STEVE MORAN | GARNET SIYOUNI STEALS THE SHOW STUD NEWS | MEHMAS BOUGOURE - MULTIPLE IN DEAUVILLE AS €525,000 ENTERS THE RECORD BOOKS CLASSIC WINNER ENGLAND COLT TOPS OCTOBER SALE WITH 38TH EUROPEAN FIRST- AND IRELAND - PAGE 16 OPENER - PAGE 14 CROP WINNER - PAGE 18 Wednesday, October 21, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here PAGE 20 YESTERDAY'S RACE RESULTS - PAGE 26 Asian buyers underpin What's on Stakes races: Geelong (VIC) - Geelong top-end of Inglis Cup (Gr 3, 2400m), Geelong Classic (Listed, 2200m), Black Pearl Stakes (Listed, 1200m) Metropolitan meetings: Randwick - Kensington Ready2Race Sale (NSW), Ipswich (QLD), Ascot (WA) Progeny of Deep Field, Capitalist and Pride Of Dubai all crack Race meetings: Geelong (VIC), Naracoorte $500,000 barrier (SA), Matamata (NZ) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Wangaratta (VIC), Kilmore (VIC), Warrnambool (VIC), Mornington (VIC), Naracoorte (SA) International meetings: Happy Valley (HK), Newmarket (UK), Kempton (UK), Gowran Park (IRE), Greyville (SAF) International sales: Arqana October Yearling Sale (FR) Lot 162 Deep Field - Wind Shift colt INGLIS MORNING BRIEFING Meteor) colt having the honour as Australia’s BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS most expensive two-year-old breeze-up U-turn on owners emand for high-end bloodstock horse, eclipsing the mark momentarily held attending Cox Plate shows no signs of slowing down by a Capitalist (Written Tycoon) gelding who Victorian minister for racing Martin Pakula last after what is believed to be a fetched $550,000 earlier in the day. night reversed the decision to allow a limited record price for a two-year-old The figure paid for the Lime Country number of owners and connections to attend soldD at public auction in Australia was broken Thoroughbreds-consigned Deep Field colt, who Moonee Valley for the 100th running of the Cox twice at the Inglis Ready2Race Sale, an appetite was bought by the Macau Jockey Club and Louis Plate (Gr 1, 2040m) on Saturday. Earlier in the fuelled by Asian buyers who secured four of the Ho with Hong Kong-based trainer David Hayes, day, Pukula announced up to 500 connections five highest-priced lots. also surpasses the $540,000 mark set at the 2015 will be able to attend both days of the Cox Three horses broke the $500,000 mark Inglis Ready2Race Sale and the $525,000 reached Plate Carnival, but decided to make the u-turn yesterday, all sold to Asian buyers, with a at last year’s Magic Millions Gold Coast 2YOs in following a public backlash. sale-topping $610,000 Deep Field (Northern Training Sale. Continued on page 2>> Story continues in Morning Briefing page 10 >> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Asian buyers underpin top-end of Inglis Ready2Race Sale | 2 | Wednesday, October 21, 2020 << Continued from page 1 A Pride Of Dubai (Street Cry) also sold The clearance rate of 65 per for $530,000 to underline the strength of the market at the top end, which cent, down two per cent on last FOR US TO HAVE was also illustrated earlier this year at the Covid-affected breeding stock year’s sale, again emphasised ACHIEVED A RECORD sales. buyers’ not being prepared to GROSS, WHICH IS The willingness of the buying bench to embrace online bidding and compromise on quality and were CURRENTLY SITTING rely on the opinions of agents on the ground to help shape their decisions prepared to pay a premium when AT $10.9 MILLION, was a factor that did not go unnoticed by Inglis managing director Mark they were happy with the horse, SO IT’S GOING TO Webster shortly after the conclusion of the sale. again demonstrated by the fact GET TO $11 MILLION That was after a shaky start in which the first six lots through the ring that the median of $70,000 was up EASILY ENOUGH, A were passed in. $10,000 year-on-year. RECORD PRICE FOR A “Obviously the sale got off to a slower start than we expected while the “The Hong Kong market has LOT OFFERED AND A market was trying to assess where it was at, but I think the results in the bought three of the top five and RECORD AVERAGE OF end were surprisingly good, noting that we’re in the Covid environment, Busuttin and Young have bought (NEARLY) $100,000, I and that there’s travel restrictions in place and effectively the borders are the other two, so you could say that THINK THAT IS VERY closed with Victoria and Queensland and there’s no internationals here,” the top five horses were bought by GOOD UNDER THE Webster told ANZ Bloodstock News. people who were not here, which is CIRCUMSTANCES “For us to have achieved a record gross, which is currently sitting at fabulous,” Webster said. - MARK WEBSTER $10.9 million, so it’s going to get to $11 million easily enough, a record “That’s the part you don’t price for a lot offered and a record average of (nearly) $100,000, I think really know. I guess at the Easter that is very good under the circumstances. sale (in April) we had to sell pretty much everything to people who weren’t “The strength at the top was particularly good and the confidence in present but there had been a fair degree of on-farm inspections that had buyers from either Melbourne or Asia to bid online or through an agent taken place in advance of the restrictions coming into place, so we knew here when they were absent was quite extraordinary.” we had that up our sleeve. Continued on page 4>> Outstanding first-crop soldiers! ex. Gig ex. Fivestar Lass ex. Warnock ex. Monaliesha ex. Choice Words Logo (without secondary wording) ex. Comme Ca ex. Atomic Meteor ex. Koritsi Mou ex. 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GST 02 6549 9999 | WIDDEN.COM Asian buyers underpin top-end of Inglis Ready2Race Sale | 4 | Wednesday, October 21, 2020 << Continued from page 2 “It’s a little more difficult here where some of those people haven’t been able to see the horses at all, so they have had to rely on a trusted person to report back to them - either an Inglis person, or an agent or a vet, so for them to bid with that degree of confidence is excellent. “It also shows that there’s very strong demand, particularly from Hong Kong, for quality horses and it’s a compliment that they would think of our breeze-up sale which gets horses like Wishful Thinker winning at the weekend and is a graduate of this sale format.” Hayes plays hand in purchase of top-priced Deep Field colt Lot 162 Deep Field - Wind Shift colt INGLIS The top-priced Deep Field colt, who ran 10.3 seconds at Taupo in New Zealand for Regal Farm before transferring to Lime Country transparency for giving buyers Thoroughbreds to be prepared for the sale, was a $230,000 Inglis Classic confidence to bid. Yearling Sale purchased by Regal Farm, Upper Bloodstock, Teng Long and “It’s been odd having horses I HAVE A FEW McKeever Bloodstock. that you know are going to CAPITALISTS MYSELF The second foal out of Exceed And Excel (Danehill) mare Wind Shift, sell well but aren’t parading ALREADY AND THEY he was catalogued as Lot 162. anywhere near as much as they ARE ALL PROMISING “We’re ecstatic to secure the colt. Louis Ho from the Macau Jockey should,” he said. TYPES. I THINK THIS Club was instrumental in purchasing the horse. The horse will now go to “You’ve got to be guided STALLION IS GOING TO Lindsay Park in Euroa to let down and a further decision will be made on by opinions of friends in the BE VERY SUCCESSFUL his future in coming weeks after a short spell,” Hayes said. industry, by the sales company, SO I WAS VERY HAPPY “We just loved him. He’s a particularly sharp looking horse with great by registrations and that sort TO BE ABLE TO ADD balance who breezed up well.” of thing. They’ve done a good ANOTHER ONE TO MY Lime Country Thoroughbreds’ Greg Griffin, who along with wife Jo job to get buyers online and STABLE - BON HO stepped in to assist their New Zealand countrymen when they were unable involved.” to travel with the horses to Australia, was delighted for Regal Farm’s Shane Crawford and Kara Waters after the record-setting colt’s sale. Ho happy to back Vella’s judgment “We’re really, really happy. Shane (Crawford) and Kara (Waters) from with Capitalist gelding Regal Farm, along with Brett and Cherry from Trelawney, they have sent Hong Kong’s Bon Ho’s growing thoroughbred interests expanded the draft across to us in outstanding order,” Griffin said.