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Royal Ascot’s CEO Guy Henderson announced that the Royal Ascot 2018 meeting proved a tremendous success. Worthy winners of the leading awards were: Royal Ascot Leading Trainer Award - Aidan O'Brien Royal Ascot Leading Jockey Award - Ryan Moore Royal Ascot Leading Owner – Coolmore Stud Over 300,000 people visited Royal Ascot racecourse during the 5 days.

Cold and damp at Randwick this morning but Adam Watt and Adrian Bott were warmed by the performance of several of our current army of Dynamic horses going through their paces. There is only 6 weeks remaining until the new racing season and that will signal the start of the lead in races to the Spring carnivals in Sydney and Melbourne.

Snapshots of two of our yearling fillies in pre-training on 21 June ahead of going into Randwick. WANDJINA x SPOOKED Bay/Brown Filly and RUBICK x WITHOUT EXCEPTION Chestnut Filly Both fillies have done extremely well and are now having their second session of pre-training.

So - who is VERRAZANO ? He’s the Champion Son of Champion Sire - MORE THAN READY. He’s a Coolmore Stud owned Shuttle Stallion. He’s a first crop sire in Australia, so his oldest are only yearlings but in the USA they are 2yo’s and he has hit the ground running.

When you race at Royal Ascot (just like feature days at Randwick and Flemington), you run against both the quick and the dead. That's the real point of all this tradition, all this history: not the millinery and processions and car park picnics.

Horse of the Year and now super sire Frankel and champion jockey Frankie Dettori were the headline acts on the first day of Royal Ascot with 2 and 3 wins respectively but the Duchess of Sussex who wowed the crowd

With 6 weeks remaining in the 2017-18 Racing Season, it’s Arrowfield Stud's Champion Australian Sire SNITZEL who is maintaining his record-breaking lead at the top of the Australian Sires Premiership with progeny earnings in excess of $28 million.

The 2017-18 Second Crop Sires List in Australia has some heavy hitters in its generation. Led by Champion Racehorses PIERRO and ALL TOO HARD this is a stellar crop of young sires. However with the marketing hype comes the facts. The sobering statistical facts that can’t be hidden.

Young sire Smart Missile passed a huge milestone for any stallion when siring his first “century of individual winners in a racing season” after three (3) recent wins in as many days, took the son of Fastnet Rock to 101 Individual Winners in the 2017-18 Racing Season.