LION ROARS HOME HOMESMAN SAVATIANO CLINGS IN WEEK OF FIRSTS CLAIMS EMOTIONAL ON IN CANTERBURY FOR MAPPERLEY’S AUSTRALIAN CUP FOR FIRST GROUP 1 CONTRIBUTER - PAGE 12 SUCCESS - PAGE 13 - PAGE 13 Sunday, March 7, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here GLISTENING RESULT FOR FILLIES’ PARTNERSHIP IN MUDDLED SLIPPER PICTURE - PAGE 4 SINGAPORE NEWS - PAGE 15 Zoustar steals Super Read Tomorrow’s Issue For Saturday show on The Week Ahead What's on Stakes races: Ellerslie (NZ) - New Zealand great day for Widden Derby (Gr 1, 2400m), Sunline Vase (Gr Stallion sires second Group 1 winner and juvenile Group 2 3, 2100m), King’s Plate (Gr 3, 1200m), Mufhasa Stakes (Listed 1300m), Canberra double as stud trifecta Newmarket (ACT) - Black Opal Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m), National Sprint (Listed, 1400m). Ascot (WA) - Supremacy Stakes (Listed, 1000m) Metropolitan meetings: Ascot (WA), Ellerslie (NZ) Race meetings: Canberra (ACT), Tamworth (NSW), Echuca (VIC), Stony Creek (VIC), Sunshine Coast (QLD), Norseman (WA), Clare (SA) International meetings: Nakayama (JPN), Santa Anita (US), Greyville (SAF) International Group races: Nakayama (JPN) - Hochi Hai Yayoi Sho (Gr 2, 2000m), Santa Anita (US) - Santa Ysabel Stakes (Gr 3, 8.5f) Sales: Gavelhouse Thoroughbred 08 March Auction (NZ) Zoutori SPORTPIX double, with Widden sires landing the trifecta BY ALEX WILTSHIRE | @ANZ_NEWS in the time-honoured Newmarket Handicap idden Stud principal Antony (Gr 1, 1200m). Thompson has lauded a A field of 17 went to post for this year’s ‘special day’ for the historic running of the Newmarket but it was the Zoustar operation, after witnessing pair, Zoutori (5 g ex Atotori by Haradasun) and Wtheir star stallion Zoustar (Northern Meteor) Indian Pacific, both among a group of four from Western Australia. Star Witness’ (Starcraft) take centre stage on an enthralling Super racing on the far side, that came clear to fight out Amish Boy, also among that group of four, stuck Saturday, scoring a second Group 1 winner in a gruelling dual to the line, with the topweight on to finish third, a length adrift of the winner, at Melbourne and an interstate Group 2 juvenile emerging victorious by a head over the raider odds of 80-1. Continued on page 2>> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Zoustar steals Super Saturday show on great day for Widden | 2 | Sunday, March 7, 2021 << Continued from page 1 Meanwhile, in an electric 20-minute spell for Zoustar, the stallion sired Group 2 juvenile winners in Sydney and Melbourne as Glistening (2 f ex Beethog by Shovhog) booked her spot in the Golden Slipper (Gr 1, 1200m) in two weeks’ time with an all-the-way win in a furiously-run Reisling Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) at Royal Randwick, holding off the late challenge of another Widden-sired juvenile, Star Witness’ Swift Witness by a head, while at Flemington the flashy Lightsaber (2 c ex Dream Cirque by Dream Ahead) scored an impressive success in the VRC Sires’ Produce (Gr 2, 1400m). Zoustar came within a whisker of a second Group 1 winner for the day, as Mizzy just missed out when lunging for the line in the Canterbury Stakes (Gr 1, 1300m), finishing second to Savatiano (Street Cry). “For (Zoustar) to win his second Newmarket today and to watch those three horses fly up the finish was really special,” said Thompson. “These are rare moments for the racecourse and certainly ones to savour.” Zoutori, a three-time Group 2 winner and Group 1 runner-up in Zoustar WIDDEN the Oakleigh Plate (Gr 1, 1100m) prior to today’s triumph, is from the exceptional first crop of Zoustar that has produced champion filly Sunlight, Phoenix Champion Stakes (Gr 1, 6f) winner Park Express (Ahonoora), is as well as five further Group 2 winners, including stallions Zousain and the dam of champion two- and three-year-old in Europe, New Approach Lean Mean Machine, and the five-year-old had to overcome a weight of (Galileo). 57 kilograms to become the stallion’s second Group 1 winner yesterday. Zoustar will likely have his first Golden Slipper runner since Sunlight’s It is not the first time Widden have run the trifecta in a major Group 1 third-placed finish in the race in 2018 through the Richard and Michael at Flemington over 1200 metres, as Sunlight led home a Zoustar one-two- Freedman-trained Glistening, while Melbourne two-year-old winner three in the Coolmore Stud Stakes (Gr, 1200m) in 2018, defeating Zousain Lightsaber could head to Sydney for their Sires’ Produce Stakes (Gr 1, and Lean Mean Machine, while this was a second Newmarket victory for 1400m) on April 3. the sire, after Sunlight’s win in 2019. “It was a great day for his versatility,” said Thompson. “His two-year- “The Newmarket is such a special race,” Thompson added. “In olds today were a filly and a colt, and then his three Group 1 performers Australian racing the Newmarket is a fabulous race and holds enormous with the older horses, there’s a mare and a five-year-old in there. significance in the history of Australian racing and it was a fabulous race “We always had belief that true to the sireline these would always be today and we’re so lucky to see the three progeny of our stallions fighting very versatile horses. It’s a sireline that has tremendous consistency and it out. It’s one for the mantelpiece. versatility and we saw that today.” “To field another Newmarket winner is fantastic. (Zoustar’s) been in The Newmarket trifecta and Sires’ victory also coincides with the the mix with some of these Group 1s, he trifecta’d the Coolmore, then a announcement a fortnight ago that Widden Stud would take over the quinella again today in the Newmarket. Riddells Creek property previously occupied by Sun Stud, launching their “It’s hard to compare them - for Zoustar to trifecta the Coolmore in ambitions in Victoria. his first crop, it really completed the four generations - Encosta De Lago, “It’s a great bit of timing and backs up what we’re doing in Victoria,” Northern Meteor, Zoustar, and for him to do that and for us to be there I Thompson continued. “As for the stallions that we’re launching there, they had think was very special.” a bit of a frustrating day with Star Witness running placings with Swift Witness A $160,000 purchase for trainers Mathew Ellerton and Simon Zahra and Amish Boy, and then Nicconi just missing out with Nature Strip in Sydney. out of the 2017 Amarina Farm draft at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling “But these are Group 1-winning and Group 1-producing sires in Victoria Sale, Zoutori is one of three foals to race out of the unraced Haradasun and when we made the decision to move these stallions to Victoria it was (Fusaichi Pegasus) mare Atotori, herself a half-sister to South African made quite strategically, looking at what would suit the market and what Group 3 winner Castlethorpe (Not A Single Doubt), while his third dam, would work. 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Win. www.nztm.co.nz A Glistening result for fillies’ partnership in muddled Slipper picture | 4 | Sunday, March 7, 2021 A Glistening result for fillies’ partnership "We'll just hope, first and foremost, the old cliche, we'll take him home in muddled Slipper picture and see how he pulls up and we'll have a chat to the ownership group.” Lightsaber is the first winner from one to race out of unraced mare Dream Cirque (Dream Ahead), with the colt’s fourth dam being Piccadilly Circus (Royal Academy), the dam of Coolmore stallion Fastnet Rock (Danehill). The mare has a Capitalist (Written Tycoon) colt at foot and is in foal to Tassort (Brazen Beau) this year. The Melbourne form held up in the Todman Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) earlier on the card, with Blue Diamond Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) third Anamoe (Street Boss) bursting through the pack to snatch the win from well-fancied rivals Profiteer (Capitalist) and Silver Slipper (Gr 2, 1100m) winner Home Affairs (I Am Invincible), while boom colt Stay Inside (Extreme Choice) finished fourth. The result means the Godolphin colt joins Profiteer and Stay Inside at the top of betting markets ahead of the Black Opal (Gr 3, 1200m) in Canberra today in which both Silver Slipper runner-up Rocket Tiger Glistening SPORTPIX (Cluster), as well as debut winner Bourbon Flyer (Flying Artie), seek a In claiming a Group 2 win on what was just her second start, Glistening back-door entry to the Golden Slipper. marked the first success of a new fillies’ partnership between trainers Richard “This is a classy colt, there’s no doubt about that,” said trainer James and Michael Freedman and bloodstock agent James Harron, who secured the Cummings of the winner. “We barely breathed on the horse since he got filly for $260,000 out of the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale.