Newgate Farm

Emirates Park tackled the Group II Darley Silver Shadow Stakes (1200m) at Rosehill with two high-class homebred daughters of Tassort, and it was Ameena’s time to steal the limelight from Group 1 winner Manaal.

Widden Stud’s champion sire Zoustar produced the trifecta in the Group I VRC Coolmore Stud Stakes in 2018 won by his champion daughter Sunlight and he got the winner again at Flemington on Saturday when his progressive colt Ozzmosis scored a scintillating win in the Darby Racing colours.

Super talented I Am Invincible colt King’s Gambit delivered on potential at Rosehill on Saturday zooming up the fence to win the Group II ATC Roman Consul Stakes (1200m) from a wall of pursuers.

The $200,000 Listed ATC Heritage Stakes (1100m) at Rosehill on Saturday featured a competitive field of up and coming colts with unbeaten Zoustar colt Ozzmosis keeping his record at a perfect three for three when holding off a fast finish from dashing grey Dundeel colt Celestial Legend.

Trained by Bjorn Baker, talented Zoustar colt Ozzmosis has carried the Darby Racing colours to victory in each of his two starts to date for impressive wins that have attracted the interest of the Newgate and China Horse Club partners.

Bjorn Baker will map out a spring campaign for Ozzmosis after the son of Zoustar kept his record at a perfect two for two at Randwick on Saturday.

Russian Revolution has had some nice two year-olds this season but none of them have won more races than the Kevin Kemp trained filly Russian Alliance, who posted her fourth win from five starts when successful at Doomben on Saturday.

The barrier trials at Randwick on Tuesday morning held plenty of interest with G1 winners Lion’s Roar and In the Congo both winning heats as well as star sprinters Lost and Running and Shades of Rose, but we’re interested in the juveniles and in particular King’s Gambit.

A welcome back to Sydney for Zac Purton, who weaved his magic on the hugely talented, though often frustrating, Artorius in Saturday’s Group 1 Furphy Canterbury Stakes (1300m) at Randwick.

If it thrills you to see the progeny of top-class mares taking their formative steps, then you are in for a treat with the runnings of the Group III Canonbury Stakes and Group III Widden Stakes at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday.

Australia’s most expensive sire Extreme Choice added a new 2YO winner to his tally at Sale on Wednesday giving champion jockey Jamie Kah a winner on her only ride of the day.

Joseph O’Brien has single-handedly improved Irelands balance of payments, and another planeload of Australian dollars is headed back to the Emerald Isle after State Of Rest (IRE) won a drama-packed $5million Group 1 Ladbrokes Cox Plate (2040m) on Saturday.

What an amazing twenty-four hours for the China Horse Club, Newgate Farm and partners, and champion stallion Snitzel.

With four stakes wins under his belt, Wild Ruler had already booked his place on the Newgate Farm stallion roster, but the striking son of Snitzel made sure he will be among the most sought-after stallions next season following his Group 1 triumph in Friday night’s $1,000,000 Charter Keck Cramer Moir Stakes (1000m) at Moonee Valley.

There will be stakes action in four states on Saturday led by the Group 1 Memsie Stakes at Caulfield and the return of some of last seasons most accomplished two-year-olds.

Not a day goes by without Starspangledbanner siring a winner somewhere in the northern hemisphere, but the four-time Group 1 winning son of Choisir broke new ground at Saratoga on Saturday when his son State Of Rest captured the $1 million Grade 1 Saratoga Derby Invitational.

Two unraced sons of Snitzel fought out the finish of the Heineken Maiden Hcp (1100m) at Kensington-Randwick on Wednesday, and both hold entries for Group races at the Brisbane Winter Carnival.

With the looks befitting a half million dollar yearling, Wild Ruler has also been blessed with plenty of ticker, which he needed to call on to turn back the challenge of a hard-charging Isotope in the $1million Group II Arrowfield 3yo Sprint (1200m) at Randwick on Saturday.

Stay Inside looked a picture in the mounting yard before the running of Saturday’s $3,500,000 Longines Golden Slipper (1200m) at Rosehill Gardens and looked even better a short time later with a dominant performance in the world richest race for two-year-olds.

Hollywood-handsome Snitzel colt wild Ruler has been burning up the training tracks, and at his first start since finishing third to September Run in the Coolmore Stud Stakes at Flemington last October, proved a class above in the Listed Fireball Stakes at Randwick.