Champion sire Fastnet Rock is never short of a top class performer, his latest to emerge being Kiwi based rising star Atlante, who captured the Group I New Zealand Two Thousand Guineas at Riccarton on Saturday.
Hawkesbury trainer Joan Pracey gave gun apprentice Josh Adams his start in racing and he repaid her yesterday by riding Upstacker to her biggest win in racing.
CHAMPION Black Caviar continues to fast-track her education galloping the Sydney way, with a strong workout at Caulfield yesterday. Trainer Peter Moody has schooled Black Caviar the Sydney race direction for the last two weeks to prepare her for Saturday's $1 million T J Smith Stakes (1200m) at Royal Randwick.
Celebrating Group 1 success with his glamour mare Typhoon Tracy, Peter Moody added some icing to the cake with a two-state stakes double with his burgeoning three-year-old team.
Response and No Evidence Needed reversed their positions from the Let’s Elope Stakes in providing a landmark Group 1 quinella for graduates of Easter Session II at Caulfield today.
Friday 8th December will see buyers last opportunity in 2006 to lay their hands on quality bloodstock when William Inglis & Son have their final sale of the year, the Christmas Thoroughbred Sale.