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Herald Sun
18-07-2025
- Sport
- Herald Sun
Chris Munce makes big call to miss spring carnival with gun colt Cool Archie
Don't miss out on the headlines from Horse Racing. Followed categories will be added to My News. Chris Munce has made the call to skip the spring carnival with his exceptional young Group 1-winning colt Cool Archie, with exciting dreams of next year's Group 1 Doncaster Mile potentially in mind. Cool Archie took the Queensland winter carnival by storm, winning five races on the bounce culminating in the Group 1 JJ Atkins. • PUNT LIKE A PRO: Become a Racenet iQ member and get expert tips – with fully transparent return on investment statistics – from Racenet's team of professional punters at our Pro Tips section. SUBSCRIBE NOW! The young colt showed amazing versatility, winning on wet and dry tracks and races from 1000m to 1600m, and he would be a great pick to score Australian 2YO horse of the year honours. Cool Archie could have been a major spring carnival player in elite three-year-old races but Munce, who co-trains with his son Corey, has made the call to opt out of the spring. Munce had been contemplating resting Cool Archie from the spring for several weeks, but said he had not made the definitive call until now. He is wary the young colt had a bumper 2024/25 season, with a five-race winter carnival mission and also a summer campaign when he raced in the Gold Coast Magic Millions 2YO Classic in January. • Truck-driving hobby trainer sets sights on Sydney first Munce, the legendary former jockey turned trainer, said he will most likely bring Cool Archie back for a couple of runs in the summer and then the autumn carnival. The prestigious Doncaster Mile could be a target. 'I'm mindful that he has had a long two-year-old campaign and I don't think I should be rushing him back just because it's the spring carnival,' Munce said. 'He will probably only have a couple of runs over the summer and concentrate more on the autumn. 'We would look at a race like the Doncaster, if he is going well enough, three-year-old horses have a good record in it. • 'Took my breath away': How Angela Jones wowed Gai Waterhouse 'Realistically, I think this could be what works for him. 'My heart is in the position where I just want to look after him for the moment, considering he did such a good job over the winter and he had some pretty hard runs. 'Not only that, but he had been campaigning for the Magic Millions, which then rolled into the winter. 'The horse has always looked to be like he is going to be a better three-year-old anyway.' JJ Atkins winner Cool Archie won't be seen this spring. Picture: Trackside Photography Given Cool Archie's stunning CV, Munce believes the dynamic colt should be strongly considered for Australian 2YO horse of the year honours. 'I think if they (judges) are fair dinkum, he has to be,' Munce said. • 'What a thrill': Husband-wife team lands historic win in Ramornie 'It's been a long time, probably since the likes of a horse like Dance Hero, since a two-year-old has been as dominant as Cool Archie has been. 'I'm not saying he is the same as Dance Hero. 'But what I am saying is this season, he has probably been the dominant two-year-old. 'How many other two-year-olds this season have won five consecutive races on different surfaces, different conditions and different distances? 'He's gone from a maiden to a Group 1.' Originally published as Chris Munce will rest Cool Archie during spring for possible tilt at the Group 1 Doncaster Mile next year
Herald Sun
03-07-2025
- Health
- Herald Sun
Doctor Bernie Spilsbury retires from Sunshine Coast Turf Club
Don't miss out on the headlines from Horse Racing. Followed categories will be added to My News. Legendary jockey Chris Munce credits him with being the first person to detect his potentially-deadly throat cancer. Dr Bernie Spilsbury has helped countless other jockeys and trainers and been there for some of racing's magic and also most tragic moments since starting as the Sunshine Coast Turf Club doctor almost four decades ago. The retiring doctor, who has also been a long-time Sunshine Coast Turf Club board member, will get a fitting farewell with the Dr Bernie Spilsbury 3YO Handicap (1000m) named in his honour on Caloundra Cup day on Saturday. Munce, the champion jockey who is now a two-time Group 1 winning trainer, fears what might have been if Spilsbury had not intervened when Munce's 'tonsils were swollen up like golf balls' not long after he rode All Too Hard to be runner-up in Ocean Park's 2012 Cox Plate. • PUNT LIKE A PRO: Become a Racenet iQ member and get expert tips – with fully transparent return on investment statistics – from Racenet's team of professional punters at our Pro Tips section. SUBSCRIBE NOW! 'I rode that horse in the Cox Plate and two weeks later I was brushing my teeth and I saw one of my tonsils was like a golf ball in the back of my mouth,' Munce recalls. 'I went to the doctor and they just gave me antibiotics, I then went back a week later when it hadn't improved so they put me on a stronger dose and it still didn't improve. 'I was at Caloundra races one Sunday and I asked Dr Bernie to have a look. 'Within one second he told me, straight up, that I had cancer. 'It was a lot for me to digest in one afternoon, so I went home in a bit of shock I didn't tell (wife) Cathy or anyone. 'The next morning, Dr Bernie rang my house number and Cathy picked up the phone and it all went from there. 'Thank goodness that Dr Bernie spotted it, because it would have just kept spreading through my lymph nodes and God knows how far it would have got to.' Dr Bernie Spilsbury, who retires after having been the club doctor at the Sunshine Coast Turf Club for almost four decades, being farewelled by jockeys, racing officials and club staff. Picture: Grant Peters, Trackside Photography. • Guineas bid nod and Winx to Tighe's mighty mare Munce successfully beat cancer and Sunshine Coast club officials say Dr Spilsbury has been instrumental in warning other jockeys about some unusual symptoms that later turned out to be cancer. Sadly, Dr Spilsbury was also there at the scene of a heartbreaking tragedy when jockey Desiree Gill died following a race fall at a twilight meeting at the Sunshine Coast in 2013. 'It was shocking,' Dr Spilsbury recalls. 'I was there and she came down head first. 'I am sure she was dead the moment she hit the ground, but I went to try to work on her to see if she could be saved. 'But in my own heart I knew she had passed away.' Dr Spilsbury has long loved the racing game, breeding horses himself as he followed in the racing footsteps of his father and his grandfather. He is looking forward to heading to Caloundra Cup day on Saturday and hopes he can turn a small betting profit in the race named after him. 'My mantra is, you bet small and you lose small,' Dr Spilsbury said. 'A $6 boxed trifecta is my go and that's what I will be doing on Saturday. 'I am a very low key person, but it is a humbling honour to have a race named after me.' • Thompson to return bigger and better to Brisbane's riding ranks Sunshine Coast Turf Club chairman Peter Boyce hailed Dr Spilsbury's contribution to the club as both a medical professional and a board member. 'He will be missed by us, as he is the most kind and compassionate man I know,' Boyce said. 'His care for fellow human beings is second to none and all done a very low key and unassuming way.' Originally published as 'He told me straight up I had cancer': Sunshine Coast Turf Club's legendary racing doctor Bernie Spilsbury retires
News.com.au
03-05-2025
- Sport
- News.com.au
Cool Archie now on winter carnival Group 1 path after Dalrello Stakes win at Eagle Farm
Legendary former jockey Chris Munce is hoping he has a Group 1 contender on his hands after young colt Cool Archie produced a tough win in the Dalrello Stakes at Eagle Farm. Munce did it all in the saddle as a Grand Slam-winning jockey and is no stranger to Group 1 winter carnival success in recent times, having become a Group 1-winning trainer when scoring the 2023 Tatt's Tiara with Palaisipan. In training partnership with son Corey, Munce looks to have a promising winter carnival prospects with two-year-old Cool Archie who became a stakes winner at Eagle Farm on Saturday. Cool Archie made it two straight since returning from a summer carnival campaign which culminated in him finishing midfield in the Gold Coast Magic Millions 2YO Classic in January. Cool Archie started the $4.40 second pick in the Dalrello, the 1000m scamper where Matt Dunn's resuming colt Torque To Be Sure was backed for a stack, officially from $3.10 into $2.90 but there had been $6 available earlier in the week. 😎 A tough win to Cool Archie in the Listed Dalrello Stakes at Eagle Farm! @munceracing | @BrisRacingClub â€' SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) May 3, 2025 The two top picks settled down to fight out the Dalrello and at one point Torque To Be Sure appeared to have the race at his mercy as he cruised up in the straight. But Cool Archie would not be denied and fought out a gritty win under jockey Martin Harley. It might have been a 1000m dash but Munce is hoping he can get Cool Archie to the riches of the Group 1 JJ Atkins (1600m) on Stradbroke Handicap day next month. Cool Archie, who races in the colours of prominent owner Max Whitby, firmed from $51 to $26 in JJ Atkins betting after scoring the Dalrello. 'He's the quietest horse,' Munce said. 'You could put a child on him and he wouldn't turn a hair. 'I was a bit surprised to see him in the parade ring bouncing like he was. 'I'll tell you what, he's a tough little horse. 'He was always going to go on that Sires' and JJ (Atkins) path, so he'll go to the Spirit Of Boom Classic in two weeks' time.' Harley said he didn't know what it would take to win the JJ Atkins but he had every faith in the colt. 'He pricked his ears and when Torque To Be Sure came alongside him, he got on with it,' Harley said. 'To be honest, every question you ask him he answers. 'I don't know what it takes to win a JJ but I'd be happy to stay on him for sure.'
Yahoo
17-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Sanford appoints Andy Munce as Sioux Falls CEO
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Sanford Health has chosen its new chief executive officer (CEO) of the Sioux Falls region. Andy Munce will serve as president and CEO after previously acting as the chief operating officer and interim president and CEO of the Sioux Falls region, a news release from Sanford said. Nearly 200 citations issued in speed racing patrol Munce started his Sanford career in 2004 as an nurse in the surgical cardiovascular unit. 'Our team will continue to look for opportunities to increase access to care and expand services that improve the quality of life for those in our communities such as constructing homes for homeless veterans through the Veterans Community Project or addressing food insecurity with the Kid's Kitchen at Sanford Children's,' Munch said in the news release. Munce is a graduate of South Dakota State University where he earned his bachelor of science degree in nursing and his master's degree in nursing administration. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
