News - ALL TOO HARD (AUS)
After battling out the finish of the Group III Spring Stakes at Morphettville a fortnight back, the South Australians Behemoth and Beau Rossa took their feud to Caulfield for Saturday’s $1,000,000 Group 1 Moet & Chandon Memsie Stakes (1400m) and the result was the same.
With the late scratching of Dalasan, expectations were that Saturday's Group III Spring Stakes at Morphettville was a match race between Behemoth and Beau Rossa, and that was the way it played out. Still, this was destined to be decided in the steward's room.
The $400,000 Singapore Derby Sng G1 (1800m) at Kranji on Sunday was won by All Too Hard gelding Hard Too Think, who scored a surprise win over Hallowed Crown gelding Big Hearted.
A sparkling win at the Te Rapa trials back in late May indicated that promising three-year-old All About You would be hard to beat when he made his raceday debut and that proved correct as he bolted away with the first race on the card at Ruakaka on Saturday.
Here is the full list of 119 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
Speedy filly Babylon Berlin gave her rivals a galloping lesson when she led throughout to take out the Group III Inglis Sales Cambridge Breeders’ Stakes (1200m) at Te Rapa on Saturday.
Exciting Hong Kong trained sprinter Wellington became the fourth Group I winner for Vinery Stud’s All Too Hard when beating fellow Aussie bred sprinters Computer Patch (Exceed and Excel) and Sky Field (Deep Field) in the Group I Chairman’s Sprint Prize (1200m) at Sha Tin on Sunday.
Pukekohe trainer Nigel Tiley enjoyed a red-letter day at Ellerslie on Saturday, taking out two of the three feature races on offer with two-year-old Lady Maroal winning the Listed Staphanos by Deep Impact Champagne Stakes (1600m) before stable star Demonetization powered home to take out the Gr.2 Manco Easter Handicap (1600m).
Consistent filly Babylon Berlin will be looking for her first stakes victory at Te Rapa on Saturday-week when she contests the Gr.3 Cambridge Breeders’ Stakes (1200m).
The three-year-old all Too Hard filly Forbidden Love has been a model of consistency and was rewarded with a Group 1 success following a remarkable performance in Saturday’s $500,000 Group 1 Cellarbrations Surround Stakes (1400m) at Randwick.
The strapping Behemoth will target Melbourne's big-dollar races after proving a class above in Saturday's Listed Durbridge Stakes (1100m) at Morphettville.
The Australia Day meeting at Warwick Farm produced an impressive debut winner from the powerful Team Hawkes by their former stable star All Too Hard.
Class told in Tuesday's $150,000 Listed Gosford Guineas when the All Too Hard filly Forbidden Love emerged from an eight-week hiatus to claim a second stakes success and earn a trip to the Gold Coast for the Magic Millions 3yo Guineas.
It was only a three horse juvenile race at Ipswich on a Thursday, but when the winner is by All Too Hard and trained by David Vandyke, you tend to get a bit more interested!
After falling short thirteen times previously at stakes level, the stars finally aligned for Outrageous in Saturday’s Group III Fujitsu General Festival Stakes at Rosehill Gardens bringing an important pedigree update for his Magic Millions bound half-brother.
David Vandyke has bid farewell to his stable favourite Alligator Blood, who is set to join the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott team in Sydney, but he might have a replacement by the same sire in All Too Hard waiting in the wings.
The Group II MRC Sandown Guineas (1600m) on Saturday lost the favourite Aysar, when he was scratched earlier in the day due to a mishap in the tie up stalls, but the race produced a battle royal between two talented three year-olds in All Too Hard gelding Allibor and Deep Field filly Sweet Reply with a head separating them at the finish.
Just seven days after grinding out a narrow win in the Listed Seymour Cup at Kilmore, the six-year-old All Too Hard entire All Too Huiying put in what may well be a career best in Sunday’s $200,000 Listed Ladbrokes Sale Cup (1600m).
That mighty warrior Happy Trails would have been proud of the determination showed by his half-brother All Too Huiying in Sundays $200,000 Listed Bet365 Seymour Cup (1600m) at Kilmore.
The three-year-old all Too Hard filly Forbidden Love needed to dig deep under her topweight in Saturday's Listed Tresemme Reginald Allen Quality (1400m) at Randwick, and she did not let anyone down.