Cover image courtesy of Darren Tindale

It’s a Cummings again on VRC Oaks Day

The Cummings family has been synonymous with the G1 VRC Oaks since the 1920s, and on Thursday Anthony Cummings followed in the footsteps of his grandfather, James, father Bart and son James, to etch his own name on the time-honoured Group 1 courtesy of She’s Extreme’s (Extreme Choice) classy performance in the Flemington feature.

Ridden by Tommy Berry, the daughter of Newgate Farm’s resident stallion Extreme Choice, endured the dream run, creeping up the fence to beat Pavitra (American Pharoah {USA}) by 1l. Queen Air (Toronado {Ire}) finished another 2.25l away in third.

She’s Extreme has proved time and time again to be one of the very best and toughest fillies in training. As a 2-year-old she ran consistently well in top-class events, landing the G2 Magic Night S. on her third start, before finishing seventh in the G1 Golden Slipper S. and second in the G1 Sires’ Produce S., beaten on both occasions by Fireburn (Rebel Dane).

However, on her final start as a 2-year-old, she was able to topple the G1 Golden Slipper S. winner in the G1 Champagne S. at Randwick.

Despite Thursday’s race being her first victory this season, she again had gained plaudits for her consistency, which included a runner-up spot in the G1 Flight S. and third-place finishes in the G2 Furious S. and G1 Spring Champion S.

Keeping up with the kids

Trainers bearing the surname ‘Cummings’ have now won 12 editions of the G1 VRC Oaks, with Anthony adding one to his father Bart’s nine, while his grandfather, James, and son James, both have won the Group 1 once, with the latter having landed it last year with Willowy (Kermadec {NZ}).

“It’s very good. The big thing is to keep up with the kids,” Cummings said. “They’re setting a furious pace, and for an old guy, it is not always simple. But we’ve got a really nice filly and a good mob of owners that have been understanding and copped it, not that it’s hard as she’s won over a million-and-a-half (in prizemoney) now, so it’s not all pain. I’m just pleased to have a filly like that get the recognition and get the Group 1 certainly at Flemington.

“I’m very happy. It’s been nice to get nice horses and to develop them to the point where they can show off the way they can. Very satisfying and a good ride from Tommy. Tommy rode her very well and assessed the situation at every turn. Just rapt for the horse as much as anything.

“It was the icing on the cake for a very good prep. Nice to see her get the right breaks today (Thursday).”

She’s Extreme provided Berry with his 37th Group 1 win, but only second in the state of Victoria; despite that, he said he was confident going into Thursday’s race.

“She drew a good alley (barrier one), they're everything in racing, especially big races, but I had the right filly,” Berry said. “I gave her a click coming to the corner and she almost ran over the top of the leader she was travelling so well.

“I just knew that I needed a split at any moment and she was going to take the race away. It was pretty special.

“I was very confident coming here today that we were on the right horse.”

Bred by Aquis, She’s Extreme was purchased as a weanling by One Plus Investments for $32,500 at the Inglis Digital June (Late) Sale in 2020, before being snapped up by her trainer for $275,000 at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale from the Willow Park Stud draft the following year.

While there had been question marks surrounding her stamina, given her sire, Extreme Choice, had only produced one winner beyond a mile, her dam, Keysbrook (So Secret) showed stamina in her career, finishing second in the G2 Western Australian Derby and third in the G3 Western Australian Oaks.

Keysbrook was also offered during the same Inglis Digital Sale as She’s Extreme and she sold to Randwick Bloodstock Agency (FBAA) for $60,000. The mare was offered again earlier this year at the Inglis Chairman’s Sale and was purchased by Kia Ora Stud for $825,000.

A 2-year-old filly by Lean Mean Machine out of Keysbrook was purchased by Morton Racing for $150,000 at the Magic Millions Perth Yearling Sale earlier this year and she is now named She’s Perfection. Keysbrook is now in foal to Kia Ora’s resident G1 Golden Slipper S.-winning stallion, Farnan.

Extreme Choice is the sire of eight stakes winners in total and She’s Extreme is one of two Group 1 winners for the stallion with G1 Golden Slipper S. winner, Stay Inside, who stands alongside his father at Newgate Farm, being his other.

A son of the late Arrowfield Stud-based sire Not A Single Doubt, Extreme Choice stands for a fee of $275,000 (inc GST).

Stone’s rock solid in Ottawa win

Co-trainer Mick Price believed Charm Stone’s previous race-day experience played into her hands in the G3 Ottawa S. at Flemington on Thursday, a victory that provided her sire, I Am Invincible, with his 85th stakes winner.

The 2-year-old finished third in the Listed Maribyrnong Trial S. on her debut on October 1 and she went two better on Thursday, beating Empress Of Wonder (Choisir) by 1.75l, whole Hell Queen (Hellbent) was another 0.5l away in third.

Price, who trains alongside Michael Kent Jnr, explained the filly had a tough preparation leading up to that race. After failing to get her barrier certificate in a jump-out at Flemington the week prior, Charm Stone then backed up in a jump-out at Cranbourne six days prior to making her debut.

“She's a beautiful type, big, strong, sound and has a pedigree,” Price said. “She's one of Sheamus' (Mills) buys for the boys and it's good that she's now got a stakes race (win).

“That makes them as broodmares, albeit at start two, and the question will be, what to do now?”

On future plans for Charm Stone, Price said the filly would now be aimed at either the R. Listed Magic Millions 2YO Classic at the Gold Coast in January or the G1 Blue Diamond S. at Caulfield in February.

“Personally, I'm a Group 1 man,” Price said. “She's a big, strong filly, she'll train on, and she'll have a good, robust 2-year-old year, but that's open for discussion.”

Bred by Emirates Park, the filly was purchased by Sheamus Mills Bloodstock (FBAA), who remains in the ownership, from their draft for $1.55 million at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale in 2022.

Charm Stone herself is a daughter of dual Group 3 winner Najoom (Northern Meteor), making her a sister to stakes winner Najmaty.

This is the second 2-year-old stakes winner of the season for I Am Invincible, with Listed Debutant S. winner, King’s Gambit, the other. The stallion is standing at Yarraman Park Stud for a fee of $247,500 (inc GST).

Mills couldn't contain his excitement after the win and was quick to pay tribute to Price and Kent Jnr for all their hard work.

“You've got to have the backers, so I have to thank the boys, it's all down to them, you've got to find somebody who is prepared to believe in your ability,” Mills said.

“It's been an amazing ride now and thankfully we're repaying them slowly. I worked for Mick for years as racing manager and I would say he's just gone to a new level in terms of thinking outside the square and his patience with these horses.”

Mills was celebrating again in the next race on the card when provided when the Chris Waller-trained Roots (Press Statement), a horse he also co-races, took out the $250,000 Inglis Bracelet.

McDonald unbeatable on Aitch Two Oh

James McDonald chalked up his third winner of the afternoon, and seventh of the carnival, when he steered the Richard and Chantelle Jolly-trained Aitch Two Oh (Headwater) to a narrow victory in the G3 Red Roses S. at Flemington.

The South Australian-trained filly added a first stakes win to her record when she landed the Listed Without Fear S. in May, but was last seen finishing a well-beaten fourth on her seasonal debut at Morphettville on October 8.

However, she was able to bounce back on Thursday, staying on bravely to beat La Danseuse Rouge (Manhattan Rain) by 0.2l with Bay Thirteen (Deep Field) a further 0.3l away in third.

It was a lucky spare ride for McDonald after travel issues meant the filly's original rider, Jake Toeroek, missed the ride.

“I was sitting there on the couch in the feed room and (Richard Jolly) came up at about 2 o'clock and said, 'Would you ride one for me? I've got a lot of horses for Nev Morgan'. How could I say no?” McDonald said.

“I feel for (Jake Toeroek). He was booked and the plane never came. Obviously, it's good to get a winner, but it would have been great for (Jake) to win on her and I'm sure he would have done (as well), if not a better job.”

Aitch Two Oh was purchased by her trainers for $65,000 at the 2021 Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale and she is out of winning New Zealand-bred mare Very Dogmatic (NZ) (Swiss Ace), who is herself a sister to Group 3 winner Mywayorthehighway (NZ).

Further back in the pedigree, the filly hails from the same family as multiple Group 1-winning Champions, Assertive Lad (Zeditave) and Assertive Lass (Zeditave).

Aitch Two Oh is one of five stakes winners for Headwater, who stands at Vinery Stud for a fee of $16,500 (inc GST).

Razeta brings back fond memories for Lees and Bowman

On this card 14 years ago, Kris Lees saddled star mare Samantha Miss (Redoute’s Choice) to win the G1 VRC Oaks and on Thursday he unearthed another potential star in the shape of the well-bred 3-year-old filly Razeta (Deep Field), who showed her class to win the Listed Desirable S.

The daughter of Deep Field broke her maiden in June and was tasting victory on Thursday for the first time since that win, pulling away in the final strides to beat Grey River (Al Maher) by 1.25l, while last season’s G3 Ottawa S. winner See You In Heaven (Divine Prophet) was another 0.85l away in third.

Bred by Bobby Hannon, Razeta is out of winning Commands mare Little Zeta, making her a sister to G2 Roman Consul S. winner Cosmic Force, who now stands alongside his father at Newgate Farm, while the filly is also a half-sister to Group 3 winner Onemorezeta (Onemorenomore).

Lees said it was Hannon’s plan to run the 3-year-old filly in the Listed event in the hope she could add valuable black type to her record.

“She was in at Randwick on Tuesday, in just a benchmark race, and Bobby Hannon, he pushed me into running,” Lees said.

“So, I've got to give credit to him. She's a valuable filly with a nice pedigree and it's just got a little bit better.”

Lees said that the filly will now be saved for autumn races and is confident she would handle the step into better company.

“I think we're going to have a really nice filly in the autumn, so we'll just see how she comes through today,” Lees said.

“I think she showed today she can measure up to the better fillies next time around.”

Bowman, who also partnered Samanatha Miss in the G1 VRC Oaks, his first top-flight winner, said he did not have too many options early in the Flemington straight and was forced to bide his time.

“I could see Blake Shinn travelling very well just to my inside and I thought I'd let him make his way through,” Bowman said.

“Then, the run presented itself in front of me and when I got her into clear air, the response was outstanding.”

In winning the race, the filly provided Deep Field with his 21st stakes winner and he stands at stud for a fee of $88,000 (inc GST).

Landmark winner for Newnham

Joyful Fortune (Nicconi) handed his trainer Mark Newnham a first Melbourne Cup carnival victory when he took out the Listed Century S. at Flemington on Thursday.

Last seen running 10th in The Everest, the gelding blitzed clear in the final stages to defeat Queensland raider Zoustyle (Zoustar) by 0.75l, while Yulong Command (Written Tycoon) was another 1.75l away in third.

Joyful Fortune began his career in Hong Kong and was actually retired when he retired to Australia, but Newnham decided to give him a second chance and he has already shown his affinity for the Flemington straight, winning his first start for Newnham in September.

The Everest form has stacked up, with Joyful Fortune becoming the second winner to come out of the $15 million sprint, with second-placed Private Eye (Al Maher) leading home the third-placed Mazu (Maurice {Jpn}) in the $3 million Nature Strip S. on October 29.

“He looks like a straight-track specialist so you never know, he might find himself back here in a Lightning (S.) or something. All his wins have been down the straight so no need to stray too far,” Newnham said.

“Being a straight-track specialist, you look at any races down the Flemington straight and it certainly suits him.

“He's a very talented horse; obviously, he's had a fair time off with injury, but we've managed him well, space his runs out a little bit and just find the right races.”

Newnham said he had done very little with Joyful Fortune since he ran in The Everest on October 15.

“From 1200 metres back to 1000, he didn’t have to do a lot of work. He’s only had the one gallop in three weeks and he's a good-winded horse and with his previous history of knee injuries, we have to take him fairly steadily anyway,” Newnham said.

Cover image courtesy of Darren Tindale

The G3 Ottawa S. was the first feature on Ladies’ Day at Flemington, and it was also the first of a raceday double for bloodstock agent Sheamus Mills with his 2-year-old filly Charm Stone (I Am Invincible).

In the Inglis Bracelet immediately after, Mills' odds-on mare Roots (Press Statement), a 4-year-old, was a hugely popular on-course winner at $1.60, but from a bloodstock perspective it was all about Charm Stone in the Ottawa.

The daughter of I Am Invincible, who’d been third on debut in the Listed Maribyrnong Trial down the Flemington straight in early October, jumped from barrier 12 in the 16-horse field and, at the winning post, she was 1.75l to the good of Annabel Neasham’s Empress Of Wonder (Choisir), with a further 2.25l to Hell Queen (Hellbent).

Trained by Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr, the 2-year-old filly had drawn plenty of money from the betting market ahead of the race. She was the only one with experience down the Flemington straight, and it told in the end as she clattered away with jockey Damian Lane.

The winning time on the Soft 5 was 57.93s, and it was a satisfying result for Mills who, via his Sheamus Mills Bloodstock (FBAA), had paid no less than $1.55 million for Charm Stone at this year’s Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale.

Black cats get black kittens

Charm Stone is the third surviving foal from the Northern Meteor mare Najoom, which explains the hefty pricetag on the Gold Coast.

She is a full sister to the dual Listed winner Najmaty who, in the colours of her breeder Emirates Park, is trained at Flemington by the Snowden team and a winner of four races in 11 starts to date.

Last time out, Najmaty was second in the G2 Dane Ripper S. and her wins include the Listed Redoute’s Choice S. last year and the Listed Helen Coughlan S. in Brisbane earlier this year.

Charm Stone was the very first of Najoom’s foals that Emirates Park sold at public auction. The others, both fillies, have been retained, and in the opinion of Bryan Carlson, the general manager of Emirates Park Stud, the decision to sell her was pure economics.

“It’s always hard to sell those ones,” Carlson said, speaking to TDN AusNZ on Thursday. “It was just one of those decisions that we made. Being such a nice filly by I Am Invincible, it comes with a high pricetag and we’d love for her to have won in our colours, but it’s also good to show the market that we can sell good types as well. Like anyone, we have to make money, breed good types and get results.”

When Mills went to $1.55 million back in January for Charm Stone, he conceded at the time that it was a lot of money.

“I suppose in terms of looking into the future and the long-term project of breeding out of these horses and so on, you hope that black cats get black kittens and they’ll produce types like themselves,” he said. “I’ve seen enough of these Vinnies. He’s the one stallion who just continually produces a type, and he’s a horse you can really trust in that regard.”

Charm Stone wasn’t the most expensive of Mills’ fillies by I Am Invincible. He had gone to $1.95 million at the 2021 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale for a daughter of Hips Don’t Lie (NZ) (Stravinsky {USA}). That filly is now called Humming and she is unraced for Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr.

“When you’re paying that level of money, you need a good backup plan, and you need to treat it like a business and that’s what we’re doing,” Mills said. “We firmly believe that over the next five to 10 years, we’ll have a program in place that makes all these things make sense.”

With a back-to-back double at Flemington on Thursday, Mills suddenly had a Group- and feature race-winning pair of broodmares. While Charm Stone was a prolific purchase for the bloodstock agent, Roots in the Inglis Bracelet was the other end of the spectrum.

The 4-year-old mare is a daughter of the Big Brown (USA) producer Arctic Success, from the Gerry Harvey family of Golden Slipper winner Polar Success, and she was a $50,000 purchase for Yugengaisha Murakami Kinya Bokujo from Vinery Stud at the 2020 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale in 2020.

“It’s been one of the better days at the office, that’s for sure,” Mills said, chatting with TDN AusNZ on Thursday. “I took my little fellow to the races with me and I thought then I’d go home, have a couple of beers and watch a couple of replays.”

For Mills, both Roots and Charm Stone are now a question of what’s next. Each of the horses is owned in partnership with others, so the long-term decisions about breeding careers will be on the table at some point.

“We’ve obviously got a partner in Roots, and then a couple of other people came in on Charm Stone, so we’ll just have to play these out as to what we do,” Mills said. “We bought them to run in our colours, intending that they’d be broodmares and we hope that the other owners will think likewise.”

Charm Stone is still very young at two years old, but she’s significantly more valuable than Roots at this point. Paying $1.55 million for her isn’t something Mills will forget in a hurry.

“When you pay that much, you never think they’re going to necessarily return it straight away,” he said. “You have to be in it for the long haul, and that’s where we were with her. I never go to the yearling sales trying to buy a broodmare, but if they’ve got all the attributes you look for in a racehorse, and they’ve also got a pedigree to be valuable mares win, lose or draw, they generally don’t come cheap.”

Mills has a number of good families already. He’s got the Hips Don’t Lie filly and Charm Stone now, and also Bonham (Per Incanto {USA}) is at stud for him and the G1 Thousand Guineas winner Odeum (Written Tycoon).

“We’re trying to procure a broodmare band that’s going to give us a chance to recoup the investment over a period of time,” he said. “When you pay a lot of money for them, you’ve really got to like them. Some of the yearlings we’ve stretched to buy, like Charm Stone, you’ve got to be really circumspect with yourself.

“When you're convinced they’re the best yearling in the sale, you’ve got to be lucky to get them and I’ve been really fortunate to have the support to be able to do that on a few occasions now.”

Keeps going, keeps growing

The $1.55 million paid for Charm Stone was both expected and unexpected for Carlson and the Emirates Park team.

“I thought she deserved to make a million-plus at the sale, but to get to $1.55 million was a great result,” he said on Thursday. “She was a very lovely filly and, as I said, it’s hard to part with those ones but we had Najmaty and Najoom is at home. It was just economics at the end of the day.”

Najoom herself was a very good buy for Emirates Park in 2013.

The Northern Meteor mare was bought from Willow Park Stud for $225,000 at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale. She was a daughter of Charlety Star (Arena) and, in 2015, a winner of the G3 Hawkesbury Guineas and G3 BTC Classic.

Najoom went to stud in 2016, losing a colt by I Am Invincible in 2016 and thereafter she’s had only fillies, which has been a unique situation for Emirates Park each year.

“She’s had five fillies now, which is good for us from a breeding point of view,” Carlson said. “Regardless, it’s very good that these top mares can keep producing well. That’s what we’re here for and this is a pedigree that Hussain (Lootah) is very fond of and always wanted to get.

“We bought Najoom at a sale and from memory she was Northern Meteor’s first crop, and she was favourite for a Group 1 as a first emergency and didn’t get a start, so she had a lot of ability. This is a family that just keeps going, and it’s very exciting that it keeps growing.”

At Emirates Park, Najoom is joined by her now-breeding daughter Najmah (Snitzel), while Najmaty will eventually have a place alongside them. Charm Stone was born in 2020, and in 2021 Najoom had a Tassort filly. Just recently, she had a Capitalist filly and her stallion choice this spring is yet to be made at Emirates Park.

“The Tassort is a quality filly and we’ll retain her to support that stallion,” Carlson said. “The mare keeps producing quality fillies, so we’ll keep that one to race and she’ll go to the breakers early next year.”

As far as families go, Emirates Park has plenty of good ones to choose from, but this one from Najoom ranks among its best.

“With Hussain getting and primarily buying fillies, we’ve got a lot of new blood and new families coming through, and Najoom was one of them,” Carlson said. “But we’ve also got a lot of old Emirates families that are being refreshed, so we’ve got a good mix and hopefully families like this one will keep coming through.”

Cover image courtesy of the National Library of Australia, LKS Mackinnon (centre) at Randwick c.1930

A generation of racegoers that grew up watching the 1983 film Phar Lap will forever judge Lauchlan Mackinnon as a wiry, stiffly spoken swell that was out to destroy Phar Lap (NZ) (Night Raid {GB}). Whether it was an accurate portrayal of the man or not, Mackinnon will long be assumed as such.

Privately educated, deftly dressed and highly opinionated, he likely deserved some of the reputation he was handed in 1983, but there’s always more to the story.

Lauchlan Kenneth Scobie Mackinnon was born on Christmas Day on the Isle of Skye in 1861, the same year as the Melbourne Cup emerged, and he sailed to Melbourne in 1884. He was a solicitor, by the end of his life a partner in the firm of Blake and Riggall, with 43 years spent ‘bending over blue papers and arduous phraseology’.

He was a man of rules and rigour. In 1906, with more than just a passing interest in horse racing, Mackinnon joined the committee of the Victoria Racing Club (VRC) and, from 1916 until his death, he was the club’s chairman. His views on racing were purist, namely geldings being barred from the Classics, women having no place in the sport and there being too much racing.

During the Phar Lap years, Mackinnon’s relationship with the famous horse probably wasn’t as aggressive as the film made out. Still, he declared all the way through Phar Lap’s glorious career that the gelding was inferior to Carbine (NZ) and, after the horse's crushing defeat in the 1931 Melbourne Cup, he declared that had Carbine been in the field with such a weight (68kg), he would have won.

It was a good example of Mackinnon’s lifelong inability to read the room and, in a way, he didn’t help himself when it came to popular opinion.

This aside, Lauchlan Mackinnon guided the VRC through the First World War and the Great Depression. They were troubling times, and, under his leadership, it almost seemed like the Club didn’t skip a beat.

Mackinnon oversaw the transformation of Flemington in 1924, when the Members’ grandstand, birdcage and mounting yard were moved from their riverside spot to their current location, and ‘the steady progress and prosperity of the VRC, and its increasing influence upon the sporting life of the community, were largely attributable to his sound judgement and legislative ability’.

Alongside his executive leadership of the VRC, Mackinnon owned the brilliant miler Woorak and the 1914 Melbourne Cup winner Kingsburgh. He also won the 1907 Sydney Cup with Realm, and a Toorak H. with Iolaire in 1906.

He owned Chatsworth Stud in the Goulburn Valley from about 1912 until 1921, at which Woorak successfully stood, and after that, Mackinnon continued to breed horses at the old Maribyrnong Stud. In 1924, some months after the famous dispersal of the Moses brothers’ Arrowfield Stud, he privately bought the 1920 Melbourne Cup winner Poitrel, who had stood there.

Gallery: Memories of Lauchlan Mackinnon

Mackinnon’s elegant and somewhat reserved passion for racing sustained him his whole life, right from his first race meeting in London in 1878. When he died in Melbourne on August 25, 1935, he was still serving as the starchy but successful VRC chairman.

In 1936, a year after his death, the Melbourne S., a 10-furlong (2000 metre) feature on Derby Day, was renamed the Mackinnon S. in his honour, and it was such for 85 years until the VRC, chasing its relevance, renamed it just this year.

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