Monday, July 6, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here INTERNATIONAL RACING NEWS | GHAIYYATH STRIKES IN ECLIPSE AS ENABLE GOES DOWN FIGHTING - PAGE 18 I Am Invincible relation to Read Tomorrow's Issue For: Winx comes out on top in Stallion Watch What's on pandemic-affected market Race meetings: Moree (NSW), Wagga Ryan lands $700,000 colt at Inglis Easter Round 2 sale at Riverside (NSW), Warracknabeal (VIC) Barrier trials/ Jump-outs: Warwick Farm (NSW), Wagga (NSW), Cranbourne (VIC) Belmont (WA), Hobart (TAS) International meetings: Ayr (UK), Windsor (UK), Thirsk (UK), Fairview (SAF) Sales: Gavelhouse.com 6 July Auction (Online) Lot 95 I Am Invinvible - Miss Atom Bomb colt INGLIS were able to agree on market values while the Thoroughbreds-consigned sales topper gained Scone Yearling Sale which followed, achieved BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS the honour after Sydney trainer Gerald Ryan a clearance rate of 81 per cent at an average of n I Am Invincible (Invincible successfully negotiated with the colt’s breeder $17,652. Spirit) colt from the same family as to buy the rising two-year-old for $700,000 after Ryan, who also bought a Corumbene Stud- Winx (Street Cry) has become the he had been passed in through the ring. bred son of I Am Invincible for $130,000 and headline act of a prevailing buyers’ Yulong sold the two next highest-priced a No Nay Never (Scat Daddy) filly for $50,000 marketA at Round 2 of the Inglis Australian lots, a Frankel (Galileo) filly and an I Am from Coolmore yesterday, thought the market Easter Yearling Sale, the first live auction to be Invincible colt, who each made $500,000. had held up well given the circumstances held in the country since the coronavirus-led Overall, 51 of the 83 Easter Round 2 which included Victorians being banned lockdown. yearlings were sold yesterday at an average from attending the complex only days out In what was described by some industry of $131,588 with a number of passed in lots from the sale due to Racing NSW coronavirus participants as a “tough” market, the Bhima finding new homes, as buyers and vendors protocols. Continued on page 2>> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by I Am Invincible relation to Winx comes out on top | 2 | Monday, July 6, 2020 << Continued from page 1 “I know a few of the vendors would be a bit disappointed, but given the present situation I think they’ve sold OK,” Ryan said. “The colts and the good fillies, the same as every sale, they make their money.” Sam Fairgray, chief operating officer for leading vendor Yulong which sold three of its 12 yearlings on offer, was in no doubt the Covid-19 pandemic created a “buyers’ market”. “Everyone has to deal with the current economic circumstances - everyone is in the same boat globally,” he said. “It will stay like this a bit longer yet where it’s probably a buyers’ market at the moment, but that said, to get $500,000 for those two horses we’re really happy about. “It’s been great Inglis has been able to even create a marketplace with Lot 95 I Am Invinvible - Miss Atom Bomb colt INGLIS this live auction, so credit to them.’’ Agent Jim Clarke, who acts for clients including Bjorn Baker and “The fact that the prize-money has gone back to pre-Covid levels gives Stuart Kendrick, agreed that it was a big effort from the industry to be able us a lot of confidence to bid strongly and there’s always going to be people to conduct a live sale during the unprecedented crisis. who want to be involved. Clarke bought two yearlings by Snitzel (Redoute’s Choice) in “We’ve taken a cautious approach in terms of the horses we’ve bought conjunction with Baker including a colt from the Edinburgh Park draft for since the pandemic struck and we have focused on quality.” $400,000. Inglis managing director Mark Webster was well aware of the importance “It is changing times, no doubt, but we’re in the racing business, so the company played in providing an avenue for vendors to be able to sell their we’ve got to keep buying horses and racing them,” Clarke said. stock, and was pleased with yesterday’s outcome. Continued on page 4>> Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by Multiple Champion sire & proven sire of sires in Japan The world’s best sire, broodmare sire of leading young sire Night of Thunder, The Autumn Sun etc. Unbeaten Gr.1-winning Champion 2YO in Europe 2YO SW over 1000m in England Group-winning 2YO in Ireland Gr.1 winner in England & Germany Dual Gr.2 winner in U.A.E. 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New Zealand: Gordon Calder Tel:+64 218 41612. www.coolmore.com I Am Invincible relation to Winx comes out on top | 4 | Monday, July 6, 2020 << Continued from page 2 “In general I would say that although the last minute - yearlings that they had never encountered in the past.” we had a mix of three different sales here - we had yearlings from Queensland vendor Ron Gilbert of Highgrove Stud sold the Snitzel Easter, Scone and the (Melbourne) Gold sale - all up we have cleared brother to Group 2 winner Thronum for $300,000 to Aquis Farm as well over 70 per cent of the offering which under the circumstances with as an American Pharoah (Pioneerof The Nile) colt who was purchased for the economic climate, the health crisis and the travel restrictions ... is $130,000 by A List Stud’s Chris Lee. still a positive, certainly for the participants who need the cash flow,” “It’s been a tough sale, but also being a later sale people have already Webster said. bought a lot of horses,” he said. Last week Victorian participants were denied entry to Riverside “We bought two lovely colts down here and sold them both. They Stables after a Racing NSW directive, but prominent trainers still took the made their money. Had it been a normal year, would they make more? I’d chance to add to the depth of their yearling crops this year. say buyers have bought well.” Pakenham-based Phillip Stokes and Peter Moody were both active, while Mick Price and Lindsay Park were also active while international Ryan’s powers of observation buyers from Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and New Zealand also featured pay off with Miss Atom Bomb colt on the buyers’ sheet. Ryan, meanwhile, was pleased to be able to secure the third foal of the “I think over the last three or four months everyone has found a way to unraced Miss Atom Bomb (Encosta De Lago), a mare the Rosehill trainer continue to do business even if they aren’t physically present,” Webster said. saw firsthand when she was in training with Tim Martin. “I don’t think they ever participate to the same degree when they “He’s a nice horse who is by a great stallion out of a mare who was are here, so our preference is to run a live auction and have everyone in unraced but I knew what she could do,” he said. attendance but that’s not possible, so we have to work with what we have. “She had a stack of ability and she was very fast and she is a half-sister “I was very disappointed when it became clear that we couldn’t have to none other than Winx, so you wouldn’t get a better page. Victorian buyers here. A number of Victorian vendors were hamstrung. “He’s a big, strong horse and while you wouldn’t say he’d be a “Some of them decided to send their yearlings, others didn’t. I pre-Christmas two-year-old, he’d definitely be ready to run in the certainly commend the crews that were put together to sell yearlings at autumn.” Continued on page 6>> Royal Ascot superstar & Gr.1-winning sprinter at 2 & 3 years By sire of sires SCAT DADDY - just like sire sensation NO NAY NEVER Commonwealth Cup-Gr.1 BLUE POINT HARRY ANGEL “while No Nay Never was an exciting racehorse in his own right, Caravaggio was simply a masterpiece in winning the G2 Coventry S., G1 Keeneland Phoenix S. and G1 Commonwealth Cup. TDN, 4th Jan 2019 ” First crop foals selling this week Colm Santry, John Kennedy, Paddy Oman, Tom Moore, Rob Archibald or Emma Pugsley Tel: 02 6576 4200. 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