Vale George Altomonte
Corumbene Stud's George Altomonte died on Wednesday night surrounded by family. The Altomonte family recently purchased Invermein Stud in Scone, and are well known as the breeders of Golden Slipper winners Overreach (Exceed And Excel) and Sebring who went on to be a successful sire. Corumbene, under Altomonte's guidance, also bred G1 Blue Diamond winner True Jewels (Brief Truce {USA}) and dual The Quokka winner Overpass (Vancouver). He also raced dual Group 1 winner Hasna (Snippets).
Overreach is the dam of Corumbene Stud bred Lofty Strike who will stand at stud this season.
I Wish I Win to run in The Everest for NZ’s Trackside Media
The stage is set for redemption with Kiwi-bred sprinting star I Wish I Win (NZ) (Savabeel) and Trackside Media teaming up again to chase glory in this year’s The Everest at Randwick in Sydney on 19 October.
“Turnover on The Everest doubled from 2022 to 2023, with turnover on the race easily setting a new record, while the number of customers engaged on the race was also twice that of 2022,” Entain Australia and New Zealand, Managing Director – New Zealand Cameron Rodger told Loveracing.nz.
I Wish I Win (NZ)
“Turnover on the entire Everest meeting at Randwick also saw a massive increase, up more than 57 per cent on the previous year. This momentum has continued since then, and The Everest is now a race clearly marked on the calendar of all New Zealand racing fans.
“We’re delighted to be involved with Wish again, together with the team at Waikato Stud and Moody Coleman Racing. His win in the G1 Kingsford-Smith Cup in Brisbane last month showed us he’s going to be perfectly primed to climb the Randwick mountain in October and we’re sure he’s going to have plenty of Kiwi fans cheering him on too.”
I Wish I Win’s breeder and part-owner Mark Chittick of Waikato Stud said, “Wish has given us one hell of a ride from life as a foal through to performing at the elite level. Joining forces again with the Trackside Media team to put things right sets the scene nicely for 19 October. I’ve seen plenty of racing fans around the country wearing the I Wish I Win caps from last year’s quest, and I have no doubt New Zealand will get behind him again.”
Racing.com announce extension to South Australian partnership
Racing.com will continue to be the broadcast home of South Australian racing after a two-year rights extension was announced on Wednesday afternoon.
Racing SA CEO Vaughn Lynch and Racing.com CEO Peter Campbell were on course at Balaklava on Wednesday to make the announcement, which will see the key broadcast partnership continue for at least another two years.
“I am pleased to announce that Racing SA has extended our media rights partnership with Racing.com for a further two years,” Lynch told racingsa.com.au.
“South Australian racing has benefited from the partnership with Racing.com and we look forward to continuing working together to promote the industry.”
Third Champion Sire title for I Am Invincible
I Am Invincible won his third Champion Australian Sire title on Wednesday with progeny earnings of $32,118,470. Zoustar was second, So You Think (NZ) third, with Pride Of Dubai and Snitzel rounding out the top five.
Written Tycoon won the 2YO Sires title, while Zoustar won the 3YO Sires title.
Another Love wins at Belmont
2-year-old filly Another Love (Lucky Street) won on debut at Belmont on Wednesday for trainer Trevor Andrews. Purchased by Andrews for $62,500 at the Magic Millions Perth Yearling Sale, she is the first named foal for winning mare Happy (Lonhro).
Another Love as a yearling | Image courtesy of Magic Millions
Moloney double at Sandown
Jockey Patrick Moloney finished a tough season in winning form with a midweek double at Sandown. Sidelined for several months with a broken collarbone and hand, Moloney is ready for the new season. “I spent four and a half months out of the saddle with injury, so I missed the spring and missed out on lightweight opportunities,” Moloney told racenet.com.au.
“I'm fit and firing at the right time now. I'm hoping it's going to springboard into good opportunities in the spring. That's my bread and butter and I seem to show up on the roughies.”
He won on Winchester (Deep Field) and Charisse (Churchill {Ire}).
Apprentice appreciation day at Rosehill on Saturday
Australian Turf Club opens the 2024/25 Sydney Metropolitan racing season with the annual Jockeys Appreciation Day at Rosehill Gardens this Saturday. “The depth of the training and riding ranks in Sydney is world-class so Chris Waller, James McDonald and Zac Lloyd are in an elite group,” Australian Turf Club Head of Racing and Wagering, Nevesh Ramdhani told racingnsw.com.au.
“It is fitting we salute these premiership winners on the same day as many other champions especially in the jockey ranks join for the start of a new season. ATC is delighted to join with the NSW Jockeys Association and the ARCC in this annual day which brings so many former rivals but at the same time good friends to share many memories and stories.”
Record nominations for Forbes
Forbes Jockey Club has received an all time record 193 nominations for the TAB meeting on Sunday including 32 in the $50,000 Bankstown Sports Club Forbes Cup.
Kyprios breaks track record in G1 Goodwood Cup
Ballydoyle's Kyprios (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) returned to the Sussex Downs for a second G1 Goodwood Cup, setting a new track record to put all doubts firmly behind him. “He cruised it–with that turn of foot he has it's over in the blink of an eye and every race he seems to perform, so on we go,” part-owner Michael Tabor said. “He has to be right up there with the best we've had–he ranks very high.”
Kyprios is the last foal out of Moyglare's remarkable broodmare Polished Gem (Ire) (Danehill), whose 10 progeny include an astounding eight black-type winners including Galileo's dual G1 Irish St Leger heroine Search For A Song (Ire), High Chaparral 's G1 Prince of Wales's S.-winning sire Free Eagle (Ire).
Kyprios has won 12 of his 16 starts including his last four in succession with a last start win in the G1 Royal Ascot Gold Cup. He has six Group 1 wins in total and earnings over £1.9million (AU$3.75million).
Ashrun retired
Group 3 winner Ashrun (Fr) (Authorized {Ire}) has been retired. “For the Maher team to get him back and obviously to win a feature Cup and run fourth in a Melbourne Cup, it was just a really good story,” Australian Bloodstock's Jamie Lovett told racing.com.
“I don't think I've ever had a horse three years off on the sidelines come back to racing, let alone come back at a very high level.” Winner of three races in Germany and France including the G3 Prix de Reux in 2019, he came to Australia in 2020 where he won the G3 Hotham S. before sustaining a tendon injury in the 2020 G1 Melbourne Cup when running tenth. Off the scene for almost three years, he resumed in September 2023, and won the Listed Pakenham Cup in March 2024. All up he won five of his 22 starts and over $1.2 million.
“He did a great job, he's a lovely, big horse,” Lovett said. “He's a good-natured bugger, we'll look to get him a good home.”
Country jockey with big target for next season
Jake Pracey-Holmes has set himself a target of 100 winners in the new season and would dearly love a ride in The Kosciuszko and rides Compelling Truth (I Am Invincible) at Rosehill on Saturday. “I’m planning on doing a lot more kilometres this season, I want to try to get 100,” Pracey-Holmes told racingnsw.com.au.
Jake Pracey-Holmes
“This has been my best season so far so I want to do one better. I’d love to ride in a race like The Kosciuszko too and if that’s the way Mack steers him I might have my first big race.”
Baker heads north for three months
Last season’s leading apprentice in Tasmania Chelsea Baker has left the state for a loan opportunity with powerhouse Queensland trainer Tony Gollan. “The opportunities are much harder without a claim and the likes of Froggy (Craig Newitt) and Darma (Anthony Darmanin) coming across, so I’d been looking at other options,” Baker told tasracing.com.au.
“I’d spoken to Dale Spriggs and Stephen Maskiell (Apprentice Coaches), and Dale had a chat with Tony, and the opportunity arose from there.
Carr injured at trials
Racing Tasmania provided an update on Wednesday on trainer-jockey Siggy Carr who faces an extended time on the sidelines following a fall at the trials in Hobart on Tuesday. She has a broken collar bone and a concussion.
First win for Mxothwa
Apprentice jockey Sima Mxothwa ended the season in perfect fashion at Tauranga on Wednesday when recording his first win in the saddle aboard Hit The Switch (NZ) (Power {GB}) at only his fourth race day ride. “It’s good to finally get the monkey off the back and I can just focus on the future now,” Mxothwa told Loveracing.nz.
Sima Mxothwa winning aboard Hit The Switch at Tauranga on Saturday | Image courtesy of Kenton Wright (Race Images)
“I was second on the same horse at Pukekohe and got beaten by Mighty Bright. The owners were happy with the ride and the run, and Mr Bob Vance said he would give me the ride next time.
“It was great to get my first win on the last day of the season. I am going to keep my head down and hopefully doors will start opening in the new season.”
“I came to New Zealand (from South Africa) with no experience at all, I joined the (jockey) academy and I have got some really good people supporting and mentoring me. I’ll do my best to make them proud.”
Group 1 targets for Antino
Antino (NZ) (Redwood {GB}) is building towards a return to the racetrack with an early season Group 1 target high on the agenda. “He raced in the worst part of the track in the Stradbroke,” Gollan told Radio TAB.
“He should have come out from the corner and raced in the centre but his sectionals were still unbelievable for a horse that put himself in such a bad spot. He is coming along well. He feels really good off a short lay-off and he will tackle some of the big guns first up in the Memsie Stakes in Melbourne.”
Winner of eight of his first nine starts, Antino won the G3 Sandown S. during the spring of 2023 and the G2 Victory S. in May 2024.
Collect Your Cash sold to Waterhouse/Bott stable
Collect Your Cash (NZ) (Rageese) will continue his racing career in Australia after recently being purchased out of former trainer Shankar Muniandy’s Wingatui barn by leading Sydney trainers Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott.
Collect Your Cash (NZ)
“He was a horse I was looking forward to, but the offer came at the right time, and I think he will go well in Australia,” Muniandy told Loveracing.nz about the 3-year-old gelding who has won two of his six starts including the Listed Dunedin Guineas three starts ago.
“He is a half-brother to Debt Collector, who was a Champion Singapore 3-Year-Old. He handles all sort of ground and he is pretty laid back, you can race him anywhere. He is up to the Sydney grade, he is a Group horse. He has gone to the right stable and will get every opportunity.”
More Group 1 targets for Audience after winning G2 Lennox S.
Lumbered with a five-pound penalty for his G1 Lockinge Stakes victory, Cheveley Park Stud's 5-year-old gelding Audience (GB) (Iffraaj {GB}) was just too good for his rivals and surged to an impressive four-length triumph in Tuesday's G2 Lennox S. at Glorious Goodwood.
“He will go to the [G2] City of York Stakes now," said co-trainer John Gosden. "He was second to Kinross in it last year and will go there without a penalty, which helps. We have also put him in the [G1] Prix de la Foret and last year's good-to-firm ground would be perfect, but we wouldn't want traditional Parisienne autumn ground. He has the speed for a race like the [GI] Breeders' Cup Mile at Del Mar and he could be a horse for it. Travelling would be no problem.”
Winner of five of his 15 starts, he won the G1 Lockinge S. two starts ago.
Godolphin wins G2 Vintage S. with yearling purchase
Godolphin's €260,000 (AU$433,000) Arqana August purchase 2-year-old colt Aomori City (Fr) (Oasis Dream {GB}) stepped forward in impressive fashion to secure a stakes breakthrough in Tuesday's G2 Vintage S. at Glorious Goodwood. Winner of two of his three starts, and third in the G2 July S. at Newmarket last start, Aomori City was the 2-1 favourite.
“We had toyed with the idea of the [GI] Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf for Aomori City over the past couple of weeks, but Al Qudra went and won on Saturday and he's probably a horse we'll pinpoint towards that race," said trainer Charlie Appleby. "It doesn't mean we can't run two in it and we'll keep all options open for Aomori City. Today was a marked improvement on what we saw before. He was neat and had to be brave there. He got tightened up on the turns and that does no harm in educating them towards the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf.”
Another challenge to HISA
For the second time in five days-and for the seventh time in three years-individuals or entities under the control of the Horseracing and Safety Integrity Act (HISA) have filed a lawsuit in a federal court alleging that the law and its enforcement are unconstitutional.
This latest legal action took the form of a July 29 complaint in United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa (Central Division) filed by Thoroughbred owner Joseph A. Kelly and owner/trainer Douglas L. Anderson against the HISA Authority, the Federal Trade Commission, and executives of both organizations.
Tattersalls October to feature full to Alpinista
A full sister to G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe heroine Alpinista (GB) (Frankel {GB}) will be offered by her breeder Kirsten Rausing's Staffordstown Stud during the first day of Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, the sales company announced on Tuesday. Book 1 of the sale takes place from October 8-10 in Newmarket.
Tattersalls
Tattersalls Ireland release September catalogue
Tattersalls Ireland released its catalogue for the September Yearling Sale, which features 555 lots and takes place on Tuesday 24 and Wednesday 25 September, with Part II taking place on Thursday 26 September where 275 yearlings are catalogued.
Goffs Orby yearling catalogue now online
The catalogue for Goffs Orby Book 1 is now available online and features some exceptionally-bred horses. A total of 516 lots will be offered on October 1 and 2, while all yearlings at Orby Book 1 and Book 2 are eligible for the Goffs Two Million Series in 2025.
