News - DIRTY WORK (AUS)
The Breednet tour of the Victorian stallion parades ended on Friday at Widden Stud and while this day is often held in arctic conditions, the weather gods were kind this year!
Speed merchant Summer Schemer will tackle the first leg of a black-type double when she kicks off her three-year-old season at Ruakaka on Saturday.
The opening race at Randwick on Saturday was a Midway contest over 1100m that featured a hot favourite in talented three year-old filly Bangkok Hottie, who was making her seasonal return, but she came up short with victory going to the good looking Melanite.
Unbeaten mare Tennessee Bound was an eye-catcher at Sandown on Wednesday when posting her fifth consecutive win to remain undefeated, but there was another filly on the card by Dirty Work that was just as impressive and clocked slightly quicker time.
Sires that can produce 2YO winners and in particular 2YO stakes-winners have a unique appeal in the marketplace and one stud has six stallions on their 2026 roster that have done just that this season and not one of those stallions stands for more than $27,500.
Widden Stud sires filled the quinella in the $150,000 Listed SAJC Dequetteville Stakes (1050m) at Morphettville on Saturday when talented Dirty Work filly Never Ordinary prevailed to win over Zousain filly Verzain.
Promising filly Summer Schemer will have the opportunity at Pukekohe to press her claims for a crack at an upcoming elite level prize.
Promising two year-old Dirty Work filly Summer Schemer crowned a memorable recent run of results for Highden Park when she made the perfect start to her career at Ellerslie on Saturday bringing a timely update for her yearling half-sister headed to Inglis Premier for Crossley Thoroughbreds.
Widden Stud’s Dirty Work can throw a good looking horse and there aren’t many better looking that talented three year-old gelding Melanite.
It was a chilly morning at Widden Victoria last Friday but the stallion talent was hot with Southport Tycoon making his debut in the very same parade ring in which his sire Written Tycoon started his stud career back in 2007.
Widden Stud’s young Written Tycoon son Dirty Work had an impressive debut winner on Wednesday for the Phillip Stokes stable.
The Lindsay Park training partnership had a great result on Tuesday producing the quinella in the $125,000 VOBIS Gold Strike (1000m) at Warrnambool with Dirty Work filly Mrs Iglesia too good for her stablemate and race favourite Killiana.
Widden Stud’s young Written Tycoon stallion Dirty Work posted his second winner on Wednesday when Good as Hell saluted at Belmont.
Widden Stud’s young Written Tycoon stallion Dirty Work is on the board with his first stakes-winner after speedy gelding Do I Feel Lucky captured the $250,000 Magic Millions Perth 2YO Classic RL (1200m) at Pinjarra on Saturday and his half-sister will be offered at MM Perth on Thursday.
Widden Stud’s young Written Tycoon stallion Dirty Work is on the board with his first winner after Do I Feel Lucky scored a dominant victory at Ascot on Saturday.
The 2024 Magic Millions Yearling Sale was a busy one for Widden Stud selling 65 yearlings across Books 1 and 2 for $14.6million and particularly pleasing was the warm reception afforded their first season sires Anders, Russian Camelot (IRE), Dirty Work and Doubtland.
The weather was cold, but the stallions were hot at the Widden Stud Victoria stallion parade on Friday with a big crowd in attendance to see nine stallions representing a great mix of promising and proven sire talent.
Widden Stud are offering a great deal with six sons of champion sires available at a discounted rate for breeders who select two for their mares and all are Premium stallions on Breednet, so if you are breeding on a budget and can’t afford the big guns, let’s get testing some Hypothetical Matings on the sons of guns!
Written Tycoon is set to play a role at Royal Ascot next week with his glamour daughter Coolangatta running in the Group I King’s Stand Stakes along with his grand-son Cannonball, so where is he at as a sire of sires?
Our next chapter in the Price Point series of stories looks at a massive group of well credentialled sires that stand at $16,500 and range from proven G1 sires to first year at stud new boys, so trying to make sense of this group is certainly a task, but if this is what you have to spend then you better read on.