www.ma g i cmi lli o ns .co m.a u • 2 0 1 8 PERTH YEARLING SALE
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BOUTIQUE “Of course She Does was a Patinack-owned mare and I knew she had pace. She was placed at eight of her 10 starts and she showed speed at her only start as a twoyear-old in the Group Two Sweet Embrace Stakes for John Thompson. She was sold to Gillian Heinrich who gave her another nine starts before she was retired. Giles purchased her for $12,000 at the Magic Millions June Broodmare Sale and put her to Nicconi. The mare is agisted at Neale Bruce’s Berkeley Park. Giles is unsure whether she will purchase another “Korilya Park” to run her herd of broodmares or continue to lease.
Giles continued “If I can get a half dozen good broodmares, they can carry you through the good and bad times. In the past I took horses because they didn’t have homes and
“I am not sure whether it would be sensible to buy another
that really was not a good policy. With a stallion unless
property and start over again,” Giles said. “I might be able
he has a good profile it is difficult to get the numbers
to keep working and breeding for another 15 years or
of broodmares to him. It is sad in a way because a lot of
so and then I might not. When I worked at Amelia Park I
people don’t want to go that way because of the hard work
actually had a day off each week – I’d never had a day off
and the chances of success.”
in my life!”
Giles still has a single share in the Yarradale Stud stallion
Amelia Park Racing and Breeding Pty Ltd principal Peter
Gingerbread Man, who has produced the WA Guineas
Walsh had approached Giles to oversee the preparation and
runner-up and Kingston Town Classic third placegetter
presentation of six yearlings consigned to last February’s
Achernar Star and winners Goodluck Simba and Very
Perth Yearling Sale at Belmont Park racecourse. The four
Angry Gal.
colts and two fillies sold for an average of $125,000 with Amelia Park topping the vendor’s averages for the sale. Giles has bloodstock agents Grant Burns and David Houston to assist in the selection of future broodmares for her boutique enterprise. “I have known Grant since he came across here from New Zealand as a young man,” Giles said. “He was very quietly spoken and I first met him when he came with John Chalmers to inspect the
“Ideally I’d like to have three broodmares in the east and three here,” Giles said. Giles will help Jane Beynon with the final preparation of her three yearlings consigned to the Perth sale; a colt by Gingerbread Man from Brocky’s Ace, a filly by Sessions from Beyond The Mist and a filly by Snippetson from Villette.
yearlings. He came down once for Christmas and saw his
“I’ve known Jane since she left school and she is very good
first snake (there are no snakes in NZ) and he nearly died
with the horses,” Giles said.
of fright. I smacked it one and Grant was calling out “Be careful it will bite you!” “In hindsight I should have been far more critical of the stock I had. Having Grant and David there helps me to be more mindful of what I am producing. They are out there seeing what the opposition is producing and where the trends are going.”
“The Gingerbread Man colt is a nice type and he has a good temperament.” Brocky’s Ace won the Initial Plate and her first foal was Brocky’s Deal, who won six races. Another foal is the WA stakes-winner Quilista, now with Darren Weir in Victoria. “The Sessions filly is quite a muscular filly and is from a family that has been very good to me. David (Houston) and Kim (Rose) liked the Snippetson filly. They thought she was quite light on her feet and is an early racing looking filly. She is from the good family of Achernar Star.
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