All Too Hard - New Winner

Here is the full list of 117 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

There were seven G1 races in Australasia on Saturday, plus the lucrative Hong Kong Derby on Sunday that featured five horses winning at the elite level for the first time and they included two horses and very nearly three from the revered Dancing Show (USA) female family, plus a close relation of Winx.

Here is the full list of 65 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

On a red letter day for Widden Stud, champion sire Zoustar has scaled the mountain and swept past Pride of Dubai to take over at the top of the Australian sires List by earnings courtesy of his Group I winning stallion Schwarz and his expensive filly Clean Energy, who returned to top form to win the Group III MVRC PKF Don Casboult Classic (1200m)

The $5million Group I ATC Golden Slipper (1200m) was seen as a lottery this year with no clear standouts going into the race and luck in running seen as essential with that scenario played out in full with Snitzel filly Marhoona winning by a head over highly rated Wootton Bassett (GB) colt Wodeton with the favourite Tempted a close third beaten three-quarters of a length.

First season sire Anders put a third winner on the board at Morphettville on Saturday and Frothy Macaw is an interesting filly that carries the colours of John Singleton’s Strawberry Hill Stud.

Imposing filly Machine Gun Gracie decimated her rivals with a bold front running display of relentless speed and stamina to take the Listed WATC Natasha Stakes over 2200m at Ascot on Saturday.

A perennial source of juvenile talent, Spirit of Boom has stepped on the gas this season with winners of 15 x 2YO races including 4 individual stakes races.

Mark Corcoran went to Trentham with understandably high hopes and events subsequently exceeded all expectations with a massive result at Rosehill topping off a super Saturday.

“Mate, you broke your maiden in the Derby. Good boy” – quote of the day from Craig Williams, chatting to his mount after he’d won the Hong Kong Derby aboard a horse that’s related to Makybe Diva, cost $1.4mil, but hadn’t won a race in his 16 starts prior.