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Gay3
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Posted: 14 Apr 2022 at 11:55pm |
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Mo’unga sold to Newhaven Park StudMo’unga has been purchased by Newhaven Park Stud and will race in their colours in the Group 1 $600,000 Schweppes All Aged Stakes (1600m) at Royal Randwick on Saturday. Newhaven took to social media late on Thursday to announced they had secured Mo’unga from Aquis Farm and confirmed plans to retain Annabel Neasham as trainer and continue to race the dual Group 1 winner for another season. Jockey Tommy Berry will wear Newhaven’s famous colours of black, green sash, red sleeves and white cap on Mo’unga in the All Aged where the four-year-old is rated the $4.80 favourite. Mo’unga won the Rosehill Guineas and Winx Stakes at Group 1 level last year and has raced only once this year when a fast finishing second to Sierra Sue in the Futurity Stakes nearly seven weeks ago.
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He has a very unusual pedigree that is not only free of Danzig, it's free of Raise a Native. Street Cry, Artie Schiller, Magnus, and Dehere are other lines worth thinking about, and that's in no particular order.
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Gee I think he'd suit Spirit of Boom horses also (Semi and Todman mix). He is sort of on the same playing field as Grunt and Brutal who are sons of O'Reilly they also have that lovely outcross blood with plenty of catches for our major stallions at the present time.
It will be interesting to see anyway.
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here is what one of SoB mares would look like with Mo'Unga
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Who owned Mo'Unga before Newhaven Park bought him ?
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reductio ad absurdum
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Same mob.
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Mo’unga has been purchased by Newhaven Park Stud and will race in their colours in the Group 1 $600,000 Schweppes All Aged Stakes (1600m) at Royal Randwick on Saturday. Newhaven took to social media late on Thursday to announced they had secured Mo’unga from Aquis Farm and confirmed plans to retain Annabel Neasham as trainer and continue to race the dual Group 1 winner for another season. |
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Is this where I asked this question ?
"Who owned Mo'unga before Newhaven bought him?" Edited by Gay3 - 10 May 2022 at 10:45pm |
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Wasn't it China Horse Club or one of the Chinese conglomerates? I'm sure a search under 'Racenet or Racing com Mo'unga' would name them after a big win.
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The old Aquis owned him - Tony Fung (the initial Aquis guy with his son Justin) raced him in his own name.
It's interesting seeing Aquis continue to acquire stallions (Jonker, Glenfiddich) while offloading their more viable prospects. I guess it's about the money and Mo'Unga is arguably too commercial for Queensland. |
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Coming around to this late. 2/3 of the Aquis roster are budget-priced stallions (>= $11k), half of that group are bread-and-butter racehorse stallions and the other half are young and well-bred but their performance didn't quite live up to their pedigree for whatever reason. Of the higher-priced group, Jonker and Brave Smash have the performance credentials but not the glittering pedigrees, Invader won a G-1 at 2 but didn't run on, and Lean Mean Machine would probably be in NSW or Vic if he had won a Gr-1. Jonker should have a good mare base from the mare owners who either can't afford Spirit of Boom or whose mare biomechanically fits Jonker better. Brave Smash is an outcross to most mares and will get some attention for that alone. That leaves Pierata, who is the best entire son of a champion, out of a well-producing mare whose great granddam won a Slipper, and who is the best performed of the group by far. Like Mo'Unga, he's from the Zabeel line, his best performances are at 1400 m to a mile, and his 2nd dam is a Star Kingdom/Centaine cross (Mo'unga's 2nd dam is Centaine/Todman, Pierata's is Kaoru Star/Centaine). Like Mo'Unga, he's got an easy pedigree to match to different lines. And like Mo'Unga, he's good enough to get commercial attention. Which is...kind of a problem. Aquis isn't a juggernaut like Coolmore or Shadai, who has enough mares to stand 20 sons of Galileo, 20 sons of Scat Daddy, and 20 sons of Deep Impact (yes, I'm exaggerating, but you get it). They're not like Arrowfield, with well-established ties to a big northern hemisphere stud who can get access to unique mare families and a different set of buyers. They're not Darley, who have the ability to take a "throw this at the wall and see what sticks" approach. I don't see them having the resources to support both Pierata and Mo'Unga and do justice to them both. Pierata was there first, and it makes more sense to keep supporting him at the same level and sell Mo'Unga for what was no doubt a tidy sum of money.
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