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NSW Bred
Stayers Trifecta Queensland Cup
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Horses
bred in NSW by prominent studs showed the State can provide good staying
material when they filled the first three places in the $100,000 Queensland Cup
run over 3200 metres at Eagle Farm on Saturday, reports Brian Russell.
Winning honours on the day went to the Emirates Park, Murrurundi bred
six-year-old gelding Time Signal by a three-quarter length from the Stratheden
Stud,Tamworth bred and raced Dr Grace gelding Yuppie, a length ahead of third
placed Kugelhopf.
The winner was one of two competitors in the historic Queensland Cup trained at
Hawkesbury by Gary White for the Mapp family, owners of the Hobartville Stud at
Richmond. Their other runner, Zero Point, a son of a former Segenhoe Stud (now
Vinery), Scone sire Zoffany, collected fourth money.
All of the first four are by sires which got them when they were standing at
Hunter Valley studs. Like Snaadee, Kugelhopf’s sire Akaaber is also a Danzig
product used initially at Emirates Park, while Yuppie is from the third and
final crop of Dr Grace, a big loss when he died after three seasons at the
Woodlands Stud.
The second winner of the Queensland Cup for Gary White as he was also successful
in the race in1990 with Impossible Mission,Time Signal was acquired for $18,000
at the1998 Sydney Classic yearling sale.
Third placed Kugelhopf is raced by his breeder,Sydney medico Dr J.D. Woolridge,
owner of the Inverness Stud near Bowral. Dr Woolridge has had the satisfaction
of being the breeder of two placegetters in 3200 metre Cups in the space three
weeks. The other is Melbourne Cup second Mr Prudent. A winner of the 2001 Sydney
Cup and runner up in this event this year, he is by Phizam, one of the first
sires used at the Inverness Stud.
A very Tidy family
Noted bookmaker Colin Tidy has struck fresh success with a family which has
provided him and his associates with a lot of racing enjoyment.The newcomer to
the family is the Clarry Conners trained Kidman, the Quest for Fame filly which
broke through for a win at her seventh appearance when successful over 1100
metres at Caulfield on Saturday.
A third placegetter in two stakes at two, Kidman was bred and runs for a
partnership comprising Tidy and the Burst Syndicate, one made up of members of
the Kelly family of Newhaven Park Stud. She is from the Tidy bred Unison, a
daughter of Marauding, the Golden Slipper winner which died at Newhaven Park
last week.
Unison won six races including the AJC Widden Stakes and minor placed in the STC
Premiere Stakes and AJC The Galaxy. She is from Caulfield Blue Diamond Prelude
winner Zedagal, a sister to champion racehorse and quality Newhaven Park sire
Zeditave and a half-sister to Falvelon’s sire Alannon.
Zeditave, Alannon and Zedagal were also bred by Tidy.They are from Summoned, an
unraced daughter of Sweet Life, a modestly bred imported mare who was brought
out here by Souran Vanian when he established the Manado Stud, now Collingrove,
at Sandy Hollow in the Hunter Valley.
Vinery’s early success
Two four-year-olds contributed to 2000 yearling sales by the German owned Vinery
Stud, formerly Segenhoe, near Scone, were successful at the meeting at Caulfield
on Saturday.They are the Last Tycoon mare Damaschino,winner of the $125,750
Group 3 Eclipse Stakes, and the Dehere gelding Littlewood Lane, the winner of
the Ultra Tune Handicap over1400 metres.
Now winner of two successive Group 3 races in Melbourne in the space of a
fortnight, runner up in the Moonee Valley Oaks, fourth in the AJC Oaks and fifth
in the Queensland Oaks last season, Damaschino races for a Vinery Syndicate
under the direction of their general manager Peter Orton but was bred by a
neighbour, David Bentata of Valley’s End Stud.
Bought out of the Vinery draft at the William Inglis Easter sale for $110,000,
Damaschino started her racing career in New Zealand with some smart performances
at two including three wins. She is a half-sister to a New Zealand dual Group1
winner, Bawalaksana, and from Princess Jocinda, a winner in Sydney and Melbourne
and a third in the AJC San Domenico Stakes. Princess Jocinda is a daughter of
one of the best Todman sires, Imposing, and from a high class Pakistan stakes
winning sprinter in Jocasta.
Todman also appears in the breeding of the other Caulfield winner sold through
Vinery, Littlewood Lane. A graduate of the Magic Millions sale at the Gold Coast
at $27,500, he is the first foal of the Vinery owned Interlace, a mare got by
Palace Music from Girlie Sharp, a product of the mating of Lunchtime with the
unraced Todman product Only Dreams.
Littlewood Lane’s dam is a half-sister to two stakes winners including
Electrique, winner of two Group1 races in Sydney, the Flight Stakes and Ansett
Australia Stakes, and a third placegetter in the AJC Sires’ Produce Stakes and
VATC One Thousand Guineas.
Admirers of the up and coming imported Hunter Valley sire Beautiful Crown could
do well to attend the William Inglis Christmas sale due to be conducted at their
Newmarket stables next Friday, November 29. His home stud, Andrew and Lasca
Bowcock’s Segenhoe Valley located Alanbridge, have five mares on behalf of
clients in the catalogue and all have been served by him in the current season.
In addition two of these mares have filly foals at foot by Beautiful Crown.They
are Tonegan (1993), winner of six races and a half-sister by Intergaze’s sire
Integra to Sydney and Melbourne winner Innocent Kiss, and Hello Lucky (1988), a
Covetous winner from a half-sister to Canterbury Cup winner Gay Bonnie.
Besides the Alanbridge contribution in the mare section of the sale, there are14
others with foals at foot by such sires as Filante, Nuclear Freeze (a brother to
Danehill), Over (Woodlands Stud Doncaster Handicap winner), Ghataas (a son of
Sadler’s Wells), Dr Fong, Gilded Time, Sandpit, Encounter and superbly bred
newcomer Time Mill (by Shirley Heights).
Time Mill stands at the Riverview Lodge Stud near Branxton in the Hunter
Valley.They are offering three mares including Am I Ever (1996), a daughter of
Grand Lodge available with a colt at foot by the Widden Stud visitor Dr Fong and
a positive test to Time Mill.
A filly foal by Filante, the sire of recent Caulfield Thousand Guineas winner
Macedon Lady, is being offered with its dam Hot As Hoola (1993), a daughter of
Best Western, by J.W. and L.E. Randle of Scone. Hot As Hoola has been served by
Humam, the Nijinsky sire who stands at the Pine Lodge Stud at Scone and who is
the sire of Lasting Faith, a winner at Randwick on Saturday.
William Inglis have catalogued 113 lots for Friday’s sale and will also have
additional horses on offer. Besides the broodmares, younger females including
racing prospects, colts and geldings and two stallions are listed. One of the
latter is Ekati, a son of Danehill related to Octagonal. He is a lovely style of
a horse, but has had fertility problems and is being offered for the insurance
company.
A historic showplace at Gresford, east of Singleton, sold for $2.55million when
it was offered through Meares and Associates on November 21. Owned for some
years by Sydney businessman and Magic Millions bloodstock sales company
principal Robert Ferguson and his wife Jenny, it is the165ha Torryburn, a
property which was the home as a teenager for icon poet Dorothy Mackellar,
author of My Country.
The Fergusons, part owners of Golden Slipper winner Ha Ha and now of a smaller
property near Bowral, had originally listed Torryburn for private sale at
$5.5million. The agents, reflecting on the sale, said it was affected by the
downturn in the Sydney market and the dry season.
Torryburn, a property which is to continue as a horse stud, comprises an1881
renovated Victorian style homestead surrounded by stunning gardens, three other
residences, a tennis court, helipad and horse breeding facilities.
Italian wins Japan Cup
Fresh from an unplaced run in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, four-year-old
Falbrav became the first Italian bred, owned and trained winner of the rich
Japan at the weekend. Earlier in the year winner in Italy of two major races and
second at three in their Derby, he was got in Ireland by the now deceased Fairy
King, a brother to Sadler’s Wells, from the France two-year-old winner Gift of
The Night.
The second dam, Little Nana, is by the Ribot sire Lithiot and goes back to the
Teddy mare Anne de Bretagne, fourth dam of 1978 Royal Ascot King George VI and
Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes winner and good sire Ile de Bourbon.
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