All Too Hard - New Winner

Karaka graduate Dad And Dave (NZ) (Time Test) added Friday’s A$150,000 Listed Tasmanian Derby (2200m) at Hobart to his victory in last month’s A$125,000 Listed Launceston Guineas (2000m), becoming only the seventh horse to complete that Tasmanian feature double.

Here is the full list of 73 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Yulong might have bid farewell to their flagship performer Via Sistina (IRE), but have no shortage of female talent to step up this season and are now in the happy position of racing what appear to be the two best fillies in New Zealand.

A filly and a colt both directly targeted at the Classic Yearling Sale to “stand out from the crowd’’ strongly rewarded their owners today as Inglis’ live sales season started on a positive note.

Day One of Inglis Classic was a good one which made for happy sellers and Maree McEwan was out speaking to them.

The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott stable have already had success this season for Kurrinda Bloodstock with brilliant 2YO filly Shiki, who won the Group III ATC Gimcrack Stakes and they teamed up again for another filly by her sire Too Darn Hot (GB) at Inglis Classic on Sunday.

Star Thoroughbreds have had a  hot run of success over the Tasmanian summer carnival and while prolific winner Durazzo had to settle for second in the Listed Thomas Lyons Stakes to Victorian raider Steparty, three year-old filly Sanniya captured the Group III Mystic Journey Stakes (1200m) in Hobart on Sunday.

It’s often said yearling buyers drill for oil where they have found it before and that rang true when BK Racing purchased a colt by Hellbent for $400,000 at the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale on Sunday.

The $250,000 Group III Ladbrokes Hobart Cup (2400m) was the headline event on a champagne day of racing in Tasmania on Sunday and the winner was an interesting one from the breeding perspective being a 30-1 long shot mare with a commercial pedigree.

An emphatic victory in Sunday’s HK$4.2m Group Three Centenary Vase (1800m) at Sha Tin has propelled NZB Ready to Run Sale graduate Numbers (NZ) (Tivaci), better knwon in Australia as King of Thunder, into contention for Hong Kong’s coveted Four-Year-Old Classic Series.