News - PORTLAND SKY (AUS)
Matt Laurie had a lot of success with brilliant Deep Field colt Portland Sky when he was racing and the trainer produced an eye-catching debut winner by the young Widden Stud based sire at Bendigo on Sunday.
Widden Stud’s young sire Portland Sky has made a strong start to the new season with two winners in the past three days adding to his tally.
Widden Stud’s young sire Portland Sky added a new winner to his tally when Sambuca Sky scored an easy victory at Scone on Sunday.
Widden Stud’s first season sire Portland Sky made an early splash at the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale on Sunday when his colt from Cailini sold for $320,000.
The Inglis Australian Weanling Sale showcased the progeny of many of our new first season sires and six of them had weanlings sell for $100,000 or more so let’s take a look at their top sellers.
The first of the annual Widden Stud NSW stallion parades was held on Thursday with Antony and Katie Thompson welcoming guests to the ‘Valley of Champions’ for a sensational lunch, warm hospitality and of course the presentation of stallions including exciting newcomer Jacquinot, with all sires available for Hypothetical matings.
Widden Stud are offering a great deal with six sons of champion sires available at a discounted rate for breeders who select two for their mares and all are Premium stallions on Breednet, so if you are breeding on a budget and can’t afford the big guns, let’s get testing some Hypothetical Matings on the sons of guns!
It’s been a long time between drinks for six year-old Deep Field gelding Riddle Me That, who had not won a race since 2020, but he relived the glory days when taking out the $200,000 VRC Winter Championship Final (1600m) at Flemington on Saturday.
Widden Stud have enjoyed great results mining the Encosta de Lago sireline through his influential son Northern Meteor and current champion sire Zoustar, but you can always add more strings to your bow and securing the best son of Deep Field is a strategy that fits with an established pattern of success at this world renowned farm.
The 2021/ 2022 Australian racing season has brought continuing success on the track and in the sale ring to Widden Stud and our clients with the addition of new stallions this year holding promise for the future.
What more fitting date could there be for the return of Bred To Win for its spring season than the horses’ birthday, Monday August 1!
Our next chapter in the Price Point series of stories looks at a group of a dozen stallions that includes four first season horses and the stallion that has sired more 2YO winners this season than any other.
The Australian breeding season may be in full swing, but Widden Stud already have their sights set on next year, enhancing their 2022 roster by the acquisition of exciting Group 1 winning sprinter, Portland Sky.
With a half-length covering the first five across the line, the judge could not separate the three-year-old Deep Field colt Portland Sky and the four-year-old Redoute’s Choice mare Celebrity Queen in Saturday’s Group 1 Neds Oakleigh Plate (1100m) at Caulfield.