Wednesday, March 24, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here BIG WET WREAKS HAVOC WITH RACE PROGRAM - PAGE 12 HK: EVEREST WINNER SHINES IN TRIAL - PAGE 9 Speedster Anders retired Read Tomorrow's Issue For to stand at Widden Stud It's In The Blood Son of Not A Single Doubt will command a fee What's on of $16,500 in first season at Hunter Valley Metropolitan meetings: Sandown Lakeside (VIC), Ascot (WA), Launceston (TAS) Race meetings: Strathalbyn (SA) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Mornington (VIC) International meetings: Happy Valley (HK), Greyville (RSA) Anders SPORTPIX He will stand for an introductory fee of Widden Stud to stand his first season for 2021. $16,500 (inc GST). BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS Antony Thompson, who was yesterday “Obviously Not A Single Doubt has had nders, a son of the highly sought attempting to mitigate damage caused by a huge impact and his legacy continues to after but now pensioned sire Not flooding and a power outage at his historic grow, so to have that very fast son of Not A A Single Doubt (Redoute’s Choice) Widden Stud property, last night confirmed Single Doubt, I am sure he will be a popular and the fastest horse Ciaron the Group 3-winning sprinter had run his last addition to our line-up,” Thompson told ANZ AMaher says he has trained, has been retired to race. Bloodstock News. Continued on page 2>> Dual Group 1 winner Yulong Prince retired to Zhang’s Victorian stud Page 4 Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Speedster Anders retired to stand at Widden Stud | 2 | Wednesday, March 24, 2021 << Continued from page 1 “He is a smashing type of horse. He He said: “It has been the foundation of the success at the farm. The does have all the characteristics that Not A Single Doubt has really colonial speed horses have always been very successful and I am sure become so renowned for: that lovely forearm and gaskin and a big, Anders will fit very nicely into that mould.” round, powerful hindquarter, so I am sure he will be a real ‘look and Maher, who trained Anders in partnership with David Eustace, book’ stallion. said: “Australian racing is all about speed, strength and temperament, “He possesses all that speed which is highly commercial and Anders had this in spades. sought after and he has really deep, international parts to his pedigree “He was a naturally talented racehorse and we saw glimpses of his as well.” speed and ability in the Listed Rosebud and Group 3 San Domenico. Anders, who raced as an early season two-year-old in NSW and Undoubtedly, he is the fastest racehorse I have ever trained.” Queensland, won two of his three starts in a three-start late autumn Among those investors to join Widden in buying into Anders juvenile preparation, before displaying blistering speed on his return for stud duties are Sheriff Iskander, Greenwich Stud’s Greg Perry, at three, claiming the Rosebud (Listed, 1100m) and San Domenico Glenlogan Park, Raheen Stud’s Basil Nolan and Louis Mihalyka’s Stakes (Gr 3, 1100m) in August. Laurel Oak partnership. Those performances led to Thompson chasing Anders, considered A $670,000 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale graduate, he by many pundits to have the following month’s A J Moir Stakes (Gr 1, was purchased by Aquis Farm and Ciaron Maher Racing from the 1000m) at Moonee Valley at his mercy, as a stallion prospect. Arrowfield Stud draft. He is one of three winners for the unraced mare From there, things went awry, with an elevated temperature Madame Andree (War Emblem) who is also the dam of the stakes- ruling him out of the Moir, for which he was the short-priced pre-post placed Battleground (Snitzel), himself a high-priced Gold Coast favourite, before an attempt was made to resurrect his spring campaign graduate. in the Blue Sapphire Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m) and Coolmore Stud Stakes A three-quarter sister to Anders by Snitzel (Redoute’s Choice) (Gr 1, 1200m), finishing a close-up third of three runners in the former, made $800,000 at this year’s Magic Millions auction when bought by and trailing in last of the 14-runner field in the Group 1 at Flemington. agent James Harron, whose colts syndicate also raced Battleground, Anders returned in the New Year with a view to the short-course underlining Madame Andree’s ability to breed highly sought after Group 1 sprint races in Melbourne and Sydney, but he was trapped yearlings, with her four yearlings sold at auction having grossed $2.73 wide from barrier 17 in the Oakleigh Plate (Gr 1, 1100m) at Caulfield in million. She has a 2020 colt by Pariah (Redoute’s Choice) and was put February and the wet tracks in Sydney led connections to immediately in foal to The Autumn Sun (Redoute’s Choice) last year. retiring the valuable colt. Madame Andree’s sire War Emblem (Our Emblem) won the “It was very disappointing that he did get sick leading into the Moir Kentucky Derby (Gr 1, 10f) and Preakness Stakes (Gr 1, 9.5f) in 2002, and we weren’t able to run him there,” Thompson said. as did her damsire Sunday Silence (Halo) in 1989. “We had a few things going against us and we were never really Not A Single Doubt is represented by the Arrowfield Stud-owned able to get him back from that. Certainly, he wouldn’t be at that fee of Mallory and Queen Of Wizardry, who races in the colours of Aquis Farm, $15,000 (excluding GST) if he in Saturday’s Golden Slipper Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m), while he has reigning HE IS A SMASHING had gone on to win the Moir.” Golden Slipper winner Farnan retiring to Kia Ora Stud later this year. He is TYPE OF HORSE. HE But Thompson has not also the sire of Newgate Farm’s Extreme Choice, who has Stay Inside as a DOES HAVE ALL THE lost confidence in Anders’ leading hope in Saturday’s $3.5 million two-year-old race. credentials as a stud Another sire son, the Group 2 winner Dubious, who stands at Aquis CHARACTERISTICS prospect despite the hiccups Farm at Canungra, went to stud in 2020 and he was well supported by THAT NOT A experienced at the end of his breeders, covering 162 mares. SINGLE DOUBT HAS career, believing the rising The retirement of Anders continues a busy period for Thompson, REALLY BECOME SO four-year-old fits the mould who has expanded Widden into Victoria after more than 150 years as RENOWNED FOR of the stallions who have a one-farm Hunter Valley operation, with the announcement late last - ANTONY THOMPSON served Widden well over many month that the stud would lease the Sun Stud property in the southern decades. state. 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 Cantala Stakes winner Yulong Prince to take up residency at Nagambie | 4 | Wednesday, March 24, 2021 Cantala Stakes winner Yulong Prince to take up residency at Nagambie The South African-bred Yulong Prince (Gimmethegreenlight), a horse with a familiar southern hemisphere pedigree who became the first Australian Group 1 winner for major investor Yuesheng Zhang, has been retired to the Chinese businessman’s growing Victorian stud. The last-start Cantala Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m) winner, who was also a Grade 1 winner in South Africa before coming under Yulong’s ownership, will be one of three first season sires standing at the Nagambie farm. The rising seven-year-old entire, a four-time winner at two who initially raced as Surcharge, will be joined by Blue Diamond Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) winner Tagaloa (Lord Kanaloa) and Zhang’s Phoenix Stakes (Gr 1, 6f)-winning European star Lucky Vega (Lope De Vega). Yulong Prince’s Group 1 success at Flemington on Victoria Derby day last year, which clinched the horse’s stud future, was a defining moment for Zhang who has developed an extraordinary broodmare Yulong Prince SPORTPIX band and racing division primarily in Australia as well as China and Europe. 2016 champion freshman sire and, in 2017, he was the leading second “Yulong Prince had a little knock to his leg so we decided to retire crop sire. In 2018 he was the leading active sire of three-year-olds and him,” Yulong chief operating officer Sam Fairgray revealed as the he was the leading active sire by stakes winners in 2019. reason for the horse missing the autumn. Gimmethegreenlight, who is out of Yes She Can Cancan (Canny “Mr Zhang purchased him to win a Group 1 and we have achieved Lad), is also a half-brother to Coolmore Classic (Gr 1, 1500m) winner that, so now he can come and join our roster and we’ll support him OfcourseIcan (Mossman), the dam of Bart Cummings (Gr 3, 2400m) with some nice mares we’ve got here. He is free of Danehill, he’s by a winner Persan (Pierro). stallion who is a son of More Than Ready and he is also out of a Canny Yulong Prince holds an extensive international family which Lad mare.” features Gran Criterium (Gr 1,1m) winner Count Dubois (Zafonic), Yulong Prince, who was also campaigned in Dubai after being and Irish 2000 Guineas (Gr 1, 1m) hero Indian Haven (Indian Ridge). purchased by Mr Zhang before heading south, was trained by Chris Yulong Prince won at two before excelling at three, winning five of Waller in Australia during a 15-start stint which also netted a victory in his nine starts during that season, which prompted Mr Zhang to make the Cup Day Plate (Listed, 1800m) in 2019 at Flemington.