BADGERS BLOODSTOCK BRINGS ‘MONEYBALL’ BIG DATA TO EASTER SALES NEWS - PAGE 10 Thursday, April 2, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here STAY UP TO DATE WITH ALL SALES NEWS COVERAGE AND DEVELOPMENTS ON @ANZ_NEWS Hawkes’ using Sires What's on Race meetings: Gosford (NSW), Geelong as building block (VIC), Pakenham (VIC), Cairns (QLD), Albany (WA) for talented Ole Kirk Barrier trials/ Jump-outs: Avoca (VIC) Written Tycoon colt from family of Black Caviar and All Too Hard earns shot at Group 1 SALES NEWS Magic Millions reschedules National sale to late July Magic Millions has moved to reassure clients about the Gold Coast National Weanling, Broodmare and Yearling Sale going ahead this season by pushing it back to July in the hope of Ole Kirk SPORTPIX being able to conduct a live auction. taking out the Talindert Stakes (Listed, 1100m) The sales company, like rival Inglis who next BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS at his first start at Flemington in February, the week will hold its Australian Easter Yearling eam Hawkes is closely mirroring same race Michael, Wayne and John Hawkes Sale via its digital platform, has been forced the interstate platform used eight identified as the ideal starting point for their to make changes to its schedule due to the years ago for top-class sprinter- former four-time Group 1-winning colt All Too coronavirus pandemic which has heavily miler All Too Hard (Casino Prince) Hard. restricted the movement of people and shut asT the family run stable attempts to go one The Vinery Stud-based stallion All Too down many business sectors. better in Saturday’s $500,000 Inglis Sires Hard, who is a half-brother to Black Caviar Late yesterday, Magic Millions announced that (registered as ATC Sires’ Produce Stakes) (Gr and Naturale, won his first three starts - the National sale had been pushed back by two 1, 1400m) with the stallion’s close relation Ole Flemington’s VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes (Gr 2, months from its initial late May-June dates, Kirk (Written Tycoon). 1400m) and the Pago Pago Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) with the broodmare and weanling sessions now The first foal out of champion mare in Sydney followed on from his debut success - tentatively slated for July 20 to 24, while three Black Caviar’s (Bel Esprit) sister, the unraced before Pierro (Lonhro) had his measure in the days, from July 28 to 30, has been set aside for Naturale, Ole Kirk surprised his owners by Inglis Sires. Continued on page 2>> the yearling catalogue. Sales News page 9 >> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Hawkes’ using Sires as building block for talented Ole Kirk | 2 | << Continued from page 1 Raced by a syndicate headed by Neil Werrett, who also part-owns the unbeaten Black Caviar, Ole Kirk did not quite match All Too Hard in the VRC Sires, finishing a luckless third. The son of Written Tycoon (Iglesia) was also not given the chance to tackle the Pago Pago Stakes, the Hawkes’ instead using a barrier trial at Randwick last week as the colt’s lead-up to the Inglis Sires. If he is to go one better than All Too Hard, it would certainly assure himself of a place on a stallion roster in the years to come. Brett Bradley, himself the breeder of this season’s The Everest (1200m)-winning colt Yes Yes Yes (Rubick), works alongside Werrett at the Galileo Funds business and he and wife Andrea also bought into Ole All Too Hard VINERY STUD Kirk as a yearling after he brought $675,000 at the 2019 Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale. connections have of Ole Kirk, who will be ridden by Tommy Berry on “He surprised us a little bit first-up because his jump-outs down Saturday from barrier three. in Victoria were solid enough, but he wasn’t blowing the other horses “(The Hawkes’) obviously have the reputation of taking their time and away,” Bradley said this week while in self-isolation at his Wagga home in not just throwing a horse in a race because it is bred well or it is a popular regional NSW after returning from an international work trip. race,” Bradley said. “But the Hawkes team were very bullish about him even though he “They only race when they think they are right and they think they wasn’t tearing up the track in the jump-outs as he was doing everything are a legitimate chance of winning. For him to come up to Sydney and do right at home. That is why John was pretty keen to get him in that Listed everything right and be right to go on Saturday is exciting. You can have race first-up because he knew that he had ability.” confidence that the horse is right to run.” Connections resisted the temptation to send the colt immediately to For obvious reasons, Werrett was always going to be attracted to the Sydney after his Talindert performance in a typically patient approach pedigree of the Gilgai Farm-bred Ole Kirk and Bradley revealed that the from Team Hawkes. prominent owner had a number of people inspect the horse on his behalf “The plan was to stay down at last year’s Victorian yearling sale. He surprised us in Melbourne and go to the Sires It was then left to Mark Player’s International Thoroughbred Solutions a little bit first- down there, which is what they to handle the bidding and it took $675,000 to land the colt. Bradley bought up because his did with All Too Hard, and he into the colt soon after. jump-outs down should have won that race if you “Neil had his eye on the horse for quite a long time because the dam is in Victoria were watch the replay,” he said. a full-sister to Black Caviar,” Bradley recalled. solid enough, but he “It was pretty hard to watch “He wanted to have a look at him and he had a few people look at him wasn’t blowing the but he ran third and at least he and then he had the Hawkes’ go down and inspect him as well and they other horses away showed that it wasn’t just a one- gave Neil the green light. off (in the Talindert).” “Rick Jamieson, who was the breeder and has got the mare, stayed in and BRETT BRADLEY Last week’s Randwick barrier said he would at the sale, so we knew that he had confidence in the horse. trial victory over 1050 metres “The Hawkes’ loved him and that gave Neil the confidence to bid and reinforced the opinion that we came in after Neil secured the horse.” Continued on page 4>> ENTER NOW APRIL 24-29 ONLINE SALE ENTRIES CLOSE APRIL 22. 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Bradley enjoying Yes Yes Yes ride | 4 | Thursday, April 2, 2020 Bradley enjoying Yes Yes Yes ride After failing to get in foal in 2018, Sin Sin Sin is currently carrying a foal Meanwhile, Bradley is contemplating what to do this year with his small to Zoustar (Northern Meteor). band of broodmares - the best being Sin Sin Sin (Fantastic Light) who is the “If the Zoustar is a filly, it will be a tough decision because I would dam of the soon-to-be Coolmore Stud-based first season sire Yes Yes Yes. probably like to sell the Zoustar just from a business perspective and what “It has been a lot of fun (seeing Yes Yes Yes win The Everest) and you I would like to have is a full-sister to Yes Yes Yes by sending her back to have to enjoy it when you get these horses because it is pretty rare to get Rubick,” he said. winners, let alone a good horse who wins big races,” he said. “If you end up with a Rubick filly, you’d probably keep her and race “You never take it for granted and just enjoy it while you can and her and then have her to breed from. hopefully something else good comes along.” “That is the strategy, but as we all know, you never know what is going While not in the ownership of Yes Yes Yes, who was retired earlier this to happen.” year, Bradley intends on sending a mare to the stallion later this year. Whether a return date for Sin Sin Sin with Rubick happens this year or “But I don’t think I’ve got the right mare at the moment. I’ve got a few not remains to be seen. mares up in the Hunter Valley and as soon as they announced that he “She is getting a bit older, so whether we go to another higher profile was retired and was going to stud, I went through my mares and matched and proven stallion again this year or not, I just them up to see who I could send, but none of the ones I have are standouts haven’t decided yet,” he said.