The thoroughbred breeding industry has never been short of an ‘opinion’, but if there is one thing that we can all agree upon with absolute certainty is that there are are no certainties.

Superstar sprinter Chautauqua (Encosta de Lago-Lovely Jubly, by Lion Hunter), whose half-brother Radradra finished runner-up on debut at Hawkesbury yesterday, will fly out for Hong Kong on Monday night ahead of his next assignment in the Gr1 Chairman's Sprint (1200m) at Sha Tin on 1 May.

Uniquely, the Widden Stud in the Widden Valley, a spur off the south western end of the Hunter Valley, has two young sires in its historic stallion yards shaping up very good winner-getters who were not only brilliant Group 1 winning Australian racehorses, but also performers who turned in good efforts in one of England’s most prestigious sprints, the King’s Stand at Royal Ascot.

Some fantastic winners and races have occurred since the VRC swapped the Danehill Stks over and ran the Ascot Vale on Derby day.

When talented filly Psychologist powered away to score a scintillating win in the Group Three MRC Blue Diamond Prelude on Saturday she wrote her name into the history books as the very first stakes-winner to carry a double cross of champion sire Danehill.

The battle to be crowned Champion First Season Sire in Australia this season is an intriguing one with Charge Forward in front on earnings and three other rivals tied on seven individual winners each.

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Australia’s leading thoroughbred auctioneers William Inglis and Son Ltd will stage the 2005 Spring Carnival Ready to Run Sale in Melbourne this year, timed perfectly to coincide with the prestigious Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival.