Breeding and Bloodstock

Australia’s champion first-season sire in waiting, Too Darn Hot, will not be shuttling to Australia this season, Darley has confirmed.

Only seven sires with more than 50 winners have a higher strike rate than 50 per cent when it comes to winners to runners in Australia, with one-time Japanese shuttle stallion Real Impact leading the way.

Bella Nipotina made the final Group 1 of the season her own with a stylish victory in the Tattersall's Tiara, while Vow And Declare wound back the clock to capture Group 3 success in the Tattersall's Cup

Fastnet Rock is having a record-breaking season as a broodmare sire in Australia, while at Royal Ascot the progeny of his daughters continue to achieve what their damsire was never given the chance to do.

Wollombi provided a scintillating finish in the Listed Gai Waterhouse Classic, At Witz End continued his strong run of form with victory in the Listed Eye Liner Stakes

Prominent owner Gary Harding’s secured the top lot of New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Weanling Sale with a $170,000 purchase of a Satono Aladdin filly.

Flying Artie now has the distinction of siring the winner of a Blue Diamond Stakes and a King Charles III Stakes from his first crop following Asfoora’s Royal Ascot triumph.