How Do We Rate Them?
The 2010 Australian stud season is looming as a bumper one for first season sires with Australian Group One winners such as Manhattan Rain (Arrowfield), Starspangledbanner (Coolmore), Wanted (Widden), Onemorenomore (Vinery) and All American (Arrowfield) all spoken for by major farms - with no service fees officially set, we’re going to poll our audience as to how they rank them.
Bel Esprit Colt Tops Adelaide Second Session
Healthy increases across the board continued at the Magic Millions Sales Complex today as the Adelaide Yearling Sale came to a successful conclusion.
Fifth Auckland Cup for Zabeel A last minute switch in plans to bypass the Adelaide Cup for the Group 1 Auckland Cup (3200m) paid off for the connections of the Anthony Cummings-trained Zavite who careered away for an easy 3 1/4 length triumph in the $1 million feature at Ellerslie.
Jet Spur to Nine Winners Young Glenlogan Park based sire Jet Spur moved to nine first season winners with a double at the Gold Coast on Wednesday courtesy of Jet Surge and Dulacca Jet, who has now won two of five starts.
Debut Juvenile Winner for Lucky Owners Widden Stud based Lucky Owners was the leading sire of juveniles in New Zealand last season by earnings and featured at Canterbury on Wednesday with an eye-catching juvenile debut winner in the David Payne trained colt Masquerader.
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Your vital sales info for all the runners. Australia
Wednesday, 10 March 2010 - ALL | BKVA |
CANT |
GCST |
SANH |
Thursday, 11 March 2010 - ALL | BDGO |
BUNB |
HAWK |
ROCK |
Friday, 12 March 2010 - ALL | BRAT |
CESS |
DUBB |
E FM |
Saturday, 13 March 2010 - ALL | ASCT |
RAND |
First Stakes-Winner for Foreplay
Unbeaten Foreplay two year-old Decision Time maintained his flawless record with a stylish win in the Listed Canberra Black Opal Stakes over 1200 metres on Sunday, becoming the first stakes-winner for his fertility troubled sire.
Charge Forward Filly New Slipper Favourite
It will take something special to dislodge Solar Charged as favourite for the Golden Slipper after the daughter of Charge Forward put in another superlative performance in Saturday's $125,000 Group 3 Cabra-Vale Diggers Kindergarten Stakes at Warwick Farm.
Sainthood Completes Productive Weekend for Lonhro
Even without the expected victory of star colt Denman after the postponement of the Australian Guineas (G1), it proved another successful weekend for Lonhro with two new stakes-winners, Dissolve in the Listed Moomba Plate at Flemington on Saturday and Sainthood in the Listed National Sprint at Canberra on Saturday.
RUNNERS TODAY(more than 2 runners)
Exceed And Excel (2),
Grandera (IRE) (4),
Lonhro (5),
Reset (4),
Untouchable (2),
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Caithness Bring Quality to Adelaide
The Caithness Breeding draft at the Adelaide Magic Millions Yearling Sale always features a touch of quality with classy stakes-winner Dr Doute’s emerging from their consignment in 2007.
Once again Sean and Cathy Dingwall have put together an appealing draft of 14 youngsters including one of the very few yearlings to be offered this year by young Redoute’s Choice stallion Marmottan, sire of stakes-placed Corvidae from his first crop of runners, and one of the only two yearlings in the sale by Dane Shadow.
EXCEPTIONAL RESULTS Yearlings from Karaka are delivering results like no other sale around. New Zealand bloodstock is the source of 55 group 1 winning yearling graduates over the past three years, the best record of any Australasian sale company over that period. Click for the Karaka Million Series
