Saturday, March 28, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here STUD FARMS RALLY TOGETHER AFTER ARROWFIELD STUD’S EASTER DEFECTION | SALES NEWS - PAGE 13 Tom Marquand making Read Tomorrow's Issue For: his mark in Australia Saturday’s Stakes Reviews & Results 21-year-old British jockey talks about his time down under and What's on landing his maiden Group 1 aboard Addeybb in the Ranvet Stakes Stakes races: Rosehill (NSW) - Tancred Stakes (Gr 1, 2400m), Vinery Stud Stakes BY GEORGIE DENNIS | @ANZ_NEWS (Gr 1, 2000m), Tulloch Stakes (Gr 2, hen 21-year-old British 2000m), Emancipation Stakes (Gr 2, jockey Tom Marquand 1500m), Doncaster Prelude (Gr 3, 1500m), arrived in Australia at Star Kingdom Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m), the beginning of the year, Sellwood Stakes (Gr 3, 2000m), The Wlittle did he know he would become a Group Schweppervescence (Gr 3, 1400m) Bendigo 1-winning rider just three months later. And he (VIC) - Bendigo Guineas (Listed, 1400m), certainly wasn’t expecting the elite level win to Golden Mile (Listed, 1600m) Ascot (WA) come with an English-trained horse. - WA Oaks (Gr 3, 2400m), Melvista Stakes Seven days ago, ‘Aussie Tom’ partnered the (Listed, 2200m). William Haggas-trained Addeybb (Pivotal) to Metropolitan meetings: Rosehill (NSW), victory in the Ranvet Stakes (Gr 1, 2000m), the first Bendigo (VIC), Doomben (QLD), Ascot of what is likely to be many Group 1 wins across (WA), Morphettville Parks (SA) his career and the former English Champion Race meetings: Wyong (NSW), Port Apprentice is still coming to terms with it. Macquarie (NSW), Warren (NSW), Wodonga “It’s pretty mad considering the whole (VIC), Gold Coast (QLD), Townsville (QLD), build up from riding ponies to pony racing, to Warwick (QLD) apprenticeships to getting your licence, and International meetings: Nakayama (JPN), that is the goal (to win a Group 1), the whole Hanshin (JPN), Taipa (MAC) way through, so it’s pretty mad,” Marquand told International Group races: Nakayama Tom Marquand GETTY IMAGES ANZ Bloodstock News. (JPN) - Nikkei Sho (Gr 2, 2500m). Hanshin Marquand has built a strong partnership “I was thinking I was going to struggle in (JPN) - Mainishi Hai (Gr 3, 1800m) with Newmarket-based trainer Haggas over the the early part of the year to be able to find those last few seasons with 158 rides for 39 wins at a Group 1 horses but I certainly didn’t expect it strike-rate of almost 25 percent, making the win to be in Australia on an English horse. I did not all the more special. think that would happen.” “Last year I thought I might have found a Despite coming from a family with no couple of horses early in the year that might ties to racing, Marquand knew from a young get me there and things didn’t materialise,” he age that being a jockey was what he wanted continued. to do. Continued on page 2>> TODAY’S STAKES FIELDS - PAGE 21 | FIRST SEASON SIRE RUNNERS - PAGE 20 Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Tom Marquand making his mark in Australia | 2 | Saturday, March 28, 2020 << Continued from page 1 “I rode from the age of about four but I was probably on five or six when I decided I wanted to be a jockey,” Marquand said. “It was a bit strange because I have no family in racing or connected to racing or with any interest in racing at all. “I never had my own pony until I was like 13 but I ended up doing quite a bit of pony racing from that age on other people’s ponies for about a year, and then when mum and dad realised I was serious about doing it, they let me get a racing pony. “I did a couple of years with that and spent time at the racing school amid riding out for local trainers. “I was riding out trying to get more involved to get through the school. In the summer I went down to Andrew Balding, I think I was 14 or 15, and then I went to Richard Hannon for a week and that’s where I ended up Tom Marquand and Harry Eustace SPORTPIX going as an apprentice and staying all the way through.” It was in 2016 that the then-apprentice got his first taste of Australian “After my first year of riding they asked if I wanted to do that so I took racing when he was offered an opportunity to travel to Melbourne and them up on it and I went down to Melbourne to ride for them (Hayes and ride for David Hayes and Tom Dabernig for a month on Sheikh Mansour’s Dabernig). exchange program. “I was lucky, I had like nine rides and they put me on an even money “Sheikh Mansour does the apprentice series around the world,” favourite for Sheikh Hamdan at Caulfield on a Saturday before I'd even Marquand continued. “So they started up a new thing where they were arrived and he went and won and the same horse actually won again like going to fund one apprentice from one country and then one apprectice two days before I left. in another country and they were basically going to switch, so basically a “So I had two metro winners from nine rides and I couldn't believe student exchange. my luck. 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Tom Marquand making his mark in Australia BEST OF LUCK To the Magic Millions graduates Addeybb SPORTPIX running in today’s feature races ROSEHILL (ATC) Montefilia ........................Tyreel Stud << Continued from page 2 “I left with a very good taste in my Azaly ........................Arrowfield Stud mouth from Australia so I knew I always wanted to come back but the next VINERY STUD STKS GR1 Missile Mantra ...........Arrowfield Stud NEVILLE SELLWOOD STKS GR3 couple of years, I rode out my claim and I wasn't able to get away from Nudge .............Lime Country T’breds Valentino Rossa ......Willow Park Stud English racing for that amount of time for it to be worth coming down.” Shout the Bar .......... Newhaven Park STAR KINGDOM STKS GR3 Worried about losing momentum in England, it was during the British TULLOCH STKS GR2 God of Thunder .........Segenhoe Stud Quick Thinker .........Holbrook T’breds Villami ............................. Cressfield winter last year that Richard Hannon’s former assistant trainer Tom Ward, Blazing Sunrise........Edinglassie Stud DONCASTER PRELUDE GR3 who now trains in his own right, convinced Marquand to come back to Sirmaze ....................... Tartan Fields Cuba ..........................Kitchwin Hills Australia and base himself in Sydney. EMANCIPATION STKS GR2 ASCOT (PERTH) “Tom Ward helped me out a lot,” he continued. “I was talking to him Amangiri .....................Kitchwin Hills about it and I was like, ‘Oh, I'm going to go back to David and Tom in TL BAILLIEU HCP GR3 WA OAKS GR3 Holyfield ...................Segenhoe Stud Pambella ...................Mungrup Stud Melbourne I think, and have a winter down there’. Postcode ................. Glenlogan Park Naughty By Nature ..........Toreby Park “I didn't want to ride another full all-weather winter, just because I Return With Honour .. Rosemont Stud Cambist .................... Yarradale Stud Time is Precious ..........Baramul Stud Mood Goddess ...........Mungrup Stud wanted to go and learn something else, and he (Ward) was like, ‘No, you're I Am Swerving ....Yarraman Park Stud Secret Pearl .............Rangeview Stud not going down there, you’re going to Sydney’ and I was like ‘oh, right’ and Untamed ....................... Luskin Park Miss Dominican . Misty Valley T’breds Jemss ...................Willow Park Stud Samantha’s Twitch .......Baramul Stud he was like ‘you're going to John O’Shea’ and I was like ‘ah, alright’,” the Argenteus ...................Milburn Creek Showaddywaddy ......... Scenic Lodge jockey laughed. After arriving in Sydney, things struggled to take off for Marquand as he wasn’t getting as many rides as he would have liked. He began questioning his decision to base himself in New South Wales, but after landing a metro double at Randwick in late December, 2018, things began to fall into place. “For the first couple of weeks when I came over I was like, ‘Oh, what have I done?’,” Marquand said. “I was struggling to get any rides and I was thinking, ‘I could be in Melbourne right now riding nice For the first horses for Lindsay Park’ and then all of a sudden on my third couple of weeks or fourth Saturday here, I rode a when I came double. “One of them was actually over I was like, on one of Lindsay Park’s horses ‘Oh, what have for Coolmore and then John (O’Shea) found me a winner I done?' on my first ride for him on Live TOM And Free and then it just took off MARQUAND and I had a great time, so I came b a c k .” Continued on page 5>> www.magicmillions.com.au Follow us @anz_news | 4 | Brought to you by Tom Marquand making his mark in Australia | 5 | Saturday, March 28, 2020 << Continued from page 4 It’s no secret that the English raider A week and a half later, he has become a popular member of the industry down under but he has took out the $2 million Inglis formed a great relationship with the in-form stable of Ciaron Maher and Millenium (RL, 1100m) aboard David Eustace, one for which he cannot give reason.