COROWA’S FRONT PAGE CREATES ROYAL ASCOT GLORY FOR MORNING BRIEFING - PAGE 13 HEADLINES AT FLEMINGTON CAMBRIDGE STUD SOCIAL HUB - PAGE 17 - PAGE 11 - PAGE 5 RACING CALENDARS - PAGE 18 Sunday, June 21, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here DIRECT TO YOUR INBOX EVERY MORNING Tributes flow for Read Tomorrow's Issue For: ‘Subbie’s mate’ Salisbury The Week Ahead An icon of the racing industry, the 76-year-old is best known for What's on his association with beloved Melbourne Cup winner Subzero Metropolitan meetings: Hobart (TAS) Race meetings: Coonamble (NSW), Wagga (NSW), Bendigo (VIC), Sunshine Coast (QLD), Port Augusta (SA), Carnarvon (WA) Barrier trials/ Jump-outs: Coonamble (NSW), Wagga (NSW), Port Augusta (SA), Carnarvon (WA) International meetings: Sha Tin (HK), Tokyo (JPN), Hanshin (JPN), Hakodate (JPN), Wolverhampton (UK), Redcar (UK), Kempton (UK), Leopardstown (IRE), Kenilworth (SAF), Santa Anita (USA), Woodbine (CAN) International Group races: Sha Tin (HK) - Premier Cup (Gr 3, 1400m), Premier Plate (Gr 3, 1800m). Tokyo (JPN) - Unicorn Stakes (Gr 3, 1600m). Hakodate (JPN) - Hakodate Sprint Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m). Leopardstown (IRE) - Blue Wind Stakes (Gr 3, 1m 2f), Santa Anita (USA) Graham Salisbury and Subzero SHARON LEE CHAPMAN / FAST TRACK PHOTOGRAPHY - American Stakes (Gr 3, 8f), San Juan Salisbury, a clerk of the course for Racing Capistrano Stakes (Gr 3, 14f). Woodbine BY ANDREW HAWKINS | @ANZ_NEWS Victoria and its predecessor, the Victoria Racing (CAN) - Whimsical Stakes (Gr 3, 6f) uch-loved Victorian horseman Club, for more than 40 years, is best known for his Graham Salisbury has died association with Melbourne Cup (Gr 1, 3200m) after a long battle with winner Subzero (Kala Dancer). He purchased prostate cancer, aged 76. the grey upon his retirement and fostered a MRacing journalist Bruce Clark, long a friend relationship that continued until his death. of the Salisbury family, announced his death Not only did Subzero work as a clerk of the through social media last night. Salisbury died course for 15 years, but Salisbury and ‘Subbie’ at Bendigo Hospital yesterday with his family at became widely regarded as the best racing his side. ambassadors in the game. Continued page 2>> STAKES RESULTS FROM | BELMONT DOOMBEN & FLEMINGTON | PAGE 27 Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Tributes flow for ‘Subbie’s mate’ Salisbury | 2 | Sunday, June 21, 2020 << Continued from page 1 Together, they travelled the world, visiting some of the world’s great racing hotspots like Hong Kong, Singapore and Dubai, but they also visited countless schools and nursing homes, hospitals and hospices, lifting spirits and raising equine awareness everywhere they went. There are countless stories of Salisbury and Subzero putting smiles on faces in places where grins are few and far between. “The dynamic and remarkably unique duo of Australian racing, epitomised in its much broader community senses, never shirked their challenges over this time to deliver so much to so many over a quarter of a century together,” Clark wrote in his obituary on Subzero’s Facebook fan page yesterday. “Graham was even planning a ‘last dance’ with Subbie as he was facing his own. “The inseparable duo – ‘he was like a son to me,’ Graham would say – may now be separated physically, but their impact remains ever- lasting and without peer. I remember a stark but now real conversation with Graham that went, ‘I hope I go before him because I couldn’t live without him.’” Both had battled their fair share of health problems in recent years. Salisbury was first diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2006 and had fought the disease and its many side effects on and off in the 14 years since. Continued on page 4>> Graham Salisbury and Subzero RACING PHOTOS FIRST CROP COLTS TO FOLLOW… Yesterday. On only his second start Exhibition won the Magna Grecia New“ To Coolmore H. at Randwick for Richard and Michael Freedman. He is going to go on to bigger and better things “ JOCKEY ANDREW ADKINS 6th June. Mount Pleasant won on his debut at Turffontein over 1100m for Mike de Kock. 3rd June. Armatree won comfortably at Randwick over 1100m on his “ second start for Peter and Paul Snowden. Bright Future Tipped for Talented Vancouver Colt “ BREEDNET 30th May. Dunbar made it 2 from 2 with a stylish win over 1000m for Bob Peters and Grant and Alana Williams. Unbeaten Champion 2YO and Golden Slipper winner, just like PIERRO 2020 yearlings made up to $600,000 FEE $30,250 (INC. 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When he rang for a chat, which would take time, it was about on the brink of death last year having suffered a serious bout of colic, as Subbie, never about himself. Simply a remarkable man.” well as kidney and peritonitis issues. When the Lee Freedman-trained In a statement, Racing Victoria chief executive Giles Thompson paid Subzero was retired in 1994, connections sold him to Salisbury for $1 on tribute to “one of our greatest and much loved servants”. the promise that he would make the ghostly grey “the people’s horse”. It “Graham’s dedication to the sport was incredible and Victorian racing was a promise that was undoubtedly fulfilled. will be forever indebted to him for his service and his great love of the horse. “What a character Graham was,” Freedman’s brother Richard told “He was one of our longest serving employees, spending more than 40 Clark. “He didn’t do it for himself, he did it for racing. He was a one-off. years in the saddle as a clerk of the course, in the process earning an army “He made ‘Subbie’ one of the world’s greatest thoroughbreds - not for of friends within our industry. what he did on the track, but because of what he did off it and the joy he “He will be best remembered though for his work alongside his great brought to so many people, totally unique. mate Subzero, together bringing joy to the masses as they toured the “Graham would always play second fiddle, but without Graham there was community promoting our sport and the thoroughbred. no ‘Subbie’. There has been no greater bond of horse and human partnership. “From school children to the elderly, those battling ill health to If there was ever a statue it should be to immortalise Graham and Subbie.” Hollywood A-listers, racing devotees to everyday Australians, Graham Subzero’s part-owner during his racing career, David Kobritz, believes and Subzero touched so many hearts. that the decision to sell the gelding to Salisbury for $1 was the best decision “There will be many a tear shed as people remember Graham and and investment he could have made. the bond he shared with one of our most famous racehorses, ‘Subbie’, the “What he did for us as owners made us so proud of the horse and we Melbourne Cup winner who soared to even greater heights off the track will be forever thankful,” Kobritz told Clark. “How do you express it, the thanks to the incredible love and dedication of Graham.” way he looked after ‘Subbie’? He presented him to the public, his true Salisbury is survived by his wife Anita, his children Anthony and identity for the industry; so remarkable, it’s all Graham’s work. Nicole and his best mate Subzero. “We didn’t know Graham when we sold him for a dollar but we were To read Bruce Clark’s tribute to Graham Salisbury, click here. Follow us @anz_news | 4 | Brought to you by Royal Ascot Day Five - Sponsored by Global Stallions App | 5 | Sunday, June 21, 2020 YOUMZAIN LANDS DIAMOND JUBILEE FOR CAMBRIDGE STUD outhern hemisphere-trained horses might not have been able to make the trip to Royal Ascot this year, but New Zealand was still well- Srepresented in the winner’s enclosure at the royal meeting as Hello Youmzain (Kodiac), carrying the colours of Cambridge Stud, took out the Diamond Jubilee Stakes (Gr 1, 6f) yesterday. Hello Youmzain led the main group down the grandstand side rail alongside Irish raider Sceptical (Exceed And Excel), and the pair were neck and neck with each other until the final strides of the race. It was deja vu for the Sir Michael Stoute stable as Dream Of Dreams (Dream Ahead) Hello Youmzain RACING POST flashed home to finish runner-up by a head in the race for the second year in a row, while up watching the race tonight the amount of "He has done it the hard way,” he said. "He Sceptical held on for third by a neck. phone calls and messages we have had! I don't jumped well and Kevin (Stott, jockey) did the Winner of last year’s Haydock Sprint Cup know if any New Zealander has won a Group 1 right thing, let him find his stride and where he (Gr 1, 6f), the Kevin Ryan-trained four-year- at Royal Ascot before, it is just amazing.