Medaglia d'Oro enjoyed a Read Tomorrow's Issue For: successful week, Steve Moran including siring Pedigree Page a new top-flight What's On winner Race meetings: Kembla Grange (NSW), Scone (NSW), Seymour (VIC), Mackay (QLD). Stallion watch Page 18 Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Tuesday, March 5, 2019 Caulfield (VIC) Sale: Inglis Premier Yearling Sale - Gilgai’s Written Tycoon Day three colt trumps rivals on day two of Inglis Premier Kermadec and Brazen Beau colts also reach $500,000 in second session Morning Briefing Tassort Slipper assault in doubt Tassort SPORTPIX Golden Slipper Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) Lot 345 Written Tycoon - Naturale colt INGLIS favourite Tassort (Brazen Beau) has been labelled Jamieson also sold the Kermadec colt for a doubt for the juvenile feature with the colt Tim Rowe and Steve Moran $520,000 later in the session which continued found to have bruising to his off-fore foot. James hree colts, two by young sires Brazen Gilgai Farm’s successful sale, having also sold Cummings has told stewards the juvenile will not Beau (I Am Invincible) and Kermadec a Vancouver (Medaglia d’Oro) colt on Sunday run in Saturday's Todman Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) at (Teofilo) and another by proven for $540,000. Randwick and is "50/50" to take part in the $3.5 stallion Written Tycoon (Iglesia), “I’ve been desperate to stay in the horse for million Golden Slipper at Rosehill on March 23. Tsurpassed $500,000 on day two of the Inglis the past six months as I’ve watched him develop Cummings said he planned to start Tassort in the Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale yesterday. but I feared that he was leaving the country,” Pago Pago Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m) on March 16 if Gilgai Farm principal Rick Jamieson was, Jamieson said after the colt, who is from an the colt's foot improved sufficiently. Racing NSW of course, delighted to sell the Written Tycoon unraced sister to the Gilgai bred champion vets will inspect Tassort next week, while the yearling for more than $500,000 but was just as Black Caviar (Bel Esprit), was knocked down Silver Slipper (Gr 2, 1100m) runner up remained relieved to discover that the $675,000 colt was to Mark Player’s International Thoroughbred the $6 favourite for the Golden equivalent destined to stay in Australia. Solutions. Continued on page 2>> yesterday. Morning Briefing page 15 | 1 | Brought to you by Gilgai’s Written Tycoon colt trumps rivals on day two of Inglis Premier | 2 | Tuesday, March 5, 2019 << Continued from page 1 Those fears were allayed when well bought by Hong Kong’s Upper known industry consultant Player said the horse was staying in Australia. Bloodstock for $520,000 in the “The horse stays here and will be trained in Melbourne or Sydney but no last 20 minutes of the session. trainer has been locked in as yet. He’s a colt who’s going to need a little Gilgai Farm manager Kelly time. He’s not an early season two-year-old so we’re in no rush with him,” Skillecorn said: “He was a he said. stunning colt and obviously Player said that the composition of the purchasing syndicate was yet everyone else saw the quality in to be finalised but said the horse was 75 per cent done soon after the fall him too. of the hammer yesterday. “If you mate them right, you “I’ve been able to bring together a diverse group of people and it get a type, and you don’t get a Rick Jamieson RACING POST is gratifying that people in the industry are prepared to work together,” better type than that horse. You Player said. “This is the horse we wanted. By a champion stallion from can’t expect that type of dough like that but you couldn’t fault him on type one of the best global families. A proper blue hen family and it’s hard to and John Foote was the underbidder and he’s as good a judge as anyone get these sort of horses anywhere. in the game.” “He’s by a proven stallion who gets very good colts and is a good Upper Bloodstock’s Ross Lao said the colt would be put into training match with this female family. He’s a lovely compact colt, a terrific mover in Australia before determining whether he would race first before being and potentially a top class racehorse in my opinion. I paid a bit more than sent to Hong Kong. I thought and I had nothing left. The top end’s been very strong at this sale The agent’s client already has horses in training in Sydney with Bjorn and the competition for this horse was very strong from a lot of people we Baker and Peter Robl. know and respect in this industry.” The top-priced lot of the sale is still a Brazen Beau colt, who was Gilgai Farm has sold three of the five yearlings to make more than offered by Bhima Thoroughbreds early on Sunday, and was knocked $500,000 after two days of the Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale including down to Orbis Bloodstock for $800,000. the Kermadec colt who was offered as Lot 388. “We bought one Kermadec at Magic Millions and we like him and this The colt, who is the first foal out of Promenades (Lonhro), was one is a great mover. He is a fast horse,” Lao said. Continued on page 4>> Come visit Spendthrift during the Melbourne Premier Sales & see him for yourself. GOLD STANDARD G2-Winning Son of Sebring SPEED & VERSATILITY Sebring – Coniston Gem, by Greig Australia | 2 | Brought to you by Australian-bred or sold yearlings can race for more than $55 million in extra prizemoney through breeding and sales bonuses each year. It pays to buy Australian. Aushorse.com.au Maher keeps Brazen Beau colt in the family Maher keeps Brazen Beau colt in the family Lot 227 Brazen Beau - Innovation Girl colt INGLIS Ciaron Maher’s familiarity with the family of a Brazen Beau colt sold early on day two of the Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale gave him the confidence to go to $575,000 to secure the Blue Gum Farm- consigned yearling. The colt, who was catalogued as Lot 227, is out of the Group 2-winning Innovation Girl (Rubition), making him a half-brother to the Maher-trained Listed-winning mare Chloe In Paris (Exceed And Excel). “We trained Chloe In Paris out of the family and obviously his mum was really quick. Brazen Beau is doing a good job and he is just a quality horse,” Maher said. “He is a stronger, colt version (of Chloe In Paris) and he is a good, straight-forward moving colt who has got a great attitude. “He has got a stallion’s pedigree, so that is what you want to see him do.” The progeny of Brazen Beau, the sire of first crop two-year-olds Tassort and Accession, have been highly sought after at the first two sessions of the Premier Sale, with a colt reaching $800,000 on day one. Maher’s acquisition is the 11th foal out of the former Brian Mayfield- Smith-trained mare Innovation Girl, herself a half-sister to the dam of VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes (Gr 2, 1400m) winner Incumbent (Choisir). The colt will be syndicated between stable clients of Maher and training partner David Eustace, including strong supporter Colin McKenna. Price gambles on Beau Fellow Caulfield trainer Mick Price also took a punt on a colt by the sire of the moment despite not wanting to ‘get on the Brazen Beau bandwagon’. The Group 1-winning trainer went to $380,000 for the Stonehouse Thoroughbreds-consigned colt, who is the sixth foal out of the placed mare Li’l Miss Hayley (Savabeel). He was catalogued as Lot 269. “I just liked the horse himself. I don’t get too involved in the sexy stallions but I couldn’t help it on him as he is just a really nice racehorse,” Price said. Continued on page 6>> | 4 | Brought to you by CROWN PROSECUTOR Medaglia d’Oro x Riptide WINNER OF THE 2019 G1 NZ DERBY 2017 INGLIS MELBOURNE PREMIER YEARLING SALE $50,000 Sold by Woodside Park Purchased by Bruce Perry Bloodstock Trained by Stephen Marsh Bred by Hesket Bloodstock Crown Prosecutor’s half sister (Street Boss x Riptide) will be offered by Blue Gum Farm today as lot 414 at the Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale. inglis.com.au Price gambles on Beau | 6 | Tuesday, March 5, 2019 << Continued from page 4 “Sometimes you have just got to chase Atkinson who, on Monday, also enjoyed success with the sale of Lot 126 them up. I don’t have any owners for him at the moment but I just pictured at $260,000. him in my stable. “I’m so delighted for Sheryl. I’m sure she wouldn’t mind me calling her “We have had good luck with colts and I think he’ll make a two-year- the true Aussie battler,” Arnel said. old but he certainly has certainly got enough physical scope to train on “She only has a couple of mares and sometimes she’s just been on and be a three-year-old.” the wrong leg but this year she’s got it right and been well rewarded for Price inspected every colt at Oaklands Junction and was taken with the incredible work she puts into these horses. After what she’s been the colt despite him seemingly having a light pedigree.