Justify - New Winner

Thanks to Netflix documentary Race for the Crown, US racing is enjoying somewhat of a popular renaissance and for those interested in what happened in this year’s $2million Preakness Stakes at Baltimore this weekend, read on.

Kia Ora Stud’s Golden Slipper winner Farnan added a new winner to his tally on Sunday with a debut victory at the Sunshine Coast for Bourbon County.

Two blueblood juvenile fillies by champion sires from Group I winning mares made the two year-old event at Morphettville on Saturday a watch race and they duly ran the quinella.

Here is the full list of 110 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The first big Group I mile event of the year for the older horses in Europe was run overnight at Newbury in the UK with the Lockinge Stakes (1m) producing a new Group I winner for champion sire Dubawi.

The Queensland Winter Carnival is proving to be a happy hunting ground for Imperialist, who collected his second Brisbane black-type prize in Saturday’s A$250,000 Gr.3 HKJC World Pool Rough Habit Plate (2000m) at Doomben.

There were a couple of nervous moments for Kurtis Pertab ahead of War Queen’s debut at Hawera on Sunday, but the filly brought her trial form to the races and delivered a tidy victory in the Grangewilliam Stud (1200m).

It is a very rare occurrence for a stallion to provide the trifecta in any race, let a lone a stakes race, but it happened at Scone on Saturday when The Instructor led home a trifecta for his sire Russian Revolution in the $200,000 Listed Luskin Star Stakes (1300m).

There are two crucial Magic Millions lead-ups at the Gold Coast on Saturday, the Aquis Stallions Gold Nugget for colts and geldings and the Aquis Stallions Gold Pearl for two-year-old fillies.

A sire of rare versatility Wootton Bassett (GB) added a new stakes-winner to his tally overnight in Ireland where promising staying three year-old Carmers made it two wins from as many starts in the Listed Navan Yeats Stakes (1m5f).