HONG KONG PREVIEW HKIR STILL A SIGHT TO BEHOLD PAGE 13 Sunday, December 13, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here HONG KONG CARDS - PAGE 42 FIRST SEASON SIRE RUNNERS - P10 ‘Rocky Rose’ Sweet Dolly What's on Race meetings: Hawkesbury (NSW), stuns in Calaway Gal Bendigo (VIC), Cranbourne (VIC), Sunshine The $1,500 weanling purchase stars on a day when two-year-olds Coast (QLD), Bordertown (SA), Bunbury shot to attention with Acrobat also strong in the Inglis Nursery (WA), Canberra (ACT) International Group races: Sha Tin (HK) - Hong Kong Cup (Gr 1, 2000m), Hong Kong Mile (Gr 1, 1600m), Hong Kong Sprint (Gr 1, 1200m), Hong Kong Vase (Gr 1, 2400m). Hanshin (JPN) - Hanshin Juvenile Fillies (Gr 1, 1600m). Nakayama (JPN) - Capella Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m) Sweet Dolly MICHAEL MCINALLY of a two-year-old season that has barely begun, BY ANDREW HAWKINS | @ANZ_NEWS with the Kevin Hansen-trained filly progressing RACING NEWS esterday’s two-year-old features from an arrogant Townsville maiden win at her provided a timely reminder that first outing to a stakes success at start two. Acrobat soars in a good horse can come from Named for the 2002 Golden Slipper Stakes breathtaking Nursery debut anywhere this sales season as (Gr 1, 1200m) winner who won four straight The path to the $2 million Inglis Millennium juvenilesY from a variety of backgrounds added in Brisbane before Christmas in the 2001- on February 6 began yesterday with the Inglis black type to their pedigree page in key lead- 02 season, including this race when it was the Nursery (RL, 1000m) at Randwick. ups to the Magic Millions 2YO Classic (RL, CE McDougall Stakes, the Calaway Gal is the If anything, the Nursery has proven a more 1200m) and the Inglis Millennium (RL, 1200m). primary fillies’ lead-up to the $2 million Magic significant launching pad than the Millennium The story of $1,500 weanling purchase Millions 2YO Classic next month. Regimental or its predecessor, the Inglis Classic, in recent Sweet Dolly (2 f Real Saga - Sweet Cherub by Gal (General Nediym), Military Rose (General years with winners including two Golden Slipper Canny Lad), the ‘Rocky Rose’, taking out the Nediym) and Away Game (Snitzel) have all victors, Mossfun (Mossman) and She Will Reign Calaway Gal Stakes (Listed, 1000m) at Eagle won this race en route to Magic Millions (Manhattan Rain), Blue Diamond Stakes (Gr Farm yesterday is already one of the highlights glory. Continued on page 2>> 1, 1200m) hero Extreme Choice (Not A Single ENTER NOW JULY 24 -29 ONLINE SALE Doubt) and the Group 1-placed Pane In The Glass ENTRIES CLOSE JULY 22. FRIFeaturing 11TH broodmares, - yearlingsWED and 16TH racing stock. DEC 2020 SALE LIVE (Testa Rossa), Odyssey Moon (Snitzel) and Wild INGLISCatalogue DIGITAL available at inglisdigital.com DECEMBER SALE VIEW HERE Ruler (Snitzel). Continued on page 4>> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by ‘Rocky Rose’ Sweet Dolly stuns in Calaway Gal | 2 | Sunday, December 13, 2020 << Continued from page 1 This year, it was Away Game’s stablemate, especially in the last furlong, and she’s still got home - absolutely brilliant,” Debutant Stakes (Listed, 1000m) winner Fake Love (I Am Invincible), who a laconic Hansen said with a grin, reflecting on his first stakes win after was sent out as favourite. Sporting the same black, red and grey colours of the more than 40 years as a trainer. Mathiesen family, the Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-trained filly was a “She’s done a mighty job the last fortnight. She’s trialled at Rocky on the significant drifter on track, easing from $2.40 to $3.20 as money flowed for first- Monday, raced at Townsville on the Saturday and she blew them away up starter Summerbeel (Savabeel) and the speedy Rhapsody Rose (Star Witness). there. We weren’t even going to come here, but she pulled up that well Rockhampton filly Sweet Dolly, meanwhile, was sent out the $6.50 fourth and we pulled a blood from her and it was spot on, so we said, ‘We’re off favourite with little respect shown for the strength of that Townsville performance. to Brisbane.’” Unlike her first start, where Sweet Dolly naturally found the front Purchased by Michelle Walker for $1,500 from the 2018 Magic Millions under Justin Stanley and kept extending her margin throughout, the National Weanling Sale out of the Raheen Stud draft, Sweet Dolly is the baldy-faced filly instead tracked the leaders, with Oriental Princess (Mikki seventh stakes winner by former Glenlogan Park, Eureka Stud and Palm Isle) joined by Rhapsody Rose and Fake Love on the speed. Valley Thoroughbreds stallion Real Saga (Tale Of The Cat). Real Saga died Fake Love was trapped deep throughout but still loomed up as though in February last year. she would have the temerity to see off her opponents, with Glen Boss quiet With yesterday’s win, Sweet Dolly became the first stakes winner for as a church mouse aboard the favourite. Even when he asked her for an effort her dam Sweet Cherub (Canny Lad), a two-time Ipswich winner who has inside the 200 metres, the big-race rider was still cuddling her enough to produced six foals to race; five of them have won. ensure that the wide passage did not take its toll in the closing stages. Sweet Cherub is a half-sister to the Group 3-placed Beatniks Meanwhile, Sweet Dolly switched over Fake Love’s heels as Stanley (Haradasun), while second dam Hippy (King Of Kings) is a half-sister sent her in hot pursuit. Unlike her incredibly professional debut, she to stakes winner Love And Money (Secret Savings). Further back, the wandered about like a drunken sailor, clearly more at home following the family includes Group 1 placegetters The Cloisters (Godswalk), My Middi rail than chasing a bunny. It was a performance that saw Hansen issued (Belong To Me) and Star Chick (Stunning). with a warning about her racing manners. “Shelly bought her as a weanling at the Magic Millions and she She badly checked Miss In Charge (Hinchinbrook) and, despite Stanley’s showed ability right from day one,” Hansen admitted. “I’ve known she was efforts to straighten, she got out to the crown of the track inside the 100 good for a fair while, about six months ago when I first started putting her metres. However, she continued through jump-outs and all that, she showed a lot.” to chase gamely, making ground As a Magic Millions National Weanling Sale purchase, Sweet Dolly is SHE’S DONE A even while stumbling all over the ineligible for the Magic Millions 2YO Classic and will instead go for a spell. MIGHTY JOB THE LAST track. “She’s not paid up for the Magic Millions but never mind,” Hansen FORTNIGHT. SHE’S It was inside the final 20 said. “She can go to the paddock now and have a decent spell. She’s a TRIALLED AT ROCKY ON metres, though, that Sweet Dolly serious little racehorse.” THE MONDAY, RACED seemed to finally grasp the Added Walker: “We’ll be back next year.” AT TOWNSVILLE ON task at hand and she powered Sweet Cherub, who remains among the Raheen Stud broodmare THE SATURDAY AND through the line to defeat band, foaled a Heroic Valour (Fastnet Rock) filly on September 30. SHE BLEW THEM AWAY Fake Love by three-quarters The boys’ equivalent, the Phelan Ready Stakes (Listed, 1000m), was UP THERE of a length, with a long head to taken out by the Toby and Trent Edmonds-prepared Alpine Edge (2 c - KEVIN HANSEN Rhapsody Rose in third. Better Than Ready - Freezethemillions by Freeze), who just lasted to take “She’s done so much wrong, out the feature at his first start. Continued on page 3>> NEW STAKES WINNER #withoutequal Frankel SIRE OF Significance WINNER Christmas Cup L., 2400m, Royal Randwick OWNER Domeland Pty Ltd BREEDER Glentree Pastoral Pty Ltd TRAINER Clare Cunningham Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by ‘Rocky Rose’ Sweet Dolly stuns in Calaway Gal | 3 | Sunday, December 13, 2020 << Continued from page 2 Sent out the $4 second favourite behind the twice-raced Baby Wong (Press Statement), Alpine Edge showed natural speed to lead early under Robbie Fradd. Held together until the 250-metre mark, the colt showed plenty of tenacity to hold off the surge of another debutant, Cochrane (Spirit Of Boom), to win by a short head. Unlike Sweet Dolly, Alpine Edge is likely to chase the Phelan Ready- Magic Millions double which has only been achieved once - by inaugural Classic winner Snippets (Lunchtime), when the Phelan Ready was the JF Meynink Stakes. His winning time of 58.67 seconds was 0.12 seconds faster than the fillies and saw him wound into the fourth line of betting at $15 for the Alpine Edge MICHAEL MCINALLY Magic Millions 2YO Classic. “He was very soft coming into today,” Trent Edmonds said. “We didn’t As a result, 2020 saw the introduction of the Aquis Gold Nugget expect to lead but the favourite was tardy away. He was so relaxed before (1100m) for the colts and geldings and the Aquis Gold Pearl (1100m) for the race I said to his strapper you better take him for a walk and just check the fillies, with both races again to be held in 2021. that he’s breathing. A $160,000 purchase from this year’s Magic Millions Gold Coast “I think we will follow what is now the tried-and-true path and start Yearling Sale out of the Yarramalong Park draft, Alpine Edge is the the week before the Magic Millions and then back up.” third foal to race - and the second winner - out of the Listed-placed The 1100-metre Gold Coast race a week out from the Magic Millions Freezethemillions (Freeze).