Prepared by Joey Ramsden for Markus Jooste and his wife, The Conglomerate scored
the biggest win of his career when taking out the 2200 metre feature by a long
neck over Marinaresco with another Australian bred in Mac de Lago (Encosta de Lago)
in third place.Already a Group II and III winner, The Conglomerate has the overall record of six wins from seventeen starts.
The Conglomerate is living up to his pedigree as he is from $1.5 million earner Republic Lass, who won a Group I AJC Australian Oaks and STC Ranvet Stakes.
Bred and offered for sale by Tyreel Stud, The Conglomerate was purchased for $160,000 from Inglis Premier by Global Bloodstock / Mayfair Speculators.
Bred by Dean Fleming, The Conglomerate is the best of five winners from five to race for Canny Lad mare Republic Lass, who was sold at the Tyreel Stud Dispersal at the Inglis Australian Broodmare Sale in 2014 for $105,000.
Republic Lass had a Sepoy filly sell at Inglis Easter this year for $250,000 to John Sargent Racing.= and was covered last year by Lonhro.
The Conglomerate is the eighth Group I winner for Darley's champion sire Lonhro, who stands this spring at a fee of $88,000.
The Group II Durban Golden Horseshoe over 1400 metres was won by unbeaten two year-old colt Zodiac Ruler who made it two wins in as many starts when scoring by a length and a half.
Prepared by Justin Snaith, Zodiac Ruler was a $17,000 Magic Millions National
Weanling Sale purchase for Paul Lafferty from the draft of Glenelg Park and is
a half-brother to this season's brilliant Group III winning filly Almighty
Girl.He is the seventh winner for Last Tycoon (IRE) mare Sybarite, a sibling to South African champion filly and five time Group I winner Laisserfaire as well as stakes-winners A Time for Julia, Time Thief, Foreplay and Personify.
Sybarite has a weanling colt by Kuroshio that passed in at the Inglis Great Southern Weanling Sale, but will have no foal this year after slipping to War.
He is the ninth stakes-winner for Zoffany worldwide and is his first bred in the Southern Hemisphere.
The Group III SABC Gold Vase over 3000m was won by High Chaparral (IRE) four year-old Enaad, a homebred for Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al Maktoum prepared by Mike de Kock.
The gelding claimed his third win from 17 starts with a long neck victory in
the marathon event and his first in a Black type race.Foaled at Coolmore, he is a half-brother to Group I winner Pride of Dubai and stakes-winner Al Aneed, so is the third stakes-winner for stakes-placed Danehill (USA) mare Al Anood, a half-sister to the dam of champion sire Invincible Spirit.
Al Anood was sent to the UK earlier this year, but has a yearling colt by High Chaparral and a weanling filly by Medaglia D'Oro (USA).
Enaad is the 81st stakes-winner for ill-fated High Chaparral.
