News - ALL TOO HARD (AUS)
A barnstorming run into second place last Saturday in the Group II ATC The Shorts has seen the Bjorn Baker trained four year-old All Too Hard mare Stefi Magnetica selected for a slot in this year’s Everest with last year’s winning slot holders Newgate and GPI Racing moving to secure the Group I Stradbroke winner.
Vinery Stud will be holding their annual breakfast stallion parades on the weekend of August 24 and 25 with seven stallions to parade each day from 9am.
We often say about a sire ‘he’s never without a G1 horse’ and in the case of this stallion it’s true.
Twelve years after Mid Summer Music scaled the heights in the Group 1 Stradbroke Hcp, her 3-year-old daughter Stefi Magnetica equalled the feat in the $3,000,000 feature at Eagle Farm.
There were 11 heats won by juveniles at Hawkesbury on Monday morning with a big wave of youngsters looking to get racing before the end of the season and there were some interesting winners by Trapeze Artist and All Too Hard, plus an intriguing one for Godolphin.
Hawaii Five Oh is an exciting newcomer to Vinery Stud’s seven-strong roster and breeders will be pleased to know that there have been no service fee increases to the line-up this year.
As a half-sister to the Group 1 VRC Oaks heroine Personal (Fastnet Rock), First Person has a bit to live up to and took the first step when breaking her maiden over 900m at Newcastle on Wednesday.
Here is the full list of 24 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
It has been an anxious few months for the father-and-son training partnership of Ben and Ryan Foote with their star sprinter Babylon Berlin.
David Vandyke plans to take his exciting 2-year-old gelding All Inclusive to Sydney for the Group II Todman Stakes after the son of All Too Hard made a stunning debut in the QTIS Jewel Prelude Plate (1110m) at Doomben on Saturday.
Cambridge horseman Ben Foote was left disappointed following Babylon Berlin’s head defeat to glamour mare Imperatriz in this year’s Gr.1 Sistema Railway (1200m) and he is hoping she can go one better in the sprinting feature at Pukekohe on Monday.
It says a lot about Australian racing: a horse can bank over $1,200,000 without stakes next to their name.
Placed in her last three starts, the All Too Hard filly Miss Emma scored a long overdue win in The Agency Real Estate Maiden Hcp (1250m) at Canterbury on Friday and did it in a manner that suggests there are better days ahead.
Domeland has spent up big over the years without a commensurate amount of success but may have picked the best winner of all in trainer Sara Ryan who rewarded them by capturing last month’s $3million The Big Dance at Randwick with Attractable.
Excitement is building at Ellerslie, with racing set to return to the Auckland venue following its first set of official trials on its new StrathAyr track on Monday morning.
Steven Cole is hoping to kill two birds with one stone when he heads to Trentham on Saturday with Hard Attack.
Thursday’s second day of the 2023 New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale saw a new all-time record price of $825,000 for a Star Turn colt whose future lies in Hong Kong with another gelding by All Too Hard was hot on his heels at $800,000.
Despite a catalogue of self-inflicted injuries, the All Too Hard gelding Nation State broke his maiden at start two in the Evergreen Turf Maiden Plate (1000m) at Ballarat on Wednesday.
Here is the full list of 15 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Babylon Berlin was the bridesmaid behind Imperatriz and Levante in the feature sprints last season and trainers Ben and Ryan Foote are hoping it is now her time to earn her elite-level crown.