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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.

When Pierro clocked over $8million in seasonal earnings last Saturday with a new two year-old stakes-winner in Commander, it put the icing on the cake of an exceptional season.

Olympic Glory appears to have a smart juvenile Filly on his hands following Mintd' thundering Win in the median auction maiden for juveniles in Listowel.

Two year-old Pierro gelding Commander cast off maiden status with a resounding win in the Listed BRC The Phoenix Stakes at the Sunshine Coast on Saturday.