Monday, June 8, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here KAMEKO'S O'BRIEN CONNECTION - PAGE 17 MORNING BRIEFING - PAGE 6 WEEK AHEAD - PAGE 21 O’Brien and Moore Read Tomorrow's Issue For: land 1,000 Guineas with Stallion Watch What's on Metropolitan meetings: Warwick Farm daughter of Galileo (NSW), Mornington (VIC) Love turns the tables on Quadrilateral and provides champion Race meetings: Ballina (NSW), Kilcoy Irish trainer with fourth victory in the Classic in five years (QLD), Murray Bridge (SA) Barrier trials/ Jump-outs: Ballina (NSW), LATEST NEWS FROM THE WEEKEND'S RACING Yeppoon (QLD), Belmont (WA) International meetings: Chelmsford (UK), Haydock (UK), Lingfield (UK), Naas (IRE), Vaal (SAF) Sales: Gavelhouse.com 8 June 2020 Auction HONG KONG NEWS Love (white face) GETTY IMAGES/ALAN CROWHURST Poon shines with four-timer as 2,000 Guineas (Gr 1, 1m), unbeaten Group 1 winner Mighty Valor gives Yiu a hand BY GEORGIE DENNIS | @ANZ_NEWS Quadrilateral (Frankel) went into the race as the firm Matthew Poon illuminated a rain-drenched he combination of Aidan O’Brien, favourite and loomed up to the front runners in the Sunday at Sha Tin yesterday with a four-timer Ryan Moore and Galileo (Sadler’s final stages of the race, but it was Love who stormed capped by victory aboard the courageous Wells) have produced countless down the centre of the track to win by of four and a Perfect Match (Not A Single Doubt) in the elite-level victories, and that was quarter lengths with the minimum of fuss. Class 2 Butterfly Handicap (1400m). againT the case at Newmarket yesterday as Love The Richard Hannon-trained Cloak Of The Danny Shum-trained Perfect Match took out the first fillies Classic of the year, the Spirits (Invincible Spirit) was second with defied a 130-pound burden to gallop with 1,000 Guineas (Gr 1, 1m). Quadrilateral holding on to finish a head away resolute heart through yielding ground In an almost identical scenario to Saturday’s in third. Continued on page 2>> and claim the afternoon’s finale by half a length from the fast-closing Mongolian King YESTERDAY'S RACE RESULTS | PAGE 28 | THE SOCIAL HUB | PAGE 20 (Sufficient). Hong Kong News page 15 >> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by O’Brien and Moore land 1,000 Guineas with daughter of Galileo | 2 | Monday, June 8, 2020 << Continued from page 1 Winner of the Moyglare Stud Stakes we’d start here and then maybe go on to the Oaks and I think that’s what (Gr 1, 7f) at the Curragh last year, Love’s only previous start over the the lads were thinking about doing. Guineas course was in the Newmarket Fillies' Mile (Gr 1, 1m) last “She was well and that was her target all the time. Ryan gave her a November, where she was third behind Quadrilateral. beautiful ride, very uncomplicated, he got her in a lovely rhythm and I The three-year-old’s victory in front of an empty Rowley Mile couldn’t have been happier really. He had her well balanced into the dip, grandstand was O’Brien’s fourth win in the race in five years and the she’s very genuine and she had her head out and ran to the line. fourth overall for Moore. “We were very happy with her run last year (in the Fillies’ Mile). "She was in control of the race a long way out,” the jockey said. “She Looking at the race, it was a very small distance we had to make up. won as she liked, really. She's a very uncomplicated filly and we've always “We were delighted with her run in the Moyglare. We thought she thought an awful lot of her. handled Newmarket very well and we thought the experience she had last "She won the Moyglare last year and we expected her to win the Fillies' year would have done her good for this year.” Mile – I don't know if it was too soft for her that day. She's a typical Galileo Due to the UK lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic, filly. If it wasn't for her last run last year you'd have been pretty confident the Guineas was run a month later than normal and O’Brien said that she was the one to beat today." provided some extra challenges when preparing the filly for her first-up Love has shortened into odds of 2-1 on Betway for next month’s assignment. Epsom Oaks (Gr 1, 1m 4f) and Moore said: "I'd say it's a possibility that “It was a little bit tricky as it was a bit stop and start, usually it’s a little she'd stay (1m 4f at Epsom). bit dangerous when you do that. You have a target, you think you have a “At the moment she looks the best three-year-old filly around. I don't target and you have to train for it and then it moves – it just makes it a little know what the plan is but I'd say the Oaks is an option for her." bit complicated,” he said. O’Brien added: “We’re delighted with her. She was doing everything “Everyone has been great, everyone has been very focused and right all through the winter and the spring. everybody has put a lot of work into her. “She’s a lovely filly. We always thought she would get much further “Obviously she’s a beautifully-bred filly by Galileo and I’m delighted than a mile. She showed she got a mile last year and we always thought for the lads. She’s a special filly.” Continued on page 4>> Smart form Three-year-old Ballistic Boy wins the G3 Rough Habit and juvenile Standoff breaks through at Flemington. They’re by the top 5 winner-getter who stands at a far lower fee than any of the other leading sires. 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ADRIAN BOTT I think he [VANCOUVER] could be on a similar trajectory to fellow Golden “Slipper winner PIERRO, who at the I have a very good opinion of end of his first crop“ had just two black the VANCOUVER two-year-olds“ type 2-year-olds and who is now “ battling it out for Australian Champion in my stable... I think he’s a Sire honours. stallion to watch. DENISE MARTIN OF STAR THOROUGHBREDS DANNY O’BRIEN Unbeaten champion 2yo and Golden Slipper winner 2020 yearlings made up to $600,000 Fee: $30,250 (inc. GST) Colm Santry, John Kennedy, Paddy Oman, Tom Moore, Rob Archibald or Emma Pugsley Tel: 02 6576 4200. New Zealand: Gordon Calder Tel:+64 218 41612. www.coolmore.com O’Brien and Moore land 1,000 Guineas with daughter of Galileo | 4 | Monday, June 8, 2020 << Continued from page 2 Richard Hannon is the only trainer The trainer added: "I don't know what we will do going forward. I will to have broken O'Brien's 1,000 Guineas stranglehold since 2016 with talk to Prince Khalid [owner] first. I'd imagine she would stay further but Billesdon Brook (Champs Elysees) in 2018, and the trainer has high hopes we won't be rushing her." for runner-up Cloak Of Spirits, with the Coronation Stakes (Gr 1, 1m) at Bred and raced by Coolmore, Love (3 f Galileo - Pikaboo by Pivotal) Royal Ascot one possibility. has had eight starts for four wins and two placings, earning £453,044 in He said: "I'm delighted with her. She did the donkey work and stuck prize-money. at it. She's very elegant and a pretty classy filly. There will be a lot of good She is the eighth foal, and sixth to race, out of the unplaced Pivotal races in her. Maybe the Coronation Stakes could be next but I will speak to (Polar Falcon) mare Pikaboo, making her a sister to Group 3 winners Sheikh Obaid (owner) and see what he says. Peach Tree and Flattering, while she is also a half-sister to dual Group 2 "I think being out in front suits her and I think Andrea (Atzeni, jockey) scorer Lucky Kristale (Lucky Story). rode her perfectly. She hasn’t lit the world up with her homework but she Out of the Danehill (Danzig) mare Gleam Of Light, Pikaboo herself is a is always like that anyway. I didn’t know what to expect but she has run a half-sister to triple Group 2 winner and former Ivy House Stables resident super race and beat a lot of very good fillies there." Arabian Gleam (Kyllachy) as well as dual Listed scorer Kimberella Like Pinatubo (Shamardal) in the 2,000 Guineas, Quadrilateral lost (Kyllachy).