Winx safely delivers Pierro filly
The owners of Winx (Street Cry {Ire}) were celebrating the birth of the champion mare's first foal, a filly by Coolmore Stud's Pierro, who arrived healthy and well on Friday night.
“The Tighe, Kepitis and Treweeke families are ecstatic to announce that the future champion we've all been waiting for has arrived," Winx's owners said in a statement.
“Both mum and foal are healthy and doing very well. Thank you to the amazing team who have cared for Winx and her filly throughout this journey. We wish Winx all the best as she starts this new chapter as a super mum.”
The mating with Pierro was Winx's second attempt at motherhood, having lost her foal by I Am Invincible in the spring of 2020.
Randwick rescheduled
With Saturday’s Randwick meeting being called off following Race 6 due to rain and the state of the track, the following changes have been made to forthcoming programs.
The G3 Gloaming S. from Saturday will be added to Wednesday’s Warwick Farm race meeting and run at a distance of 1600 metres. Scratchings will be reinstated.
The G3 Angst S. and Silver Eagle will be added to the Randwick meeting on October 15.
Nominations for the five benchmark races scheduled for Warwick Farm on October 12 have been re-opened for new nominations and will close at 8am AEDT on October 10. Acceptances for that meeting will be closed at 9am AEDT on October 10.
Brave Smash makes the perfect start
Aquis Farm’s first-season sire Brave Smash (Jpn) made the perfect start to his career as a stallion as his first runner, Halo Smash, broke his maiden at Ascot.
Brave Smash (Jpn) | Standing at Aquis Farm
Trained by Sean and Jake Casey, the colt defeated Live To Tell (Territories {Ire}) by 0.2l, while A Lot Of Good Men (A Lot {USA}) was another 3.8l away in third.
Brave Smash stands at Aquis Farm for a fee of $22,000 (inc GST).
Shinn rides stakes treble
Blake Shinn enjoyed a brilliant day at Caulfield, riding a fine treble.
The jockey kicked off the day by steering King's Gambit (I Am Invincible) to victory in Listed Debutant S., following up that win with a victory on board English Riviera (Deep Field) in the G3 Thoroughbred Club S. His final win of the day came on Gravina (Sebring) in the Listed Village S.
Five-timer for All Too Hard
Vinery Stud-based sire All Too Hard chalked up an impressive five-timer on Saturday, headed by Greensleeves’ - a 3-year-old daughter of the stallion - victory at Gold Coast.
All Too Hard | Standing at Vinery Stud
Meanwhile, Bayerische saluted at Emerald, Human Nature triumphed at Moora, Montepulciano took out his race at Morphettville and Big Teddy landed a contest at Manangatang. Meanwhile, the stallion was also represented by a winner in Singapore courtesy of Scooter’s win.
All Too Hard stands at Vinery for a fee of $38,500 (inc GST).
Four for Vinnie
I Am Invincible’s Saturday was headed by King’s Gambit’s win in the Listed Debutant S. at Caulfield, which was one of four winners for the Yarraman Park-based stallion on Saturday.
The son of Invincible Spirit (Ire) was also represented by a winner at Ascot in the shape of Real Grace, while Zukaz saluted the judge at Muttaburra and I Am Sacred triumphed in Singapore.
Australia’s reigning Champion Sire, I Am Invincible, stands at Yarraman Park for a fee of $247,500 (inc GST).
Saracen Knight to swerve Caulfield Cup
The Danny O'Brien-trained Saracen Knight (Ire) (Camelot {GB}) continued his resurrection as a stayer with a strong performance to land the G2 Herbert Power S. at Caulfield on Saturday.
The winner of the Group 2 is normally exempt from the ballot for next week's G1 Caulfield Cup, but as Saracen Knight was never among the original nominations, he now waits a further week for his spring grand final in the G2 Moonee Valley Cup.
Saracen Knight (Ire) storms home to win the G2 Herbert Power S. at Caulfield | Image courtesy of Darren Tindale
"When the Melbourne and Caulfield Cups nominations closed we thought it was a bridge too far from where he was at but we've got a million-dollar Moonee Valley Cup in two weeks' time so I suspect that we'll head there," O'Brien said.
"We'll pick off the races that we can."
Sixth Group 1 winner for Kingman
Juddmonte’s stallion Kingman (GB) was handed his sixth top-flight winner on Friday as his daughter Commissioning (GB) landed the G1 Fillies' Mile at Newmarket.
Trained by John and Thady Gosden, the 2-year-old filly beat Novakai (GB) (Lope De Vega {Ire}) by 1l.
Kingman is represented in Australia by his sire son Palace Pier (GB), who is covering his first book of mares at Darley’s Kelvinside base where he stands for a fee of $55,000 (inc GST).
