News - FOXWEDGE (AUS)
As the Victorian breeding industry continues to strengthen its stallion ranks, the support Woodside Park Stud continues to receive from breeders not only locally but nationally, further highlights the resilience of the industry and we look forward to standing three quality stallions in the upcoming season.
The Group I VRC Australian Guineas (1600m) at Flemington Saturday featured a crack field of colts including Group I winners Tagaloa and Ole Kirk, but victory went to unheralded Foxwedge colt Lunar Fox, who started at the odds of 300-1.
Five year-old Australian Foxwedge mare Run Fox Run has long promised to win a Group I in South Africa and she achieved the feat at Kenilworth on Saturday with a blazing victory in the Group I Cape Flying Championship (1000m).
The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained Belieber broke his maiden in some style at in an 1100 metre maiden at Wyong on Thursday, the second impressive winner from this family in the past few weeks.
Woodside Park’s Foxwedge has a habit for producing talented fillies and we saw one at Geelong on Wednesday when progressive four year-old mare Wild Vixen resumed from a spell to win the Listed Black Pearl Stakes (1200m).
The most expensive yearling by Foxwedge sold in 2018, four year-old mare Villami was a stakes-winner last season and looks to be headed back to Black Type races this spring after making a winning return at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.
One of the best value proven sires in Victoria this spring, Foxwedge featured overnight with a new stakes-winner in the UK after Foxtrot Lady took out the Group III Sceptre Stakes (7f) at Doncaster.
Now based at Woodside Park in Victoria, Foxwedge featured in South Africa on Saturday when his talented five year-old Infamous Fox took out the Listed Greyville Thukela Handicap.
Two horses entered for the Inglis Easter Round 2 Sale in July received a boost from South Africa this week with a winning return for star Aussie bred sprinter Run Fox Run.
It was a great day at the office for Woodside Park’s Foxwedge with a new stakes-winner in Wild Vixen, plus two stakes placed horses Villami and Dyslexic as well as a Flemington winner in Kuramae.
If you sent a mare to proven Group I sire Foxwedge in his new home at Woodside Park in Victoria last spring you’d be entitled to be feeling happy about the results of the past few weeks.
It was a weekend to remember for proven Woodside Park Stud stallion, Foxwedge, with brilliant 2YO winning colt,Lunar Fox celebrating victory in the G2 Sires Produce Stakes and smart filly Villami taking out the Listed Fireball Stakes.
Volpe Veloce gave trainer Graham Richardson one of his biggest moments in racing when she won the Gr.1 Railway (1200m) two years ago and he is hoping to finish her career on a similar high.
Undefeated Foxwedge mare Run Fox Run kept her unbeaten record intact when returning from a spell at Kenilworth in South Africa on Saturday to win the Group II Southern Cross Stakes (1000m).
Quality Foxwedge mare Into the Abyss has been taking on tough Black Type races since resuming from a spell and dropped back to midweek grade at Warwick Farm on Monday was able to return to winning form with a powerful victory under 60kg.
A new addition to Woodside Park in Victoria this spring, Foxwedge showed his class over a big weekend of racing producing Group performers at three successive meetings starting last Friday night at Moonee Valley where up and coming three year-old filly Villami ran a terrific race at her first outing away from Sydney.
Group One winner Volpe Veloce will have the opportunity to continue an impressive streak when she lines-up in the Group II Theo Marks Stakes (1300m) at Rosehill on Saturday.
Talented Foxwedge mare Foxy Housewife has always threatened to win a Black Type race and the six year-old made the quantum leap at Wyong on Friday when taking out a hugely competitive $140,000 Listed Mona Lisa Stakes.
Woodside Park’s new addition Foxwedge has a strong hand coming into this weekend with many of his star fillies and mares set to resume from winter spells on Saturday.
Woodside Park's weekend stallion parade proved super popular with Victoria's number one sire Written Tycoon the headline act, while Tosen Stardom (Jpn) was feeling frisky with the start of the breeding season less than two weeks away.