New Zealand government Read Tomorrow's Issue For: Maiden Of The Week to act on On The Watch Messara Report What's On Race meetings: Albury (NSW), Newcastle Industry News | Page 14 (NSW), Benalla (VIC), Pakenham (VIC), Townsville (QLD), Narrogin (WA), Thursday, April 18, 2019 Woodville (NZ) Woodside Park Stud announce 2019 fees Written Tycoon’s fee left unchanged at $110,000 Sales News Star-studded Magic Millions broodmare catalogue released Written Tycoon WOODSIDE PARK STUD By Chris Humpleby the Blue Diamond Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) and Golden Slipper Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) oodside Park Stud’s flagship respectively, while that duo were recently joined Beat The Clock HKJC stallion Written Tycoon by the Mathew Ellerton and Simon Zahra- (Iglesia) will stand for an trained Booker, who landed the Oakleigh Plate A mammoth catalogue has been released unchanged fee of $110,000 (Gr 1, 1100m) in February. for next month’s Magic Millions Gold Coast W(inc GST) during the 2019 breeding season Written Tycoon had 16 lots sell at an National Broodmare Sale, with some of the with the Victoria-based stud farm having average of $326,875 at the recent Inglis most commercial broodmare prospects and announced pricing details for their five-strong Australian Easter Yearling Sale and they best-credentialled race fillies featuring among stallion roster yesterday. included a $900,000 half-brother to Listed the 1071 lots. A winner of the Todman Stakes (Gr 2, winner Guard Of Honour (Northern Meteor), Featured in the catalogued are 120 stakes 1200m) as a two-year-old, Written Tycoon has who was knocked down to McEvoy-Mitchell winners and the dams of 50 stakes winners become one of the leading success stories Racing and the China Horse Club. including seven at Group 1 level such as the for Victorian stallions in recent times, siring James Price, Woodside Park’s general mothers of Hong Kong’s Beat The Clock 28 individual stakes performers including six commercial manager, was understandably (Hinchinbrook), who is in foal to Smart Missile Group 1 winners. buoyant ahead of Written Tycoon’s 13th season (Fastnet Rock), Levendi (Pierro), Southern The sextet are led by former high-class in the covering barn, which will be his second at Lord (Stratum) and Southern Speed (Southern juveniles Written By and Capitalist, who won $110,000. Continued on page 2>> Image). Sales News page XX | 1 | Brought to you by Woodside Park Stud announce 2019 fees | 2 | Thursday, April 18, 2019 << Continued from page 1 “A beacon for the Victorian industry, The stallion roster at Woodside Park is completed by Tosen Stardom Written Tycoon’s appeal extends far beyond (the confines of the state) as (Deep Impact), a dual Group 1 winner who will cover his second book he is one of only a handful of stallions to have sired two individual colts of mares at an unchanged fee of $19,250 (inc GST), and new recruit to win the two richest Group 1 two-year-old features in the Australian Foxwedge (Fastnet Rock), a former Newgate Farm resident who will stand calendar, with Capitalist winning the Golden Slipper and Written By his first year in Victoria at $16,500 (inc GST). landing the Blue Diamond,” Price said. Tosen Stardom covered 122 mares last season, while Foxwedge “Only breed-shapers Redoute’s Choice and Danehill are the other - who shuttled to Whitsbury Manor Stud for four northern hemisphere stallions in the past 25 years to do so.” breeding seasons between 2013 and 2016 - has been represented by Written Tycoon will be joined at Woodside by his Group 2-winning three top-tier winners - Volpe Veloce, Foxplay and Urban Fox. son Rich Enuff, who also finished runner-up in the Caulfield Guineas (Gr “With a season under his belt, Tosen Stardom has let down into a true 1, 1600m) and who will stand for an unchanged fee of $12,100 (inc GST). equine marvel,” Price said. “Breeders will see he has transformed into a Having covered 115 mares in 2018, Rich Enuff will enter his fourth tremendous equine athlete.” season at stud on the back of his first crop of yearlings to have passed Regarding Foxwedge, he added: “This price offers incredible value. through the sales ring, which included seven lots sold at an average of With his credentials as a sire, at this price he has no peer in Victoria. $66,286 during the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale. “The risk has been removed with Foxwedge – he is the sire of Group First season shuttler Cable Bay (Invincible Spirit), who has made an 1 winners and breeders have the opportunity to breed their own Group 1 explosive start with his first crop of northern hemisphere two-year-olds, winner at a very affordable price.” siring two winners and a second from his first three runners, will also stand for an unchanged fee of $13,200 (inc GST) - his third Australian Woodside Park 2019 stallion roster (all fees include GST) breeding season having covered 100 mares in 2017 and 119 last year. (2018 fee in brackets) “We have a fascinating and highly-anticipated 12 months ahead with Written Tycoon $110,000 ($110,000) these two stallions having their first runners on the track in 2019,” Price Tosen Stardom $19,250 ($19,250) continued. Foxwedge $16,500 ($22,000 - Newgate Farm) “Everybody has loved the physique of Rich Enuff’s stock, while Cable Cable Bay $13,200 ($13,200) Bay’s first three runners for two winners and a second is simply extraordinary.” Rich Enuff $12,100 ($12,100) AN ELITE PRODUCING MARE NOW NOW LOT 17 – 2019 INGLIS CHAIRMAN’S SALE • Now Now is a proven producer of brilliant Stakes-winning millionaire Fiesta, a dual Group winner and G1 placed when beaten a nose in the Flight Stakes • Off ered in foal to one of Australia’s most exciting stallions Pierro • “I love this mare. Her race record doesn’t refl ect it due to bad luck, but she had Image: great ability and she’s been a fantastic producer. She’s the sort of mare that everyone Star Filly dreams about having – throws a good sort each and every year, but she deserves to go to Fiesta the very best stallions and paying those big fees doesn’t fi t into my business model. I have no doubt that she will have a belter by Pierro and I can think of any number of other sexy commercial stallions that she could visit. It’s not beyond a mare like her to throw a million dollar yearling, particularly now that she has the runs on the board with Fiesta.” – Mike O’Donnell, Fairhill Farm The Chairman’s Sale Friday 3 May 2019 – Evening Session Riverside Stables, Sydney Catalogue available now inglis.com.au | 2 | Brought to you by #REWRITINGHISTORY Morning Briefing | sponsored by Westbury Stud | 4 | Thursday, April 18, 2019 Aged line-up and the four-year-old is a $13 1, 1600m) after both horses have emerged Australia chance having finished fourth in the T J Smith unscathed from falls in the Fernhill Handicap 13 to line-up in All Aged Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) on her last start. "It was a (Listed, 1600m) over the same course and A field of 13 will line-up for Saturday’s All Aged fantastic run and she was probably a bit stiff not distance last weekend, an incident which left Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) at Randwick, with favourite to run second," Baker said. "Once again, she Andrew Adkins - rider of War Baron - with a Osborne Bulls (Street Cry) drawing the inside was up against some really good horses and catalogue of injuries. "If I knew they couldn't gate in barrier one. One of two Godolphin- she's been knocking on the door in Group 1s. be competitive I'd rather keep them (home) owned runners in the contest, Osborne Bulls She deserves her chance at it. It's not an easy but I thought, what the hell, I fancied them will be joined by the Charlie Appleby-trained race - it never is in Group 1s - but she's really both to be in the money last Saturday then that D’Bai (Dubawi), who will break from stall nine. well." happened," Payne said. "So I thought we'd give Multiple Group 1 winner Le Romain (Hard it a crack. It's a stronger field but still, they're Spun) has the outside draw in barrier 14, while McEvoy has confidence untapped so let them have a go." the Greg Hickman-trained Pierata (Pierro) has in D’Bai been handed barrier 10. Kerrin McEvoy has issued a positive bulletin Waller accepts with on Al Fahidi Fort Stakes (Gr 2, 1400m) winner seven in Tails Home Of The Brave given D’Bai (Dubawi). "He's a fresh horse on the Chris Waller has accepted seven alternative option scene, coming off a nice win in a Group 2 race representatives for the Tails Stakes (Listed, The All Aged Stakes originally received 14 in Dubai where he travelled really well behind 1615m) at Doomben on Saturday having held acceptors - the maximum field-size - but a good speed and quickened up past them ten of the original 15 nominations. Waller James Cummings subsequently scratched over the concluding stages," McEvoy told will saddle Tom Melbourne (Dylan Thomas), Home Of The Brave (Starspangledbanner), who Racing NSW. "I think he is going to act really Exoteric (Champs Elysees), My Nordic Hero will instead make his return in the Hall Mark well over 1400 metres around Randwick. It is a (Archipenko), Savvy Coup (Savabeel), Kaonic Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m) later on the Randwick good line-up of locals, but I think he is bringing (Savabeel), Tumultuous (Fastnet Rock) and card.