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Gawler Barrier Trial, September 4.



Trial 2 Open (1000m) 1:01.23
SAVATOXL, Reckon we could hear them cheering from the Top End in this trial. We’ve been told from all who have seen him in The Alice and Darwin that this one might just be very good, and after today seeing is believing! Never raced on turf previously so this was an interesting watch as Sunlight’s little sister, Sisstar put the early speed on. Still wanting to show her bad habits of getting her head up early, Sisstar did improve her manners after a couple of furlongs when Vorster allowed her more reign. Savatoxl settling last the small field, only 2.5L off the leader. On straightening it was clear Sisstar was under pressure as Savatoxl moved outside her, the mare inclined to lay out as Savatoxl wanted to roll in down the straight. Jason Holder taking action to correct his mount as Savatoxl strolled a bit over a Length clear under a strangle hold in what was the most impressive trial of the day. Would think the Balaklava Cup is on the agenda, just back him wherever he goes!
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Thought he had a couple of starts in Queensland on turf, none the less, sounds really promising. Good Luck. 
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Weighted up to his best dirt form. Not sure if McEvoy can improve him in the short time he's had the horse.
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And draws the extreme outside barrier.  That's not going to make his task any easier.  Dead
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Needs a spell, then see what McEvoy can do with a full prep. I can still see him winning at stakes level.
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There doesn't appear to be any clearly suitable Stakes races in Adelaide until April next year so I'd be inclined to keep him going until the 1600m Listed Murray Bridge Cup next month, and maybe the 1800m Listed Tokyo City Cup at the end of October before spelling him.

But will be interested to read what DirtRace might have to say.
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Or maybe consider a let up and set for something over Cup week
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One thing he did show today is he has abundant early speed even on grass. He led at his only other race on grass too. This is always an asset.
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SAVA will be frehened and head to melbourne for the carnival.
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I see him in the nominations for a listed 1200m on Wednesday at Caulfield 
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Super effort, very dogged at the finish.

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Tough horse, been in work since Phar Lap was a foal
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This horse is not only tough but has a nice high cruising speed. Very gutsy win yesterday, looked to be a sitting duck but rallied. Finds the line like a good horse.
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How did they come up with that spelling/pronouncement ?
He is a good looking dude.
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one of the owners is a member here so hopefully he can help you out with that AA. I’ve often wondered myself 
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Originally posted by DirtRace DirtRace wrote:

Savatoxl in SA with Tony & Calvin McEvoy.
Arrived yesterday.
Balaklava cup..


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A Savabeel mare to an Exceed and Excel Salion is

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Congrats to Dirt Race on today’s win.

Listed winner last prep & now a G3 win in the DC McKay Quality today.
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McEvoy Jnr post race says Goodwood in 2 weeks.
Exciting times ahead DirtRace.
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You little ripper!
Now a G1 winner!!
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Sava shows breeding rollercoaster

Just like racing, the breeding game can be a rollercoaster where fortunes are won or lost in minutes at bloodstock sales right across the world.

Just ask Sheryl Atkinson, who bred Saturday's Group 1 The Goodwood (1200m) contender Savatoxl.

In 2011, the former show horse enthusiast-turned hobby breeder paid just $5000 for Li'l Miss Hayley, a modestly performed daughter of Savabeel who only three years earlier had fetched $280,000 at the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale.

Hopes were high that the mare, who was in foal to Shaft, could become a flagbearer for the passionate breeder, who operated Carrington Park in Drouin with her husband Mark.

"We only paid $5000 and she was in foal to Shaft at the time, she was only a maiden mare," Atkinson said.

"We liked the breeding and thought she was worth a gamble, especially at that price.

"We met up Paul Willetts from New Zealand, who is a guru on pedigrees and goes to all the sales, he was recommended to us and we struck up a great friendship with him and a working partnership.

"He helped us go through some pedigrees to match, not just on breeding but on type as well.

"Her next foal was a Danzero and he was a lovely type that we ended up selling as a weanling, he eventually went over to Hong Kong.

"She had another couple of foals in there - she went to Your Song and Toorak Toff - before we sent her to Kuroshio."

The Kuroshio mating produced Savatoxl.

Atkinson loved him from the moment he entered the world but a small abnormality on an x-ray, discovered only weeks before he went through the ring at the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale, meant most trainers were reluctant to add him to their shortlists.

After being passed in at one sale, the colt was sold to the Alice Springs Turf Club for only $8000 and later, at the Inglis Red Centre Yearling Sale, for $18,000 to original trainer and part-owner Will Savage.

"Kuroshio was new on the scene and we liked his breeding with the Exceed And Excel, we thought it might add a little extra speed into her pedigree," she said.

"It's always a gamble when you're going to sell at the yearling sales - do you go with a new, unproven sire or do you go with the proven sire and we decided we'd take the gamble on the new kid on the block and it looked like it had paid off because he was a lovely type when he was born.

"He was accepted on type, probably more so than pedigree, into the Melbourne Premier Sale, and it came to those few weeks before the sale when you do the x-rays and it showed up with the tiniest little lump on one fetlock.

"The vets said it wasn't going to affect him in any way, so we still went into the sale fairly confident that, even though it would show up on the x-ray, it wasn't going to affect his racing prospects.

"We were crushed when we ended up passing him in for $14,000.

"We then put him into the VOBIS Gold Sale and we were hoping that there'd be some trainers that would like him on type and not look too much into the tiny thing on his x-ray.

"We only got $8000, which was a massive loss on our costs."

After becoming Kuroshio's first winner at Alice Springs in early 2018, Savatoxl took the top end by storm, winning 12 of his first 19 starts.

His move to the Tony and Calvin McEvoy stable at Angaston was the catalyst for even greater success, with the gelding winning the Listed Christmas Stakes (1200m) in December before blitzing his rivals in the G3 D.C. Mackay Stakes (1100m) last start to earn a tilt at The Goodwood.

Despite the disappointment from his paltry sale price, Atkinson has followed Savatoxl's career with great interest and can't wait to see him tackle some of Australia's best sprinters in Saturday's $500,000 race.

"He certainly owes us a lot of money but I'm so glad that he's gone on and done well and at least someone is making some money out of him," she said.

"I've watched him all the way through and had a few bets on him along the way.

"Having a Group 1 runner, let alone a winner, is something you dream of as a breeder.

"You're there for the picking of the mating and then all the steps along the way.

"We do all the work on the farm ourselves, so I'd physically drive the mares to stud, get them served, bring them home and look after them from there.

"We foal our mares down in the stables, so we'd have all the cameras and the alarms ready to go to assist with the birth.

"You're raising them the whole way through, so to see them go on and win a race, it's a phenomenal feeling, it's like they're one of your own children."

The Li'l Miss Hayley experience wasn't all doom and gloom for the Atkinsons, with another of her progeny, a colt by Darley's Brazen Beau, selling for $380,000 to trainer Mick Price at the 2019 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale.

Named Bengal Bandit, the colt broke his maiden at only his second start at Hamilton on Thursday.

It was the last progeny of Li'l Miss Hayley the Atkinsons offered before they sold the mare and wound down their breeding operation.

"We put her to Brazen Beau, who we really liked, and the colt was one of the last yearlings we sold before we retired from breeding," she said.

"I'm hoping he's going to come out like this guy, once he matures and gets his brain and bones going, he can be really successful.

"It was so exciting to have one go through the sales and make more than what we expected - it probably was a fitting end to us as breeders."

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Brilliant result for all concerned....& especially our own Dirt Race, who is in the ownership.

Interesting that he’s the second horse to be unplaced in a Darwin Cup over 2000m to then come out & win a Goodwood Hcp over 1200m the following year.  Anyone remember the previous horse to do this ??
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Can't believe I talked myself out of backing him today. No soft form, inside off, blah blah blah, bolts in at 20ies. I'm a goose. 
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Wasn't Crush by any chance Lord Hybrow? Early 90s?
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Originally posted by Balciano Balciano wrote:

Wasn't Crush by any chance Lord Hybrow? Early 90s?
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Crush was a really interesting horse.  Was originally owned by Lloyd Williams & trained by John Meagher.  Won the 1987 MV Vase as a 3yo before running last in the VRC Derby.  Was then in the wilderness racing in NT for a few years before winning the 1991 Goodwood Hcp as a 6yo with the late Ken Russell in the saddle.
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Crush was in the ownership of a few likely customers from the nightclub world ( Lee Moussi owner of The Underground ) and maybe even recently deceased Gudinski after that. Landed a few nice touches for that ownership group while trained by Hore-Lacy. Not sure if those owners sent him up North.

Congrats to all involved in Savavtoxl .... hope you got some Bonfield. 
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We sold a yearling out of the Premier Yearling sale to the Alice Springs Racing Club quite some years ago.

The horse raced went on to win 12 including two stakes races in Adelaide and $520k before retirement.  But afraid we now have to admit that he's no longer the best yearling to be subsequently sold on by the race club.  Cry

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I'm not a big rap on the McEvoys' ability to keep horse sound but in this guys' case, I reckon to have survived the tough grounding of Alice & Darwin racing, they'll have no trouble in this regard Big smile & yes, SC, my congrats to DirtRace on an astute buy Clap
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Only in Australia – the story behind Savatoxl

So you not only have a runner in a Group 1 race, but the winner, and you are not there.

Why not? Because you are in the middle of nowhere. Well of course you are somewhere but if you are mustering 15,000 cattle on Suplejack Station you are on what is advertised as the most remote property in our great sunburnt country. Only in Australia.

And it’s why the buyer and owner of Saturday’s Group 1 Goodwood winner Savatoxl, Will Savage, wasn’t at Morphettville.

He was a long way from anywhere, but found a television that could receive Channel 7 to watch his green and yellow, handed down over generations family colours carried to Group 1 glory by Barend Vorster on the horse he sent to father and son team, Tony and Calvin McEvoy.

Suplejack is an isolated 381,000-hectare station, located about 700 kilometres northwest of Alice Springs in the Tanami Desert. It was recently bought out by parts of the Savage family for $21m to settle a succession plan.

Which is a little bit more than the $18,000 Savage, then training in Alice Springs paid for Savatoxl as a yearling who was on sold by the Alice Springs Turf Club who had bought him in Melbourne for just $8000.

But there is work to be done on the station.

“I couldn’t get down there but it was a big thrill. We are mustering up here but don’t worry we barracked him home,” Savage said on a phone line that sounded like he was in the next room, not a speck in the middle of our great southern land.

“It’s a full-time job mustering,” he said, not surprisingly a little laconically. “We’ve had a bit of a drought, lost a few, so there is anywhere between 12000 and 15000 up here.”

And if that sounds like a big job, it is. It means Savage, who trained Savatoxl himself to his first nine wins in a row, hasn’t had a runner in his own name in a year.

“I’ve still got a licence, but I’m not sure when I will get back, I’ve got a couple of horses up here on the station.”

Much of the backstory regarding Savatoxl has been well documented since the weekend, with the breeders, Sheryl and Mark Atkinson who bought the mare Li’l Miss Hayley for $5000 and put their Kuroshio yearling into the Premier Sale and passed him in for $14,000 then sold him for $8000 to the Alice Springs Turf Club at VOBIS Gold, (costing them plenty, but the next foal made $380,000, so that’s the game).

Savage liked what he saw when the horse was re-offered at the Red Centre Sale and labelled him the “standout of the sale”.

“I never have many (in work), but he just stood out on conformation and his breeding was ok,” he said.

A few early takers in the horse quickly dropped out of the Savage team, leaving himself and good friends, the Gordon family to race and collect some $725,000 so far, with the promise of more to come after Saturday’s comprehensive win.

“He always showed above average ability, but you’d never think you had a Group 1 horse.”

His nine straight wins on the Pioneer Park track in the Alice built up a local cult status before his failure over 2000m in the Alice Springs Cup.

Savage took him on a long road trip to Brisbane to try him on the turf in the Fred Best Classic three years ago which went haywire when the horse drew the outside barrier and the jockey (Nikita Berriman) eased him out of the race under pressure.

So it was off to Darwin to Gary Clarke to chase the carnival money, then back to Savage (for an Alice Springs win), before back to Clarke again (for three Darwin wins into his Darwin Cup failure), before it came time to try him with the McEvoys.

“I still think he is a mile horse, but to win the Goodwood, what a thrill,” Savage said.

And the name? Savage admits it’s a bit cryptic but doesn’t use part of his name.

“It’s sort of savage to excel, but it’s a mix-up of Exceed And Excel (the sire of Kuroshio) and Savabeel (the sire of the dam),” he said.

Now it’s off to Brisbane for the Stradbroke for Australia’s latest Group 1 winner. But Savage expects he’ll still be mustering when that big race comes around. But he’ll still be preparing to celebrate should Savatoxl salute once more.

“I’ll have a bottom of rum ready.” Only in Australia.

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