MAIDEN OF THE WEEK Friday, February 12, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here MORNING BRIEFING - PAGE 6 ROSEHILL TRIAL RESULTS - PAGE 24 Homebred Enthaar What’s On Stakes races: Moonee Valley (VIC) - leads ambitious plans Torney Night Cup (Listed, 2500m) Metropolitan meetings: Canterbury (NSW), Moonee Valley (VIC), Darwin (NT) for Emirates Park Race meetings: Tamworth (NSW), Taree Lootah family planning to once again stand a number of (NSW), Sale (VIC), Townsville (QLD), stallions at its historic base in the Hunter Valley Awapuni (NZ) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Taree (NSW), Flemington (VIC), Camperdown (VIC) International meetings: Southwell (UK), Chelmsford (UK), Dundalk (IRE), Fairview (SAF) INDUSTRY NEWS Enthaar RACING PHOTOS Profiteer possesses golden pedigree for a Slipper Emirates Park, has reduced its prized broodmare BY JO MCKINNON | @ANZ_NEWS BY LLOYD JACKSON band from 280 to 60 and is now planning to he iconic Emirates Park brand has once again stand stallions at its historic base at Can one race cause the industry to erupt? been enjoying a resurgence of late Murrurundi in the Hunter Valley. This is, of course, in reference to the Inglis with Blue Diamond Stakes (Gr 1, They took back their famed 4,000 acre Millennium (RL, 1100m), held at Randwick on 1200m) and Golden Slipper Stakes property, purchased in the 1980s, from Saturday, February 6 and featuring a runaway T(Gr 1, 1200m) favourite Enthaar (Written Tycoon) leaseholders Aquis last year, and, during the winner. its latest trailblazer on Australian racetracks and Fung family-owned operation’s three-year A surprising aspect of the brilliant front-running the filly’s arrival on the major stage is timely with tenure there (2017-2020), took the opportunity display by big-margin winner Profiteer (Capitalist) is the stud farm’s owners setting a new long-term to review their own breeding and racing not merely the swiftness of his performance but also strategy for their bloodstock interests. business, setting an ambitious course for the the swiftness of the reaction in the sale ring over the The Lootah family, founders and owners of future. Continued on page 2>> following 48 hours. Industry News page 12 >> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Homebred Enthaar leads ambitious plans for Emirates Park | 2 | Friday, February 12, 2021 << Continued from page 1 “One key thing is that Emirates will be a long-term operation as we have the next generation coming through and ONE KEY THING IS THAT EMIRATES WILL BE A that’s the exciting thing, we know it will be here for another 30 years at least,” LONG TERM OPERATION AS WE HAVE THE NEXT Emirates Park general manager Bryan Carlson told ANZ Bloodstock News. GENERATION COMING THROUGH AND THAT’S THE “Hussain’s (Lootah) goal over the last few years was to buy fillies to EXCITING THING, WE KNOW IT WILL BE HERE FOR put back into the broodmare band, build up families and breed to sell and ANOTHER 30 YEARS AT LEAST - BRYAN CARLSON keep. The main goal is to breed a Golden Slipper winner. “Long term, we will have stallions again. It will be a maximum of three to four and we will stand the best and send those mares from the “They are not in the media all the time but they are so passionate and broodmare band to them,” said Carlson. I think to win a Blue Diamond with a very good filly is what they want and Since the late 1980s Emirates Park has produced many top class shows what we are doing is working.” horses including Al Maher (Danehill), Secret Savings (Seeking The Gold), Unbeaten at her first two starts, coming in the season’s two-year-old Shamekha (Secret Savings) and purchased and raced Golden Slipper- curtain raiser, the Gimcrack Stakes (Gr 3, 1000m) and Chairman’s Stakes winning fillies Estijaab (Snitzel) and Mossfun (Mossman). at Caulfield (Gr 3, 1000m), Enthaar has been labelled a potential superstar Australia’s leading two-year-old filly, Enthaar, is an Emirates Park by industry pundits. homebred and carries the same racing colours as Estijaab and Mossfun “She's always been a very nice type but you don’t know until they get (Mossman), the famed green with white sash, which represent Hussain on the track. She looks to be a very exciting horse for the future.” Lootah, the 31-year-old son of founder Nasser. While the racing dream is well and truly alive, Emirates Park has also “Mossfun and Estijaab we bought and it would be good to win a third reset its focus on breeding to sell quality stock. (Golden Slipper) with a home bred,” added Carlson. At last month’s Magic Millions Yearling Sale on the Gold Coast “For Hussain and Nasser and myself, I think it shows we can breed a two of their graduates sold for seven-figure sums, including a colt by good horse. Hussain is so passionate about their matings and breeding Enthaar’s sire, Written Tycoon (Iglesia), for $1.2 million to Spendthrift and, seeing the results now, it’s all paying off. Australia. 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Pictured: MAN BOOKER’s jubilant connections, GR2 WA Guineas – Cost $25,000 Perth Yearling Sale, Earnings $1.1 Million MAGIC MILLIONS PERTH YEARLING SALE | SWAN VALLEY Thursday 18 February commencing 1pm AWST – 3pm AEST – 4pm AEDT Friday 19 February commencing 11am AWST – 1pm AEST – 2pm AEDT www.magicmillions.com.au Homebred Enthaar leads ambitious plans for Emirates Park | 4 | Friday, February 12, 2021 << Continued from page 2 Shortly after the hammer fell, Carlson confirmed that they would retain a share in the colt, the most expensive son of Written Tycoon ever sold at public auction. “We are trying to create that brand where people are buying good horses off us. “We want to stand out at the sales and bring quality horses that people know are for sale.” Testament to Emirates Park’s commitment to mix it at the pointy end of the market is the fact they have recently brought in some major industry players to join their team. LONG TERM, WE WILL HAVE STALLIONS AGAIN. IT Stallion barn at Emirates Park JO MCKINNON WILL BE A MAXIMUM OF THREE TO FOUR AND WE WILL STAND THE BEST AND SEND THOSE MARES “If we can work that way and have good stallions and results every FROM THE BROODMARE BAND TO THEM year it will be an exciting journey ahead. This year and next we will be a - BRYAN CARLSON bit light with drafts at the sales but going forward we will have around ten yearlings at most sales.” Hard-hit by drought in recent years, the farm at Murrurundi is the In December, highly respected horseman Tony Scott, who was greenest it's been in decades. previously stud manager for Aquis Farm when the group was based at the Hunter Valley property, was engaged to manage their young stock. “Having experienced people around you makes a business. Going HUSSAIN IS SO PASSIONATE ABOUT THEIR forward we will slightly build up those key areas and look for those MATINGS, AND BREEDING, AND SEEING THE people,” said Carlson, adding that necessary, practical improvements will RESULTS NOW IT’S ALL PAYING OFF also be made to the farm’s infrastructure to support their strategy. - BRYAN CARLSON “I think the farm is going in a great direction. We don’t want it to happen overnight but slowly. With so much feed around Carlson wisely encouraged Nasser and Hussain to take advantage and invest in some cattle early last spring. Now, as you drive past the property along the New England HWY you can see sizable herds of steers and heifers grazing happily on lush pastures. “The farm looks fantastic. We use the cattle to go through the paddocks after the horses. “We bought them at the right time and we are growing it up to be a small-scale cattle operation.” While winning a Blue Diamond or Golden Slipper might be of paramount importance over the coming years, Carlson’s pretty chuffed to be making his first foray into selling cattle online today under the Emirates Park banner. And he can safely expect some good results. A bit like the yearling Stallion barn at Emirates Park JO MCKINNON market at the moment, cattle are commanding huge prices. Rags To RICHES The story of TAKEOVER TARGET Follow us @anz_news | 4 | Brought to you by Morning Briefing -Sponsored by Woodside Park Stud Friday, February 12, 2021 HISTORY IS BEING WRITTEN MORNING BRIEFING (Snitzel) produced scintillating barrier trials Forbes (Capitalist) was due to trial against AUSTRALIA at Rosehill yesterday. The pair clashed in Shaquero and Remarque but was scratched at First for Wolf Cry a 900-metre heat with Shaquero showing the barrier after becoming cast in the stalls.