Nicconi (AUS)


Widden Victoria
2022 FEE: $22,000
A superbly appointed farm with spacious, safe paddocks, Widden Stud Victoria is the perfect location from which to base mares for the Victorian breeding season. Widden Victoria offers the full suite of bloodstock services, from covering mares and foaling down right through to weaning, sales preparation, breaking in and pre-training. The key systems and processes Widden Stud has used to achieve premium results from our Hunter Valley farm over more than a century have been brought into practice in Victoria.
56 Mt Eliza Road , Kerrie, VIC, 3434info@widden.com
www.widden.com
+61 (03) 5428 5168
Latest News
Nature Strip Stars on New Pedigrees 360 Software
With his brilliant win in the King's Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot on Tuesday night, Nature Strip confirmed his place as the world’s best sprinter. Quite an achievement for a horse that was passed in as a yearling. How can yearling buyers ensure that they don’t let such opportunities slip through their fingers in future? Promoters of the revolutionary new pedigree software Pedigrees 360,
Nature Strip Undisputed Champion Turf Sprinter of the World
Thanks to Covid and the massive prizemoney on offer in Australia, it’s been a while since an Australian bred and trained sprinter has had the opportunity to dazzle on the world stage and Nature Strip showed last night exactly why we have the reputation for producing the best sprinters in the world.
Nicconi Joins the Century Club
Nature Strip’s sire Nicconi joined the century club on Tuesday posting his 100th winner of the season to become the third Widden Stud sire to hit the milestone this year with two more set to follow in coming days.
With only two Group I races in Sydney to come this season on Saturday, the Australian General Sires List has become a fascinating affair with three sires all tied on $15million and change, so a look at the distance sire tables sheds light on the strengths of each sire.
Third G1 TJ Smith for Nature Strip
Seven year-old Nicconi gelding Nature Strip is a sight to behold when he’s at his best and we saw that at Randwick on Saturday when he strolled away with the $2.5million Group I ATC TJ Smith Stakes (1200m) for the third year in a row posting his biggest winning margin yet in the $2.5 million sprint.
Distance Sire Tables – Division Leaders
As we move through the autumn carnivals our leading sire lists are going to chop and change so we thought it was a good time to take a look at the various distance sire tables and the division leaders.
One of Australia’s most popular stallions & sire of the fastest horse in the world (Longines World’s Best Racehorse Rankings 2021) and Australian Horse of the Year, Nature Strip (6 Group 1s) … sire of 40 stakes horses of $51 million … 70% winners to runners … sire of this season’s exciting 2YO Scorched Earth (5.2L winner of SA Magic Millions) … yearlings have sold for $420k, $370k, $300k, $260k etc.