - Rhodamine filly INGLIS Sydney foal sale, in particular, bodes well for BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS those vendors who also have stock catalogued SALES NEWS he Inglis Australian Weanling Sale, at the upcoming Magic Millions National Sale which ended yesterday with a Not on the Gold Coast. Victorian agents expected to A Single Doubt (Redoute’s Choice) The two-day Australian Weanling be allowed into Queensland filly becoming the star attraction Sale achieved turnover of more than $7.5 Victorian industry participants who are atT $280,000, has helped keep the breeding million, coming after $6.9 million was currently undertaking quarantine ahead of industry wheel turning and took the week’s traded at Inglis Easter Round 2 and a further the Magic Millions National Sale on the Gold trade to nearly $17 million. $2.3 million changing hands in the Scone Coast will be allowed to enter Queensland The market sentiment experienced at the Yearling Sale. Continued on page 2>> despite the government banning residents from the southern state from travelling PAGE 27 there. Sales News page 16 >> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Not A Single Doubt filly tops Inglis Weanling Sale at $280,000 | 2 | Friday, July 10, 2020 << Continued from page 1 There were 220 weanlings sold over “I’m ecstatic, over the moon, emotional, very proud of the the two days, averaging $34,155 (down seven per cent year on year), with achievements of today. What a day,’’ O’Brien said. the median sitting at $20,000 overnight. The clearance rate was 76 per “We were jumping in a car Friday to sell up there in Sydney but we got cent. blocked on Wednesday, so everything changed. The three sales, held at Inglis’ state-of-the-art Riverside Stables, were “We had to find staff, organise travel, accommodation, who could the first conducted as live auctions since the Covid-19 pandemic struck offload the horses once they got to Sydney, all the logistics while trying to and were held with the premises closed to Victorian participants, whose let Victorians know they had one day basically to do on-farm inspections state grappled with the rapid spread of the deadly virus. here in Victoria before the horses left and everything else.” The Australian Weanling Sale figures were boosted by the late addition The filly was one of a number of last-minute supplementaries as of a strong draft from Victoria’s Lauriston Thoroughbred Farm which a result of the cancelation of the Great Southern Sale, with Lauriston included the $280,000 Not A Single Doubt sibling to the stakes-performed Thoroughbred Farm selling all ten of its weanlings offered yesterday. The sprinter Legend Of Condor. draft averaged $69,900. The filly, one of 16 weanlings to make $100,000 or more, usurped an “Karis Clarkson ran our team for us at Riverside and she did an Exceed And Excel (Danehill) colt who fetched $260,000 on Wednesday as outstanding job, as did all the staff, who had never seen these weanlings the sale’s highest-priced foal. before until the weekend,” O’Brien said. A colt by Written Tycoon (Iglesia), who was offered by Woodside Park “It really took my stress to a new level. The foals are born on your farm, you Stud, also sold for $180,000 yesterday after being bought by Binalong raise them, get them ready for auction and come to the grand final. It’s like we’ve Bloodstock. pulled a hamstring three days out and can’t play. It really was distressing. The honour of selling the highest-priced lot brought to an end a “But to come out the other side as leading vendor, all credit turbulent and emotional few weeks for Lauriston Thoroughbred Farm’s goes to my team here on the farm, they put a lot of effort in and the James O’Brien, who was the leading vendor by average at the sale, after the feedback I was getting daily from Karis and her crew at Riverside recent death of his respected father Kevin and the fact he had to contend was exceptional, so thank you to everyone who helped us achieve with the off-again, on-again nature of the sale for Victoria-based sellers. these great results.’’ Continued on page 4>> NEW IN 2020 RIBCHESTER Champion European Miler – Twice 4-time G1 winner & rated 129 by Timeform IFFRAAJ’s best son $15,000 + GST Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by MELBOURNE GOLD YEARLING SALE NOW ONLINE La Falaise 2018 Melbourne Gold Sale Winner of the G2 INGLIS DIGITAL Moonee Valley Fillies Classic JULY 1 0 -16 I’ll Have A Bit 2016 Melbourne Gold Sale ONLINE SALE Dual Group winner & G1-placed Gold Fields 2014 Melbourne Gold Sale Winner of the G3 Sandown Stakes & $649,365 Lunar Fox 2019 Melbourne Gold Sale Winner of the G2 Sires’ Produce Stakes JULY 10-16 ONLINE SALE Final countdown of bidding begins 10am Thursday, July 16 inglisdigital.com Not A Single Doubt filly tops Inglis Weanling Sale at $280,000 | 4 | Friday, July 10, 2020 << Continued from page 2 Agent Suman Hedge, who was bidding is the fourth living foal out of the eight-time winner Rhodamine (Success from hotel quarantine in Sydney, combined for a second time at the sale with Express). She was catalogued as Lot 343. prominent owner and breeder Steve Grant to secure the top-priced filly. While the intention is to reoffer the filly at next year’s yearling sales, He relied on Rob Petith, who oversees Grant’s Silverdale farm in the most likely at Magic Millions, Hedge believes some of the risk was NSW Southern Highlands, as well as Milburn Creek’s Scott Holcombe to mitigated by the fact that the filly’s pedigree held a degree of residual provide him with feedback after inspecting her at the complex. value. “They were adamant that she was quite elite and the pedigree was “When you have got a horse like that you’ve got a few options up your there as well,” Hedge said. sleeve with what you do with her but certainly the intention will be to sell When you “Because of the circumstances, her,” he said. we did a fair bit of due diligence by “Not A Single Doubt’s also been such a good stallion and every day we have got a talking to a number of people who are reminded how good he is. horse like that you’ve had seen her. “The fact that he’s been pensioned now and that they’re not making got a few options up “We lent on Inglis as well and them any more, they are just going to be so valuable. You’d expect that he your sleeve with what they were very forthcoming that will make an impact as a broodmare sire later on, but this horse has got a you do with her but she was a really early, strong, agile good profile for racing, too.” type and very much in the mould O’Brien was pleased the market backed up his opinion of the sales certainly the intention of the sire. That’s the kind of filly topper. will be to sell her that’s going to be attractive to the “She’s an outstanding type and was from the outset,’’ he said. - Suman market.” “We’ve always felt she’d be popular come sale-time so all credit to Hedge A sister to ATC Kindergarten Suman and Steve and the team, I’m confident they’ll get a great result if Stakes (Gr 3, 1100m) runner-up they on sell or keep her to race.’’ and Skyline Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) Hedge and Grant also bought a Deep Field (Northern Meteor) filly on placed Legend Of Condor, the filly day one for $100,000 from Edinburgh Park Stud. 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