Sunday, March 28, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here MO’UNGA TOO GOOD IN DELIVERING NEASHAM FIRST GROUP 1 WIN - PAGE 7 FIRST SEASON SIRE RUNNERS - PAGE 19 Sweet Slipper success Read Tomorrow's Issue For The Week Ahead for ambitious Field and What's on Metropolitan meetings: Oakbank (SA), Freedmans with Stay Inside Hobart (TAS) Race meetings: Armidale (NSW), Exciting Extreme Choice colt stamps himself as a top-shelf Wellington (NSW), Sale (VIC), Sunshine Coast performer with dominant win in delayed Group 1 (QLD), Geraldton (WA), Tauherenikau (NZ) International meetings: Sha Tin (HK), Nakayama (JPN), Hanshin (JPN), Chukyo (JPN), Greyville (RSA), Doncaster (UK), Naas (IRE) International Group races: Naas (IRE) - Park Express Stakes (Gr 3, 1m), Nakayama (JPN) - March Stakes (Gr 3, 1800m). Chukyo (JPN) - Takamatsunomiya Kinen (Gr 1, 1200m) Sales: Inglis Digital March (Late) Sale Stay Inside LISA GRIMM yesterday’s delayed running of the $3.5 million BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS Golden Slipper Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m). MORNING BRIEFING enry Field’s well-considered One of three juvenile colts bought into by early gamble totalling tens of Field’s Newgate Farm and partners in recent Seven for So You Think millions of dollars to corner months, Stay Inside’s value skyrocketed Think It Over (5 g ex Personal Service by Zabeel) this season’s best available two- following the manner of his victory which almost won yesterday’s George Ryder Stakes (Gr 1, year-oldH colts has been handsomely rewarded certainly assures him his place as the most 1500m) to become the seventh individual Group 1 after Stay Inside (Extreme Choice) produced an expensive first season sire when he is eventually winner for Coolmore stallion So You Think (High electric performance to emphatically take out retired to stud. Continued on page 2>> Chaparral). Morning Briefing page 10 >> FRI 26TH - WED 31ST MAR 2021 INGLIS DIGITAL INGLIS DIGITAL MARCH (LATE SALE) SALE LIVE VIEW HERE Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Sweet Slipper success for ambitious field and Freedmans with Stay Inside | 2 | Sunday, March 28, 2021 << Continued from page 1 Newgate Farm already stands Capitalist was probably a preparation away and I don't know how far you should (Written Tycoon), the 2016 Golden Slipper winner who has made an push him. How silly I was,” outstanding start to his stud career, and there was not another winning colt From there he would score emphatically at Randwick on January 23 until 2020 when Farnan (Not A Single Doubt) took out the race. when heavily backed for his first start, before his emphatic Pierro Plate He was recently retired to stand at Kia Ora Stud this year at a valuation (1100m) win on February 13 confirmed his Slipper credentials. tipped to be north of $40 million, figures which prompted Field to make The Freedmans rounded out Stay Inside’s Slipper campaign in the Todman an early move on the current generation’s most promising colts and the Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) when he was beaten into fourth after being held up for a Richard and Michael Freedman-trained Stay Inside certainly delivered at run. James McDonald chose to ride Home Affairs (I Am Invincible) (eighth) Rosehill yesterday, seven days after the race was first slated to be run. yesterday in preference to the colt, allowing Berry to pick up the mount. On a drying Soft 7 surface, Stay Inside ($4.60) was given a nice run by “He’s just such a professional. I mean you can make all the plans in the jockey Tommy Berry, who positioned him in a trailing position behind the world from barriers but he (Berry) rode him to absolute perfection and got leaders in a field headed up by Profiteer (Capitalist). him into the perfect spot,” Michael said. Berry maneuvered the colt into the clear at the top of the straight and, from “He was able to find the right spot and conserve his energy, and with there, the Slipper was never in doubt, going on to score by one and three-quarter that turn of foot, he’s the real deal.” lengths over Anamoe (Street Boss) ($15) with his Godolphin stablemate His brother and training partner Richard praised Michael for his Ingratiating (Frosted) ($20) another two and a quarter lengths away in third. handling of Stay Inside, who was prepared out of Randwick, particularly Four Moves Ahead (Snitzel) was the first filly home in fourth, while the with the postponement of the meeting by a week owing to the torrential Newgate-China Horse Club’s yearling buy Capitivant (Capitalist) was fifth, rain which fell in Sydney. just ahead of Artorius (Flying Artie), who Newgate Farm bought into after “Michael’s done a great job with the two-year-olds as he always does,” his Blue Diamond Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) win. Richard said. Profiteer, the first of Newgate’s colts investment made in early “He picked the right day to work him and worked him the right way February, finished seventh, six lengths adrift of Stay Inside. and the horse looked beautiful here today. I thought he looked better After the race, Michael Freedman took time to take in the achievement today than he looked when he won before.” so soon after reopening his Sydney stable after a short-lived and, by his Berry agreed the extra week leading into the Slipper had benefited own admission, disastrous training stint in Hong Kong. Stay Inside. "Last year we sat at home, we didn't have a runner anywhere," he said “I rode him last Tuesday morning and Michael called me on the way "To have two in the race today and come away with the winner, I'm a home in the car and said ‘I’ve seen you happier after a piece of work’,” bit speechless." Berry revealed. HE WAS ABLE TO Freedman unveiled Stay “I said, ‘I don’t know what you want me to say, he worked good, he just FIND THE RIGHT SPOT Inside publicly for the first time didn’t blow me away’. AND CONSERVE HIS on January 4 in a Rosehill barrier “I rode him this Tuesday morning, I didn’t even have to say anything, I ENERGY, AND WITH trial before returning to the track think the smile said enough. It’s just amazing what a week can do in racing for another hit-out 11 days later with these two-year-olds. THAT TURN OF FOOT, with Berry in the saddle. “Going to the gates he was ready to go.” HE’S THE REAL DEAL Berry said: "I remember Rachel King was in awe of runner-up Anamoe’s performance after - MICHAEL FREEDMAN telling Michael when I rode this jumping from the outside barrier (15), declaring: “He’s a superstar in the colt in his (second) trial that he making. If he draws a gate he wins.” Continued on page 4>> FREE ENTRY ZERO PASSED IN COMMISSION MAGIC MILLIONS ONLINE SALE 5-7 APRIL | ENTER NOW Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by Slipper STAY INSIDE STORMS HOME IN WORLD’S RICHEST 2YO RACE STAY INSIDE Extreme Choice-Nothin Leica Storm ATC GOLDEN SLIPPER STAKES G1 Breeder: Kingstar Farm | $60,000 2019 Magic Millions National Weanling Sale | Vendor: Kingstar Farm (As Agent) | Buyer: Newgate Bloodstock $200,000 2020 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale | Vendor: Newgate Farm (As Agent) | Buyer: Freedman Brothers/Rick Connolly Bloodstock Earnings: $2,237,350 | Owners: Newgate Bloodstock, C Pickford, M Skinner, M Davidson, K Hamman, C Lamond, J Wilson, GOTG Racing, L Myers, S Aboud, M Barakat, M Blundell, S Tilley, M Pond, K Wilson, China Horse Club Racing, Horse Ventures, Newgate SF, Go Bloodstock Aust & Grant Lowe Bloodstock | Trainers: Richard & Michael Freedman Congratulations to all Connections THE ONLY SALES COMPANY TO SELL A SLIPPER WINNING COLT THIS MILLENNIUM! www.magicmillions.com.au Sweet Slipper success for ambitious field and Freedmans with Stay Inside | 4 | Sunday, March 28, 2021 Connolly savours Stay Inside’s Slipper win Bred by Kingstar Farm’s Matthew Sandblom, who is part of the Newgate syndicate who bought back into the colt, Stay Inside is the first named foal out of the winning mare Nothin Leica Storm (Anabaa), a $90,000 Inglis Chairman’s Sale purchase in 2018 from the Widden Stud draft carrying the Slipper winner. Sandblom sold Stay Inside for $60,000 to Newgate Bloodstock at the Magic Millions Gold Coast National Weanling Sale before he was resold for $200,000 to his trainers and agent Rick Connolly. Sydney-based Connolly watched the race at home in solitude but was hoping to catch up with the Freedmans and the colt’s owners last night to celebrate the success. “It is everybody’s dream to buy a Slipper winner,” he told ANZ Bloodstock News soon after the race. “Previously working with Tony McEvoy, we went close with Sunlight (third in 2018) and since forming my company Rick Connolly Bloodstock and joining forces at the sales with the Freedman boys and, in particular, Eduardo LISA GRIMM Michael who I get on really well with, it’s a great result.” Stay Inside made Connolly’s shortlist when he spotted the colt during on- farm inspections in late 2019 at Newgate Farm and the colt also gained the Stay Inside is one of just 48 live first crop two-year-olds by Extreme approval of the Freedmans once they laid eyes on him at the Gold Coast. Choice (Not A Single Doubt) whose fertility issues are well documented. “After formulating short lists and taking Michael and Richard around, He has just 29 yearlings and 39 foals but his mare numbers skyrocketed we thought he was such a well-balanced colt with great depth of muscle to last season, covering 105 mares.