Nicconi (AUS)
Widden Victoria
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A superbly appointed farm with spacious, safe paddocks, Widden Stud Victoria is the perfect location from which to base mares for the Victorian breeding season. Widden Victoria offers the full suite of bloodstock services, from covering mares and foaling down right through to weaning, sales preparation, breaking in and pre-training. The key systems and processes Widden Stud has used to achieve premium results from our Hunter Valley farm over more than a century have been brought into practice in Victoria.
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Sires With Winners - Tuesday October 8
Here is the full list of 30 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Riff Rocket Half-Sister Breaks the Ice
A homebred for Woppitt Bloodstock, Riff Rocket has won three Group I races this season to put himself right in the picture for Champion 3YO honours and for his two year-old half-sister Codetta it’s all just beginning.
Widden Stud’s perennial quiet achiever Nicconi is having his usual good season with 108 winners of over $6.2million and last weekend clocked up the 600th winner in his long and fruitful stud career.
With less than two months of the racing season to play out the list of sires to make the century club for posting 100 winners in a season has stretched out to 17 sires, with 16 of them active this season and the two newest additions to the list highlight proven value in Victoria and NSW.
A savvy $30,000 purchase for WA trainer Simon Miller from the 2021 Inglis Australian Weanling Sale, three year-old Nicconi filly Petula gained a valuable Black Type victory on Sunday at Bunbury when taking out the $125,000 Listed WA Breeders Classic (1208m).
Nicconi Filly Viola Vivace Outstanding on Debut
The outsider of the three debutants in the Big Event Picnic Tables Maiden Plate (1000m) at Mornington, the Nicconi filly Viola Vivace blew past her two rivals for an impressive debut.
One of Australia’s most popular stallions & sire of the fastest horse in the world (Longines World’s Best Racehorse Rankings 2021) and Australian Horse of the Year, Nature Strip (6 Group 1s) … sire of 40 stakes horses of $51 million … 70% winners to runners … sire of this season’s exciting 2YO Scorched Earth (5.2L winner of SA Magic Millions) … yearlings have sold for $420k, $370k, $300k, $260k etc.