Wednesday, March 3, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here MELBOURNE CUP TOUR OPEN FOR APPLICATIONS - PAGE 19 SALE RESULTS BY SIRE - PAGE 22 $460,000 Toronado colt Read Tomorrow's Issue For It’s In The Blood brings curtain down on What's on Metropolitan meetings: Warwick Farm (NSW), Sandown (VIC), Doomben (QLD), record Inglis Premier sale Launceston (TAS), Hastings (NZ) Thirst for yearlings at Australian sales shows no signs Stakes races: Hastings (NZ) - Lowland of letting up after Victorian auction Stakes (Gr 2, 2100m) Race meetings: Pinjarra Park (WA), Murray Bridge (SA) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Muswellbrook (NSW) International meetings: Lingfield (UK), Kempton (UK), Happy Valley (HK) Sales: Magic Millions Online March Sale (AUS), Gavelhouse Thoroughbred 08 March Auction (NZ). Lot 584: Toronado ex Dom Perion colt INGLIS BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS MORNING BRIEFING his year’s Inglis Melbourne Premier The new benchmark for the major Four for Frosted Yearling Sale has achieved its highest Victorian auction was helped by the sale of The Peter and Paul Snowden-trained Frostin' (2 ever trade, surpassing the Victorian the $1.1 million Written Tycoon (Iglesia) colt, c ex Patina by Anabaa) impressively landed an benchmark set in Melbourne in only the second seven-figure yearling traded 1100-metre maiden at Bendigo yesterday to T2017, as the increased demand for bloodstock at Oaklands Junction, and buyers’ increased provide Darley shuttler Frosted (Tapit) with makes it four record Australian thoroughbred willingness to spend more on yearlings at the his fourth Australian winner from just nine auctions conducted in succession so far in 2021. top-end of the market. Continued on page 2>> runners. Morning Briefing page 13>> WED 3 MARCH 2021 MAGIC MILLIONS ONLINE MARCH SALE MIXED CLICK HERE Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by $460,000 Toronado colt brings curtain down on record Inglis Premier sale | 2 | Wednesday, March 3, 2021 << Continued from page 1 That demand for high-end yearlings fueled prices for colts such as a son of Lord Kanaloa (King Kamehameha) that sold for $900,000 on Monday and two colts by Shalaa (Invincible Spirit) and I Am Invincible (Invincible Spirit) making $700,000 each in the main session. A total of 37 horses made $300,000 or more across the three days of trade. “At this stage, the Premier Session has grossed $63 million which is a fantastic number and it certainly exceeds the previous record set in 2017 of $54 million,” Inglis managing director Mark Webster said yesterday as selling at the Showcase Session continued. “Last year, it was $48 million, so compared to last year, it is up 30 per cent and it is up 20 per cent on the previous record in 2017, which is quite remarkable. “There were a similar number of horses offered in both of those years, so quite clearly there’s more demand and it’s more at the top of the market. “We’re selling double the number of horses over $300,000 compared to last year, so the top of the market is very strong.” As evidenced at other sales so far this year, the depth of the buying Mike Moroney (left) with Sebastian Hutch (center) and Anthony Foroce (right) INGLIS bench has been underpinned by a roaring local market as owners and trainers look to cash-in on renewed interest in the sport while record Moroneys continue to take shine to prize-money is up for grabs on the racecourse. Toronado’s progeny “If we look at who has been buying, there’s 16 to Hong Kong, four to The most expensive lot sold yesterday was a $460,000 Toronado (High Singapore, eight to New Zealand (in the Premier Session),” Webster said. Chaparral) half-brother to 2018 Victoria Derby (Gr 1, 2500m) winner Extra “It is good to have them participating, but the reality is that they are Brut (Domesday). small numbers compared to any normal year here. The colt is also the highest-priced yearling by the Swettenham Stud “This sale normally relies on 25 to 30 per cent international participation shuttle sire ever sold in the southern hemisphere and was bought by and we are a long way from that. We’re around five per cent, so it really has Flemington-based Mike Moroney, who trains Springtime Stakes (Listed, been the domestic market which has been carrying the sale.” 1400m) winner Shelby Cobra by the Swettenham Stud stallion, in The Magic Millions Gold Coast, Perth and Tasmanian yearling sales all conjunction with his agent-brother Paul. achieved record aggregates, as did the Classic sale when Inglis opened its “We've had luck with Shelby Cobra and have three or four other 2021 yearling sale series last month. Toronados at home. I've even bred mares to him,” Mike Moroney said. “I am completely stunned, really, and it was the same after what happened “I saw him win at Royal Ascot when we were there and have followed at the Classic sale, which was up 20 per cent,” the long-serving Webster said. him all the way through. I just loved the colt, I really thought he was a “This sale is up 30 per cent. It is remarkable and I can only put it down to wonderful colt, He’s a great walker and a really athletic sort of horse.” the fact that racing is strong here. Offered as Lot 584 by Stonehouse Thoroughbreds on behalf of I AM COMPLETELY Some people have probably also Congupna-based breeder Andrew McDonald, the colt is a half-brother to STUNNED, REALLY, seen the lack of internationals as a Extra Brut as well as Grinzinger King (Domesday), an unraced two-year- AND IT WAS THE chance to get back involved or go a old gelding, who made $380,000 at last year’s Premier sale. SAME AFTER WHAT bit harder than perhaps they might Raced by John Wheeler, the principal owner of Group 1 winner Russian HAPPENED AT THE normally do. Camelot (Camelot), Grinzinger King is also in training with Danny O’Brien. CLASSIC SALE, WHICH “With every negative, there’s The dam is the four-time winner Dom Perion (Redoute’s Choice) who has a a positive and perhaps the locals Justify (Scat Daddy) filly at foot and is in foal to Lonhro (Octagonal). WAS UP 20 PER CENT figure it is a good thing for them The Moroneys bought nine yearlings in the Premier Session for a - MARK WEBSTER to be able to buy what they want combined spend of $1.88 million, while the siblings added a further two from without the internationals here.” the Showcase Session for a total of $130,000. Continued on page 4>> DIRECT TO YOUR INBOX EVERY MORNING YOUR ESSENTIAL DAILY READ THIS WEEK IN Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by FROM 12 NOON AEST (1PM AEDT) TODAY 140 lots - Mares include close relations of Gr1 winners JAMEKA & HOT KING PRAWN, covers to stallions such as CAPITALIST & PIERATA, and yearlings out of 1/2 sisters to Gr1 winners BEHEMOTH and SILENT SEDITION, plus a 1/2 to GUST OF WIND. www.magicmillions.online Moroneys continue to take shine to Toronado’s progeny | 4 | Wednesday, March 3, 2021 << Continued from page 2 “We thought if there were colts here that we liked, we didn't mind spending a little bit of money,” the trans-Tasman Group 1-winning trainer said. “We had only bought one at Magic Millions and we were pretty quiet at New Zealand as well, and they were mainly for the New Zealand stable. “I thought we’d have a go here or save our powder for Easter, which I think will be pretty strong, This colt would have stood out very well up there as well.” Eddington-based Stonehouse Thoroughbreds’ Ryan Arnel had the Toronado colt on the market from the $200,000 mark but he was confident the horse would fly past that figure. “We sold the full brother to Extra Brut last year and he's in work with Danny O'Brien and he's looking like a stakes-performing horse at the moment,” Arnel said. “We are a Victorian farm and the market that we most want to support Lot 584: Toronado ex Dom Perion colt INGLIS is the Victorian trainers, so we are always trying to present them to those trainers. ‘Choisir filly has Black Caviar and “For the horse to go to Ballymore and Mike Moroney for Paul Moroney Jameka qualities’ Bloodstock, it is the perfect result for us. We couldn't think of anywhere The second highest-priced horse on the last day of the Premier sale, better for that horse to be.” a $400,000 daughter of Choisir (Danehill Dancer), deserves to be on the Stonehouse Thoroughbreds sold 17 yearlings for an aggregate of podium alongside breeder Rick Jamieson’s champion mares Black Caviar $2.435 million at an average of $143,235. (Bel Esprit) and Jameka (Myboycharlie), according to Kelly Skillercorn. “We've seen throughout the year that the market is strong and, in a Gilgai Farm manager Skillercorn made the stunning comparison situation like that (with the Toronado colt), you have to let the market between Jamieson’s two star Premier graduates and the Choisir filly dictate the sales prices,” Arnel said. who was bought by trainers Adrian Bott and Gai Waterhouse, with the “If your horses are in the market, you are getting the true value assistance of Kestrel Thoroughbreds' Bruce Slade, early in the final session. of the horse. There is so much demand out there at the moment “We’ve brought some good fillies here and I would rate her top-three that all the horses find their homes and find their place within the and I mean we’ve sold Black Caviar and Jameka here, so hopefully she market.” lives up to them,” Skillercorn beamed.