Charm Spirit - New Winner

She was WA's champion juvenile of last season with her Gimcrack/ Karrakatta double, and Talkanco (I'm All The Talk) picked up right where she left off with a barnstorming win in the Max Simmonds Stakes on opening day at Ascot.

Exciting spring racing continued at Caulfield on Saturday with three Group I races all won by first time G1 winners and there was a distinct Kiwi flavour in the air with all of them featuring the mighty Zabeel in their pedigree.

Interesting set of trials at Rosehill this morning with Golden Rose winner Beiwacht let loose to stretch his legs with a thoroughly impressive well held win, while there were two heats for the 2YO’s featuring a couple of expensive colts by Wootton Bassett (GB) and I Am Invincible.

Plenty of drama has surrounded Ka Ying Rising ahead of Saturday’s A$20 million The Everest (1200m) at Randwick, but trainer David Hayes assures everything is fine with the Kiwi-bred sprinting sensation.

Promising colt Yamato Satona made an impressive start to his racing career at Arawa Park on Sunday, kicking off a winning treble for his trainers Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott.

Here is the full list of 61 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

It seemed as though it would be only a matter of time before Twain added a stakes victory to his name and the rising star did just that at Rotorua on Sunday, powering late to take out the Gr.3 Sweynesse Stakes (1215m).

NZB had more than one reason to celebrate the front-running triumph by Globe (NZ) (Charm Spirit) in the A$1m Group One Might And Power Stakes (2000m) at Caulfield on Saturday.

After a couple of unlucky runs in big races this season, Antipodean (NZ) (Derryn) turned his fortunes around at Selangor on Sunday with a deserved victory in the RM300,000 NZB Ready to Run Sale Championship (1400m). 

High class three-year-old Autumn Boy may not have a New Zealand suffix next to his name, but his Kiwi roots run deep.