Trials were at Hawkesbury and the Gold Coast on Tuesday with a half-brother to a Group One winner looking ready to go with another brilliant trial, a couple of winter carnival hopefuls winding up, a quinella for Tagaloa and a double for All Too Hard.
The $5million Group I ATC Golden Slipper used to have a massive bearing on the 2YO sires list by earnings and whoever sired the winner was a moral to take Champion 2YO Sire honours, but with a proliferation of $1million juvenile races that is no longer the case.