Tivaci Wins All Aged Stakes Before Retirement To Waikato Stud
When the All Aged Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) came around top jockey Damien Oliver decided he needed to ride Tivaci (High Chaparral) with patience to suit the horse’s racing pattern rather than to try for a prominent position in the run. His rather brave tactics paid off as Tivaci stormed down the outside late from the tail of the field to reach the leader, Le Romain (Hard Spun), close to the post to prevail by a head with earlier leader Jungle Edge (Dubawi) another length and a quarter back in third place. Time was 1:26.94 with the last 600 metres covered in 37.85 which shows the testing nature of the track.
Powerful, well made and an individual of considerable quality, Tivaci is a four-year-old stallion with three previous stakes successes on his record plus two Group One placings but he needed this Group One victory to really set him up for a breeding career due to begin this season at New Zealand’s Waikato Stud.
While he may contest further feature races such as the Stradbroke Handicap (Gr 1, 1400m) at the Brisbane winter carnival before retirement, Tivaci, with earnings of close to $1,000,000, has little more to prove and should prove popular with breeders as he has won six races from 1000 metres to 1600 metres and must rank as perhaps the fastest of his sire High Chaparral’s (Sadler’s Wells) 97 stakes winners of which 18 have won at Group One level.
Winning the All Aged Stakes has special historical significance as the race has been part of the Sydney autumn racing calendar since 1866 and its honour roll of winners includes many of the best Australasian performers of the past 140 years, among them Carbine (Musket), Ajax (Heroic), Wakeful (Trenton), Chatham (Windbag), Bernborough (Emborough), Tulloch (Khorassan), Sky High (Star Kingdom), Noholme (Star Kingdom), Super Impose (Imposing), Rough Habit (Roughcast), Emancipation (Bletchingly) and more recently Intergaze (Integra), Sunline (Desert Sun) and Atlantic Jewel (Fastnet Rock).
The racing and stud achievements of Tivaci’s sire High Chaparral were discussed on this page in the 29 March issue of ANZ Bloodstock News following the success of his daughter Montoya’s Secret in the Vinery Stud Stakes (registered as Storm Queen Stakes) (Gr 1, 2000m) but even in the three weeks since the former Coolmore sire has had a number more feature winners, also among them another stakes winner on Saturday’s Randwick program, Top Of My List, in the Japan Racing Association Plate (Gr 3, 2000m) to give High Chaparral a stakes double on the day.
High Chaparral died in December, 2014, just short of his 16th birthday, and the loss to international breeding is only now being fully appreciated but, as mentioned in the 29 March article, he has a number of well performed sire sons in both hemispheres poised to carry on his legacy.
Tivaci was bred by the late Bart Cummings and offered in his Princes Farm draft at the 2014 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale in Sydney, selling for $250,000 to the bid of Paul Moroney Bloodstock.
Bart Cummings, who died in August, 2015, was a legendary figure in Australian life and renowned throughout the world as one of Australia’s greatest ever racehorse trainers with a record 12 Melbourne Cup (Gr 1, 3200m) winners plus hundreds more stakes winners over a long career but he also had notable success as a small breeder, producing a number of stakes winners, most famous of which was Saintly (Sky Chase), a seven times stakes winner who scored memorable victories in 1996 in the Melbourne Cup, Australian Cup (Gr 1, 2000m) and the Cox Plate (Gr 1, 2040m).
Tivaci’s dam Breccia (Fastnet Rock), a half-sister to Group One winner Allez Wonder (Redoute’s Choice) and to stakes winner Pretty Pins (Pins), won twice over 2000 metres and placed three times in Sydney before producing the All Aged Stakes winner as her first foal. She has a two-year-old colt named Shirley’s Eagle (Dalakhani) and a yearling colt by Dundeel (High Chaparral) who is thus a three-parts brother to Tivaci. Breccia is now owned by Bell View Park Stud and is to be offered, in foal to Brazen Beau (I Am Invincible), at the upcoming Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale at the Gold Coast.
Breccia’s champion sire Fastnet Rock (Danehill) is quickly emerging as a maternal grandsire with Tivaci the first Group One winner among the nine stakes winners to date produced by his daughters. Tivaci is bred on the same High Chaparral/Fastnet Rock mare cross as the very talented filly Omei Sword and it is useful to note Fastnet Rock mares have left two stakesa winners by Domesday (Red Ransom) in Five to Midnight and Sunset Rock.
Luna Tudor (Military Plume), the second dam of Tivaci, was a stayer of some quality, winning ten races from 1250 metres to 3200 metres, her most important success recorded in the Perth Cup (Gr 2, 3200m) in 2000.
In tail female Tivaci traces back to the Edward Manifold Stakes (Gr 2, 1600m) winner and stakes producer Rainburst (Latin Lover), his fifth dam.
Tivaci’s sixth dam Raindear (Orgoglio) won the 1963 South Australian Oaks (10f) and the Wakeful Stakes (10f) before the stakes grading system was introduced while Tivaci’s seventh dam is the renowned stayer Rainbird (The Buzzard), winner of the 1945 Melbourne Cup (2m) and a number of other feature races.
With such depth of pedigree Tivaci has much to offer as a stallion and he is the latest major winner to combine the blood of Sadler’s Wells (Northern Dancer) and Danehill (Danzig) in his pedigree background, something he shares with unbeaten champion Frankel (Galileo). He is an outcross within five generations except for a 3m x 5m cross of Northern Dancer (Nearctic).