Tuesday, July 21, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here STALLION WATCH - PAGE 16 DOMESTIC BLACK-TYPE CALENDAR - PAGE 22 Shuttle stallions take What's on flight during turbulent Race meetings: Wyong (NSW), Pakenham (VIC), Mackay (QLD) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Caulfield (VIC), pandemic-induced period Otaki (NZ) Coolmore and Darley big guns on way ahead of second International meetings: Chepstow (UK), Sandown (UK), Vichy (FR) shipment next week MACAU NEWS | DERBY KING LAU MAKES IT FOUR - PAGE 12 MORNING BRIEFING Ready To Prophet added to Magic Millions sale The past two winners of the Gai Waterhouse Exceed And Excel and Fastnet Rock ANZ Classic (Listed, 1350m) will head through the BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS Darley stallions landed last night and the horses sales ring next week with Ready To Prophet have begun a quarantine period at Donnybrook (Smart Missile) joining Solar Star (Zoustar) in lanes carrying the first wave near Melbourne ahead of being transported to the catalogue for next week’s Magic Millions of shuttle stallions, including the respective stud farms in Victoria and NSW National Broodmare Sale. Ready To Prophet, who champion sires Exceed And Excel early next month. also won the Denise’s Joy Stakes (Listed, 1100m) (Danehill) and Fastnet Rock American Pharoah (Pioneerof The Nile), at Scone last year, has earned almost $300,000 P(Danehill), were expected to touch down in Justify (Scat Daddy) and the Godolphin-owned for Dynamic Syndications. She joins another Australia early this morning, much to the relief Astern (Medaglia d’Oro), Frosted (Tapit) and Dynamic Syndications mare, two-time Group 3 of breeding industry stakeholders, and more Street Boss (Street Cry) are aboard flights winner Teleplay (Written Tycoon), among the are on their way. from the US which are scheduled to arrive in supplementary entries for the sale, which begins Flights from Europe with Coolmore and Australia later today. Continued on page 2>> next Monday. Morning Briefing page 6 >> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Shuttle stallions take flight during turbulent pandemic-induced period | 2 | Tuesday, July 21, 2020 << Continued from page 1 Spendthrift Australia’s Omaha Beach (War Front) and Vino Rosso (Curlin) are also in the air on their way from the US to start their maiden southern hemisphere seasons at stud. Darley’s first season shuttlers Blue Point (Shamardal) THE SALES HAVE and Too Darn Hot (Dubawi) BEEN SURPRISINGLY have landed while Exceed And BUOYANT ALL THE Excel, Harry Angel (Dark Angel) WAY THROUGH AND and Territories (Invincible NEXT WEEK AT THE Spirit) have returned for another MAGIC MILLIONS SALE southern hemisphere season. WILL BE TELLING ... Coolmore’s new sires Magna HOPEFULLY THE Grecia (Invincible Spirit) and Omaha Beach MICHELE MACDONALD MARKET WILL REMAIN Calyx (Kingman) were joined RESILIENT THROUGH by Churchill (Galileo), Fastnet at Haunui Farm in New Zealand this year, while the Coolmore flight had THAT AND, WHILE Rock and Saxon Warrior (Deep Rosemont Stud’s Starspangledbanner (Choisir) and Swettenham Stud’s RACING CONTINUES, Impact) on the flight from Highland Reel (Galileo) on board. THE INDUSTRY SEEMS Ireland. Darley head of sales Alastair Pulford was relieved that the The Godolphin-chartered organisation’s international stallions had arrived in Australia as the TO BE IN PRETTY GOOD flight from Europe was also coronavirus pandemic continues to rattle the world. SHAPE transporting Belardo (Lope De “Horses are fine to travel and it’s just managing the movement of - ALASTAIR PULFORD Vega) and Ribchester (Iffraaj) people around that and that was always going to be the issue,” Pulford told (Haunui), who will both stand ANZ Bloodstock News. Continued on page 4>> “He was a brilliant late-season 2yo and improved at three so you would expect his stock to do the same. We will give her a chance to get through to the Flight Stakes.” Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by GROUP 2 winner and GROUP 1 second as 2YO Second in the GR.1 COOLMORE STUD STAKES at Flemington to Sunlight by a nose GOLDEN ROSE GR.1 runner up to The Autumn Sun by a nose OUTSTANDING PHYSICAL – a replica of his sire BEST and FASTEST son of ZOUSTAR STANDING AT WIDDEN IN 2020 – $19,800 (inc. GST) Lifetime breeding rights available 02 6549 9999 | WIDDEN.COM Shuttle stallions take flight during turbulent pandemic-induced period | 4 | Tuesday, July 21, 2020 << Continued from page 2 “There’s plenty of competent people who have been at the helm managing that from within our own transport company and also at IRT. You are very happy when they get here safe and sound but we were always confident that it was going to happen. “Any talk of them not coming was only talk and talk by people who weren’t in the know.” Spendthrift Australia general manager Garry Cuddy is grateful that the two US sires, the best-credentialled shuttlers to stand at the Victorian stud since opening in 2015, were on their way Down Under even though the lockdown of Melbourne and closure of the state border had made operations challenging. “It’s obviously very difficult with all that’s going on (with the pandemic),” Cuddy said. “But it’s the other minor factors that are making it tough for us and that is us missing out on seeing your clientele at the Melbourne Gold sales American Pharoah COOLMORE and the Great Southern Sale. “There’s also running the gauntlet about what to do with stallion that and, while racing continues, the industry seems to be in pretty good parades and those types of things? It’s definitely not ideal, but as you do shape. with everything, you just roll with the punches and hope come December “We’ve always said the basis for the industry here is very sound and that we are looking back on a successful season and away we go.” that has been borne out through this period.” Pulford said Darley’s mare booking numbers were holding up The first batch of shuttle stallions will be released from quarantine in remarkably well, but conceded the number of mares covered industry- Victoria on August 4 with the Darley contingent set for a road trip to the wide would fall in 2020. Hunter Valley that same day. It will be broken up by a 12-hour stay at Twin “Our overall numbers are tracking almost exactly the same as last year, Hills Stud at Cootamundra before undertaking the final leg of the journey but we do anticipate that there will be fewer mares bred in Australia this to Kelvinside. year than in previous years,” he said. The two Haunui Farm stallions, Ribchester and Belardo, are booked “You can’t imagine that that on a trans-Tasman flight on August 5. WE’VE ALWAYS SAID won’t be the case, but certainly Another flight from the UK carrying the next shipment of stallions - the top-end of the market has Toronado (High Chaparral), Zoustar (Northern Meteor), Shalaa (Invincible THE BASIS FOR THE remained very strong and the Spirit), Cable Bay (Invincible Spirit), National Defense (Invincible Spirit) INDUSTRY HERE IS outlook is still positive. and Royal Meeting (Invincible Spirit) - is due to arrive next week. Those VERY SOUND AND “The sales have been stallions will exit quarantine on August 11. THAT HAS BEEN BORNE surprisingly buoyant all the It was confirmed earlier this month that Japanese stallions Al Ain OUT THROUGH THIS way through and next week at (Deep Impact), who was to stand his first season at Chatswood Stud in PERIOD the Magic Millions sale will be Victoria, and the Rich Hill Stud (New Zealand) shuttler Satono Aladdin - ALASTAIR PULFORD telling ... Hopefully the market (Deep Impact) would not be coming this year due to the difficulty in will remain resilient through overcoming travel restrictions in place due to Covid-19. ENTER NOW JULY 24 -29 ONLINE SALE ENTRIES CLOSE JULY 22. Featuring broodmares, yearlings and racing stock. 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FIRST CROP EXCEEDING $8,800 GST THAT OF WRITTEN TYCOON’S MORNING BRIEFING Avalon set for Bletchingly Nominations extended AUSTRALIA Futurity Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) winner Streets for Winter Challenge 11 for Vancouver Of Avalon (Magnus) will kick off his spring Canberra Cup (Listed, 2000m) winner Mugatoo Coolmore resident Vancouver (Medaglia d’Oro) campaign in Saturday’s Bletchingly Stakes (Henrythenavigator) is slated to begin his landed his 11th first-crop winner, and ninth in (Gr 3, 1200m) at Caulfield and Shane Nichols second Australian preparation in the Winter Australia, when Requited (2 g ex Secret Silence believes there is still improvement to come in Challenge (Listed, 1600m) at Rosehill on by Fusaichi Pegasus) took out a 1400-metre open the gelding. "He's been able to improve every Saturday, although nominations have been maiden at Goulburn yesterday. The Peter and season and every preparation through his reopened after only 12 entries were received Paul Snowden-trained gelding defeated Halevi career, which is a remarkable thing for a horse yesterday morning.