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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Te Akau jumper Leaderboard is set to head to the Warrnambool carnival later this month following his triumph in the Open Steeplechase (3250m) at Ballarat on Sunday. The 10-year-old son of Street Cry, who is raced by syndicator Fortuna, won seven races on the flat in New Zealand, including the Gr.3 Wellington Cup (3200m) and Listed New Zealand St Leger (2600m). He then transferred to Te Akau’s Cranbourne base where he has added three further wins to his tally, along with placings in last year’s Grand National Hurdle (4200m) and Grand National Steeplechase (4500m). Trainer Mark Walker was pleased with his winning performance on Sunday and is looking forward to tackling some feature jumping assignments at Warrnambool, including the Brierley Chase (3450m) and Grand Annual Steeplechase (5500m). “It was a brilliant win,” Walker said. “He’s a terrific jumper and it’s great to see him back at the races and win the way he did. “It’s all systems go towards the Warrnambool carnival, and he looks as though he’s in for another really good season. “I’m looking forward to seeing him again at Warrnambool. It’s a unique carnival and it’ll great to be a part of it.” Prior to the two assignments at Warrnambool, Fortuna’s John Galvin said the plan was for Leaderboard to back-up in the Spencer Memorial Steeplechase (4000m) at Pakenham this coming Sunday. “I don’t think that will worry him and after that he’ll go to the Warrnambool carnival,” Galvin said. “I think Mark (Walker) has got the base fitness into him. “It was a lovely ride by Will (Gordon) and kudos to Mark and Ben (Gleeson, assistant trainer), they’ve prepared the horse beautifully, and Mark loves his jumpers. “We’ve owned him since 2018 and he’s a marvel, really. He had a wonderful period of flat racing and was very consistent provided he got yielding tracks, but his future was always going to be as a jumper when he wasn’t so competitive on the flat. “Mark’s got a few jumpers in his stable, with Prismatic and The Mighty Spar, and Leaderboard has become the flagbearer with the successes he’s had.” View the full article -
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Shaun and Emma Clotworthy didn’t quite get their fairytale finish with Willydoit in Saturday’s A$2 million Gr.1 Australian Derby (2400m), but the couple walk away with plenty to look forward to in the gelding’s future across the Tasman. Willydoit triumphed in emphatic style in the Gr.1 New Zealand Derby (2400m) at Ellerslie last month, warranting a trip to take on Australia’s best staying three-year-olds on the first day of The Championships at Royal Randwick. Reuniting with Kiwi expat jockey Mick Dee, Willydoit jumped well and was handy early, eventually settling in the three-wide train behind Tsitsipas. The son of Tarzino got on the back of the eventual winner Aeliana on the home turn, but the Kiwi-bred filly was simply dominant, putting a five-length space on the field with Willydoit fighting hard into fourth. “We’re really proud, his grand final was the New Zealand Derby so it was just a bonus getting here,” Shaun Clotworthy said. “He’s done well, we would never have beaten the winner as she was too good, but with a slightly more economical trip he might’ve run second. He’s not far off them and he’ll definitely continue to develop. “He’s run great in fourth, it was his first trip away from home and he settled in well, everything’s been great with him. It’s a good experience for the horse and everyone is happy with the result.” While rapt with the result, the Clotworthys will return to New Zealand without their star galloper, as he joins Ciaron Maher’s powerful operation across New South Wales and Victoria. It won’t be the last they see of Willydoit though, as they remain in the ownership alongside Bryan Black and Australian syndication company MyRacehorse. “It’s a little bit sad, but it is what it is,” Shaun Clotworthy said. “It was always part of the deal and he’s been a great horse, we’ll come over and watch him and see how it goes. “We had a talk with Ciaron the other day and he’ll head for a spell, probably six to eight weeks. He may even head up to Queensland for a spell, he’s just had a few environmental problems in his feet caused by the heat in New Zealand, they were getting a bit crumbly. “He’ll look after him and see where he ends up after that.” The future looks bright for the gelding, and Clotworthy has no doubt he can match it with the best as an older horse in some of Australia’s most iconic staying races. “Mick said he just tugged a little bit, possibly with the month between races, but he’s very easy to train and I think he can be a real top-class stayer when he furnishes into a mature horse,” Clotworthy said. “I can see him having an easier four-year-old spring and then coming back in the autumn, then maybe the Melbourne Cup that year as a five-year-old. “He’s not a dour out-and-out staying horse, he’s won over 1400 and 1600 with a turn-of-foot. We elected to go for the Derby path and he did that, and he’s come here and certainly hasn’t embarrassed us in Australia either. “It’s been great.” View the full article -
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Ross McCarroll didn’t have to think very long or hard to name a filly he bought for loose change at Karaka in 2007. The Cambridge horseman handed over $100 for a yearling offered through Wentwood Grange’s draft at New Zealand Bloodstock’s Autumn Mixed Bloodstock Sale and her subsequent moniker was apt on two fronts. “Because she was by Desert Fox, we called her Stole which is worn around your neck (often a fur), but now it’s become more the other way (price),” McCarroll said. “I watched her at Karaka and she was a good walker, there were no bids so I got her, and she ended up a really good mare. It’s probably the best $100 I’ve ever spent.” Stole emphasised the value of the bargain basement transaction during a career that netted six wins, a runner-up finish in the Gr.2 Matriarch Stakes (2000m) at Flemington and banked more than A$230,000. McCarroll has successfully bred from Stole and at Ellerslie on Saturday the money theme continued when he prepared her son Embezzler to win the open 2200m handicap. The Contributor gelding is one of a quartet of winners for the mare, who collected three victories and six placings from her first 13 starts before she was sent to McCarroll’s good friend and expatriate Kiwi trainer Brian Jenkins in Melbourne. “I already had a horse called Figure Of Speech over there and he was coming to the end of it, so I sent Stole over to Brian and brought the other horse back,” he said. “I’ve got the mare in the paddock at home and she’s retired now. She’s got a little bit of a breathing problem, hopefully she should be around for a few more years.” Stole’s last foal is a colt by Super Easy, who is making all the right moves. “I really like him, he’s a two-year-old and is very much like Embezzler. She’s also had Pinched (three wins), who was good but broke down and Contraband was another really good horse. “He won for us and we sold him to Hong Kong, but he didn’t do quite as well up there as I thought he would.” Embezzler is a lightly tried five-year-old who has amassed three wins and two placings from his 15 appearances and could also venture across the Tasman. “He’s not overly big so we have to be a bit careful with him,” McCarroll said. “He may end up in Australia if they hammer him too much with the weight.” View the full article -
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Rich Hill Stud principal John Thompson is no stranger to success on Australia’s biggest stage, but even he watched in awe as the filly he co-bred in Aeliana stormed away with Saturday’s $2 million Gr.1 Australian Derby (2400m). A bridesmaid in each of the Gr.1 Thousand Guineas (1600m) and Gr.1 Rosehill Guineas (2000m), Aeliana had proven she was right up with the boys and they were no match as she stepped over a mile and a half for the first time, capitalising off a perfect run in transit to power clear and score by over five lengths. Horses with the calibre of Gr.1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) winner Prince Of Penzance and 10-time Group One winner (King) Mufhasa headline the honour roll at the Matamata nursery, where Thompson assures Aeliana now holds her own pride of place as just the 10th filly to win the three-year-old showpiece. “Going into the race we knew she had a turn of foot, and we knew she had class, but I guess the question was could she run out the 2400m against horses already proven over that distance,” he said. “She certainly fulfilled all of our expectations, it was a pretty incredible performance. “The reason we’re all in it is to breed a horse like her, we’ve been lucky to have produced Melbourne Cup winners and horses like King Mufhasa, who won 10 Group Ones, but it’s pretty special to have bred a filly who beat the colts in the ATC Derby, it doesn’t happen very often.” Thompson and Greg Tomlinson’s Nearco Stud had gone to A$200,000 to purchase Aeliana’s dam Temolie in-foal with the filly at the 2021 Gold Coast Magic Millions Broodmare Sale, a decision that continues to reward the pair as she produced three subsequent fillies by Rich Hill’s leading sire Proisir. While she didn’t win a race, Temolie had plenty of appeal as a broodmare prospect, as a half-sister to Group One winner Invincibella, Group Three winner Secret Blaze and Listed winner Extreme Flight. “We were looking to upgrade our broodmares with Proisir going the way he is, which is why we purchased this mare a couple of years ago on the Gold Coast, in-foal to Castelvecchio,” Thompson said. “She was from a great New Zealand family. Going through her pedigree she is by Star Witness out of Galileo mare, and that mare is out of a Zabeel mare,” he said. “It was quite incredible to combine probably the two greatest broodmare sires in history. “The next dam was by Noble Bijou, who was another great New Zealand stallion, and she probably has those stamina influences through those the Galileo, Zabeel and Noble Bijou lines. It’s a great family that was developed by Jack Lindsay from Balcarres Stud, which was one of our leading farms back in the day. “When I first started out, I helped prepare their yearlings for the Karaka Sales and knew the family very well.” Aeliana was among the first crop by Arrowfield Stud’s young sire Castelvecchio, a multiple Group One-winning son of Dundeel. She made a good impression on Thompson and potential buyers as a youngster, reflected by the $180,000 outlaid by Denise Martin’s Star Thoroughbreds to secure her at Karaka. “We paid $200,000 for the mare, then Aeliana went through Karaka and made $180,000, so for a first-season sire that was quite a good price at the time,” he said. “She’s worth a hell of lot more than that now though. “She was always a nice quality filly, she wasn’t overly robust at the time and was typical of that High Chapparal sire line, very athletic. “It was a little bit hard to know how far she would go, she looked like a very nice miler and was unlucky not to win a Thousand Guineas earlier in the season, then she probably should’ve beaten Broadsiding at Rosehill, that was the real hint of how much talent she had. “Any Group One is a great achievement, a lot goes in to getting there and this filly really deserved it. She had been running so well and Chris Waller (trainer) alluded to that, that she could be something pretty special. “It’s very exciting going forward.” Back at Rich Hill, the third of Temolie’s Proisir fillies is about to be weaned, with the late nature of her foaling persuading Thompson to leave the mare empty with the potential of going to another of his successful sires in the new season. “She’s got a filly at foot that we are about to wean, she was the last foal born last year in late November,” he said. “Temolie had been in foal for four years running, so we decided we’ll give her a break so we can get her back on a nice early cycle next year. “All the great old horseman have said that if you like a mating, repeat it three times, which we’ve done. She’s had three Proisir fillies now, the second of those was purchased by Denise Martin, who bought Aeliana and races her through her syndication company. “We haven’t decided at this stage, but we’re probably leaning towards Satono Aladdin, just depending on the feedback we receive. The two-year-old filly is in work with Ciaron Maher, so we will wait to hear some feedback with her first. “We’ll make that decision in a few months’ time.” View the full article
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