First Season Sire Watch on Saturday

Tara Madgwick - Friday Feb 26

Wow, what can you say about these first season horses - metro winners last night for Maurice (Jpn) and Shalaa (IRE) – they just keep doing the job and with loads of runners all over Australia and New Zealand on Saturday it looks like more of the same today!

Capitalist looks to have a strong hand with multiple chances in stakes races, while Shalaa’s big banger Shaqero is back in action following his Magic Millions 2YO Classic success.

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