News - FOXWEDGE (AUS)

Foxwedge has been enjoying a winning run of late with seven Southern Hemisphere winners since the start of this month and a new stakes-winner in the Northern Hemisphere on Sunday with Sadilla taking out Listed Premio Buontalenta Mem G Valiani in Italy.

Coming off a weekend when he sired a new stakes-winner in Fox Swift and stakes performers Foxplay and Albumin, Foxwedge kept the momentum going with an impressive debut winner at Goulburn on Monday.

Progressive Foxwedge filly Fox Swift had her first taste of stakes company in Saturday’s $120,000 Listed Cap D'Antibes Stakes (1100m) and passed the test in style.

Allen Paulson came to the notice of Australians when he purchased our globetrotting star Strawberry Road to stand at his Brookside Stud in Kentucky.

Patience looks like paying off for connections of this four year-old Foxwedge stallion, who opened his account at Gosford on Thursday with a dominant five length win.

Volpe Veloce will head to Hastings in fine fettle in her quest for a full house of stakes victories.

Flashy grey Foxwedge three year-old Albumin was an easy winner when resuming from a spell at Hawkesbury on Thursday and owes his colouring to his famous grand-mother Tristanagh, the darling of the 1989 Melbourne Spring Carnival when winning the Thousand Guineas, Wakeful Stakes and VRC Oaks.

The foundation sire for Newgate Farm, Fastnet Rock’s Group I winning son Foxwedge has enjoyed a fruitful past 12 months that has seen him soar past his rivals to finish as the Champion Second Season Sire for 2016/2017.

It’s been a ground breaking season for Newgate Farm’s foundation sire Foxwedge, who will be crowned Australia’s leading second crop sire for 2016/2017 and added a promising debut two year-old winner to his tally on Wednesday.