News - CAPITALIST (AUS)
Bob Hannon has bred some outstanding horses including Cox Plate hero Shamus Award and Magic Millions 2YO Classic winner Shaquero with a filly he passed in at Inglis Classic last year a Breednet ‘One to Watch’ when winning her maiden and now a metropolitan winner after saluting at Gosford on Wednesday.
Backed as if unbeatable, this Capitalist filly was in a class of her own at Wyong on Tuesday.
Momentum continues to build ahead of next month’s Inglis Ready2Race Sale, with times and video footage of last week’s breeze up sessions at Hawkesbury and Eagle Farm now available for viewing on the Inglis website.
Bob Hannon has bred some outstanding horses including Cox Plate hero Shamus Award and Magic Millions 2YO Classic winner Shaquero with a filly he passed in at Inglis Classic last year an eye-catching winner at Muswellbrook on Thursday.
Last season’s leading first crop sire by winners, Capitalist posted his first metropolitan winner of the new season on Wednesday at Newcastle with a debut victory for the Chris Waller trained Coodarady.
The first of August marks the beginning of a new season and all the hard work of the previous 12 months is reflected in end of season sires tables with the leading Two and Three Year Old Sires highlighting stallions whose progeny come to hand quickly.
With just a week of the season to run, Capitalist hit 20 Australian two year-old winners on Sunday when the Gary Portelli trained Silver Thorn scored a narrow victory in a blanket finish at Gosford on Sunday.
Newgate Farm’s Capitalist posted his 20th first crop winner at Nowra on Monday with Gary Portelli and the Elite Thoroughbreds owners celebrating a well deserved victory for Feudalist.
Newgate Farm have three of the Top 10 most represented sires with entries for the 2022 Golden Slipper to be run at Rosehill next March.
Newgate Farm’s Capitalist is the leading sire of Australian two year-old winners this season with the Bon Ho owned gelding Sniper Legend adding to the tally on Tuesday at Hawkesbury.
Trials were held at Randwick on Monday morning with six heats for juveniles including three that were won by the progeny of boom first season sires Capitalist and Extreme Choice, who are in a neck and neck battle to be Champion Australian 2YO Sire.
Newgate Farm’s Capitalist has sired more juvenile winners than any other sire in Australia this season and added another to his tally on Friday when Sacca saluted at the Sunshine Coast.
The top 10 first season sires (by earnings) this season have produced 13 individual stakes winners so far, equalled only once in the last 10 seasons – 2018 – so we thought we’d check the trial results for what might be waiting in the wings for what’s looking an exceptional bunch.
The last Group I 2YO race of the season will be run at Eagle Farm on Saturday with a big field of 14 to contest the BRC JJ Atkins (1600m) and half of the runners are by first season sires!
Capitalist added a 17th winner to his tally on Saturday when the Peter and Paul Snowden trained filly Satin Ribbons scored a tough win at Newcastle in the 900m maiden.
The third last lot in the ring, a filly bred and offered for sale by Melbourne Cup winning jockey Scott Seamer, proved the day's top seller on Day Two at the 2021 Magic Millions National Yearling Sale on the Gold Coast late this afternoon.
Here is the full list of 22 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
A two year-old by Capitalist that wins by five lengths on debut was always going to be the ‘One to Watch’ on Monday!
In recent times one of the most dominant first season sires in Australia has been More Than Ready (USA), who would go on to sire over 200 stakes-winners worldwide and this year we are seeing Golden Slipper winner Capitalist give him a run for his money.
A Capitalist colt realised the second-highest price ever recorded at a Gold Yearling Sale on a successful opening day of the 2021 renewal.