Sunday, September 20, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here MORNING BRIEFING - PAGE 8 SOCIAL HUB - PAGE 12 Waller and Waikato Read Tomorrow's Issue For: combine for Ocean Park The Week Ahead What's on Stakes races: Kalgoorlie (WA) - Boulder quinella Cup (Listed, 2105m) Metropolitan meetings: Devonport (TAS) 2012 Cox Plate winner proving a versatile Race meetings: Armidale (NSW), Nowra stallion and he continued his rise with the (NSW), Ballarat (VIC), Sunshine Coast George Main 1-2 yesterday (QLD), Kalgoorlie (WA), Murray Bridge (SA) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Armidale (NSW), LATEST NEWS FROM THE WEEKEND'S RACING Nowra (NSW) International meetings: Chelmsford (UK), Hamilton (UK), Craon (FR), Fontainebleau (FR), Scottsville (SAF), Woodbine (CAN), Monmouth Park (USA), Chukyo (JPN) International Group races: Chukyo (JPN) - Rose Stakes (Gr 2, 2000m). Dortmund (GER) - German St Leger (Gr 3, 2800m). Woodbine (CAN) - Natalma Stakes (Gr 1, 8f), Summer Stakes (Gr 3, 8f). Monmouth Park (USA) - Salvator Mile Stakes (Gr 3, 8f) International sales: Keeneland September Yearling Sale - Books 3-6 (USA) Kolding (left) SPORTPIX stallion Ocean Park (Thorn Park) recorded his BY STEVE MORAN AND first Group 1 quinella while, in Melbourne, the ALEX WILTSHIRE | @ANZ_NEWS remarkable record of jockey Craig Williams and he success of training juggernaut his family grew in the Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes Chris Waller continued unabated (Gr 1, 1400m). That was the tale of yesterday’s in Sydney’s George Main Stakes Group 1 racing in Australia. T(Gr 1, 1600m) as Waikato Stud Continued on page 3>> YESTERDAY'S STAKES RESULTS | PAGE 15 Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Winner - Kolding 2nd - Star of the Seas G1 QUINELLA in the ATC George Main Stakes for OCEAN PARK 2020 Book Full Thorn Park - Sayyida by Zabeel www.waikatostud.com Waller and Waikato combine for Ocean Park quinella | 3 | Sunday, September 20, 2020 << Continued from page 1 Waller won the George Main for the seventh time (in the past nine years) with Kolding (Ocean Park) while Williams’ success on the David Jolly-trained Behemoth (All Too Hard) was his sixth in the Caulfield Group 1 - a record he now shares with contemporary Damien Oliver - and an eighth for the family as his father Allan won the race in 1979, as a jockey, and also in 1993 as a trainer. Both Kolding and Behemoth, along with yesterday’s The Shorts (Gr 2, 1100m) winner Classique Legend (Not A Single Doubt), contested 2019’s inaugural $7.5 million Golden Eagle (1500m) for four-year-olds, finishing first, fourth and tenth respectively. The day’s action centred on those wins along with the fact that Waller’s four runners filled the first four placings in the Randwick feature; South Australian trainers trifectaed the Clarke with Tony and Calvin McEvoy- prepared siblings Dollar For Dollar (High Chaparral) and Pretty Brazen (Brazen Beau) second and third respectively, while Danny O’Brien Behemoth (left) RACING PHOTOS claimed a Caulfield treble including the Naturalism Stakes (Gr 3, 2000m) with Orderofthegarter (Galileo) who is now ballot-exempt from the feature as the trainer prepared Sacred Falls (O’Reilly) to beat stablemates Caulfield Cup (Gr 1, 2400m). Royal Descent (Redoute’s Choice), Weary (Astronomer Royal) and The New Zealand-bred Kolding (5 g Ocean Park - Magic Star by Hawkspur (Purrealist) in the 2014 Doncaster Mile (Gr 1, 1600m). Danzero) provided Waller with his 113th Group 1 win, a staggering tally in The five-year-old won by a long neck from the unfortunate Star Of The just 13 years since his permanent move to Sydney. Seas (Ocean Park), who was shuffled back in the straight before charging Kolding led home a 1-2-3-4 for the trainer. This was the second time home for second. A further head behind the runner-up was Imaging Waller has trained the first four placegetters in a Randwick 1600-metre (Oasis Dream), with a length back to the most Continued on page 5>> ANZ BEHEMOTH (All Too Hard-Penny Banger) MRC SIR RUPERT CLARKE STAKES GR1 $6,000 2017 Magic Millions National Yearling Sale Vendor: Riversdale (As Agent) | Buyer: Grand Syndications | Earnings: $1,625,290 Owners: BL Hannon, AJ Devine, CJ Downie, V Francesca, BM McGilvray, T Fletcher, P Neuberger, MJ Smith, TJ Thompson, Ms LM Woodroffe, 21st Century Racing Pty Ltd (Mgr: E Savaglia), The Grand (Mgr: PV Morley), Samui Racing (Mgr: PM Hogan) & The Quine Boys Inc (Mgr: CRT Quine) | Trainer: David Jolly CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL CONNECTIONS www.magicmillions.com.au Follow us @anz_news | 3 | Brought to you by 2020 Stallion Parade Watch Now ACE HIGH • VADAMOS • PROISIR • SHOCKING Contact: John Thompson +64 21 779 931 or Karl Mihaljevich +64 21 247 8892 p +64 7 888 3833 e [email protected] www.richhillstud.co.nz Waller and Waikato combine for Ocean Park quinella | 5 | Sunday, September 20, 2020 << Continued from page 3 market fancied of the Waller quartet, 3200m) with Andrew Ramsden Stakes (Listed, 2800m) heroine Oceanex. Verry Elleegant (Zed) - each New Zealand-bred bar Imaging and that was As he begins his eighth season at stud, the 2012 Cox Plate (Gr 1, 2040m) appropriate enough on a day when there was no shortage of success for winner is finally starting to receive recognition as a potent producer of those from Waller’s country of birth. tough, versatile horses. Probabeel (4 m Savabeel - Far Fetched by Pins) was among the most “It was a huge thrill to get the quinella for Ocean Park, who is really impressive winners of the afternoon as she remained unbeaten on good starting to show his incredible versatility,” Chittick said. “It really is ground in 2020 after her excellent performance in the Bill Ritchie Stakes remarkable, he’s got one of the best sprinters in Australia in Tofane, with (Gr 3, 1400m) for owners Brendan and Jo Lindsay of Cambridge Stud. Kolding one of the best miler, middle distance horses in the country and he’s got a qualifier for the Melbourne Cup. “The start of his career at stud, to be honest, was frustrating. He had three very, very close seconds in Group 1s (with Mongolianconqueror, Another Dollar and Arrogant). In two of them they nearly had to go to a second photo to determine them. To run second in the New Zealand Derby, Queensland Oaks and Rosehill Guineas, in your first couple of crops, if that had been the other way around he would have been flying and away we go. But it did give us confidence that his numbers and age and maturity all came about, we were very confident it would fall into place. “For a stallion who was a freakish racehorse, a real tough racehorse, in winning five Group 1 races like he did .. when we won the Cox Plate, he gave a massive amount of weight to Pierro and All Too Hard so he had to be incredibly tough. We could see he'd passed it on and now it’s just all falling into place. They are tough, durable racehorses that just keep going.” Probabeel SPORTPIX Ocean Park stands for NZ$20,000 (plus GST), third on the list of Between Ocean Park’s quinella and the win of Probabeel, the star Waikato Stud stallions behind newcomer Super Seth (Dundeel) at daughter of Waikato’s banner stallion Savabeel, it was a day to remember NZ$35,000 (plus GST), as well as six-time New Zealand champion sire at Randwick for the leading New Zealand property. Savabeel (Zabeel), whose fee stands at NZ$100,000 (plus GST). Throw in a victory to the Waikato-bred and owned Fabric (Ocean The win of Probabeel in the Bill Ritchie continued a strong start to the Park) at Caulfield, coming hot on the heels of a Waikato Stud double at season for Savabeel, with the Jamie Richards-trained mare now second Newcastle on Friday with blueblood Bargain (Ocean Park) breaking her favourite for the Epsom Handicap (Gr 1, 1600m) after her easy win maiden and the late Sacred Falls recording his first stakes winner with All yesterday. Saints’ Eve in the Tibbie Stakes (Gr 3, 1400m), and a banner 24 hours for “I think this season in particular is shaping up to be one of Savabeel’s the farm was complete. best ever,” said Chittick. “The three-year-olds that are showing up already “The last 24 hours have certainly been very exciting,” Waikato Stud’s are quite remarkable. Just last week we saw Mo’unga as well as the filly of Mark Chittick told ANZ Bloodstock News yesterday. “There are the two our own, ANZ Maiden of the Week Cornflower Blue, she won by six and fillies at Newcastle, especially picking up that Group 3 race early on in her a half lengths and heads towards the New Zealand 1000 Guineas. Then career, and with a filly that’s got a good pedigree as she does. there’s Tanaawol for the Hayes stable too. Certainly his three-year-olds are “Probabeel has just stamped her class. She’s really getting up there shaping up as a freakish crop of horses for Savabeel. as one of the best racehorses we’ve bred, what with what she’s done and “Probabeel, she’s really starting to join the best horses that we’ve ever what she could do. bred. I think she’s in for a massive spring and autumn too.” “And then you’ve got to take your hat off to Chris Waller and his team. While Kolding’s return to form and Verry Elleegant’s ‘failure’ may have Kolding gave us a couple of huge thrills last year and obviously in more surprised some, Waller was happy to defend both horses - especially the recent times there’s been a bit of reason for concern but Chris said, ‘Leave winner, who has amassed more than $5 million in earnings in 12 months it to me, I’ll work him out,’ and it just goes to show what a master horseman since winning the Ritchie on this day last year and followed up with he is to get him back to form and win so strongly.