Sires With Winners - Wednesday June 26

With placings in the Group III Irwin Stakes and Listed Redelva Stakes, the 5-year-old Press Statement gelding Press Down has his moment in the sun in Saturday’s Listed Sportsbet W H Wylie Hcp (1100m) at Morphettville.

Versatile shuttle sire Churchill (IRE) added a new stakes-winner to his tally in Ireland on Saturday where four year-old gelding Trustyourinstinct took out the Group III Kilternan Stakes (1m4f) continuing his successful transition from hurdling.

Three Group I races run overnight in Ireland and the UK including the time honoured St Leger, which delivered a 101st Group I winner for legendary sire Galileo in undefeated colt Jan Brueghel, while boom Night of Thunder colt Economics also claimed his first G1 win.

Here is the full list of 116 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Group I juvenile racing unfolded at the Curragh overnight and while the Group I National Stakes (7f) for colts and Moyglare Stud Stakes (7f) for fillies were both won by horses trained by members of the O’Brien family neither horse was the favourite.

With one Zoustar colt Growing Empire flying high this spring on the path to possible Group I glory, another has been ruled out with James Harron Bloodstock issuing a brief statement today on Espionage, who won last year’s Group III ATC Breeders Plate.

Set to have his first Australian runners this season, Wootton Bassett (GB) added a new juvenile stakes-winner to his tally overnight in the UK where progressive colt Benevento won the Listed Flying Scotsman Stakes (7f) at Doncaster.

There was always going to be a big shake up in the three year-old colts division on Saturday and a quick history lesson has highlighted one colt that looks almost certain to finish this season a Group I winner.

The Breednet Foal Gallery attracts foal images from all over the country as well as from New Zealand with a reader’s choice Favourite Foal voted for in December every year and our top pick in 2021 opened his account at Seymour on Sunday.

The debut winner of an 1100m maiden on the Pakenham Synthetic on August 30, Sugar Coat opposed three lightly raced winners over 1200m at Seymour on Sunday, and his win was even more emphatic.