News - FLYING ARTIE (AUS)
The Chris Waller stable sent out some of their spring big guns at the Rosehill trials on Thursday morning including glamour sprinter Nature Strip and a Group I placed maiden that will not remain winless for long.
Opening his account with a fast finishing win at Randwick on Wednesday was talented Flying Artie gelding Flying Crazy.
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.
Newgate Farm’s Flying Artie has been having a great season with his first two year-olds and added a ninth winner to the tally on Wednesday when the Team Hawkes trained Almighty Rising led all the way to win at Canterbury.
Flying Artie colt Artero produced a stunning turn of foot to come from last to first to win the $200,000 Inglis Challenge at Scone.
The Newgate Farm young gun sires have been a fixture winning feature juvenile races this season and kept the golden run going at Scone on Friday when David Pfeiffer and the Darby Racing owners captured the $200,000 Inglis 2YO Challenge (1200m) with Flying Artie colt Artero.
With 18 stakes races around Australia on Saturday, we are hardly limping towards the back end of the season.
Newgate have announced their service fees for 2021 following a break-out season for their young stallion roster with a significant increase for Golden Slipper winning sire Capitalist.
A Tweet on Tuesday highlighting the Top 10 rated two year-olds this season got us thinking about the performance of our current first season sires given five horses on that list are by the newbies including Group I Blue Diamond winner Artorius, who is rated head and shoulders above his rivals.
Outstanding colt Flying Artie was a fast finishing second in the 2016 Group I MRC Blue Diamond Stakes behind Extreme Choice after drawing near the outside, but he got a measure of consolation for that defeat when his first crop son Artorius stormed to victory in the $1.5million juvenile classic at Caulfield on Saturday.
The Newgate young gun sires have been firing on all cylinders in recent weeks and it was Flying Artie’s turn on Wednesday when his handsome colt Bourbon Flyer made a winning debut at Randwick.
Minutes after the Richard and Michael Freedman-trained Extreme Choice colt Stay Inside made an explosive debut at Randwick, Anthony and Sam Freedman countered with the Flying Artie colt Artorius who came with a barnstorming finish from the rear of the field to open his winning account over 1300m at Sandown-Hillside.
Given a ground-saving ride by Jackson Morris, the Scott Morrisey-trained Rockin' Artie proved himself the strongest at the finish of a 1200m maiden an energy-sapping heavy ten at the Gold Coast on Saturday.
With eleven first crop sires already registering their first winners, the race to be the first to take their tally to two was won Newgate Farm’s Flying Artie.
The babies take centre stage on Saturday with a fantastic Christmas assured for the connections of the winner of Saturday’s $500,000 Inglis Nursery (1000m) at Randwick.
The Wilf Mula homebred Flying Tyrol impressed when winning the first of three barrier trials for the two-year-olds at Kembla Grange on Wednesday.
For a first season sire whose yearlings were not exactly selling like hotcakes earlier this year, Flying Artie has made a great start to his stud career and at the Newcastle trials on Thursday morning we saw a colt that may well add to his success sooner rather than later.
A one-two for first season sires in the opening event over 1000m at Eagle Farm on Saturday with Flying Artie’s Princess Bojack leading home Star Turn’s luckless Stellar Magic.
Promising young sire Flying Artie has wasted no time putting a trial winner on the board with Princess Bojack scoring an easy three length victory at Toowoomba on Tuesday morning.
A dominant winner of the Group I VRC Coolmore Stud Stakes, Flying Artie was the Champion 3YO Sprinter of 2016/2017 and has been a super popular addition at Newgate Farm with his first foals arriving this spring.