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With 6 Saturdays remaining to round out the 2023-24 Racing Season, on Friday afternoon ahead of the Stradbroke meeting in Queensland, a curious look at the Trainers Premiership across Australia has a familiar pattern. Leading the way is ….. CIARON MAHER over Chris Waller.

With just six (6) Saturdays of the 2023-24 Racing Season remaining, the picture for who will become Champion FIRST SEASON SIRE (determined by Earnings) and who will fill the placings is becoming clearer, however there is still the final Gr1 race of the season for the 2yo’s to be conducted at Eagle Farm, where the JJ Atkins is to be run and won. On current data, TOO DARN HOT will be Crowned CHAMPION FIRST SEASON SIRE.

WOWEE - PIGGYBACK was very impressive at RANDWICK on Saturday under young-gun, quality Brisbane based apprentice Bailey Wheeler, riding for the super-successful Ciaron Maher Stable as their outstanding run of success continued. This was a “consolation event” in the scheme of things for PIGGYBANK, as the 3yo filly was certainly on a Queensland Oaks pathway but couldn’t force her way into the field.

Dynamic Syndications and the Mick Price and Mick Kent Jnr Stable look to have an extremely promising 2yo Colt in the form of OODNADATTA (Too Darn Hot ex La La Luchie) who WON with authority in slick time on debut at Geelong on Thursday afternoon. OODNADATTA sizzled on a Good 4 track with still plenty of juice under foot yet when he stopped the clock under hands and heels of Beau Mertens as our Dynamic Duo had stopped the clock in a quick 1:11.06 for the 1200m. To put that time into perspective, it was fastest of the 4 races over the 1200m trip on the day.

Our CIARON MAHER trained staying prospect NAVAL COMMISSION has made it 3 WINS in a ROW, coming off a Randwick-Kensington win over 1800m last time out when ridden by NASH RAWILLER, our Dynamic Duo were again back in the winner’s circle on Wednesday as they proved far too strong for their peers over 2200m at Warwick Farm.

The Group 1 Prix du Jockey Club (2100m) (French Derby) was run at Longchamp overnight with a dominant win for unbeaten Lope de Vega colt LOOK DE VEGA, who was having his first start in a stakes race. LOOK DE VEGA pulled clear in the final furlong to add his name to the roll of honour. LOOK DE VEGA put a gap on the field in a race run in the heaviest ground since 2000, to win by two lengths from FIRST LOOK who is also a son of LOPE DE VEGA.​

Highly successful Champion Europe based Super Sire LOPE DE VEGA (by Shamardal) shuttled to Australia for four seasons between 2011 to 2014 with good success. In 2023, he was Leading Sire in Europe by Winners. The latest figures out of Europe on 27 May reveals the current 2024 season LOPE DE VEGA has jumped to the Premiership Lead by Earnings and Winners; equal Leader by Stakes Winners and equal Leader by Group Winners. By Earnings he Leads the way over KINGMAN, DARK ANGEL, FRANKEL and SIYOUNI.

Arrowfield Stud believe its s “Queensland Derby here I come” for DUNDEEL'S 29th Stakes Winner TANNHAUSER after his victory in Saturday’s Gr3 BRC Rough Habit Plate 2000m at Doomben. Dundeel maintains his lead on Australia’s current 3YO Sires’ table with $8.2 million prizemoney and 5 stakes winners headed by two Group 1 winners Celestial Legend & Militarize. 36% of Dundeel's 54 stakes performers have won or placed at Group 1 level, including his 8 individual Gr1 Winners among his 29 Stakes Winners and 25 Stakes Placegetters.

It was a Heavy 9 track on the Kensington circuit at Randwick on Wednesday afternoon and our promising Dynamic staying prospect NAVAL COMMISSION (4yo g Merchant Navy ex Parfaits) was lining up in Race 7, the TAB Handicap Bm64 1800m in a field of 10 starters from barrier 10 with Nash Rawiller in the saddle. Our BOBS EXTRA Bonus monies eligible galloper is trained out of the brilliant Ciaron Maher Stable. Despite being the race top-weight, lumping 60.5kgs from the visitors draw, he was smashed in the betting from $6.00 into a $3.70 clear favourite and won accordingly, scoring by 0.87 length over runner-up with a massive gap of 7.62 lengths to third.