SYDNEY CUP GOES HUNGRY HEART’S OAKS WIN SECOND GROUP 1 TO OTI’S IMPORT A SIGN OF THINGS TO COME FOR SEBRING MARE SELINO - PAGE 4 FOR YULONG? - PAGE 6 NETTOYER - PAGE 9 Sunday, April 18, 2021 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here THE SHOWDOWN A DEMOLITION FOR FINANCE TYCOON - PAGE 10 HIGH-FIVE FOR FASTNET ROCK’S AVANTAGE - PAGE 11 Addeybb lands Queen Read Tomorrow's Issue For Elizabeth under brilliant The Week Ahead What's on Marquand ride Metro meetings: Hobart (TAS) Race meetings: Mudgee (NSW), Wagga The William Haggas-trained gelding triumphs over (NSW), Pakenham (VIC), Terang (VIC), Verry Elleegant in another thrilling dual Sunshine Coast (QLD), Geraldton (WA), Strathalbyn (SA), Ascot Park (NZ) Barrier Trials: Mudgee (NSW), Wagga (NSW) International stakes races: Newbury (UK) - Greenham Stakes (Gr 3, 7f), John Porter Stakes (Gr 3, 1m4f), Fred Darling Stakes (Gr 3, 7f) ParisLongchamp (FR) - Prix de Fontainebleau (Gr 3, 1600m), Prix de la Grotte (Gr 3, 1600m) Cologne (GER) - Carl Jaspers Prize (Gr 2, 2400m) Santa Anita (US) - Kona Gold Stakes (Gr 3, 6.5f), Tokyo City Cup (Gr 3, 12f) Nakayama (JPN) - Satsuki Sho, Japanese 2,000 Guineas (Gr 1, 2000m), Hanshin (JPN) - Antares Stakes (Gr 3, 1800m) International race meetings: Newbury (UK), Dundalk (IRE), Cologne (GER), Aqueduct (US), Santa Anita (US), Scottsville Addeybb SPORTPIX (SAF), Nakayama (JPN), Hanshin (JPN), Verry Elleegant travelled powerfully on his Niigata (JPN), Kranji (SGP), Taipa (MAC) BY TOMMY CHURCHYARD | @ANZ_NEWS outside but was unable to pass the son of Pivotal Sales: NZB South Island Sale (NZ), ddeybb (Pivotal) and Tom (Polar Falcon), who finished half a length in Gavelhouse.com April 19 Sale (NZ) Marquand retained their Queen front of the Chris Waller-trained mare. Dalasan Elizabeth Stakes (Gr 1, 2000m) (Dalakhani) was a further head back in third. crown with a battling success over It was the fourth win at Group 1 level for Aarch-rival Verry Elleegant (Zed) at Randwick Addeybb, and the first in front of a crowd, having yesterday. last year landed the Ranvet and Queen Elizabeth The William Haggas-trained Addeybb lost in Australia before finishing his season with out to Verry Elleegant in the Ranvet Stakes (Gr 1, success in the Qipco Champion Stakes (Gr 1, 1m TAKING AIM JUSTIFIES 2000m) at Rosehill three weeks ago but atoned for 2f) at Ascot. He also became the first northern DOUGLAS WHYTE’S FAITH that effort under a prominent ride from Marquand, hemisphere-trained horse to win three Group 1s HONG KONG NEWS - PAGE 16 who sent Addeybb to the front entering the straight. in Australia. Continued on page 2>> Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Addeybb lands Queen Elizabeth under brilliant Marquand ride | 2 | Sunday, April 18, 2021 << Continued from page 1 Marquand, who will return to Britain after this weekend, was emotional after the race. “It’s the closest I’ve been to tears for a very, very long time and I’m not all that old,” he said. “It’s been pretty tough being away from home for a few months and I’d do it ten times over for a moment like that. “Last year was incredible but I couldn’t help but think what a shame it was for everyone to come down here and win a race of this magnitude with no crowd. I thought I was unlucky, but now I realise I’m twice as lucky because I rode my first Group 1 winners here last year without a crowd and it’s almost like doing it all over again. The atmosphere here is just incredible.” Marquand, who wore a black armband in honour of the late Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, added: “What a phenomenal bid from William Haggas to bring him back down here because at points I was probably sceptical, as many were. All I can say is thank you, it’s been incredible.” Addeybb SPORTPIX Addeybb broke slowly from barrier three and Marquand acted quickly to push him on to the heels of the leaders. Verry Elleegant appeared to pull Seven-year-old Addeybb was sporting blinkers for the first time in hard in the early stages and was dropped back towards the rear of the field the Queen Elizabeth and Haggas explained the decision behind the gear by James McDonald. addition. McDonald crept closer on the outside rounding the turn and issued “Tom made the decision and I supported him. It was a good call by his challenge down the straight, but the mare was no match for Addeybb Tom, I was worried about the ground but this is a remarkably resilient this time around, who never looked like relinquishing the lead once at the horse and he proved it today. head of affairs. “Last year it was fabulously successful, this year I thought everything “How tough he was there, genuinely at the 300 [metres] I went into a was against us. We were delayed a week and last year it was a Heavy 8, state where it didn’t matter what was going on around me, it was just him today it was a Good 4 and I thought today it wasn’t our turn. But what an galloping,” said Marquand. amazing horse, what a tough race. “I was completely unaware of which horses were where, all I could feel “The first person who rang after the horses crossed the line was Chris was they were pushing him to the line. If ever there’s a horse to have at the Waller, and that shows what a sportsman he is. This is a tremendous day 200 metres in a scrap, it’s him.” for racing, both northern and southern hemispheres, and we’re very Haggas was delighted his decision to send Addeybb back to Australia proud to be part of it.” was rewarded, but admitted he was too nervous to watch the battle unfold. Addeybb is one of 32 elite-level winners by Pivotal, who was retired “I have to say I couldn’t watch it really. Once he jumped, and jumped from covering duty at the age of 28 earlier this year. slow, and there was a bit of fiddling about early on, I walked out into the He stood 24 consecutive seasons at Cheveley Park in Newmarket and yard, because all the staff were watching on a big television,” Haggas said. boasts a stud record containing a mammoth 241 stakes performers. “One of the girls said she felt sick, it was a very emotional moment. Addeybb is the only stakes winner out of Bush Cat (Kingmambo), I don’t think the other horses in the yard realise what’s going on, it’s a who has produced seven winners from ten runners, including the Grade monumental moment.” 3-placed Meer Kat (Red Ransom). Continued on page 6>> CLASSIC WINNER #withoutequal Frankel SIRE OF Hungry Heart WINNER Australian Oaks Gr.1, 2400m, Royal Randwick OWNER Mrs Y Zhang BREEDER Yu Long Investments TRAINER Chris Waller Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by IN THE WORDS OF TRAINER, JOHN GOSDEN... “He’s a Ferrari-McLaren type. He is a very neat, compact powerful horse, and speed was his game.” RETURNING in 2021 TOO DARN HOT Dubawi - Dar Re Mi Sydney Cup goes to OTI’s import Selino | 4 | Sunday, April 18, 2021 Sydney Cup goes to “Mr Henderson sent me a message this morning asking why he’s drifting OTI’s import Selino in the betting and I said ‘anyone asking that question just tell them to double their bet’. Hopefully there’s some people that did take some notice,” Waller said. “It’s a race he’s been set for all along and it’s very rewarding when it comes off. He’s a good stayer and he was sent to me in very good form, so I appreciate getting the opportunity to train him. It was a lovely, patient ride from Ronnie Stewart.” All roads now lead to the Melbourne Cup (Gr 1, 3200m) for the five- year-old, who will likely need his rating to be bolstered in order to get a run in the Flemington showpiece. “The Melbourne Cup will be his target,” said Henderson. “Because of the handicap system, he’s probably not guaranteed a run in the Melbourne Cup, which seems silly. “I’ll talk to the Melbourne handicapper in the next week and see how he rates the race, but given he’s currently rated 90 out here, and normally Selino SPORTPIX to guarantee a run in the Melbourne Cup you need to be around 110. “It’s almost inconceivable that a Sydney Cup winner wouldn’t be an The Chris Waller-trained Selino (Champs Elysees) landed the Sydney automatic entry into the Melbourne Cup.” Cup (Gr 1, 3200m) at Randwick yesterday under a brilliant ride from Selino is the fifth elite-level winner by Champs Elysees, who died in 2018 Ronnie Stewart, who notched his first Australian Group 1 win. aged 15. The OTI Racing-owned import was carrying the bottom weight of 50 Selino is one of five winners, and the first at stakes level, for Air Kiss (Red kilograms after running unplaced in five Australian starts since joining Ransom), an unraced half-sister to European Group 1 winner Invermark Waller from James Fanshawe’s Newmarket yard, and Stewart took full (Machiavellian), Group 2 winner Craigsteel (Suave Dancer) and Group 3 winner advantage of the light load. Inchrory (Midyan), a champion older stayer in Scandinavia in the late 1990s. The jockey was patient with the hard-pulling Selino and held him up towards the rear of the field before edging closer in the final 600 metres.