News - RUSSIAN REVOLUTION (AUS)
Six heats won by two year-olds at Rosehill on Tuesday morning with some interesting winners including a stakes class Snitzel colt, a filly by champion sire Exceed and Excel that is undefeated at the trials and a colt that is the only 2YO by his sire in Australia.
The $5million Golden Slipper is an open race this year if you have the odd reservation about the favourite Coolangatta, so let’s take a look at where these elite two year-olds have been sourced.
Once upon a time at Newgate Farm three foals were born and found their way into three of the best racing stables in the country and at Rosehill on Saturday they will reunite in the richest two year-old race in the world, the $5million Group I ATC Golden Slipper.
A colt by superstar Arrowfield Stud sire Snitzel topped Day One of the 2022 Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale when selling for $300,000 at Morphettville this afternoon.
The field is out for the 2022 $5million Group I Golden Slipper with race favourite Coolangatta drawing out in gate 14, while quality colts Sejardan, Daumier and Best of Bordeaux have drawn seven, eight and 10.
Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott will have a runner in next week’s Golden Slipper after talented Russian Revolution colt Rise of the Masses forced his way into the field winning the Group III ATC Pago Pago Stakes (1200m) at Rosehill on Saturday.
The big wet in Sydney did not stop a set of barrier trials going ahead at Randwick this morning on the polytrack with six heats for juveniles that included a couple of interesting winners by Zoustar and Russian Revolution and a Karaka purchase for Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott.
At this time of year there is great interest in the progeny of first season sires stepping out at the trials so Breednet are tracking them and our report for this week features 10 stallions with unraced trial winners in the pipeline and one that hasn’t had a trial winner, but has had six to trial this month that have all run well.
Russian Revolution added another debut winner to his tally when Fission proved too strong at Bendigo on Saturday for Extreme Choice colt Prado, who started a short priced favourite.
Arrowfield Stud’s champion sire Snitzel flexed his muscles at Caulfield on Saturday to sire a new 2YO stakes-winner, the sire of the sire of another new 2YO stakes-winner and also the dam of the winner of the Group II sprint on the card.
The Group II MRC Blue Diamond Prelude (1100m) at Caulfield on Saturday drew a big field of two year old fillies with Sydney visitor Revolutionary Miss stamping her superiority to become the first stakes-winner for Newgate Farm’s exciting young sire Russian Revolution.
At this time of year there is great interest in the progeny of first season sires stepping out at the trials so Breednet are tracking them and our report for this week features eight stallions with unraced trial winners in the pipeline including one that had six unraced trial runners right around Australia on Monday and five of them placed!
There were plenty of established stars on show at the Randwick trials on Monday with heat winners including Eduardo, Converge and Lost and Running, plus plenty of juvenile action with five heat winners and a filly that didn’t win, but certainly caught the eye as the last foal of a legendary blue hen.
Improving two-year-old Russian Warrior put upwards of eight lengths over four overmatched opponents over 1200m at Ipswich on Wednesday.
Boxing Day races provided opportunity for some of our first season sires to put runs on the board and as we get to the end of 2021 we see four of our young first season stallions tied on three winners each – can you name them?
Newgate Farm’s young gun Russian Revolution will have a runner in the $2million Magic Millions 2YO Classic next month with his talented filly Russian Conquest making it two wins from two starts when saluting at Randwick on Boxing Day.
There are plenty of runners right around Australia and New Zealand today by first season sires with three runners for Russian Revolution, who has 39 entries for Magic Millions.
Four trials for juveniles at Wyong on Monday morning produced some interesting winners prepared by leading trainers with Peter and Paul Snowden delivering the fastest heat winner who is by Russian Revolution and has a three-quarter sister headed to Magic Millions 2022.
Russian Warrior could not quite get the job done when the ‘Best On Breeding’ at her debut when fourth at Doomben, but she opened her winning account at start two in a thrilling finish to the Amalgamated Group Maiden Plate (1200m) at the Gold Coast on Saturday.
The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained Rise Of The Masses made a winning career debut over 1000m at Kembla Grange on Saturday to ring up the second winner for Newgate Farm’s Russian Revolution.