Friday, September 25, 2020 | Dedicated to the Australasian bloodstock industry - subscribe for free: Click here HONG KONG NEWS | FOWNES ROLLS ON, SCHOFIELD TAKES TWO - PAGE 12 FIRST FOR DUNADEN - PAGE 9 Bargain buy Bella Vella What's on Stakes races: Moonee Valley (VIC) - Moir the result of a team effort Stakes (Gr 1, 1000m), Stocks Stakes (Gr Inside barrier poses Moir concern but connections still rapt 2, 1600m), Stutt Stakes (Gr 2, 1600m), Scarborough Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m), JRA Cup with remarkable ride (Gr 3, 2040m) Metropolitan meetings: Moonee Valley (VIC) Race meetings: Goulburn (NSW), Scone (NSW), Benalla (VIC), Cairns (QLD), Sunshine Coast (QLD), Ascot Park (NZ) Barrier trials / Jump-outs: Randwick (NSW), Goulburn (NSW), Scone (NSW), Ballarat (VIC) International meetings: Taipa (MAC), Newmarket (UK), Haydock (UK), Newcastle (UK), Dundalk (IRE), Fairview (SAF), Santa Anita (USA) International Group races: Newmarket (UK) - Princess Royal Stakes (Gr 3, 1m 4f), Rockfel Stakes (Gr 2, 7f), Joel Stakes (Gr 2, 1m). Dundalk (IRE) - Diamond Stakes (Gr 3, 1m 2.5f). Santa Anita (USA) - Chillingworth Stakes (Gr 3, 6.5f), Eddie D Stakes (Gr 2, 5.5f) International sales: Keeneland September Yearling Sale Books 3-6 (USA) Bella Vella RACING PHOTOS a winner of her past four starts including the BY TIM ROWE | @ANZ_NEWS Robert Sangster Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) in May, he ownership behind Bella Vella takes her place in the A. J. Moir Stakes (Gr 1, (Commands) is made up of an 1000m). eclectic group of racing industry Bella Vella’s upward career trajectory has professionals and savvy form been overseen by trainer and part-owner Will analystsT whose collective minds have helped Clarken while form analyst and punter John develop the online sale bargain buy into a Kelton, recent Group 1-winning trainer David MORNING BRIEFING valuable Group 1-winning sprinter. Jolly, bloodstock agent Brett Howard and Rushton The next phase of the project takes place at Park’s David and Kayley Johnson are also involved Bowman wins Moonee Valley tonight when the six-year-old, in the syndicate. Continued on page 2>> Farnan appeal - page 4 Follow us @anz_news | 1 | Brought to you by Bargain buy Bella Vella the result of a team effort | 2 | Friday, September 25, 2020 << Continued from page 1 Clarken’s racing manager Lachie Weekley and owner and breeder, Queenslander Andrew Grant-Taylor who raced Group 1 winner Invincibella (I Am Invincible) among others, is also among those to own a piece of the well-travelled mare who had stints in various stables before finding her way to Adelaide. It was Goolwa trainer Jolly, who enjoyed the ultimate success in the Memsie Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) BEST OF earlier this month with Behemoth (All Too Hard), who first identified Bella Vella when she came up for sale on an April 2019 Inglis Digital sale. She was purchased by the syndicate for $22,500 and, understatedly, Kelton said yesterday Bella Vella had gone on to exceed their wildest LUCK expectations. To the Magic Millions graduates “David Jolly originally picked her out as a candidate to buy and running in this weekend’s feature races between Will Clarken and myself we do a fair bit of work trying to identify SHANNON STKS GR2 tried horses to purchase... and we have purchased a number of other ones Friday Tyzone .....................Kenmore Lodge before,” Kelton told ANZ Bloodstock News. MOONEE VALLEY Quackerjack ..................Rosari Farm “Bella Vella’s obviously been the best one, but we have a methodology Nudge .............Lime Country T’breds MOIR STKS GR1 Yamazaki ................. Glenlogan Park in how we do it when we look through their form. We try to identify horses Bold Star .................... Brooklyn Park Bella Vella ..............Willow Park Stud GOLDEN PENDANT GR2 with upside or fillies and mares with a pedigree who have possible upside Shout the Bar .......... Newhaven Park STUTT STKS GR2 that we think can improve their race performance. Outback Barbie ..............Eureka Stud Glenfiddich ............... Edinburgh Park Air to Air .................. Newhaven Park “Will’s got another guy, Lachie Weekley, his racing manager, who also Holyfield ...................Segenhoe Stud has some input when we’re looking at the tried horses. Crown Mint .............. Maluka T’breds GLOAMING STKS GR3 Love Tap ...................Coolmore Stud “When we first got Bella Vella and we started her off, we thought, ‘can STOCKS STKS GR2 Mystic Journey ........... Armidale Stud Street Dancer .............Coolmore Stud we get a city win in SA for her?’ and then for the next year or so we were Spanish Reef ............. Patinack Farm Bob .........................Erinvale T’breds Sagrado ......................Kitchwin Hills trying to get some black type for SCARBOROUGH STKS GR3 her and she’s kept raising the bar Mileva ............ Little Hills Pastoral Co CAULFIELD (MRC) DAVID JOLLY Money In My Pocket ...Yarraman Park which has been fantastic.” Stud UNDERWOOD STKS GR1 ORIGINALLY PICKED Adelaide punter Kelton, Pretty Rossa ................Baramul Stud Levendi ........................Widden Stud Gypsy Choice ............Coolmore Stud Mr Quickie ............... Rosemont Stud HER OUT AS A along with Weekley, plays a JRA CUP GR3 CANDIDATE TO key role in the rising success of THOUSAND GUINEAS PRELUDE Quick Thinker .........Holbrook T’breds GR2 BUY AND BETWEEN Clarken’s Morphettville stable Levendi ........................Widden Stud Letzbeglam ....................Vinery Stud WILL CLARKEN AND by assisting in the placement of Ecumenical ................ Mill Park Stud Saturday Night Raid ....... Three Bridges T’breds MYSELF WE DO A horses and the suggested riding ROSEHILL (ATC) Mozzie Monster ............Widden Stud FAIR BIT OF WORK tactics in a race. GOLDEN ROSE GR1 CAULFIELD GUINEAS PRELUDE TRYING TO IDENTIFY “Will doesn’t profess to be King’s Legacy ............Segenhoe Stud GR3 a form analyst himself. He is a Mamaragan .............. Newgate Farm Prague ......................Bhima T’breds TRIED HORSES TO Global Quest ............ Highgrove Stud Amish Boy ...................Widden Stud genius at looking at the horses PURCHASE... AND WE Peltzer ....................... Mill Park Stud Bartley ......................Arrowfield Stud each day and working out their Sauvestre ......................... Cressfield Aysar ........................ Torryburn Stud HAVE PURCHASED A Yardstick ................... Newgate Farm Cambourne ................... Luskin Park work schedules and targeting NUMBER OF OTHER particular races,” he said. ONES BEFORE “He is very good at patching - JOHN KELTON up horses who have issues and trying to work out and making sure the horses are feeling well and over whatever injury concerns they might have and (Weekley and I) are about trying to place them correctly and get them through as many grades as we can.” Bella Vella, a first-up winner of the McEwen Stakes (Gr 2, 1000m) at The Valley, is considered a $6 chance by bookmakers behind Perth sprinter Fabergino (Maschino), the $4 favourite. Clarken yesterday publicly aired his concerns about Bella Vella drawing the inside barrier for the Moir and Kelton agreed. Continued on page 3>> www.magicmillions.com.au Follow us @anz_news | 2 | Brought to you by Bargain buy Bella Vella the result of a team effort | 3 | Friday, September 25, 2020 << Continued from page 2 “I think there’s a couple in the race that will probably cross her. She will be hard-pressed holding Pippie out and the Perth mare has a lot of speed as well,” he said. “So, we’re going to need a little bit of luck at some stage, but if they run along and string out a bit, that will probably help her. “The other thing is, if there’s a fair bit of rain about during the day, when Moonee Valley has the rail in the normal position as it does, the inside will often be inferior going. “I would have loved to see her draw five or six, but anyway, we’re in the race and we’ve got to make do with what we’ve got. It’s quite an even race and there’s a lot of horses who I think are evenly matched in the field, so I’d be expecting a pretty bunched finish.” Be My Star RACING PHOTOS A return to The Valley for the Manikato Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) on October 23 is also on the cards for Bella Vella after the Moir. Mackinnon Stakes (Gr 1, 2000m) winner and Caulfield Cup (Gr 1, 2400m) Regardless of what she achieves on the track before she is retired, runner-up Alcopop (Jeune), again combines with Clarken, Rushton Park Kelton suggested she would be put on the market as a broodmare prospect as well as Willaroon’s Sally Watkins in another tried horse purchase, the even though there are breeders in the syndicate. Zoustar (Northern Meteor) mare Be My Star. “The model we’ve had when we’ve had these good mares is to sell Bought for $70,000 in May last year, Be My Star runs in a Benchmark them at auction as people like myself, Will and David Jolly are in the 90 (1100m) mares race at Caulfield. horse,” he said. Kelton said: “She was bought from Magic Millions on the Gold Coast “If we can build up their value and then sell it commercially, that’s a as a tried mare and we’re trying to increase her value and build up her better model for us than being a breeder.” race form which we’ve been able to do so far. The next step for her this Tomorrow, Kelton, who also raced the former Jake Stephens-trained prep is to hopefully get her some black type.” Follow us @anz_news | 3 | Brought to you by Morning Briefing -Sponsored by Woodside Park Stud Friday, September 25, 2020 2020 VIRTUAL ONLINE STALLION PARADE NOW MORNING BRIEFING riding Farnan along at that point was wrong, Everest, a race the horse finished third in last AUSTRALIA but was not worthy of a suspension. Bowman year. "There are still spots remaining and there Bowman wins has six rides at Rosehill tomorrow where he aren't many sprinters around with the record Farnan appeal partners King's Legacy (Redoute’s Choice) in he has," Cummings said.