Scott Darby never dreamed he and his owners would be winning a $2m race with Robusto (Churchill) when he bought him for $160,000 on Inglis Digital just four months ago.

It’s early days for the current juvenile season with only a tiny percentage of the crop seen in action so far, but as we head into the Christmas holiday period three of the top five sires on the two year-old sires list are all first season horses and that’s good news for Kia Ora Stud, Yulong and Vinery Stud.