Grunt - New Winner

Synthetic track meetings at Ballarat can throw up some misleading form, but a debut winner from the Tony and Calvin McEvoy stable that started in the red and won by nine lengths is probably worth a closer look.

Two heats won by juveniles at Warwick Farm on Friday morning and was a first time look at both fillies by I Am Invincible and Tassort.

Here is the full list of 62 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The standalone metro meeting at Wyong on Saturday had an early start due to the heatwave and also a long shot winner with unheralded King’s Legacy colt Audit claiming the prize over race favourite Royal Exile.

Promising filly Lucy In The Sky will launch her bid for higher age group honours when she resumes at Ellerslie.

Successful in the Listed BRC Phelan Ready Stakes (1100m) last start, Tony Gollan sent Itchintogo (Sun City) to Saturday’s $150,000 Aquis Gold Nugget QTIS 2YO (1100m) at the Gold Coast where he utterly dominated his rivals as favourite, highlighting his chances in next Saturday’s $3m Magic Millions 2YO Classic (1200m).

New Zealand is in the fortunate position of having an outstanding group of young stallions starting to make their mark, and the progeny of these exciting up-and-comers will be in demand at Karaka 2026.

Waikato Stud’s homebred mare Sun Gift continued her strong run of summer form with another victory in the A$130,000 Honouring Our Jockeys Plate (2000m) at Flemington on Saturday.

The Non-Commercial Loss (NCL) rules have been a thorn in the side for individuals conducting a business, alone or in partnership, since their inception in 2000.

When Grunt three year-old Mr Blunt won on debut at Ballarat on the synthetic track by nine lengths earlier this month he was an easy choice as a One to Watch and on Tuesday he repeated the performance to go two for two.