News - FASTNET ROCK (AUS)
Seven year-old Fastnet Rock gelding The Harrovian is racing in career best form and made it 11 wins in succession at Eagle Farm on Saturday when claiming his second Black Type victory in the Listed BRC Bernborough Plate (1600m).
Champion trainer Chris Waller posted an early double at Warwick Farm on Wednesday with the offspring of champion sire Fastnet Rock, scoring first with exciting two year-old Ranch Hand and then with blue-blooded filly Fifteen Aria, who carries the colours of leading Japanese breeder Katsumi Yoshida.
Champion sire Fastnet Rock already has two exciting two year-olds running for him this season in Sneaky Five and Acrobat and we can add another name to that list with Ranch Hand bolting in on debut at Warwick Farm in the manner of a future stakes-winner.
The $500,000 Inglis Nursery (1000m) at Randwick on Saturday has proven a launching for subsequent Golden Slipper winners She Will Reign and Mossfun as well as Blue Diamond winner Extreme Choice with this year’s winner Acrobat showing all the attributes of a future superstar.
Champion sire Fastnet Rock landed his 164th stakes-winner at Doomben on Saturday with seven year-old gelding The Harrovian, who may be one of his most interesting stakes-winners of all.
It took every metre of the Ellerslie home straight for consistent galloper Gino Severini to finally gain the upper hand over his rivals as the Fastnet Rock gelding captured his first stakes victory in the Group III Eagle Technology Stakes (1600m).
Enigmatic Fastnet Rock stayer In A Twinkling was on his best behaviour as he secured his second Group III Franklin Auctions Counties Cup (2100m) with a gritty effort on Saturday.
Plenty of interesting two year-old trials around the country in the past week so here are all the placegetters with their breeding and sale information.
It’s been a big couple of days for champion Coolmore sire Fastnet Rock with his three year-old daughter Personal winning the $1million VRC Oaks (2500m) on Thursday and then on Saturday his two year-old filly Sneaky Five became the first horse guaranteed a start in the 2021 Golden Slipper after winning the $1million ATC Golden Gift (1100m) at Rosehill.
The nick between champion Coolmore sires Fastnet Rock and Galileo is one of the most potent in the world and it delivered another Group I success at Flemington on Thursday when top class filly Personal shed the bridesmaid tag to win the $1million Group I VRC Oaks (2500m).
It’s always painful to geld a well bred colt, particularly one that topped the 2018 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale when selling for $2.3million, but in the case of Fastnet Rock four year-old Groundswell it might prove a masterstroke.
Plenty to cheer about at the Taylor family’s historic Trelawney Stud overnight with the 3yo colt In Swoop (Adlerflug), a half-brother to Trelawney’s Group III winning Galileo mare Igraine (GER), running the race of his life to be narrowly beaten in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.
An Into Mischief filly out of the Group III-placed Fastnet Rock mare Ameristralia was the third highest price lot of Session Five of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale when knocked down to Joey Platts for $US400,000.
Australian bred horses won nine of the 10 races run at Sha Tin on Sunday with champion Australian trainer David Hayes preparing a winning double on his first day back as a HK trainer.
At age eight, some horses are looking for a cosy retirement, but not Dreamforce.
Multiple Group I winner Avantage showed she is the horse to beat in the upcoming Hawke’s Bay triple crown when she produced a strong fresh-up effort to take out the Group II Valachi Downs Foxbridge Pate (1200m) at Te Rapa.
A good day for Fastnet Rock in Japan on Sunday with his 3yo Kia Ora Stud-bred daughter Classic Cocoa putting a 7-length margin on her nearest pursuer in an allowance race over 1500m at Sapporo while over at Niigata, Fastnet Rock’s Irish-bred daughter Reset In Blue produced the 2yo Gleneagles colt Shock Action (IRE) an impressive winner of the day’s feature the Group III Niigata Ni
Winner of the Group I ATC Australian Oaks in 2018, outstanding Fastnet Rock mare Unforgotten kept the big prices coming at the Gold Coast on late Monday afternoon when selling for $2.75 million at the Magic Millions National Sale.
A full brother to Eleven Eleven, who made news this week after being elevated to the winner of the Magic Millions 3YO Guineas following the disqualification of Alligator Blood, promising two year-old War Memorial shed maiden status at Gosford on Saturday.
Plenty of interesting two year-old trials around the country in the past week so here are all the placegetters with their breeding and sale information.