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GGGAI ’S GAZETTEEDITION 22 | NOV.DEC 2015

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Australia's First Lady of Racing

DESTINATION HONG KONG

WHERE EAST MEETS WEST

Kate Waterhouse

Interviews Erin Wasson

BILL WATERHOUSE 40 years the

Honorary Consul General of Tonga

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A Letter from the Editor…

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06 From the Pen of the Lady Trainer BY GAI WATERHOUSE

08 Special Performances BY ZEB ARMSTRONG

10 Manhattan Rain BY ZEB ARMSTRONG

12 Bill Waterhouse - 40 years the Honorary Consul General for Tonga BY LOUISE WATERHOUSE

16 She Came, She Saw, She Conquered BY MARETTE FARRELL

18 The Melbourne Cup BY ZEB ARMSTRONG

22 Spring 1984 - Anchored in our Memory BY ZEB ARMSTRONG

24 Recent Winners BY AMANDA WOOD

26 Destination Hong Kong BY SUE LLOYD-WILLIAMS

30 News from Across the Tasman BY PETREA VELA

32 Gai's Pick BY EMMA PEARCE

34 #SummerLikeANomad BY SU-ANN KHAW

40 Date with Kate: Erin Wasson BY KATE WATERHOUSE

42 Two Australian Ex-Racehorses BY ALEX TOWNSEND

44 Spring Quick Quiz BY ROB WATERHOUSE

45 Gai's Heroes and Horses BY AMANDA WOOD

46 A trip to... Morocco BY GEOFF JANSZ

48 A Fragrant Event BY COTY FARQUHAR

50 Track Snaps BY AMANDA WOOD

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FROM THE PEN OF THE LADY TRAINER

Never far FROM HOME

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I may have appeared to be a globetrotting trainer this year and I have certainly had some interesting and exciting visits to some of the greatest racecourses and sales events in the world, but I am always mindful of my charges back home.

BY GAI WATERHOUSE


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Special PERFORMANCES

Speak Fondly and Kerrin McEvoy winning the Coolmore Furious Stakes.

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T his issue’s best performance has to go to The Offer (Montjeu x Valdara) for his first up win in the Listed Rowley Mile at Hawkesbury. Speak Fondly (Northern Meteor x Blab) was The Offer’s biggest rival for the award and she would have been more than a worthy winner.


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She was a Champion Racehorse – Trained by GAI.Gr1, Gr2, Gr3 winner of 9 races from 1200m – 2400m and $1,936,850 inc MRC Futurity S.,Gr1, AJC Villiers S., Gr2, Summer Cup, Gr3 and Gr1 performed on another 8 occasions.She is a 3/4 Sister to Gr2 Winner PETROLOGY.Bred on the Same Cross as 29 Stakes Winners inc: SEBRING, DISSIDENT, BENICIO, PERFECTLY READY, etc.5% Shares are $9,250.00 & inc FULL OWNERS PRIVILEGES & NAME IN RACEBOOKOngoing training and holding costs average $8.20 per day.

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There are 92 Stakes Horses in the female family including 5 Champions and 13 Gr1 Winners! Bred on the Same DANEHILL / LAST TYCOON cross as 49 Stakes Winners (12 Gr1) WANDJINA, HUCKLEBUCK, CASINO PRINCE, MASTER OF DESIGN, STEPS IN TIME, etc. 5% Shares are $9,475 & inc FULL OWNERS PRIVILEGES & NAME IN RACEBOOK. Ongoing training and holding costs average $8.20 per day.

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From ATHENRI (by Zabeel) Dam has produced 3 winners inc SHOOTOFF 4 Wins, 1550m to 2400m & $642,510 inc Qld Derby Gr1, Frank Packer Plate Gr3, Lord Mayors Cup Dam of Promising NZ Filly MISS COBRA There are 48 Stakes Horses in the female family including 5 Gr1 Winners! Bred on the Same GALILEO / ZABEEL cross as Stakes Winners GALIZANI & SPACECRAFT Wonderful Racing Potential & Outstanding Residual Value 5% Shares are $8,050 & inc FULL OWNERS PRIVILEGES & NAME IN RACEBOOK. Ongoing training and holding costs average $8.20 per day.

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RACE THE BEST WITH THE BEST

Sire of 31 Stakes Winners inc 6 Gr1 Winners.Champion Young Sire - Standing at a Service Fee of $88,000 in 2015.In 2014/15 GAI trained 2 of his Gr1 Winners SWEET IDEA and WANDJINA.

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Dam has had 1 foal to race – PAYROLL Winner at 2 in 2014-15, 2d MRC Redoute’s Choice S., LR.There are 58 Stakes Horses in the female family including 8 Gr1 Winners.Our Colt is bred on the Same Cross as 19 Stakes Winners inc: RED RULER, SMART MISSILE, CHANCE BYE, VAVASOUR, CANTONESE, VILANOVA, etc.5% Shares are $10,950.00 & inc FULL OWNERS PRIVILEGES & NAME IN RACEBOOKOngoing training and holding costs average $8.20 per day.

Sire of 146 Stakes Winners & over $145m.Multiple Times Champion Sire in Both Hemispheres.GAI has trained sire’s best - MORE JOYOUS & SEBRING !

She was a Champion Racehorse – Trained by GAI.Gr1, Gr2, Gr3 winner of 9 races from 1200m – 2400m and $1,936,850 inc MRC Futurity S.,Gr1, AJC Villiers S., Gr2, Summer Cup, Gr3 and Gr1 performed on another 8 occasions.She is a 3/4 Sister to Gr2 Winner PETROLOGY.Bred on the Same Cross as 29 Stakes Winners inc: SEBRING, DISSIDENT, BENICIO, PERFECTLY READY, etc.5% Shares are $9,250.00 & inc FULL OWNERS PRIVILEGES & NAME IN RACEBOOKOngoing training and holding costs average $8.20 per day.

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From AQUA D’AMORE (by Danehill)

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From WORKHARD (by Red Ransom)

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A lot of horses are technically ‘well bred’ but perhaps, for me, no stallion currently at stud in Australia is as brilliantly bred as Manhattan Rain. This horse was born for a life at stud, such is the quality of his blood. He is by Encosta de Lago who is the second most successful

modern day sire Australia has seen after Redoute’s Choice.

Manhattan RainA HORSE TO REMEMBER

Manhattan Rain and jockey Nash Rawiller winning the Group 1 AJC Produce Sires Stakes in 2009.BY ZEB ARMSTRONG

Zeb Armstrong explains the value of a very special horse.


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Your Majesty King Tupou VI, Your Majesty Queen Nanasipau’u, Your Royal Highness High Commissioner Princess Latufuipeka Angelika, Your Royal Highness Princess Pilolevu the Princess Royal, Lord Tuita; Col Michael Miller representing the Governor of NSW...

40 years the Honorary Consul General for Tonga

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BY MARETTE FARRELL

She Came, She Saw, SHE CONQUERED

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W hen Gai announced she was coming to Saratoga, I couldn’t help but be reminded of Frank Sinatra’s Song “Start spreading the news, I’m leaving today. I want to be a part of it, New York, New York”. She came, she saw, she conquered or is that congaed, and

even the trees swayed to the rhythm of her beat.


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T hese days Cup Day commands crowds of people. When Makybe Diva won the first of her three cups, the official attendance was a record 122,736 people. The average attendance on cup day is 110,000, but this was not always the case.

BY ZEB ARMSTRONG

THE MELBOURNE CUP

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Glenn Boss riding Makybe Diva to victory at the 2005 Melbourne Cup.


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T he spring of 1984 was one to remember for TJ Smith, and his new assistant trainer and clocker Gai Waterhouse, not to mention every historian involved in the Australian racing industry. The Caulfield Cup won by a gelding named Affinity trained by Vain’s trainer Jim

Moloney and ridden by now Group 1 winning trainer (and Vain’s regular rider) Pat Hyland.

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BY ZEB ARMSTRONG

Anchored in our memorySPRING 1984


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The Melbourne Cup was taken out by the George Hanlon trained Black

Knight ridden by Peter Cook. These were great wins but the horses are hardly household names 20 years later. The spring of 1984 will be remembered due to the feats of a plainly bred colt named Red Anchor.

It was 29 September 1984, and the Moonee Valley Stakes (now the

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DestinationHONG KONG

Sue LLoyd Williams shares her passion for racing in Hong Kong and the vibrancy and excitement of one of the world's busiest

commercial and entertainment centres.

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I have had a long love affair with Hong Kong and always relish the thought of yet another visit. This vibrant and densely populated City is a melting pot of Eastern and Western culture and

characteristics that are expressed through its architecture, traditions, art, fashion and fabulous cuisine.


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SOMETHING NEW

NEWS FROM ACROSS THE TASMAN BY PETREA VELA

Spring is in the air and along with it comes not only carnival racing, but the start of the annual auction sales season. While trainers are dreaming of Group 1 racing at this time of year, breeders and preparers, along with our NZB team, are keeping one eye on the

racetrack with the other firmly on the young horses set for the sale ring.

Spring marks the start of


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HIGH CHAPARRAL x D J LIGHTNING

High Chaparral x D J Lightning.

Gai's Pick

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BY EMMA PEARCE A s the Melbourne Spring Carnival descends upon us, it seems appropriate to discuss a filly who could be on the road to Melbourne this time next year, High Chaparral x D J Lightning.


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CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Blakes, London; The team with Wandjina, Newmarket; Peonies, Chelsea London.

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Date with Kate: ERIN WASSON

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Kate Waterhouse and Erin Wasson at St. James Station.

Q. What is a day in the life of Erin? It depends on the week. I’m mostly based out of California now and I live in Venice … I’ve got my office at my home

so I try to work out of my home as much as possible. But for the most part, if I’m not working, I have a horse so I ride as much as I can.


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A t the beginning of September, Queenslander Chris Burton, who is now residing in the UK, rode the diminutive TS Jamaimo and Haruzac respectively into third and fourth position at arguably one of the toughest competitions in the world of Eventing.

Two Australian EX-RACEHORSES ON TRACK FOR RIO

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Chris Burton galloping on Haruzac at Burghley.


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GAI'S HEROES & HORSESIMAGES BY AMANDA WOOD

1 OLLIE AND DARK STEEL 2 ABBEY MURPHY 3 FRESPANOL AND MADDY 4 SPEAK FONDLY 5 ZEE ZEELY AND RANJEET.

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Next week Puce and I are buying a horse outfit and flying to Marrakesh. Not your average outfit, a very very pretty one, because rear-end Puce and I are hoping to slip into the palatial stables at Selmen Marrakesh, Morocco.

MOROCCOA trip to...

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A fragrant eventMIXING IN GOOD COMPANY

WORDS AND IMAGES BY COTY FARQUHAR

T he entire space of my working studio was transformed into a beautiful perfume workshop. I gathered a large collection of beautiful perfume bottles, which were showcased in tall glass cabinets. I filled the studio with rose petals, plump, ripe fruits, apple blossoms and magnolia

flowers to add to the visual beauty and to the natural fragrance in the air.


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TRACK SNAPSIMAGES BY AMANDA WOOD

1 IRISH SEA, DREAM AHEAD X BATTLE LINE, MANHATTAN RAIN X VIVID VIXEN 2 FOXWEDGE X CINQUE AND THE BLACK WIDOW 3 GAI WITH MARK NEWNHAM AND JOSH PARR 4 SO YOU THINK X MRS SLOCOMB 5 DINKY DI DORA 6 TWO YEAR OLDS SPRING INTO ACTION 7 BELLO JOINS THE MORNING LINE UP 8 IRISH SEA 9 FLAMBOYANT LASS.

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‘Champion Two-Year-Old of the Year’

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2015 BMW AUSTRALIAN RACEHORSE OF THE YEAR AWARDS

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