Swettenham Stud’s Royal Ascot hero Equiano (FR) featured on Wednesday with a smart winner at Moonee Valley in Equinova.

Five sires, all Australian products who have captured the annual Champion Australian Sire title on earnings, will be among the mouthwatering collection of at least 70 which will be shown to invited disciples of breeding and racing when Hunter Valley studs conduct their pre season Stallion Parades in the period August 21-25.

THE huge books of mares that fashionable sires serve this century, astronomical in size compared to those looked after by champion sires of the past such as Star Kingdom, Better Boy, Wilkes and Showdown, means that their goodness can be enjoyed by far more in racing and breeding.

The new season of TVN’s popular Thoroughbreds program returns to air tonight with a bumper first show featuring all the breeding news, sire table wrap ups and an in depth story from Newsells Park in the UK, the Northern Hemisphere home of Swettenham Stud’s new import Equiano (Fr).