Golden Slipper winner Farnan has moved to equal top of the Australian first season sires’ premiership with Romance Calling scoring at Northam on Thursday.
The Luke Fernie-trained filly, the 13th individual two-year-old winner this season for Farnan, was having her third race start when winning over 1300m against older horses at the Western Australian provincial racecourse.
Bought by Peter Morley’s Belhus Racing Stables for $25,000 at the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale, Romance Calling is out of the two-year-old placegetter Regal Romance, a half-sister to Group 3 winner Faraway Town.
Kia Ora Stud’s Farnan joins Ole Kirk on 13 winners for the season with the Vinery Stud-based stallion certain to take out the freshman sires’ premiership by earnings, ahead of Coolmore’s Wootton Bassett.
Farnan is third with progeny earnings just north of $2 million, headed by North England and fellow stakes winners King Of Pop and Recuperato.
Meanwhile, Cambridge Stud shuttler Hello Youmzain sired his eighth southern hemisphere-bred first crop winner with gelding Azarax making the perfect start to his career with a victory at Wyong.
Trained by John O'Shea and Tom Charlton, Azarax was a $190,000 purchase from last year's New Zealand Bloostock's Karaka Yearling Sale by Laurel Oak Bloodstock.
