Odeum wins the 1000 Guineas Gr.1
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NEWHAVEN PARK
Andrew Reichard
Newhaven Park has been breeding champions for four generations, studmaster John Kelly continues a proud tradition that has seen the Boorowa based farm send forth a list of winners of the great races on the Australian Turf Calendar that would require a separate article just to list. Suffice to say that it includes no less than four individual Golden Slipper winners, John’s Hope, Prowl, Vivarchi and Burst.
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et rarely in the farm’s long and illustrious history has Newhaven had such a momentous lead up to the Magic Millions as this year. Newhaven bred Magic Millions graduates set the Melbourne Spring Carnival alight with Odeum a $420K 2019 MM graduate scoring an authoritative win in the Gr.1 1000 Gns at just her fourth start before supplying a Gr.1 quinella at her next start when a close second to another Newhaven Park graduate Shout The Bar a $200K 2018 MM purchase in the Gr.1 Empire Rose S-1600m to record her second win at the highest level after her earlier Vinery Stud S success. They are clearly two of the best females in training and both are shining examples of the type of yearlings Newhaven prepares and sells at the January sales, they were certainly within the budget of most buyers competing at the commercial end of the market. To put the icing on the cake, another Newhaven graduate, this one an absolute MM bargain as a
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$10K weanling and now racing as Inferno scored easily in the Singapore Lion City Cup in October defeating 15 rivals. The Newhaven 2021 Magic Millions draft has more gems on offer. There are five yearlings by Newhaven’s own sire Xtravagant, the multiple Gr.1 winning son of Pentire, four by the emerging super sire Pierro, a pair by champion Australian sire and dominant speed influence Exceed And Excel, and a great selection by such outstanding sires as Snitzel, So You Think (2), Spirit Of Boom (3), Nicconi (3), Dundeel, Invader, Maurice, Pride Of Dubai, Capitalist and Churchill. John Kelly’s early assessment that Redoute’s Choice would become a leading broodmare sire is reflected in the fact that there are four yearlings out of Redoute’s Choice mares including Lot 376 a bay colt by Pierro out of Heriz who is the dam of two stakes performers including
multiple Gr.3 winner Jamaican Rain. This colt could conceivably become even better than his talented sibling as the Pierro/Redoute’s Choice cross is one of the best in the entire history of breeding with 9Sw from 39 runners (23%) including 7 Group winners of which 3 are Group One winners, Levendi, Regal Power and current super mare Arcadia Queen. This Newhaven colt has an early August foaling date to round out the package. It’s apparent that the same planning has gone into all the Newhaven matings, there are several other highlights in this draft. For instance the first cab off the ranking 2021 will be Lot 8 a bay filly by sire of the moment Written Tycoon out of a winning Redoute’s Choice daughter of Gr.1 VRC Oaks winner Brazilian Pulse. Newhaven’s Snitzel colt is out of the multiple Gr.2 and Gr.3 placed Supara, runner up in both the Emancipation S and Surround S-Gr.2. This