Waikato Stud stallion Banquo recorded his first stakes win as a sire on Saturday and fittingly achieved it with a son carrying the farm’s colours, on their home track for their private trainer Kris Shailer.
The Lindsay Park team made an astute purchase from the Inglis Ready 2 Race Sale last year paying $140,000 for All Too Hard gelding Hard Kick, who produced a brilliant debut victory at Flemington on Saturday in the Listed VRC Talindert Stakes (1100m).