Too Early To Call

The battle to be crowned Champion First Season Sire in Australia this season is an intriguing one with Charge Forward in front on earnings and three other rivals tied on seven individual winners each so we thought it was worth having a closer look at this evenly matched group of sires.

In assessing the current crop we’ve elected to look to the past first and see what, if any, lessons can be learned.

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Do you own a ‘peach of a producer’?.

When Canny Lad mare Rio Osa won the Listed Dark Jewel Quality at Scone on Saturday she provided another highlight for her soon to be 18 year-old dam Peach, a daughter of the 1969 Golden Slipper winner Vain.

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The Magic Millions National Weanling Sale has a deserved reputation as the best source of commercial grade weanlings offered at public auction each year and how it holds up in the current market will be of great interest to everyone.

These are weanlings conceived during the EI spring of 2007 so that’s a consideration worth keeping in mind and explains the complete absence and/or lack of numbers of youngsters by many shuttle sires who either did not come, arrived late or were whisked away early.

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QUIZ

1/ Doomben Cup hero Scenic Shot is the third Group One winner this season sired by ill-fated Scenic (IRE), can you name the other two?

2/ Australian bred sprinters Sacred Kingdom and Rocket Man filled the quinella in the Krisflyer Sprint in Hong Kong, who are their sires?

3/ Which Australian bred son of Red Ransom (USA) won the Group Three Los Angeles Handicap at Hollywood Park last weekend?

4/ More Than Ready (USA) had his sixth juvenile stakes-winner this season when the Patinack Farm owned Run for Naara won the Listed VRC Gibson Carmichael Stakes last Saturday. True or false?

5/ What is the name of the superstar US filly that won the Group One Preakness Stakes last weekend?


Answers are at the bottom of this page .