Sires With Winners - Monday October 7

Australia is one of the great horse racing countries of the world, a fact that has come into sharp focus due to the world class performances of many of its racehorses on the world stage over the last twenty-five years. Consider the performances of the likes of Choisir, So You Think, Haradasun, Elvstroem, Black Caviar, Nature Strip and, of recent times, Asfoora, at Royal Ascot in the past 25 years.

There were two juvenile heats at Randwick on Tuesday morning won by Gai and Adrian and also James Cummings, but before they were run the G1 stars stepped out in a rare heat where every runner was a G1 winner!

Proven stayer Mahrajaan remains firmly on target for a crack at the Gr.1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) despite the weather ruling out an intended lead-up outing.

The last piece of Everest puzzle has fallen into place with news Yulong will  fill their slot for the $20million sprint on October 19 with three year-old Zoustar colt Growing Empire.

Here is the full list of 30 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

In form gelding Wolfgang has secured a plane ticket across the Tasman this week to tackle Saturday’s Gr.2 Herbert Power Stakes (2400m) at Caulfield.

Plenty of encouragement is coming from Japan for supporters of Arrowfield Stud shuttler Admire Mars (JPN), who added another three first-crop winners on Saturday.  

Multiple Group One winner Mustang Valley has joined her mother in the Windsor Park Stud broodmare band with both set to visit the Cambridge farm’s new stallion Paddington.

The Equimillion four day show at Sydney International Equestrian Centre wrapped up on Monday evening after a marathon day of showjumping and while there will be some follow up stories come out of it, yours truly is exhausted this morning so for now this just straight links to the various discipline results so if you had an interest in a particular horse or rider read on.

A quality packed catalogue for the NZB Ready to Run Sale is now online and in the lead up to the sale we’ll go looking each week for some horses of interest that jump out on pedigree for various reasons