Pride Of Dubai - New Winner

A brilliant rails-hugging ride by Mark Zahra resulted in the 4-year-old Written Tycoon entire Southport Tycoon running down his 3-year-old stablemate Growing Empire in a thrilling $2,000,000 Group 1 Ladbrokes Manikato Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley.

Entries were announced for the Group I ATC Flight Stakes(1600m) on Tuesday and among the 43 nominations is unbeaten filly Wings of Desire and the three-quarter sister to Winx is an acceptor for Randwick this afternoon as she works her way towards stakes class.

Here is the full list of 50 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Smart three-year-old Evaporate has maintained his rich-vein of form with a comfortable victory in the Gr.2 Stutt Stakes (1600m) at The Valley on Friday night.

As a three-quarter sister to world champion Winx, three year-old Pride of Dubai filly Wings of Desire carries a heavy weight of expectation and she took another step forward at Newcastle on Thursday when scoring her second win in a Benchmark 64 event over 1250m.

A quality field of three-year-olds for the MSC Signs Hcp (1200) produced a decisive winner to open Manikato Stakes night at Moonee Valley.

The $500,000 Group II MVRC Feehan Stakes (1600m)  looked a match race on paper between Pride of Jenni and her archrival Mr Brightside and so it came to pass with the daughter of Pride of Dubai producing her dazzling best to hold the Lindsay Park Racing pinup boy at bay.

When Mick Dittman won the 1979 AJC Apollo Stakes on Scomeld, the champion jockey declared the stunning chestnut filly better than Denise's Joy.

A top class mare in Western Australia that worked through her grades and was second in the Group I WATC Railway Stakes last November, Alsephina showed her class at Moonee Valley on Friday night to win the Group II MVRC Stocks Stakes (1600m).

Since winning the opening two-year-old race of the season in New Zealand a year ago, the Star Witness filly Bellatrix Star has been a model of consistency.