 Promising filly Burning Bell continued on her winning way in testing conditions on the Sunshine Coast poly track. Burning Bell is now the winner of 3 of her 4 starts, earning her connections $103,000 during that period. That prizemoney has been significantly enhanced by her status as a QTIS bonus filly. Purchased for just $38,000 from the 2019 Magic Millions QTIS Sale on the Gold Coast, Burning Bell is a daughter of Black Caviar’s sire, Bel Esprit. Bred in Queensland by top Warwick nursery Daandine Stud, Burning Bell is a daughter of the stakes winning Sequalo mare Flamenco. Burning Bell missed out on a start in a stakes race during the recent Scone carnival after being balloted. Black type targets may well be put aside for the time being, with the $150,000 Edward Street Brisbane (1200m) at Eagle Farm on 25 June being on the radar now for Burning Bell. Longer term targets are for Burning Bell are likely to centre around the $11.75m Magic Millions Raceday in January 2023. Congratulations to owners: Malcolm Borger, Norm Fowles, Average Joe Racing Synd (Manager: Troy Rowe), Jason & Linda Lelay, Colin & Jenny Watts, Chris Scott, Anne Wade, Darren Turner, Chris Goddard, Damien Chown, Tony Wilson, Denis & Margaret Frew, Trent Purdon, Anthony Bailey, Jenny Ball, Joeline Barnes, Garry Batchelder, Tracey Bliss, Stuart Cadzow, Stephen Carroll, Darren Chiswick, Gary Egan, Tim Gaske, Paul Lewis, Bebe Mawer, Chris Newman, Jason Piddington, Kevan Richiardi, Vic Smythe & Peter Willis. Photos: Grant Peters Trackside Photography  Imported galloper Hopeful (FR) made short work of making it to the feature race winners circle in Australia by scoring a dominant win in the Listed Lord Mayors Cup (2000m) at Rosehill. Having just his second start down under, Hopeful (FR) backed up a strong Group 3 first time out by taking the 2000m Rosehill feature in good style for trainer Annabel Neasham and jockey Rachael King. Hopeful (FR) will now head to the $1.2m Q22 (2200m) at Eagle Farm on 11 June 22, a race won last year by his high profile stablemate Zaaki. Hopeful (FR) was secured by OnTrack’s Grant Morgan in conjunction with European agent Stuart Boman of Blandford Bloodstock from the 2021 Arqana Sale of The Arc. A gelded five year-old son of Motivator, Hopeful (FR) is out of the Monsun mare Monst. A Group 3 winner in France, Hopeful (FR) is now the winner of 6 of his 15 starts. He was bred and raced by the Wertheimer family and prepared for them by Chantilly trainer Carlos Laffon-Parias. His five French wins ranged from 1600m to 2400m, all five victories were on tracks rated in the soft range. Congratulations to winning owners: Paul Hope, Malcolm Borger, Hopeful Racing (Mgr Lachlan Edwards), Albert Cid, Tracey Whellan, Dan Paton, Mark Ostermeyer, Wayne Muller, Dennis Bates, Mark Wood, Smudgee Synd (Mgr: Barry Menzies), Dominic Cicciarelli, Glenn Townsend, Andrew Grigg, Neil Evison, Barry Tangitu & OnTrack Hopeful No 1: Peter Bailey, Michael Byrne, Peter Bowman, Ross Guzzo, Julee Vansteenis, Cate Solah, Alan Jackson, Stuart Key, Shane Cassady, Jamie Behl, Craig Beattie, Shannon Browne, David Matthews, Stephen Carroll, Bebe Mawer, Michael Bolam, Ken Stocks & Guthrie Williamson, & OnTrack Hopeful No 2: Chris Howitt, Tim O’Neill, Brett Browne, Matthew Sheppard, Jeremy Dawson, Paul Holloway, Garry Batchelder, Stephen Cross, Michael Wilkinson, Craig Brown & Matthew Dunn. Photos: Steve Hart  Former French galloper Hopeful is likely to target the Lord Mayors Cup at Rosehill prior to embarking on a Queensland Winter Carnival campaign for the Annabel Neasham yard. Hopeful (5yo g Motivator x Monst by Monsun) debuted in Australia last Saturday with an impressive second in the Group 3 Hawkesbury Gold Cup (1600m). The Listed Lord Mayors Cup (2000m) is run at Rosehill on Saturday May 21, the same day as the Group 1 Doomben Cup (2000m). Hopeful holds a nomination for both races but is likely to head to Rosehill to avoid a clash with star stablemate Zaaki who will be shooting for back to back Doomben Cup’s. Hopeful has also been nominated for the $1.2m Q22 (2200m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday 11 June. Hopeful was purchased by Grant Morgan’s OnTrack Thoroughbreds via its UK based agent representative Stuart Boman of Blandford Bloodstock. Boman signed for Hopeful at the Arqana Sale of the Arc in October 2021 for 130,000 euros. Hopeful raced in France on 13 occasions for 5 wins and 4 placings. Winning up to Group 3 level, Hopeful’s wins ranged from a debut victory over 1500m at Deauville, through to a 2400m win at Chantilly. His most recent win before purchase came at Longchamp over 2250m on a Good track on 8 July 21. Prior to his Longchamp win, Hopeful won at Chantilly over 2400m on 6 June 21. Among the defeated brigade on that day was another Australian import Huetor, who was 5 lengths astern of Hopeful. Now trained in Australia by team Snowden, Huetor has been impressive since arriving in Australia having won 3 of his 4 starts down under. Hopeful was among 4 imports secured in late 2021 by the OnTrack/Boman combination from Europe. Sir William Bruce (IRE) (by Galileo) is in training with Tony Gollan at Eagle Farm, Imrahor (GB) (by Kingman) is also being prepared by Annabel Neasham, whilst Without Revenge (GB) (by Muhaarar) is being trained by David Vandyke at the Sunshine Coast.  Just over 100 guests enjoyed an afternoon in the beautiful Gold Coast hinterland for one of our popular yearling parades at Fenwick Farm. The parade was MC’d by the voice of Queensland racing Alan Thomas, and our special guest was master trainer David Vandyke. Guests were treated to sumptuous lunch from our friends at the Three Tree Frogs Café at Bundall, whilst Gold Coast KombiKeg provided refreshments including beer by popular local brewer Black Hops. Guests viewed 5 very nice yearlings which are all heading to the David Vandyke Sunshine Coast stables.    Among the yearlings are colts by American Pharoah (out of Group 1 winning mare Speak Fondly) and another by boom first season New Zealand sire Almanzor. There are also three outstanding fillies by sires Merchant Navy, Hellbent and Harry Angel. Shares are available in all five yearlings now in both 5% and 1% units, with shares to fit all budgets. Thanks also to Scott Brennan, Amanda & Pete Lowry and all the team at Fenwick Farm for turning the horses out in great order and opening their doors to our clients. We look forward to staging many more events and tours post pandemic, we will keep you posted on upcoming events.   Promising three year-old filly Burning Bell made it back to back wins and pocketed another lucrative QTIS bonus when she scored at the Sunshine Coast making it 2 wins from 3 starts. Burning Bell will now be given a let up before being stepped up into stakes company at her next start. She will be targeted towards the Listed Denises Joy Stakes (1100m) at Scone on Saturday 14 May. “It looks the ideal race to head towards now. There isn’t a lot of shorter races with black type for fillies during the Queensland winter so we will have a throw at the stumps at this,” said Grant Morgan from OnTrack. “If she could run third it gets her some quick black type and will help sure up her residual value very early in her career. “The Denises Joy is run at handicap conditions so that suits ideally. It wouldn’t be as attractive if it were run at set weights conditions. “Hopefully she can sneak into the field. We think she is a progressive filly with plenty of potential,” said Morgan.   Promising three year-old filly Burning Bell made it back to back wins and pocketed another lucrative QTIS bonus when she scored at the Sunshine Coast making it 2 wins from 3 starts. Burning Bell will now be given a let up before being stepped up into stakes company at her next start. She will be targeted towards the Listed Denises Joy Stakes (1100m) at Scone on Saturday 14 May. “It looks the ideal race to head towards now. There isn’t a lot of shorter races with black type for fillies during the Queensland winter so we will have a throw at the stumps at this,” said Grant Morgan from OnTrack. “If she could run third it gets her some quick black type and will help sure up her residual value very early in her career. “The Denises Joy is run at handicap conditions so that suits ideally. It wouldn’t be as attractive if it were run at set weights conditions. “Hopefully she can sneak into the field. We think she is a progressive filly with plenty of potential,” said Morgan.  Bel Esprit three year-old Burning Bell looked ultra impressive winning at the Brisbane metro meeting in what was an action packed day at Ipswich. Prepared by Toby and Trent Edmonds, Burning Bell was sent out a warm $1.60 favourite on the strength of a luckless second at the same track and distance on debut in February. Ryan Maloney was set to ride Burning Bell before being ruled out after being dislodged from Sacred Oath in a well publicised incident earlier in the day. Andrew Mallyon stepped in for the ride and gave a polished display to get the filly across from a wide barrier into the box seat, before racing away for a widening 2.8 length margin on the line. “I really like this fillies action. What I liked even more today was the turn of foot she showed. To be any chance of making it to black type level, you have to have turn of foot,” said OnTrack’s Grant Morgan. “She didn’t have any luck on debut and we came her with plenty of confidence off the back of that and her very good work since.”   Burning Bell was an inexpensive yearling purchase for Ontrack and what is now a large ownership group. Purchased from the COVID impacted 2020 QTIS Magic Millions Yearling Sale, Burning Bell was secured for just $38,000. Burning Bell is the second foal from the 2yo stakeswinning Sequalo mare Flamenco. Like top sires Written Tycoon and Capitalist, Burning Bell was bred in Queensland by prodigious winner getting farm Daandine Stud at Warwick. Congratulations to winning owners: Malcolm Borger, Norm Fowles, Average Joe Racing Synd (Manager: Troy Rowe), Jason & Linda Lelay, Colin & Jenny Watts, Chris Scott, Anne Wade, Darren Turner, Chris Goddard, Damien Chown, Tony Wilson, Denis & Margaret Frew, Trent Purdon, Anthony Bailey, Jenny Ball, Joeline Barnes, Garry Batchelder, Tracey Bliss, Stuart Cadzow, Stephen Carroll, Darren Chiswick, Gary Egan, Tim Gaske, Paul Lewis, Bebe Mawer, Chris Newman, Jason Piddington, Kevan Richiardi, Vic Smythe & Peter Willis. Photos courtesy of Trackside: www.tracksidephotography.com  David Vandyke Leading Sunshine Coast trainer David Vandyke has appointed Grant Morgan’s OnTrack Syndicates as his exclusive syndication partner. The arrangement commenced with the purchase of a number of yearlings from the recent Magic Millions, Inglis Classic and New Zealand Bloodstock yearling sales for the Vandyke/OnTrack partnership. “The OnTrack model is a good fit for me and my stable. It enables me to focus on my strengths by spending as much time as possible training my horses,” said David Vandyke. “We have had a good working relationship since I first commenced training in Queensland and now is the ideal time for us to increase our numbers together,” said David Vandyke.  Grant Morgan (left) with Brazen Beau following his Gr 1 Coolmore Stud Stks win OnTrack achieved its greatest success to date with multiple Group 1 winner and champion 3yo colt Brazen Beau.
Racing in the familiar ‘All Gold’ racing silks, the Gold Coast based OnTrack operation will encourage clients to be patient when developing young horses with David Vandyke . “We will be aiming to have stakes class metropolitan horses, many of which will most likely be mile plus horses,” said OnTrack principal Grant Morgan. “There will be two year-olds and sprinters that come along, but our focus will be more developing horses to hit their peak as three and four year-olds and beyond over a bit of ground. “I think when you break Australian racing down now the majority of big prizemoney sits over a bit more ground. I don’t think there is a particular advantage in targeting precocious types that struggle to get past 1200m. “It’s very difficult for syndicators and smaller owners to buy those type of horses at the sales and compete with the big colt syndicates to get target races like the Golden Slipper, Blue Diamond or Magic Millions. “You really have to push young horses very hard to get to those races, and we would prefer to engage a bit more patience and let horses come to their peak more naturally,” said Morgan. Whilst they will be sourcing yearlings from both Australia and New Zealand, Vandyke and OnTrack also plan on securing European and New Zealand tried horses to satisfy clients looking for more proven gallopers. OnTrack will continue to place new horses with other trainers in Queensland and currently has horses prepared by Tony Gollan, Toby & Trent Edmonds, Kris Lees, Chris Meagher and Lauren Abbott. Ontrack Syndicates Authorised Rep No 001275873 of AFSL 223671 |
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