News - GRIFF (AUS)
Victorian breeders will have access to no fewer than nine new stallions in 2026.
We’ve been running a series of stories on Breednet highlighting value sires that do a good job and Larneuk Stud is home to two of them and if you only have $6,600 to spend on a service fee, it’s hard to find better bang for buck than these guys.
The record of the Group I MRC Caulfield Guineas as an elite sire making race has never been more on display than it is right now with past winners including outstanding young sires The Autumn Sun (2025 fee $66,000), Super Seth ($75,000) and Ole Kirk ($99,000).
The Gr.1 Caulfield Guineas - an honour roll that reads as a who's who of high class racehorses and successful stallions... Vain, Grosvenor, Redoute's Choice, Lonhro, Starspangledbanner, All Too Hard, The Autumn Sun, Ole Kirk and Super Seth just to name a few.
The Inglis Digital December Sale scheduled for early next month is set to feature the winner of the 2023 Group I MRC Caulfield Guineas (1600m).
The influence of Widden Stud’s much missed Golden Slipper winning sire Sebring was demonstrated on Saturday when his outstanding daughter Fangirl thrashed the best milers in the country to win the $5million Group I ATC King Charles Stakes (1600m), while at Caulfield Sebring featured as a broodmare sire with his daughter Chateau Griffo producing up and coming colt Griff to win the $3million G
It was a series of ‘firsts’ when exciting colt Griff (Trapeze Artist) led his rivals a merry dance to score an all-the-way win in today’s stallion-making G1 Caulfield Guineas.
Widden Stud’s Trapeze Artist has his first Group I winner and it only seems fitting that the Widden Stud bred and sold colt Griff would achieve the feat scoring an exciting win in the $3million Group I MRC Caulfield Guineas (1600m) on Saturday.
The Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-trained Griff stamped his credentials for the Group I MRC Caulfield Guineas when scoring a stylish victory in the Group II MVRC Stutt Stakes (1600m) at Moonee Valley on Friday night.
The Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-trained Griff put himself in the picture for the Group I MRC Caulfield Guineas when capturing the Listed VRC Exford Plate (1400m) at Flemington on Saturday to become the first stakes-winner for Widden Stud’s promising young sire Trapeze Artist.
The Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-trained Griff became the seventh first-crop winner for Trapeze Artist when he led them a merry dance in the Precise Air Maiden Plate (1200m) at Warwick Farm.
A start at Flemington on Saturday is but one option trainer Robbie Griffiths enjoys with talented filly Chateau Griffo.