Friday October 3, 2008
Edition 147
Edited by TARA MADGWICK   
Victoria Derby – Graveyard or Launching Pad for Greatness?


The Group One $1.5 million VRC Victoria Derby is the highlight for spring three year-olds, but at a distance of 2500 metres, some trainers are arguing that it has become irrelevant to the modern racing and breeding industry and is in fact damaging to horses that contest it, so we thought some investigation was in order.

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Downturn at Goffs Highlights Economic Uncertainty

One has to feel sorry for Irish based auction house Goffs, who had the misfortune to stage their flagship sale in a week when worldwide economic markets went into meltdown.

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Sire Prospect Tracker Updated

There is no horse on the entire Sire Prospector Tracker from a better stallion producing family than Dreamscape and the Gooree Stud owned son of Choisir confirmed his class last Saturday with a commanding win in the Group Two AJC Stan Fox Stakes.

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QUIZ

1/ Dreamscape is from the family of champion sires Sadler’s Wells and Nureyev, true or false?

2/ Choisir is the sire of Dreamscape and which other stakes-winner at Randwick last Saturday?

3/ How many Group One races has Mentality won?

4/ Street Cry (IRE) has hit his straps in Australia this spring with two Group winning three year-olds, can you name them?

5/ Which well-known shuttle sire provided the top lot at the Goffs Millions Sale in Ireland this week when she fittingly made 1million euros?

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TOP PRICED 2&3YO SELLERS
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$2,200,000 FLEM. R7 MOVIN' OUT
$1,500,000 RAND. R5 SAMANTHA MISS
$1,400,000 RAND. R5 GLOWLAMP
$850,000 RAND. R5 PORTILLO
$800,000 FLEM. R2 WOOKAH
$725,000 FLEM. R7 ARMS WIDE OPEN
$700,000 RAND. R6 STALINGRAD
$550,000 FLEM. R3 BOMBARD
$520,000 FLEM. R2 MISS SCARLATTI
$500,000 FLEM. R2 ST CULPE

 
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Sydney Race 3 No. 1 SNOW ALERT

Terrific run when second to Bhutane Dane and can only be improved.
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