Star Witness - New Winner

A decorated Trelawney Stud family has another potential black-type performer within its ranks with the emergence of Madiyya.

In times past, many a racing tragic would have nursed a sore head at Wallabadah on New Year’s Day.

A $50,000 Classic Yearling Sale purchase from the Widden Stud draft, Star Witness filly El Morzillo won the $1m Inglis Sprint (1200m) at Flemington today as Kelly Schweida delivered a fairytale result for connections.

A lightly raced Group II winning son of Capitalist, First Settler has been added to the roster for Yulong this spring at a fee of $11,000.

Here is the full list of 65 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

Smart three-year-old filly Mary Eliza absorbed a strong tempo and still proved too good for her rivals when successful in the GMH Fire & Safety Australia Handicap (1600m) at Caulfield on Saturday.

Romanee Conti has been a pillar of Pencarrow’s broodmare band for decades, and her lineage continues to go from strength-to-strength, with her descendant Tomodachi adding to that legacy over the weekend.

A $50,000 Inglis Classic purchase for Kelly Schweida from the Widden Stud draft, talented Star Witness filly El Morzillo gained valuable Black Type when finishing a game second on debut in the $200,000 Listed BRC Calaway Gal Stakes last month and was subsequently eased with the Inglis Millennium in mind.

Simon Miller has maintained from day one that his Playing God three year old West Star is a horse with “x-factor” and the gelding proved it yesterday with an absolutely dominant win in the G3 Northam Stakes.

The French classics for three year-olds over a mile were run overnight at Longchamp with Coolmore shuttler Wootton Bassett (GB) having first and third in the colts renewal, while there was a protest in the fillies race that produced victory for an Agha Khan homebred filly by Siyouni.