Pride Of Dubai - New Winner

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.

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)

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

“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.

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.

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

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.

Pam Gerard came close to scoring Group One success in Australia earlier this month when runner-up in the Australian Guineas (1600m) with her star three-year-old Savaglee, and she is hoping she can go one better when she returns across the Tasman with a well-credentialled stablemate.

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.