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First Season Sires Unraced at the Trials

Tara Madgwick - Thursday January 5

This popular Breednet report featuring all unraced progeny of first season sires at the trials always holds interest and particularly with the Magic Millions Yearling Sale coming up next week for vendors offering yearlings by these sires.

Click here to read the full report.

Written By will have a runner in the Magic Millions 2YO Classic on Saturday week in The Novelist and he had a trial winner at Gosford on Thursday morning in the Kris Lees trained Write By Me.

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Note the half-relation to this winner has been scratched from MM.

Brave Smash (Jpn) also posted a new trial winner this week in Perth where he is the sire of Brave Halo, who has won three from three and has been the dominant pre-Christmas juvenile in the West.

Justify (USA) had a very good second place-getter in Sydney at the trials this week with Learning to Fly beaten a neck by Gimcrack Stakes runner-up Perfect Proposal.

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