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The successful young second crop sire The Autumn Sun saw his daughter Vibrant Sun become his 4th individual stakes winner when she chased down the leader to claim victory in Saturday’s $200,000 Alexandra S. 1600m Gr3 at Moonee Valley. Exactly five years after his final Group 1 victory in the Rosehill Guineas, the champion son of Redoute’s Choice further underlined his growing worth as a sire with this his 8th stakes performer. Whilst The Autumn Belle, finished runner-up in the Clare Lindop S. LR at Morphettville.​

The $250,000 Group 3 Kembla Grange Classic (1600m) went the way of Queen of Dragons (3f Pierro x Entrancing, by Exceed and Excel) in the Trilogy Racing colours. Queen of Dragons was second up from a spell and enjoyed the step out to 1600m to score a strong length victory over Our Gold Hope (Lope De Vega). Queen of Dragons became the 36th Stakes Winner for Golden Slipper winning sire PIERRO.

The $1million Group 1 ATC Coolmore Classic (1500m) is one of the real blue riband races a mare can win with the honour roll saturated with champions such as Sunline and Winx and on Saturday talented four-year-old ZOUSTAR mare ZOUGOTCHA adding her name to the honour roll at Rosehill on Saturday. Sensational Sire ZOUSTAR keeps churning out the big winners and his stats are amazing.

Gr1 Winning Victoria Oaks heroine ZAROZI a daughter of champion sire KINGMAN (GB) claimed Saturday's Group 2 Chandon Phar Lap Stakes (1500m) at Rosehill. Ridden by Tom Marquand for trainer James Cummings, the 3-year-old filly defeated the Snitzel filly Makarena by two lengths, with the Hallowed Crown gelding Kintyre a nose away in third. This was the filly’s third stakes win, and ZARDOZI has advanced her record to six wins and a second from 11 starts with earnings of $1,145,700.

The hours and hours of pedigree work, then multiple saleyard inspections, shortlisting, culling, then the re-inspections and further culling. The week prior it’s been a hard slog, seven days pounding the pavement and then, concluding a final list to be examined by our veterinarian to weed out X-ray issues (many yearlings are rejected here) and poor endoscopic profiles which hinder windflow. We are left with the list of what in our opinion is the “Best of the Best” on type and budget.

Two gifted 3-year-old sons of DUNDEEL fought out the finish in Saturday’s Gr1 Randwick Guineas (1600m), with the honours going to CELESTIAL LEGEND. Exciting young sire DUNDEEL sired his eighth (8th) individual Gr1 Winner as CELESTIAL LEGEND capped a sensational Saturday for the Arrowfield Stud based stallion, when he produced the Quinella in the $1 million ATC Randwick Guineas 1600m after an intense battle with the runner-up MILITARIZE, also a son of gun stallion DUNDEEL.

Autumn Angel was strong through the line when adding Saturday’s Gr2 Kewney Stakes (1600m) at Flemington to her resume. Ridden by Mark Zahra the daughter of THE AUTUMN SUN hit the lead at the 300m marker. She looked likely to be swamped in the final stages but was tough to the post defeating Basilinna by a half-neck, with the run of the race and flashing lights on the stablemate Pierro filly Mollynickers who was a head back in third. A special note from this race was the run for third of the stablemate MOLLYNICKERS. That filly had little luck at a vital stage in the straight and was unable to have a fair crack.

The $165,000 Canberra Guineas (1400m) Listed Race produced a terrific finish as Zoustar gelding XIDAKI proved too strong for favourite Port Lockroy with a neck back in third spot to Thunderlips - another son of Zoustar. Xidaki became the 49th stakes-winner for Zoustar, who also has 45 stakes placegetters. ZOUSTAR is having another tremendous season with 15 Stakes Winners and 14 Stakes Placegetters.​

Carnival time and you can rest assured that progeny of Champion Sire FASTNET ROCK visit the Winner’s Circle, and again on Saturday that was the case when PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE won the Gr2 Challenge Stakes at Randwick. Also on the day, in the Fireball Stakes LR 1100m, CORNICHE a 3yo colt by Fastnet Rock x Montsegur finished a gallant runner-up.